Gita Bhashya -Sankara 11

Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya

(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)

CHAPTER -1

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Paundram dadhmau mahd-sanikham bhima-karmd vfkodarah

Vrkodara[1] of terrible deeds blew his great conch named Paundra ;

Anantavijayam rājā kuntīputro Yudhkthirah Makulah
Sahadevaśca Suglwsa-Manipuspakau

16. King Yudhisthira, the (first) son of Kuntī, (blew) the Anantavijaya; Nakula and Sahādeva[2] (blew respectively their conches named) Sughosa and Manipuspaka.

Kāśyośca paramesvāsah Śikhandī ca mahārathah
Dhrstadyumno Virātaśca SātyakUcāparājitah
Dmpado Draupadeyāsca sarvaśah prthivīpate
Saubhadraica inahābāhuh samkhān dadhmuh prthak

17—18. And the great bowman, the King of Kāśi, and the great warrior-chief śikhandī,[3] Dhrstadyumna[4] and Virata, and the invincible Sātyaki, Drupada and the sons of Draupadi, the son of Subhadrā, of power­ ful arms, O King, severally blew their conches from all sides.

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References and Context

  1. ↑ Means the wolf-bellied, a name of Bhima, the second of the Pāndavas, significant of his voraciousness.
  2. ↑ The last two of the Pāndavas, these were the sons of Mādri, the second wife of Pāndu.
  3. ↑ See note 28 ante. He was the elder son of Drupada Born a girl, changed sex later as a result of austere penance and the sympathy of a Yaksa named Sthnnakarna. Arjuna placed him in front, between himself and the. opposing Bhisma, and, when the latter desisted from lighting because of the fcmalclurned-male, brought him down.
  4. ↑ Second son of Drupada. See note 5 ante. He was the commander-inchief of the Pāndava army from the second day of the war to the end and was killed by Aśvattriāma while alseep on the night of the eighteenth day.