From: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
Subject: Daily verse BG 1.15
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 04:44:03 EST
Reply-To: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa)
Organization: Kalki's Infoline BBS, Aiken, SC, USA

                                TEXT 15                             TM

                         pancajanyam hrsikeso
                         devadattam dhananjayah
                     paundram dadhmau maha-sankham
                          bhima-karma vrkodarah

  
pancajanyam--the conchshell named Pancajanya; hrsika-isah--Hrsikesa
(Krsna, the Lord who directs the senses of the devotees);
devadattam--the conchshell named Devadatta; dhanam-jayah--Dhananjaya
(Arjuna, the winner of wealth); paundram--the conch named Paundra;
dadhmau--blew; maha-sankham--the terrific conchshell; bhima-karma--one
who performs herculean tasks; vrka-udarah--the voracious eater (Bhima).

    
                              TRANSLATION

	Lord Krsna blew His conchshell, called Pancajanya; Arjuna blew
his, the Devadatta; and Bhima, the voracious eater and performer of
herculean tasks, blew his terrific conchshell, called Paundra.

  
                                PURPORT

	Lord Krsna is referred to as Hrsikesa in this verse because He is
the owner of all senses. The living entities are part and parcel of
Him, and therefore the senses of the living entities are also part and
parcel of His senses. The impersonalists cannot account for the senses
of the living entities, and therefore they are always anxious to
describe all living entities as sense-less, or impersonal. The Lord,
situated in the hearts of all living entities, directs their senses.
But He directs in terms of the surrender of the living entity, and in
the case of a pure devotee He directly controls the senses. Here on the
Battlefield of Kuruksetra the Lord directly controls the transcendental
senses of Arjuna, and thus His particular name of Hrsikesa. The Lord
has different names according to His different activities. For example,
His name is Madhusudana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu;
His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the
senses; His name is Vasudeva because He appeared as the son of
Vasudeva; His name is Devaki-nandana because He accepted Devaki as His
mother; His name is Yasoda-nandana because He awarded His childhood
pastimes to Yasoda at Vrndavana; His name is Partha-sarathi because He
worked as charioteer of His friend Arjuna. Similarly, His name is
Hrsikesa because He gave direction to Arjuna on the Battlefield of
Kuruksetra.

  	Arjuna is referred to as Dhananjaya in this verse because he
helped his elder brother in fetching wealth when it was required by the
king to make expenditures for different sacrifices. Similarly, Bhima is
known as Vrkodara because he could eat as voraciously as he could
perform herculean tasks, such as killing the demon Hidimba. So the
particular types of conchshell blown by the different personalities on
the side of the Pandavas, beginning with the Lord's, were all very
encouraging to the fighting soldiers. On the other side there were no
such credits, nor the presence of Lord Krsna, the supreme director, nor
that of the goddess of fortune. So they were predestined to lose the
battle--and that was the message announced by the sounds of the
conchshells.

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


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