Book, Chapter

 1   4, 4|           Monarch of the Kuru's line,~For thy grace and for thy
 2   4, 5| Yudhishthir, "Elder of the Kuru line,~Noble grandsire stainless
 3   5, 2|       grace thy famed and royal line,~Aswapati, glad and grateful,
 4   5, 5|       sight,~Grant him that the line of monarchs may not all
 5   6, 1|     pierce the Kurus' shattered line!~As the Vina speaketh music,
 6   6, 5|     race allied,~Matsya's royal line is honoured, Matsya's king
 7   7, 3|   fathom fraud in sons of royal line?~Nathless he surrendered
 8   7, 6|        earth is Hastina's royal line,~Bring not on them dire
 9   8, 3|      Karna lead my gallant Kuru line!~Anger flamed on Bhishma'
10   8, 4|        wrath,~Broke the serried line of tuskers vainly sent to
11   8, 9|     gainst the foeman's hostile line!"~Bhishma's heart was full
12   9, 3|     ranged his dreadful battle -line~In a circle darkly spreading
13   9, 4|         car,~Through the broken line of warriors, through the
14   9, 4|     struggling 'gainst the Kuru line,~Charged upon the peerless
15   9, 4|       broke their all unguarded line,~Like an onward sweeping
16 Epi   |       sixteen syllables in each line, and I endeavoured to choose