pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: अवध्यकल्पान् निहतान् गतसत्त्वानचेतसः। गृध्रकङ्कवटश्येनश्वशृगालादनीकृतान्॥
English: 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.
Sanskrit: अमर्षवशमापन्नान् दुर्योधनवशे स्थितान्। पश्येमान् पुरुषव्याघ्रान् संशान्तान् पावकानिव॥
English: There, those foremost of men, who fought on Duryodhana's side, and went to the field in anger and now lying like extinguished fires.
Sanskrit: शयाना ये परा सर्वे मृदूनि शयनानि च। विपन्नास्तेऽद्यं वसुधां विवृतामधिशेरते॥
English: 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.
Sanskrit: बन्दिभिः सततं काले स्तुवद्भिरभिनन्दिताः। शिवानामशिवा घोराः शृण्वन्ति विविधा गिरः॥
English: Recounting their praises poets used to place them before at proper times. They are now listening to the fierce and inauspicious yells of jackals.
Sanskrit: ये पुरा शेरते वीराः शयनेषु यशस्विनः। चन्दनागुरुदिग्धाङ्गास्तेऽद्य पांसुषु शेरते॥
English: 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.
Sanskrit: तेषामाभरणान्येते गृध्रगोमायुवायसाः। आक्षिपन्ति शिवा घोरा विनदन्त्यः पुनः पुनः॥
English: These vultures, wolves and ravens are now their ornaments. Uttering again and again inauspicious and fierce cries, those creatures are now dragging their bodies.
Sanskrit: बाणान् विनिशितान् पीतान् निस्त्रिंशान् विमला गदाः। युद्धाभिमानिनः सर्वे जीवन्त इव बिभ्रति॥
English: 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!
Sanskrit: सुरूपवर्णा बहवः क्रव्यादैरवघट्टिताः। ऋषभप्रतिरूपाश्च शेरते हरितस्रजः॥
English: 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.
Sanskrit: अपरे पुनरालिङ्गय गदाः परिघबाहवः। शेरतेऽभिमुखाः शूरा दयिता इव योषितः॥
English: Some with massive arms, are sleeping with maces under them as if those were beloved wives.
Sanskrit: बिभ्रतः कवचान्यन्ये विमलान्यायुधानि च। न धर्षयन्ति क्रव्यादा जीवन्तीति जनार्दन॥
English: 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.
Sanskrit: क्रव्यादैः कृष्यमाणानामपरेषां महात्मनाम्। शातकौम्भ्यः सजश्चित्रा विप्रकीर्णाः समन्ततः॥
English: 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.
Sanskrit: एते गोमायवो भीमा निहतानां यशस्विनाम्। कण्ठान्तरगतान् हारानाक्षिपन्ति सहस्रशः॥
English: There, thousands of fierce wolves, are dragging the golden chains sound the necks of many illustrious but dead heroes.
Sanskrit: सर्वेष्वपररात्रेषु याननदन्त बन्दिनः। स्तुतिभिश्च पराया॑भिरुपचारैश्च शिक्षिताः॥ तानिमाः परिदेवन्ति दुःखार्ताः परमाङ्गनाः। कृपणं वृष्णिशार्दूल दुःखशोकार्दिता भृशम्॥
English: 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.
Sanskrit: रक्तोत्पलवनानीव विभान्ति रुचिराणि च। मुखानि परमस्त्रीणां परिशुष्काणि केशव॥
English: The faces of those beautiful ladies, O Keshava, though pale, still shine like red lotuses.
Sanskrit: रुदिताद् विरता ह्येता ध्यायन्त्यः सपरिच्छदाः। कुरुस्त्रियोऽभिगच्छन्ति तेन तेनैव दुःखिताः॥
English: 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.
Sanskrit: एतान्यादित्यवर्णानि तपनीयनिभानि च। रोषरोदनताम्राणि वक्त्राणि कुरुयोषिताम्॥
English: The faces of those fair ladies have, with weeping and ire, become effulgent as the morning sun, or gold, or burnished copper.
Sanskrit: श्यामानां वरवर्णानां गौरीणामेकवाससाम्। दुर्योधनवरस्त्रीणां पश्य वृन्दानि केशव॥
English: 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.
