Yudhishthira Challenges Duryodhana at the Lake

Verse 1 (9.31.1)

ततस्तेष्वपयातेषु रथेषु त्रिषु पाण्डवाः । तं ह्रदं प्रत्यपद्यन्त यत्र दुर्योधनोऽभवत् ॥

tatasteṣvapayāteṣu ratheṣu triṣu pāṇḍavāḥ | taṃ hradaṃ pratyapadyanta yatra duryodhano'bhavat

When the three chariot-warriors had gone away, the Pandavas made their way to the lake where Duryodhana lay.

Note on the text: Corrected तं हदं → तं ह्रदं (misprint in Wikisource; dropped the conjunct ह्र; the critical edition reads hrada).

Verse 2 (9.31.2)

आसाद्य च कुरुश्रेष्ठ तदा द्वैपायनं ह्रदम् । स्तम्भितं धार्तराष्ट्रेण दृष्ट्वा तं सलिलाशयम् ॥

āsādya ca kuruśreṣṭha tadā dvaipāyanaṃ hradam | stambhitaṃ dhārtarāṣṭreṇa dṛṣṭvā taṃ salilāśayam

And coming up to the Dvaipayana lake, O best of the Kurus, and seeing that expanse of water held fast by Dhritarashtra's son,

Note on the text: Corrected द्वैपायनं हदम् → द्वैपायनं ह्रदम् (misprint in Wikisource; dropped the conjunct ह्र; the critical edition reads hrada). Lines 1–2 are lines a and c of the critical edition's three-line verse 9.30.2; its third line begins the next verse here.

Verse 3 (9.31.3)

वासुदेवमिदं वाक्यमब्रवीत्कुरुनन्दनः । पश्येमां धार्तराष्ट्रेण मायामप्सु प्रयोजिताम् ॥

vāsudevamidaṃ vākyamabravītkurunandanaḥ | paśyemāṃ dhārtarāṣṭreṇa māyāmapsu prayojitām

the delight of the Kurus said this to Vasudeva: "Look at the illusion that Dhritarashtra's son has set up in the water!

Note on the text: Line 1 is the third line (9.30.2e) of the critical edition's verse 9.30.2; line 2 is 9.30.3a.

Verse 4 (9.31.4)

विष्टभ्य सलिलं शेते नास्य मानुषतो भयम् । दैवीं मायामिमां कृत्वा सलिलान्तर्गतो ह्ययम् ॥

viṣṭabhya salilaṃ śete nāsya mānuṣato bhayam | daivīṃ māyāmimāṃ kṛtvā salilāntargato hyayam

He lies there with the water held fast, and has nothing to fear from any man. Having wrought this divine illusion, he is hidden inside the water.

Note on the text: Speaker: Yudhishthira's speech fills the whole verse without a printed heading (the page's heading is Sanjaya's, before the verse beginning इत्युक्तो वासुदेवेन); the input gave Sanjaya. Line 1 is 9.30.3c and line 2 is 9.30.4a of the critical edition.

Verse 5 (9.31.5)

निकृत्या निकृतिप्रज्ञो न मे जीवन्विमोक्ष्यते । यद्यस्य समरे साह्यं कुरुते वज्रभृत्स्वयम् । तथाप्येनं हतं युद्धे लोका द्रक्ष्यन्ति माधव ॥

nikṛtyā nikṛtiprajño na me jīvanvimokṣyate | yadyasya samare sāhyaṃ kurute vajrabhṛtsvayam | tathāpyenaṃ hataṃ yuddhe lokā drakṣyanti mādhava

This master of trickery shall not escape me alive by his trick. Even if the wielder of the thunderbolt himself comes to his aid in the fight, the world will still see him slain in battle, O Madhava."

Note on the text: Speaker: Yudhishthira's speech fills the whole verse without a printed heading (the page's heading is Sanjaya's, before the verse beginning इत्युक्तो वासुदेवेन); the input gave Sanjaya. Line 1 is 9.30.4c and lines 2–3 are 9.30.5ac of the critical edition.

Verse 6 (9.31.6)

मायाविन इमां मायां मायया जहि भारत । मायावी मायया वध्यः सत्यमेतद्युधिष्ठिर ॥

māyāvina imāṃ māyāṃ māyayā jahi bhārata | māyāvī māyayā vadhyaḥ satyametadyudhiṣṭhira

Vasudeva said: "Destroy this illusion of the illusionist with illusion, O Bharata. An illusionist must be slain by illusion; this is true, Yudhishthira.

