Mahabharata Condensed in the Poet's Own Words /140

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THE MAHABHARATA
 
not realise yourself caught in a noose ;

you do not realise yourself hanging over a

precipice ; a deer that you are, you

infuriate tigers beyond limits!
 
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न हि दासीत्वमापन्ना कृष्णा भवितुमर्हति ।

अनीशेन हि राशैज्ञैषा पणे न्यस्तेति मे मतिः ॥'
 

 
"Draupadi cannot
 
become a slave ;
 

she was staked by the king when he

was no more his own master:
this is my
 
this is my
opinion."
 
(6
 

 
धिगस्तु क्षत्तार मिति ब्रुवाणो
 

दर्पपेण मत्तो धृतराष्ट्रस्य पुत्रः ।
 

अवैक्षत प्रातिकामीं सभाया-

मुवाच चैनं परमार्यमध्ये ॥
 
of
 

Fie upon Vidura." So saying, the son

of Dhritarashtra, infatuated with pride,

looked at Pratikami (his messenger) and in

that assembly and in the midst of the

most noble persons, told him :