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ADI PARVA
63
Making sure that they are quite unsus-
pecting, and asleep, and without fear from
any quarter, you must then set fire to the
house at the entrance."
स तथेति प्रतिज्ञाय सर्व चक्रे पुरोचनः ।
पाण्डवास्तु कुरुन्वृद्धान् अभिवाद्य यतव्रताः।
सर्वा मातृस्तथाऽऽपृच्छय प्रययुवरणावतम् ॥
Promising to do So,
Puiochana did every-
thing. And the Pandavas, acting up to
their promises, saluted the Kuru-elders,
took leave of all their mothers, and went
to Varanavata.
विदुरः पाण्डवश्रेष्ठमिदं वचनमब्रवीत् ।
'कक्षघ्नः शिशिरघ्नश्च महाकक्षे विलौकसः ।
न दहेदिति चात्मानं यो रक्षति स जीवति ॥'
अनुशिक्ष्यानुगस्यैतान् विदुरः प्रययौ गृहान् ॥
Vidura spoke these words to Yudhis-
thira, the best of the Pandavas : "He
survives who protects himself knowing that
fire which burns wood and destroys frost
63
Making sure that they are quite unsus-
pecting, and asleep, and without fear from
any quarter, you must then set fire to the
house at the entrance."
स तथेति प्रतिज्ञाय सर्व चक्रे पुरोचनः ।
पाण्डवास्तु कुरुन्वृद्धान् अभिवाद्य यतव्रताः।
सर्वा मातृस्तथाऽऽपृच्छय प्रययुवरणावतम् ॥
Promising to do So,
Puiochana did every-
thing. And the Pandavas, acting up to
their promises, saluted the Kuru-elders,
took leave of all their mothers, and went
to Varanavata.
विदुरः पाण्डवश्रेष्ठमिदं वचनमब्रवीत् ।
'कक्षघ्नः शिशिरघ्नश्च महाकक्षे विलौकसः ।
न दहेदिति चात्मानं यो रक्षति स जीवति ॥'
अनुशिक्ष्यानुगस्यैतान् विदुरः प्रययौ गृहान् ॥
Vidura spoke these words to Yudhis-
thira, the best of the Pandavas : "He
survives who protects himself knowing that
fire which burns wood and destroys frost