Mahabharata — Volume VI (Dutt edition) — Chapter 199

MBh 6 199.1

गान्धार्युवाच अध्यर्धगुणमाहुर्यं बले शौर्ये च केशव। पित्रा त्वया च दाशार्ह दृप्तं सिंहमिवोत्कटम्। यो बिभेद चमूमेको मम पुत्रस्य दुर्भिदाम्। स भूत्वा मृत्युरन्येषां मम पुत्रस्य मृत्युवशं गतः॥

gāndhāryuvāca adhyardhaguṇamāhuryaṃ bale śaurye ca keśava| pitrā tvayā ca dāśārha dṛptaṃ siṃhamivotkaṭam| yo bibheda camūmeko mama putrasya durbhidām| sa bhūtvā mṛtyuranyeṣāṃ mama putrasya mṛtyuvaśaṃ gataḥ||

Gandhari said He whose power and bravery were regarded, O Keshava, as a one and half times superior to those of his father and you, he who took after a dreadful and proud, lion, he who alone pierced the impenetrable army of my son, he who killed many, alas, he now sleeps there, himself dead.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 6 199.2

तस्योपलक्षये कृष्ण काऎरमिततेजसः। अभिमन्योर्हतस्यापि प्रभा नैवोपशाम्यति॥

tasyopalakṣaye kṛṣṇa kāèramitatejasaḥ| abhimanyorhatasyāpi prabhā naivopaśāmyati||

I see, O Krishna, the splendour of that son of Arjuna, of that great hero, viz., Abhimanyu, has not diminished even in death.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 6 199.3

एषा विराट दुहिता स्नुषा गाण्डीवधन्वनः। आर्ता बालं पति वीरं दृष्ट्या शोचत्यनिन्दिता॥

eṣā virāṭa duhitā snuṣā gāṇḍīvadhanvanaḥ| ārtā bālaṃ pati vīraṃ dṛṣṭyā śocatyaninditā||

There, the daughter of Virata, the daughterin-law of Arjuna, that girl of faultless beauty, stricken with grief on seeing her heroic husband, is bewailing.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 6 199.4

तमेषा हि समागम्य भार्या भर्तारमन्तिके। विराटदुहिता कृष्ण पाणिना परिमार्जति॥

tameṣā hi samāgamya bhāryā bhartāramantike| virāṭaduhitā kṛṣṇa pāṇinā parimārjati||

Approaching her husband, that young wife, viz., the daughter of Virata, is gently rubbing him, O Krishna, with her hand.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 6 199.5

तस्य वक्त्रमुपाघ्राय सौभद्रस्य मनस्विनी। विबुद्धकमलाकारं कम्बुवृत्तशिरोधरम्॥ काम्यरूपवती चैषा परिष्वजति भामिनी। लजमाना पुरा चैनं माध्वीकमदमूच्छिता॥

tasya vaktramupāghrāya saubhadrasya manasvinī| vibuddhakamalākāraṃ kambuvṛttaśirodharam|| kāmyarūpavatī caiṣā pariṣvajati bhāminī| lajamānā purā cainaṃ mādhvīkamadamūcchitā||

Formerly, that highly intelligent and beautiful girl, inebriate with honied wines, used bashfully to embrace her lord, and kiss and face of Subhadra's son, resembling a fullblown lotus and supported on a neck bearing three lines like those of a conch-shell.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 6 199.6

तस्य क्षतजसंदिग्धं जातरूपपरिष्कृतम्। विमुच्य कवचं कृष्ण शरीरमभिवीक्षते॥

tasya kṣatajasaṃdigdhaṃ jātarūpapariṣkṛtam| vimucya kavacaṃ kṛṣṇa śarīramabhivīkṣate||

Taking of her husband's golden armour, O hero, that damsel is now looking on the body of her husband covered with blood.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 6 199.7

अवेक्षमाणा तं बाला कृष्ण त्वामभिभाषते। अयं ते पुण्डरीकाक्ष सदृशाक्षो निपातितः॥

avekṣamāṇā taṃ bālā kṛṣṇa tvāmabhibhāṣate| ayaṃ te puṇḍarīkākṣa sadṛśākṣo nipātitaḥ||

Beholding her lord, O Krishna, that girl addresses you saying:-'O lotus-eyed one, this hero whose eyes resembled yours, has been killed.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 6 199.8

