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2001 12, 3 | Chitra-sena woke the music, singer of celestial fame,~Cheered
2002 2, 2 | charm the gathered people, singers sing and actors play,~Fifteen
2003 5 | have selected one which is singular and striking. The great
2004 Epi | limited, and when life was singularly fresh, vivid, and expansive."
2005 7, 3 | yield,~Or the fiery son of Sini meets them on the battle-field!"~
2006 3, 5 | the Laws of Duty he hath sinned from partial love,~Conscious
2007 4, 3 | that knee, by which thou sinnest, Bhima breaks not in his
2008 5, 1 | legends of our ancient sires.~Markandeya, holy rishi,
2009 2, 4 | nor knew the sons of Panda sitting speechless by their side,~
2010 5 | the advice, met the god SIVA in the guise of a hunter,
2011 5, 3 | Versed in lore like monarch Sivi who all ancient monarchs
2012 Epi | well-known Sloka metre of sixteen syllables in each line,
2013 8, 8 | fatal combat fen,~And a sixth in fear and faintness fled
2014 Epi | couplets, about seven times the size of the Iliad and the Odyssey
2015 10, 1 | Lead us as the martial SKANDA led the conquering gods
2016 8, 8 | sweep,~Like the sea-birds skimming gaily o'er the bosom of
2017 Epi | portions of the original are skipped over, those which are presented
2018 11, 2 | Gandhari stood!~Strewn with skulls and clotted tresses, darkened
2019 9, 4 | comrade chiefs rejoicing slackened in their furious fight,~
2020 4, 1 | the council hall you go,~Slave-wench fairly staked and conquered,
2021 4 | released them from actual slavery, but the five brothers retired
2022 10, 1 | Yudhishthir palsied Bhishma's slaying hand,~Matchless too was
2023 11, 3 | hests obeyed,~As a lion slays a tiger, Bhima hath Duryodhan
2024 11, 3 | resistless in the war,~Now he sleeps the sleep of warriors, sunk
2025 12, 3 | One was made of wood of slesha, which the sacrificer knows,~
2026 8, 10| Bhishma's standard gleamed slid glittered ill the gale!~
2027 2, 5 | tough unbending was the bow,~Slightly bent, rebounding quickly,
2028 4, 1 | keen,~Dragged her in her slipping garments by her long and
2029 Epi | carelessly, and with frequent slips, known as arsha to later
2030 1, 4 | mighty tough or wondrous small,~With his arrows still unfailing,
2031 9, 3 | thou lie on field of battle smeared with dust and foeman's gore,~
2032 4, 5 | ever faithful. wins the smiles of fickle Fate!~Each with
2033 11, 1 | the dappled deer,~So when smit by sudden panic, milk-white
2034 6, 1 | thunder-wielding INDRA, smiting Danu's sons of old,~I will
2035 12, 4 | fragrance and the sin-destroying smoke!~Severed limbs and sacred
2036 11, 4 | sound subdued and pale,~Smokeless and with radiant lustre
2037 6, 3 | worthy of a warrior bold,~Smooth the wood of hardened fibre,
2038 10, 4 | cruel arm of vengeance, smothered them ere dawn of day!~Done
2039 9, 1 | and twisted sword-blade snapping in the midway broke!~Weaponless
2040 3, 6 | menace with disdain and cruel sneer:~"Wherefore in this vast
2041 10, 3 | enough of friendly nations soaks this crimson field of war,~
2042 4, 5 | righteous maxims where Himalay soars above,~And in Varnavata'
2043 9, 3 | slumbered Abhimanyu when the softened starlight fell!~Done the
2044 11, 2 | feast!~Mark the kings, on softest cushion scarce the needed
2045 3, 6 | low-born seeks the Veda, soiling it with impure breath,~Sisupala
2046 5, 6 | Pillowed on thy gentle bosom, solaced by thy gentle love,~I was
2047 End | accompanies them. In the solitude of the forest the old Dhrita-rashtra
2048 12, 3 | Soma-drinkers pressed the sacred Soma plant,~And performed the
2049 12, 3 | led the way,~And the holy Soma-drinkers pressed the sacred Soma
2050 12 | description of the sacrifice is somewhat artificial, and concerns
2051 11, 1 | father of a hundred sons,~Sonless now and sorrow-stricken,
2052 5, 3 | monarch! fair Savitri hath in sooth~Courted Fate and sad disaster
2053 10, 2 | drew,~Faint Yudhishthir sorely bleeding waged no more the
2054 8, 10| Foes like loving brothers sorrowed round the great the dying
2055 4, 5 | bless thee and thy brothers, souls of truth and righteous grace,~
2056 1, 3 | Hail to Bhima hero proud!"~Sounds like these from surging
2057 Epi | years in the wildernesses of Southern India, and may therefore
