Mahabharata — Volume III (Dutt edition) — Chapter 24
MBh 3 24.1
वैशम्पायन उवाच ते दृष्ट्वा निहतान् सूतान् राज्ञे गत्वा न्यवेदयन्। गन्धर्वैनिहता राजन् सूतपुत्रा महाबलाः॥
vaiśampāyana uvāca te dṛṣṭvā nihatān sūtān rājñe gatvā nyavedayan| gandharvainihatā rājan sūtaputrā mahābalāḥ||
Vaishampayana said Beholding the Suta's slain, people went and communicated to the king: "O king, the highly powerful sons of Suta have been slain by the Gandharvas.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.2
यथा वज्रेण वै दीर्ण पर्वतस्य महच्छिरः। व्यतिकीर्णाः प्रदृश्यन्ते तथा सूता महीतले॥
yathā vajreṇa vai dīrṇa parvatasya mahacchiraḥ| vyatikīrṇāḥ pradṛśyante tathā sūtā mahītale||
The Suta's are to be seen scattered on the surface of the earth like huge mountain summits clapped by thunder-bolt.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.3
सैरन्ध्री च विमुक्तासौ पुनरायाति ते गृहम्। सर्वं संशयितं राचन् नगरं ते भविष्यति॥
sairandhrī ca vimuktāsau punarāyāti te gṛham| sarvaṃ saṃśayitaṃ rācan nagaraṃ te bhaviṣyati||
And released Sairandhri comes back to your city; your (whole) city, o king, indeed shall be in danger.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.4
यथारूपा च सैरन्ध्री गन्धर्वाश्च महाबलाः। पुंसामिष्टश्च विषयो मैथुनाय न संशयः॥
yathārūpā ca sairandhrī gandharvāśca mahābalāḥ| puṃsāmiṣṭaśca viṣayo maithunāya na saṃśayaḥ||
Sairandhri is highly beautiful and the Gandharvas are greatly powerful and forsooth, men are undoubtedly lustful.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.5
यथा सैरन्ध्रदोषेण न ते राजनिदं पुरम्। विनाशमेति वै क्षिप्रं तथा नीतिविधीयताम्॥
yathā sairandhradoṣeṇa na te rājanidaṃ puram| vināśameti vai kṣipraṃ tathā nītividhīyatām||
Soon find out some means O king, by which your kingdom may not be ruined on account of the injuries done to Sairandhri.'
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.6
तेषां तद् वचनं श्रुत्वा विराटो वाहिनीपतिः। अब्रवीत् क्रियतामेषां सूतानां परमक्रिया॥
teṣāṃ tad vacanaṃ śrutvā virāṭo vāhinīpatiḥ| abravīt kriyatāmeṣāṃ sūtānāṃ paramakriyā||
Hearing their words, Virata, the king of armies, said : “Perform the obsequial rites of the Sutas."
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.7
एकस्मिन्नेव ते सर्वे सुसमिद्धे हुताशने। दह्यन्तां कीचकाः शीघ्रं रत्नैर्गन्धैश्च सर्वशः॥
ekasminneva te sarve susamiddhe hutāśane| dahyantāṃ kīcakāḥ śīghraṃ ratnairgandhaiśca sarvaśaḥ||
Let all the Kichaka's be burnt down on one burning, funeral pyre with profuse jems and perfumes.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.8
सुदेष्णामब्रवीद् राजा महिषीं जातसाध्वसः। सैरन्ध्रीमागतां ब्रूया ममैव वचनादिदम्॥
sudeṣṇāmabravīd rājā mahiṣīṃ jātasādhvasaḥ| sairandhrīmāgatāṃ brūyā mamaiva vacanādidam||
Then filled with fear, the king said to his queen Sudeshna: 'When Sairandhri comes, tell her these words of mine.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.9
गच्छ सैरन्ध्र भद्रं ते यथाकामं वरानने। बिभेति राजा सुश्रोणि गन्धर्वेभ्यः पराभवात्॥
gaccha sairandhra bhadraṃ te yathākāmaṃ varānane| bibheti rājā suśroṇi gandharvebhyaḥ parābhavāt||
Go Sairandhri, wherever you like; may good betide you, O fair one, O you having beautiful eye-brows, the king is afraid of defeat from the Gandharvas.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.10
न हि त्वामुत्सहे वक्तुं स्वयं गन्धर्वरक्षिताम्। स्त्रियास्त्वदोषस्तां वक्तुमतस्त्वां प्रब्रवीम्यहम्॥
na hi tvāmutsahe vaktuṃ svayaṃ gandharvarakṣitām| striyāstvadoṣastāṃ vaktumatastvāṃ prabravīmyaham||
I dare not speak all this to you in person, protected as you are by the Gandharvas. A woman cannot offend (any body) so I speak this through her.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.11
वैशम्पायन उवाच अथ मुक्ता भयात् कृष्णा सूतपुत्रान् निरस्य च। मोक्षिता भीमसेनेन जगाम नगरं प्रति॥ त्रासितेव मृगी बाला शार्दूलेन मनस्विनी। गात्राणि वाससी चैव प्रक्षाल्य सलिलेन सा॥
