Mahabharata Condensed in the Poet's Own Words /148

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THE MAHABHARATA
 
bashful Draupadi, burning with anger,

slowly spoke these words:
 
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'इदं त्वकार्ययं 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 ।
 

राशज्ञस्तथा 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?"