Verse 7 (9.31.7)

क्रियाभ्युपायैर्बहुभिर्मायामप्सु प्रयोज्य च । जहि त्वं भरतश्रेष्ठ मायात्मानं सुयोधनम् ॥

kriyābhyupāyairbahubhirmāyāmapsu prayojya ca | jahi tvaṃ bharataśreṣṭha māyātmānaṃ suyodhanam

By many devices and means, applying your own illusion against it in the water, slay Suyodhana, whose very nature is illusion, O best of the Bharatas.

Note on the text: Corrected भायामप्सु → मायामप्सु (misprint in Wikisource; भ for म; the critical edition reads māyām apsu).

Verse 8 (9.31.8)

क्रियाभ्युपायैरिन्द्रेण निहता दैत्यदानवाः । क्रियाभ्युपायैर्बलिभिर्बलिर्बद्धो महात्मना ॥

kriyābhyupāyairindreṇa nihatā daityadānavāḥ | kriyābhyupāyairbalibhirbalirbaddho mahātmanā

By such devices and means Indra slew the Daityas and Danavas; by such devices the great-souled one bound mighty Bali.

Verse 9 (9.31.9)

क्रियाभ्युपायपूर्वं वै हिरण्याक्षो महासुरः । हिरण्यकशिपुश्चैव क्रिययैव निषूदितौ ॥

kriyābhyupāyapūrvaṃ vai hiraṇyākṣo mahāsuraḥ | hiraṇyakaśipuścaiva kriyayaiva niṣūditau

By such devices the great asura Hiranyaksha, and Hiranyakashipu as well, were slain by stratagem alone.

Note on the text: Lines 1–2 are 9.30.9ac of the critical edition (line 1 is a recension variant of kriyābhyupāyaiḥ pūrvaṃ hi …).

Verse 10 (9.31.10)

वृत्रश्च निहतो राजन्क्रिययैव महाबलः । तथा पौलस्त्यतनयो रावणो नाम राक्षसः । रामेण निहतो राजन्सानुबन्धः सहानुगः ॥

vṛtraśca nihato rājankriyayaiva mahābalaḥ | tathā paulastyatanayo rāvaṇo nāma rākṣasaḥ | rāmeṇa nihato rājansānubandhaḥ sahānugaḥ

Vritra too, the mighty, was slain by stratagem alone, O king. So too was the rakshasa named Ravana, of Pulastya's line, slain by Rama, O king, with all his kin and followers.

Note on the text: Line 1 is a recension variant of the critical edition's 9.30.9e (vṛtraś ca nihato rājan kriyayaiva na saṃśayaḥ); lines 2–3 are 9.30.10ac.

Verse 11 (9.31.11)

क्रियया योगमास्थाय तथा त्वमपि विक्रम ॥

kriyayā yogamāsthāya tathā tvamapi vikrama

Resort to skilful means, and show your prowess in the same way.

Note on the text: A one-line verse as printed on the page; it is the third line (9.30.10e) of the critical edition's verse 9.30.10, whose first two lines end the previous verse here.

Verse 12 (9.31.12)

क्रियाभ्युपायैर्निहतौ मया राजन्पुरातनौ । तारकश्च महादैत्यो विप्रचित्तिश्च वीर्यवान् ॥

kriyābhyupāyairnihatau mayā rājanpurātanau | tārakaśca mahādaityo vipracittiśca vīryavān

By such devices, O king, two ancient foes were slain by me: the great Daitya Taraka and the mighty Vipracitti.

Note on the text: Line 1 is a recension variant (dual निहतौ) of the critical edition's 9.30.11a; line 2 is 9.30.11c.

Verse 13 (9.31.13)

वातापिरिल्वलश्चैव त्रिशिराश्च तथा विभो । सुन्दोपसुन्दावसुरौ क्रिययैव निषूदितौ ॥

vātāpirilvalaścaiva triśirāśca tathā vibho | sundopasundāvasurau kriyayaiva niṣūditau

Vatapi and Ilvala, and Trishiras too, O lord, and the two asuras Sunda and Upasunda, were destroyed by stratagem alone.

