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1 Epi | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON,~ 13th August 1893~ ~
2 1 | Sanscrit (Calcutta edition of 1834).~
3 Epi | LONDON,~ 13th August 1893~ ~
4 8, 1 | blare of trumpet and the 8ankha's lofty sound,~By the answering
5 10, 1 | gloom of night,~Pandavs a-ad the proud Panchalas fly
6 9, 3 | with hissing wrath and fury Abhimanya's fiery dart,~From the loss
7 12, 3 | and lay,~To the task of abhishava priests and Brahmans led
8 9, 5 | was ended, Kurus fled in abject fear,~Arjun for his ancient
9 Epi | similarity in metres, I have been able to transfer into my English
10 10 | of the original have been abridged in this Book.~
11 9, 3 | III - ABUIMANYU'S DEATH~Fatal was the blood-red
12 Epi | the translation may be accepted as an unabridged, though
13 Epi | naturally to the poet, he accepts them and notes them down,
14 10 | defeat is only due to an accident.~After the death of Karna,
15 End | of the Pandav brothers, accompanies them. In the solitude of
16 1, 5 | boast,~These and greater I accomplish-witness be this mighty host!"~Thus
17 1, 7 | man!"~'Now the holy rites accomplished, in his kingly robes arrayed~
18 3 | inheritance. The Kuru kingdom was accordingly parcelled; Duryodhan retained
19 Epi | mass of legends and poetry, accumulated during centuries, was cast
20 8, 9 | to evening none could f ace the victor's wrath,~Broke
21 12, 1 | BRAHMA'S holy name,~Famed Acharyas versed in Vedas to the city
22 5, 4 | faltering accents said:~Cruel ache is on my forehead, fond
23 5, 4 | forehead, weary was his aching head,~Faint he came unto
24 5 | great archer as he was, to acquire celestial arms by penance
25 10, 2 | Cars and steeds and fertile acres, peaceful hamlets rich and
26 | actually
27 3, 6 | sickening tale appalleth, and he addeth sin to sin!~One more tale
28 End | Andbakas become irreligious and addicted to drinking, and fall a
29 12 | Sanscrit Epic!~The reason of adding all this episodical and
30 Epi | later centuries; further additions and interpolations have
31 5, 4 | salutation thus her humble prayer addrest.~"To the jungle goes my
32 2, 4 | the scene so fair,~Bright ADITYAS in their splendour, MARUTs
33 1, 7 | and the race thou dost adorn,~Name thy mother and thy
34 8, 4 | tongue when he see his prey advance,~Short and fierce the furious
35 8, 8 | fatal combat slew,~Still advanced the fatal carnage till the
36 6, 4 | How the gallant prince advances! Now I mark his form and
37 Epi | in the original work. The advantage of this arrangement is that,
38 5 | came to visit him in his adversity; he consoled Draupadi in
39 8 | joined him as his friend and adviser, and as the charioteer of
40 12 | and the great saint Vyasa advises the performance of the aswa
41 5 | some gandharvas, a class of aerial beings. Duryodhan was taken
42 End | thy wife,~These are bright aérial beings, went for thee to
43 11, 5 | mighty host,~Like thy death afflicts my bosom, noble Karna loved
44 Epi | Bible has such influence in affording moral instruction in Christian
45 Epi | helmet-wearing" Arjun are the Agamemnon, the Ajax, and the Achilles
46 8, 1 | warriors known to fame,~Ah! too early fell the warriors
47 10, 2 | he drew his bow Gandiva, aimed his dart with stifled breath,~
48 3, 7 | graceful word:~"Born of race of Ajamidha! thou hast spread thy father'
49 Epi | Arjun are the Agamemnon, the Ajax, and the Achilles of the
50 3, 2 | the noble sacrifice,~Ida, ajya, homa offerings, pleased
51 8 | said to have brought one akshauhini troops, and if we reduce
52 8 | said to have been seven akshauhinis in number, which we may
53 11, 4 | Ghatotkacha son of Bhima, Alambusha famed in war,~And a hundred
54 1, 5 | birth?~Thoughts like these alarm the people for the sound
55 9, 4 | answered, "from our chariot we alight,~Rest awhile the weary horses,
56 2, 5 | marking still the distant aim,~Alighty monarchs, gallant princes,
57 2, 4 | warlike feats of valour, famed alike for sacred lore,~This is
58 8, 4 | scarce they bore the chiefs alive!~Then Duryodhan's fourteen
59 3, 7 | this high emprise,~By thy all-subduing glory monarchs bore Yudhishthir'
60 5 | thin guise of an eastern allegory is that a True Woman's Love
61 8 | Matsyas, were his principal allies. Krishna joined him as his
62 Epi | proper names or obscure allusions has been shortened; and