बले वीर्यं च सदृशस्तेजसा चैव तेऽनघ। रूपेण च तथाप्यर्थं शेते भुवि निपातितः॥

bale vīryaṃ ca sadṛśastejasā caiva te'nagha| rūpeṇa ca tathāpyarthaṃ śete bhuvi nipātitaḥ||

In power, energy, and prowess, he has your equal, O sinless one! He resembled you very much in beauty. Yet he sleeps on the ground, killed by the enemy.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 6 199.9

अत्यन्तं सुकुमारस्य राङ्कवाजिनशायिनः। कचिदद्य शरीरं ते भूमौ न परितप्यते॥

atyantaṃ sukumārasya rāṅkavājinaśāyinaḥ| kacidadya śarīraṃ te bhūmau na paritapyate||

Addressing her own husband, she says again,-'You were reared up in every luxury. You used to sleep on soft skins of the Ranku deer. Alas, does not your body feet pain to-day by lying thus on this naked Earth.

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MBh 6 199.10

मातङ्गभुजवर्माणौ ज्याक्षेपकठिनत्वचौ। काञ्चनाङ्गदिनौ शेते निक्षिप्य विपुलौ भुजौ॥ व्यायम्य बहुधा नूनं सुखसुप्तः श्रमादिव। एवं विलपतीमा न हि मामभिभाषसे॥

mātaṅgabhujavarmāṇau jyākṣepakaṭhinatvacau| kāñcanāṅgadinau śete nikṣipya vipulau bhujau|| vyāyamya bahudhā nūnaṃ sukhasuptaḥ śramādiva| evaṃ vilapatīmā na hi māmabhibhāṣase||

Stretching your massive arms decorated with golden Angadas, resembling a couple of elephants trunks, and trunks, and coated with skin hardened by constant use of the bow, sleep, you, O lord, peacefully as if worn out with the fatigue of too much exercise. Alas, why do you not speak to me that am weeping so?

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 6 199.11

न स्मराम्यपराधं ते किं मां न प्रतिभाषसे। ननु मां त्वं पुरा दूरादभिवीक्ष्याभिभाषसे॥

na smarāmyaparādhaṃ te kiṃ māṃ na pratibhāṣase| nanu māṃ tvaṃ purā dūrādabhivīkṣyābhibhāṣase||

I do not remember to have ever offered you. Why do you not speak to me then? Formerly, you used to addressed me even when you would see me at a distance.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 6 199.12

आर्यामार्य सुभद्रां त्वमिमांश्च त्रिदशोपमान्। पितॄन् मां चैव दुःखार्ता विहाय क्व गमिष्यसि॥

āryāmārya subhadrāṃ tvamimāṃśca tridaśopamān| pitṝn māṃ caiva duḥkhārtā vihāya kva gamiṣyasi||

Where will you go, leaving behind you the much-respected Subhadra, these your sires who take after the very celestials, and my own wretched self distracted with grief.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 6 199.13

तस्य शोणितदिग्धान् वै केशानुद्यम्य पाणिना। उत्सङ्गे वक्त्रमाधाय जीवन्तमिव पृच्छति॥ स्वतीयं वासुदेवस्य पुत्रं गाण्डीवधन्वनः। कथं त्वां रणमध्यस्थं जनुरेते महारथाः॥

tasya śoṇitadigdhān vai keśānudyamya pāṇinā| utsaṅge vaktramādhāya jīvantamiva pṛcchati|| svatīyaṃ vāsudevasya putraṃ gāṇḍīvadhanvanaḥ| kathaṃ tvāṃ raṇamadhyasthaṃ janurete mahārathāḥ||

See, O Krishna, collecting with her hands the blood-dyed hair of her husband and placing his head on her lap, beautiful lady is addressing him as if he were alive,-How could those great car-warriors kill you in the midst of battle,-you who are the sister's son of Vasudeva and the son of the bolder of Gandiva?

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 6 199.14

धिगस्तु क्रूरकृत्स्वान् कृपकर्णजयद्रथान्। द्रोणद्रौणायनी चोभौ यैरहं विधवा कृता॥

dhigastu krūrakṛtsvān kṛpakarṇajayadrathān| droṇadrauṇāyanī cobhau yairahaṃ vidhavā kṛtā||

Alas, fie on those wicked warriors, Kripa, Karna, Jayadratha, Drona and Drona's son, by whom you were killed!

