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1501 Epi | the chiselled word, the new-coined phrase, in which modem English
1502 Epi | the tractarian writings of Newman, Keble, and Pusey, were
1503 6 | kingdom from the north.~When news came that the Kurus had
1504 12, 1 | auspicious was the star,~Nigher came the victor Arjun from
1505 8, 3 | closed in darkness and the night-fires fitful flared,~Fainting
1506 8, 2 | tornado's might,~Dusky chiefs, Nishada warriors, gloomy as the
1507 2, 2 | in fame,~Lion-monarchs, noble-destined, chiefs of pure and spotless
1508 5, 3 | daughter may not wed this noble-hearted youth!~"Tell me, rishi,"
1509 10, 4 | of foemen with a soft and noiseless tread!~Dhrista-dyumna and
1510 1, 5 | his ire,~Like the sun in noontide radiance, like the all-consuming
1511 2, 2 | win the beauteous bride!~North-east of the festive city they
1512 Epi | stalwart peasantry of the North-West know of the five Pandav
1513 10, 3 | Blood suffused his eye and nostril, quivered still his feeble
1514 3 | Rajasuya or Imperial Sacrifice. Notwithstanding the legend, therefore, Draupadi
1515 11, 5 | shape and utter, all that nourish hope and pride,~All were
1516 2, 7 | bride?~To our hopes like nourished saplings shall he now the
1517 3, 7 | them like the rain-drop nourishing the thirsty ground,~Be unto
1518 5, 4 | Woodland rills and crystal nullahs gently roll'd o'er rocky
1519 Epi | moral ideas of a nation numbering two hundred millions.~ROMESH
1520 7, 1 | SPEECH~Mirth and song and nuptial music waked the echoes of
1521 7, 3 | Subhadra bore,~And whose happy nuptials brought us from far Dwarka'
1522 4, 6 | guard her charméd life,~Nurse thy lord with woman's kindness,
1523 Epi | proud and scornful Draupadi nursing her wrath till her wrongs
1524 6, 3 | And to touch the unclean objects, friend, is more than I
1525 8 | and the discharge of his obligations is his most important work."~
1526 Epi | facts of the war had been obliterated by age, legendary heroes
1527 Epi | list of proper names or obscure allusions has been shortened;
1528 8, 1 | car and tawny coursers to obstruct the chieftain's path,~Vainly
1529 9, 3 | follow Abhimanyu and in death obtain relief,~Earth to me is void
1530 Epi | by the poet in Sanscrit. Occasionally, but rarely, a few redundant
1531 Epi | in some long names which occur frequently), the "tiger-waisted"
1532 10, 2 | Hundred milch-kine Karna offers, costly garment, yellow
1533 9, 1 | startled soldiers heard the oft-repeated sound,~But as strikes in
1534 4, 5 | cometh, purer, brighter, oftener taught,~Learn the truth
1535 9, 3 | weary world to roam!~And oh! cheerless is that young
1536 11, 4 | scented aloes, fragrant oil and perfumes found,~Silken
1537 Epi | Epics. The almost illiterate oil-manufacturer or confectioner of Bengal
1538 3, 6 | garb disguiséd Sisupala olasped the bride,~This and more
1539 5, 1 | his evening fires,~Many olden tales recited, legends of
1540 4, 4 | cry!~Wise Vidura knew that omen, and the Queen Gandhari
1541 4, 4 | wailing and the raven's ominous cry!~Wise Vidura knew that
1542 Epi | and royal Yudhishthir, (I omit the final a in some long
1543 3, 2 | offerings, pleased the "Shining Ones" on high,~Brahmans pleased
1544 6, 1 | proud Duryodhan, stealing onwards day by day,~Swooped on Matsya'
1545 10, 4 | fury blind with wounds and oozing blood,~Like two wild and
1546 5, 3 | monarchs led,~Like Yayati open-hearted and like CHANDRA in his
1547 3, 7 | unto the good Yudhishthir opens thus his joyful heart:~"
1548 3 | Magadha or South Behar, opposed and was killed; but other
1549 1, 1 | consent.~Sightless roll these orbs of vision, dark to me is
1550 5, 5 | life!~And our sacred writ ordaineth and our pious rishis sing'~
1551 4, 6 | child, if bitter fortune so ordains that we must part,~Virtue
1552 1 | named Karna., of unknown origin, appeared on the scene and
1553 Epi | this Epic, as it was thus originally put together some centuries
1554 End | Horse-Sacrifice is rather a crowning ornament than a part of the solid
1555 7, 5 | And his helpless loving orphans thou didst cherish as thine
1556 11, 2 | dear departed, like the osprey for her spouse!~How each
1557 | ours
1558 Epi | unknown to and unknowing the outside world. What this confederation
1559 10, 2 | Karna, until Arjun mends his over-strainéd bow,~Arjun then will crave
