सञ्जय उवाच
दृष्ट्वा तु पाण्डवानीकं व्यूढं दुर्योधनस्तदा।
आचार्यमुपसङ्गम्य राजा वचनमब्रवीत्।।1.2।।
पश्यैतां पाण्डुपुत्राणामाचार्य महतीं चमूम्।
व्यूढां द्रुपदपुत्रेण तव शिष्येण धीमता।।1.3।।
अत्र शूरा महेष्वासा भीमार्जुनसमा युधि।
युयुधानो विराटश्च द्रुपदश्च महारथः।।1.4।।
धृष्टकेतुश्चेकितानः काशिराजश्च वीर्यवान्।
पुरुजित्कुन्तिभोजश्च शैब्यश्च नरपुङ्गवः।।1.5।।
युधामन्युश्च विक्रान्त उत्तमौजाश्च वीर्यवान्।
सौभद्रो द्रौपदेयाश्च सर्व एव महारथाः।।1.6।।
अस्माकं तु विशिष्टा ये तान्निबोध द्विजोत्तम।
नायका मम सैन्यस्य संज्ञार्थं तान्ब्रवीमि ते।।1.7।।
Sanjaya said: But then, seeing the army of the Pandavas in battle array, King Duryodhana approached the teacher, Drona, and spoke.
O teacher, behold this vast army of the sons of Pandu, arrayed for battle by the intelligent disciple of Drupada.
Here are the heroes wielding great bows, who in battle are peers of Bhima and Arjuna: Yuyudhana (Satyaki) and Virata, and the maharatha (great chariot-rider) Drupada;
Dhrstaketu, Cekitana, and the valiant king of Kasi (Varanasi); Purujit, Kuntibhoja, and Saibya, the choicest of men;
And the valiant Yudhamanyu, and the chivalrous Uttamaujas; the son of Subhadra (Abhimanyu) and the sons of Draupadi—all of them are, indeed, maharathas.
But, O best among the Brahmanas, please be appraised of those who are foremost among us, the founders of my army. I speak of them to you by way of illustration.
Osho’s Commentary
Duryodhana speaks. And his first words are not of his own army, but of the enemy’s. Strange, is it not? A man drowning in an inferiority complex speaks always of his own greatness. But one who is truly sure of himself can afford to praise his enemy. Duryodhana is not a weak man; his evil is confident, self-assured. And in this, he is more authentic than many a so-called good man whose goodness is just skin-deep, a fragile mask hiding a deep uncertainty. And to whom does his eye go? To Bhima. He sees Bhima as the equal of Arjuna, the real threat. The whole world will later see this war as a dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna, but at the start, Duryodhana, a man of brute force, sees only the brute force of Bhima as his true adversary. They are of the same earth, the same primal nature. He cannot comprehend the subtle mind of Arjuna. An intellectual is always unreliable in a fight; his mind is a space of doubt. But a man of pure muscle, like Bhima, is predictable. Duryodhana understands him perfectly. This is how we all live. We make our calculations based on the visible, the known, the predictable. But life is always an intervention of the unknown. The real player on this battlefield is not Bhima, not even Arjuna. It is the silent charioteer, Krishna—the invisible, the unpredictable, the divine. And his entry will change the whole mathematics of this war. Duryodhana, in his confident calculation, has completely overlooked the one factor that will decide everything. He has calculated the visible forces, but he is blind to the invisible grace that is about to descend.