Shloka 176
दृढ: सुहस्तो विरजा: प्रमाथ्युग्रोडनुयाय्यपि । उनके नाम इस प्रकार हैं--नागदत्त, दृढ़रथ (दृढ़रथाश्रय), महाबाहु, अयोभुज (अयोबाहु), दृढ़ (दृढ़क्षत्र), सुहस्त, विरजा, प्रमाथी, उग्र (उम्रश्रवा) और अनुयायी (अग्रयायी)
sañjaya uvāca | dṛḍhaḥ suhasto virajāḥ pramāthī ugro 'nuyāyy api |
Sañjaya said: Among them were the warriors named Dṛḍha, Suhasta, Virajā, Pramāthī, Ugra, and Anuyāyī as well. Thus, the narrator enumerates the combatants—an ethical reminder of how war reduces living persons to lists of names, while still preserving their identity and lineage in memory.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse functions as a war-catalogue: it preserves personal identity through naming, while implicitly underscoring the ethical weight of battle—many lives and lineages are drawn into conflict, and remembrance through narration becomes a moral counterpoint to the anonymity of slaughter.
Sañjaya continues listing notable fighters present in the Drona Parva battle context, naming Dṛḍha, Suhasta, Virajā, Pramāthī, Ugra, and Anuyāyī (with the accompanying tradition also supplying additional names in the same list).