1560 5 | value of which cannot be overestimated.~The portion translated
1561 5, 4 | brightness towering glittered overhead,~Birds of song and beauteous
1562 5, 4 | IV - OVERTAKEN BY FATE~Twelve-month in
1563 Epi | suffering as in Dante, not under overwhelming passions as in Shakespeare,--
1564 3, 4 | this thy sacrificial rite,~Owes its sanctity and splendour
1565 12 | mark of submission to the owner of the animal. And when
1566 9, 1 | of the jungle drags the ox into his lair,~Abhimanyu
1567 5, 6 | Satyavan thus made reply,~"Pains my heart and yearns my bosom,
1568 5, 3 | in days of boyhood and to paint them was his joy,~Hence
1569 1, 5 | muscle, stately as a golden palm,~Blessed with every very
1570 6, 6 | And prepare the cooling palm-drink with the richest viands
1571 10, 3 | throne,~Rugged Bhima will not palter, fatal is the vow he made,~
1572 2, 6 | his skill and prowess won Pancbala's princess-bride,~People'
1573 4, 1 | insult-rife:~Lotus-eyed Panchala-princess! fairly staked and won at
1574 1, 5 | obeisance made,~Still the panic-stricken people viewed him with unmoving
1575 11, 3 | Maidens waved their feathery pankhas round Duryodhan's royal
1576 Epi | and incorporated with the Paradise Lost, the reader would scarcely
1577 3 | stands alone and without a parallel in Hindu traditions and
1578 5 | drained the ocean dry; of Parasu-Rama a Brahman who killed the
1579 10, 3 | fire consumeth summer's parched and sapless wood,~Kuru's
1580 3, 6 | thunder-riven rock,~Severed from the parent mountain by the bolt's resistless
1581 12 | child of Abhimanyu is named Parikshit, and is destined to succeed
1582 9, 1 | hardened buckler gave and parried many a blow!~Rank to rank
1583 6, 3 | tempered steel and bright,~Parrot feathers wing these arrows
1584 1, 2 | and true the thrust and parry of their weapons flaming
1585 3, 7 | were full of woe,~Yet thou partest, sinless Krishna, dearest,
1586 8 | kingdom having failed, both parties now prepared for a battle,
1587 8 | negotiations for a peaceful partition of the Kuru kingdom having
1588 12, 1 | approaching, and the winter passeth by,~Let the Brahmans versed
1589 6, 1 | cowherds, chased them from the pasture-field,~Sixty thousand head of
1590 5 | obtained his blessings and the pasupata weapon. Arjun then went
1591 12, 1 | Laid it out with halls and pathways for the sacrificial rite.~
1592 5 | BOOK V - PATIVRATA-MAHATMYA~(Woman's Love)~TRUE to their
1593 2, 4 | the eastern ocean wave,~Pattan's port whose hardy children
1594 9, 1 | from his chariot draggled Paurava by the hair,~Jayadratha
1595 9, 1 | closing with their reddened paws,~Or like tuskers with their
1596 5, 4 | cloudless Indian sky,~Flocks of pea-fowls gorgeous plumaged flew before
1597 9, 1 | rending claws!~Loud as INDRA'S peals of thunder still their blows
1598 Epi | hour. The tall and stalwart peasantry of the North-West know of
1599 9, 2 | will hail him and his noble peers no more,~For his tusker
1600 Epi | these are distinct images pencilled by the hand of a true master
1601 11, 5 | Pandav brothers groaned in penitence and pain,~And they wept
1602 4, 3 | slave upon his knee!~Bhima penned his wrath no longer, lightning-like
1603 7, 8 | voice Vidura sought his pensive mind to tell,~From his lips
1604 Epi | Blackstone and the ballads of Percy, together with the tractarian
1605 12 | horse returned from its peregrinations, it was sacrificed with
1606 Epi | speaking the same language, performing the same religious rites
1607 2, 2 | jewels drest,~Decked and perfumed sat these rulers, mighty-arméd,
1608 10 | slaughter in the Pandav camp, perpetrated by the vengeful son of Drona,
1609 Epi | millions of listeners in perpetual thrall. The majestic and
1610 End | consists merely of concluding personal narratives of the heroes
1611 7, 5 | obey,~I with sweet and soft persuasion Pandu's truthful sons will
1612 Epi | chiselled word, the new-coined phrase, in which modem English
1613 Epi | a perfect and impressive picture. The tournament of the princes
1614 9, 2 | the deathful battle drew,~Piebald horses trained to battle
1615 2, 3 | high,~Through yon whirling piercéd discus let five glist'ning
1616 9, 2 | the dappled deer,~Grey and pigeon-coloured coursers bore Panchala's
1617 8, 1 | stern unyielding might,~Pikes and axes, clubs and maces,
