All the sons of Dhritarashtra, along with their allied kings, and Bhishma, Drona, Karna — and our chief soldiers also —

Arjuna now sees, in the cosmic form, the people he came to the battlefield to fight — and something even more terrible. He names them: Dhritarashtra's sons, the allied kings, Bhishma, Drona, Karna. He sees them there, in the mouths of the cosmic form. He is about to understand something he cannot yet fully articulate.