Sanskrit: आसामपरिपूर्णार्थं निशम्य परिदेवितम्। इतरेतरसंक्रन्दान्न विजानन्ति योषितः॥
English: Some amongst them, heavily sighing and repeatedly bewailing, are stupefied by grief and are giving up their lives.
Sanskrit: एता दीर्घमिवोच्छ्वस्य विक्रुश्य च विलष्य च। विस्पन्दमाना दुःखेन वीरा जहति जीवितम्॥
English: 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.
Sanskrit: बढ्यो दृष्ट्वा शरीराणि क्रोशन्ति विलपन्ति च। पाणिभिश्चापरा घ्नन्ति शिरांसि मृदुपाणयः॥
English: The Earth, filled with heaps of heads and hands and other limbs, the sights of destruction, looks resplendent.
Sanskrit: शिरोभिः पतितैर्हस्तैः सर्वाङ्गै!थशः कृतैः। इतरेतरसम्पृक्तैराकीर्णा भाति मेदिनी॥
English: 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.
Sanskrit: विशिरस्कानथो कायान् दृष्ट्वा ह्येताननिन्दितान्। मुह्यन्त्यनुगता नार्यो विदेहानि शिरांसि च॥ शिरः कायेन संधाय प्रेक्षमाणा विचेतसः। अपश्यन्त्योऽपरं तत्र नेदमस्येति दुःखिताः॥
English: 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.
Sanskrit: बाहूरुचरणानन्यान् विशिखोन्मथितान् पृथक्। संदधत्योऽसुखाविष्टा मूर्च्छन्त्येताः पुनः पुनः॥
English: Other, uniting arms and thighs and feet, cut off with arrows, are grieving and losing their consciousness repeatedly.
Sanskrit: उत्कृत्तशिरसश्चान्यान् विजग्धान् मृगपक्षिभिः। दृष्ट्वा काश्चिन्न जानन्ति भर्तृन् भरतयोषितः॥
English: Some amongst the Bharata ladies, beholding the bodies of their husbands, mangled by animals and birds and shorn of heads,-are not recognising them.
Sanskrit: पाणिभिश्चापरा जन्ति शिरांसि मधुसूदन। प्रेक्ष्य भ्रातॄन् पितॄन् पुत्रान् पतींश्च निहतान् परैः॥
English: Others, seeing their brothers, sires, sons, and husbands killed by enemies, are, O slayer of Madhu, striking their heads with their own hands.
Sanskrit: बाहुभिश्च सखङ्गैश्च शिरोभिश्च सकुण्डलैः। अगम्यकल्पा पृथिवी मांसशोणितकर्दमा॥
English: Covered with flesh and blood, the Earth has become impassable with arms still holding swords and with heads adorned with ear-rings.
Sanskrit: न दुःखेषूचिताः पूर्वं दुखं गाहन्त्यनिन्दिताः। भ्रातृभिः पतिभिः पुत्रैरुपाकीर्णा वसुंधरा॥
English: 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.
Sanskrit: यूथानीव किशोरीणां सुकेशीनां जनार्दन। स्नुषाणां धृतराष्ट्रस्य पश्य वृन्दान्यनेकशः॥
English: Look, O Janarddana, at those Dhritarashtra's daughters-in-law, resembling a number of beautiful fillies adorned with excellent manes.
Sanskrit: इतो दुःखतरं किं नु केशव प्रतिभाति मे। यदिमाः कुर्वते सर्वा रवमुच्चावचं स्त्रियः॥ नूनमाचरितं पापं मया पूर्वेषु जन्मसु। या पश्यामि हतान् पुत्रान् पौत्रान् भ्रातृ॑श्च माधव॥ एवमार्ता विलपती समाभाष्य जनार्दनम्। गान्धारी पुत्रशोकार्ता ददर्श निहतं सुतम्॥
English: 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.
Sanskrit: नूनमाचरितं पापं मया पूर्वेषु जन्मसु। या पश्यामि हतान् पुत्रान् पौत्रान् भ्रातृ॑श्च माधव॥ एवमार्ता विलपती समाभाष्य जनार्दनम्। गान्धारी पुत्रशोकार्ता ददर्श निहतं सुतम्॥
English: 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.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच दुर्योधनं हतं दृष्ट्वा गान्धारी शोककर्शिता। सहसा न्यपतद् भूमौ छिन्नेव कदली वने॥
English: Vaishampayana said Secing Duryodhana, Gandhari, deprived of her senses by grief, suddenly dropped down on the Earth like an uprooted plantain tree.
