Mahabharata Bibliomancy Reading
This oracle randomly points to a line from one of sacred books of Mahabharata. The surrounding lines are also provided for context.
Your passage is from BOOK 7 - DRONA PARVA - SECTION CXXIII.
Tell me, O Sanjaya, how the grandson of Sini, alone as he was, passed through that vast force struggling with him in battle?’
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BOOK 7 - DRONA PARVA - SECTION CXXIII
“Dhritarashtra said, ‘Were there, O Sanjaya, no mighty car- warriors in that army of mine who could slay or resist that Satyaki while he proceeded (towards Arjuna)?
Of prowess incapable of being baffled, and endued with might equal to that of Sakra himself, alone he achieved feats in battle like the great Indra amidst the Danavas!
Or, perhaps, the track by which Satyaki proceeded was empty?
Alas, possessed of true prowess, alone he hath crushed numberless warriors!
Tell me, O Sanjaya, how the grandson of Sini, alone as he was, passed through that vast force struggling with him in battle?’
“Sanjaya said, ‘O king, the fierce exertions and the uproar made by thy host which abounded with cars and elephants and steeds and foot-soldiers, resembled what is seen at the end of the yuga.
O giver of honours, when thy assembled host was (duly) mustered, it seemed to me that another assemblage like that of thy army had never been on earth.
The gods and the Charanas, who came there said, “This muster will be the last of its kind on earth.” Indeed, O king, never had such an array been formed before as that which was formed by Drona on the day of Jayadratha’s slaughter.
The uproar made by those vast bodies of soldiers rushing at one another in battle resembled that of the ocean itself lashed into fury by the tempest.
In that host of thine, as also in that of the Pandavas, there were hundreds and thousands of kings, O best of men.
The noise made by those angry heroes of fierce deeds while engaged in battle was tremendous and made the hair stand on end.
Then Bhimasena and Dhrishtadyumna, O sire, and Nakula and Sahadeva and king Yudhishthira the Just, loudly shouted, “Come, Strike, Rush!
The brave Madhava and Arjuna have entered the hostile army!
Do that quickly by which they may easily go to where Jayadratha’s car is.” Saying this, they urged their soldiers.
And they continued, “If Satyaki and Arjuna be slain, Kurus will have achieved their objects, and ourselves shall be defeated.
