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Virata Parva

FRAGMENTS FROM ADHYAYA 17

"Arise! arise! why sleepest thou, Bhemasena, like one that is dead? For how is he other than dead, whose wife a wretch has touched and lives?"

 

as a queen of beasts

Her sleeping lion in the trackless wood

Or a she elephant her mate, pressed Bhema

All to her bosom. Then as a sweet-voiced lyre

Exultantly to music swooning, grasps

Gandhara's strain, with such a cry the pale

Panchalian called her lord. "Arise, arise,

Why dost thou sleep, O Bhema, like one dead!

Not other than dead is he whose wife the wretch

That touched, yet lives."

 

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