2058 12, 1 | Graceful arches gold-surmounted spanned the consecrated ground,~
2059 3, 1 | Karna, came with bow and spear and brand.~Came the priest
2060 8, 1 | clubs and maces, swords and spears and lances bright,~Horsemen
2061 7, 10| X - DURYODRAN'S SPECH~Silent sat the proud Duryodhan
2062 Epi | ancient Hindus in science, and specially in mathematics, are the
2063 Epi | conqueror; and the Homeric speeches of the warriors in the council
2064 9, 3 | Draupadi, impious prince, thy speedy death!"~Like a snake upon
2065 Epi | or confectioner of Bengal spells out some modern translation
2066 2, 1 | bazaar and city, saw the spire and shining dome,~In a potter'
2067 3, 2 | Shone like azure sky in splendourgraced by deathless Sons of Light!~
2068 11, 4 | grove,~Shattered cars and splintered lances, hewed and ready
2069 7, 10| re-united, never shall be split again!~Take my message to
2070 1, 5 | Are the solid mountains splitting, is it bursting of the earth.~
2071 Epi | interspersed in the Epic, and which spoil the work as an Epic, have
2072 Epi | the old Epic had thus been spoilt by unlimited expansion,
2073 10, 3 | springs the hungry lion on the spotted jungle-deer,~Salya rushed
2074 9, 3 | line~In a circle darkly spreading where the chiefs with chiefs
2075 12, 3 | Charity with loving sweetness spreads her smile o'er all the land!~
2076 12, 2 | insects that from moisture spring,~Denizens of cave and mountain
2077 12, 3 | saman chant.~Bounty waits on squalid hunger, gifts dispel the
2078 12, 3 | of old,~Eighteen cubits square the structure, four deep
2079 11 | BOOK XI - SRADDHA~(Funeral Rites)~THE death
2080 5, 2 | Sacred Flame,~Then like SRI in heavenly radiance to
2081 11, 4 | s son,~Somadatta and the Srinjays famed for deeds of valour
2082 12, 1 | beds of regal pride ordain,~Stables filled with corn and barley
2083 Epi | Every scene on the shifting stage is a perfect and impressive
2084 4, 2 | shame nor human frailty staims Yudhishthir's deed or word,~
2085 2, 2 | windows laced,~Spacious stairs so wide and lofty were with
2086 Epi | literatures from a lofty standpoint, and judge impartially of
2087 7, 1 | chamber glittered like the star-bespangled sky~Kind the greetings,
2088 11, 3 | cruel fate,~Yato dharma stato jayah! Triumph doth on Virtue
2089 7, 5 | thine own,~'Twas thy helping steadying fingers taught their infant
2090 6, 1 | north the proud Duryodhan, stealing onwards day by day,~Swooped
2091 12, 4 | with pious rite,~And the steam of welcome fragrance sanctified
2092 3, 6 | Sisupala spake in anger stem and high,~Calm unto him
2093 8, 10| the valiant bowman Kripa stemmed the battle still unwon!~
2094 10, 1 | dread and dubious fight,~Step forth, Kuru's chief and
2095 1, 2 | flame,~Each behind his elder stepping, good Yudhishthir first
2096 12, 5 | radiant planets grace the stillness of the night!~Gems and jewels
2097 9, 3 | curse and warrior's hatred sting them to their dying breath,~
2098 7, 10| should press the gory plain,~Stingless is the bed of arrows, death
2099 7, 3 | heart,~Oft from warlike stock ariseth weakling chief who
2100 4, 1 | shook the trembling fair!~Stooping in her shame and anguish,
2101 Epi | unpolished, and scarcely stoops to a simile or a figure
2102 Epi | inaccurate." "Prose," says Mr. Stopford Brooke, further on, "no
2103 6, 6 | with the richest viands stored,~Mimes and actors please
2104 Epi | to children, than these stories preserved in the Epics.
2105 8, 10| the billow when the mighty storm-winds roar!~Bhishma thought of
2106 6, 4 | in battle like a ship in stormy sea!"~Vain were Kripa's
2107 6, 3 | scabbard nobly gilt,~Larger, stouter is this second in its sheath
2108 2, 5 | inflamed by pride and love,~Stoutly strove the eager suitors
2109 9, 2 | rose,~With their wondrous stran1ge devices, terror of their
2110 6, 3 | accents," spake Uttara, "stranger are the weapons bright,~
2111 8, 2 | steeds and chariot-driver, streaked with blood his godlike face.~
2112 7, 5 | on us this age forlorn,~Streaks of hope and dawning brightness
2113 6, 6 | in the peopled mart and street!~And they slay the jungle
2114 9, 3 | fiery battle -coursers, stretched his death-compelling bow,~
2115 12, 3 | And adept in six Vedangas, strict in vow and rich in lore,~
2116 6 | who was so well known, a stricter concealment was necessary.
