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Be unto them like the rain-drop nourishing the thirsty ground, Be unto them tree of shelter shading them from heat around, Like the blue sky ever bending be unto them ever kind, Free from pride and free from passion rule them with a virtuous mind!" Spake and left the saintly Krishna, pure and pious-hearted chief, Sad Yudhishthir wended homeward andhis heart was filled with grief. <strong>MAHABHARATA</strong> BOOK IV DYUTA (The Fatal Dice)
DURYODHAN came back from the Imperial Sacrifice filled with jealousy against Yudhishthir, and devised plans to effect his fall. Sakuni, prince of Gandhara, shared Duryodhan's hatred towards the sons of Pandu, and helped him in his dark scheme. Yudhishthir with all his piety and righteousness had one weakness, the love of gambling, which was one of the besetting sins of the monarchs of the day. Sakuni was an expert at false dice, and challenged Yudhishthir, and Yudhishthir held it a point of honour not to decline such a challenge. He came from his new capital, Indra-prastha, to Hastina-pura the capital of Duryodhan, with his mother and brothers and Draupadi. And as Yudhishthir lost game after game, he was stung with his losses, and with the recklessness of a gambler still went on with the fatal game. His wealth and hoarded gold and jewels, his steeds, elephants and cars, his slaves male and female, his empire and possessions, were all staked and lost! The madness increased, and Yudhishthir staked his brothers, and then himself, and then the fair Draupadi, and lost! And thus the Emperor of Indra-prastha and his family were deprived of every possession on earth, and became the bond-slaves of Duryodhan. The old king Dhrita-rashtra released them from actual slavery, but the five brothers retired to forests as homeless exiles. Portions of Section lxv. and the whole of Sections lxix., lxxvi., and lxxvii. of Book ii. of the original text have been translated in this Book. I DRAUPADI IN THE COUNCIL HALL Glassed on Ganga's limpid waters brightly shine Hastina's walls Queen Draupadi duly honoured lives within the palace halls, But as steals a lowly jackal in a lordly lion's den, Base Duryodhan's humble menial came to proud Draupadi's ken. Pardon, Empress," quoth the menial, "royal Pandu's righteous son, Lost his game and lost his reason, Empress, thou art staked and won, Prince Duryodhan claims thee, lady, and the victor bids me say, Thou shalt serve him as his vassal, as his slave in palace stay!" "Have I heard thee, menial, rightly?" questioned she in anguish keen, "Doth a crownéd king and husband stake his wife and lose his queen, Did my noble lord and monarch sense and reason lose at dice, Other stake he did not wager, wedded wife to sacrifice!"
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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 and 22: Holy men subsist on wild fruits, in
Page 23 and 24: Like wild elephants of jungle rushe
Page 25 and 26: Brahmans, and the brothers reported
Page 27 and 28: FEAST AND SACRIFICE Jumna's dark an
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Page 33 and 34: Lowered Krishna's eye and forehead,
Page 35: "Done this glorious rajasuya, joy a
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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 49 and 50: Epic, impart a moral instruction to
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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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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