Sanskrit: सा तु लब्ध्वा पुनः संज्ञां विक्रुश्य च विलप्य च। दुर्योधनमभिप्रेक्ष्य शयानं रुधिरोक्षितम्॥
English: Having regained her consciousness soon, she began to weep and lament seeing her son lying on the bare ground, bathed in blood.
Sanskrit: परिष्वज्य च गान्धारी कृपणं पर्यदेवयत्। हा हा पुत्रेति शोकार्ता विललापाकुलेन्द्रिया॥
English: Embracing her son, Gandhari bewailed piteously. Stricken with grief, and growing unconscious, the Kuru queen exclaimed, 'Alas, O son!' 'Alas, O son.'
Sanskrit: सुगूढजत्रुविपुलं हारनिष्कविभूषितम्। वारिणा नेत्रजेनोरः सिंचन्ती शोकतापिता॥ समीपस्थं हृषीकेशमिदं वचनमब्रवीत्। उपस्थितेऽस्मिन् संग्रामे ज्ञातीनां संक्षये विभो॥ मामयं प्राह वार्ष्णेय प्राञ्जलिर्नृपसत्तमः। अस्मिन् ज्ञातिसमुद्धर्ष जयमम्बा ब्रवीतु मे॥ इत्युक्ते जानती सर्वमहं स्वव्यसनागमम्। अब्रवं पुरुषव्याघ्र यतो धर्मस्ततो जयः॥
English: Burning with grief, the queen wetted with her tears the body of her son, possessed of massive and broad shoulders, and adorned with garlands and collar. Addressing Hrishikesha, who stood by her, she said,-'On the eve on this battie, O powerful one, that had exterminated this race, this foremost of kings, O Vrishny hero, said to me,-In this civil battle, O mother, wish me success!-When he said these words, myself, knowing that a great calamity had befallen us, told him, O foremost of men, Victory is there where righteousness is.
Sanskrit: यथा च युध्यमानस्त्वं न वै मुह्यासि पुत्रक। ध्रुवं शस्त्रजिताल्लोकान् प्राप्स्यस्यमरवत् प्रभो॥
English: And since, O son, you are bent upon fighting a battle. you will, forsooth, obtain those regions that can be gained by weapons and sport there like a celestial.
Sanskrit: इत्येवमब्रवं पूर्वं नैनं शोचामि वै प्रभो। धृतराष्ट्रं तु शोचामि कृपणं हतबान्धवम्॥
English: These were the words that I then said to him. I did not then grieve for my son. I am, however, sorry for the helpless Dhritarashtra deprived of friends and kinsmen.
Sanskrit: अमर्षणं युधां श्रेष्ठं कृतास्त्रं युद्धदुर्मदम्। शयानं वीरशयने पश्य माधव मे सुतम्॥
English: Look, O Madhava, at my son, that best of warriors, wrathful, expert in weapons, and irresistible in battle, sleeping on the bed of heroes.
Sanskrit: योऽयं मूर्धाभिषिक्तानामग्रे याति परंतपः। सोऽयं पांसुषु शेतेऽद्य पश्य कालस्य पर्ययम्॥
English: See the reverses brought about by Time, this subduer of enemies that used forinerly to walk at the head of all kings now sleeps on thc dust.
Sanskrit: ध्रुवं दुर्योधनो वीरो गतिं न सुलभां गतः। तथा ह्यभिमुखः शेते शयने वीरसेविते॥
English: Forsooth, the heroic Duryodhana, when he sleeps on that bed of the heroes, has attain to the best end.
Sanskrit: यं पुरा पर्युपासीना रमयन्ति वरस्त्रियः। तं वीरशयने सुप्तं रमयन्त्यशिवाः शिवाः॥
English: Inauspicious jackals are now pleasing that prince sleeping on the hero's bed, who was formerly counted by the fairest of ladies sitting round him.
Sanskrit: यं पुरा पर्युपासीना रमयन्ति महीक्षितः। महीतलस्थं निहतं गृध्रास्तं पर्युपासते॥
English: He who was formerly encircled by kings who competed with one another to give him pleasure, alas, is now slain and lying on the ground, encircled by vultures.
