Book, Chapter

  1   1, 1 |           Out spake Drona to the monarch in Hastina's royal hall,~
  2   1, 1 |        Mark the gallant princes, monarch, trained in arms and warlike
  3   1, 1 |        Answered then the ancient monarch, joyful was his royal heart.~"
  4   1, 1 |      Decked with arms for Kuru's monarch and for every royal dame,~
  5   1, 1 |          festal morning, and the monarch left his hall,~Bhishma and
  6   1, 3 |     wield,~Unto Kuru's sightless monarch wise Vidura drew the scene,~
  7   1, 4 |          And where rested Kuru's monarch, joyous accents struck his
  8   1, 4 |      Pleased am I." so spake the monarch," and I bless my happy fate,~
  9   1, 7 |           Karna shall be crownéd monarch, nations shall his mandate
 10   1, 7 |         Blessings on the crownéd monarch! honour to the bravest man!"~'
 11   1, 8 |      frame,~Karna, now a crownéd monarch, to the humble Suta sped,~
 12   1, 8 |           Wilt thou as a crownéd monarch rule a mighty nation's weal?~
 13   2, 1 |        Drupad, good and gracious monarch, doth a mighty feast, ordain,~
 14   2, 2 |       bride!"~And they spake the monarch's mandate in the kingdoms
 15   2, 4 |         warlike princes, Bhoja's monarch true and bold,~And the son
 16   2, 4 |          land of Madra car-borne monarch Salya came,~Amd from Dwarka'
 17   2, 4 |      lore,~This is fair Kosala's monarch whose bright deeds our heralds
 18   2, 5 |          queenly daughter said:~"Monarch's daughter, born a Kshatra,
 19   2, 5 |           Uprose Chedi's haughty monarch, mightiest of the monarchs
 20   2, 5 |      rebounding laid the haughty monarch low!~Uprose sturdy Jarasandha,
 21   2, 5 |          bow rebounded, fell the monarch in his shame,~Left in haste
 22   2, 5 |     inglorious plight,~Thus each monarch fell and faltered, merry
 23   2, 7 |          As Panchala's courteous monarch came to greet a Brahman-born:~"
 24   2, 7 |     shall he now the fruit deny,~Monarch proud who insults monarchs
 25   3, 1 |     brave,~Came to ask Hastina's monarch, chief of Kuru's royal race,~
 26   3, 1 |     guise,~With the ancient Kuru monarch and Vidura, good and wise,~
 27   3, 1 |     swell,~Came Virata, Matsya's monarch, and his warlike sons and
 28   3, 2 |   thousand nishkas every willing monarch bore,~Costly gifts proclaimed
 29   3, 2 |         poor and lowly spake the monarch's boundless love.~Hungry
 30   3, 4 |         Bhishma to Yudhishthir: "Monarch of this wide domain,~Honour
 31   3, 6 |         Once on Bhoja's trusting monarch faithless Sisupala fell,~
 32   3, 6 |         Oft hath Chedi's impious monarch Krishna's noble rage defied,~
 33   3, 6 |      head,~Fell the mighty-arméd monarch like a thunder-riven rock,~
 34   3, 6 |           Honours due to Chedi's monarch, to his rank and peerless
 35   3, 7 |      With each parting guest and monarch journey on the home ward
 36   3, 7 |     Dhrishta-dyumna with Virata, monarch of the Matsya race,~Bhima
 37   3, 7 |          With Gandhara's warlike monarch brave Nakula holds his way,~
 38   4, 1 |     queen,~Did my noble lord and monarch sense and reason lose at
 39   4, 1 |   Proudly sat the fair Draupadi, monarch's daughter, monarch's wife,~
 40   4, 1 |    Draupadi, monarch's daughter, monarch's wife,~Unto her the base
 41   4, 2 |         lost his might,~Hath the monarch of the Kurus ceased to battle
 42   4, 4 |       Draupadi was the sightless monarch led,~And in kind and gentle
 43   4, 4 |          him the fair Draupadi: "Monarch of the Kuru's line,~For
 44   4, 4 |        wishes," thus the ancient monarch cried,~"Name a second boon
 45   4, 5 |     Kripa true and brave,~Kuru's monarch Dhrita-rashtra, may the
 46   4, 6 |          speak her sad farewell,~Monarch's daughter, monarch's consort,
 47   4, 6 |    farewell,~Monarch's daughter, monarch's consort, as an exile she
