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STANDARDS OF THE PANDAVS Morning came; still round Yudhishthir Drona led the gathering war, Arjun fought the Sam-saptakas in the battle-field afar, But the prince of fair Panchala marked his father's ancient foe, And against the doughty Drona, Dhrishta-dyumna bent his bow! But as darksome cloudy masses angry gusts of storm divide, Through the scattered fainting foemen Drona drove his car in pride, Steeds went down and riven chariots, young Panchala turned and fled, Onward drove resistless Drona o'er the dying and the dead! One more prince of fair Panchala 'gainst the mighty Drona came, Ancient feud ran in the red blood of Panchala's chiefs of fame, Fated youth! with reckless valour still he fought his father's foe, Fought and fell; relentless Drona laid the brave Satyajit low! Surging still like ocean's billows other Pandav warriors came, To protect their virtuous monarch and redeem their ancient fame, Came in various battle-chariots drawn by steeds of every hue, Various were the chieftains' standards which the warring nations knew! Bhima drove his stalwart horses tinted like the dappled deer, Grey and pigeon-coloured coursers bore Panchala's prince and peer, Horses bred in famed Kamboja, dark and grey of deepest hue, Brave Nakula's sumptuous chariot in the deathful battle drew, Piebald horses trained to battle did young Sahadeva rein, Ivory-white Yudhishthir's coursers with their flowing ebon mane, And by him with gold umbrella valiant monarch Drupad came, Horses of a bright bay-colour carried Matsya's king of fame. Varied as their varied courses gallantly their standards rose, With their wondrous stran1ge devices, terror of their arméd foes, Water-jar on tawny deerskin, such was Drona's sign of war, Drona as a tender infant rested in a water-jar, Golden moon with stars surrounding was Yudhishthir's sign of yore, Silver lion was the standard tiger-waisted Bhima bore,
Brave Nakula's sign was red deer with its back of burnished gold, Silver swan with bells resounding Sahadeva's onset told, Golden peacock rich-emblazoned was young Abhimanyu's joy, Vulture shone on Ghatotkacha, Bhima's proud and gallant boy. Now Duryodhan marked the foemen heaving like the rising tide, And he faced the wrathful Bhima towering in his tameless pride, Short the war; for proud Duryodhan wounded from the battle fled, And his warriors from fair Anga rested with the countless dead! Wild with anger Bhagadatta, monarch of the farthest East, With his still unconquered forces on the valiant Bhima pressed, Came from far the wrathful Arjun and the battle's front he sought, Where by eastern foes surrounded still the stalwart Bhima fought! Fated monarch from the mighty Brahma-putra's sounding shore, Land of rising sun will hail him and his noble peers no more, For his tusker pierced by arrows trumpeted his dying wail, Like a red and flaming meteor gallant Bhagadatta fell! Then with rising wrath and anguish Karna's noble bosom bled, Karna who had stayed from battle while his rival Bhishma led, Ancient hate and jealous anger clouded Karna's warlike heart, And while Bhishma led, all idly slumbered Karna's bow and dart, Now he marked with warrior's anguish all his comrades fled afar, And his foeman Arjun sweeping o'er the red field of the war! Hatred like a tongue of red fire shot from Karna's flaming eye, And he sprang to meet his foeman or to conquer or to die, Fierce and dubious was the battle, answering clouds gave back the din, Karna met his dearest foeman and, alas, his nearest kin! Bhima and Panchala's warriors unto Arjun's rescue came, Proud Duryodhan came to Karna, and fair Sindhu's king of fame, Fiercely raged the gory combat, when the night its shadows threw, Wounded men and blood-stained chieftains to their nightly tents withdrew III
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Skill in arms attained these prince
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Mighty sword and ample buckler, pon
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And with equal skill his rapier did
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Angry word is coward's weapon, Arju
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Is he soil of chariot-driver? Doubt
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THE mutual jealousies of the prince
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And the princes bowed unto him and
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And her golden bridal garland, carr
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Bright Immortals gaily crowding vie
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Holy men subsist on wild fruits, in
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Like wild elephants of jungle rushe
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Brahmans, and the brothers reported
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FEAST AND SACRIFICE Jumna's dark an
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And on subjects great and sacred, o
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Ill beseems the good Yudhishthir, r
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Lowered Krishna's eye and forehead,
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"Done this glorious rajasuya, joy a
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DURYODHAN came back from the Imperi
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Sacred looks! with holy water dewed
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For they censure not a woman, when
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I have borne a child unto him, nobl
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Now once more the teaching cometh,
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Leave me not alone on wide earth, l
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Epic, impart a moral instruction to
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Aswapati, glad and grateful, take t
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Maiden! speak unto the rishi, and t
Page 55 and 56: "Monarch!" uttered then the rishi,
Page 57 and 58: Answered then the loving husband, a
Page 59 and 60: YAMA from the prince's body, pale a
Page 61 and 62: "Have thy object," answered YAMA, "
Page 63 and 64: Then she rose and tied her tresses,
Page 65 and 66: From the north the proud Duryodhan,
Page 67 and 68: Trained in war by mighty Arjun, tra
Page 69 and 70: Hark again this wondrous sabre, sha
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Page 75 and 76: MAHABHARATA BOOK VII UDYOGA (The Co
Page 77 and 78: VALADEVA'S SPEECH Krishna's elder V
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Page 81 and 82: Stretch thy hands, O Kuru monarch!
Page 83 and 84: Exiled into Varnavata, destined unt
Page 85 and 86: Then in gentler voice Vidura sought
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Page 91 and 92: But the fiercer darts of Drona pier
Page 93 and 94: For the wrongs and insults offered
Page 95 and 96: Licked his mouth the vengeful Bhima
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Page 111 and 112: Moments passed of voiceless sorrow
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Page 117 and 118: Ill it fared with Pandav forces, do
Page 119 and 120: KARNA AND ARJUN MEET Sights of red
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Page 127 and 128: Stung to fury and to madness, faint
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Page 143 and 144: With his greetings did Yudhishthir,
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Page 149 and 150: Seek and find the brave Satyaki who
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them down, but he never seems to go
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charm and an attraction; and the mo
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Introduction by W. Max-Müller. 189
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IDA, a form of sacrificial offering
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