Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /395

OF CULTURE
 
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GOVERNMENT OF
 
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4.
 
SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 
निशम्य भगवद्गीतं प्रीत्युत्फुल्लमुखाम्बुजः ।

भ्रातनतृन् दिग्विजयेऽयुङ्क्त विष्णुतेजोपबृंहितान् ॥
 

Hearing the words of the Lord,

Yudhishthira, with joyous face, set his

brothers, made greater by the power

of Lord Vishnu, to the task of conquering

(all) the quarters.
 

 
ते विजित्य नृपान् वीरा आजहूह्रुर्द्रविणं [नृप] ॥
 

Conquering the kings the heroic

(brothers) brought wealth.
 
SL
 

 
भीमसेनोऽर्जुनः कृष्णः ब्रह्मलिङ्गधरास्त्रयः ।

जम्ग्मुर्गिरिब्व्रजं [तात] बृहद्रथसुतो यतः ।
 

Bhima, Arjuna and Krishna,-these

three disguising themselves as Brahmins

went to Girivraja,* the place where

Jarasandha, the son of Brihadratha, was.
 

 
ते गत्वा समयाचन्त राजन्या ब्रह्मलिङ्गिनः ।

'राजन् प्रयच्छ भद्रं ते यद्वयं कामयामहे' ॥
 
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* Girivraja of Rajagriha, in the Magadhas, was

Jarasandha's capital.