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501 Epi | by the side of Homer by critics who survey the world's literatures
502 3, 3 | kings and learnéd Brahmans crowded on Yudhishthir's path,~And
503 2, 4 | Bright Immortals gaily crowding viewed the scene surpassing
504 10, 3 | wash it, Kripa, such the cruet will of Heaven!~And the
505 11, 5 | mortal man of heavcnly birth,~Crushing 'neath his arm of valour
506 12, 3 | in days of old,~Eighteen cubits square the structure, four
507 12 | Funeral Rites. He preaches the cult of Krishna, and narrates
508 11, 4 | deeds the minstrels sing,~Cultured monarch of Kosala and Gandhara'
509 12, 2 | with gold inlaid,~Costly cups and golden vases are in
510 12, 1 | s coming,--hero with the curly hair,--~And to do Yudhishthir'
511 Epi | equable speed, the musical current of that narrative, which,
512 9, 4 | battle night's depending curtain drew,~Long and shrill his
513 11, 2 | Mark the kings, on softest cushion scarce the needed rest they
514 7, 1 | garlands o'er the golden cushions shone!~Matsya's king, Panchala'
515 3 | be in keeping with Hindu customs and laws, ancient and modern.~
516 7 | Sections i., ii. iii., xciv., cxxiv., and exxvi. of Book v.
517 1 | this Book forms Sections cxxxiv. to cxxxvii. of Book i.
518 2 | formed Sections clxxxiv. to cxxxix. of Book i. of the original
519 1 | forms Sections cxxxiv. to cxxxvii. of Book i. of the original
520 Epi | thus became the centre of a cycle of legends, songs, and poems
521 6, 6 | bright and gay,~Conch and cymbal, horn and trumpet spake
522 12, 3 | splendour like the altar Daksha built in days of old,~Eighteen
523 10, 1 | as angry INDRA smote the Danavs fierce and bold,~As before
524 6, 5 | taught her maiden steps in dance,~Watched her skill and varied
525 6 | royal household in music and dancing. Nakula became a keeper
526 Epi | torment and suffering as in Dante, not under overwhelming
527 9, 5 | nor chief nor other archer dared to face his peerless might.~
528 2, 6 | the Brahman boy in folly dares a foolish thoughtless deed,~
529 12, 1 | bold,~With their slaves and dark-eye damsels, arms and horses,
530 5, 5 | decay,~Southward went the dark-hued YAMA with the youth's immortal
531 9, 3 | fathers dwell,~May I with the darkest sinners live within the
532 1, 6 | with lurid flashes gathered darkling, thick and high,~Lines of
533 8, 3 | Abhimanyu, fair Subhadra's darling boy,~By my brothers, dearer,
534 1 | BOOK I - ASTRA DARSANA~(The Tournament)~THE scene
535 8, 4 | to cross his path,~Smote Daryodhan with his arrows, three terrific
536 4, 4 | scorn,~Call him slave and dasaputra, of a slave and bondsman
537 9, 3 | kinsmen, speak the low and dastard lie,~If, ere comes to-morrow'
