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Every scene on the shifting stage is
a perfect and impressive picture. The
tournament of the princes in which
Arjun and Karna-the Achilles and
Hector of the Indian Epic-first met
and each marked the other for his foe;
the gorgeous bridal of Draupadi;
the equally gorgeous coronation of
Yudhisthir and the death of the proud
and boisterous Sisupala; the fatal
game of dice and the scornful wrath
of Draupadi against her insulters; the
calm beauty of the forest life of the
Pandavs; the cattle-lifting in Matsyaland
in which the gallant Arjun threw
off his disguise and stood forth as
warrior and conqueror; and the
Homeric speeches of the warriors in the
council of war on the eve of the
great contest-each scene of this
venerable old Epic impresses itself
on the mind of the hushed and
astonished reader."-R. C. Dutt.
a perfect and impressive picture. The
tournament of the princes in which
Arjun and Karna-the Achilles and
Hector of the Indian Epic-first met
and each marked the other for his foe;
the gorgeous bridal of Draupadi;
the equally gorgeous coronation of
Yudhisthir and the death of the proud
and boisterous Sisupala; the fatal
game of dice and the scornful wrath
of Draupadi against her insulters; the
calm beauty of the forest life of the
Pandavs; the cattle-lifting in Matsyaland
in which the gallant Arjun threw
off his disguise and stood forth as
warrior and conqueror; and the
Homeric speeches of the warriors in the
council of war on the eve of the
great contest-each scene of this
venerable old Epic impresses itself
on the mind of the hushed and
astonished reader."-R. C. Dutt.