2117 9, 1 | oft-repeated sound,~But as strikes in vain the lightning on
2118 7, 6 | wisdom, for thy weal he nobly strives,~Yield and save thy friends
2119 Epi | unmatched in human wisdom, ever striving for righteousness and peace,
2120 9, 1 | buckler Jayadratha sent his stroke,~But the turned and twisted
2121 12, 1 | free to wander as it may,~Strolling minstrels to Yudhishthir
2122 6, 3 | of mail,~And a bow which strongest warriors scarce can in the
2123 12, 3 | Eighteen cubits square the structure, four deep layers of brick
2124 12, 1 | cunning artists, raised the structures for the rite,~And with every
2125 10, 2 | strove,~Urging still the strugling coursers Karna's heavy car
2126 2, 5 | archers he,~And he went and strung the weapon, fixed the arrows
2127 10, 2 | within the soft earth sinking stuck the wheel of Karna's car!~
2128 Epi | wrote, a numerous class of students in Europe wish to know;
2129 5, 5 | our human duties: first to study holy lore,~Then to live
2130 2, 1 | to share,~And to see the stvayantcara of Panchala's princess fair,--~
2131 3, 5 | Learnt his arms from Par'su Rama, he who slew the kings
2132 11, 5 | Abhimanyu from the fair Subbadra torn,~Not the slaughter
2133 11, 4 | wide earth heard the sound subdued and pale,~Smokeless and
2134 Epi | triumph of virtue and the subjugation of vice, was woven into
2135 12 | considered a tacit mark of submission to the owner of the animal.
2136 8, 10| doth not fight a rival who submits, fatigued and worn,~Bhishma
2137 2, 6 | tries in vain,~Holy men subsist on wild fruits, in the strength
2138 Epi | uninjured by the mass of foreign substance in which they are embedded--
2139 2 | conflagration through a subterranean passage, retired into forests,
2140 12 | Parikshit, and is destined to succeed to the throne of the Kurus.
2141 3, 7 | spotless fame,~May thy sons' success and triumph cheer a widowed
2142 12 | of Marriage, the laws of Succession, the rules of Gifts, and
2143 11, 4 | slain,~And he spake to wise Sudharman pious priest of Kuru's race,~
2144 10, 1 | Kshatras, Vaisyas, purer Sudras hailed him Leader bold and
2145 7, 4 | s palace Krishna went to sue for peace,~Raised his voice
2146 10, 3 | servile knee?~Proud Duryodhan sues no favour even with his
2147 5, 1 | than death,~By my sins she suffers exile and misfortune's freezing
2148 Epi | derived from his advice and suggestions. After considerable trouble
2149 1, 8 | of cattle-drivers better suits, my friend, thy hand!~Wilt
2150 12 | Brihaspati, of Vyasa and Suka, of Yajnavalkya and Janaka,
2151 10, 3 | utter darkness lost,~Like a summer-driéd river, weary waste of and
2152 9, 3 | Brief, alas, thy radiant summers, fair Subhadra's gallant
2153 1, 6 | with father's partial love,~Sun-god SURYA over Karna shed his
2154 5, 4 | she watched the creeping sunbeams, mused upon. her fated lord!~"
2155 10, 2 | soil,~Sought to lift the sunken axle with a hard unwonted
2156 Epi | bright and brilliant and sunny Subhadra,--these are distinct
2157 6, 3 | ebon back so bright,~Golden suns of wondrous brightness on
2158 9, 3 | If, ere comes to-morrow's sunset, Jayadratha doth not die,~
2159 1, 6 | Bold and bright in open sunshine radiant Karna stood revealed!~
2160 2, 4 | in the moving air,~Winged Suparnas, scaly Yagas, saints celestial
2161 Epi | this buried Epic from the superincumbent mass of episodical matter,
2162 Epi | couplets, excluding the Supplement about the Race of Hari.~
2163 5, 5 | my husband's father be my supplication made,~Lost his kingdom,
2164 5, 4 | deed and word,~Bark of tree supplied her garments draped upon
2165 Epi | plainest ideas. Without the support of those sustaining wings,
2166 7, 4 | Sakuni, false and wily, still supports Duryodhan's side!~Vain is
2167 8 | languages. Belief in one Supreme Deity is the underlying
2168 6, 3 | Decked with bells and gold -surmounted and the blade is bright
2169 10, 2 | of bow,~Arjun scarcely me surpasseth, scarcely I excel my foe,~
2170 2, 4 | crowding viewed the scene surpassing fair,~Heavenly blossoms
2171 2, 4 | Valadeva, gazing with a glad surprise!~But the other chiefs and
2172 7, 5 | friends and kinsmen, will surround thee in a ring,~And a race
2173 Epi | of Homer by critics who survey the world's literatures
2174 10, 3 | sending them to slaughter, now survive and learn to flee,~Shall
2175 11, 4 | brave Yuyutsu, Kuru's last surviving chief,~Spake to faithful
2176 Epi | Without the support of those sustaining wings, my poor narration
2177 Epi | Sanscrit, and which often sustains and elevates the simplest
2178 3, 1 | With his son came brave Suvala from Gandhara's distant
2179 12 | practised by kings exercising suzerain powers over surrounding
