The Pandavas Miss Arjuna in Kamyaka

Verse 1 (3.78.1)

भगवन्काम्यकात्पार्थे गते मे प्रपितामहे । पाण्डवाः किमकुर्वंस्ते तमृते सव्यसाचिनम् ॥

bhagavankāmyakātpārthe gate me prapitāmahe | pāṇḍavāḥ kimakurvaṃste tamṛte savyasācinam

Lord, when Partha, my great-grandfather, had left Kamyaka, what did the Pandavas do without Savyasachin?

Note on the text: Corrected भगवान् → भगवन् (misprint in Wikisource; Janamejaya is addressing Vaishampayana, so the vocative is needed, and the critical edition reads bhagavan).

Verse 2 (3.78.2)

स हि तेषां महेष्वासो गतिरासीदनीकजित् । आदित्यानां यथा विष्णुस्तथैव प्रतिभाति मे ॥

sa hi teṣāṃ maheṣvāso gatirāsīdanīkajit | ādityānāṃ yathā viṣṇustathaiva pratibhāti me

For that great archer, conqueror of armies, was their refuge; he seems to me to have been to them what Vishnu is among the Adityas.

Verse 3 (3.78.3)

तेनेन्द्रसमवीर्येण संग्रामेष्वनिवर्तिना । विनाभूता वने वीराः कथमासन्पितामहाः ॥

tenendrasamavīryeṇa saṃgrāmeṣvanivartinā | vinābhūtā vane vīrāḥ kathamāsanpitāmahāḥ

Parted from that hero, equal to Indra in valour, who never turned back in battle, how did my heroic grandsires live in the forest?

Verse 4 (3.78.4)

गते तु पाण्डवे तात काम्यकात्सव्यसाचिनि । बभूवुः कौरवेयास्ते दुःखशोकपरायणाः ॥

gate tu pāṇḍave tāta kāmyakātsavyasācini | babhūvuḥ kauraveyāste duḥkhaśokaparāyaṇāḥ

When the Pandava Savyasachin had gone from Kamyaka, my son, the descendants of Kuru were overwhelmed by grief and sorrow.

Note on the text: Restored a missing word space (पाण्डवेतात → पाण्डवे तात).

Verse 5 (3.78.5)

आक्षिप्तसूत्रा मणयश्छिन्नपक्षा इवाण्डजाः । अप्रीतमनसः सर्वे बभूवुरथ पाण्डवाः ॥

ākṣiptasūtrā maṇayaśchinnapakṣā ivāṇḍajāḥ | aprītamanasaḥ sarve babhūvuratha pāṇḍavāḥ

Like jewels whose string has snapped, like birds whose wings are clipped, all the Pandavas were then cheerless at heart.

Verse 6 (3.78.6)

वनं तु तदभूत्तेन हीनमक्लिष्टकर्मणा । कुबेरेण यथाहीनं वनं चैत्ररथं तथा ॥

vanaṃ tu tadabhūttena hīnamakliṣṭakarmaṇā | kubereṇa yathāhīnaṃ vanaṃ caitrarathaṃ tathā

Without him whose deeds never flagged, that forest was like the Chaitraratha grove bereft of Kubera.

Verse 7 (3.78.7)

तमृते ते नरव्याघ्राः पाण्डवा जनमेजय । मुदमप्राप्नुवन्तो वै काम्यके न्यवसंस्तदा ॥

tamṛte te naravyāghrāḥ pāṇḍavā janamejaya | mudamaprāpnuvanto vai kāmyake nyavasaṃstadā

Without him, Janamejaya, those tigers among men, the Pandavas, found no joy, yet they lived on then in Kamyaka.

Verse 8 (3.78.8)

ब्राह्मणार्थे पराक्रान्ताः शुद्धैर्वाणैर्महारथाः । निघ्नन्तो भरतश्रेष्ठ मेध्यान्बहुविधान्मृगान् ॥

brāhmaṇārthe parākrāntāḥ śuddhairvāṇairmahārathāḥ | nighnanto bharataśreṣṭha medhyānbahuvidhānmṛgān

Those great chariot-warriors, best of the Bharatas, exerted themselves for the brahmins, killing with clean arrows many kinds of deer fit for sacrifice.