538 5, 1 | rishi, "to a tale of ancient date,~How Savitri loved and suffered,
539 7, 5 | forlorn,~Streaks of hope and dawning brightness usher now the
540 9, 1 | fighters fell,~Like a drunkard dazed and reeling Bhima rose his
541 10, 1 | Darker, deeper, dread and deadlier, grew the angry face of
542 10, 2 | insulting Karna slain,~Karna dealing dire destruction on this
543 4, 4 | of my queenly daughters, dearest-cherished and the best,~Meeting thus
544 8, 10| lovingly,~Perish conquest dearly purchased by a mean deceitful
545 11, 2 | they faint in common grief,~Death-like swoon succeeding sorrow
546 6 | unfortunate beings whom nature has debarred from the privileges of men
547 7, 1 | compassed dark destruction by deceit and low device!~Ponder well,
548 2 | The five sons of Pandu decided to go and witness the ceremony.~
549 7, 7 | word,~Act thou as thy heart decideth, thou art Kuru's king and
550 11, 2 | garlands rich and burnished deck the chiefs untimely slain,~
551 Epi | ancestors, has emphatically declared that "of all possible translations
552 8, 1 | leader of the Kurus, as declined the dreadful day,~Through
553 8, 10| Turned and fell; the sun declining marked the closing of the
554 Epi | narrative. For any artistic decoration I have neither the inclination
555 Epi | the original with his own decorations.~Such is the scheme I have
556 5, 3 | destined sorrow! for it is decreed on high,~On this day, a
557 9, 4 | dark and inky shroud!~Karna deemed the closing darkness now
558 6, 6 | their lays prolong!~And deep-bosomed dames of Matsya, jasmine-form
559 5 | rankled in his bosom and deepened his hatred.~Jayadratha,
560 5, 6 | dark and dreadful, in the deepening shadows gleam,~Was this
561 10, 3 | the hero dead and gone,~Deeply in their bosoms rankle wrongs
562 4, 6 | Clad in garments of the deer-skin, and their heads were bent
563 9, 2 | foes,~Water-jar on tawny deerskin, such was Drona's sign of
564 10 | strength and skill, and his defeat is only due to an accident.~
565 10 | long expected and long deferred, came on at last. It is
566 3, 6 | monarch Krishna's noble rage defied,~For unto his pious mother
567 3, 2 | Vidura all the mighty cost defrayed,~Proud Duryodhan took the
568 8 | languages. Belief in one Supreme Deity is the underlying thought
569 Epi | failed to appreciate that delectable compound. A complete translation
570 3 | ruins of which, near modem Delhi, are still pointed out to
571 2, 6 | cheered him in their hearts' delight!~Some there were with sad
572 Epi | And what heroes! In the delineation of character the Maha-bharata
573 5 | of Mann and the universal deluge; of Vishnu and various other
574 7 | having expired, Yudhishthir demanded that the kingdom of Indra-prastha
575 12, 2 | that from moisture spring,~Denizens of cave and mountain for
576 5, 6 | Savitri held her way~Where in dense and darksome forest still
577 8, 10| Discord ends with breath departing, envy sinks with fleeting
578 8, 9 | prowess Kuru's hopes and fates depend,~Gods nor men with warlike
579 9, 4 | the face of battle night's depending curtain drew,~Long and shrill
580 Epi | acknowledge, the benefit I have derived from his advice and suggestions.
581 5, 5 | kingdom to his royal sons descend!"~"Have thy object," answered
582 3, 6 | Sisupala's spirit came!~Rain descends in copious torrents, quick
583 Epi | couplets.~The excellent and deservedly popular prose translation
584 Epi | is neither possible nor desirable, but portions of it have
585 10, 2 | youthful arms of Karna his destructive weapon laid!~Yet I own,
586 12 | with rites and ceremonious details and gifts to Brahmans, and
587 12 | neighbouring king ventured to detain the animal, it was a signal
588 2, 6 | Lion-like his gait is agile, and determined is his air,~Trust me he
589 5, 2 | image as of burnished gold,~Deva-Kanya! born a goddess, so they
590 3, 3 | Yudhishthir's sacred rite!~Deva-rishi, saintly Narad, marked the
591 12, 3 | the many stakes were tied.~Deva-rishis viewed the feasting, sweet
592 12, 3 | stood,~Two were made of devadaru, pine that on Himalay grows,~
593 7, 7 | before him whom the fair Devaki bore,~These are foes thou
594 8, 2 | through the serried foes,~Devas from their cloud-borne chariots,
595 4 | against Yudhishthir, and devised plans to effect his fall.
596 2, 7 | a Brahman casts her eye, devoid of shame,~Let her expiate
597 3, 2 | palace walls~And to hail him Dharma-raja, monarchs thronged his royal
598 11, 4 | race,~Unto Sanjay, unto Dhaumya, to Vidura full of grace,~
599 4, 4 | IV - DHRITA-RASTRA'S KINDNESS~Hark! within
600 2, 5 | burnished gold,~Reft of diadem and necklace, fell each
601 Epi | morass of religious and didactic episodes, legends, tales,
602 Epi | Homer," says Mr. Gladstone, "differ from all other known poetry
603 5 | Matters how ever turned out differently from what he expected, and
604 Epi | And one of my greatest difficulties in the task I have undertaken
605 Epi | only one way out of this difficulty. The main incidents of the
606 Epi | passages which are neither diffuse nor unduly prolix, and which
607 Epi | human character in its calm dignity of strength and repose,
608 Epi | then, probably under the direction of some enlightened king,
609 3 | went out with troops in all directions to proclaim his supremacy
610 10, 2 | not helpless foemen thus disabled on the car,~Hold, brave
611 End | were in battle. The spirits disappear in the morning at the bidding
612 5, 6 | wife,~And not sorrows or disasters wait this eve our parents'