Sanskrit: यं पुरा व्यजनै रम्यैरुपवीजन्ति योषितः। तमद्य पक्षव्यजनैरुपवीजन्ति पक्षिणः॥
English: He who was formerly fanned with beautiful fans by fair damsels, is now fanned by (carnivorous) birds with flaps of their wings.
Sanskrit: एष शेते महाबाहुर्बलवान् सत्यविक्रमः। तमद्य द्विपः संख्ये भीमसेनेन पातितः॥
English: Endued with great strength and true prowess, this mighty-armed prince, killed by Bhimasena in battle, sleeps like in elephant killed by a lion.
Sanskrit: पश्य दुर्योधनं कृष्ण शयानं रुधिरोक्षितम्। निहतं भीमसेनेन गदा सम्मृज्य भारतम्॥
English: Look at Duryodhana, O Krishna, lying on the naked Earth, bathed in blood, killed by Bhimasena with his mace.
Sanskrit: अक्षौहिणीर्महाबाहुर्दश चैकां च केशव। आनयद् यः पुरा संख्ये सोऽनयान्निधनं गतः॥
English: That mighty-armed one who had in battle collected together eleven Akshauhinis of soldiers, O Keshava, has on account of his own evil policy, been now killed.
Sanskrit: एष दुर्योधनः शेते महेष्वासो महाबलः। शार्दूल इव सिंहेन भीमसेनेन पातितः॥
English: Alas, there that great bowman and powerful car-warrior sleeps, killed by Bhimasena, like a tiger killed by a lion,
Sanskrit: विदुरं ह्यवमत्यैषं पितरं चैन मन्दभाक्। बालो वृद्धावमानेन मन्दो मृत्युवंश गतः॥
English: Having disobeyed Vidura, and his own father, this reckless, foolish, and wicked prince has met with death, on account of his disregard of the old.
Sanskrit: निःसपत्ना मही यस्य त्रयोदश समाः स्थिता। स शेते निहतो भूमौ पुत्रो मे पृथिवीपतिः॥
English: He who had unrivaled away over the Earth, for thirteen years, alas, that prince, that son of mine, sleeps to-day on the naked Earth, killed by his foes.
Sanskrit: अपश्यं कृष्ण पृथिवीं धार्तराष्ट्रानुशासिताम्। पूर्णां हस्तिगवाश्वैश्च वार्ष्णेय न तु तचिरम्॥
English: Not long before, O Krishna, I saw the Earth, full of elephants and kine and horses, ruled by Duryodhana.
Sanskrit: तामेवाद्य महाबाहो पश्याम्यन्यानुशासिताम्। हीनां हस्तिगवाशेन किं नु जीवामि माधव॥
English: To-day, O you of mighty-arms, I see her governed by another, and destitute of elephants and kine and horses. What need have I, O Madhava, of lie?
Sanskrit: इदं कष्टतरं पश्य पुत्रस्यापि वधान्मम। यदिमाः पर्युपासन्ते हताशूरान् रणे स्त्रियः॥
English: Again, look at this sight, of these fair ladies weeping by the side of the killed heroes, that is more painful than the death of my son.
Sanskrit: प्रकीर्णकेशां सुश्रोणी दुर्योधनशुभाङ्कगाम्। रुक्मवेदीनिभां पश्य कृष्ण लक्ष्मणमातरम्॥
English: Behold, O Krishna, the mother of Lakshmana, that lady having large hips, with her hairs disheveled, that dear wife of Duryodhana, resembling a golden sacrificial altar.
Sanskrit: नूनमेषा पुरा बाला जीवमाने महीभुजे। भुजावाश्रित्य रमते सुभुजस्य मनस्विनी॥
English: While her mighty-armed husband was formerly alive, this highly intelligent damsel used to sport within the embrace of her lords' beautiful arms.
Sanskrit: कथं तु शतधा नेदं हृदयं मम दीर्यते। पश्यन्त्या निहतं पुत्रं पुत्रेण सहितं रणे॥
English: Why, indeed, does not my heart break into a hundred pieces seeing my son and grandson killed in battle.
