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Arjan by his skill and prowess won Pancbala's princess-bride, People's shouts and Brahmans' blessings sounded joyful far and wide! VII THE TUMULT Spake the suitors, anger-shaken, like a forest tempest-torn, As Panchala's courteous monarch came to greet a Brahman-born: "Shall he like the grass of jungle trample us in haughty pride, To a prating priest and Brahman wed the proud and peerless bride? To our hopes like nourished saplings shall he now the fruit deny, Monarch proud who insults monarchs sure a traitor's death shall die, Honour for his rank we know not, have no mercy for his age, Perish foe of crownéd monarchs, victim to our righteous rage! Hath he asked us to his palace, favoured us with royal grace, Feasted us with princely bounty, but to compass our disgrace, In this concourse of great monarchs, glorious like a heavenly band, Doth he find no likely suitor for his beauteous daughter's hand? And this rite of swayamtvra, so our sacred laws ordain, Is for warlike Kshatras only, priests that custom shall not stain, If this maiden on a Brahman casts her eye, devoid of shame, Let her expiate her folly in a pyre of blazing flame! Leave the priestling in his folly sinning through a Brahman's greed, For we wage no war with Brahmans and forgive a foolish deed, Much we owe to holy Brahmans for our realm and wealth and life, Blood of priest or wise preceptor shall not stain our noble strife, In the blood of sinful Drupad we the righteous laws maintain, Such disgrace in future ages monarchs shall not meet again!" Spake the suitors, tiger-hearted, iron-handed, bold and strong' Fiereely bent on blood and vengeance blindly rose the maddened throng, On they came, the angry monarchs, armed for cruel vengeful strife, Drupad midst the holy Brahmans trembling fled for fear of life,
Like wild elephants of jungle rushed the kings upon their foes, Calm and stately, stalwart Bhima and the gallant Arjun rose! With a wilder rage the monarchs viewed these brothers cross their path, Rushed upon the daring warriors for to slay them in their wrath, Weaponless was noble Bhima, but in strength like lightning's brand, Tore a tree with peerless prowess, shook it as a mighty wand! And the foe-compelling warrior held that mace of living wood, Strong as death with deadly weapon, facing all his foes he stood, Arjun too with godlike valour stood unmoved, his bow in hand, Side by side the dauntless brothers faced the fierce and fiery band! VIII KRISHNA TO THE RESCUE Kri.shnaknew thesons of Pandu though in robes of Brahmans dressed, To his elder, Valadeva, thus his inner thoughts expressed: "Mark that youth with bow and arrow and with lion's lordly gait, He is helmet-wearing Arjun! greatest warrior midst the great, Mark his mate, with tree uprooted how he meets the suitor band, Save the tiger-waisted Bhima none can claim such strength of hand! And the youth with eyes like lotus, he who left the court erewhile, He is pious-souled Yudhishthir, man without a sin or guile, And the others by Yudhishthir, Pandu's twin-born sons are they, With these sons the righteous Pritha 'scaped where death and danger lay, For the jealous, fierce Duryodhan darkly schemed their death by fire, But the righteous sons of Pandu 'scaped his unrelenting ire!" Krishna rose amidst the monarchs, strove the tumult to appease, And unto the angry suitors spake in words of righteous peace, Monarchs bowed to Krishna's mandate, left Panchala's festive land, Arjun took the beauteous princess, gently led her by the hand.
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Page 3 and 4: Skill in arms attained these prince
Page 5 and 6: Mighty sword and ample buckler, pon
Page 7 and 8: And with equal skill his rapier did
Page 9 and 10: Angry word is coward's weapon, Arju
Page 11 and 12: Is he soil of chariot-driver? Doubt
Page 13 and 14: THE mutual jealousies of the prince
Page 15 and 16: And the princes bowed unto him and
Page 17 and 18: And her golden bridal garland, carr
Page 19 and 20: Bright Immortals gaily crowding vie
Page 21: Holy men subsist on wild fruits, in
Page 25 and 26: Brahmans, and the brothers reported
Page 27 and 28: FEAST AND SACRIFICE Jumna's dark an
Page 29 and 30: And on subjects great and sacred, o
Page 31 and 32: Ill beseems the good Yudhishthir, r
Page 33 and 34: Lowered Krishna's eye and forehead,
Page 35 and 36: "Done this glorious rajasuya, joy a
Page 37 and 38: DURYODHAN came back from the Imperi
Page 39 and 40: Sacred looks! with holy water dewed
Page 41 and 42: For they censure not a woman, when
Page 43 and 44: I have borne a child unto him, nobl
Page 45 and 46: Now once more the teaching cometh,
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Page 51 and 52: Aswapati, glad and grateful, take t
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Page 57 and 58: Answered then the loving husband, a
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Page 63 and 64: Then she rose and tied her tresses,
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Pure is she in thought and action,
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MAHABHARATA BOOK VII UDYOGA (The Co
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VALADEVA'S SPEECH Krishna's elder V
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Ancient Drupad wields his weapon pe
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Stretch thy hands, O Kuru monarch!
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Exiled into Varnavata, destined unt
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Then in gentler voice Vidura sought
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If in past in thoughtless folly onc
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Drupad proud and peerless monarch w
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But the fiercer darts of Drona pier
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For the wrongs and insults offered
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Licked his mouth the vengeful Bhima
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Mounted on their milk-white charger
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Dawned a day of mighty slaughter an
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And his younger, fierce Duhsasan, t
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Karna, though he loved not Bhishma
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Stoutest wrestlers in the armies, f
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Brave Nakula's sign was red deer wi
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Didst thou in the council chamber w
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Moments passed of voiceless sorrow
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Heavy on this bleeding bosom sits t
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Like an onward sweeping wildfire sh
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Ill it fared with Pandav forces, do
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KARNA AND ARJUN MEET Sights of red
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Ay, the son of Jamadagni, kings of
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Pale with anguish, wrathful Karna f
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Pardon if the blood of anger mantle
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Stung to fury and to madness, faint
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"Brothers, kinsmen, hero-warriors,"
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Ancient feud and hatred linger afte
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Men from stall and loom and anvil,
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And her tears like rains of summer
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Kings and princes, noble warriors,
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Didst thou, mother, bear the hero f
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meets, then take up a good many pag
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With his greetings did Yudhishthir,
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Round the altar's holy lustre moved
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But the bard and ancient rishi who
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Seek and find the brave Satyaki who
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the concluding books of the Epic is
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This appears to me to be a very sou
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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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