From: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa)
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Subject: Daily verse BG 1.13-14
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 93 04:02:15 EST
Reply-To: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa)
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                             TEXTS 13-14

                      tatah sankhas ca bheryas ca
                           panavanaka-gomukhah
                         sahasaivabhyahanyanta
                        sa sabdas tumulo 'bhavat

                      tatah svetair hayair yukte
                         mahati syandane sthitau
                        madhavah pandavas caiva
                       divyau sankhau pradadhmatuh

tatah--thereafter; sankhah--conchshells; ca--also; bheryah--large
drums; ca--and; panava-anaka--small drums and kettledrums;
gomukhah--horns; sahasa--all of a sudden; eva--certainly;
abhyahanyanta--were simultaneously sounded; sah--that; sabdah--combined
sound; tumulah--tumultuous; abhavat--became.

tatah--thereafter; svetaih--with white; hayaih--horses; yukte--being
yoked; mahati--in a great; syandane--chariot; sthitau--situated;
madhavah--Krsna (the husband of the goddess of fortune);
pandavah--Arjuna (the son of Pandu); ca--also; eva--certainly;
divyau--transcendental; sankhau--conchshells; pradadhmatuh--sounded.
    
                              TRANSLATION

	After that, the conchshells, drums, bugles, trumpets and horns
were all suddenly sounded, and the combined sound was tumultuous.

        On the other side, both Lord Krsna and Arjuna, stationed on a
great chariot drawn by white horses, sounded their transcendental
conchshells.
  
                                PURPORT

	In contrast with the conchshell blown by Bhismadeva, the
conchshells in the hands of Krsna and Arjuna are described as
transcendental. The sounding of the transcendental conchshells
indicated that there was no hope of victory for the other side because
Krsna was on the side of the Pandavas. Jayas tu pandu-putranam yesam
pakse janardanah. Victory is always with persons like the sons of Pandu
because Lord Krsna is associated with them. And whenever and wherever
the Lord is present, the goddess of fortune is also there because the
goddess of fortune never lives alone without her husband. Therefore,
victory and fortune were awaiting Arjuna, as indicated by the
transcendental sound produced by the conchshell of Visnu, or Lord
Krsna. Besides that, the chariot on which both the friends were seated
had been donated by Agni (the fire-god) to Arjuna, and this indicated
that this chariot was capable of conquering all sides, wherever it was
drawn over the three worlds.

Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
Books of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami


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