Chapter I · Śloka 15
Sañjaya uvāca
पाञ्चजन्यं हृषीकेशो देवदत्तं धनञ्जयः |
पौण्ड्रं दध्मौ महाशङ्खं भीमकर्मा वृकोदरः ||
pāñcajanyaṃ hṛṣīkeśo devadattaṃ dhanañjayaḥ |
pauṇḍraṃ dadhmau mahā-śaṅkhaṃ bhīma-karmā vṛkodaraḥ ||
Krishna blew his conch named Panchajanya; Arjuna blew his Devadatta; and Bhima, the performer of herculean tasks, blew his great conch Paundra.
Each conch has a name, a lineage, a sound of its own. Pāñcajanya was born from a sea-demon slain by Krishna; Devadatta was gifted by the gods. The very instruments of war carry mythic weight here — nothing on this battlefield is merely ordinary.