Mahabharata Condensed in the Poet's Own Words /156

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THE MAHABHARATA
 
Karna told Dussasana: "Take the slave

Draupadi into the house." And Dussasana

dragged the poor woman in the midst

of the assembly.
 

 
द्रौपदी-

' परित्रायस्व मां भीष्म द्रोण द्रौणे तथा कृप ।

परित्रायस्व विदुर धर्मिष्ठो धर्मवत्सल ॥

धृतराष्ट्र महाराज परित्रायस्व वै स्नुषाम् ॥
 

Draupadi —
 

"Save me, Bhishma, Drona, Asvatthaman,

Kripa ; save_ me Vidura, you who are most

righteous and who love
Dharma ;

Dhritarashtra, O great king, save your

daughter-in-law.
 

 
'गान्धारि किं क्लिश्यमानां न त्रायसि वधूं स्वकाम् ।

हा हताऽस्मि सुमन्दात्मा सुयोधनवशं गता ॥'
 

"Gandhari! why do you not save

your own daughter-in-law, who is being

harassed ? Alas! I, this wretched self, gone

under Duryodhana's control, shall perish."