Sanskrit: पुत्रं रुधिरसंसिक्तमुपजिघ्रत्यनिन्दिता। दुर्योधनं तु वामोरू: पाणिना परिमार्जती॥
English: Alas, that innocent lady now smells her son covered with blood. Again, that lady having beautiful thighs is gently rubbing Duryodhana's body with her fair hand.
Sanskrit: किं नु शोचति भर्तारं पुत्रं चैषा मनस्विनी। तथा ह्यवस्थिता भाति पुत्रं चाप्यभिवीक्ष्य सा॥
English: At one time she is grieving for her husband, and again for her son. At one time she looks on her lord, and again on her son.
Sanskrit: स्वशिरः पञ्चशाखाभ्यामभिहत्यायतेक्षणा। पतत्युरसि वीरस्य कुरुराजस्य माधव॥
English: See, O Madhava, striking her head with her hands, she falls upon the breast of her heroic husband, the king of the Kurus.
Sanskrit: पुण्डरीकनिभा भाति पुण्डरीकान्तरप्रभा। मुखं विमृज्य पुत्रस्य भर्तुश्चैव तपस्विनी।॥
English: Having a complexion like that of the filaments of the lotus, she looks beautiful like a lotus. The hapless princess, now rubs the face of her son, and again that of her husband.
Sanskrit: यदि सत्यगमाः सन्ति यदि वै श्रुतयस्तथा। ध्रुवं लोकानवाप्तोऽयं नृपो बाहुबलार्जितान्॥
English: If the scriptures and the Shrutis be true, forsooth, this king has obtained the blessed region that one may acquire by the use of weapons.'
Sanskrit: गान्धार्युवाच पश्य माधव पुत्रान्मे शतसंख्याञ्जितक्कमान्। गदया भीमसेनेन भूयिष्ठं निहतान् रणे॥
English: Gandhari said See, O Madhava, my hundred sons. who never knew fatigue in battle, have all been killed by Bhimasena with his mace in battle.
Sanskrit: इदं दुःखतरं मेऽद्य यदिमा मुक्तमूर्धजाः। हतपुत्रा रणे बालाः परिधावन्ति मे स्नुषाः॥
English: That which pains me more to-day is that these my young daughter-in-law, deprived of sons and with disheveled hairs, are wandering on the field today.
Sanskrit: प्रासादतलचारिण्यश्चरणैर्भूषणान्वितैः। आपना यत् स्पृशन्तीमां रुधिरार्दी वसुन्धराम्॥
English: Alas, they who formerly walked only on the terraces of magnificent edifices with feet decorated with many ornaments, are now, in great misery, obliged to touch with those feet of theirs this hard Earth, covered with blood.
Sanskrit: कृच्छ्रादुत्सारयन्ति स्म गृध्रगोमायुवायसान्। दुःखेनार्ता विघूर्णन्त्यो मत्ता इव चरन्त्युत॥
English: Reeling in sorrow, they are moving about like drunk persons, driving away with difficulty vulture and jackals and crows.
Sanskrit: एषान्या त्वनद्यागी करसम्मितमध्यमा। घोरमायोधनं दृष्ट्वा निपतत्यतिदुःखिता॥
English: Behold, seeing this terrible destruction, that lady of beautiful limbs, and slender waist, falls down, laden with grief.
Sanskrit: मे पार्थिवसुतामेतां लक्ष्मणमातरम्। राजपुत्रीं महाबाहो मनो न ह्युपशाम्यति॥
English: Beholding this princess, this mother of Lakshmana, O you of mighty-arms, my heart is torn with sorrow.
Sanskrit: भ्रातूंश्चान्याः पितॄश्चान्याः पुत्रांश्च निहतान् भुवि। दृष्ट्वा परिपतन्त्येताः प्रगृह्य सुमहाभुजान्॥
English: Some seeing their brothers, some their husbands, and some their sons, lying down dead on the naked earth, these beautiful ladies of fair arms, and themselves falling down, catching the arms of the killed.
Sanskrit: मध्यमानां तु नारीणां वृद्धानां चापराजित। आक्रन्दं हतबन्धूनां दारुणे वैशसे शृणु॥
English: Hear, O unvanquished one, the loud lamentations of those elderly ladies and those others of middle age on witnessing this terrible destruction.