 48   4, 6 |          Dhrita-rashtra, ancient monarch, is by sad misgivings pained,~
 49   5, 1 |          woman's life?"~"Listen, monarch!" said the rishi, "to a
 50   5, 2 |         his brother men,~But the monarch, Aswapati, son or daughter
 51   5, 2 |      gentle accents, blessed the monarch good and brave~Blessed his
 52   5, 2 |        of gladness Madra's happy monarch passed,~Till his queen of
 53   5, 2 |        Choose a true and upright monarch, pride and glory of his
 54   5, 3 |        husband," so the virtuous monarch said.~"Fair Savitri long
 55   5, 3 |          Listen, father! Salwa's monarch was of old a king of might,~
 56   5, 3 |          spacious empire was the monarch forced to flight,~With his
 57   5, 3 |        his infant did the feeble monarch stray,~And the jungle was
 58   5, 3 |       way,~Holy vows assumed the monarch and in penance passed his
 59   5, 3 |         boy,~But O pious-hearted monarch! fair Savitri hath in sooth~
 60   5, 3 |          reason," so the anxious monarch cried,~"Why to youth so
 61   5, 3 |       said,~"Versed in lore like monarch Sivi who all ancient monarchs
 62   5, 3 |        Tell me, rishi," said the monarch, "for thy sense from me
 63   5, 3 |      goes into the wilderness!"~"Monarch!" uttered then the rishi, "
 64   5, 3 |  preceptor holy!" so the weeping monarch prayed,~"Heaven avert all
 65   5, 4 |     Served the old and sightless monarch like a daughter by his side,~
 66   5, 4 |        Much misdoubting then the monarch gave his sad and slow assent.~
 67   5, 4 |       rove,"~Then Savitri to the monarch urged her longing strange
 68   5, 5 |         responded YAMA, " mighty monarch of the dead,~Mortals leaving
 69   5, 5 |         living creature may with monarch YAMA go~But I may not choose
 70   5, 5 |       darksome forest dwells the monarch faint and weal~Grant him
 71   5, 5 |         living creature may with monarch YAMA go!"~"Faint nor weary
 72   5, 5 |       upon her husband, gracious Monarch of the dead,~What befalls
 73   5, 5 |         in the forest dwells the monarch faint and weak,~Grant him
 74   5, 6 |          Vanished then the Sable Monarch, and Savitri held her way~
 75   6, 1 |         COMPLAINT OF THE COWHERD~Monarch of the mighty Matsyas, brave
 76   6, 1 |          lord and saviour as our monarch's gallant son,~Rise, Uttara!
 77   6, 3 |        And what great and mighty monarch owns this other how of might,~
 78   6, 4 |        foe,~Seck we out the Kuru monarch, proud Duryodhan let us
 79   6, 4 |        and tarry to defend their monarch's rear,~But I leave these
 80   6, 4 | thousands though they be,~If oar monarch sinks in battle like a ship
 81   6, 5 |         fair and young!~"Pardon, monarch," answered Arjun, "but I
 82   6, 5 |           Grant her to my son, O monarch, as his wedded wife and
 83   6, 5 |          Answered Matsya's noble monarch with a glad and grateful
 84   6, 6 |     guest.~Came unto them Kasi's monarch and his arméd troopers came,~
 85   6, 6 |     pride!~Arjun from the Matsya monarch takes the princess passing
 86   6, 6 |         holy sacrifice.~Matsya's monarch on the bridegroom rich and
 87   7, 1 |        Matsya's king, Panchala's monarch, foremost seats of honour
 88   7, 3 |         Challenge from a crownéd monarch can a crownéd king decline,~
 89   7, 4 |          Fair Panchala's ancient monarch rose his secret thoughts
 90   7, 5 |        Stretch thy hands, O Kuru monarch! prove thy truth and holy
 91   7, 5 |      sway.~'Tis thy profit, Kuru monarch! that the fatal feud should
 92   7, 5 |     plain!~Ponder yet, O ancient monarch! Rulers of each distant
 93   7, 5 |         lips they send:~Tell our monarch, more than father, by his
 94   7, 5 |      Take their love, O gracious monarch! Let thy closing days be
 95   7, 6 |        BHISHMA'S SPEECH~From the monarch's ancient bosom sighs and
 96   7, 9 |     shook his agéd frame,~As the monarch soothed Duryodhan by each
