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THE MAHABHARATA
 
bashful Draupadi, burning with anger,
slowly spoke these words:
 
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'इदं त्वकार्य कुरुवीरमध्ये
रजस्वलां यत्परिकर्षसे माम् ।
न चापि कश्चित्कुरुतेऽत्र कुत्सां
ध्रुवं तवेदं मतमभ्युपेतः ॥
 
This is an improper act that you drag
me, a woman unwell, into the midst
of the warriors of the Kuru house; and
nobody here censures you ; surely, they
endorse this attitude of yours.
 
'द्रोणस्य भीष्मस्य च नास्ति सत्त्वं
क्षत्तुस्तथैवास्य महात्मनोऽपि ।
 
राशस्तथा हीममधर्ममुग्रं
 
न लक्षयन्ते कुरुवृद्धमुख्याः ॥'
 
" Is
 
there no good sense in Drona,
Bhishma, or even in this high-souled
Vidura and king Dhritarashtra, that these,
the chief among the Kuru elders, do not
notice this terrible Adharma?"