63 5 | country, and a friend and ally of Duryodhan, came to the
64 3 | where they were living on alms according to the custom
65 11, 4 | Sandalwood and scented aloes, fragrant oil and perfumes
66 9, 1 | spake his warlike thoughts aloud:~"Sacred is our great preceptor,
67 | although
68 12 | and gifts to Brahmans, and altogether bears unmistakable evidence
69 8, 8 | transient was the victor's joy,~Alumbusha dark and dreadful came against
70 | am
71 5, 5 | his wealth and kingdom,Y AMA, in thy mercy speak!"~Loving
72 10, 2 | forces then the warrior sped amain,~Through the serried ranks
73 6, 4 | locusts whistled through the ambient air,~Kuru soldiers struck
74 2, 4 | car-borne monarch Salya came,~Amd from Dwarka's sea-girt regions
75 12, 5 | Yudhishthir's sins,~And be stands amid his brothers, brightly beaming,
76 1, 9 | and of thy brothers four,~Amorous gods your birth imparted,
77 11, 5 | TO KARNA,~Sacred Ganga, ample-bosomed, sweeps along in regal pride,~
78 2, 6 | unmoved the youthful Brahman, ample-shouldered, deep in chest,~Lion-like
79 5, 4 | Widow may'st thou never be,"~Anchorites and agéd Brahmans blessed
80 Epi | figures in marble which the ancients turned out, and which modern
81 End | adventures. The Vrishnis and the Andbakas become irreligious and addicted
82 3, 7 | Yudhishthir wended homeward andhis heart was filled with grief.~
83 9, 4 | shattered ranks of war,~Angas and the brave Kalingas vainly
84 2, 7 | TUMULT~Spake the suitors, anger-shaken, like a forest tempest-torn,~
85 Epi | sentiments and poetry of their Anglo-Saxon ancestors, has emphatically
86 12, 3 | III - SACRIFICE OF ANIMALS~Victor of a hundred battles,
87 8 | this work, and ever and anon, as Professor Garbe remarks, "
88 9, 3 | death!"~Like a snake upon an ant-hill, on Duhsasan's wicked heart~
89 11, 1 | pride!~So when falls the antlered monarch, struck by woe and
90 12 | explains to Arjun in the Anu-gita the great truths about Soul
91 Epi | considerable trouble and anxiety, and after rendering several
92 | anything
93 6 | and he lived in the inner apartments of the king. He assumed
94 3, 6 | But the sickening tale appalleth, and he addeth sin to sin!~
95 Epi | incorporated in the work which appealed to the nation much more
96 5 | humiliate them still more by appearing before them in all his regal
97 Epi | expansive." This remark applies with even greater force
98 Epi | Damayanti is still read and appreciated by a select circle of readers;
99 1, 9 | say~By some secret sign appriséd Pritha knew her gallant
100 Epi | finally adopted was a nearer approach to the Sanscrit Sloka than
101 Epi | the reader increases as he approaches the final battle and fall
102 7, 1 | their way,~Stones inlaid in arch and pillar glinted in the
103 2, 2 | surrounded, pierced by gate and archéd door,~By a canopy of splendour
104 Epi | more represents poetry than architecture does music. Translations
105 Epi | Madras cherish with equal ardour the story of the righteous
106 5, 6 | these scenes narrate,~Now arise, for darkness gathers, deeper
107 2, 6 | the bridal robe she gave,~Arjan by his skill and prowess
108 6, 4 | marked the Kuru warriors arming for th' impending war,~Whispered
109 6, 5 | gallant Arjun, helmet-wearing, armour-cased~Knew Yudhishthir and his
110 10, 2 | are drifted by the gale,~Armourless but bright and radiant brave
111 7, 4 | will fan his glory and his arrogance will cheer!~Therefore let
112 Epi | frequent slips, known as arsha to later grammarians. The
113 5, 3 | called him young Chitraswa, art-beloving gallant boy,~But O pious-hearted
114 Epi | even as Charlemagne and Arthur became the centres of legends
115 11, 4 | splendour, fabrics by the artist wove,~Dry wood from the
116 3 | never prevailed among the Aryan Hindus of India. It is distinctly
117 1, 1 | queens of heavenly gods ascend!~And the people of the city,
118 End | the Great Journey and the Ascent to Heaven, so beautifully
119 3, 1 | I - THE ASEMBLAGE OF KINGS~Ancient halls of
120 11, 4 | the dead were burned to ashes and the sacred rite was
121 5, 4 | Twelve-month from this narrow ashram hath Savitri stepped nor
122 Epi | work of imagination that Asia has produced-has never yet
123 4, 5 | Fell from lips of saint Asita, words of wisdom deep and
124 5, 5 | high,~What the pious mortal asketh gods in heaven may not deny!"~
