Sanskrit
तस्य सञ्जनयन्हर्षं कुरुवृद्धः पितामहः । सिंहनादं विनद्योच्चैः शङ्खं दध्मौ प्रतापवान् ॥
tasya sañjanayan harṣaṃ kuruvṛddhaḥ pitāmahaḥ siṃhanādaṃ vinadyoccaiḥ śaṅkhaṃ dadhmau pratāpavān
Translation
To enhearten him, the Ancient of the Kurus, the Grandsire, the glorious, blew his conch, sounding on high a lion's roar.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
The narrative shifts back to Sanjaya’s third-person account: Bhîshma responds to Duryodhana’s anxious speech not with words but with a deliberate act of encouragement, sounding a conch like a lion’s roar. It opens the famous conch-blowing sequence that runs through verse 19, the ceremonial overture to the battle proper.