613 7 | the most sanguinary and disastrous battle that bad ever been
614 8 | performance of his duty and the discharge of his obligations is his
615 10, 1 | and ghastly carnage day disclosed upon the plain,~Mighty chiefs
616 Epi | of Ancient India. And it discloses to us an ancient and forgotten
617 11, 1 | wailing women, deep in woe, disconsolate,~Slow the monarch of the
618 6 | concealment. If they were discovered within this last year, they
619 Epi | necessary to add that the discoveries of the ancient Hindus in
620 6 | happened which led to their discovery when the year was out.~Cattle-lifting
621 6 | humble capacity.~In these disguises the Pandav brothers safely
622 4, 3 | flung,~Fulsome word nor foul dishonour could their truthful utterance
623 12, 3 | on squalid hunger, gifts dispel the suppliant's fear,~Gold
624 Epi | consideration of the question dispelled that idea. Homer has an
625 1, 5 | is hushed in silence, and dispersing crowds pass by,~Hark! Like
626 1, 2 | Each his wondrous skill displaying held the silent crowds in
627 12, 2 | and sage,~And in learnéd disputations keen disputants oft engage,~
628 5 | and urged Yudhishthir to disregard the conditions of exile
629 3 | mother's mandate cannot be disregarded, Draupadi became the common
630 10, 2 | saintly monarch, vassal's disrespectful word,~Pardon, elder, if
631 End | fall a prey to internal dissensions. Valadeva and Krishna die
632 7, 2 | By his dearest friends dissuaded, but by rage or madness
633 3 | Aryan Hindus of India. It is distinctly prohibited in their laws
634 Epi | end. There is not much to distinguish between one warrior and
635 Epi | characteristic feature which distinguishes the Maha-bharata (as well
636 9, 2 | masses angry gusts of storm divide,~Through the scattered fainting
637 8 | division, as well as the divisions of ten allied kings. Each
638 8 | does Krishna revert to the doctrine that for every man, no matter
639 2, 2 | swan-white mansions, lofty domes and turrets high,~Like the
640 Epi | and Krishna-cult is its dominating religious idea in its present
641 Epi | Gandhari, the loving and doting mother Pritha, the proud
642 8, 9 | virtue's stainless laws,~Doubly armed the stalwart warrior
643 Epi | acceptable. It would be, no doubt, a condensed version of
644 Epi | Christ according to the late Dr. Bühler, an attempt was
645 9, 3 | her flowing raven tresses drag Yudhishthir's stainless
646 4, 1 | vengeance fierce and keen,~Dragged her in her slipping garments
647 9, 1 | Abhimanyu from his chariot draggled Paurava by the hair,~Jayadratha
648 9, 1 | As the lion of the jungle drags the ox into his lair,~Abhimanyu
649 7, 7 | for thee their lifeblood drain,~For the victor's crown
650 12, 1 | aswa-medha day by day is drawing nigh,~Magha's full moon
651 1, 5 | ended, and the closing hour draws nigh,~Music's voice is hushed
652 5, 2 | wealth beyond their fondest dreams.~Many days and months are
653 5, 6 | faithful spouse,~But I dreamt a Sable Person took me in
654 8, 9 | blood of friendly nations drench this red and reeking plain?~
655 9, 3 | in the blood of foemen drenched!~Drona on that fatal morning
656 2, 2 | emulation, and in costly jewels drest,~Decked and perfumed sat
657 10, 2 | meridian splendour clouds are drifted by the gale,~Armourless
658 End | irreligious and addicted to drinking, and fall a prey to internal
659 1, 8 | noble head,~And on Karna's dripping forehead, fresh and loving
660 4, 5 | the path of virtue by fair Drisad-vati's rill,~Fell from lips of
661 9 | BOOK IX - DRONA-BADHA~(Fall of Drona)~ON the fall
662 8, 5 | But the proud preceptor Drons faced them in his sounding
663 9, 5 | half the accents, feebly drooped his sinking head,~Then the
664 5, 6 | love,~I was soothed, and drowsy slumber fell on me from
665 9, 1 | fainting fighters fell,~Like a drunkard dazed and reeling Bhima
666 4, 1 | wife,~Unto her the base Du4sasan spake the message, insult-rife:~
667 5, 5 | and bloodless, cold and dumb,~Drew the vital spark, purusha,
668 3, 6 | captive in his castle's dungeon cell,~Once for holy aswamedha
669 | during
670 9, 4 | serried Kuru force,~Brave Durmarsan faced the hero but he strove
671 8, 1 | bowman, then the fierce Durmukha sought,~And the righteous
672 11, 3 | GANDHARI'S LAMENT FOR DURYODHYAN~Thus to Krishna, Queen Gandhari
673 7, 10| X - DURYODRAN'S SPECH~Silent sat the proud
674 1, 8 | cloth the driver sought his dusty feet to hide,~And he hailed
675 Epi | hundred millions.~ROMESH DUTT.~UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON,~
676 4, 3 | with the husband, and her duty-to obey~Live thou in this Kuru
677 5, 3 | said,~"BRIHASPATI'S wisdom dwelleth in the youthful prince's
678 12, 1 | to the holy rite,~Humbler dwellings rose for Brahmans, priests
679 5, 3 | might,~Righteous -hearted Dyumat-sena, feeble now and void of
680 4 | BOOK IV - DYUTA~(The Fatal Dice)~DURYODHAN
681 12, 3 | winged triangle like an eagle in its flight!~Beasts whose
682 9, 1 | tuskers with their red tusks, eagles with their rending claws!~
683 Epi | educated or ignorant, whose earliest recollections do not cling
684 5, 2 | and love,~So thy father earn no censure or from men or
685 Epi | Homer can be told."~Another earnest worker of the present day,
686 10, 1 | chieftain of unconquered might,~Earthen jars they placed around
687 8, 10| leaves the strife,~Then with ease we fight and conquer, and
688 6, 3 | Nakula's, in the tiger-quiver eased,~Sahadeva owns the arrows
689 5, 3 | a twelve-month later,l eaves the prince his mortal state!"~"