vaiśampāyana uvāca atha muktā bhayāt kṛṣṇā sūtaputrān nirasya ca| mokṣitā bhīmasenena jagāma nagaraṃ prati|| trāsiteva mṛgī bālā śārdūlena manasvinī| gātrāṇi vāsasī caiva prakṣālya salilena sā||
Vaishampayana said Thus released by Bhimasena after the destruction of Sutas, the intelligent Krishna freed from fear, washed her body and raiment in water and went towards the city like a doe put to fright by a tiger,
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.12
तां दृष्ट्वा पुरुषा राजन् प्राद्रवन्त दिशो दश। गन्धर्वाणां भयत्रस्ताः केचिद् दृष्ट्वा न्यमीलयन्।।१३।
tāṃ dṛṣṭvā puruṣā rājan prādravanta diśo daśa| gandharvāṇāṃ bhayatrastāḥ kecid dṛṣṭvā nyamīlayan||13|
Beholding her, O king, people fled away in all directions in fear of the Gandharvas and some even shut up their eyes.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.13
ततो महानसद्वारि भीमसेनमवस्थितम्। ददर्श राजन् पाञ्चाली यथा मत्तं महाद्विपम्॥
tato mahānasadvāri bhīmasenamavasthitam| dadarśa rājan pāñcālī yathā mattaṃ mahādvipam||
Then, o king, Panchali saw Bhimsena, waiting at the kitchen door like a huge infuriated elephant.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.14
तं विस्मयन्ती शनकैः संज्ञाभिरिदमब्रवीत्। गन्धर्वराजाय नमो येनास्मि परिमोचिता॥
taṃ vismayantī śanakaiḥ saṃjñābhiridamabravīt| gandharvarājāya namo yenāsmi parimocitā||
She wonderingly said to him in words intelligible to them: “Salutation to that king of Gandharvas by whom I have been released.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.15
भीमसेन उवाच ये पुरा विचरन्तीह पुरुषा वशवर्तिनः। तस्यास्ते वचनं श्रुत्वा ह्यनृणा विहरन्त्वतः॥
bhīmasena uvāca ye purā vicarantīha puruṣā vaśavartinaḥ| tasyāste vacanaṃ śrutvā hyanṛṇā viharantvataḥ||
Bhima said Hearing these words of hers under which those persons were till then living in that city, they will now live there freed from debt.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.16
वैशम्पायन उवाच ततः सा नर्तनागारे धनंजयमपश्यता राज्ञः कन्या विराटस्य नर्तयानं महाभुजम्॥
vaiśampāyana uvāca tataḥ sā nartanāgāre dhanaṃjayamapaśyatā rājñaḥ kanyā virāṭasya nartayānaṃ mahābhujam||
Vaishampayana said She there the mighty-armed Dhananjaya in the dancing hall giving instructions in dancing to the daughter of the king Virata.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.17
ततस्ता नर्तनागाराद् विनिष्क्रम्य सहार्जुनाः। कन्या ददृशुरायान्तीं क्लिष्टां कृष्णामनागसम्॥
tatastā nartanāgārād viniṣkramya sahārjunāḥ| kanyā dadṛśurāyāntīṃ kliṣṭāṃ kṛṣṇāmanāgasam||
Then coming out with Arjuna from the dancing hall, those daughters saw the innocent saw Krishna (though) sorely persecuted coming. Beholding her arrive there they all delightedly said.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.18
कन्या ऊचुः दिष्ट्या सैरन्ध्र मुक्तासि दिष्ट्यासि पुनरागता। दिष्ट्या विनिहताः सूता ये त्वां क्लिश्यन्त्यनागसम्॥
kanyā ūcuḥ diṣṭyā sairandhra muktāsi diṣṭyāsi punarāgatā| diṣṭyā vinihatāḥ sūtā ye tvāṃ kliśyantyanāgasam||
The Daughters said By good luck, O Sairandhri, you have been released and by good-luck you have returned. And by good luck the Sutas have been slain from whom this your misery came.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.19
बृहन्नलोवाच कथं सैरन्ध्रि मुक्तासि कथं पापाश्च ते हताः। इच्छामि वै तव श्रोतुं सर्वमेव यथातथम्॥
bṛhannalovāca kathaṃ sairandhri muktāsi kathaṃ pāpāśca te hatāḥ| icchāmi vai tava śrotuṃ sarvameva yathātatham||
Brihannala said Have you been released, O Sairandhri, and have those wicked men been slain? I wish to hear all this exactly as it happened.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.20
सैरन्ध्युवाच बृहन्नले किं नु तव सैरन्ध्या कार्यमद्य वै। या त्वं वससि कल्याणि सदा कन्यापुरे सुखम्॥
sairandhyuvāca bṛhannale kiṃ nu tava sairandhyā kāryamadya vai| yā tvaṃ vasasi kalyāṇi sadā kanyāpure sukham||
Sairandhri said O blessed Brihnnala, you always live happily in the apartment of the girls, what have you to do with Sairandhri?
