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Book 11 – Chapter 016
BORI CE: 11-016-001 वैशंपायन उवाच |
MN DUTT: 06-195-001 वैशम्पायन उवाच एवमुक्त्वा तु गान्धारी कुरूणामवकर्तनम् |
M. N. Dutt: Vaishampayana said Having said so, Gandhari, though standing on that spot which was distant from the field of battle, saw with her spiritual eye, the slaughter of the Kurus. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-002 पतिव्रता महाभागा समानव्रतचारिणी |
MN DUTT: 06-195-002 पतिव्रता भागा समानव्रतचारिणी |
M. N. Dutt: Devoted to her lord, that highly blessed lady always practised high vows. Practising the severest penances, she was always truthful in her speech. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-003 वरदानेन कृष्णस्य महर्षेः पुण्यकर्मणः |
MN DUTT: 06-195-003 वरदानेन कृष्णस्य महर्षेः पुण्यकर्मणः |
M. N. Dutt: By virtue of the gift of the boon by the great Rishi Vyasa of pure deeds, she came by spiritual knowledge and power. The lady then piteously bewailed. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-004 ददर्श सा बुद्धिमती दूरादपि यथान्तिके |
MN DUTT: 06-195-004 ददर्श सा बुद्धिमती दूरादपि यथान्तिके |
M. N. Dutt: The highly intelligent Kuru dame saw, from a distance, but as if from a near point, that field of battle, terrible to look at and full of wonderful sights, of those foremost of warriors. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-005 अस्थिकेशपरिस्तीर्णं शोणितौघपरिप्लुतम् |
MN DUTT: 06-195-005 अस्थिकेशवसाकीर्णं शोणितौघपरिप्लुतम् |
M. N. Dutt: Strewn with bones and hair, and covered with streams of blood, that field was filled with thousands upon thousands of dead bodies on every side. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-006 गजाश्वरथयोधानामावृतं रुधिराविलैः |
MN DUTT: 06-195-006 गजाश्वरथयोधानामावृतं रुधिराबिलैः |
M. N. Dutt: covered with the blood of elephants and horses and car-warriors and various warriors, it was filled with headless trunks and trunkless heads. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-007 गजाश्वनरवीराणां निःसत्त्वैरभिसंवृतम् |
MN DUTT: 06-195-007 गजाश्वनरनारीणां नि:स्वरैरभिसंवृतम् |
M. N. Dutt: And it resounded with the cries of elephants and horses and men and women, and abounded with jackals and cranes and ravens and Kankas and crows. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-008 रक्षसां पुरुषादानां मोदनं कुरराकुलम् |
MN DUTT: 06-195-008 रक्षसां पुरुषादानं मोदनं कुरराकुलम् |
M. N. Dutt: And it was the sporting ground of Rakshasas living on human flesh. And it was filled with ospreys and vultures and resounded with the inauspicious yells of jackals. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-009 ततो व्यासाभ्यनुज्ञातो धृतराष्ट्रो महीपतिः BORI CE: 11-016-010 वासुदेवं पुरस्कृत्य हतबन्धुं च पार्थिवम् |
MN DUTT: 06-195-009 ततो व्यासाभ्यनुज्ञातो धृतराष्ट्रो महीपतिः |
M. N. Dutt: Then at the command of Vyasa king Dhritarashtra and all the sons of Pandu led by Yudhishthira, with Vasudeva and all the Kuru ladies, went to the battle-field. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-011 समासाद्य कुरुक्षेत्रं ताः स्त्रियो निहतेश्वराः BORI CE: 11-016-012 क्रव्यादैर्भक्ष्यमाणान्वै गोमायुबडवायसैः |
MN DUTT: 06-195-010 समासाद्य कुरुक्षेत्रं ताः स्त्रियो निहतेश्वराः |
M. N. Dutt: Having reached Kurukshetra, those widowed ladies beheld their killed their killed brothers and sons and sires and husbands lying on carth, as their bodies were being devoured by beasts of prey and wolves and ravens and crows and ghosts and Pishchas and Rakshasas and various other night-rangers. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-013 रुद्राक्रीडनिभं दृष्ट्वा तदा विशसनं स्त्रियः |
MN DUTT: 06-195-011 रुद्राक्रीडनिभं दृष्ट्वा तदा विशसनं स्त्रियः |
