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Nobly from the sinning Kurus thou hast turned thy righteous wrath, Safely, with a mother's blessing, tread the trackless jungle path, Dangers bring no woe or sorrow to the true and faithful wife, Sinless deed and holy conduct ever guard her charméd life, Nurse thy lord with woman's kindness, and his brothers, where ye go, Young in years in Sahadeva, gentle and unused to woo!" "May thy blessings help me, mother," so the fair Draupadi said, "Safe in righteous truth and virtue, forest paths we fearless tread!" Wet her eyes and loose her tresses, fair Draupadi bowed and left, Ancient Pritha weeping followed of all earthly joy bereft, As she went, her duteous children now before their mother came, Clad in garments of the deer-skin, and their heads were bent in shame! Sorrow welling in her bosom choked her voice and filled her eye, Till in broken stifled accents faintly thus did Pritha cry: "Ever true to path of duty, noble children void of stain, True to gods, to mortals faithful, why this undeservéd pain, Wherefore hath untimely sorrow like a darksome cloud above, Cast its pale and deathful shadow on the children of my love? Woe to me, your wretched mother, woe to her who gave you birth, Stainless sons, for sins of Pritha have ye suffered on this earth, Shall ye range the pathless forest dreary day and darksome night, 'Reft of all save native virtue, clad in native, inborn might? Woe to me, from rocky mountains where I dwelt by Pandu's side, When I lost him, to Hastina wherefore came I in my pride, Happy is your sainted father, dwells in regions of the sky, Sees nor feels these earthly sorrows gathering on us thick and high, Happy too is faithful Madri, for she trod the virtuous way, Followed Pandu to the bright sky, and is now his joy and stay! Ye alone are left to Pritha, dear unto her joyless heart, Mother's hope and widow's treasure, and ye may not, shall not part,
Leave me not alone on wide earth, loving sons, your virtues prove, Dear Draupadi, loving daughter, lot a mother's tear-drops move, Grant me mercy, kind Creator, and my days in mercy close, End my sorrows, kind VIDHATA, end my life with all my woes! Help me, pious-hearted Krishna, friend of friendless, wipe my pain, All who suffer pray unto thee and they never pray in vain, Help me, Bhishma, warlike Drona, Kripa ever good and wise, Ye are friends of truth and virtue, righteous truth ye ever prize, Help me from thy starry mansions, husband, wherefore dost thou wait, Seest thou not thy godlike children exiled by a bitter fate! Part not, leave me not, my children, seek ye not the trackless way, Stay but one, if one child only, as your mother's hope and stay, Youngest, gentlest Sahadeva, dearest to this widowed heart, Wilt thou watch beside thy mother, while thy cruel brothers part?" Whispering words of consolation, Pritha's children wiped her tear, Then unto the pathless jungle turned their footsteps lone and drear! Kuru dames with fainting Pritha to Vidura's palace hie, Kuru queens for weeping Pritha raise their voice in answering cry, Kuru maids for fair Draupadi fortune's fitful will upbraid, And their tear-dewed lotus -faces with their streaming fingers shade, Dhrita-rashtra, ancient monarch, is by sad misgivings pained, Questions oft with anxious bosom what the cruel fates ordained, <strong>MAHABHARATA</strong> BOOK V PATIVRATA-MAHATMYA (Woman's Love)
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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 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
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Page 45: 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 55 and 56: "Monarch!" uttered then the rishi,
Page 57 and 58: Answered then the loving husband, a
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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,
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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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