Mahabharata Condensed in the Poet's Own Words /247

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इतश्चेतश्च पाण्डूनां समाजग्मुर्महात्मनाम् ।

अक्षौहिण्यस्तु सप्तैव विविधध्वजसङ्कुलाः ॥
 
UDYOGA
There came to the great PARVA
 
There came to the great Pandavas from

every quarter seven Akshauhinis* of armies,

thick with manifold banners.
 

 
कृतवर्मा च हार्दिक्यो ददुर्योधनमुपागमत् ॥
 

Kritavarman (a Yadava chief),
son of
Hridika, joined Duryodhana.
 
son of
 

 
एवमेकादशावृत्तास्सेना दुर्योधनस्य ताः ॥
 

The armies which thus turned up for

Duryodhana were eleven Akshauhinis.
 

 
यस्स पाञ्चालराजेन प्रेषितः कौरवान्प्रति ।

सच कौरव्यमासाद्य पृष्ठाठ्वा चैवमनामयम् ।

सर्वसेनाप्रणेतॄणां मध्ये वाक्यमुवाच ह ॥
 

And he who was sent on embassy by

king Drupada to the Kauravas,-he reached

Dhritarashtra, and after enquiring of his

health, said these words in the midst of

all the generals :
 

 
* An Aksisuhlnt 18hauhini is an unit of army consisting of

21,870 elephants, 21,870 chariots, 65,610 horse and

1,09,850 foot.