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न तं युद्धेषु पश्यामि यो विभिन्द्याच्छिखण्डिनम् । शस्त्रेण समरे राजन्संनद्धं स्यन्दने स्थितम्॥५-१४९-३१॥
I do not see anyone in battle who could break through Śikhaṇḍin with weapons, O king, when he is fully armed and stationed upon his chariot.
english translation
द्वैरथे विषहेन्नान्यो भीष्मं राजन्महाव्रतम् । शिखण्डिनमृते वीरं स मे सेनापतिर्मतः॥५-१४९-३२॥
In single-chariot combat, no other hero could withstand Bhīṣma, O king, that great-vowed one—except Śikhaṇḍin. Therefore, in my view, he is the commander.
english translation
युधिष्ठिर उवाच । सर्वस्य जगतस्तात सारासारं बलाबलम् । सर्वं जानाति धर्मात्मा गतमेष्यच्च केशवः॥५-१४९-३३॥
Yudhiṣṭhira said: “Keśava, righteous-souled, knows everything, dear brother—the essential and the non-essential, the strength and weakness of the whole world, and what has occurred and what will occur.”
english translation
यमाह कृष्णो दाशार्हः सोऽस्तु नो वाहिनीपतिः । कृतास्त्रो ह्यकृतास्त्रो वा वृद्धो वा यदि वा युवा॥५-१४९-३४॥
Let Dāśārha Kṛṣṇa—whom you have named—be our commander of the host, whether trained in weapons or untrained, whether old or young.
english translation
एष नो विजये मूलमेष तात विपर्यये । अत्र प्राणाश्च राज्यं च भावाभावौ सुखासुखे॥५-१४९-३५॥
This is the root of our success—and, dear one, it also determines its reversal. Here are at stake our lives and our kingdom, gain and loss, happiness and suffering.
english translation