M. N. Dutt: Seeing that onslaught which resembled the spectacles seen on the sporting ground of Rudra, the ladies cried and quickly got down from their costly cars. were |
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BORI CE: 11-016-014 अदृष्टपूर्वं पश्यन्त्यो दुःखार्ता भरतस्त्रियः |
MN DUTT: 06-195-012 अदृष्टपूर्वं पश्यन्त्यो दुःखार्ता भरतस्त्रियः |
M. N. Dutt: Witnessing sights the like of which they had never before seen, the Bharata ladies felt their limbs to be deprived of strength and dropped down on the ground. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-015 श्रान्तानां चाप्यनाथानां नासीत्काचन चेतना |
MN DUTT: 06-195-013 श्रान्तानां चाप्यनाथानां नासीत् काचन चेतना |
M. N. Dutt: Others became so stupefied that they lost their consciousness. Indeed, the Panchala and the Kuru ladies plunged into indescribable distress. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-016 दुःखोपहतचित्ताभिः समन्तादनुनादितम् BORI CE: 11-016-017 ततः सा पुण्डरीकाक्षमामन्त्र्य पुरुषोत्तमम् BORI CE: 11-016-018 पश्यैताः पुण्डरीकाक्ष स्नुषा मे निहतेश्वराः |
MN DUTT: 06-195-014 दुःखोपहतचित्ताभिः समन्तादनुनादितम् |
M. N. Dutt: Seeing that dreadful field of battle filled on all sides with the cries of those grief-stricken ladies, the daughter of Subala, acquainted with all forms of duty, addressed the louts-eyed, Keshava that foremost of all men. Beholding that universal destruction of the Kurus and filled with grief at the sight, she said,-'Look, O lotus-eyed Mahadeva, at these daughters-inlaw of mine! Deprived of their husbands they are with dishevelled hair, crying piteously like a flight of she-ospreys. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-019 अमूस्त्वभिसमागम्य स्मरन्त्यो भरतर्षभान् |
MN DUTT: 06-195-015 अमूस्त्वभिसमागम्य स्मरन्त्यो भर्तृजान् गुणान् |
M. N. Dutt: Seeing those dead bodies, they are remembering the great Bharata chiefs! They are running here and those in a body towards their sons and brothers and sires and husbands. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-020 वीरसूभिर्महाबाहो हतपुत्राभिरावृतम् |
MN DUTT: 06-195-016 वीरसूभिर्महाराज हतपुत्राभिरावृतम् |
M. N. Dutt: See, O mighty-armed one, the field is covered with mothers of heroes, all of whom, however, have been deprived of children! There, that part is covered with wives of heroes, who have however, been bereaved of their husbands. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-021 शोभितं पुरुषव्याघ्रैर्भीष्मकर्णाभिमन्युभिः |
MN DUTT: 06-195-017 शोभितं पुरुषव्याप्रैः कर्णभीष्माभिमन्युभिः |
M. N. Dutt: See the field of battle is adorned with those foremost of men, viz., Bhishma and Karna and Abhimanyu and Drona and Drupada and Shalya. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-022 काञ्चनैः कवचैर्निष्कैर्मणिभिश्च महात्मनाम् |
MN DUTT: 06-195-018 काञ्चनैः कवचैर्निष्कर्मणिभिश्च महात्मनाम् |
M. N. Dutt: See it is adorned also with the golden coasts of mail, and with the precious gems, of high-souled warriors, and with their Angadas and Keyuras and garlands. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-023 वीरबाहुविसृष्टाभिः शक्तिभिः परिघैरपि |
MN DUTT: 06-195-019 वीरबाहुविसृष्टाभिः शक्तिभिः परिधैरपि |
M. N. Dutt: Behold, it is covered with darts and spikes discharged by heroic hands, and swords and various kinds of keen arrows and bows. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-024 क्रव्यादसंघैर्मुदितैस्तिष्ठद्भिः सहितैः क्वचित् |
MN DUTT: 06-195-020 क्रव्यादसंधैर्मुदितैस्तिष्ठद्भिः सहितैः क्वचित् |
M. N. Dutt: Beasts of prey, in a body, are standing or sporting or lying down according to their pleasure. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-025 एतदेवंविधं वीर संपश्यायोधनं विभो |
MN DUTT: 06-195-021 एतदेवंविधं वीर सम्पश्यायोधनं विभो |