Sanskrit: रथनीडानि देहांश्च हतानां गजवाजिनाम्। आश्रित्य श्रममोहार्ताः स्थिताः पश्य महाभुज॥
English: See, O you of great might, those dames, exhausted with fatigue, are taking rest, supporting themselves against broken boxes of cars and the bodies of slain elephants and steeds.
Sanskrit: अन्यां चापहृतं कायाचारुकुण्डलमुन्नसम्। स्वस्य बन्धोः शिरः कृष्ण गृहीत्वा पश्य तिष्ठतीम्॥१०
English: See, O Krishna, taking up some relative's severed head adorned with beautiful nose and ear-rings, some one amongst them, is standing sorrowfully.
Sanskrit: पूर्वजातिकृतं पापं मन्ये नाल्पमिवानघ। एताभिर्निरवद्याभिर्मया चैवाल्पमेधया॥ यदिदं धर्मराजेन पातितं नो जनार्दन। न हि नाशोऽस्ति वार्ष्णेय कर्मणोः शुभपापयोः॥
English: I think, O sinless one, they and myself of little understanding must have perpetrated great iniquities in our previous lives, since, O Janarddana, all our relatives and kinsmen have thus been killed by king Yudhishthira. Our acts, fair or unfair, must bear fruits, O you of Vrishni's race.
Sanskrit: प्रत्यग्रवयसः पश्य दर्शनीयकुचाननाः। कुलेषु जाता ह्रीमत्यः कृष्णपक्ष्माक्षिमूर्धजाः॥ हंसगद्गदभाषिण्यो दुःखशोकप्रमोहिताः। सारस्य इव वाशन्त्यः पतिताः पश्य माधव॥
English: See, O Madhava, those young ladies having beautiful breasts and abdomen, born in respectable families, of great modesty, having black eye-lashes and tresses of the same color on their heads, having voice sweet and dear like that of swans, are falling down, unconscious from great grief and crying piteously like fights of cranes.
Sanskrit: फुल्लपद्यप्रकाशानि पुण्डरीकाक्ष योषिताम्। अनवद्यानि वक्त्राणि तापयत्येष रश्मिवान्॥
English: See, O lotus-eyed, hero, there beautiful faces resembling full-blown lotuses, scorched by the sun.
Sanskrit: ईर्पूणां मम पुत्राणां वासुदेवावरोधनम्। मत्तमातङ्गदर्याणां पश्यन्त्यद्य पृथग्जनाः॥
English: Alas, O Vasudeva, the wives of my proud children who were powerful like infuriate are elephants, are now being looked at by common people.
Sanskrit: शतचन्द्राणि चर्माणि ध्वजांचादित्यवर्चसः। रौक्माणि चैव वर्माणि निष्कानापि च काञ्चनान्॥ शीर्षत्राणानि चैतानि पुत्राणां मे महीतले। पश्य दीप्तानि गोविन्द पावकान् सुहुतानिव॥
English: See, O Govinda, the shields decked with hundred moons, the sunny standards, the golden coats of mail, and the golden collars and cuirasses, and the head-gears, of my sons, scattered on the Earth, are shining like sacrificial fires over which have been poured libation of clarified butter.
Sanskrit: एष दुःशासनः शेते शूरेणामित्रघातिना। पीतशोणितसर्वाङ्गो युधि भीमेन पातितः॥
English: There, Dusshasana sleep, killed by Bhima, having the blood of all his limbs drunk by that heroic slayer of foes.
Sanskrit: गदया भीमसेनेन पश्य माधव मे सुतम्। द्यूतक्केशाननुस्मृत्य द्रौपदीनोदितेन च॥
English: Look at that other son of mine, O Madhava, killed by Bhima with his mace, actuated by Draupadi and the memory of his woes at the time of the match at dice.
Sanskrit: उक्ता ह्यनेन पाञ्चाली सभायां द्यूतनिर्जिता। प्रियं चिकीर्षता भ्रातुः कर्णस्य च जनार्दन॥ सहैव सहदेवेन नकुलेनार्जुनेन च। दासीभूतासि पाञ्चालि क्षिप्रं प्रविश नो गृहान्॥
English: Addressing the princess of Panchala, in the midst of the assembly, who had been won by dice, this Dusshasana, desirous of pleasing his (elder) brother and Karna, O Janarddana, had said,-You are now the wife of a slave! With Sahadeva and Nakula and Arjuna, O lady, enter our household now.
