Very good question! Possessing a weapon which you cannot use at all is useless isn’t it? But the answer is ‘no’. Having ‘pashupatastra’ in your arsenal is identical to having ‘pashupati’ by your side! You use it or not, you would be victorious! In the entire mahabharata, no other warrior has been shown as assisted by lord shankara in the battle (except for giving some boons etc). Only arjuna was assisted by him personally. How? Where? - We’ll know shortly, but before that let me show how does mahadeva protect his devotees! [Section a]: lord shiva’s style of protecting his devotees Bhagavan rudra, if stands for your protection in battlefield, he would himself slay your enemies in style, and that style is described in yajurveda as follows: “Namo agrevadhaya ca durevadhaya ca |” (yajurveda iv:5:8:e) ======================================================= (X) (agrevadhaya) Meaning: salutations to the one who stands ahead of his devotees in the battlefield and kills the en...