1618 11, 4 | and ready for the fire,~Piled and ranged in perfect order
1619 6, 4 | of war,~But to save the pilfered cattle speeds he onward
1620 7, 1 | Stones inlaid in arch and pillar glinted in the glittering
1621 2, 8 | the court erewhile,~He is pious-souled Yudhishthir, man without
1622 12, 4 | the rules by rishis spoke,~Piously inhaled the fragrance and
1623 11, 2 | the blood of warriors foul Pisachas fill the air,~Viewless forms
1624 4, 2 | Chamber, tearful made her piteous plaint:~"Elders! versed
1625 11, 4 | the shadows of the night!~Pitri-medha; due to fathers was performed
1626 Epi | simplest narration and the plainest ideas. Without the support
1627 8 | sanguinary that was fought on the plains of India in the ancient
1628 10, 4 | mind the dark destruction planned of old in fiendish ire,~
1629 4 | Yudhishthir, and devised plans to effect his fall. Sakuni,
1630 12, 3 | pressed the sacred Soma plant,~And performed the pure
1631 1, 4 | all!~Wild-boar shaped in plates of iron coursed the wide-extending
1632 7, 4 | Duryodhan's grace~Dhrita-rashtra pleadeth vainly, feeble is his fitful
1633 5, 2 | sylvan woodlands went.~Far in pleasant woods and jungle wandered
1634 12, 1 | consecrated ground,~And to pleasethe great Yudhishthir came each
1635 7, 1 | Youthful bosoms throbbed with pleasure, lovelit glances sparkled
1636 9, 1 | the foe-compelling Drona pledged his troth and solemn word,~
1637 8, 1 | soldiers bore!~Ceaseless plied the gallant troopers, with
1638 9, 3 | shall slay the slayer, Arjun plights his solemn word~May I never
1639 Epi | poor narration must often plod through the dust; and I
1640 8, 3 | from him stolen, for the plots against his life,~For the
1641 7, 2 | stalwart chief who bore the plough,~Rose and spake, the blood
1642 7, 8 | Like some birds bereft of plumage, they shall pine awhile
1643 5, 4 | Flocks of pea-fowls gorgeous plumaged flew before her wondering
1644 6, 3 | thick and yellow vulture -plumed.~They belong to King Yudhishthir,
1645 6, 1 | with thy arrows winged with plumes of yellow gold~As the famed
1646 Epi | centuries. Every generation of poets had something to add; every
1647 12 | was sacrificed with great poinp and splendour at a feast
1648 7, 5 | Be unto us as a teacher, pointing us the righteous path,~If
1649 6, 3 | sheathes the bright and polished blade,~Fourth, a long and
1650 3 | reigning at Hastina-pura, were politely invited to take a share
1651 7, 5 | slaughter will methinks pollute this war,~Sons and grandsons,
1652 5, 4 | secret, night and morning, pondered still on Narad's word!~Nearer
1653 4, 3 | pleading glances like a poniard smote them all!~Darkly frowned
1654 Epi | graces of later Sanscrit poptry. The poetry of Kalidisa
1655 2, 4 | eastern ocean wave,~Pattan's port whose hardy children western
1656 4, 4 | svasti! svasti!" at this portent strange and new,~Drona and
1657 Epi | women of the Indian Epic possess characters as marked as
1658 Epi | Kuru monarch. And Krishna possesses a character higher than
1659 4 | family were deprived of every possession on earth, and became the
1660 4 | and female, his empire and possessions, were all staked and lost!~
1661 12 | Kurus at Hastinapura, and a posthumous child of Abhimanyu is named
1662 9, 5 | might.~But old feud like potent poison fires the warrior'
1663 8, 10| luckless fortune crost,~Nations pour their lifeblood vainly,
1664 Epi | different with the Maha-bharata, practically unknown to European readers.
1665 6 | Cattle-lifting was a common practice with the kings of ancient
1666 3, 1 | the land of nations brave,~Prag-jyotisha, where the red sun wakes
1667 End | the Pandav brothers place Prakshit, the grandson of Arjun,
1668 1, 6 | Chief! who eomest uninvited, pratest in thy lying boast,~Thou
1669 2, 7 | us in haughty pride,~To a prating priest and Brahman wed the
1670 12, 3 | law.~Done the rite of pure pravargya with the pious hymn and
1671 4, 5 | taught thee holy love,~Rama preached the laws of duty far on
1672 Epi | international war; every preacher of a new creed desired to
1673 12 | rules of Funeral Rites. He preaches the cult of Krishna, and
1674 3, 5 | s Subduer, surely might precedence claim!~Unto Krishna for
1675 12, 3 | vow and rich in lore,~Sage preceptors, holy teachers, grew in
1676 5, 5 | True and holy are thy precepts," listening YAMA made reply,~"
