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Chapter-1
Despondency of Arjuna
Sanjaya said:
- Seeing the army of the Pandavas arrayed in battle, King Duryodhana approached his teacher (Drona) and said these words:
- Behold this vast army of the Pandavas, O teacher, arrayed by the son of Drupada, (Dhrishtadyumna), thy clever pupil. At that time, Sanjaya said, the Pandava army had gone berserk as if the Death-god had opened his jaws at the time of dissolution. Now that the compact army of the Pandavas is surging forward like spurting poison, who can control it? Or like the submarine fire fanned by the squall of dissolution, drying up the seas and reaching up to the sky, so the irresistible Pandava army, organised into different arrays, looked dreadful (86-90). Duryodhana held the Pandava army in contempt in the same way as the lion thinks nothing much of a herd of elephants. He then approached Dronacharya and said to him, “Please see how this army of the Pandavas is surging forward. Its different arrays look like walking forts and they have been organised by the clever son of Drupada (Dhrishtadyumna), who has been instructed by you in the art of war. Look how cleverly he has arrayed this vast army here (91-95).
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