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Panchajanya

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Vishnu’s named conch in Indian story, blown as a war-call and later temple sound. Not a shofar, and not a generic shell.

Vedic tradition

  • Panchajanya is sacred to Vishnu.

    The Gita’s opening war tableau has Krishna blow Pāñcajanya, Viṣṇu’s named conch, as the call that begins the counsel’s field. A named panchajanya sacred to Vishnu-Krishna in that scene, not a shofar and not a generic shell dump.

    from Anonymous (Mahābhārata); English public-domain translations · Bhagavad Gita, classical Sanskrit; English PD translations 19th–early 20th c.

    sacred to · sourced · documented

sources

  • Bhagavad Gita · Anonymous (Mahābhārata); English public-domain translations

    Bhagavad Gita (Bhagavadgītā).