125 4, 4 | Unto Brahmans it is given, asking favours evermore,~Now my
126 4, 4 | you granted, and a Kshatra asks no more,~Unto Brahmans it
127 5, 3 | youth!~Tell me," questioned Asnvapati, "for I may not guess thy
128 3, 6 | Rukmini, Sisupala hath aspired,~As the low-born seeks the
129 1, 4 | people and the spacious skies assail?"~Answered him the wise
130 9, 1 | afar,~Dauntless, on the new assailant Arjun's son his weapon drew,~
131 Epi | rendered me valuable help and assistance in this matter, and I gratefully
132 Epi | It would be too much to assume that even with the help
133 Epi | the mind of the hushed and astonished reader. Then follows the
134 1 | BOOK I - ASTRA DARSANA~(The Tournament)~
135 6, 1 | thunder-wielding INDRA smote Asuras fierce and bold,~Smite the
136 5, 3 | Like the handsome heavenly ASVINS fair and radiant in his
137 12 | advises the performance of the aswa medha, or the Sacrifice
138 3, 6 | dungeon cell,~Once for holy aswamedha Vasudeva sent his steed,~
139 1 | youngest were the sons of the Aswin twins, and Karna was the
140 12, 2 | a hundred regions came,~Ate of good Yudhishthir's bounty,
141 10, 4 | weapon high,~With a foul attack but fatal broke Duryodhan'
142 1, 1 | godlike grace,~Skill in arms attained these princes from a Brahman
143 Epi | the late Dr. Bühler, an attempt was made to prevent the
144 Epi | original work. I have not attempted to condense these passages
145 3, 2 | poor Yudhishthir's rite attend,~As your own, command my
146 12, 2 | fame,~And a thousand proud attendants, gay with earrings, garland-graced,~
147 Epi | heaving of billows; the erect attitude of a warrior suggests a
148 Epi | themselves a charm and an attraction; and the morals inculcated
149 12, 3 | the holy rite,~Siddhas of austerest penance stood around the
150 9, 4 | his wrathful way,~Proud Avantis from the regions where fair
151 10, 4 | Fell beneath the proud avenger Aswa-thaman's reeking hand,~
152 Epi | together, is more than what the average reader can stand; and the
153 4, 1 | heart sickens, and with wild averted eye.~Unto rooms where dwelt
154 10, 3 | Duryodhan like a recreant now avoid the deathful strife,~After
155 12, 3 | the priests with sacred awe,~Swerved not from the rule
156 8, 10| brave Arjun shaded at the awe-inspiring sight,~Half he wished to
157 11, 1 | perished race,~Fresh and loud awoke their sorrow, welling tears
158 5, 4 | sedate and stately, ponderous axe on shoulder hung,~For the
159 8, 1 | unyielding might,~Pikes and axes, clubs and maces, swords
160 10, 2 | Sought to lift the sunken axle with a hard unwonted toil,~"
161 5, 2 | nightly gloom,~Grew the unborn babe in splendour in its happy
162 3, 6 | righteous deed,~Once on saintly Babhru's consort, pious-hearted,
163 9, 3 | strove and fought in vain,~Backward reeled and fell Duryodhan
164 7 | and disastrous battle that bad ever been witnessed in Northern
165 1, 1 | Decked with gems and rich baidurya, and with strings of pearls
166 Epi | commentaries of Blackstone and the ballads of Percy, together with
167 3, 2 | holy Brahmans, filled the balls bedecked in gold,~White-robed
168 8, 10| fatal day,~Warring with the banded nations still resistless
169 9, 5 | charger, from each bravely bannered car,~Lighted mailéd kings
170 9, 3 | the forest by surrounding banters slain,~Like a wood-consuming
171 9, 3 | young and tender, on the bare earth do they lie,~Where
172 8, 1 | the dubious combat won,~Barely escaped with life the monarch
173 5, 4 | thought and deed and word,~Bark of tree supplied her garments
174 12, 1 | Stables filled with corn and barley and with milk and luscious
175 2, 3 | ning arrows fly,~Whoso, barn of noble lineage, hits the
176 1 | fact on which the Epic is based is a great war which took
177 11, 1 | failed!~Veiléd queens and bashful maidens, erst they shunned
178 Epi | religious people, and form the basis of their moral education.
179 5, 4 | wild-fruits did the prince his basket fill,~Hewed the interlacéd
180 6, 5 | befit thy virtue, nobly bast thou done thy part,~Be it
181 End | Yudhishthir undergoes some trial, bathes in the celestial Ganges,
182 6, 1 | driver who can urge the battle-steed,~I will hoist my lion-banner,
183 8, 7 | standard, shook his chariot battle-tost,~Fell his proud and fiery
184 10, 2 | he shuns the mighty Karna battling in unconquered pride?~Arjun!