 97   7, 10|        That ye chiefs and Kuru's monarch mark Duryodhan for your
 98   7, 10|     swords in friendship and the monarch's empire own,~If in past
 99   8, 1 |           Drove against Kosala's monarch famed in arms and holy lore,~
100   8, 1 |     Barely escaped with life the monarch from the fiery Arjun's son!~
101   8, 1 |        Drupad proud and peerless monarch with his cohorts onward
102   8, 1 |           Drupad too, Panchala's monarch, swiftly rushed into the
103   8, 2 |     slain,~But against Kalinga's monarch baffled Bhima fought in
104   8, 2 |           Safely sat the eastern monarch on his howda's lofty seat,~
105   8, 6 |         Fair Panchala's watchful monarch saw the danger from afar,~
106   8, 9 |      silent sorrow slow the Kuru monarch went~Where arose in dewy
107   8, 10| Abhimanyu young and bold,~Drupad monarch of Panchala, and Virata
108   8, 10|          With Kamboja's stalwart monarch and with Drona's mighty
109   8, 10|      Drona's self and Bhagadatta monarch of the farthest East,~Car-borne
110   9, 1 |          Saving this, command, O monarch, Arjun's bow and warlike
111   9, 1 |        Matsya's lord, Panchala's monarch, vainly faced him in his
112   9, 2 |        To protect their virtuous monarch and redeem their ancient
113   9, 2 |       with gold umbrella valiant monarch Drupad came,~Horses of a
114   9, 2 |      Wild with anger Bhagadatta, monarch of the farthest East,~With
115   9, 2 |     stalwart Bhima fought!~Fated monarch from the mighty Brahma-putra'
116   9, 3 |        Next came Salya car-borne monarch 'gainst the young resistless
117   9, 3 |     Didst thou say that Sindhu's monarch on my Abhimanyu bore,--~
118  10, 2 |          Morning dawns, O Kuru's monarch! mighty Arjun shall be slain,~
119  10, 2 |      comet in the sky!~Grant me, monarch, mighty Salya drive my swift
120  10, 2 |        Pardon, great and saintly monarch, vassal's disrespectful
121  10, 2 |         me, holy king and elder, monarch's grace and brother's love!"~
122  10, 4 |     thunder-wielding INDRA, YAMA monarch of the dead,~Dauntless Bhima
123  11, 1 |           And they saw the hoary monarch, father of a perished race,~
124  11, 1 |          when falls the antlered monarch, struck by woe and sudden
125  11, 1 |           disconsolate,~Slow the monarch of the Kurus passed Hastina'
126  11, 1 |           Left the city with the monarch, through the open country
127  11, 2 |          carnage was the ancient monarch led,~Kuru dames with faltering
128  11, 2 |          Karna's pride,~Doth the monarch of Panchala sleep by foeman
129  11, 3 |          Peerless bowman! mighty monarch! nations still his hests
130  11, 4 |         of valour done,~Matsya's monarch proud Virata, Drupad fair
131  11, 4 |         minstrels sing,~Cultured monarch of Kosala and Gandhara's
132  11, 4 |        sword,~Bhagadatta eastern monarch all resistless in his car,~
133  11, 5 |      noble Karna loved and lost!~Monarch's empire, victor's glory,
134  12    |        Yudhishthir, now anointed monarch of Kuru land.~The portion
135  12, 1 |       lay,~Welcomed Kuru's pious monarch, saint and sage and man
136  12, 4 |      Blessed Hastina's righteous monarch and the many-nationed throng!~
137  12, 5 |         spake,~Rendered back the monarch's present, earthly gift
138  12, 5 |       Gods have destined thee as monarch from the moment of thy birth,~
139  12, 5 |          accents to the doubting monarch said:~"Vyasa. speaketh word
140  12, 5 |           Fame and virtue Kuru's monarch by the aswa-medha wins,~
141  12, 5 |         Gave Yudhishthir to each monarch, slaves and damsels passing
142 End    |        took their birth!~This is monarch Dhrita-rashtra who doth
143 Epi    |          reproduce. The old Kuru monarch Dhrita-rashtra, sightless
144 Epi    |      sons of the feeble old Kuru monarch. And Krishna possesses a