2180 6, 6 | bullocks to the labouring swain,~Steeds he gave unto the
2181 End | the city of the Yadavas is swallowed up by the ocean.~Then follow
2182 9, 2 | of burnished gold,~Silver swan with bells resounding Sahadeva'
2183 2, 2 | like streamers gay,~And the swan-like silver mansions glinted
2184 5, 4 | rested as she laid him on the sward,~Narad's fatal words remembered
2185 2, 7 | s hand?~And this rite of swayamtvra, so our sacred laws ordain,~
2186 1, 4 | suspended was by winds unceasing swayed,~One and twenty well-aimed
2187 5, 2 | pious-hearted king,~From SWAYMBHU, Self-created, blessings
2188 9, 5 | would slay,~Helméd Arjun sways the battle, whither now
2189 2, 1 | lotus, perfumes all the sweetened air,~She will choose from
2190 5, 4 | trilled a note in every grove,~Sweeter accents fell upon her, from
2191 10, 2 | slain that chieftain as in swelling pride he stood,~Hast thou
2192 12, 3 | priests with sacred awe,~Swerved not from the rule of duty,
2193 7, 1 | now his duty name.~For he swerveth not from duty kingdom of
2194 8, 1 | came,~Brave Uttara, noble Sweta, youthful warriors known
2195 8, 1 | rolling thunder of each swiftly-speeding car,~And with pealing bells
2196 11, 2 | common grief,~Death-like swoon succeeding sorrow yields
2197 1, 6 | love divided silent Pritha swooned in grief!~Wise Vidura, true
2198 8, 10| myriad white-winged sea-birds swoop upon the darksome wave,~
2199 6, 1 | stealing onwards day by day,~Swooped on Matsya's fattened cattle
2200 9, 4 | strife; as angry falcon swoops upon its helpless prey,~
2201 9, 1 | But the turned and twisted sword-blade snapping in the midway broke!~
2202 10, 2 | frame.~Heedless, on the sword-hilt Arjun placed his swift and
2203 8, 8 | fierce Gandhara's princes swore,~Brave Iravat son of Arjun,
2204 Epi | well-known Sloka metre of sixteen syllables in each line, and I endeavoured
2205 8, 10| peerless Bhishma quell,~T'rue to oath and unresisting,
2206 2, 4 | Drum and flute and harp and tabor sounded deep and sounded
2207 12 | wanderer, it was considered a tacit mark of submission to the
2208 9, 4 | preceptor Drona's son,~Lion's tail in golden brilliance on
2209 6, 4 | lowing cattle with their tails uplifted fled!~
2210 4, 3 | their truthful utterance taint,~And they cursed Duhsasan'
2211 9, 3 | often, wished to cross thy tainted path,~Welcome! Dearest of
2212 5 | aerial beings. Duryodhan was taken captive by them, and it
2213 5, 5 | choose but follow where thou takest my husband's life,~For Eternal
2214 9, 2 | wrathful Bhima towering in his tameless pride,~Short the war; for
2215 4, 2 | Wherefore else do Kuru warriors tamely view this impious scene,~
2216 2, 4 | south and west and east,~Tamralipta and Kalinga on the eastern
2217 2, 1 | love,~And this youth so tan and stalwart, mighty-arméd,
2218 10, 2 | came:~"Hast thou yet, O tardly Arjun, base insulting Karna
2219 5, 6 | loving fears,~Chid me for my tardy footsteps, dewed me with
2220 1, 4 | Arjun waged the mimic war,~Targets on the wide arena, mighty
2221 5, 6 | their cottage hie,~When I tarried in the jungle or by day
2222 3, 2 | kinsmen all their various tasks assigned:~Proud Duhsasan
2223 3, 6 | Sisupala, spake with bitter taunt and jeer,~Answered Krishna'
2224 1, 9 | a warrior grief,~Bitter taunts but ill befit thee, warlike
2225 Epi | works of Hooker and Jeremy Taylor, the philosophy of Hobbes
2226 4, 5 | of thy mind,~Good KUVERA teach thee kindness, hungry and
2227 12, 3 | lore,~Sage preceptors, holy teachers, grew in virtue ever more!~
2228 4, 5 | wave!~Now once more the teaching cometh, purer, brighter,
2229 4, 6 | will upbraid,~And their tear-dewed lotus -faces with their
2230 8, 8 | And he dashed the rising tear-drop and his words were few and
2231 4, 2 | within the Council Chamber, tearful made her piteous plaint:~"
2232 5, 4 | hours of nightly silence! Tearless, sleepless is her eye!~Dawns
2233 6, 6 | the city of the Matsyas, teeming with a wealth untold.~Shone
2234 6, 3 | golden-crested, made of tempered steel and bright,~Parrot
2235 1, 3 | billows, mighty-heaving, tempest-driven!~Came forth then the ancient
2236 1, 1 | the voice of angry ocean, tempest-lashed, sublime and high!~Came
2237 2, 7 | anger-shaken, like a forest tempest-torn,~As Panchala's courteous
2238 3, 6 | Dwarka, laid the mart and temple low,~Once on Bhoja's trusting
2239 Epi | source, and mirrors the temples and the palaces of unforgotten
2240 7, 6 | father's mandate heard!~Tempt not wrath and fiery vengeance
2241 3, 7 | kingdom flair,~Like a father tend thy subjects with a father'
2242 11, 3 | Like the fibre of the lotus tender-golden is her frame,~O my lotus!