185 9, 2 | came,~Horses of a bright bay-colour carried Matsya's king of
186 2, 1 | and mart,~Saw the fort, bazaar and city, saw the spire
187 12 | discourses of other saints, of Bbrigu and Bharadwaja, of Manu
188 3, 6 | resistless shook!~And his soul be-cleansedof passions came forth from
189 1, 1 | and with strings of pearls be-laced.~Fair Gandhari, queen of
190 12, 5 | amid his brothers, brightly beaming, pure and high,~Even as
191 5, 5 | me what bright name thou bearest, what thy message unto me."~"
192 10, 4 | fallen foeman like a wild beast in its lair!~"Gods be witness,"
193 5, 4 | shade,~Clasped him in her beating bosom, kissed his lips with
194 End | the Ascent to Heaven, so beautifully rendered into English by
195 | becomes
196 7, 5 | car-borne chieftains will bedeck the gory plain!~Ponder yet,
197 10, 3 | to Duryodhan said,~Tear bedimmed the warrior's eyelids and
198 5, 2 | over, and it once did so befall,~When the king and rishi
199 7, 3 | of the mortal foe,~But to beg a grace of foemen were a
200 10, 3 | final day of battle now began its fatal course,~"Brothers,
201 | beginning
202 7, 1 | woe, and shame,~And he begs, assembled monarchs, ye
203 3 | king of Magadha or South Behar, opposed and was killed;
204 1, 1 | Vidura serve thy mandate and behest,~Let a father's pride and
205 End | conflagration, death by fire being considered holy.~Krishna
206 9, 1 | well,~Till by many blows belaboured both the fainting fighters
207 8 | many European languages. Belief in one Supreme Deity is
208 Epi | interwoven with the thoughts and beliefs and moral ideas of a nation
209 3, 7 | sinless Krishna, dearest, best belovéd friend,~And to Dwarka's
210 10, 2 | yon mighty sabre from his belt of silk and gold,~Wherefore
211 9, 3 | lowering thundered with his bended bow,~Abhimanyu smiled to
212 2, 3 | grace,~Whispered words of benediction saints and holy men repeat,~
213 3, 7 | made,~Priests repeat their benedictions, for the righteous Krishna
214 Epi | gratefully acknowledge, the benefit I have derived from his
215 Epi | oil-manufacturer or confectioner of Bengal spells out some modern translation
216 9, 3 | cruel death,~Hear my vow, benign Yudhishthir, hear me, Krishna
217 3, 7 | Godlike Krishna watched benignly with his bow and disc and
218 7, 4 | hope, the effort futile, to beseech Duryodhan's grace~Dhrita-rashtra
219 6, 3 | are these,~Scarcely they beseem a warrior, and a warrior
220 4 | gambling, which was one of the besetting sins of the monarchs of
221 10, 2 | Bright as sky with stars bespangled on a clear and cloudless
222 6, 6 | the altar, on the priests bestowed his gold,~Offered to the
223 5 | Kshatriyas of the earth; of Bhagiratha who brought down the Ganges
224 12 | other saints, of Bbrigu and Bharadwaja, of Manu and Brihaspati,
225 Epi | formed the Epic of the Great Bharata nation, and therefore called
226 7, 5 | wide earth's many nations Bharats in their worth excel,~Love
227 8 | chose the grand old fighter Bhishina as the commander-in-chief
228 8 | BOOK VIII - BHISHMA-BADHA~(Fall of Bhishma)~All negotiations
229 11, 4 | Salya of the mighty car,~Bhurisravas king of nations, Jayadratha
230 Epi | No single work except the Bible has such influence in affording
231 4, 1 | thee, lady, and the victor bids me say,~Thou shalt serve
232 8, 10| Like the foam upon the billow when the mighty storm-winds
233 8, 7 | foes,~Till like star on billowy ocean Bhishma's palm-tree
234 5, 5 | faithful wife,~In this noose I bind and carry spark of his immortal
235 5, 2 | And the king performed its birth-rites with a glad and grateful
236 4, 3 | Thy Yudhishthir sold his birthright, sold thee at the impious
237 4, 3 | Bhishma, wrathful Drona bit his tongue,~Pale Vidura
238 3, 6 | shake,~And their lips they bite in anger, and their frames
239 7, 5 | are over and of woe and bitterness,~Years of waiting and of
240 7, 9 | Cut not grief and death's black shadows on thy parents'
241 10, 2 | then of rules of honour, blackened in your sins you die,~Death
242 Epi | Locke, the commentaries of Blackstone and the ballads of Percy,
243 6, 3 | belong,~And the darts whose blades are crescent unto Bhima
244 8, 10| the van of battle, mighty Blaishma. leaves the strife,~Then
245 Epi | Pusey, were all thrown into blank verse and incorporated with
246 11, 4 | the rich libations made,~Blazed the fire with wondrous radiance
247 12, 1 | the morning sun,~Gilt and blazoned with devices lofty columns
248 5, 3 | Has this prince some fatal blemish, wherefore is this match
249 1, 1 | where the tints harmonious blend,~As, on Meru's golden mountain,
250 8, 1 | unprotected cattle tethered in the blighting cold!~Onward came the mighty
251 2, 7 | bent on blood and vengeance blindly rose the maddened throng,~
252 11, 5 | earth can yield,~Righteous bliss and heavenly gladness, harvest
253 11, 3 | sleep,~Hark the foul and blood-beaked vultures flap their wings
254 4, 1 | Duhsasan heard the mandate, blood-shot was his flaming eye,~Forthwith