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 6 199.15

रथर्षभाणां सर्वेषां कथमासीत् तदा मनः। बालं त्वां परिवार्येकं मम दुःखाय जनुषाम्॥

ratharṣabhāṇāṃ sarveṣāṃ kathamāsīt tadā manaḥ| bālaṃ tvāṃ parivāryekaṃ mama duḥkhāya januṣām||

What did those great car-warriors think at that time when they surrounded you, a warrior of tender years, and killed you to my grief?

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 6 199.16

कथं नु पाण्डवानां च पञ्चालानां तु पश्यताम्। त्वं वीर निधनं प्राप्तो नाथवान् सन्ननाथवत्॥

kathaṃ nu pāṇḍavānāṃ ca pañcālānāṃ tu paśyatām| tvaṃ vīra nidhanaṃ prāpto nāthavān sannanāthavat||

How could you, O hero, who had so many protectors, be killed so helplessly before the very eyes of the Pandavas and the Panchalas?

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 6 199.17

दृष्ट्वा बहुभिराक्रन्दे निहतं त्वां पिता तवा वीरः पुरुषशार्दूलः कथं जीवति पाण्डवः॥

dṛṣṭvā bahubhirākrande nihataṃ tvāṃ pitā tavā vīraḥ puruṣaśārdūlaḥ kathaṃ jīvati pāṇḍavaḥ||

Seeing you, O hero, killed in battle by many warriors in a body, how is that foremost of men, that son of Pandu, viz., your father, able to bear the burden of life?

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 6 199.18

न राज्यलाभो विपुलः शत्रूणां च पराभवः। प्रीतिं धास्यति पार्थानां त्वामृते पुष्करेक्षण॥

na rājyalābho vipulaḥ śatrūṇāṃ ca parābhavaḥ| prītiṃ dhāsyati pārthānāṃ tvāmṛte puṣkarekṣaṇa||

Neither the acquisition of a vast territory, nor the discomfitures of their foes, gives joy to the Parthas bereft of you, O lotus-eyed one.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 6 199.19

तव शस्त्रजिताँल्लोकान् धर्मेण च दमेन च। क्षिप्रमन्वागमिष्यामि तत्र मां प्रतिपालय॥

tava śastrajitā~llokān dharmeṇa ca damena ca| kṣipramanvāgamiṣyāmi tatra māṃ pratipālaya||

By the practice of virtue and self-restraint, I shall very soon go to those blissful regions which you have acquired by the use of weapons. Protect me, O hero, when I go there.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 6 199.20

दुर्मरं पुनरप्राप्ते काले भवति केनचित्। यदहं त्वां रणे दृष्ट्वा हतं जीवामि दुर्भगा॥

durmaraṃ punaraprāpte kāle bhavati kenacit| yadahaṃ tvāṃ raṇe dṛṣṭvā hataṃ jīvāmi durbhagā||

Until the appointed time comes, one cannot die, since, wretched that I am, I am still alive after seeing you killed in battle.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 6 199.21

कामिदानीं नरव्याघ्र श्लक्ष्णया स्मितया गिरा। पितृलोके समेत्यान्यां मामिवामन्त्रयिष्यसि॥

kāmidānīṃ naravyāghra ślakṣṇayā smitayā girā| pitṛloke sametyānyāṃ māmivāmantrayiṣyasi||

Having gone to the region of the departed manes, whom else, like me, do you address now, O foremost of men, in sweet and smiling words.

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MBh 6 199.22

नूनमप्सरसां स्वर्गे मनांसि प्रमथिष्यसि। परमेण च रूपेण गिरा च स्मितपूर्वया।॥

nūnamapsarasāṃ svarge manāṃsi pramathiṣyasi| parameṇa ca rūpeṇa girā ca smitapūrvayā|||

Forsooth, you will agitated the hearts of the Apsaras in heaven, with your great beauty and soft and smiling words.

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MBh 6 199.23

प्राप्य पुण्यकृताँल्लोकानप्सरोभिः समेयिवान्। सौभद्र विहरन् काले स्मेरथाः सुकृतानि मे॥

prāpya puṇyakṛtā~llokānapsarobhiḥ sameyivān| saubhadra viharan kāle smerathāḥ sukṛtāni me||

Having attained the regions reserved for pious persons, you are now united, O son of Subhadra, with the Apsaras. While playing with them, recollect now and then my good acts towards you.