1677 5, 5 | unto mortals by their Fate predestined crost,~For thy wifely duty
1678 Epi | translation of an old Epic whose predominating characteristic is its simple
1679 Epi | according to this metrical preface, is about eighty-five thousand.
1680 Epi | Epic were described in some prefatory verses, and the number of
1681 7, 1 | uttered words of wisdom pregnant with his peaceful thought,~
1682 7 | were therefore futile, and preparations were made on both sides
1683 8 | failed, both parties now prepared for a battle, perhaps the
1684 6, 3 | father's palace as a cook prepares the food,~Brave Nakula guards
1685 Epi | scheme I have adopted in presenting an Epic of ninety~thousand
1686 7, 10| to our foemen we should press the gory plain,~Stingless
1687 11, 3 | as the lifeless form she prest,~And her tears like rains
1688 9, 5 | Cast no blame in youth's presumption on a warrior's fleecy hair,~
1689 Epi | an Indian poet can never pretend to. To thousands of European
1690 6, 3 | bow and shining arrows, pretty handsome toys are these,~
1691 3 | Himalayas, but it never prevailed among the Aryan Hindus of
1692 Epi | Krishna-worship became the prevailing religion of India after
1693 3 | brothers marrying a common wife prevails to this day in Thibet and
1694 Epi | an attempt was made to prevent the further expansion of
1695 2, 7 | blazing flame!~Leave the priestling in his folly sinning through
1696 2, 6 | and prowess won Pancbala's princess-bride,~People's shouts and Brahmans'
1697 9, 3 | young heart, Abhimanyu's princess-wife,~What can sad Subhadra offer
1698 8 | explained to him the great principles of Duty in that memorable
1699 Epi | been made; and the Epic as printed and published in Calcutta
1700 6 | nature has debarred from the privileges of men and women, and he
1701 7, 1 | kingdom of the sky to win,~Prizeth hamlet more than empire,
1702 Epi | mediæval Europe. And then, probably under the direction of some
1703 End | Bhima. Yudhishthir alone proceeds to heaven in person in a
1704 8, 1 | And with pealing bells proclaiming mighty elephants of war!~
1705 2, 3 | his father's wishes thus proclaims to all around:~"Mark this
1706 10, 1 | Gem and jewel, corn and produce, by the arméd hero laid,~
1707 Epi | philosophy which the world produced. And their great works of
1708 Epi | imagination that Asia has produced-has never yet been put before
1709 3, 3 | Duty, some the Holy Vows professed,~Some with gloss and varied
1710 8 | work, and ever and anon, as Professor Garbe remarks, "does Krishna
1711 7, 5 | sons will sway.~'Tis thy profit, Kuru monarch! that the
1712 9, 4 | preceptor, Arjun's furious progress stayed,~Tear-drops filled
1713 3 | India. It is distinctly prohibited in their laws and institutes,
1714 Epi | neither diffuse nor unduly prolix, and which are interspersed
1715 Epi | with almost inconceivable prolixity and endless repetition;
1716 Epi | from its length and its prolixness. On the other hand, to condense
1717 6, 4 | these pointed arrows falling prone before my feet,~By these
1718 Epi | English-speaking lands, is the national property of the nations to the same
1719 Epi | nearly assumed its present proportions, a few centuries after Christ
1720 5 | stood by Yudhishthir in his prosperity, now came to visit him in
1721 4, 2 | righteous nobles, have on me protection given,~Tremble sinner, seek
1722 10, 3 | ever faithful with his arms protects my right,~Drupad's son with
1723 2, 6 | strain,~Jarasandha famed for prowesq strove to bend the string
1724 9, 3 | Where the hungry jackal prowleth and the vulture flutters
1725 11, 2 | wanderers of the midnight prowling in the light of day!~Shriek
1726 11, 1 | maidens, erst they shunned the public eye,~Blush nor shame suffused
1727 2, 1 | throng,~Famed reciters of puranas, dancers skilled and wrestlers
1728 8, 10| Perish conquest dearly purchased by a mean deceitful strife,~
1729 5, 2 | Powers Immortal move,~And the pureness of thy conduct doth thy
1730 3, 4 | monarchs pure in lustre, purest-hearted and most high~Like the radiant
1731 5, 5 | friendship with the holy purifies the mortal birth,~Lasting
1732 12, 3 | threefold rich performance purify the darkening stain,~Blood
1733 9, 3 | was the blood-red morning purpling o'er the angry east,~Fatal