255 7, 1 | For in peace and not by bloodshed still Yudhishthir's right
256 7, 5 | closing winters with the bloody stain of sin,~Let thy sons
257 9, 1 | gave and parried many a blow!~Rank to rank from both
258 6, 3 | Bhima brave and strong,~Boar-ear shafts are young Nakula'
259 6, 3 | gold,~And these keen and boar-eared arrows speak some chieftains
260 9, 5 | Ask the chief who proudly boasted, archer Arjun he would slay,~
261 Epi | India, like ancient Greece, boasts of two great Epics. One
262 Epi | the death of the proud and boisterous Sisupala; the fatal game
263 End | waked to form and life,~Bom in royal Drupad's mansion,
264 Epi | righteous Krishna. The people of Bombay and Madras cherish with
265 4 | on earth, and became the bond-slaves of Duryodhan. The old king
266 4, 4 | Yudhishthir once again be bondage-free!~I have borne a child unto
267 6, 4 | accents, and the chariot's booming sound,~Filled the air like
268 4, 5 | Bhrigu touched with fire thy bosorn by the dark Kalmashi's wave!~
269 6, 3 | On the wood are golden bosses, tipped with gold is either
270 10, 2 | coursers till his chariot bounding flew,~And with more than
271 5, 4 | again thy cottage home."~Bowing to her loving parents did
272 10, 2 | lowered,~Thick and fast on bowless Arjun countless arrows darkly
273 8, 2 | And they rent in twain his bowstring and they cut his pond'rous
274 5, 3 | Steeds he loved in days of boyhood and to paint them was his
275 4, 5 | from the true and righteous brace the feeble, fainting heart."~
276 1, 6 | Thou shalt die the death of braggarts-witness be this mighty host!~Karna
277 12, 1 | the city held their way,~Brahmacharins with grass-girdle, chanting
278 5, 2 | conformed,~Spare in diet as brahmahari many sacred rites performed,~
279 2, 7 | monarch came to greet a Brahman-born:~"Shall he like the grass
280 12 | philosophy, and generations of Brahmanical writers laboured therefore
281 12, 1 | distant vale,~On the banks of Brahmaputra and in Sindhu's rocky dale.~
282 6 | bangles and earrings and braided his hair, like those unfortunate
283 5, 6 | cruel anguish filled my brain,~And I laid me on the greensward
284 7, 1 | kepthis plighted promise, braved affliction, woe, and shame,~
285 6, 6 | from the sea-girt Dwarka, bravo Andhakas known to fame,~
286 3, 5 | partial love,~Conscious breach of rules of honour doth
287 8, 2 | And like darkly rolling breakers ranks of serried warriors
288 9, 1 | Senseless Salya, heavy -breathing, henchman carried from the
289 10, 2 | his manly eye,~Pale and breathless watched his warriors, anxious
290 1, 9 | and weapons fair~She-deer breeds not lordly tigers in her
291 12, 3 | structure, four deep layers of brick in height,~With a spacious
292 12, 3 | altar built and raised of bricks of gold,~Shone in splendour
293 4, 1 | masters, be our beauteous bright-eyed slave,~Come unto the Council
294 4, 6 | husband's mansions thou hast brightened by thy life!~Nobly from
295 Epi | revenged, and the bright and brilliant and sunny Subhadra,--these
296 9, 5 | jungle-tiger fell upon the hostile brood,~Royal Drupad's valiant
297 Epi | Prose," says Mr. Stopford Brooke, further on, "no more represents
298 Epi | that the lofty religion of Buddha, proclaimed in India five
299 Epi | India after the decay of Buddhism, the old Epic caught the
300 9, 3 | bore,~Soft thine eye as budding lotus, sweet and gentle
301 5, 2 | lovelier graces, as the buds their leaves unfold,~Slender
302 Epi | according to the late Dr. Bühler, an attempt was made to
303 12, 2 | from the lake and flood.~Buffaloes and bulls from pasture,
304 9, 3 | Wherefore voice of evening bugle speaks not on the battle-field,~
305 1, 5 | all-consuming fire,~Lion-like in build and muscle, stately as a
306 6, 6 | he gave unto the Brahman, bullocks to the labouring swain,~
307 7, 5 | Bhishma is thy kingdom's bulwark, doughty Drona rules the
308 7, 2 | hand,~To the princes and to burghers gathered in the council
309 Epi | impossible to exhume this buried Epic from the superincumbent
310 Epi | heroines suffer in silence and burn with fever, all fools are
311 11, 4 | might,~All the dead were burned to ashes and the sacred
312 Epi | Odyssey of Homer by Messrs. Butcher and Lang often led me to
313 12, 2 | Lakes of curd and lakes of butter speak Yudhishthir's bounteous
314 Epi | to the lofty chronicle of bygone heroes to enchain the listening
315 5, 2 | altar came to pray,~And with cakes and pure libations duly
316 8, 8 | nigh?~But thy young blood calls for vengeance! noble Krishna,
317 10, 3 | round the brave Yudhishthir calmly stood the Pandav force,~
318 9, 3 | Bards beside the evening camp-fire tales of war do not prolong,~
319 9, 3 | tented ground,~Soldiers' camp-fires brightly blazing, tent-lights
320 7, 2 | Thus with cold and cruel candour stalwart Valadeva cried,~
321 12, 1 | and with milk and luscious cane~Greeted tall and warlike