690 11, 1 | sorrow-stricken, dark his ebbing life-tide runs:~"Gods fulfil
691 9, 1 | thunder still their blows were echoed round~Rank to rank the startled
692 9, 3 | and beauteous quenched in eclipse dark and pale,~Lifeless
693 7, 5 | Dhrita-rashtra's lofty edicts will proclaim his boundless
694 End | than a part of the solid edifice. What follows the sacrifice
695 1 | Epic in Sanscrit (Calcutta edition of 1834).~
696 Epi | told. My kind friend Mr. Edmund Russell, impelled by that
697 Epi | man or woman, high or low, educated or ignorant, whose earliest
698 Epi | the basis of their moral education. Mothers in India know no
699 5, 3 | effort, rite nor penance can efface,~Fatal fault or destined
700 5, 3 | grace and every virtue is effaced by cruel Fate,~On this day,
701 4 | Yudhishthir, and devised plans to effect his fall. Sakuni, prince
702 Epi | the condensation would be effected, not by the translator telling
703 Epi | to the nation much more effectively than dry codes; and rules
704 11, 3 | earth, quenched his bright effulgent ray,~Ay! my son the best
705 12, 2 | jungle wood,~Birds and every egg-born creature, insects that from
706 Epi | which, like the river of Egypt, flows from an undiscoverable
707 10 | led the Kuru troops on the eighteenth and last day of the war,
708 Epi | metrical preface, is about eighty-five thousand. But the limit
709 2, 1 | came,~"From the land of Ekachakra," good Yudhishthir answered
710 Epi | to their daughters, and elderly men know no richer storehouse
711 Epi | which often sustains and elevates the simplest narration and
712 8, 4 | proud Duryodhan's brothers f ell and slumbered with the dead!~
713 12 | great truths about Soul and Emancipation, Creation and the Wheel
714 Epi | hidden truths of religion, embalmed in the ancient Upanishads,
715 Epi | substance in which they are embedded--even like those immortal
716 3, 3 | Light,~And he saw in them embodied beings of the upper sky,~
717 6, 3 | Golden-sheathed and gold embosséd like a snake or fiery tongue!~
718 11, 3 | Torn from husband's sweet embraces, from her son's entwining
719 Epi | Anglo-Saxon ancestors, has emphatically declared that "of all possible
720 11, 3 | eye~Where her son in blood empurpled slept beneath the open sky,~
721 2, 2 | royal guest,~Fired by mutual emulation, and in costly jewels drest,~
722 1, 9 | skill of arms and pride~E'en Yudhishthir reckoned Karna
723 Epi | chronicle of bygone heroes to enchain the listening mankind.~And
724 6, 6 | bride,~As the queens of gods encircle INDRA'S daughter in her
725 2, 2 | of the festive city they enclosed a level ground,~Towering
726 7, 9 | soothed Duryodhan by each fond endearing name:~"Listen, dearest son,
727 Epi | least they should always endeavour to have the musical movement
728 Epi | the present day, who is endeavouring to interpret to modern Englishmen
729 | ending
730 End | kindly action, gentle speech, endurance long,~Brighter life and
731 10, 4 | answered: "For the insults long endured but not forgiven,~Me alone
732 12, 2 | disputations keen disputants oft engage,~And the concourse of the
733 Epi | Shakespeare or Milton in English-speaking lands, is the national property
734 6, 5 | graces all her native charms enhance,~Pure is she in thought
735 Epi | under the direction of some enlightened king, the vast mass of legends
736 | enough
737 1, 6 | listed field to all,~Warriors enter by their prowess, wait not,
738 Epi | Russell, impelled by that enthusiasm for Indian poetry and Indian
739 Epi | decorate. He seems to trust entirely to his grand narrative,
740 8, 10| Bhishma, love and mercy to entreat,~Bhishma loved the sons
741 11, 3 | embraces, from her son's entwining arms,~Doomed to life-long
742 1, 6 | fearless stood:~"Chief! who eomest uninvited, pratest in thy
743 Epi | and Hector of the Indian Epic-first met and each marked the
744 Epi | the reason why this great Epic-the greatest work of imagination
745 Epi | TRANSLATOR'S EPILOGUE~ANCIENT India, like ancient
746 Epi | his charm, his bright and equable speed, the musical current
747 Epi | bridal of Draupadi; the equally gorgeous coronation of Yudhishthir
748 Epi | centuries before the Christian era, had been preserved to us.
749 Epi | heaving of billows; the erect attitude of a warrior suggests
750 2, 8 | lotus, he who left the court erewhile,~He is pious-souled Yudhishthir,
751 9, 4 | night!~In that sad and fatal error did the Kuru chiefs combine,~
752 Epi | Last comes the crowning event of the Epic, the final contest
753 Epi | does not narrate the main events of the war. The war of the,
754 8, 1 | sounding chariot and his ever-circled bow,~And the fainting Pandav
755 10, 2 | his younger brother to his ever-loving heart:~"Arjun, I have wronged