Verse 14 (9.31.14)

क्रियाभ्युपायैरिन्द्रेण त्रिदिवं भुज्यते विभो । क्रिया बलवती राजन्नान्यत्किंचिद्युधिष्ठिर ॥

kriyābhyupāyairindreṇa tridivaṃ bhujyate vibho | kriyā balavatī rājannānyatkiṃcidyudhiṣṭhira

By such devices Indra enjoys the heavens, O lord. Skill is mighty, O king; nothing else counts, Yudhishthira.

Verse 15 (9.31.15)

दैत्याश्च दानवाश्चैव राक्षसाः पार्थिवास्तथा । क्रियाभ्युपायैर्निहताः क्रियां तस्मात्समाचर ॥

daityāśca dānavāścaiva rākṣasāḥ pārthivāstathā | kriyābhyupāyairnihatāḥ kriyāṃ tasmātsamācara

Daityas and Danavas, rakshasas and kings have been slain by such devices. Therefore use stratagem."

Verse 16 (9.31.16)

इत्युक्तो वासुदेवेन पाण्डवः संशितव्रतः । जलस्थं तं महाराज तव पुत्रं महाबलम् । अभ्यभाषत कौन्तेयः प्रहसन्निव भारत ॥

ityukto vāsudevena pāṇḍavaḥ saṃśitavrataḥ | jalasthaṃ taṃ mahārāja tava putraṃ mahābalam | abhyabhāṣata kaunteyaḥ prahasanniva bhārata

Thus addressed by Vasudeva, the Pandava of firm vows, the son of Kunti, smilingly spoke, O Bharata, to your mighty son as he lay in the water.

Verse 17 (9.31.17)

सुयोधन किमर्थोऽयमारम्भोऽप्सु कृतस्त्वया । सर्वं क्षत्रं घातयित्वा स्वकुलं च विशाम्पते ॥

suyodhana kimartho'yamārambho'psu kṛtastvayā | sarvaṃ kṣatraṃ ghātayitvā svakulaṃ ca viśāmpate

"Suyodhana, why have you taken up this undertaking in the water, after bringing about the destruction of the whole kshatriya order and of your own family, O lord of men?

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Verse 18 (9.31.18)

जलाशयं प्रविष्टोऽद्य वाञ्छञ्जीवितमात्मनः । उत्तिष्ठ राजन्युध्यस्व सहास्माभिः सुयोधन ॥

jalāśayaṃ praviṣṭo'dya vāñchañjīvitamātmanaḥ | uttiṣṭha rājanyudhyasva sahāsmābhiḥ suyodhana

You have entered the water today wishing to save your own life. Rise, O king, and fight with us, Suyodhana!

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Verse 19 (9.31.19)

स ते दर्पो नरश्रेष्ठ स च मानः क्व ते गतः । यस्त्वं संस्तभ्य सलिलं भीतो राजन्व्यवस्थितः ॥

sa te darpo naraśreṣṭha sa ca mānaḥ kva te gataḥ | yastvaṃ saṃstabhya salilaṃ bhīto rājanvyavasthitaḥ

Where have that pride of yours and that self-regard gone, best of men? You stand there, O king, afraid, having held the water fast.

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Verse 20 (9.31.20)

सर्वे त्वां शूर इत्येवं जना जल्पन्ति संसदि । व्यर्थं तद्भवतो मन्ये शौर्यं सलिलशायिनः ॥

sarve tvāṃ śūra ityevaṃ janā jalpanti saṃsadi | vyarthaṃ tadbhavato manye śauryaṃ salilaśāyinaḥ

All men in the assemblies call you a hero. But I think your heroism is empty, now that you lie in the water.

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Verse 21 (9.31.21)

उत्तिष्ठ राजन्युध्यस्व क्षत्रियोऽसि कुलोद्भवः । कौरवेयो विशेषेण कुलं जन्म च संस्मर ॥

uttiṣṭha rājanyudhyasva kṣatriyo'si kulodbhavaḥ | kauraveyo viśeṣeṇa kulaṃ janma ca saṃsmara

Rise, O king, and fight! You are a kshatriya, born of a noble family, a Kaurava above all. Remember your family and your birth.