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.21
न हि दुःखं समाप्नोषि सैरन्ध्री यदुपाश्नुते। तेन मां दुःखितामेवं पृच्छसे प्रहसन्निव॥
na hi duḥkhaṃ samāpnoṣi sairandhrī yadupāśnute| tena māṃ duḥkhitāmevaṃ pṛcchase prahasanniva||
You shall not meet with grief when Sairandhri does it. You are asking me thus in jest who am stricken with sorrow.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.22
बृहन्नलोवाच बृहन्नलापि कल्याणि दुःखमाप्नोत्यनुत्तमम्। तिर्यग्योनिगता बाले न चैनामवबुध्यसे॥
bṛhannalovāca bṛhannalāpi kalyāṇi duḥkhamāpnotyanuttamam| tiryagyonigatā bāle na caināmavabudhyase||
Brihannala said O blessed lady, Brihannala also has sorrow of her own without any comparison; she has been born in the species of brutes, you do not understand this, O girl.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.23
त्वया सहोषिता चास्मि त्वं च सर्वैः सहोषिता। क्लिश्यन्त्यां त्वयि सुश्रोणि को नु दुःखं न चिन्तयेत्।।२४
tvayā sahoṣitā cāsmi tvaṃ ca sarvaiḥ sahoṣitā| kliśyantyāṃ tvayi suśroṇi ko nu duḥkhaṃ na cintayet||24
I have lived with you and you also have lived with us; why should not one, O you of beautiful hips, feel sorrow for you who are afflicted with sorrow.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.24
न तु केनचिदत्यन्तं कस्यचिद्धृदयं क्वचित्। वेदितुं शक्यते नूनं तेन मां नावबुध्यसे॥
na tu kenacidatyantaṃ kasyaciddhṛdayaṃ kvacit| vedituṃ śakyate nūnaṃ tena māṃ nāvabudhyase||
No one can definitely read another's heart; therefore O fair one, you cannot understand me.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.25
वैशम्पायन उवाच ततः सहैव कन्याभिद्रौपदी राजवेश्म तत्। प्रविवेश सुदेष्णायाः समीपमुपगामिनी॥
vaiśampāyana uvāca tataḥ sahaiva kanyābhidraupadī rājaveśma tat| praviveśa sudeṣṇāyāḥ samīpamupagāminī||
Then accompanied by those girls Draupadi entered the palace with a view to appear before Sudeshna.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.26
तामब्रवीद् राजपुत्री विराटवचनादिदम्। सैरन्ध्र गम्यतां शीघ्रं यत्र कामयसे गतिम्॥
tāmabravīd rājaputrī virāṭavacanādidam| sairandhra gamyatāṃ śīghraṃ yatra kāmayase gatim||
Then the queen communicated to her Virata's words: 'Sairandhri, soon go wherever you wish.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.27
राजा बिभेति ते भद्रे गन्धर्वेभ्यः पराभवात्। त्वं चापि तरुणी सुभ्र रूपेणाप्रतिमा भुवि। पुंसामिष्टश्च विषयो गन्धर्वाश्चातिकोपनाः॥
rājā bibheti te bhadre gandharvebhyaḥ parābhavāt| tvaṃ cāpi taruṇī subhra rūpeṇāpratimā bhuvi| puṃsāmiṣṭaśca viṣayo gandharvāścātikopanāḥ||
O fair one, the king is afraid of the defeat from the Gandharvas. O you of beautiful eyebrows, you are youthful and in beauty, unparalleled on earth. You are an object of desire to men and the Gandharvas are wrathful.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.28
सैरभ्युवाच त्रयोदशाहमात्रं मे राजा क्षाम्यतु भामिनि। कृतकृत्या भविष्यन्ति गन्धर्वास्ते न संशयः॥
sairabhyuvāca trayodaśāhamātraṃ me rājā kṣāmyatu bhāmini| kṛtakṛtyā bhaviṣyanti gandharvāste na saṃśayaḥ||
Sairandhri said O fair queen, let the king permit me to live here for thirteen days more. Undoubtedly the Gandharvas shall be highly obliged for this.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 24.29
ततो मामुपनेष्यन्ति करिष्यन्ति च ते प्रियम्। ध्रुवं च श्रेयसा राजा योक्ष्यते सह बान्धवैः॥
tato māmupaneṣyanti kariṣyanti ca te priyam| dhruvaṃ ca śreyasā rājā yokṣyate saha bāndhavaiḥ||
They will then take me away from here and will do what is agreeable to you. Forsooth the king with his friends shall meet with wellbeing.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)