756 8, 2 | fallen on that day,~But the ever-watchful Bhima stopped the proud
757 12 | altogether bears unmistakable evidence of the interpolating hand
758 3, 6 | from a daughter of our race~Evil-destined Sisupala doth his noble
759 5, 3 | Heaven avert all future evils, and thy mandate is obeyed!"~
760 Epi | ancient heritage. It is not an exaggeration to state that the two hundred
761 Epi | episodes. The more carefully I examined the arrangement, the more
762 3, 6 | promise, but his crimes exceed the tale,~And beneath this
763 Epi | limit so fixed has been exceeded in still later centuries;
764 Epi | Upanishads, have never been excelled within the last three thousand
765 Epi | thousand English couplets.~The excellent and deservedly popular prose
766 8, 10| deeds of valour done,~Nor excels in birth and lineage, Karna,
767 Epi | that could be named, always excepting the Iliad, is so rich and
768 12 | Nevertheless we cannot exclude from this translation of
769 Epi | ninety thousand couplets, excluding the Supplement about the
770 12 | custom practised by kings exercising suzerain powers over surrounding
771 Epi | perhaps not impossible to exhume this buried Epic from the
772 Epi | condense these passages nor to expand them; I have endeavoured
773 Epi | found a shelter under the expanding wings of this wonderful
774 Epi | singularly fresh, vivid, and expansive." This remark applies with
775 Epi | beyond the bounds of actual experience, was extremely limited,
776 4 | of the day. Sakuni was an expert at false dice, and challenged
777 2, 7 | devoid of shame,~Let her expiate her folly in a pyre of blazing
778 12 | Sacrifice of the Horse, for the expiation of the sin.~The Sacrifice
779 7 | term of banishment having expired, Yudhishthir demanded that
780 Epi | twelve couplets of my own to explain the circumstances under
781 8 | this occasion that Krishna explained to him the great principles
782 1, 5 | Duryodhan, dreaded for his exploits done,~All his brave and
783 12 | cremated; but the endless exposition of laws, legends, and moral
784 Epi | ornate style, the quaint expression, the chiselled word, the
785 Epi | of actual experience, was extremely limited, and when life was
786 7 | iii., xciv., cxxiv., and exxvi. of Book v. of the original
787 6, 3 | Uttara silently the weapons eyed,~And unto his chariot-driver
788 5, 6 | Tell me, for before my eyesight still the Vision seems to
789 Epi | vice, was woven into the fabric of the great Epic.~We should
790 11, 4 | robes of costly splendour, fabrics by the artist wove,~Dry
791 8 | troops, and if we reduce this fabulous number to the moderate figure
792 1 | Ganges; and the historical fact on which the Epic is based
793 Epi | the Maha-bharata. The real facts of the war had been obliterated
794 9, 3 | eyes closed in slumber, faded in that peerless grace,~
795 11, 2 | spouse!~How each cold and fading feature wakes in them a
796 5, 6 | Let me fetch a burning faggot and prepare a friendly fight,~
797 9, 4 | proclaimed the close of strife,~Failing in his plighted promise
798 4, 1 | and his heart in terror fails,~For the fear of wrathful
799 7, 5 | aright,~If our feeble bosom fainteth, help us with a father's
800 8, 8 | And a sixth in fear and faintness fled the woeful tale to
801 1, 6 | And their warrant is their falchion, valour sanctifies their
802 3, 7 | chariot-driver brings his falcon-bannered car,~Like the clouds in
803 10, 2 | Yudhishthir's hand thou fallest, go and slumber with the
804 6, 4 | not these pointed arrows falling prone before my feet,~By
805 7, 7 | And they feed thy passions falsely, those who urge and counsel
806 4 | of Indra-prastha and his family were deprived of every possession
807 Epi | which ancient India was famous, found a shelter under the
808 12, 1 | greetings went to monarchs far-renowned,~Asked them to Hastina's
809 6, 4 | mighty weapon, blew his far-resounding shell,~Strangely spake his
810 5, 2 | Through the lifelong day he fasted, uncomplaining, meek and
811 7, 7 | counsel, and thy kinsmen fasten in the bonds of peace,~May
812 9, 1 | rivals face to face,~Hempen fastening bound their maces and the
813 12, 2 | timber with their golden fastenings graced,~Consecrated by the
814 8, 8 | gallant boy,~Fierce and fateful was the combat, mournful
815 8 | be seventy thousand. His father-in-law the king of the Panchalas,
816 11, 5 | thou, mother, bear the hero fathomless like ocean dread,~Whose
817 3, 3 | reasons seemed the stronger, faultless reasons often failed,~Keen
818 2, 7 | asked us to his palace, favoured us with royal grace,~Feasted
819 4, 4 | Brahmans it is given, asking favours evermore,~Now my lord and
820 6, 4 | and echoing accents of his fax-resounding shell,~In his shining arms