1734 8, 10| loth is archer Arjun to pursue this hateful strife,~Trick
1735 5, 5 | dumb,~Drew the vital spark, purusha, smaller than the human
1736 Epi | writings of Newman, Keble, and Pusey, were all thrown into blank
1737 7, 5 | decked in garlands, they will quaff the ruddy wine,~Greet their
1738 4, 1 | Bhima, lo! his coward-bosom quails,~Thou Duhsasan, bid the
1739 Epi | inclination nor the necessary qualification. The crisp and ornate style,
1740 Epi | day, even if he had been qualified to do so.~For if there is
1741 5 | he became involved in a quarrel with some gandharvas, a
1742 4, 4 | And his feeble accents quavered, and his eyes were dimmed
1743 7, 5 | lived unknown,~Once more quelling every evil they are stout
1744 10, 2 | Render honour to thy elder, quench thy hasty impious wrath,~
1745 6, 1 | And in wonder they will question-Is this Arjun famed in war?~
1746 Epi | the close resemblance. I quote a few lines from the Sanscrit
1747 1, 2 | princes proved their aim,~Racing, hit the target with arrows
1748 11, 5 | war,~He whom as the son of Radha, chariot-driver ye have
1749 5, 6 | with fear!~Forest-fire is raging yonder, for I see a distant
1750 12, 2 | With the accents of the rain-cloud drum and trumpet raise their
1751 3, 7 | care,~Be unto them like the rain-drop nourishing the thirsty ground,~
1752 1, 7 | lineage could he claim,~Like a raindrop-pelted lotus bent his humble head
1753 11, 3 | prest,~And her tears like rains of summer fell and washed
1754 11, 2 | Viewless forms of hungry Rakshas limb from limb the corpses
1755 5, 6 | welcome sight,~Hark the rangers of the forest! how their
1756 End | With the Lord of Night he ranges, beauteous as the Lord of
1757 10, 3 | Deeply in their bosoms rankle wrongs and insults we have
1758 5, 3 | face?~"Free in gifts like Rantideva," so the holy rishi said,~"
1759 1, 4 | And with equal skill his rapier did the godlike Arjun wield,~
1760 1, 2 | Brightly gleam their lightning rapiers as they range the listed
1761 Epi | Sanscrit. Occasionally, but rarely, a few redundant couplets
1762 4, 5 | as houseless exiles roam,~Rarting blessings spake Yudhishthir, "
1763 4, 1 | consecrated, fragrant, flowing, raven-bright,~Base Duhsasan by those
1764 3, 2 | swan-white mansions caught the ravished gazer's eye,~Richly graced
1765 10, 4 | And the earth the voice re-echoed o'er her distant hill and
1766 7, 10| broke in twain,~Kuru-land is re-united, never shall be split again!~
1767 2, 1 | heart,~Travelling slow they reached Panchala, saw its spacious
1768 Epi | Nala and Damayanti is still read and appreciated by a select
1769 Epi | the European reader in a readable form. A poem of ninety thousand
1770 11, 4 | splintered lances, hewed and ready for the fire,~Piled and
1771 9, 3 | nursed and cherished wrath,~Reap the meed of sin and insult,
1772 9, 5 | Fair Gandhari's royal son,~Reapest thou the gory harvest of
1773 2, 5 | cliff,~But once more the bow rebounded, fell the monarch in his
1774 6, 6 | home the pious brothers to receive each royal guest.~Came unto
1775 6, 6 | please the people, bards recite the ancient song,~Glories
1776 2, 1 | court will throng,~Famed reciters of puranas, dancers skilled
1777 4 | his losses, and with the recklessness of a gambler still went
1778 7, 3 | throne!~And no sin Satyaki reckons slaughter of the mortal
1779 Epi | ignorant, whose earliest recollections do not cling round the story
1780 Epi | of its deeds in the old record of the international war;
1781 5 | conditions of exile and recover his kingdom. Bhima too was
1782 Epi | figures which have been recovered from the ruins of an ancient
1783 9, 4 | the dark cloud from the reddening western hill,~And the sun
1784 10, 2 | from Karna's car I fled,~Redder than my bleeding bosom warrior'
1785 8 | akshauhini troops, and if we reduce this fabulous number to
1786 8 | which we may by a similar reduction reckon to be seventy thousand.
1787 Epi | Occasionally, but rarely, a few redundant couplets have been left
1788 8, 10| tramples on a marsh of feeble reeds,~As a forest conflagration
1789 5, 4 | falter and my senses seem to reel,~Fain would I beside thee
1790 9, 1 | Like a drunkard dazed and reeling Bhima rose his staff to
1791 Epi | scholars for the purpose of reference.~But although the old Epic
1792 9, 4 | them needful rest,~Thus refreshed, the noble coursers Krishna