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MBh 6 199.24

एतावानिह संवासो विहितस्ते मया सह। षण्मासान् सप्तमे मासि त्वं वीर निधनं गतः॥

etāvāniha saṃvāso vihitaste mayā saha| ṣaṇmāsān saptame māsi tvaṃ vīra nidhanaṃ gataḥ||

Your union with me in this world had, it seems, been ordained for only six months, for on the seventh, O hero, you lost your life.

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MBh 6 199.25

इत्युक्तवचनामेतामपकर्षन्ति दुःखिताम्। उत्तरां मोघसंकल्पां मत्स्यराजकुलस्त्रियः॥

ityuktavacanāmetāmapakarṣanti duḥkhitām| uttarāṃ moghasaṃkalpāṃ matsyarājakulastriyaḥ||

O Krishna, the ladies of the royal house of Matsya are dragging away the sorrowful Uttara, disappointed, and even lamenting in this way.

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MBh 6 199.26

उत्तरामपकृष्यैनामार्तामार्ततराः स्वयम्। विराटं निहतं दृष्ट्वा क्रोशन्ति विलपन्ति च॥

uttarāmapakṛṣyaināmārtāmārtatarāḥ svayam| virāṭaṃ nihataṃ dṛṣṭvā krośanti vilapanti ca||

Dragging away the sorrow-stricken Uttara, those ladies, themselves still more aggrieved then that girl, are weeping and bewailing aloud at sight of the slain Virata.

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MBh 6 199.27

द्रोणास्त्रशरसंकृत्तं शयानं रुधिरोक्षितम्। विराटं वितुदन्त्येते गृध्रगोमायुवायसाः॥

droṇāstraśarasaṃkṛttaṃ śayānaṃ rudhirokṣitam| virāṭaṃ vitudantyete gṛdhragomāyuvāyasāḥ||

Wounded with the weapons and arrows of Drona, lying down oi. earth, and bathed in blood, Virata is encompassed by the screaming vultures and yelling jackals and crows ravens.

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MBh 6 199.28

वितुद्यमानं विहगैर्विराटमसितेक्षणाः। न शक्नुवन्ति विहगान् निवारयितुमातुराः॥

vitudyamānaṃ vihagairvirāṭamasitekṣaṇāḥ| na śaknuvanti vihagān nivārayitumāturāḥ||

Those black-eyed ladies, approaching the dead body of Matsya king over which carnivorous birds are uttering cries of joy, are trying to turn the body. Weakened by grief, they are unable to do what they wish.

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MBh 6 199.29

आसामातपतप्तानामायासेन च योषिताम्। श्रमेण च विवर्णानां वक्त्राणां विप्लुतं वपुः॥

āsāmātapataptānāmāyāsena ca yoṣitām| śrameṇa ca vivarṇānāṃ vaktrāṇāṃ viplutaṃ vapuḥ||

Scorched by the Sun, and exhausted with fatigue and toil, their faces have become colourless and pale.

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MBh 6 199.30

उत्तरं चाभिमन्युं च काम्बोजं च सुदक्षिणम्। शिशूनेतान् हतान् पश्य लक्ष्मणं च सुदर्शनम्॥ आयोधनशिरोमध्ये शयानं पश्य माधव॥

uttaraṃ cābhimanyuṃ ca kāmbojaṃ ca sudakṣiṇam| śiśūnetān hatān paśya lakṣmaṇaṃ ca sudarśanam|| āyodhanaśiromadhye śayānaṃ paśya mādhava||

See also, O Madhava, those other children besides Abhimanyu, viz., Uttara, Sudakshina the prince of the Kamvojas, and the beautiful Lakshmana, all lying on the field of battle.' Scorched by the Sun, and exhausted with fatigue and toil, their faces have become colourless and pale.

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MBh 6 199.31

उत्तरं चाभिमन्युं च काम्बोजं च सुदक्षिणम्। शिशूनेतान् हतान् पश्य लक्ष्मणं च सुदर्शनम्॥ आयोधनशिरोमध्ये शयानं पश्य माधव॥

uttaraṃ cābhimanyuṃ ca kāmbojaṃ ca sudakṣiṇam| śiśūnetān hatān paśya lakṣmaṇaṃ ca sudarśanam|| āyodhanaśiromadhye śayānaṃ paśya mādhava||

See also, O Madhava, those other children besides Abhimanyu, viz., Uttara, Sudakshina the prince of the Kamvojas, and the beautiful Lakshmana, all lying on the field of battle.'

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)