सो ऽहं योत्स्यामि तत्त्वेन पालयंस् तव वाहिनीम् ॥
यथावच् छास्त्रतो राजन् व्येतु ते मानसो ज्वरः ॥
दुर्योधन उवाच
न विद्यते मे गाङ्गेय भयं देवासुरेष्व् अपि ॥
समस्तेषु महाबाहो सत्यम् एतद् ब्रवीमि ते ॥
किं पुनस् त्वयि दुर्धर्षे सेनापत्ये व्यवस्थिते ॥
द्रोणे च पुरुषव्याघ्रे स्थिते युद्धाभिनन्दिनि ॥
भवद्भ्यां पुरुषाग्र्याभ्यां स्थिताभ्यां विजयो मम ॥
न दुर्लभं कुरुश्रेष्ठ देवराज्यम् अपि ध्रुवम् ॥
रथसंख्यां तु कार्त्स्न्येन परेषाम् आत्मनस् तथा ॥
तथैवातिरथानां च वेत्तुम् इच्छामि कौरव ॥
so 'haṃ yotsyāmi tattvena pālayaṃs tava vāhinīm ||
yathāvac chāstrato rājan vyetu te mānaso jvaraḥ ||
duryodhana uvāca
na vidyate me gāṅgeya bhayaṃ devāsureṣv api ||
samasteṣu mahābāho satyam etad bravīmi te ||
kiṃ punas tvayi durdharṣe senāpatye vyavasthite ||
droṇe ca puruṣavyāghre sthite yuddhābhinandini ||
bhavadbhyāṃ puruṣāgryābhyāṃ sthitābhyāṃ vijayo mama ||
na durlabhaṃ kuruśreṣṭha devarājyam api dhruvam ||
rathasaṃkhyāṃ tu kārtsnyena pareṣām ātmanas tathā ||
tathaivātirathānāṃ ca vettum icchāmi kaurava ||
'I shall fight in earnest, protecting your army, O king, as is proper according to the science of war. Let the fever of your mind depart.' Duryodhana said: 'O son of Ganga, I have no fear even of all the gods and asuras gathered together, O mighty-armed one; this I tell you truly. What then need be said, when you, the unassailable one, are established as commander, and Drona, the tiger among men who delights in battle, stands beside you? With you two, the foremost of men, standing together, victory is certain for me, O best of the Kurus; even the kingdom of the gods would not be hard to win. But I wish to know in full the number of the chariot-warriors of the enemy and of our own side, and likewise of the atirathas, O Kaurava.'
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Here begins the sober reckoning of forces before the war. Dhritarashtra already senses the outcome: Arjuna's vow to kill Bhishma sounds to him like an almost accomplished fact. Bhishma, for his part, accepts the command without self-praise: he knows the science of war, yet does not conceal that war demands order, measure, and a clear understanding of every warrior. The listing of the rathas and atirathas shows not only the army's strength but also a web of personal debts, grievances, and choices that brought these men to Kurukshetra.