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Verse 22 (9.31.22)

स कथं कौरवे वंशे प्रशंसञ्जन्म चात्मनः । युद्धात्त्रस्ततरस्तोयं प्रविश्य प्रतितिष्ठसि ॥

sa kathaṃ kaurave vaṃśe praśaṃsañjanma cātmanaḥ | yuddhāttrastatarastoyaṃ praviśya pratitiṣṭhasi

How can you, who boast of your birth in the Kaurava line, be so terrified of battle that you enter the water and stay there?

Note on the text: Corrected युद्वात् → युद्धात् (misprint in Wikisource; द्व for द्ध). Speaker: Yudhishthira's speech fills the whole verse without a printed heading (the page's heading is Sanjaya's, before the verse beginning इत्युक्तो वासुदेवेन); the input gave Sanjaya.

Verse 23 (9.31.23)

अयुद्धेन व्यवस्थानं नैष धर्मः सनातनः ॥

ayuddhena vyavasthānaṃ naiṣa dharmaḥ sanātanaḥ

To hold yourself aloof from fighting is not the eternal dharma.

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Verse 24 (9.31.24)

अनार्यजुष्टमस्वर्ग्यं रणे राजन्पलायनम् । कथं पारमगत्वा हि युद्धे त्वं वै जिजीविषुः ॥

anāryajuṣṭamasvargyaṃ raṇe rājanpalāyanam | kathaṃ pāramagatvā hi yuddhe tvaṃ vai jijīviṣuḥ

Flight from battle, O king, is unworthy of the noble and closes the way to heaven. How can you, who have not reached the far shore of the war, wish to go on living?

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Verse 25 (9.31.25)

इमान्निपतितान्दृष्ट्वा पुत्रान्भ्रातॄन्पितॄंस्तथा । सम्बन्धिनो वयस्यांश्च मातुलान्बान्धवांस्तथा । घातयित्वा कथं तात ह्रदे तिष्ठसि साम्प्रतम् ॥

imānnipatitāndṛṣṭvā putrānbhrātṝnpitṝṃstathā | sambandhino vayasyāṃśca mātulānbāndhavāṃstathā | ghātayitvā kathaṃ tāta hrade tiṣṭhasi sāmpratam

Seeing your sons, brothers and fathers fallen, and your kinsmen, friends, maternal uncles and relatives, after having caused all their deaths, how, dear sir, can you stay in the lake now?

Note on the text: Corrected हदे तिष्ठति → ह्रदे तिष्ठसि (misprint in Wikisource; the dropped conjunct ह्र, and the verb must be second person to agree with the address तात, as in the critical edition (hrade tiṣṭhasi)). Speaker: Yudhishthira's speech fills the whole verse without a printed heading (the page's heading is Sanjaya's, before the verse beginning इत्युक्तो वासुदेवेन); the input gave Sanjaya. Line 1 is 9.30.23c and lines 2–3 are 9.30.24ac of the critical edition.

Verse 26 (9.31.26)

शूरमानी न शूरस्त्वं मृषा वदसि भारत । शूरोऽहमिति दुर्बुद्धे सर्वलोकस्य शृण्वतः ॥

śūramānī na śūrastvaṃ mṛṣā vadasi bhārata | śūro'hamiti durbuddhe sarvalokasya śṛṇvataḥ

You think yourself a hero, but you are none; you speak falsely, Bharata, when you say in the hearing of all the world, "I am a hero," you fool.

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Verse 27 (9.31.27)

न हि शूराः पलायन्ते शत्रून्दृष्ट्वा कथञ्चन । ब्रूहि वा त्वं यया वृत्त्या शूर त्यजसि सङ्गरम् ॥

na hi śūrāḥ palāyante śatrūndṛṣṭvā kathañcana | brūhi vā tvaṃ yayā vṛttyā śūra tyajasi saṅgaram

Heroes never flee at the sight of their enemies, whatever happens. Tell me, hero, on what pretext are you abandoning the battle?

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Verse 28 (9.31.28)

स त्वमुत्तिष्ठ युध्यस्व विहाय भयमात्मनः । घातयित्वा सर्वसैन्यं भ्रातॄंश्चैव सुयोधन ॥

sa tvamuttiṣṭha yudhyasva vihāya bhayamātmanaḥ | ghātayitvā sarvasainyaṃ bhrātṝṃścaiva suyodhana

So rise and fight, Suyodhana, casting off your fear, you who have had your whole army and your brothers slain.