Verse 9 (3.78.9)

नित्यं हि पुरुषव्याघ्रा वन्याहारमरिंदमाः । प्रविसृत्य समाहृत्य ब्राह्मणेभ्यो न्यवेदयन् ॥

nityaṃ hi puruṣavyāghrā vanyāhāramariṃdamāḥ | pravisṛtya samāhṛtya brāhmaṇebhyo nyavedayan

Every day those tigers among men, tamers of their foes, went out in all directions, gathered forest food and offered it to the brahmins.

Note on the text: Restored a missing word space (नित्यंहि → नित्यं हि).

Verse 10 (3.78.10)

एवं ते न्यवसंस्तत्र सोत्कण्ठाः पुरुषर्षभाः । अहृष्टमनसः सर्वे गते राजन्धनंजये ॥

evaṃ te nyavasaṃstatra sotkaṇṭhāḥ puruṣarṣabhāḥ | ahṛṣṭamanasaḥ sarve gate rājandhanaṃjaye

So those bulls among men lived there, all of them full of longing and joyless, O king, now that Dhananjaya had gone.

Note on the text: Corrected सोत्कणअठाः → सोत्कण्ठाः (misprint in Wikisource; a broken conjunct; the critical edition reads sotkaṇṭhāḥ). Restored a missing word spaces (तत्रसोत्कण्ठाः → तत्र सोत्कण्ठाः, सर्वेगते → सर्वे गते).

Verse 11 (3.78.11)

अथ विप्रोषितं राजन्पाञ्चाली मध्यमं पतिम् । स्मरन्ती पाण्डवश्रेष्ठमिदं वचनमब्रवीत् ॥

atha viproṣitaṃ rājanpāñcālī madhyamaṃ patim | smarantī pāṇḍavaśreṣṭhamidaṃ vacanamabravīt

Then, O king, the princess of Panchala, remembering her middle husband, the best of the Pandavas, who was away from home, spoke these words:

Verse 12 (3.78.12)

योऽर्जुनेनार्जुनस्तुल्यो द्विबाहुर्बहुबाहुना । तमृते पाण्डवश्रेष्ठं वनं न प्रतिभाति मे ॥

yo'rjunenārjunastulyo dvibāhurbahubāhunā | tamṛte pāṇḍavaśreṣṭhaṃ vanaṃ na pratibhāti me

Without that best of the Pandavas, Arjuna, who with his two arms is the equal of the thousand-armed Arjuna, this forest gives me no pleasure.

Note on the text: Matches the first four padas of the critical edition's 3.79.12, which the automatic alignment missed. Direct speech of Draupadi, with no printed heading; given to her.

Verse 13 (3.78.13)

शून्यामिव प्रपश्यामि तत्र तत्र महीमिमाम् । बह्वाश्चर्यमिदं चापि वनं कुसुमितद्रुमम् ॥

śūnyāmiva prapaśyāmi tatra tatra mahīmimām | bahvāścaryamidaṃ cāpi vanaṃ kusumitadrumam

Wherever I look, this earth seems empty to me; and this forest, full of wonders, its trees in flower,

Note on the text: Restored a missing word space (तत्रतत्र → तत्र तत्र). The first line corresponds to the critical edition's 3.79.12ef and the second to 3.79.13ab; the automatic alignment missed them. Direct speech of Draupadi, with no printed heading; given to her.

Verse 14 (3.78.14)

न तथा रमणीयं वै तमृते सव्यसाचिनम् । नीलाम्बुदसमप्रख्यं मत्तमातङ्गगामिनम् ॥

na tathā ramaṇīyaṃ vai tamṛte savyasācinam | nīlāmbudasamaprakhyaṃ mattamātaṅgagāminam

is not so delightful without Savyasachin. Without him, who is like a dark rain-cloud and moves like an elephant in rut,

Note on the text: The first line corresponds to the critical edition's 3.79.13cd and the second to 3.79.14ab (variant); the automatic alignment missed them. Direct speech of Draupadi, with no printed heading; given to her.

