Mahabharata Condensed in the Poet's Own Words /86

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THE MAHABHARATA
 
In the vicinity of that city
there lived the demon Baka.
him, the city could not get a
 
(Ekachakra),

there lived the demon Baka.Infested by
 

him, the city could not get a saviour.
 

 
आसाद्य तु वनं तस्य वर्कबकं भीमो बभञ्ज ह ।

ततः प्रभृति रक्षांसि तत्र सौम्यानि [भारत ] ॥
 

Bhima went to the forest of Baka and

killed him. From that time, demons

were well-behaved in Ekachakra.
 

 
वसत्सु तेषु प्रच्छन्नं व्यासस्तान्मुनिरब्रवीत् ॥

When they were (thus) living incognito, sage

Vyasa told them :
 

 
' आसीत्तपोवने काचिदृषेः कन्या महात्मनः ।

नाध्यगच्छत्पतितिं सा तु कन्या रूपवती सती ॥
 

"In a certain penance-grove, there was

the daughter of a high-souled sage; beautiful

and virtuous, that maiden did not obtain

a husband.
 

 
'तोषयामास तपसा सा किलोग्रेण शङ्करम् ।

तामथ प्रत्युवाचेदमीशानो वदतां वरः ।
 

"पञ्च ते पतयो भद्रे भविष्यन्तीति भारताः" ॥