Mahabharata Condensed in the Poet's Own Words /380

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THE MAHABHARATA
 
kingdom ? Great effort was made by you

to burn us ; with snakes and poisons, by

drowning, by seizing our kingdom, by

unkind words and by the dragging of

Draupadi, we have been insulted by you,

king. Because of this, you sinner, you

shall not live."
 

 
श्रुत्वा स कटुका वाचस्स्कन्धे कृत्वाऽऽयसीं गदाम्।

उत्थितश्च जलात्तस्मात् पुत्रो दुर्योधनस्तव ॥

On hearing (those) bitter words,
Duryo-
dhana, son of Dhritarashtra, with his iron

mace on his shoulder, rose up from
 
Duryo-
the water,
 

the water,
 
दुर्योधनः -

'एकैकेन च मां यूयमासीदत युधिष्ठिर ।
 

न होह्येको बहुभिर्न्याय्यो वीरो योधयितुं युधि ॥

न्यस्तवर्मा विशेषेण श्रान्तश्चाप्सु परिप्लुतः ।

भृशं विक्षतगात्रश्च हतवाहन सैनिकः ॥'
 

Duryodhana-

"Yudhisthira, one by one, you encounter

me; it is not proper in war to make one

warrior fight against many.
 
armourless, tired, submerged
 
I especially am
in water,
 

armourless, tired, submerged in water,