1793 6, 1 | of Kuru's race,~Thou art refuge of the Matsyas and thy kingdom'
1794 2, 4 | field of deadly strife,~Each regards the fair Draupadi as his
1795 2, 5 | Panchala's mansions for the region whence he came!~Uprose Salya,
1796 3 | Dhrita-rashtra and his sons, now reigning at Hastina-pura, were politely
1797 2, 3 | war-drum's beat.~And there reigns a solemn silence, and in
1798 10, 2 | king of Madra's land,~As he reined the fiery coursers with
1799 7, 5 | obey!~If this concord be rejected and the lust of war prevail,~
1800 12, 2 | bounty, bid the sons of men rejoice,~Day by day the holy yajna
1801 10, 2 | helméd Arjun, answer nor rejoinder gave,~Unto Karna pleading
1802 5, 2 | sanction, holy Brahmans oft relate,~That the duty-loving father
1803 Epi | No translation of an Epic relating to a great war can be acceptable
1804 8 | the Panchalas, and Arjun's relative the king of the Matsyas,
1805 12, 3 | mourner's tear,~Tender care relieves the stricken by the gracious
1806 10, 2 | slave,~Unfulfilled thy vow remaineth, for the righteous gods
1807 Epi | vivid, and expansive." This remark applies with even greater
1808 8 | anon, as Professor Garbe remarks, "does Krishna revert to
1809 5, 6 | Yes," he said, "I now remember, ever loving faithful dame,~
1810 11, 4 | Sanctifying and consuming mortal remnants of the dead.~Brave Duryodhan
1811 7, 4 | Duryodhan's grace,~If he renders Indra-prastha, peace will
1812 9, 1 | tusks, eagles with their rending claws!~Loud as INDRA'S peals
1813 8, 3 | chieftains to their various tents repaired!~
1814 8, 1 | By the answering cloud repeated, shook the hills and tented
1815 12 | Four Stages of Life. He repeats the discourses of other
1816 7, 9 | and win, or ever after all repentance may be vain.~Peace is righteous
1817 10, 2 | vow,~For that hasty act repenting Arjun bows thy heart to
1818 Epi | inconceivable prolixity and endless repetition; and the process of condensation
1819 7, 2 | empire nor the gambler's loss replace!"~Thus with cold and cruel
1820 5 | with which this book is replete. Great saints came to see
1821 3, 7 | valour," sad Yudhishthir thus replies,~"By thy presence, noble
1822 3 | Brahmans, and the brothers reported to their mother that they
1823 5, 6 | And with father's soft reproaches and with mother's loving
1824 1, 8 | sought to humble Karna with reproachful words unkind~"Wilt thou,
1825 Epi | English, for without such reproduction or imitation of the musical
1826 Epi | they have marked the close resemblance. I quote a few lines from
1827 2 | been built there for their residence, constructed of inflammable
1828 3 | king of Indra-prastlia, resolved to perform the Rajasuya
1829 4, 5 | home,~And by all beloved, respected, in my house shall Pritha
1830 9, 3 | and still,~Like the red resplendent day-god setting on the western
1831 7 | councillors advised the restoration, but, the jealous Duryodhan
1832 5, 5 | given,~And his eyes shall be restoréd to the cheerful light of
1833 11, 3 | and foremost way,~Now he rests upon the red earth, quenched
1834 3 | accordingly parcelled; Duryodhan retained the eastern and richer portion
1835 End | Arjun, on the throne, and retire to the Himalayas. Draupadi
1836 End | the poem.~Dhrita-rashtra retires into a forest with his queen
1837 1, 6 | sunshine radiant Karna stood revealed!~Proud Duryodhan and his
1838 8, 10| Bhishma's dying counsel and revere the voice of death,~End
1839 8 | other, and Arjun saw his revered elders and dear friends
1840 3, 7 | righteous glory crown thy sons, reveréd dame,~Joy thee in their
1841 3, 5 | uncrowned hero should this reverence be paid,~Midst these mighty
1842 5, 4 | hands in salutation and in reverent silence stood.~With the
1843 1, 8 | As a son unto a father, reverently bent his head!~With his
1844 Epi | Maha-bharata we find just the reverse; each hero has a distinct
1845 8 | Garbe remarks, "does Krishna revert to the doctrine that for
1846 4, 4 | daughter thus insulted and reviled,~Hast thou courted death
1847 12, 3 | the suppliant's fear,~Gold revives the poor and lowly, mercy
1848 3, 4 | are waked to gladness when reviving breezes play,~Even so this
1849 10, 2 | strong and skilful hand,~"Of rewards and gifts," he uttered, "
1850 Epi | reproduce to some extent the rhythm, the majesty, and the long
