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Paanchajanya

Pāñcajanya · IAST

Krishna's conch, sounded at the start of the great war.

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  • Bhagavad Gītā · 1.15

    पाञ्चजन्यं हृषीकेशो देवदत्तं धनञ्जयः । पौण्ड्रं दध्मौ महाशङ्खं भीमकर्मा वृकोदरः ॥

    pāñcajanyaṁ hṛṣīkeśo devadattaṁ dhanañjayaḥ | pauṇḍraṁ dadhmau mahāśaṅkhaṁ bhīmakarmā vṛkodaraḥ ||

    Kṛṣṇa blew his conch Pāñcajanya and Arjuna his Devadatta; mighty Bhīma, doer of fearsome deeds, blew his great conch Pauṇḍra. [The conch-blowing that opens the war]

Source: akshara-pravaaha.com/naamaavali/panchajanya · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Citations from Bhagavad Gītā

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