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BHAGAVAD GI:THA

EARTH TO SKY...

THEIR DEFEAT

ECHOED THROUGH

Sri Sri Sri Tridandi Chinna Srimannarayana
Ramanuja Jeeyar Swamiji

Who would win the battle? The five Pa:ndava:s
with a small army or the huge army of hundred
Kaurava:s? Many wise men got their answers when
they heard the systematic, harmonizing, resonating
sounds of the conches of the Pa:ndava: - army, for
the sounds which reverberated through space and
sky pierced the Kaurava:s’ hearts with utter terror
and fear!

Verse 16

“anantha vijayam ra:ja:
kunthi:puthro: yuddhishttiraha appears really beautiful with a cluster of gems
Nakulas sahade:vas cha hanging at its end.
sugho:sha manipushpakau ||”

Purport
Meanings Those sounds of conches reminded the
yuddhishttiraha = Dharma Ra:ja, who is very much characteristics of the persons blowing them and
committed to his duty, even if it is a war thus filled fear in the hearts of the Kaurava:s. Here,
kunthi: puthraha = the son of mother Kunthi
ra:ja: = who entertains everybody Yuddhishttira’s conch gave a victorious sound.
anantha vijayam = blew his conch named after Nakula’s conch was melodious. Sahade:va’s conch
anantha vijayam, the sound of which seemingly was decorated with a cluster of gems – for it was the
gives infinite victory Sahade:va’s character to like fashion.
Nakulaha = 4 brother among the p:andava:s,
th
Nakula Verse 17
Saha De:vaha cha = and also 5 brother among
th
Pa:ndavas, Saha De:va, both “ka:syas cha parame:shwa:sas
sugho:sha + mani pushpakau = blew their both sikhandi: cha maha:ratthaha
conches, Nakula’s conch sugho:sha releases dhrushtadyumno: vira:tas cha
melodious sounds and Saha De:va’s manipushpaka Sa:thyakis cha:para:jithaha ||”

26 Bhakthinivedana • Jan 2012