Verse-14
Chapter 1 — Arjun Vishād Yog
Verse 14
🕉 Original Sanskrit Shloka
tatah śvetairhayairyukte mahati syandane sthitau
mādhavaḥ pāṇḍavaścaiva divyau śaṅkhau pradadhmatuḥ
🕉 English Translation
📜 Translation
English
After some time sitting on a magnificent chariot yoked to white horses Shri Krishna and Arjun also blew their divine conches.
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In the Kaurava army the process of the blowing conches had started. The reaction from the Pandava army was natural. Lord Shri Krishna as well as Arjun blew their unearthly divine conches. Do not be surprised that the Commander was Drishtaduyama and the conch was blown first by Shri Krishna. Truly speaking, though Lord Krishna becomes the charioteer or assumes any other role yet His place is of supreme importance. Whether anybody accepts or not, He is all in all for the Pandavas. In any case, even though Shri Krishna has vowed not to fight and not to use any weapon yet He can at least blow the conch. When Shri Krishna took lead in blowing the conch then Arjun also followed suit.
The sound of the conches is relevant; but here the necessity is of describing the chariot and the horses. As a matter of fact the occupants of the chariot were not ordinary mortals but were God Incarnate Narayan and the representative human being Arjun. Neither were this chariot and horses ordinary. The Gandharva named Chitratha had gifted Arjun with a hundred horses. The unique feature is that even if any of the horses dies their number will remain one hundred. The four horses were amongst those hundred. On giving assistance for setting ablaze Khandavan the Fire of god had gifted Arjun this divine radiant chariot. In the following four verses, giving the description of the sound of the conches, Sanjay indicates.