Sanskrit: ततोऽहमब्रवं कृष्ण तदा दुर्योधनं नृपम्। मृत्युपाशपरिक्षिप्तं शकुनि पुत्र वर्जय॥
English: At that time, O Krishna, I sad to king Duryodhana,-O son, discard the wrathful Shakuni.
Sanskrit: निबोधैनं सुदुर्बुद्धिं मातुलं कलहप्रियम्। क्षिप्रमेनं परित्यज्य पुत्र शाम्यस्व पाण्डवैः॥
English: Know your maternal uncle to be very wicked and greatly fond of quarrel. Discard him forthwith and make peace with the Pandavas, O son.
Sanskrit: न बुद्ध्यसे त्वं दुर्बुद्धे भीमसेनममर्षणम्। वाड्नाराचैस्तुदंस्तीक्ष्णैरुल्काभिरिव कुञ्जरम्॥
English: O fool, do you not think of Bhimasena filled with anger. You are cutting him with your words arrows like a person striking an elephant with burning brands.
Sanskrit: तानेवं रहसि क्रुद्धो वाक्शल्यानवधारयन्। उत्ससर्ज विषं तेषु सर्पो गोवृषभेष्विव॥
English: Alas, neglecting my wordy, he vomited his poison of words at them, who had already been cut with wordy arrows, like a snake vomiting his poison at a bull.
Sanskrit: एष दुःशासनः शेते विक्षिप्य विपुलौ भुजौ। निहतो भीमसेनेन सिंहेनेव महागजः॥
English: there that Dusshasana sleeps stretching his tow massive arms, killed by Bhimasena like a powerful elephant by a lion.
Sanskrit: अत्यर्थमकरोद् रौद्रं भीमसेनोऽत्यमर्षणः। दुःशासनस्य यत् क्रुद्धोऽपिबच्छोणितमाहवे॥
English: The very angry Bhimasena perpetrated a most dreadful deed by drinking in battle the blood of his foes.
Sanskrit: गांधार्युवाच एष माधव पुत्रो मे विकर्णः प्राज्ञसम्मतः। भूमौ विनिहतः शेते भीमेन शतधा कृतः॥
English: Gandhari said There, O Madhava, my. son Vikarma, praised by the wise, lies on the naked earth, killed by Bhima and wounded horribly.
Sanskrit: गजमध्ये हतः शेते विकर्णो मधुसूदन। नीलमेघपरिक्षिप्तः शरदीव निशाकरः॥
English: O destroyer of Madhu, Vikarna lies there dead in the midst of (slain) elephants like the moon in the autumnal sky surrounded by blue clouds.
Sanskrit: अस्य चापग्रहेणैव पाणिः कृतकिणो महान्। कथञ्चिच्छिद्यते गृधेरत्तुकामैस्तलत्रवान्॥
English: His broad palm, covered with leathern fence, and scarred by constant holding of the bow, is pierced with difficulty by vultures desirous of eating it up.
Sanskrit: अस्य भार्याऽऽमिषप्रेप्सून् गृध्रकाकांस्तपस्विनी। वारयत्यनिशं बाला न च शक्नोति माधव॥
English: His helpless young wife, O Madhava, is continually but unsuccessfully trying to drive away those vultures desirous of feeding on carrion.
Sanskrit: युवा वृन्दारकः शूरो विकर्णः पुरुषर्षभ। सुखोषितः सुखार्हश्च शेते पांसुषु माधव॥
English: The youthful, brave and beautiful Vikarna, O foremost of men, reared in luxury and worthy of every king of happiness, now sleeps on dust, O Madhava.
Sanskrit: कर्णिनालीकनाराचैर्भिन्नमर्माणमाहवे। अद्यापि न जहात्येनं लक्ष्मीर्भरतसत्तमम्॥
English: Thought all his vital parts have been cut with cloth-yard and bearded arrows and Nalikas, yet the natural beauty of his body has not left this best of the Bharatas.
Sanskrit: एष संग्रामशूरेण प्रतिज्ञा पालयिष्यता। दुर्मुखोऽभिमुखः शेते हतोऽरिगणहा रणे॥
English: There, my son Durmuksha, that destroyer of a great number of enemies, sleeps facing the enemy, slain by the heroic Bhiinasena in satisfaction of his promisc.