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Verse 29 (9.31.29)

नेदानीं जीविते बुद्धिः कार्या धर्मचिकीर्षया । क्षत्रधर्ममुपाश्रित्य त्वद्विधेन सुयोधन ॥

nedānīṃ jīvite buddhiḥ kāryā dharmacikīrṣayā | kṣatradharmamupāśritya tvadvidhena suyodhana

This is no time, Suyodhana, for one like you, who stands on the kshatriya's duty, to set his mind on saving his life out of a wish to follow dharma.

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Verse 30 (9.31.30)

यत्तु कर्णमुपाश्रित्य शकुनिं चापि सौबलम् । दुःशासनं च मोहात्त्वमात्मानं नावबुद्धवान् ॥

yattu karṇamupāśritya śakuniṃ cāpi saubalam | duḥśāsanaṃ ca mohāttvamātmānaṃ nāvabuddhavān

Because, in your delusion, you relied on Karna, and on Shakuni son of Subala, and on Duhshasana, and never knew your own measure,

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Verse 31 (9.31.31)

तत्पापं सुमहत्कृत्वा प्रतियुध्यस्व भारत । कथं हि त्वद्विधो मोहाद्रोचयेत पलायनम् ॥

tatpāpaṃ sumahatkṛtvā pratiyudhyasva bhārata | kathaṃ hi tvadvidho mohādrocayeta palāyanam

having done that great wrong, now fight back, Bharata. How could a man like you, out of delusion, choose to run away?

Note on the text: Speaker: Yudhishthira's speech fills the whole verse without a printed heading (the page's heading is Sanjaya's, before the verse beginning इत्युक्तो वासुदेवेन); the input gave Sanjaya.

Verse 32 (9.31.32)

क्व ते तत्पौरुषं यातं क्व च मानः सुयोधन । क्व च विक्रान्तता याता क्व च विस्फूर्जितं महत् ॥

kva te tatpauruṣaṃ yātaṃ kva ca mānaḥ suyodhana | kva ca vikrāntatā yātā kva ca visphūrjitaṃ mahat

Where has that manliness of yours gone, Suyodhana, and where your pride? Where has your valour gone, and where your great roaring?

Note on the text: Speaker: Yudhishthira's speech fills the whole verse without a printed heading (the page's heading is Sanjaya's, before the verse beginning इत्युक्तो वासुदेवेन); the input gave Sanjaya.

Verse 33 (9.31.33)

क्व ते कृतास्त्रता याता किं नु शेषे जलाशये । स त्वमुत्तिष्ठ युध्यस्व क्षत्रधर्मेण भारत ॥

kva te kṛtāstratā yātā kiṃ nu śeṣe jalāśaye | sa tvamuttiṣṭha yudhyasva kṣatradharmeṇa bhārata

Where has your skill in weapons gone, that you lie in the water? Rise, Bharata, and fight according to the kshatriya's duty.

Note on the text: Speaker: Yudhishthira's speech fills the whole verse without a printed heading (the page's heading is Sanjaya's, before the verse beginning इत्युक्तो वासुदेवेन); the input gave Sanjaya.

Verse 34 (9.31.34)

अस्मांस्तु वा पराजित्य प्रशाधि पृथिवीमिमाम् । अथवा निहतोऽस्माभिर्भूमौ स्वप्स्यसि भारत ॥

asmāṃstu vā parājitya praśādhi pṛthivīmimām | athavā nihato'smābhirbhūmau svapsyasi bhārata

Either defeat us and rule this earth, or be slain by us and sleep on the ground, Bharata.

Note on the text: Corrected निहतोस्माभिर् → निहतोऽस्माभिर् (misprint in Wikisource; missing avagraha; the critical edition reads nihato 'smābhiḥ). Speaker: Yudhishthira's speech fills the whole verse without a printed heading (the page's heading is Sanjaya's, before the verse beginning इत्युक्तो वासुदेवेन); the input gave Sanjaya.