Verse 15 (3.78.15)

तमृते पुण्डरीकाक्षं काम्यकं नातिभाति मे । यस्य वा धनुषो घोषः श्रूयते चाशनिस्वनः । न लभे शर्म वै राजन्स्मरन्ती सव्यसाचिनम् ॥

tamṛte puṇḍarīkākṣaṃ kāmyakaṃ nātibhāti me | yasya vā dhanuṣo ghoṣaḥ śrūyate cāśanisvanaḥ | na labhe śarma vai rājansmarantī savyasācinam

without that lotus-eyed man, Kamyaka has no beauty for me. Remembering Savyasachin, whose bowstring's twang is heard like the crash of a thunderbolt, I find no peace, O king.

Note on the text: The first line corresponds to the critical edition's 3.79.14cd and the other two to 3.79.15; the automatic alignment missed them. Direct speech of Draupadi, with no printed heading; given to her.

Verse 16 (3.78.16)

तथा लालप्यमानां तां निशाम्य परवीरहा । भीमसेनो महाराज द्रौपदीमिदमब्रवीत् ॥

tathā lālapyamānāṃ tāṃ niśāmya paravīrahā | bhīmaseno mahārāja draupadīmidamabravīt

Hearing her lament in this way, great king, Bhimasena, slayer of enemy heroes, said to Draupadi:

Verse 17 (3.78.17)

मनःप्रीतिकरं भद्रे यद्ब्रवीषि सुमध्यमे । तन्मे प्रीणाति हृदयममृतप्राशनोपमम् ॥

manaḥprītikaraṃ bhadre yadbravīṣi sumadhyame | tanme prīṇāti hṛdayamamṛtaprāśanopamam

Good lady of the slender waist, what you say gladdens my mind; it delights my heart like a draught of nectar.

Note on the text: Corrected तन्म → तन्मे (misprint in Wikisource; the vowel sign is dropped, leaving the pada a syllable short; the critical edition reads tan me). Direct speech of Bhima, with no printed heading; given to him.

Verse 18 (3.78.18)

यस्य दीर्घौ समौ पीनौ भुजौ परिघसन्निभौ । मौर्वीकृतकिणौ वृत्तौ खड्गायुधधनुर्धरौ ॥

yasya dīrghau samau pīnau bhujau parighasannibhau | maurvīkṛtakiṇau vṛttau khaḍgāyudhadhanurdharau

He whose two arms are long, even, thick, like iron bars, rounded, scarred by the bowstring, bearing sword, weapons and bow,

Note on the text: Corrected खङ्ग → खड्ग (misprint in Wikisource; the critical edition reads khaḍga-). Direct speech of Bhima, with no printed heading; given to him.

Verse 19 (3.78.19)

निष्काङ्गदकृतापीडौ पञ्चशीर्षाविवोरगौ । तमृते पुरुषव्याघ्रं नष्टसूर्यमिवाम्बरम् ॥

niṣkāṅgadakṛtāpīḍau pañcaśīrṣāvivoragau | tamṛte puruṣavyāghraṃ naṣṭasūryamivāmbaram

adorned with golden armlets, like a pair of five-headed serpents: without that tiger among men the sky seems to have lost its sun.

Note on the text: Direct speech of Bhima, with no printed heading; given to him.

Verse 20 (3.78.20)

यमाश्रित्य महाबाहुं पाञ्चालाः कुरवस्तथा । सुराणामपि यत्तानां पृतनासु न बिभ्यति ॥

yamāśritya mahābāhuṃ pāñcālāḥ kuravastathā | surāṇāmapi yattānāṃ pṛtanāsu na bibhyati

Relying on that strong-armed man, the Panchalas and the Kurus fear nothing in battle, not even the gods arrayed for war.

Note on the text: Direct speech of Bhima, with no printed heading; given to him.