821 Epi | wrath till her wrongs are fearfully revenged, and the bright
822 6, 3 | steel and bright,~Parrot feathers wing these arrows whetted
823 11, 3 | dead,~Maidens waved their feathery pankhas round Duryodhan'
824 5, 4 | part,~Smile upon her pallid features, anguish in her inmost heart,~
825 7, 4 | deems our mildness faint and feeble-hearted fear,~And our suit will
826 9, 5 | heard but half the accents, feebly drooped his sinking head,~
827 12, 2 | garland-graced,~Carried food unto the feeders and the sweet confections
828 5, 6 | darksome forest if thou feelest light and strong,~The night
829 8, 8 | princes in that fatal combat fen,~And a sixth in fear and
830 5, 4 | Brahmans blessed Savitri fervently,~O! that blessing fell upon
831 3, 2 | many-tinted-carpet-graced,~And festooning fragrant garlands were harmonious
832 5, 6 | and radiant beam,~Let me fetch a burning faggot and prepare
833 5, 1 | wood,~From the stream she fetched the water, cooked the humble
834 8, 9 | Did not Arjun rend thy fetters, Arjun righteous chief and
835 Epi | in silence and burn with fever, all fools are shrewd and
836 4, 5 | faithful. wins the smiles of fickle Fate!~Each with varied gifts
837 8, 9 | brave,~When in Matsya's fields of pasture captured we Virata'
838 10, 4 | destruction planned of old in fiendish ire,~In the halls of Varnavata
839 9, 1 | wrestlers in the armies, fiercest fighters with the mace,~
840 2, 7 | iron-handed, bold and strong'~Fiereely bent on blood and vengeance
841 2, 2 | singers sing and actors play,~Fifteen days of festive splendour
842 9, 5 | s sacred laws,~Wherefore fightest not with Arjun for thy house
843 9, 3 | falls a Kshatra warrior fighting on the field of war!~Arjun
844 End | narratives of the heroes who have figured in the poem.~Dhrita-rashtra
845 Epi | felt convinced that the one finally adopted was a nearer approach
846 3 | laws and institutes, and finds no sanction in their literature,
847 6, 3 | stones of purest ray,~Golden fire-flies glint and sparkle in the
848 11, 4 | Till the radiance of the fire-light chased the shadows of the
849 10, 1 | cloud of arrows filled the firmament on high,~Darker, deeper,
850 12, 2 | creatures of the wide earth, fishes from the lake and flood.~
851 12, 2 | confections placed,~Viands fit for crownéd monarchs were
852 1, 5 | armour bright,~Like the five-starred constellation round the
853 6, 6 | joy and gladness and with flags and cloth of gold.~
854 8, 10| Bhishma's seat,~And the flagstaff fell dissevered on the crushed
855 3, 7 | watching ever guard thy kingdom flair,~Like a father tend thy
856 1, 5 | proud Duryodhan's heart,~Flames of wrath and jealous anger
857 8, 3 | and the night-fires fitful flared,~Fainting troops and bleeding
858 3, 3 | bright glimpses of the Secret flashed upon his inner sight,~As
859 10, 2 | wood!~Arjun sheathed his flashing sabre, joined his hands
860 3, 4 | thought,~And the arghya duly flavoured unto peerless Krishna brought,~
861 10, 3 | now survive and learn to flee,~Shall he, ruler over monarchs,
862 10, 2 | Krishna drive his coursers fleet and bold,~If afar from war'
863 12, 3 | its flight!~Beasts whose flesh is pure and wholesome, dwellers
864 8, 9 | Torches by the white tents flickered, red fires showed the countless
865 9, 3 | wild despairing valour, flickering flame and closing life,~
866 10, 1 | before the light of morning flies the baleful gloom of night,~
867 3, 2 | bedecked the shining walls,~Flights of steps led up to chambers
868 4, 3 | that son of chariot-driver fling on us this insult keen,~
869 Epi | the same purpose. All the floating mass of tales, traditions,
870 5, 4 | a cloudless Indian sky,~Flocks of pea-fowls gorgeous plumaged
871 6, 6 | and far.~Krishna decked in floral garlands with his elder
872 1 | kingdom of the Kurus which flourished along the upper course of
873 5, 4 | gently roll'd o'er rocky bed,~Flower-decked hills in dewy brightness
874 5, 2 | to him in silence, sacred flowers beside him laid,~And her
875 Epi | like the river of Egypt, flows from an undiscoverable source,
876 2, 4 | cloudless sky,~Drum and flute and harp and tabor sounded
877 9, 3 | prowleth and the vulture flutters nigh,~Gold and jewels graced
878 8, 10| battle's fore,~Like the foam upon the billow when the
879 9, 4 | Gave unto them welcome fodder, gave unto them needful
880 5, 2 | laid,~And her hands she folded meekly, sweetly her obeisance
881 11, 5 | deathful ire,~As a man in folds of garments seeks to hide
882 3, 6 | given,~Sisupala's hundred follies would by Krishna be forgiven,~
883 12, 1 | Arjun bent his homeward way,~Following still the sacred charger
884 5, 2 | hungry, wealth beyond their fondest dreams.~Many days and months