Verse 35 (9.31.35)

एष ते परमो धर्मः सृष्टो धात्रा महात्मना । तं कुरुष्व यथातथ्यं पौरुषे स्व व्यवस्थितः ॥

eṣa te paramo dharmaḥ sṛṣṭo dhātrā mahātmanā | taṃ kuruṣva yathātathyaṃ pauruṣe sva vyavasthitaḥ

This is your highest duty, laid down by the great-souled Creator. Follow it truly, standing firm in your own manliness."

Note on the text: Speaker: Yudhishthira's speech fills the whole verse without a printed heading (the page's heading is Sanjaya's, before the verse beginning इत्युक्तो वासुदेवेन); the input gave Sanjaya. Line 2 is a recension variant of the critical edition's taṃ kuruṣva yathātathyaṃ rājā bhava mahāratha.

Verse 36 (9.31.36)

एवमुक्तो महाराज धर्मपुत्रेण धीमता । सलिलस्थस्तव सुत इदं वचनमब्रवीत् ॥

evamukto mahārāja dharmaputreṇa dhīmatā | salilasthastava suta idaṃ vacanamabravīt

Thus addressed by the wise son of Dharma, O great king, your son, lying in the water, spoke these words.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text (found in the vulgate recension); the critical edition records it in its apparatus as the star passage 9.30.34d*0185_01–02 (introduced by its speaker line *0185_00, "saṃjaya uvāca").

Verse 37 (9.31.37)

नैतच्चित्रं महाराज यद्भीः प्राणिनमाविशेत् । न च प्राणभयाद्भीतो व्यपयातोऽस्मि भारत ॥

naitaccitraṃ mahārāja yadbhīḥ prāṇinamāviśet | na ca prāṇabhayādbhīto vyapayāto'smi bhārata

"It is no wonder, great king, that fear should seize a living creature. And I have not fled out of fear for my life, Bharata.

Note on the text: Speaker: Duryodhana's reply fills the whole verse (he answers Yudhishthira after the narrator's line); the input gave Sanjaya.

Verse 38 (9.31.38)

अरथश्चानिषङ्गी च निहतः पार्ष्णिसारथिः । एकश्चाप्यगणः सङ्ख्ये प्रत्याश्वासमरोचयम् ॥

arathaścāniṣaṅgī ca nihataḥ pārṣṇisārathiḥ | ekaścāpyagaṇaḥ saṅkhye pratyāśvāsamarocayam

I was without a chariot and without a quiver, my rear-guard charioteer slain; alone, and without followers in the fight, I wished for a respite.

Note on the text: Speaker: Duryodhana's reply fills the whole verse (he answers Yudhishthira after the narrator's line); the input gave Sanjaya.

Verse 39 (9.31.39)

न प्राणहेतोर्न भयान्न विषादाद्विशाम्पते । इदमम्भः प्रविष्टोऽस्मि श्रमात्त्विदमनुष्ठितम् ॥

na prāṇahetorna bhayānna viṣādādviśāmpate | idamambhaḥ praviṣṭo'smi śramāttvidamanuṣṭhitam

It was not for the sake of my life, nor out of fear or despair, O lord of men, that I entered this water; I did it out of weariness.

Note on the text: Corrected भयाश्च → भयान्न (misprint in Wikisource; the critical edition reads na bhayān na viṣādād). Speaker: Duryodhana's reply fills the whole verse (he answers Yudhishthira after the narrator's line); the input gave Sanjaya.

Verse 40 (9.31.40)

त्वं चाश्वसिहि कौन्तेय ये चाप्यनुगतास्तव । अहमुत्थाय वः सर्वान्प्रतियोत्स्यामि संयुगे ॥

tvaṃ cāśvasihi kaunteya ye cāpyanugatāstava | ahamutthāya vaḥ sarvānpratiyotsyāmi saṃyuge

You too, son of Kunti, take your rest, and those who follow you. Once I have risen, I shall fight you all in battle."

Note on the text: Speaker: Duryodhana's reply fills the whole verse (he answers Yudhishthira after the narrator's line); the input gave Sanjaya.

Verse 41 (9.31.41)

आश्वस्ता एव सर्वे स्म चिरं त्वां मृगयामहे । तदिदानीं समुत्तिष्ठ युध्यस्वेह सुयोधन ॥

āśvastā eva sarve sma ciraṃ tvāṃ mṛgayāmahe | tadidānīṃ samuttiṣṭha yudhyasveha suyodhana

Yudhishthira said: "We are all rested already; we have been searching for you for a long time. So rise now, Suyodhana, and fight here.

