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THE MAHABHARATA
 
"Obeisance unto that Imperishable Being,

of thousand forms, of thousand feet, eyes,

heads and hands; obeisance unto that

Eternal Being of thousand names, who has

in Himself thousands of crores of aeons

of Time.
 

 
'पालय त्वं प्रजास्सर्वाः कृष्णस्तेऽस्तु परायणम् ।

इत्युक्त्वोपासनार्थाय विरराम महामतिः ॥
 
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refuge;
 

(Yudhisthira,) protect all your subjects;

let Krishna be your greatest
refuge;"
having said thus, the wise
Bhishma
stopped for meditating (upon the Lord).
 

 
तूर्णीभूते ततस्तस्मिन् व्यास आह वचस्त्वरन् ।

'राजन्प्रकृतिमापन्नः कुरुराजो युधिष्ठिरः ।

तमिमं पुरयानाय समनुज्ञातुमर्हसि ॥ '
 

When Bhishma had become silent,

Vyasa hastened and said : "King (Bhishma) !

Yudhisthira, the Kuru king, is composed

(by this discourse of yours); you must

give him leave to go to his city."
 

 
युधिष्ठिरं सहामात्यमनुजज्ञे नदीसुतः ।

उवाच चैनं मधुरं नृपं शान्तनवो नृपः ॥
 
"
 
Bhishma