Verse 21 (3.78.21)

यस्य बाहू समाश्रित्य वयं सर्वे महात्मनः । मन्यामहे जितानाजौ परान्प्राप्तां च मेदिनीम् ॥

yasya bāhū samāśritya vayaṃ sarve mahātmanaḥ | manyāmahe jitānājau parānprāptāṃ ca medinīm

relying on whose arms, the arms of that great-souled man, all of us count our enemies already defeated in battle and the earth already won,

Note on the text: Restored a missing word space (सर्वेमहात्मनः → सर्वे महात्मनः). Direct speech of Bhima, with no printed heading; given to him.

Verse 22 (3.78.22)

तमृते फल्गुनं वीरं न लभे काम्यके धृतिम् । पश्यामि च दिशः सर्वास्तिमिरेणावृता इव ॥

tamṛte phalgunaṃ vīraṃ na labhe kāmyake dhṛtim | paśyāmi ca diśaḥ sarvāstimireṇāvṛtā iva

without that hero Phalguna I find no steadiness in Kamyaka, and I see all the quarters as though wrapped in darkness.

Note on the text: The first line is the critical edition's 3.79.22ab; the second appears in its apparatus as 3.79.22d*371 (line 1). The automatic alignment missed it. Direct speech of Bhima, with no printed heading; given to him.

Verse 23 (3.78.23)

ततोऽब्रवीत्साश्रुकण्ठो नकुलः पाण्डुनन्दनः । यस्मिन्दिव्यानि कर्माणि कथयन्ति रणाजिरे । देवा अपि युधां श्रेष्ठं तमृते का रतिर्वने ॥

tato'bravītsāśrukaṇṭho nakulaḥ pāṇḍunandanaḥ | yasmindivyāni karmāṇi kathayanti raṇājire | devā api yudhāṃ śreṣṭhaṃ tamṛte kā ratirvane

Then Nakula, son of Pandu, spoke, his voice choked with tears: "He whose divine deeds on the field of battle even the gods recount, the best of warriors: without him, what joy is there in the forest?

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text; it appears in the apparatus as 3.79.22d*371 (line 2) and 3.79.23d*372 (found in the vulgate recension). Restored a missing word spaces (युधांश्रेष्ठं → युधां श्रेष्ठं, तमृतेका → तमृते का). Nakula's speech begins in the second line; with no printed heading inside the verse, the verse stays with the narrator.

Verse 24 (3.78.24)

उदीचीं यो दिशं गत्वा जित्वा युधि महाबलान् । गन्धर्वमुख्याञ्शतशो हयाँल्लेभे महाद्युतिः ॥

udīcīṃ yo diśaṃ gatvā jitvā yudhi mahābalān | gandharvamukhyāñśataśo hayām̐llebhe mahādyutiḥ

He who went to the northern quarter, defeated in battle hundreds of mighty Gandharva chiefs and, in his great splendour, won their horses,

Note on the text: Corrected चो → यो (misprint in Wikisource; चो is no word and the relative pronoun is needed; the critical edition reads ya) and हर्याँल्लेबे → हयाँल्लेभे (misprint in Wikisource; हयान् + लेभे, as the critical edition reads hayāṃl lebhe). Direct speech of Nakula, with no printed heading; given to him.

Verse 25 (3.78.25)

राज्ञे तित्तिरिकल्माषाञ्श्रीमतोऽनिलरंहसः । प्रादाद्भ्रात्रे प्रियः प्रेम्णा राजसूये महाक्रतौ ॥

rājñe tittirikalmāṣāñśrīmato'nilaraṃhasaḥ | prādādbhrātre priyaḥ premṇā rājasūye mahākratau

and out of love, being dear to him, gave them to his brother the king at the great Rajasuya sacrifice: splendid horses, dappled like partridges and swift as the wind;

Note on the text: Corrected भात्रे → भ्रात्रे (misprint in Wikisource; the conjunct has lost its र; the critical edition reads bhrātre). Direct speech of Nakula, with no printed heading; given to him.

Verse 26 (3.78.26)

तमृते भीमधन्वानं भीमादवरजं वने । कामये काम्यके वासं नेदानीममरोपमम् ॥

tamṛte bhīmadhanvānaṃ bhīmādavarajaṃ vane | kāmaye kāmyake vāsaṃ nedānīmamaropamam

without him of the fearsome bow, born after Bhima, who is like an immortal, I no longer wish to live in the Kamyaka forest."