322 2, 2 | gate and archéd door,~By a canopy of splendour was the red
323 10, 1 | resistless might,~Thou alone canst serve the Kuru in this dread
324 6 | Matsya house in that humble capacity.~In these disguises the
325 5 | who released him from his captivity, and allowed him to return
326 8, 9 | Matsya's fields of pasture captured we Virata's kine,~Did not
327 2, 2 | pomp of wealth and pride,~Car-bome chiefs and mailéd warriors
328 Epi | lengthy episodes. The more carefully I examined the arrangement,
329 10, 3 | foremost of our warriors, ever careless of thy life,~Ever in the
330 Epi | and even this he uses, carelessly, and with frequent slips,
331 9, 4 | river by the zephyrs soft caressed,~Gave unto them welcome
332 2, 2 | lofty were with beauteous carpets graced,~Rich festoons and
333 5, 5 | In this noose I bind and carry spark of his immortal life,~
334 2, 3 | her golden bridal garland, carrying on her graceful arm.~Softly,
335 12, 3 | lustre quaint with curious carving done,~Draped in silk and
336 6, 3 | dead,~Warriors' weapons, cased like corpses, lurk within
337 3, 2 | Nets of gold belaced the casements, gems bedecked the shining
338 11, 5 | departed chiefs of fame,~Casting forth their jewelled girdles,
339 1, 8 | thy brand?~But the goad of cattle-drivers better suits, my friend,
340 12, 2 | moisture spring,~Denizens of cave and mountain for the sacrifice
341 5 | this Book forms Sections ccxcii. And ccxciii., a part of
342 5 | forms Sections ccxcii. And ccxciii., a part of Section ccxciv.
343 5 | ccxciii., a part of Section ccxciv. and Sections ccxcv. and
344 5 | Section ccxciv. and Sections ccxcv. and ccxcvi. of Book iii.
345 5 | and Sections ccxcv. and ccxcvi. of Book iii. of the original
346 4, 2 | the monarch of the Kurus ceased to battle for the right,~
347 5, 5 | crost,~For thy wifely duty ceases, follow not in fruitless
348 5 | millions of Hindu women celebrate a rite in honour of the
349 2 | heard of the approaching celebrations of the marriage of the princess
350 3, 6 | in his castle's dungeon cell,~Once for holy aswamedha
351 7 | genuine hatred, and would not cement. All negotiations were therefore
352 2, 2 | day approacheth! Sacred censers fragrance lent,~Sprinkled
353 Epi | Charlemagne and Arthur became the centres of legends in mediæval Europe.
354 Epi | same religious rites and ceremonies, rejoicing in a common literature,
355 12 | concerns itself with rites and ceremonious details and gifts to Brahmans,
356 2 | decided to go and witness the ceremony.~The portion translated
357 5 | parts of India; and on a certain night in the year millions
358 Epi | later grammarians. The poet certainly seeks for no art to decorate
359 9, 4 | from the regions where fair Chambal's waters stray,~Famed Avanti'
360 2, 1 | with their mother, so it chanced by will of fate.~They were
361 9, 5 | Fate alone and battle's chances changed the fortunes of
362 2, 2 | fragrance lent,~Sprinkled chandan spread its coolness, wreaths
363 5, 3 | Yayati open-hearted and like CHANDRA in his grace,~Like the handsome
364 9, 5 | alone and battle's chances changed the fortunes of the day,~
365 12, 1 | Brahmacharins with grass-girdle, chanting sweet the saman lay,~Welcomed
366 8, 6 | warrior, placed him on his chariot-seat,~But the Kurus darkly gathered,
367 12, 3 | gracious king's command,~Charity with loving sweetness spreads
368 Epi | in ancient India, even as Charlemagne and Arthur became the centres
369 4, 6 | holy conduct ever guard her charméd life,~Nurse thy lord with
370 5, 2 | moon each night increaseth chasing darksome nightly gloom,~
371 4, 1 | white,~At his words her chaste heart sickens, and with
372 3, 6 | like a lurid spark aflame,~Chastened of its sin and anger, Sisupala'
373 4, 5 | trial and samadhi, for it chastens but to heal!~Meru taught
374 5 | however pursued the king, chastised him for his misconduct,
375 9, 3 | holy food,~Cherish envy, cheat their kinsmen, speak the
376 10, 4 | deep Sakuni's dark device,~Cheating us of fame and empire by
377 5 | were the incidents which checkered their forest life. Krishna,
378 4, 1 | forehead, and her bloodless cheeks are white,~At his words
379 5, 6 | with mother's loving fears,~Chid me for my tardy footsteps,
380 Epi | the quaint expression, the chiselled word, the new-coined phrase,
381 12, 3 | heavenly minstrel Narad came,~Chitra-sena woke the music, singer of
382 8, 10| Sindhu's sounding shore,~Chitrasena and Vikarna, countless chiefs
383 5, 3 | Hence they called him young Chitraswa, art-beloving gallant boy,~
384 11, 3 | tear-drops of the mother choke the widow's bitter groan,~
385 5, 2 | glory of his land,~As thou choosest, gentle daughter, in thy
386 5, 3 | Heaven,~Only once a maiden chooseth, twice her troth may not
387 1, 7 | umbrella, and they waved the chowri fan,~"Blessings on the crownéd
388 Epi | he trusts to the lofty chronicle of bygone heroes to enchain
389 6, 6 | Bhojas from the mighty Chumbal with the righteous Krishna
