Book, Chapter
1 1, 1| be-laced.~Fair Gandhari, queen of Kuru, Pritha, Pandu's
2 1, 3| princes spake unto the Kuru queen.~While the stalwart Bhima
3 1, 5| constellation round the radiant Queen of Night,~Gathered round
4 2, 3| sweetly, steps Draupadi, queen of every winning charm!~
5 2, 4| Panda eager for the maiden queen,~Like wild tuskers for a
6 2, 6| gallant Arjun stood!~Like a queen the beauteous maiden smiled
7 3, 7| depart."~From Yudhishthir's queen Draupadi parts the chief
8 4, 1| brightly shine Hastina's walls~Queen Draupadi duly honoured lives
9 4, 1| stake his wife and lose his queen,~Did my noble lord and monarch
10 4, 1| Duryodhan's slave!"~Rose the queen in queenly anger, and with
11 4, 1| menial, to thy master, Queen Draupadi's answer take,~
12 4, 1| bondsman, then hath staked his queen and wife,~False the stake,
13 4, 1| word to prince Duryodhan, Queen Draupadi is unwon!"~Wrathful
14 4, 1| rooms where dwelt the women, Queen Draupadi seeks to fly.~Vainly
15 4, 1| held the faint and flying queen,~Feared no more the sons
16 4, 2| weapons to protect an outraged queen?~Bhishma, hath he lost his
17 4, 3| staked nor freedom nor our queen?"~Sad Yudhishthir heard
18 4, 4| knew that omen, and the Queen Gandhari knew,~Bhishma muttered "
19 4, 4| word,~Spake her fears the Queen Gandhari to her spouse and
20 5, 2| monarch passed,~Till his queen of noble offspring gladsome
21 5, 3| forced to flight,~With his queen and with his infant did
22 5, 4| love to wear.~And the aged queen she tended with a fond and
23 6, 2| for I served Yudhishthir's queen."~Heard Uttara hesitating,
24 7 | old Dhrita-rashtra and his queen and the aged and virtuous
25 7, 6| empire graced,~Listen to thy queen and mother, she hath nursed
26 7, 8| bosom and the aged Kuru queen!~Sons and grandsons, friends
27 9, 3| Yudhishthir's stainless queen,~Didst thou speak to warlike
28 9, 3| latest breath,~For I owe to Queen Draupadi, impious prince,
29 10, 4| daughter and our noble spotless queen,~Call to mind the stainless
30 11, 1| field of war,~Speed unto the Queen Gandhari, to the dames of
31 11, 1| fair and faithful spouse!"~Queen Gandhari sorrow-laden with
32 11, 1| sped each widowed childless queen,~From their royal brow and
33 11, 2| FOR THE SLAIN~Stainless Queen and stainless woman, ever
34 11, 3| DURYODHYAN~Thus to Krishna, Queen Gandhari strove her woeful
35 11, 5| brother slain,~And the widowed queen of Karna with the women
36 12, 4| breed,~Placed Draupadi, Queen of yajna, by the slain and
37 12, 4| devotion sanctified the noble Queen,~Woman's true and stainless
38 End | retires into a forest with his queen Gandhari, and Pritha, the
39 Epi | The stately and majestic queen Gandhari, the loving and
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