तथा गदश् च साम्बश् च प्रद्युम्नो ऽथ विदूरथः ॥
आगावहो ऽनिरुद्धश् च चारुदेष्णश् च सारणः ॥
उल्मुको निशठश् चैव झल्ली बभ्रुश् च वीर्यवान् ॥
पृथुश् च विपृथुश् चैव समीको ऽथारिमेजयः ॥
एते वै बलवन्तश् च वृष्णिवीराः प्रहारिणः ॥
कथं चित् पाण्डवानीकं श्रयेयुः समरे स्थिताः ॥
आहूता वृष्णिवीरेण केशवेन महात्मना ॥
ततः संशयितं सर्वं भवेद् इति मतिर् मम ॥
tathā gadaś ca sāmbaś ca pradyumno 'tha vidūrathaḥ ||
āgāvaho 'niruddhaś ca cārudeṣṇaś ca sāraṇaḥ ||
ulmuko niśaṭhaś caiva jhallī babhruś ca vīryavān ||
pṛthuś ca vipṛthuś caiva samīko 'thārimejayaḥ ||
ete vai balavantaś ca vṛṣṇivīrāḥ prahāriṇaḥ ||
kathaṃ cit pāṇḍavānīkaṃ śrayeyuḥ samare sthitāḥ ||
āhūtā vṛṣṇivīreṇa keśavena mahātmanā ||
tataḥ saṃśayitaṃ sarvaṃ bhaved iti matir mama ||
Moreover Gada, Samba, Pradyumna, Viduratha, Agavaha, Aniruddha, Charudeshna, Sarana, Ulmuka, Nishatha, Jhalli, and mighty Babhru, Prithu, Viprithu, Samika, and Arimejaya — these mighty heroes of the Vrishnis, smiting warriors, should they somehow join the army of the Pandavas, taking their stand in battle, summoned by the great-souled hero of the Vrishnis, Keshava [Krishna] — then everything would become imperiled for us, this is my conviction.
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Dhritarashtra enumerates the host of Vrishni heroes — the kin and offspring of Krishna, formidable in themselves — yet even they stand subject to the call of 'the great-souled Keshava': all this might moves at the word of the Lord. The king's fear at the possibility of their alliance with the Pandavas again betrays how precarious the Kauravas' hope is, for behind the Pandavas stands the One whom even these warriors obey. The verse teaches that even the greatest heroes are but companions and servants of the Lord, moved by His will; that the true strength of a side lies not in the number of its fighters but in whose call they heed; and that the fear of the wrongful before the allies of righteousness is a foreboding of the inevitable — for behind righteousness stands the Master of the heroes themselves.