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Bhagavad Gita 1.15

पाञ्चजन्यं हृषीकेशो देवदत्तं धनंजयः।पौण्ड्रं दध्मौ महाशङ्खं भीमकर्मा वृकोदरः॥

pāñcajanyaṃ hṛṣīkeśo devadattaṃ dhanaṃjayaḥ |pauṇḍraṃ dadhmau mahāśaṅkhaṃ bhīmakarmā vṛkodaraḥ ||

Hrishikesha blew the Panchajanya, Arjuna blew the Devadatta, and Bhima, the wolf-bellied doer of terrible deeds, blew the great conch Paundra.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

Lord Shri Krishna blew his Panchajanya, and Arjuna blew his Devadatta; brave Bheema blew his renowned shell, Poundra.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.

Bhagavad Gita 1.15 · SatsangVidya