संजय उवाच
सेनापत्यम् अनुप्राप्य भीष्मः शांतनवो नृप ॥
दुर्योधनम् उवाचेदं वचनं हर्षयन्न् इव ॥
नमस्कृत्वा कुमाराय सेनान्ये शक्तिपाणये ॥
अहं सेनापतिस् ते ऽद्य भविष्यामि न संशयः ॥
सेनाकर्मण्य् अभिज्ञो ऽस्मि व्यूहेषु विविधेषु च ॥
कर्म कारयितुं चैव भृतान् अप्य् अभृतांस् तथा ॥
यात्रायानेषु युद्धेषु लब्धप्रशमनेषु च ॥
भृशं वेद महाराज यथा वेद बृहस्पतिः ॥
व्यूहान् अपि महारम्भान् दैवगान्धर्वमानुषान् ॥
तैर् अहं मोहयिष्यामि पाण्डवान् व्येतु ते ज्वरः ॥
saṃjaya uvāca
senāpatyam anuprāpya bhīṣmaḥ śāṃtanavo nṛpa ||
duryodhanam uvācedaṃ vacanaṃ harṣayann iva ||
namaskṛtvā kumārāya senānye śaktipāṇaye ||
ahaṃ senāpatis te 'dya bhaviṣyāmi na saṃśayaḥ ||
senākarmaṇy abhijño 'smi vyūheṣu vividheṣu ca ||
karma kārayituṃ caiva bhṛtān apy abhṛtāṃs tathā ||
yātrāyāneṣu yuddheṣu labdhapraśamaneṣu ca ||
bhṛśaṃ veda mahārāja yathā veda bṛhaspatiḥ ||
vyūhān api mahārambhān daivagāndharvamānuṣān ||
tair ahaṃ mohayiṣyāmi pāṇḍavān vyetu te jvaraḥ ||
Sanjaya said: Having obtained the command, Bhishma, son of Shantanu, O king, spoke these words to Duryodhana, as though to gladden him: 'Having bowed to Kumara, the commander with the spear in hand, I shall today become your commander-in-chief -- of this there is no doubt. I am versed in the affairs of war and in various battle arrays, and I know how to set both hired and unhired soldiers to work. In marches, movements, battles, and in maintaining what has been won, I am as deeply versed, O great king, as Brihaspati himself. There are great and elaborate arrays -- divine, gandharva, and human; with these I shall bewilder the Pandavas. Let the fever of your anxiety depart.'
c1df1eaf48dc · प्रकाशित 17 जुल॰ 2026, 6:32:37 am UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
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.