2243 1, 2 | driven.~Mingled voice of tens of thousands struck the
2244 9, 3 | camp-fires brightly blazing, tent-lights shining from afar,~Cast
2245 7 | The Council of War)~THE term of banishment having expired,
2246 8, 1 | like unprotected cattle tethered in the blighting cold!~Onward
2247 6, 4 | Kuru warriors arming for th' impending war,~Whispered
2248 Epi | Epic.~We should have been thankful if this Epic, as it was
2249 Epi | in India know no better theme for imparting wisdom and
2250 2, 8 | THE RESCUE~Kri.shnaknew thesons of Pandu though in robes
2251 1, 5 | unknown warrior, questioned theyin hushed amaze!~Then in voice
2252 3 | prevails to this day in Thibet and among the hill-tribes
2253 5, 6 | seems to glow!"~"Darkness thickens," said Savitri, "and the
2254 8, 10| grew the sky with arrows, thicker grew the gloomy shade,~Cars
2255 5 | truth proclaimed under the thin guise of an eastern allegory
2256 6, 3 | not to touch an unclean thing,~But unto a chief and warrior
2257 7, 1 | vision then the state of things surveyed,~And his thoughts
2258 9, 5 | gory plain,~Kuru chiefs are thinned and fallen and my brothers
2259 4, 3 | them a mighty passion and a thirst for vengeance dire,~Lost
2260 7, 4 | fatal war,~Archer Karna thirsts for battle, moved by jealousy
2261 11, 3 | Bhima hath Duryodhan slayed!~Thirteen years o'er Kuru's empire
2262 6, 3 | is broad and massive over thirty fingers long,~Golden-sheathed
2263 6, 3 | Yudhishthir kept that sabre when tho king his kingdom lost,~Yonder
2264 11, 4 | wove,~Dry wood from the thorny jungle, perfume from the
2265 6, 3 | parrots feather graced,~These three-knotted shining arrows, thick and
2266 2, 6 | round the wondrous weapon thrice the mighty warrior went,~
2267 7, 1 | the night,~Youthful bosoms throbbed with pleasure, lovelit glances
2268 3, 2 | him Dharma-raja, monarchs thronged his royal halls,~He to honoured
2269 1, 1 | with the trumpet's sound,~Throngs of warriors, various-arméd,
2270 1, 1 | valour, rein the steed and throw the dart."~Answered then
2271 Epi | Keble, and Pusey, were all thrown into blank verse and incorporated
2272 6 | inquisitive travellers, throws some light on the arts and
2273 1, 2 | light~Skilled and true the thrust and parry of their weapons
2274 5, 5 | smaller than the human thumb,~In his noose the spark
2275 10, 2 | banner and his swift and thund'ring car!"~Karna spake,
2276 3, 6 | mighty-arméd monarch like a thunder-riven rock,~Severed from the parent
2277 2, 6 | distant target, bring it thundering on the ground!~Shouts of
2278 3, 6 | feels a tremor, restless thunders shake the sky,~Various feelings
2279 6, 6 | Good Yudhishthir heard the tidings and he gave his free assent,~
2280 7, 9 | scattered Kurus by the lasting tie of love!~Now at full is
2281 6, 3 | are young Nakula's, in the tiger-quiver eased,~Sahadeva owns the
2282 6, 3 | the foe,~And the sword in tiger-scabbard, massive and of mighty strength,~
2283 6, 3 | second in its sheath of tiger-skin,~Decked with bells and gold -
2284 10, 2 | s car!~Stood unmoved the tilted chariot, vainly wrathful
2285 9, 2 | drove his stalwart horses tinted like the dappled deer,~Grey
2286 1, 1 | glittering mansions where the tints harmonious blend,~As, on
2287 6, 3 | wood are golden bosses, tipped with gold is either end,~
2288 3 | assumption of the Imperial title over all the kings of ancient
2289 6, 3 | wouldst know,~Arjun's sword is toad-engraven, ever dreaded by the foe,~
2290 8, 2 | Kalinga's forces with the dark tornado's might,~Dusky chiefs, Nishada
2291 3, 6 | Rain descends in copious torrents, quick the lurid lightnings
2292 11, 1 | scour the plain,~Wildly toss their flowing tresses, shake
2293 Epi | each Book was stated. The total number of couplets, according
2294 4, 5 | wisdom deep and grave,~Bhrigu touched with fire thy bosorn by
2295 | towards
2296 3, 1 | town,~Marked its new-built tower and turret on the azure
2297 6, 6 | Upa-plavya, of fair Matsya's towns the best,~Made their home
2298 6, 3 | arrows, pretty handsome toys are these,~Scarcely they
2299 10, 4 | s watchful care,~Thither tracked their fallen foeman like
2300 Epi | Percy, together with the tractarian writings of Newman, Keble,
2301 11, 1 | men of every guild and trade,~Left the city with the
2302 End | Dwarka meets with strange and tragic adventures. The Vrishnis
2303 11, 5 | peopled by the sorrowing train,~Wide-expanding, vast and
2304 2, 7 | insults monarchs sure a traitor's death shall die,~Honour
2305 2, 7 | like the grass of jungle trample us in haughty pride,~To
2306 Epi | selected passages. For the transactions of the war, unlike the other
2307 3, 5 | hath the rules of courts transgressed,~Learnéd in the Laws of
