Shrimad Bhagavad-gita

by Narayana Gosvami | 2013 | 327,105 words

The Bhagavad-gita Verses 1.17-18, English translation, including the Vaishnava commentaries Sarartha-varsini-tika, Prakashika-vritti and Rasika-ranjana (excerpts). This is verse Verses 1.17-18 from the chapter 1 called “Sainya-Darshana (Observing the Armies)”

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verses 1.17-18:

काश्यश् च परमेष्वासः शिखण्डी च महा-रथः ।
धृष्टद्युम्नो विराटश् च सात्यकिश् चापराजितः ॥ १७ ॥
द्रुपदो द्रौपदेयाश् च सर्वशः पृथिवी-पते ।
सौभद्रश् च महा-बाहुः शङ्खान् दध्मुः पृथक् पृथक् ॥ १८ ॥

kāśyaś ca parameṣvāsaḥ śikhaṇḍī ca mahā-rathaḥ |
dhṛṣṭadyumno virāṭaś ca sātyakiś cāparājitaḥ || 17 ||
drupado draupadeyāś ca sarvaśaḥ pṛthivī-pate |
saubhadraś ca mahā-bāhuḥ śaṅkhān dadhmuḥ pṛthak pṛthak || 18 ||

kāśyaḥ–the king of Kāśī; ca–and; parama-iṣu-āsaḥ–the excellent wielder of arrows; śikhaṇḍī–Śikhaṇḍī; ca–also; mahā-rathaḥ–the great chariot fighter; dhṛṣṭadyumnaḥ–Dhṛṣṭadyumna; virāṭaḥ–Virāṭa; ca–and; sātyakiḥ–Sātyaki; ca–and; aparājitaḥ–the unconquerable; drupadaḥ–Drupada; draupadeyāḥ–the sons of Draupadī; ca–and; sarvaśaḥ–all; pṛthivī-pate–Dhṛtarāṣṭra, O lord of the Earth; saubhadraḥ–Abhimanyu, the son of Subhadrā; ca–also; mahā-bāhuḥ–mighty-armed; śaṅkhān–conch-shells; dadhmuḥ–blew; pṛthak pṛthak–distinctly, one by one.

O king of the Earth, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, that great archer the king of Kāśī; the mahārathī Śikhaṇḍī;Dhṛṣṭadyumna; the king of Virāṭa; the unconquerable Sātyaki; King Drupada; the sons of Draupadī; and Abhimanyu, the son of Subhadrā, all one by one distinctly sounded their respective conch-shells.

Commentary: Sārārtha-Varṣiṇī Ṭīkā

(By Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura; the innermost intention of the commentary named ‘the shower of essential meanings’)

Pāñcajanya and others are the names of conches belonging to Śrī Kṛṣṇa and various warriors on the battlefield. Aparājitaḥ means ‘one who cannot be defeated by anyone’, or ‘one who is adorned with a bow’.

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