1851 9, 2 | onset told,~Golden peacock rich-emblazoned was young Abhimanyu's joy,~
1852 3, 2 | bright and gay,~Like the rich-ored shining turrets of the lofty
1853 12, 5 | With a threefold gift of riches gladdened all the priestly
1854 3, 2 | the ravished gazer's eye,~Richly graced with precious metals
1855 5, 2 | BRAHMA, pure in heart and righteous-souled,~He was loved in town and
1856 4, 1 | Have I heard thee, menial, rightly?" questioned she in anguish
1857 4, 4 | sacrificial fire,~And o'er sacred rights of homa Brahmans chant their
1858 11, 4 | midnight air,~Sacred songs of rik and saman rose with women'
1859 5, 4 | wondering eye,~Woodland rills and crystal nullahs gently
1860 End | the celestial Ganges, and rises with a celestial body. He
1861 12 | Life, True Knowledge and Ritea and Penance. The adventures
1862 Epi | in a common literature, rivalling each other in their schools
1863 2, 6 | bridal garland and the bridal robe she gave,~Arjan by his skill
1864 8, 8 | Gandhara's mounted princes rode across the battle-ground,~
1865 Epi | numbering two hundred millions.~ROMESH DUTT.~UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,
1866 10, 2 | proud Karna's shall be o'er,~Room is none for Arjun's glory
1867 4, 1 | with wild averted eye.~Unto rooms where dwelt the women, Queen
1868 9, 4 | battle-chariot shone,~Elephant's rope was Karna's ensign made
1869 5, 2 | unfold,~Slender waist and rounded bosom, image as of burnished
1870 1, 6 | Sandal-drops and sprinkled waters roused the woe-distracted dame,~
1871 4, 5 | the pathless wilderness?~Royal-born, unused to hardship, weak
1872 8, 8 | tale to tell,~Like a lotus rudely severed gallant son of Arjun
1873 8, 10| peerless Bhishma quell,~T'rue to oath and unresisting,
1874 8, 9 | field of righteous war,~Ruin frowns on thee, Duryodhan,
1875 3, 6 | fired,~To my saintly wife, Rukmini, Sisupala hath aspired,~
1876 3, 5 | throng of crownéd monarchs, ruling kings of righteous fame,~
1877 4, 3 | with his thunder accents rung:~May I never reach those
1878 11, 1 | dark his ebbing life-tide runs:~"Gods fulfil my life's
1879 10, 1 | trembled 'neath the furious rush of war,~And the echoing
1880 Epi | My kind friend Mr. Edmund Russell, impelled by that enthusiasm
1881 2, 2 | lore,~Mark proud Drupad'sa wealth and splendour, gazing,
1882 8, 7 | the dreadful day was lost,~Sabadeva and Nakula vainly strove
1883 3, 7 | tear,~And from Arjun's wife Sabhadra. Krishina's sister ever
1884 6, 3 | Listen more, if of these sabres, prince of Matsya, thou
1885 12 | its peregrinations, it was sacrificed with great poinp and splendour
1886 12, 3 | cruel sin,~And the meed of sacrificers may the good Yudhishthir
1887 2, 1 | come from distant regions sacrificing wealth and gold,~Stainless
1888 5, 1 | wif e's affection, with a sadder woman's life?"~"Listen,
1889 End | upon the earth!~Mdst the Sadhyas and the Maruts, 'midst Immortals
1890 9, 5 | his sorrows thus impart:~"Sadly speeds the contest, Drona,
1891 2, 6 | a foolish emprise dare,~Sager men should stop his rashness
1892 4, 6 | my pride,~Happy is your sainted father, dwells in regions
1893 9, 2 | gathering war,~Arjun fought the Sam-saptakas in the battle-field afar,~
1894 4, 5 | your kveal,~Is a trial and samadhi, for it chastens but to
1895 4, 5 | on Bhrigu's lofty hill,~Sambhu showed the path of virtue
1896 1, 6 | is their falchion, valour sanctifies their right,~Angry word
1897 1, 4 | sons like fires of yajna sanctify this mighty State!"~Now
1898 3, 4 | sacrificial rite,~Owes its sanctity and splendour unto Krishna'
1899 10, 3 | river, weary waste of and sand,~Lost its pride of fresh'
1900 1, 6 | with an anxious hurry came,~Sandal-drops and sprinkled waters roused
1901 1, 1 | sacrificial thread,~White his sandal-mark and garlands, white the
1902 11, 4 | sped on sacred duty bound,~Sandalwood and scented aloes, fragrant
1903 11, 5 | Far along the shore and sandbank of the sacred sealike stream~
1904 9, 3 | gallant chieftains like the sands beside the sea,~None with
1905 10, 3 | consumeth summer's parched and sapless wood,~Kuru's lordless, lifeless
1906 2, 7 | our hopes like nourished saplings shall he now the fruit deny,~
1907 12, 3 | khadira wood,~Six of seasoned sarvavarnin, on the place of yajna stood,~