885 Epi | and burn with fever, all fools are shrewd and impudent
886 3, 6 | Or if by anger or by weak forbearance led,~Sisupala seeks no mercy,
887 5, 3 | wherefore is this match forbid?"~"Fatal fault!" exclaimed
888 Epi | which is the subject of tile foregoing pages.~The great war which
889 11, 2 | Kankas perch upon their foreheads, hungry wolves upon them
890 8, 1 | shock,~Hurled against the foreman's chariots speeding like
891 5, 6 | fill my breast with fear!~Forest-fire is raging yonder, for I
892 5 | woven in the account of the forest-life of the Pandavs, and make
893 10, 2 | sword and shield!~As the forest-ranging tiger springs upon his fated
894 2, 7 | no war with Brahmans and forgive a foolish deed,~Much we
895 5, 4 | accents, so the vow she might forgo:~"Hard the penance, gentle
896 Epi | discloses to us an ancient and forgotten world, a proud and noble
897 8, 1 | bright,~Horsemen flew as forkéd lightning, heroes fought
898 3 | Rajasuya sacrifice, which was a formal assumption of the Imperial
899 11, 5 | Wide-expanding, vast and sealike, formeda scene of woe and pain!~But
900 | former
901 2, 1 | spacious town and mart,~Saw the fort, bazaar and city, saw the
902 9, 5 | battle's chances changed the fortunes of the day,~Aswa-thaman
903 8, 3 | it been they wont to fly,~Forward lay thy path of glory, or
904 1, 1 | the meadow, by a crystal fountain graced,~Drona on the lighted
905 5, 5 | farther still with him I go!~Fourfold are our human duties: first
906 8, 4 | alive!~Then Duryodhan's fourteen brothers rushed into the
907 12, 4 | Severed limbs and sacred fragments of the courser duly dressed,~
908 5, 4 | and thy woman's limbs are frail,~After three nights' fasts
909 4, 2 | Sin nor shame nor human frailty staims Yudhishthir's deed
910 3, 6 | bite in anger, and their frames in tremor quake,~Others
911 10, 2 | and to madness, faint but frantic Karna fought,~Reckless,
912 8, 10| brother, Karna, end this sad fraternal war,~Seek not lifeblood
913 7, 3 | render sinful conquest, fraudful gain,~Open war I therefore
914 4, 4 | the noble princes part,~Freemen let them range the country,
915 5, 1 | suffers exile and misfortune's freezing breath!~Dost thou, sage
916 Epi | some long names which occur frequently), the "tiger-waisted" Bhima,
917 11, 5 | Kuru viewed the sight with freshening pain,~Wept to see the good
918 5, 2 | each passing season added fresher sweetness, deeper love,~
919 6 | wrapped like human corpses to frighten away inquisitive travellers,
920 4, 5 | to mortals who are free froin sin and guile!~Thou art
921 3, 1 | turret on the azure Jumna frown,~With him came preceptor
922 8, 9 | field of righteous war,~Ruin frowns on thee, Duryodhan, and
923 7, 3 | sapling springeth from a fruitful tree!~From a heart so faint
924 10, 2 | Arjun shall be slain,~Or fulfilling warrior's duty Karna dyes
925 10, 3 | food,~Bhima too shall seek fulfilment of the dreadful vow he made,~
926 5, 2 | happy mother's womb,~And in fulness of the season came a girl
927 4, 3 | insults on Draupadi flung,~Fulsome word nor foul dishonour
928 8, 1 | Elephants by mahuts driven furiously each other tore,~Trumpeting
929 8, 1 | Kaikeyas hailing from the furthest West,~Drupad proud and peerless
930 1, 9 | chieftain doth my word or deed gainsay,~Let him take his bow and
931 3, 4 | quoth Yudhishthir, "in this galaxy of fame,~Who of chiefs and
932 3, 6 | s side,~In her husband's garb disguiséd Sisupala olasped
933 8 | ever and anon, as Professor Garbe remarks, "does Krishna revert
934 9, 5 | friend to foeman then a garbled message flew:~"Aswa-thaman
935 12, 2 | attendants, gay with earrings, garland-graced,~Carried food unto the feeders
936 7, 1 | robed USHAS ope'd the golden gates of day,~To Virata's council
937 3, 2 | Far below from spacious gateways rose the people's gathering
938 5, 6 | Now arise, for darkness gathers, deeper grows the gloomy
939 1, 9 | birth,~Kripa, noblest of Gautamas, springeth from the lowly
940 12, 2 | hung,~Groups of men and gay-dressed women form a bright and
941 3, 2 | mansions caught the ravished gazer's eye,~Richly graced with
942 7, 1 | august and tall,~In their gem-bespangled garments came the warriors
943 Epi | growth of centuries. Every generation of poets had something to
944 5 | kingdom in peace. This act of generosity rankled in his bosom and
945 11, 1 | they passed the city by,~Gentle-bosomed, kindly hearted, erst they
946 3, 2 | the sinless god VARUNA, gentle-souled Yudhishthir stood,~Six bright
947 7, 8 | VIDURA'S SPEECH~Then in gentler voice Vidura sought his
948 4, 6 | hope and stay,~Youngest, gentlest Sahadeva, dearest to this
949 7 | hated his cousins with a genuine hatred, and would not cement.
