Sanjaya Names the Pandavas and Their Wives to the Hermits

Verse 1 (15.27.1)

स तैः सह नरव्याध्रैर्भ्रातृभिर्भरतर्षभ । राजा रुचिरपद्माक्षैरासांचक्रे तदाश्रमे ॥

sa taiḥ saha naravyādhrairbhrātṛbhirbharatarṣabha | rājā rucirapadmākṣairāsāṃcakre tadāśrame

Then, O best of the Bharatas, the king sat there in the hermitage with those lion-like brothers, whose eyes were lovely as lotuses.

Verse 2 (15.27.2)

तापसैश्च महाभागैर्नानादेशसमागतैः । द्रष्टुं कुरुपतेः पुत्रान्पाण्डवान्पृथुवक्षसः ॥

tāpasaiśca mahābhāgairnānādeśasamāgataiḥ | draṣṭuṃ kurupateḥ putrānpāṇḍavānpṛthuvakṣasaḥ

There came, too, great and fortunate ascetics from many lands, to see the sons of the Kuru lord, the Pandavas of broad chests.

Verse 3 (15.27.3)

तेऽब्रुवञ्ज्ञातुमिच्छामः कतमोऽत्र युधिष्ठिरः । भीमार्जुनौ यमौ चैव द्रौपदी च यशस्विनी ॥

te'bruvañjñātumicchāmaḥ katamo'tra yudhiṣṭhiraḥ | bhīmārjunau yamau caiva draupadī ca yaśasvinī

They said: "We wish to know which of you is Yudhishthira, and which are Bhima, Arjuna and the twins, and which is the renowned Draupadi."

Note on the text: Corrected ते ब्रुवञ् → तेऽब्रुवञ् (misprint in Wikisource; missing avagraha; ब्रुवन् "speaking" cannot agree with the plural ते, and the critical edition reads te 'bruvañ "they said").

Verse 4 (15.27.4)

तानाचख्यौ तदा सूतस्तेषां नाम प्रधानतः । संजयो द्रौपदीं चैव सर्वाश्चान्या कुरुस्त्रियः ॥

tānācakhyau tadā sūtasteṣāṃ nāma pradhānataḥ | saṃjayo draupadīṃ caiva sarvāścānyā kurustriyaḥ

Then Sanjaya the charioteer named for them the chief ones among them, and Draupadi, and all the other women of the Kurus.

Note on the text: Recension variant: Wikisource has तेषां नाम प्रधानतः where the critical edition (15.32.4) reads सर्वान्नामाभिनामतः.

Verse 5 (15.27.5)

य एष जांबूनदशुद्धगौर- । स्तनुर्महासिंह इव प्रवृद्धः । प्रचण्डघोणः पृथुदीर्घनेत्र- । स्ताम्रायताक्षः कुरुराज एषः ॥

ya eṣa jāṃbūnadaśuddhagaura- | stanurmahāsiṃha iva pravṛddhaḥ | pracaṇḍaghoṇaḥ pṛthudīrghanetra- | stāmrāyatākṣaḥ kururāja eṣaḥ

"This one, fair as refined Jambunada gold, tall and strong like a full-grown great lion, with a bold nose and large, long, coppery-red eyes, is the Kuru king.

Note on the text: Recension variant in the last line: Wikisource has ताम्रायताक्षः, the critical edition ताम्रायतास्यः.

Verse 6 (15.27.6)

अयं पुनर्मत्तगजेन्द्रगामी । प्रतप्तचामीकरशुद्धगौरः । पृथ्वायतांसः पृथुदीर्घबाहु- । र्वृकोदरः पश्यत पश्यतेमम् ॥

ayaṃ punarmattagajendragāmī | prataptacāmīkaraśuddhagauraḥ | pṛthvāyatāṃsaḥ pṛthudīrghabāhu- | rvṛkodaraḥ paśyata paśyatemam

And this one, who walks like a maddened lord of elephants, fair as heated, refined gold, with broad, high shoulders and broad, long arms, is Vrikodara. Look, look at him!

Verse 7 (15.27.7)

यस्त्वेष पार्श्वेऽस्य महाधनुष्मा- । ञ्श्यामो युवा वारणयूथपाभः । सिंहोन्नतांसो गजखेलगामी । पद्मायताक्षोऽर्जुन एष वीरः ॥

yastveṣa pārśve'sya mahādhanuṣmā- | ñśyāmo yuvā vāraṇayūthapābhaḥ | siṃhonnatāṃso gajakhelagāmī | padmāyatākṣo'rjuna eṣa vīraḥ

And he who stands at his side, the great bowman, dark and young, splendid as the leader of a herd of elephants, with shoulders high as a lion's, moving with an elephant's sportive gait, lotus-eyed, is the hero Arjuna.

