वैशंपायन उवाच
एतस्मिन्न् एव काले तु भीष्मकस्य महात्मनः ॥
हिरण्यलोम्नो नृपतेः साक्षाद् इन्द्रसखस्य वै ॥
आहृतीनाम् अधिपतेर् भोजस्यातियशस्विनः ॥
दाक्षिणात्यपतेः पुत्रो दिक्षु रुक्मीति विश्रुतः ॥
यः किंपुरुषसिंहस्य गन्धमादनवासिनः ॥
शिष्यः कृत्स्नं धनुर्वेदं चतुष्पादम् अवाप्तवान् ॥
यो माहेन्द्रं धनुर् लेभे तुल्यं गाण्डीवतेजसा ॥
शार्ङ्गेण च महाबाहुः संमितं दिव्यम् अक्षयम् ॥
त्रीण्य् एवैतानि दिव्यानि धनूंषि दिविचारिणाम् ॥
वारुणं गाण्डिवं तत्र माहेन्द्रं विजयं धनुः ॥
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca
etasminn eva kāle tu bhīṣmakasya mahātmanaḥ ||
hiraṇyalomno nṛpateḥ sākṣād indrasakhasya vai ||
āhṛtīnām adhipater bhojasyātiyaśasvinaḥ ||
dākṣiṇātyapateḥ putro dikṣu rukmīti viśrutaḥ ||
yaḥ kiṃpuruṣasiṃhasya gandhamādanavāsinaḥ ||
śiṣyaḥ kṛtsnaṃ dhanurvedaṃ catuṣpādam avāptavān ||
yo māhendraṃ dhanur lebhe tulyaṃ gāṇḍīvatejasā ||
śārṅgeṇa ca mahābāhuḥ saṃmitaṃ divyam akṣayam ||
trīṇy evaitāni divyāni dhanūṃṣi divicāriṇām ||
vāruṇaṃ gāṇḍivaṃ tatra māhendraṃ vijayaṃ dhanuḥ ||
Vaishampayana said: At this very time there came Rukmi, son of the great-souled King Bhishmaka — golden-haired, a very friend of Indra, lord of the Ahritas, the renowned Bhoja, ruler of the southern land — known in every direction as Rukmi. He had been a disciple of the lion among the Kimpurushas who dwells on Gandhamadana, and had mastered the entire fourfold Dhanurveda. The mighty-armed Rukmi obtained the divine, inexhaustible bow of Mahendra, equal in splendor to Gandiva and matching Sharnga. These three divine bows belong to the celestial beings: Varuna's Gandiva, Mahendra's bow Vijaya, and Sharnga.
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Rukmi arrives as an ally, but his speech reveals not service to dharma but self-assurance and a wish to display his own strength. Arjuna's answer is not empty pride: he reminds him that his support has already been proven in battle, and it consists not in some chance helper but in Krishna, in divine weapons, in his teachers, and in his own responsibility as a kshatriya. That is why both the Pandavas and Duryodhana are left without Rukmi: the war is purified of ostentatious support that carries no inner loyalty.