2308 8, 3 | compulsion, pardon this transgression bold,~But while Arjun lives,
2309 Epi | European readers. And the translators of Homer themselves gracefully
2310 1, 5 | crowd,~And a gleam of mighty transport glows in proud Duryodhan'
2311 3 | pointed out to the curious traveller.~Yudhishthir, the eldest
2312 6 | frighten away inquisitive travellers, throws some light on the
2313 11, 5 | victor's glory, all the treasures earth can yield,~Righteous
2314 3, 2 | sparkling waters and with trees umbrageous lined,~Honoured
2315 4, 2 | on me protection given,~Tremble sinner, seek no mercy from
2316 10, 2 | elder would have stained his trenchant steel,~But the wise and
2317 3, 3 | impure caste and conduct trespassed on the holy site,~None of
2318 4, 5 | town,~Conqueror of earthly trials, crowned with virtue's heavenly
2319 12, 3 | With a spacious winged triangle like an eagle in its flight!~
2320 1 | Kurus and a neighbouring tribe, the Panchalas, in the thirteenth
2321 End | wore,~By the Wielder of the Trident she was waked to form and
2322 5, 4 | song and beauteous feather trilled a note in every grove,~Sweeter
2323 12, 3 | sunlight on the greensward tripped along,~Kinnaras and Kim-purushas
2324 5, 4 | she took a vow severe~Of triratra, three nights' penance,
2325 11, 1 | words of cheer!~With this troop of wailing women, deep in
2326 10, 1 | unconquered Kurus to the trophies of the war!~Matchless was
2327 Epi | suggestions. After considerable trouble and anxiety, and after rendering
2328 8, 10| Ended thus the fatal battle, truce came with the close of day,~
2329 9, 2 | tusker pierced by arrows trumpeted his dying wail,~Like a red
2330 8, 1 | furiously each other tore,~Trumpeting with trunks uplifted on
2331 Epi | to decorate his tale, he trusts to the lofty chronicle of
2332 11, 2 | maces and their swords of trusty steel,~Still they grasp
2333 6, 1 | speaketh music, by musicians tuned aright,~Let thy sounding
2334 2, 1 | depart.~Actors, mimes, and tuneful minstrels fair Panchala'
2335 1, 4 | or lowly bending, on the turf or on his car,~With his
2336 7, 5 | now retired from life's turmoil,~Ill beseems that sin or
2337 9, 3 | battle, strove to stop the turning tide,~And his stoutest truest
2338 3, 1 | its new-built tower and turret on the azure Jumna frown,~
2339 10, 1 | sacred water full,~Elephant's tusk they laid beside him and
2340 6, 4 | their comrades dead!~Arjun twanged his mighty weapon, blew
2341 12, 1 | in Sindhu's rocky dale.~Twelfth day came of Magha's bright
2342 12 | two Books containing about twenty-two thousand couplets, and forming
2343 1 | of Indra or Rain-god, the twin youngest were the sons of
2344 9, 1 | weapon drew,~Interposing 'twixt the fighters Bhima's self
2345 8, 10| Vain, alas, the voice of Udshma like the voice of angel
2346 7 | BOOK VII - UDYOGA~(The Council of War)~THE
2347 Epi | character higher than that of Ulysses; unmatched in human wisdom,
2348 2, 4 | the bright gods, when by Uma's love inspired!~And the
2349 3, 2 | sparkling waters and with trees umbrageous lined,~Honoured thus, the
2350 Epi | Maha-bharata would lose that unadorned simplicity which is its
2351 8, 10| Bhishma slain:~"Vain this unavailing battle, vain this woeful
2352 5, 1 | said Yudhishthir, "if unbidden tears win start,~But the
2353 3, 5 | and with knowledge yet unblessed,~Knowing Bhishma blessed
2354 5, 1 | bosom and her tresses were unbound,--~So she vowed,--till fitting
2355 4, 2 | Touch me not with hands uncleanly, sacred is a woman's hair,~
2356 5, 2 | lifelong day he fasted, uncomplaining, meek and brave!~Year by
2357 Epi | Bhishma, "death's subduer" and unconquerable in war; the doughty Drona,
2358 11, 2 | thus she spoke:~"Mark my unconsoléd daughters, widowed queens
2359 8, 8 | slain,~And his coursers uncontrolléd flew across the reddened
2360 3, 1 | beside the ocean dwell,~Uncouth chiefs of dusky nations
2361 2, 5 | Held the bow and stood undaunted, tall and stately as a cliff,~
2362 6, 5 | daughter, pure in heart and undefiled,~Grant it, sire, my Abhimanyu
2363 End | celestial car.~There Yudhishthir undergoes some trial, bathes in the
2364 8 | one Supreme Deity is the underlying thought of this work, and
2365 Epi | The modern reader will now understand the reason why this great
2366 Epi | of Egypt, flows from an undiscoverable source, and mirrors the
2367 7, 10| and brothers brave,~Kuru's undivided kingdom Dhrita-rashtra rules
2368 Epi | are neither diffuse nor unduly prolix, and which are interspersed
2369 Epi | few days are more or less uneventful, and have been condensed
2370 5, 2 | as the buds their leaves unfold,~Slender waist and rounded
2371 7, 1 | skilled in each deceitful art,~Unforgiving in their vengeance, unrelenting