Verse 8 (15.27.8)

कुन्तीसमीपे पुरुषोत्तमौ तु । यमाविमौ विष्णुमहेन्द्रकल्पौ । मनुष्यलोके सकले समोस्ति । ययोर्न रूपे न बले न शीले ॥

kuntīsamīpe puruṣottamau tu | yamāvimau viṣṇumahendrakalpau | manuṣyaloke sakale samosti | yayorna rūpe na bale na śīle

Near Kunti stand these two best of men, the twins, like Vishnu and great Indra. In the whole world of men there is no one equal to them in beauty, in strength or in character.

Verse 9 (15.27.9)

इयं पुनः पद्मदलायताक्षी । मध्यं वयः किञ्चिदिव स्पृशन्ती । नीलोत्पलाभा पुरदेवतेव । कृष्णा स्थिता मूर्तिमतीव लक्ष्मीः ॥

iyaṃ punaḥ padmadalāyatākṣī | madhyaṃ vayaḥ kiñcidiva spṛśantī | nīlotpalābhā puradevateva | kṛṣṇā sthitā mūrtimatīva lakṣmīḥ

And this one, with eyes long as lotus petals, just touching middle age, dark as a blue lotus, like the guardian goddess of a city, standing like Lakshmi embodied, is Krishna (Draupadi).

Note on the text: Corrected स्पशन्ती → स्पृशन्ती (misprint in Wikisource; dropped ृ; the participle is from स्पृश् "touch", and the critical edition reads spṛśantī).

Verse 10 (15.27.10)

अस्यास्तु पार्श्वे कनकोपमत्व- । गेषा स्थिता मूर्तिमतीव गौरी । सत्ये स्थिता सा भगिनी द्विजाग्र्या- । श्चक्रायुधस्याप्रतिमस्य तस्य ॥

asyāstu pārśve kanakopamatva- | geṣā sthitā mūrtimatīva gaurī | satye sthitā sā bhaginī dvijāgryā- | ścakrāyudhasyāpratimasya tasya

At her side, she whose skin is like gold, who stands like Gauri embodied, and in the midst she who stands firm in truth, is the sister, O best of the twice-born, of the discus-wielder, that matchless one.

Note on the text: Recension variant: the critical edition (15.32.10) reads कनकोत्तमाभा यैषा प्रभा … मध्ये स्थितैषा for Wikisource's कनकोपमत्वगेषा … सत्ये स्थिता सा.

Verse 11 (15.27.11)

इयं च जांबूनदशुद्धगौरी । पार्थस्य भार्या भुजगेन्द्रकन्या । चित्राङ्गदा चैव नरेन्द्रकन्या । यैषा सवर्णार्द्रमधूकपुष्पैः ॥

iyaṃ ca jāṃbūnadaśuddhagaurī | pārthasya bhāryā bhujagendrakanyā | citrāṅgadā caiva narendrakanyā | yaiṣā savarṇārdramadhūkapuṣpaiḥ

And this one, fair as refined Jambunada gold, is Partha's wife, the serpent king's daughter; and there is Chitrangada, a king's daughter, she who has the colour of fresh madhuka flowers.

Note on the text: Not in the main text of the critical edition (found in the vulgate recension); the critical edition gives it as star passage 15.32.10d*0051 (lines 01–04), with the variant सवर्णाग्र्यमधूकपुष्पैः in the fourth line.

Verse 12 (15.27.12)

इयं स्वसा राजचमूपतेश्च । प्रवृद्धनीलोत्पलदामवर्णा । पस्पर्ध कृष्णेन सदा नृपो यो । वृकोदरस्यैष परिग्रहोऽग्र्यः ॥

iyaṃ svasā rājacamūpateśca | pravṛddhanīlotpaladāmavarṇā | paspardha kṛṣṇena sadā nṛpo yo | vṛkodarasyaiṣa parigraho'gryaḥ

This is the sister of the king's army-commander, the king who always vied with Krishna; she is the colour of a thick garland of blue lotuses, the foremost wife of Vrikodara.

Note on the text: Recension variant: Wikisource has राजचमूपतेश्च where the critical edition (15.32.11) has राजचमूपतेस्तु.