M. N. Dutt: Behold, O powerful hero, the field of battle in this state! At this sight, O Janarddana, I am burning with grief. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-026 पाञ्चालानां कुरूणां च विनाशं मधुसूदन |
MN DUTT: 06-195-022 पञ्चालानां कुरूणां च विनाशे मधुसूदन |
M. N. Dutt: With the destruction of the Panchalas and the Kurus, O slayer of Madhu, I think, the five elements have been destroyed. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-027 तान्सुपर्णाश्च गृध्राश्च निष्कर्षन्त्यसृगुक्षितान् |
MN DUTT: 06-195-023 तान् सुपर्णाश्च गृध्राश्च कर्षयन्त्यसृगुक्षिताः |
M. N. Dutt: Dreadful vultures and thousands of others birds, are dragging those bodies stained with blood and seizing them by their armour, are devouring them. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-028 जयद्रथस्य कर्णस्य तथैव द्रोणभीष्मयोः |
MN DUTT: 06-195-024 जयद्रथस्य कर्णस्य तथैव द्रोणभीष्मयोः |
M. N. Dutt: Who is there that could even imagine the death of such heroes as Jayadratha, Karna, Drona, Bhishma and Abhimanyu. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-029 अवध्यकल्पान्निहतान्दृष्ट्वाहं मधुसूदन |
MN DUTT: 06-195-025 अवध्यकल्पान् निहतान् गतसत्त्वानचेतसः |
M. N. Dutt: Alas, though incapable of being killed they have yet been killed, O slayer of Madhu! Behold, vultures, Kankas, ravens hawks, dogs and jackals are feasting upon them. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-030 अमर्षवशमापन्नान्दुर्योधनवशे स्थितान् |
MN DUTT: 06-195-026 अमर्षवशमापन्नान् दुर्योधनवशे स्थितान् |
M. N. Dutt: There, those foremost of men, who fought on Duryodhana's side, and went to the field in anger and now lying like extinguished fires. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-031 शयनान्युचिताः सर्वे मृदूनि विमलानि च |
MN DUTT: 06-195-027 शयाना ये परा सर्वे मृदूनि शयनानि च |
M. N. Dutt: All of them deserve sleeping on soft and clean beds, But alas, in a distressful condition they are sleeping to-day on the naked ground. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-032 बन्दिभिः सततं काले स्तुवद्भिरभिनन्दिताः |
MN DUTT: 06-195-028 बन्दिभिः सततं काले स्तुवद्भिरभिनन्दिताः |
M. N. Dutt: Recounting their praises poets used to place them before at proper times. They are now listening to the fierce and inauspicious yells of jackals. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-033 ये पुरा शेरते वीराः शयनेषु यशस्विनः |
MN DUTT: 06-195-029 ये पुरा शेरते वीराः शयनेषु यशस्विनः |
M. N. Dutt: Those great heroes who used formerly to sleep on rich beds with their limbs smeared with sandal-paste and powered alone, are now sleeping on the dust. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-034 तेषामाभरणान्येते गृध्रगोमायुवायसाः |
MN DUTT: 06-195-030 तेषामाभरणान्येते गृध्रगोमायुवायसाः |
M. N. Dutt: These vultures, wolves and ravens are now their ornaments. Uttering again and again inauspicious and fierce cries, those creatures are now dragging their bodies. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-035 चापानि विशिखान्पीतान्निस्त्रिंशान्विमला गदाः |
MN DUTT: 06-195-031 बाणान् विनिशितान् पीतान् निस्त्रिंशान् विमला गदाः |
M. N. Dutt: Those heroes, look even cheerful, now, and have still beside them their keen arrows, welltempered swords, and bright maces, as if life has not yet left them! |
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BORI CE: 11-016-036 सुरूपवर्णा बहवः क्रव्यादैरवघट्टिताः |
MN DUTT: 06-195-032 सुरूपवर्णा बहवः क्रव्यादैरवघट्टिताः |
M. N. Dutt: Many leading heroes, possessed of beauty and fair complexions and bedecked with garlands of gold, are sleeping on the ground! Look beasts of prey are dragging and tearing them. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-037 अपरे पुनरालिङ्ग्य गदाः परिघबाहवः |
MN DUTT: 06-195-033 अपरे पुनरालिङ्गय गदाः परिघबाहवः |
