Krishna obtained Panchajanya from the body of the sea-demon Panchajana, whom he slew in the ocean depths while searching for his guru Sandipani's son, and sounded the conch before the Battle of Kurukshetra to shatter the courage of the Kauravas.
Vishnu holds Panchajanya in his lower left hand in his chaturbhuja form, the conch's blast representing the primordial sound Om and the call to dharma that echoes through all creation.
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