Arjuna said:
1. Then the lord of the gods, seeing me, highly faithful and wounded with a arrows and acknowledging me as his own, duly spoke these words.
2. “O Bharata, all the celestials weapons are with you; (therefore) no mortal on earth shall by any means be capable of conquering you.
3. O son, when you will be engaged in battle, Bhishma, Drona, Kripa, Karna, Shakuni, together with (other) kings, shall not approach (in strength) a sixteenth part of yours.”
4. The lord Maghavan gave me this impenetrable celestials armour capable of protecting the body, this golden garland,
5. And also this conch, Devadatta, emitting forth loud roars. (And) Indra himself fixed this coronet (on my head).
6. Shakra then granted me these precious and beautiful celestials garments and these heavenly ornaments.
7. Thus, O king, duly honoured, I dwelt cheerfully in the abode of Indra with the children of the Gandharvas.
8. Then Shakra, well pleased, unanimously with the immortals spoke to me: “O Arjuna, the time for your departure has (now) arrived, your brothers are thinking of you.”
9. Thus, O monarch, remembering the troubles brought on (us) by gambling I passed (these) five years in the abode of Indra.
10. Then did I behold you surrounded by (my other) brothers on the summit of the lower range of the mountain Gandhamadana.
Yudhishthira said:
11. O Dhananjaya, fortunately you have obtained these celestials weapons and it is by good luck too, that you have worshipped the lord king of the celestials.
12. And luckily, O tormentor of foes, O sinless being, you have beheld that very god, Sthanu himself, together with the goddess and pleased them by fighting.
13. And O the best of the Bharatas, luckily it is that you have obtained an interview with the Lokapalas. It is because you are fortunate that we have prospered and fortunately you have come back.
14. Today do I consider the entire earth, adorned with cities, as conquered and the sons of Dhritarashtra subdued.
15. O Bharata, (now) I wish to see those celestials weapons by means of which you destroyed the powerful Nivatakavachas.
Arjuna said:
16.You will behold tomorrow morning all those celestials weapons whereby the Nivatakavachas were slain.
Vaishampayana said:
17. Having thus related the events in connection with his arrival there, Dhananjaya passed that night there together with all his brothers.
Thus ends the hundred and seventy-fourth chapter, the exhibition of weapons, in the Nivatakavacha Yuddha of the Vana Parva.