390 Epi | of my own to explain the circumstances under which the story of
391 1, 5 | twain,~Conqueror of hostile cities, lofty Karna treads the
392 5, 2 | lingered, for no suitor claimed her hand.~"Daughter," whispered
393 1, 5 | a deep and deadly sound,~Clank and din of warlike weapons
394 10, 2 | fierce resistless might!~Clanking fell the shattered armour
395 8, 1 | Horses fell, and shafts of clariots shivered in resistless shock,~
396 5, 6 | his eyes,~On her neck his clasping left arm sweetly winds in
397 9, 1 | eagles with their rending claws!~Loud as INDRA'S peals of
398 5, 5 | our door,~Then to pass our clays in penance, last to fix
399 12, 5 | the rite of pure ablution cleanses all Yudhishthir's sins,~
400 5, 4 | anxious thought intent,~Cleft in two her throbbing bosom
401 1, 3 | maces lifted high,~Like two cliffs with lofty turrets cleaving
402 3, 4 | planets of the sky,~Sunless climes are warmed to verdure by
403 Epi | earliest recollections do not cling round the story and the
404 11, 1 | their soft and glossy mane!~Clinging to her weeping sister wept
405 4, 1 | Loosely clad or void of clothing,--to the council hall you
406 11, 2 | Strewn with skulls and clotted tresses, darkened by the
407 9, 2 | his bow!~But as darksome cloudy masses angry gusts of storm
408 2 | this Book formed Sections clxxxiv. to cxxxix. of Book i. of
409 10, 2 | darkly showered,~Like the cobra dark and hissing Karna's
410 8, 1 | peerless monarch with his cohorts onward bore~'Gainst the
411 1, 7 | corn and treasure, golden coin and water jar,~On the throne
412 11, 4 | From the east and west collected, fell in Kuru-Kshetra's
413 Epi | ROMESH DUTT.~UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON,~ 13th August
414 12, 3 | Bulls of various breed and colour, steeds of mettle true and
415 12, 1 | blazoned with devices lofty columns stood around,~Graceful arches
416 6 | and the king of the Kurus combined and fell on the king of
417 12, 2 | Rice in hillocks feeds all comers, maid and matron, man and
418 11, 1 | Vidura ever gentle whispered comfort unto all,~Placed the dames
419 8 | fighter Bhishina as the commander-in-chief of his army, and for ten
420 3, 3 | Some with gloss and varied comment still his learned rival
421 Epi | of Hobbes and Locke, the commentaries of Blackstone and the ballads
422 Epi | of the Sloka metre, and comparing them with the scheme of
423 Epi | the blue lotus. When such comparisons come naturally to the poet,
424 2, 7 | princely bounty, but to compass our disgrace,~In this concourse
425 Epi | undertake, nor what I was competent to perform.~There seemed
426 7, 10| exile, wherefore doth he now complain?~Weak are they in friends
427 6, 1 | I - COMPLAINT OF THE COWHERD~Monarch of
428 Epi | the old Epic caught the complexion of the times, and Krishna-cult
429 Epi | appreciate that delectable compound. A complete translation
430 8, 3 | Pardon, Krishna, this compulsion, pardon this transgression
431 6, 3 | answered, "for the tree conceals no dead,~Warriors' weapons,
432 12 | somewhat artificial, and concerns itself with rites and ceremonious
433 9, 3 | Came forth in unrighteous concert with six car-borne warriors
434 5 | away from the unity and conciseness of the Epic, impart a moral
435 10, 1 | pressed,~And the holy rite concluded, Karna ranged his men in
436 End | CONCLUSION~THE real Epic ends with
437 12, 1 | of grace,~And with gentle condescension showed each priest his fitting
438 Epi | illiterate oil-manufacturer or confectioner of Bengal spells out some
439 12, 2 | the feeders and the sweet confections placed,~Viands fit for crownéd
440 5, 3 | chosen that a maiden's lips confess,~True to him thy poor Savitri
441 7, 6 | brothers, shall in mutual conflict die~Kinsmen slain by dearest
442 Epi | linked together by short connecting notes, would virtually present
443 Epi | battles, fought on eighteen consecutive days, and I felt it necessary
444 1, 1 | publish far thy king's consent.~Sightless roll these orbs
445 Epi | advice and suggestions. After considerable trouble and anxiety, and
446 Epi | reader. But a more serious consideration of the question dispelled
447 12 | of the war, of which he considers himself guilty, and the
448 8 | in it.~Duryodhan's army consisted of his own division, as
449 End | part of the real Epic; it consists merely of concluding personal
450 4, 6 | part?"~Whispering words of consolation, Pritha's children wiped
451 4, 6 | must part,~Virtue hath her consolations for the true and loving
452 5 | him in his adversity; he consoled Draupadi in her distress,
453 1, 5 | bright,~Like the five-starred constellation round the radiant Queen
454 12, 3 | and gold-brocaded like the constellations shone!~And the consecrated
455 10, 4 | dale,~Beasts and birds in consternation flew o'er land and azure
456 Epi | poetry in this, that they constitute in themselves an encyclopædia
457 2 | there for their residence, constructed of inflammable materials.
