Book, Chapter

 1   1    |  chiefs. Some god inspired the birth of each. Yudhishthir was
 2   1, 5 |        the lightning takes its birth?~Thoughts like these alarm
 3   1, 5 |       for the Sun inspired his birth!~Like a tusker in his fury,
 4   1, 7 |     Duryodhan, "not the man of birth alone~Warlike leader of
 5   1, 9 |         owns a poor and humble birth,~Kripa, noblest of Gautamas,
 6   1, 9 |        four,~Amorous gods your birth imparted, so they say, in
 7   3, 3 |        hath assumed his mortal birth,~Like the moon among the
 8   3, 5 |        none there is of mortal birth~Learnt his arms from Par'
 9   4, 6 |        woe to her who gave you birth,~Stainless sons, for sins
10   5, 3 |    marks the gentle youth from birth!~"Tell me, rishi, then thy
11   5, 5 |       holy purifies the mortal birth,~Lasting union with the
12   7, 8 |         saw thy sad and woeful birth!~
13   8, 10|     valour done,~Nor excels in birth and lineage, Karna, thou
14   8, 10|       and the Sun inspired thy birth,~God-born man! No mightier
15  11, 5 |       and the Sun inspired his birth,~Karna in his rings and
16  11, 5 |         mortal man of heavcnly birth,~Crushing 'neath his arm
17  11, 5 |     earth,~Didst thou hide the birth and lineage of that chief
18  12, 5 | monarch from the moment of thy birth,~Gold and wealth and costly
19 End    |        thy children took their birth!~This is monarch Dhrita-rashtra
20 End    |       for the Sun inspired his birth,~As the son of chariot-driver