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Verse 179

दुष्टप्रमथनः पार्थप्रतिज्ञापरिपालकः ।सिन्धुराजशिरःपातस्थानवक्ता विवेकदृक्॥

duṣṭapramathanaḥ pārthapratijñāparipālakaḥ ·sindhurājaśiraḥpātasthānavaktā vivēkadṛk

The Names in This Verse (4)

868 duṣṭapramathanah

the great destroyer of the wicked

869 pārthapratijñāparipālakaḥ

who upheld Arjuna's vow

870 sindhurājaśiraḥpātasthānavaktā

who said where the head of Jayadratha would fall

M.B Droṇaparva 68

M.B Droṇaparva 68

Kṛṣṇa tells Arjuna exactly where the severed head of Jayadratha (king of the Sindhu) will land: in his father Vṛddhasenā's lap, who is meditating on a hilltop far away—ensuring that the father's curse destroys his own skull.

871 vivekadṛk

the one of discriminating vision