M. N. Dutt: Some with massive arms, are sleeping with maces under them as if those were beloved wives. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-038 बिभ्रतः कवचान्यन्ये विमलान्यायुधानि च |
MN DUTT: 06-195-034 बिभ्रतः कवचान्यन्ये विमलान्यायुधानि च |
M. N. Dutt: Others with armour on, are holding in their hands their effulgent weapons. Beasts of prey are not tearing him, O Janarddana, thinking them to be still alive. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-039 क्रव्यादैः कृष्यमाणानामपरेषां महात्मनाम् |
MN DUTT: 06-195-035 क्रव्यादैः कृष्यमाणानामपरेषां महात्मनाम् |
M. N. Dutt: The beautiful golden garlands on the necks of other illustrious heroes, as the latter and being dragged by carnivorous creatures, are scattered about on all sides. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-040 एते गोमायवो भीमा निहतानां यशस्विनाम् |
MN DUTT: 06-195-036 एते गोमायवो भीमा निहतानां यशस्विनाम् |
M. N. Dutt: There, thousands of fierce wolves, are dragging the golden chains sound the necks of many illustrious but dead heroes. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-041 सर्वेष्वपररात्रेषु याननन्दन्त बन्दिनः BORI CE: 11-016-042 तानिमाः परिदेवन्ति दुःखार्ताः परमाङ्गनाः |
MN DUTT: 06-195-037 सर्वेष्वपररात्रेषु याननदन्त बन्दिनः |
M. N. Dutt: Many, whom clever bards formerly used with their hymns and panegyris, to delight every morning, are now surrounded by fair ladies stricken with grief and weeping and crying around them in distress, O foremost of Vrishni's race. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-043 रक्तोत्पलवनानीव विभान्ति रुचिराणि वै |
MN DUTT: 06-195-038 रक्तोत्पलवनानीव विभान्ति रुचिराणि च |
M. N. Dutt: The faces of those beautiful ladies, O Keshava, though pale, still shine like red lotuses. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-044 रुदितोपरता ह्येता ध्यायन्त्यः संपरिप्लुताः |
MN DUTT: 06-195-039 रुदिताद् विरता ह्येता ध्यायन्त्यः सपरिच्छदाः |
M. N. Dutt: Those Kuru ladies have ceased weeping with their followers and companions. They are all filled with anxiety. Bewilders with sorrows, they are running here and there. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-045 एतान्यादित्यवर्णानि तपनीयनिभानि च |
MN DUTT: 06-195-040 एतान्यादित्यवर्णानि तपनीयनिभानि च |
M. N. Dutt: The faces of those fair ladies have, with weeping and ire, become effulgent as the morning sun, or gold, or burnished copper. |
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MN DUTT: 06-195-041 श्यामानां वरवर्णानां गौरीणामेकवाससाम् |
M. N. Dutt: Hearing each other's unmeaning lamentations those ladies, on account of the loud cries of woe coming from every side, are unable to understand each other's meaning. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-046 आसामपरिपूर्णार्थं निशम्य परिदेवितम् |
MN DUTT: 06-195-042 आसामपरिपूर्णार्थं निशम्य परिदेवितम् |
M. N. Dutt: Some amongst them, heavily sighing and repeatedly bewailing, are stupefied by grief and are giving up their lives. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-047 एता दीर्घमिवोच्छ्वस्य विक्रुश्य च विलप्य च |
MN DUTT: 06-195-043 एता दीर्घमिवोच्छ्वस्य विक्रुश्य च विलष्य च |
M. N. Dutt: Many of them, seeing the bodies (of their sons, husbands, or sires,) are weeping and lamcnting. Others and striking their heads with their own soft hands. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-048 बह्व्यो दृष्ट्वा शरीराणि क्रोशन्ति विलपन्ति च |
MN DUTT: 06-195-044 बढ्यो दृष्ट्वा शरीराणि क्रोशन्ति विलपन्ति च |
M. N. Dutt: The Earth, filled with heaps of heads and hands and other limbs, the sights of destruction, looks resplendent. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-049 शिरोभिः पतितैर्हस्तैः सर्वाङ्गैर्यूथशः कृतैः |
