Chapter 1 · Arjuna's Despair

सञ्जयSañjaya speaks

Text 1.18

अनन्तविजयं राजा कुन्तीपुत्रो युधिष्ठिर: नकुल: सहदेवश्च सुघोषमणिपुष्पकौ काश्यश्च परमेष्वास: शिखण्डी च महारथ: धृष्टद्युम्नो विराटश्च सात्यकिश्चापराजित: द्रुपदो द्रौपदेयाश्च सर्वश: पृथिवीपते सौभद्रश्च महाबाहु: शङ्खान्दध्मु: पृथक् पृथक्

anantavijayaṁ rājā kuntī-putro yudhiṣhṭhiraḥ nakulaḥ sahadevaśhcha sughoṣha-maṇipuṣhpakau kāśhyaśhcha parameṣhvāsaḥ śhikhaṇḍī cha mahā-rathaḥ dhṛiṣhṭadyumno virāṭaśhcha sātyakiśh chāparājitaḥ drupado draupadeyāśhcha sarvaśhaḥ pṛithivī-pate saubhadraśhcha mahā-bāhuḥ śhaṅkhāndadhmuḥ pṛithak pṛithak

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The final names sound their conches — Drupada, the five sons of Draupadī, and mighty-armed Abhimanyu — each blowing his own instrument, 'each one separately'; Sanjay's insistence on that detail makes a quiet point about the army's character.

✨ Devotional Takeaway:Sanjay's insistence that each conch is sounded "separately" makes a quiet point: this army is a coalition of individuals, not a faceless mass.