458 10, 4 | the halls of Varnavata to consume us in the fire,~Call to
459 8, 1 | victor's way.~But as fire consumes the forest, wrathful Bhishma
460 10, 3 | land!~As a spark of fire consumeth summer's parched and sapless
461 11, 4 | libations fed,~Sanctifying and consuming mortal remnants of the dead.~
462 12 | this is told in two Books containing about twenty-two thousand
463 Epi | Calcutta in this century contains over ninety thousand couplets,
464 3, 3 | inner sight,~As in lofty contemplation Narad gazed upon the rite.~
465 5 | meanwhile Duryodhan, not content with sending his cousins
466 7, 3 | valour done,~Win the fierce -contested battle and redeem Yudhishthir'
467 Epi | of its narrative, which contrasts with the artificial graces
468 3 | Duryodhan heard that his contrivance to kill his cousins at Varanavata
469 5, 3 | graced with patient virtue he controls his noble mind,~Modest in
470 Epi | different English metres, I felt convinced that the one finally adopted
471 4, 6 | voice of woe!~Heaving sobs convulsed her bosom as a silent prayer
472 12, 2 | and joyous throng,~Jars of cool and sparkling waters, vessels
473 2, 2 | Sprinkled chandan spread its coolness, wreaths were hung of sweetest
474 3, 6 | spirit came!~Rain descends in copious torrents, quick the lurid
475 Epi | Draupadi; the equally gorgeous coronation of Yudhishthir and the death
476 3, 2 | hand Vidura all the mighty cost defrayed,~Proud Duryodhan
477 7, 3 | not to such counsel low,~Couldst thou, impious Valadeva,
478 1, 4 | shaped in plates of iron coursed the wide-extending field,~
479 12, 4 | sacred fragments of the courser duly dressed,~Priests upon
480 10, 4 | father's deathless anger courseth in the children's blood,~
481 2, 7 | tempest-torn,~As Panchala's courteous monarch came to greet a
482 6 | skilled in dice, and became a courtier of the king. Bhima entered
483 7, 10| that needle's point can cover not unto them be given!"~
484 1, 4 | archer wondrous -skilled,~Cow-horn by a thread suspended was
485 4, 1 | wrathful Bhima, lo! his coward-bosom quails,~Thou Duhsasan, bid
486 6 | took charge of the king's cows. Draupadi too disguised
487 4, 3 | gnarléd branches fast the crackling red sparks fly!~
488 1, 6 | thick and high,~Lines of cranes like gleams of laughter
489 10, 2 | Yudhishthir's royal standard, crashed his sumptuous battle-car,~
490 8, 10| fight,~Casts his weapons, craves for mercy, ancient Bhishma
491 Epi | true master in the realm of creative imagination.~And if the
492 4, 6 | move,~Grant me mercy, kind Creator, and my days in mercy close,~
493 Epi | every preacher of a new creed desired to have in the old
494 12 | by.~Bhishma dies and is cremated; but the endless exposition
495 1, 7 | THE ANOINTMENT OF KARNA~Crested Karna, helméd Arjun, proudly
496 7, 10| glances cold!~What great crime or darkening sorrow shadows
497 10, 4 | name,~And thy dark life crime-polluted ends, Duryodhan, in thy
498 3, 6 | plighted promise, but his crimes exceed the tale,~And beneath
499 2, 5 | not wed,"~Karna heard with crimsoned forehead, left the emprise
500 Epi | necessary qualification. The crisp and ornate style, the quaint
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