The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose: Sabha Parva
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The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose: Sabha Parva
Epic literature, Sanskrit
Dhritarashtra, this is the door." And, O king I had not even heard of
the names of those gems that I saw in that mansion. And it is for these
reasons that my heart so acheth.'
SECTION L
"Duryodhana said,--'Listen now, O Bharata, about all the most costly
articles I saw, belonging unto the sons of Pandu, and brought one after
another by the kings of the earth. Beholding that wealth of the foe, I
lost my reason and scarcely knew myself. And, O Bharata, listen as I
describe that wealth consisting of both manufactures and the produce of
the land. The king of Kamboja gave innumerable skins of the best kind,
and blankets made of wool, of the soft fur of rodents and other
burroughers, and of the hair of cats,--all inlaid with threads of gold.
And he also gave three hundred horses of the Titteti and the Kalmasha
species possessing noses like parrots. And he also gave three hundred
camels and an equal number of she-asses, all fattened with the olives
and the Pilusha. And innumerable Brahmanas engaged in rearing cattle
and occupied in low offices for the gratification of the illustrious
king Yudhishthira the just waited at the gate with three hundred
millions of tribute but they were denied admission into the palace. And
hundred upon hundreds of Brahmanas possessing wealth of kine and living
upon the lands that Yudhishthira had given them, came there with their
handsome golden Kamandalus filled with clarified butter. And though
they had brought such tribute, they were refused admission into the
palace. And the Sudra kings that dwelt in the regions on the seacoast,
brought with them, O king, hundred thousands of serving girls of the
Karpasika country, all of beautiful features and slender waist and
luxuriant hair and decked in golden ornaments; and also many skins of
the Ranku deer worthy even of Brahmanas as tribute unto king
Yudhishthira. And the tribes Vairamas, Paradas, Tungas, with the
Kitavas who lived upon crops that depended on water from the sky or of
the river and also they who were born in regions on the sea-shore, in
woodlands, or countries on the other side of the ocean waited at the
gate, being refused permission to enter, with goats and kine and asses
and camels and vegetable, honey and blankets and jewels and gems of
various kinds. And that great warrior king Bhagadatta, the brave ruler
of Pragjyotisha and the mighty sovereign of the mlechchas, at the head
of a large number of Yavanas waited at the gate unable to enter, with a
considerable tribute comprising of horses of the best breed and
possessing the speed of the wind. And king Bhagadatta (beholding the
concourse) had to go away from the gate, making over a number of swords
with handles made of the purest ivory and well-adorned with diamonds
and every kind of gems. And many tribes coming from different regions,
of whom some possess two eyes, some three and some had eyes on their
foreheads, and those also called Aushmikas, and Nishadas, and Romakas,
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