1908 5, 2 | happy sire.~For our sacred sastras sanction, holy Brahmans
1909 7, 1 | righteous fame,~By them sate the bold Satyaki from the
1910 5, 5 | may not all untimely end,~Satya,van may see his kingdom
1911 9, 2 | relentless Drona laid the brave Satyajit low!~Surging still like
1912 7, 3 | III - SATYARI'S SPEECH~Shame unto the
1913 12, 3 | And performed the pure savana with the solemn saman chant.~
1914 6, 1 | Thee we count our lord and saviour as our monarch's gallant
1915 6, 5 | thy part,~Be it as thou sayest, Arjun, unto Pandu's race
1916 2, 4 | moving air,~Winged Suparnas, scaly Yagas, saints celestial
1917 11, 5 | jewelled girdles, gems and scarfs belaced with gold,~Gave
1918 5, 6 | returneth I shall all these scenes narrate,~Now arise, for
1919 2, 2 | wreaths were hung of sweetest scent,~All around were swan-white
1920 8, 10| Perish crown and jewelled sceptre won with Bhishma's saintly
1921 2, 8 | fierce Duryodhan darkly schemed their death by fire,~But
1922 3, 4 | To the Friend and to the Scholar, to the King as lord of
1923 Epi | and is useful to Sanscrit scholars for the purpose of reference.~
1924 Epi | rivalling each other in their schools of philosophy and learning
1925 Epi | of the ancient Hindus in science, and specially in mathematics,
1926 Epi | and beautiful, and almost scintillates with similes in every verse;
1927 11, 1 | panic, milk-white mares that scour the plain,~Wildly toss their
1928 8, 10| behind a child or woman screen their valour and their might,~
1929 Epi | turned out, and which modern sculptors have vainly sought to reproduce.
1930 3, 7 | friend,~And to Dwarka's sea-washed mansions Krishna must his
1931 1, 7 | and noble grace,~And he sealed his loyal friendship in
1932 3, 6 | a foe~Burnt my far-famed seaport Dwarka, laid the mart and
1933 5, 6 | jungle or by day or dewy eve,~Searching in the hermitages often
1934 7, 1 | Panchala's monarch, foremost seats of honour claim,~Krishna
1935 6, 4 | and slay the distant foe,~Seck we out the Kuru monarch,
1936 5, 4 | the morning sun!~Satyavan, sedate and stately, ponderous axe
1937 1, 6 | Noble is the boon thou seekest," answered Kuru's prince
1938 1, 4 | he turned to wise Vidura seeking for the cause to hear:~"
1939 | seem
1940 4, 6 | wherefore dost thou wait,~Seest thou not thy godlike children
1941 Epi | read and appreciated by a select circle of readers; and Sir
1942 3 | Jarasandha, the powerful and semi-civilised king of Magadha or South
1943 6, 4 | exile now completed, Arjun sends with greetings bold!~How
1944 Epi | Englishmen the thoughts and sentiments and poetry of their Anglo-Saxon
1945 9, 3 | to warlike Bhima as thy serf and bounden slave,~Wrong
1946 Epi | the, Maha-bharata was a series of eighteen battles, fought
1947 9, 1 | Writhing like a wounded serpent, lifted from the field of
1948 8, 10| Bhishma is no faithless servant nor will break his plighted
1949 9, 3 | red resplendent day-god setting on the western hill,~Like
1950 8 | similar reduction reckon to be seventy thousand. His father-in-law
1951 | several
1952 8, 10| And his eyes brave Arjun shaded at the awe-inspiring sight,~
1953 3, 7 | unto them tree of shelter shading them from heat around,~Like
1954 9, 4 | and arrow by the green and shady tree,~Krishna groomed the
1955 4, 1 | and brave!"~Proud Draupadi shakes with tremor at Duhsasan'
1956 10, 4 | wild and warring tuskers shaking all the echoing wood,~Me
1957 8, 10| hid thee with a maiden's sham~And a driver, not thy father,
1958 2, 5 | golden crown and garland, shamed and humbled in their pride,~
1959 4, 1 | streaming tear:~Leave me, shameless prince Duhsasan! elders,
1960 4 | Sakuni, prince of Gandhara, shared Duryodhan's hatred towards
1961 1, 9 | in rings and weapons fair~She-deer breeds not lordly tigers
1962 10, 2 | in the jungle wood!~Arjun sheathed his flashing sabre, joined
1963 6, 3 | made of wondrous cowhide sheathes the bright and polished
1964 6, 1 | cowherd answered gaily, sheltered by the palace gate:~"Not
1965 9, 1 | king of Sindhu ran into his sheltering car,~Salya came unto his
1966 11, 5 | and sacred site,~And the shelving banks of Ganga, peopled
1967 Epi | striking. Every scene on the shifting stage is a perfect and impressive
1968 5, 3 | SURYA'S lustre in him shineth," so the rishi Narad said,~"
1969 6, 4 | monarch sinks in battle like a ship in stormy sea!"~Vain were
1970 8, 1 | and shafts of clariots shivered in resistless shock,~Hurled
1971 2, 8 | KRISHNA TO THE RESCUE~Kri.shnaknew thesons of Pandu though
1972 2, 4 | s warlike rulers seek to shoot the distant aim,~Princess,
1973 9, 4 | onward sweeping wildfire shooting forth its lolling tongue,~
1974 3, 1 | chiefs of Vrishni from the shores of Western Sea,~And the
1975 5, 5 | darksome way,~Left the body shorn of lustre to its rigid cold
1976 5, 3 | and trembling cried:~"Unto short-lived, fated bridegroom ne'er
1977 Epi | condense the story into shorter limits would be, not to
1978 5, 4 | stately, ponderous axe on shoulder hung,~For the distant darksome
1979 5, 2 | the time is come,~Thou shouldst choose a princely suitor,
1980 1, 3 | wrath, for one or other, shouted forth the maddened throng,~"
1981 8, 2 | battle chariot like an angry shower of hail,~And they rent in
1982 10, 2 | countless arrows darkly showered,~Like the cobra dark and
1983 Epi | lines from the Sanscrit showing varieties of the Sloka metre,
1984 Epi | with fever, all fools are shrewd and impudent by turns, all
1985 11, 2 | prowling in the light of day!~Shriek of pain and wail of anguish
1986 7, 9 | dearest son, Duryodhan, shun this dark and fatal strife,~
1987 11, 1 | bashful maidens, erst they shunned the public eye,~Blush nor
1988 3, 6 | mother is our kin,~But the sickening tale appalleth, and he addeth
1989 4, 1 | his words her chaste heart sickens, and with wild averted eye.~
1990 10, 3 | thousands fell the morning's sickly ray,~Bowman brave and proud
1991 7 | preparations were made on both sides for the most sanguinary
1992 5, 4 | whispered, for a boon or object sighed,~Daughter, thy request is
1993 9, 4 | ever onward course,~For he sighted Jayadratha midst the circling
1994 10, 1 | I - KARNA AND ARJUN MEET~Sights of red and ghastly carnage
1995 3 | five brothers.~The real significance of this strange legend is
1996 6, 3 | with wonder prince Uttara silently the weapons eyed,~And unto
1997 8 | number, which we may by a similar reduction reckon to be seventy
1998 Epi | even with the help of this similarity in metres, I have been able
1999 Epi | sustains and elevates the simplest narration and the plainest
2000 12, 4 | inhaled the fragrance and the sin-destroying smoke!~Severed limbs and
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