Verse 13 (15.27.13)

इयं च राज्ञो मगधाधिपस्य । सुता जरासंध इति श्रुतस्य । यवीयसो माद्रवतीसुतस्य । भार्या मता चम्पकदामगौरी ॥

iyaṃ ca rājño magadhādhipasya | sutā jarāsaṃdha iti śrutasya | yavīyaso mādravatīsutasya | bhāryā matā campakadāmagaurī

And this is the daughter of the king of Magadha, the one renowned as Jarasandha; she is held to be the wife of the younger son of Madri, fair as a garland of champaka flowers.

Verse 14 (15.27.14)

इन्दीवरश्यामतनुः स्थिता तु । यैषा पराऽऽसन्नतरोर्लतेव । भार्या मता माद्रवतीसुतस्य । ज्येष्ठस्य सेयं कमलायताक्षी ॥

indīvaraśyāmatanuḥ sthitā tu | yaiṣā parā''sannatarorlateva | bhāryā matā mādravatīsutasya | jyeṣṭhasya seyaṃ kamalāyatākṣī

And she who stands dark-bodied as an indigo lotus, like a creeper close to a tree, is held to be the wife of Madri's elder son, lotus-eyed.

Note on the text: Second line is a recension variant: the critical edition (15.32.13) reads यैषापरासन्नमहीतले च.

Verse 15 (15.27.15)

इयं तु निष्टप्तसुवर्णगौरी । राज्ञो विराटस्य सुता सपुत्रा । भार्याऽभिमन्योर्निहतो रणे यो । द्रोणादिभिस्तैर्विरथो रथस्थैः ॥

iyaṃ tu niṣṭaptasuvarṇagaurī | rājño virāṭasya sutā saputrā | bhāryā'bhimanyornihato raṇe yo | droṇādibhistairviratho rathasthaiḥ

And this one, fair as burnished gold, with her son, is the daughter of King Virata and the wife of Abhimanyu, who was killed in battle by Drona and the others, standing in their chariots, when he had been left without his own.

Verse 16 (15.27.16)

एतास्तु सीमन्तशिरोरुहा याः । शुक्लोत्तरीया नरराजपत्न्यः । राज्ञोस्य वृद्धस्य परंशताख्याः । स्नुषा नृवीराहतपुत्रनाथाः ॥

etāstu sīmantaśiroruhā yāḥ | śuklottarīyā nararājapatnyaḥ | rājñosya vṛddhasya paraṃśatākhyāḥ | snuṣā nṛvīrāhataputranāthāḥ

And these, with the partings of their hair, in white mantles, wives of kings, are the hundred and more daughters-in-law of this aged king, whose sons and lords, heroes among men, have been slain —

Note on the text: Last line is a recension variant: the critical edition (15.32.15) reads स्नुषा विवीरा हतपुत्रनाथाः.

Verse 17 (15.27.17)

क्षान्ताश्च दान्ताश्च कुलोद्भवाश्च ॥

kṣāntāśca dāntāśca kulodbhavāśca

patient, self-controlled and of noble families."

Note on the text: Wikisource prints this single line alone, labelled 15-27-17f (a last line whose preceding lines are lost), and it continues the sentence of verse 16. It is not in the critical edition (vulgate only); the critical edition's 15.32.16 (एता यथामुख्यमुदाहृता वः …), which would stand here, has no counterpart on the page and is not added. The stray wiki marks (the closing quotation mark and ।।) are removed.

Verse 18 (15.27.18)

एवं स राजा कुरुवृद्धवर्यः । समागतस्तैर्नरदेवपुत्रैः । पप्रच्छ सर्वं कुशलं तदानीं । गतेषु सर्वेष्वथ तापसेषु ॥

evaṃ sa rājā kuruvṛddhavaryaḥ | samāgatastairnaradevaputraiḥ | papraccha sarvaṃ kuśalaṃ tadānīṃ | gateṣu sarveṣvatha tāpaseṣu

Thus the king, the venerable elder of the Kurus, having met those sons of kings, asked after the welfare of them all once the ascetics had all gone.

Verse 19 (15.27.19)

योधेषु चाप्याश्रममण्डलं त- । न्मत्वा निविष्टेषु विमुच्य पत्रम् । स्त्रीवृद्धबाले च सुसंनिविष्टे । यथार्हतस्तान्कुशलान्यपृच्छत् ॥

yodheṣu cāpyāśramamaṇḍalaṃ ta- | nmatvā niviṣṭeṣu vimucya patram | strīvṛddhabāle ca susaṃniviṣṭe | yathārhatastānkuśalānyapṛcchat

When the warriors, taking that circle of the hermitage to be theirs, had settled in after unloading their conveyances, and the women, the old and the children were well settled, he asked each of them, as was fitting, about their welfare.