MN DUTT: 06-195-045 शिरोभिः पतितैर्हस्तैः सर्वाङ्गै!थशः कृतैः |
M. N. Dutt: Secing many headless trunks of great beauty, and many heads without trunks, those fair ladies and lying unconscious on the ground for a long while. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-050 विशिरस्कानथो कायान्दृष्ट्वा घोराभिनन्दिनः BORI CE: 11-016-051 शिरः कायेन संधाय प्रेक्षमाणा विचेतसः |
MN DUTT: 06-195-046 विशिरस्कानथो कायान् दृष्ट्वा ह्येताननिन्दितान् |
M. N. Dutt: Joining particular heads with particular trunks, those ladies, beside themselves with grief, are again discovering their mistakes, and saying,-This is not this one's—and are weeping more bitterly. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-052 बाहूरुचरणानन्यान्विशिखोन्मथितान्पृथक् |
MN DUTT: 06-195-047 बाहूरुचरणानन्यान् विशिखोन्मथितान् पृथक् |
M. N. Dutt: Other, uniting arms and thighs and feet, cut off with arrows, are grieving and losing their consciousness repeatedly. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-053 उत्कृत्तशिरसश्चान्यान्विजग्धान्मृगपक्षिभिः |
MN DUTT: 06-195-048 उत्कृत्तशिरसश्चान्यान् विजग्धान् मृगपक्षिभिः |
M. N. Dutt: Some amongst the Bharata ladies, beholding the bodies of their husbands, mangled by animals and birds and shorn of heads,-are not recognising them. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-054 पाणिभिश्चापरा घ्नन्ति शिरांसि मधुसूदन |
MN DUTT: 06-195-049 पाणिभिश्चापरा जन्ति शिरांसि मधुसूदन |
M. N. Dutt: Others, seeing their brothers, sires, sons, and husbands killed by enemies, are, O slayer of Madhu, striking their heads with their own hands. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-055 बाहुभिश्च सखड्गैश्च शिरोभिश्च सकुण्डलैः |
MN DUTT: 06-195-050 बाहुभिश्च सखङ्गैश्च शिरोभिश्च सकुण्डलैः |
M. N. Dutt: Covered with flesh and blood, the Earth has become impassable with arms still holding swords and with heads adorned with ear-rings. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-056 न दुःखेषूचिताः पूर्वं दुःखं गाहन्त्यनिन्दिताः |
MN DUTT: 06-195-051 न दुःखेषूचिताः पूर्वं दुखं गाहन्त्यनिन्दिताः |
M. N. Dutt: Seeing the field covered with the dead bodies of their brothers and sires, and sons, those faultless ladies, who had never before experienced the least distress, are now plunged into indescribable misery. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-057 यूथानीव किशोरीणां सुकेशीनां जनार्दन |
MN DUTT: 06-195-052 यूथानीव किशोरीणां सुकेशीनां जनार्दन |
M. N. Dutt: Look, O Janarddana, at those Dhritarashtra's daughters-in-law, resembling a number of beautiful fillies adorned with excellent manes. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-058 अतो दुःखतरं किं नु केशव प्रतिभाति मे |
MN DUTT: 06-195-053 इतो दुःखतरं किं नु केशव प्रतिभाति मे |
M. N. Dutt: O Keshava, is there a more sorrowful sight for me to see then that presented by those ladies of fair forms who are put into such a miserable plight? I must, forsooth, have perpetrated great sins in my previous existence, since I am beholding, O Keshava, my sons and grandsons and brothers all killed by foes.' While thus bewailing Gandhari saw the dead body of her son Duryodhana. |
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BORI CE: 11-016-059 नूनमाचरितं पापं मया पूर्वेषु जन्मसु |
MN DUTT: 06-195-054 नूनमाचरितं पापं मया पूर्वेषु जन्मसु |
M. N. Dutt: O Keshava, is there a more sorrowful sight for me to see then that presented by those ladies of fair forms who are put into such a miserable plight? I must, forsooth, have perpetrated great sins in my previous existence, since I am beholding, O Keshava, my sons and grandsons and brothers all killed by foes.' While thus bewailing Gandhari saw the dead body of her son Duryodhana. |
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