Note on the text: Restored a missing word space (तमृतेभीमधन्वानं → तमृते भीमधन्वानं). Direct speech of Nakula, with no printed heading; given to him.

Verse 27 (3.78.27)

यो धनानि च कन्याश्च युधि जित्वा महाबलान् । शतशो घातयित्वाऽरीन्पृतनामध्यगस्तदा । आजहार पुरा राज्ञे राजसूये महाक्रतौ ॥

yo dhanāni ca kanyāśca yudhi jitvā mahābalān | śataśo ghātayitvā'rīnpṛtanāmadhyagastadā | ājahāra purā rājñe rājasūye mahākratau

He who once defeated mighty warriors in battle and, moving in the midst of their armies, slew enemies by the hundred, and brought wealth and maidens to the king at the great Rajasuya sacrifice;

Note on the text: Corrected धनानिन → धनानि च (misprint in Wikisource; the critical edition reads dhanāni ca) and हित्वा → जित्वा (misprint in Wikisource; "having abandoned" makes no sense with महाबलान्, and the critical edition reads jitvā). Removed stray wiki quote marks (` … ') around the middle line, which is not in the critical edition (found in the vulgate recension).

Verse 28 (3.78.28)

यः समेतान्मृधे जित्वा यादवानमितद्युतिः । सुभद्रामाजहारैको वासुदेवस्य संमते ॥

yaḥ sametānmṛdhe jitvā yādavānamitadyutiḥ | subhadrāmājahāraiko vāsudevasya saṃmate

who, of boundless splendour, single-handed defeated the assembled Yadavas in battle and carried off Subhadra with the consent of Vasudeva;

Note on the text: Restored a missing word space (जित्वायादवान् → जित्वा यादवान्).

Verse 29 (3.78.29)

येनार्धराज्यमाच्छिद्य द्रुपदस्य महात्मनः । आचार्यदक्षिणा दत्ता रणे द्रोणस्य भारत ॥

yenārdharājyamācchidya drupadasya mahātmanaḥ | ācāryadakṣiṇā dattā raṇe droṇasya bhārata

by whom half the kingdom of the great-souled Drupada was wrested away in battle and given to Drona as his teacher's fee, Bharata:

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text; it appears in the apparatus as 3.79.27d*373 (found in the vulgate recension). Corrected द्रोणश्यभारत → द्रोणस्य भारत (misprint in Wikisource; श्य for स्य and a missing word space; the apparatus reads droṇasya bhārata). Removed stray wiki quote marks (` … ').

Verse 30 (3.78.30)

तस्य जिष्णोर्बृसीं दृष्ट्वा शून्यामुपनिवेशने । हृदयं मे महाराज न शाम्यति कदाचन ॥

tasya jiṣṇorbṛsīṃ dṛṣṭvā śūnyāmupaniveśane | hṛdayaṃ me mahārāja na śāmyati kadācana

seeing Jishnu's seat lying empty in our dwelling, great king, my heart is never at peace.

Note on the text: Corrected सून्यत्रेव निवेशने → शून्यामुपनिवेशने (garbled in Wikisource; सून्यत्रेव is no word, and the critical edition reads śūnyām upaniveśane) and शाम्यात्रकदाचन → शाम्यति कदाचन (garbled in Wikisource; the critical edition reads śāmyati kadā cana).

Verse 31 (3.78.31)

वनादस्माद्विवासं तु रोचयेऽहमरिंदम । न हि नस्तमृते वीरं रमणीयमिदं वनम् ॥

vanādasmādvivāsaṃ tu rocaye'hamariṃdama | na hi nastamṛte vīraṃ ramaṇīyamidaṃ vanam

I would rather we left this forest, tamer of foes; for without that hero this forest holds no delight for us.

Note on the text: Corrected विनादस्मात् → वनादस्मात् (misprint in Wikisource; विनात् is no word here, and the critical edition reads vanād asmād).