MAHABHARATA CONDENSED INTO ENGLISH ... - Mandhata Global
MAHABHARATA CONDENSED INTO ENGLISH ... - Mandhata Global
MAHABHARATA CONDENSED INTO ENGLISH ... - Mandhata Global
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Brave Nakula's sign was red deer with its back of burnished gold,<br />
Silver swan with bells resounding Sahadeva's onset told,<br />
Golden peacock rich-emblazoned was young Abhimanyu's joy,<br />
Vulture shone on Ghatotkacha, Bhima's proud and gallant boy.<br />
Now Duryodhan marked the foemen heaving like the rising tide,<br />
And he faced the wrathful Bhima towering in his tameless pride,<br />
Short the war; for proud Duryodhan wounded from the battle fled,<br />
And his warriors from fair Anga rested with the countless dead!<br />
Wild with anger Bhagadatta, monarch of the farthest East,<br />
With his still unconquered forces on the valiant Bhima pressed,<br />
Came from far the wrathful Arjun and the battle's front he sought,<br />
Where by eastern foes surrounded still the stalwart Bhima fought!<br />
Fated monarch from the mighty Brahma-putra's sounding shore,<br />
Land of rising sun will hail him and his noble peers no more,<br />
For his tusker pierced by arrows trumpeted his dying wail,<br />
Like a red and flaming meteor gallant Bhagadatta fell!<br />
Then with rising wrath and anguish Karna's noble bosom bled,<br />
Karna who had stayed from battle while his rival Bhishma led,<br />
Ancient hate and jealous anger clouded Karna's warlike heart,<br />
And while Bhishma led, all idly slumbered Karna's bow and dart,<br />
Now he marked with warrior's anguish all his comrades fled afar,<br />
And his foeman Arjun sweeping o'er the red field of the war!<br />
Hatred like a tongue of red fire shot from Karna's flaming eye,<br />
And he sprang to meet his foeman or to conquer or to die,<br />
Fierce and dubious was the battle, answering clouds gave back the din,<br />
Karna met his dearest foeman and, alas, his nearest kin!<br />
Bhima and Panchala's warriors unto Arjun's rescue came,<br />
Proud Duryodhan came to Karna, and fair Sindhu's king of fame,<br />
Fiercely raged the gory combat, when the night its shadows threw,<br />
Wounded men and blood-stained chieftains to their nightly tents withdrew<br />
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