2372 6 | braided his hair, like those unfortunate beings whom nature has debarred
2373 10, 2 | Duryodhan's willing slave,~Unfulfilled thy vow remaineth, for the
2374 9, 4 | lightning broke their all unguarded line,~Like an onward sweeping
2375 8, 3 | Wash the stain of deeds unholy and of wrongs and outraged
2376 Epi | Epic are still discernible, uninjured by the mass of foreign substance
2377 1, 6 | stood:~"Chief! who eomest uninvited, pratest in thy lying boast,~
2378 7, 9 | righteous gods above,~And unite the scattered Kurus by the
2379 5 | they take away from the unity and conciseness of the Epic,
2380 Epi | hundred millions.~ROMESH DUTT.~UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON,~ 13th
2381 1, 8 | Karna with reproachful words unkind~"Wilt thou, high-descended
2382 Epi | Hindu nations unknown to and unknowing the outside world. What
2383 | unless
2384 | unlike
2385 Epi | had thus been spoilt by unlimited expansion, yet nevertheless
2386 6, 3 | bangles, pardon strange unmanly guise,~'Tis no poor and
2387 12 | Brahmans, and altogether bears unmistakable evidence of the interpolating
2388 7, 5 | good Yudhishthir, rule in unmolested peace,~Pandu's sons are
2389 8, 1 | mortal tongue can tell~What unnumbered chieftains perished and
2390 Epi | Maha-bharara is plain and unpolished, and scarcely stoops to
2391 8, 1 | resistless, bold,~Shook like unprotected cattle tethered in the blighting
2392 Epi | this leading story would be unreadable, both from its length and
2393 8, 3 | perish in thy folly, in thy unrepented sin!~For the wrongs and
2394 8, 10| quell,~T'rue to oath and unresisting, Bhishma turned his face
2395 9, 3 | sounding shore,~Came forth in unrighteous concert with six car-borne
2396 4, 2 | Draupadi cometh in this sad unseemly plight,~Stay thy sinful
2397 5, 4 | this other day be done,"~Unshed tear-drops filled her eyelids,
2398 10, 3 | even with his dying breath,~Unsubdued and still unconquered, changeless
2399 1, 3 | loins they stood,~Like two untamed jungle tuskers in the deep
2400 11, 3 | Decked with garlands still untarnished, graced with nishkas bright
2401 4, 4 | bounden slave,~Let not light unthinking children point to him in
2402 2, 6 | nature, and in warlike arms untrained,~Wield the bow which crownéd
2403 7, 5 | Dhrita-rashtra cannot, will net be untrue!~Years of anxious toil are
2404 7, 5 | Ill beseems that sin or untruth should thy ancient bosom
2405 8 | relations among his foes, he was unwilling to fight. It was on this
2406 8, 3 | made reply:~"Vain our toil, unwise Duryodhan! Nor can Bhishma
2407 10, 2 | sunken axle with a hard unwonted toil,~"Hold," he cried to
2408 6, 6 | invitations sent,~In the town of Upa-plavya, of fair Matsya's towns
2409 Epi | embalmed in the ancient Upanishads, have never been excelled
2410 4, 6 | Draupadi fortune's fitful will upbraid,~And their tear-dewed lotus -
2411 3, 3 | the gods as monarchs to uphold his righteous laws,~Battle
2412 5, 2 | hand,~Choose a true and upright monarch, pride and glory
2413 2, 8 | Mark his mate, with tree uprooted how he meets the suitor
2414 7, 3 | Bhishma counsels, Drona urges, Kripa. pleads for right
2415 10, 2 | battle Karna drove in f urious mood,~Facing him in royal
2416 6, 1 | Not unknown to me the usage of the bow and wingéd dart,~
2417 10, 2 | thy rival and thy foeman use thy warlike sword and shield,~
2418 Epi | published in India, and is useful to Sanscrit scholars for
2419 Epi | command, and even this he uses, carelessly, and with frequent
2420 7, 5 | hope and dawning brightness usher now the radiant morn!~Be
2421 9, 1 | BHIMA AND SALYA~Morning ushered in the battle; Pandav warriors
2422 5, 4 | silence stood.~With the usual morning blessing, "Widow
2423 12 | The adventures of the sage Utanka, whom Krishna meets, then
2424 4, 3 | dishonour could their truthful utterance taint,~And they cursed Duhsasan'
2425 1, 1 | people of the city, Brahmans, Vaisvas, Kshatras bold,~Men from
2426 10, 1 | praises sung,~Kshatras, Vaisyas, purer Sudras hailed him
2427 12, 1 | s in Gandhara's distant vale,~On the banks of Brahmaputra
2428 Epi | part of him, rendered me valuable help and assistance in this
2429 5 | the millions of India the value of which cannot be overestimated.~
2430 6, 1 | nation! save thy father's valued kine,~Quick thy footsteps,
2431 Epi | from the Sanscrit showing varieties of the Sloka metre, and
2432 1, 1 | sound,~Throngs of warriors, various-arméd, came unto the listed ground.~
2433 4, 5 | and the poor to feed,~King VARNUA quell thy passions, free
2434 3, 2 | good,~Like the sinless god VARUNA, gentle-souled Yudhishthir
2435 12, 2 | Costly cups and golden vases are in order due arrayed.~
2436 End | stainless warrior, by the Vasus is his place,~By the god