950 10, 3 | still and lifeless lay,~Ghast and Pale o'er slaughtered
951 11, 4 | with streams of fragrant ghrita were the rich libations
952 8, 2 | lofty seat,~Till upon the giant tusker Bhima sprang with
953 2, 2 | chambers lay,~With their lofty gilded turrets like the peaks of
954 1, 3 | arms accoutred with their girded loins they stood,~Like two
955 11, 5 | Casting forth their jewelled girdles, gems and scarfs belaced
956 12, 5 | threefold gift of riches gladdened all the priestly band,~Pious
957 12, 3 | commenced the aswa-medha gladdening every living wight,~Round
958 Epi | poems of Homer," says Mr. Gladstone, "differ from all other
959 4, 1 | DRAUPADI IN THE COUNCIL HALL~Glassed on Ganga's limpid waters
960 8, 10| of Karna and he oped his glazing eye,~Spake in love and spake
961 4, 3 | spake his scorn in scornful glee:~"'Tis no fault of thine,
962 6, 3 | purest ray,~Golden fire-flies glint and sparkle in the yellow
963 1, 2 | their royal name,~With their glinting sunlit weapons shone the
964 5, 4 | tear-drops filled her eyelids, glistened in the morning sun!~Satyavan,
965 Epi | man in all parts of the globe. It is scarcely necessary
966 3, 3 | Vows professed,~Some with gloss and varied comment still
967 5, 6 | still the Vision seems to glow!"~"Darkness thickens," said
968 1, 5 | gleam of mighty transport glows in proud Duryodhan's heart,~
969 6 | BOOK VI - GO-HARANA~(Cattle-Lifting)~THE conditions
970 1, 8 | cross thy brand?~But the goad of cattle-drivers better
971 5, 5 | thoughts above,~But the final goal of virtue, it is Truth and
972 4, 4 | Duryodhan, ever luckless, godless, graceless, witless child,~
973 12, 3 | done,~Draped in silk and gold-brocaded like the constellations
974 1, 1 | mansions, gay and glittering, gold-encased,~Decked with gems and rich
975 12, 1 | around,~Graceful arches gold-surmounted spanned the consecrated
976 6, 3 | made,~And the fifth are golden-crested, made of tempered steel
977 6, 3 | wondrous length,~Next the sabre golden-hilted, sable and with gold embossed,~
978 6, 3 | over thirty fingers long,~Golden-sheathed and gold embosséd like a
979 6, 3 | these with vulture-feather, golden-yellow in their hue,~Made of iron
980 Epi | translators of Homer themselves gracefully acknowledge, "We have tried
981 4, 4 | ever luckless, godless, graceless, witless child,~Hast thou
982 6, 6 | to the people gifts and grain.~And the city of the Matsyas,
983 Epi | known as arsha to later grammarians. The poet certainly seeks
984 Epi | majestic in his ancient grandeur; the noble grandsire Bhishma, "
985 9, 4 | best,~Leagued they came to grapple Arjun and on faithful Krishna
986 11, 2 | trusty steel,~Still they grasp their tried weapons,--do
987 2, 7 | Brahman-born:~"Shall he like the grass of jungle trample us in
988 12, 1 | way,~Brahmacharins with grass-girdle, chanting sweet the saman
989 Epi | assistance in this matter, and I gratefully acknowledge, the benefit
990 8, 10| Bhishma's saintly life!"~Gravely answered noble Krishna: "
991 7, 1 | moments fly,~Till intent on graver questions all on Krishna
992 5, 4 | heart,~Round her sylvan greenwoods blossomed 'neath a cloudless
993 9, 3 | hail,~Abhimanyu's love and greeting bless like blessings from
994 9, 4 | and shady tree,~Krishna groomed the jaded horses, faint
995 12, 2 | are on golden arches hung,~Groups of men and gay-dressed women
996 Epi | went on growing with the growth of centuries. Every generation
997 5, 3 | Asnvapati, "for I may not guess thy thought,~Wherefore is
998 6, 4 | marked the course of Arjun, guessed his inmost thought aright,~
999 12, 4 | stood,~And by rules of Veda guided slew the horse of noble
1000 11, 1 | and anvil, men of every guild and trade,~Left the city
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