Mahabharata Condensed in the Poet's Own Words /197

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VANAs undertaken the period, all the twelve
years, has been spent in uninhabited
forests; finishing in the due manner the
incognito life, the PARVA
 
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As undertaken the period, all the twelandave
years, has been spent in uninhabited
forests; finishing in the due manner the
incognito life, the Pandavas will resort to
as will resort to
you, Krishna."
 

 
ततस्तैस्संविदं कृत्वा द्रौपदी परिसान्त्र्व्य च ।

उपावर्त्य ततश्शीघ्रैर्हयैः प्रायात्परन्तपः ॥
 

After conversing with them and consoling

Draupadi, Krishna, the tormenter of his

enemies, then returned from that place

and went (to Dvaraka) by swift horses.
 

 
अनुशाज्ञातस्तु गान्धारिः कर्णेन सहितस्तदा ।

संवृतो भ्रातृभिस्स्त्रीभिस्तत्र तत्र वने वसन् ।

जगाम घोषानभितस्तत्र चक्रे निवेशनम् ॥
 

At that time, permitted (by his father)

and surrounded by his brothers and ladies,

Duryodhana, along with Karna, staying

at different places in the forest, went round

the hamlets of cowherds and camped there.
 

 
यहदृच्छया च तत्रस्थो धर्मपुत्रो युधिष्ठिरः ॥

Accidentally, Yudhisthira also was there.