2437 1 | Dharma or Virtue, Bhima of Vayu or Wind, Arjun of Indra
2438 12, 3 | myriads feed,~And adept in six Vedangas, strict in vow and rich
2439 Epi | preserved in the Sankhya and the Vedanta systems, were the first
2440 3, 5 | Vyasa claims the honour, Vedic bard inspired by Heaven!~
2441 9, 4 | a friendly sable cloud,~Veiled the red sun's dazzling brilliance
2442 Epi | poetry he has a claim on the veneration of modern Europe which an
2443 10, 2 | his inner thoughts gave vent:~"Morning dawns, O Kuru'
2444 3, 4 | Sunless climes are warmed to verdure by the sun's returning ray,~
2445 5 | the Pandavs, and make it a veritable storehouse of ancient Hindu
2446 Epi | described in some prefatory verses, and the number of couplets
2447 Epi | be, no doubt, a condensed version of the original Epic, but
2448 12, 2 | cool and sparkling waters, vessels rich with gold inlaid,~Costly
2449 Epi | virtue and the subjugation of vice, was woven into the fabric
2450 2 | an ancient kingdom in the vicinity of modern Kanouj. All the
2451 4, 6 | close,~End my sorrows, kind VIDHATA, end my life with all my
2452 3, 2 | warlike might,~Chieftains vied with rival chieftains to
2453 2, 5 | strove the eager suitors viewing well the target above,~Strove
2454 11, 2 | foul Pisachas fill the air,~Viewless forms of hungry Rakshas
2455 3, 3 | like the falcon fell on views their rivals held!~Some
2456 5, 5 | him sight and grant him vigour, YAMA, in thy mercy speak!~
2457 8, 10| sounding shore,~Chitrasena and Vikarna, countless chiefs and warriors
2458 7, 10| Pandu seek in vain,~Town nor village, mart nor hamlet, help us
2459 12, 3 | more!~Six good stakes of vilwa timber, six of hard khadira
2460 6, 1 | shattered line!~As the Vina speaketh music, by musicians
2461 Epi | not Homer in Greece or Virgil in Italy, not Shakespeare
2462 3, 6 | the lady to his lust,~Once Visala's beauteous princess went
2463 5, 5 | cold and dumb,~Drew the vital spark, purusha, smaller
2464 Epi | life was singularly fresh, vivid, and expansive." This remark
2465 6, 3 | shining bows appear~Twisted, voiced like hissing serpents, like
2466 9, 4 | with jewels rich and rare,~Vrishasena's noble standard shone aloft
2467 6, 3 | placed:~Next are these with vulture-feather, golden-yellow in their
2468 11, 3 | the foul and blood-beaked vultures flap their wings upon the
2469 4, 1 | Other stakes were duly wagered," so he spake with bitter
2470 11, 4 | with pious care,~Hymns and wails and lamentations mingled
2471 6, 5 | As a daughter on a father waited on my loving call!~I have
2472 7, 5 | and bitterness,~Years of waiting and of watching, years of
2473 9, 3 | of sadness fill my bosom, wake the long-forgotten sigh,~
2474 5, 6 | affection thrilled him back to waking life,~As returned from distant
2475 End | valour and their virtue walk the bright ethereal plain,~
2476 1, 1 | Moon with Mars conjoinéd walks upon the cloudless sky!~
2477 2, 2 | around,~And by moat and wall surrounded, pierced by gate
2478 11, 1 | bosom and in bitter anguish walled,~Till her senses reeled
2479 12 | ventured to restrain the wanderer, it was considered a tacit
2480 11, 2 | destined prey,~Darksome wanderers of the midnight prowling
2481 4, 3 | slave,~If her woman's fancy wanders to the young and to the
2482 1, 5 | word, and Karna, Pritha's war-beloving son,~With his sword and
2483 2, 3 | silent, hushed the lofty war-drum's beat.~And there reigns
2484 6, 2 | ask,~He is eager like the war-horse for this great and warlike
2485 3, 7 | monarch journey on the home ward way.~Arjun wends with high-souled
2486 Epi | judge impartially of the wares turned out by the hand of
2487 7, 5 | But the Pandavs skilled in warfare are renowned both near and
2488 3, 4 | sky,~Sunless climes are warmed to verdure by the sun's
2489 7, 7 | Ancient Bhishma's voice of warning thou hast in thy bosom weighed,~
2490 1, 6 | arm and might,~And their warrant is their falchion, valour
2491 8, 10| ocean's sway,~Proud Duhsasan warred with Arjun in his wild and
2492 12 | potentates. After various wars and adventures in various
2493 10, 3 | summer-driéd river, weary waste of and sand,~Lost its pride
2494 3, 4 | returning ray,~Windless wastes are waked to gladness when
2495 5, 2 | the duty-loving husband watches o'er his consort's ways,~
2496 9, 4 | bleeding coursers bore,~Watered them beside a river by the
2497 8, 3 | sounding battle-car,~And like waves before him parted serried
2498 4, 1 | shame,~By her streaming wavy tresses fierce Duhsasan
2499 5, 6 | Savitri, "and the evening waxeth late,~When the morrow's
2500 2, 1 | pathway lay,~Halting at each wayside station marched the princes
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