Verse 42 (9.31.42)

हत्वा वा समरे पार्थान्स्फीतं राज्यमवाप्नुहि । निहतो वा रणेऽस्माभिर्वीरलोकमवाप्स्यसि ॥

hatvā vā samare pārthānsphītaṃ rājyamavāpnuhi | nihato vā raṇe'smābhirvīralokamavāpsyasi

Either slay the Parthas in battle and win a flourishing kingdom, or be slain by us in the fight and reach the world of heroes."

Verse 43 (9.31.43)

यदर्थं राज्यमिच्छामि कुरूणां कुरुनन्दन । त इमे निहताः सर्वे भ्रातरो मे जनेश्वर ॥

yadarthaṃ rājyamicchāmi kurūṇāṃ kurunandana | ta ime nihatāḥ sarve bhrātaro me janeśvara

Duryodhana said: "The people for whose sake I wanted the kingdom of the Kurus, O joy of the Kurus, those brothers of mine have all been slain, O lord of men.

Verse 44 (9.31.44)

क्षीणरत्नां च पृथिवीं हतक्षत्रियपुङ्गवाम् । न ह्युत्सहाम्यहं भोक्तुं विधवामिव योषितम् ॥

kṣīṇaratnāṃ ca pṛthivīṃ hatakṣatriyapuṅgavām | na hyutsahāmyahaṃ bhoktuṃ vidhavāmiva yoṣitam

I cannot bring myself to enjoy an earth drained of her jewels, her best kshatriyas slain, like a widowed woman.

Verse 45 (9.31.45)

अद्यापि त्वहमाशंसे त्वां विजेतुं युधिष्ठिर । भङ्क्त्वा पाञ्चालपाण्डूनामुत्साहं भरतर्षभ ॥

adyāpi tvahamāśaṃse tvāṃ vijetuṃ yudhiṣṭhira | bhaṅktvā pāñcālapāṇḍūnāmutsāhaṃ bharatarṣabha

Even now, Yudhishthira, I hope to defeat you, by breaking the spirit of the Panchalas and the Pandavas, O best of the Bharatas.

Note on the text: Corrected भङ्‌क्त्वा → भङ्क्त्वा (stray zero-width non-joiner inside the conjunct, a wiki encoding artefact).

Verse 46 (9.31.46)

न त्विदानीमहं मन्ये कार्यं युद्धेन कर्हिचित् । द्रोणे कर्णे च संशान्ते निहते च पितामहे ॥

na tvidānīmahaṃ manye kāryaṃ yuddhena karhicit | droṇe karṇe ca saṃśānte nihate ca pitāmahe

But now I do not think there is any use in fighting, with Drona and Karna at peace and the Grandsire slain.

Verse 47 (9.31.47)

अस्त्विदानीमियं राजन्केवला पृथिवी तव । असहायो हि को राजा राज्यमिच्छेत्प्रशासितुम् ॥

astvidānīmiyaṃ rājankevalā pṛthivī tava | asahāyo hi ko rājā rājyamicchetpraśāsitum

Let this earth now be wholly yours, O king. What king without allies would wish to rule a kingdom?

Verse 48 (9.31.48)

सुहृदस्तादृशान्हत्वा पुत्रान्भ्रातॄन्पितॄनपि । भवद्भिश्च हृते राज्ये को नु जीवेत मादृशः ॥

suhṛdastādṛśānhatvā putrānbhrātṝnpitṝnapi | bhavadbhiśca hṛte rājye ko nu jīveta mādṛśaḥ

With such friends, sons, brothers and fathers dead, and the kingdom taken by you, who could go on living, one like me?

Verse 49 (9.31.49)

अहं वनं गमिष्यामि ह्यजिनैः प्रतिवासितः । रतिर्हि नास्ति मे राज्ये हतपक्षस्य भारत ॥

ahaṃ vanaṃ gamiṣyāmi hyajinaiḥ prativāsitaḥ | ratirhi nāsti me rājye hatapakṣasya bhārata

I shall go to the forest, clad in deerskins. I have no pleasure in a kingdom, Bharata, with my side destroyed.

Verse 50 (9.31.50)

हतबान्धवभूयिष्ठा हताश्वा हतकुञ्जरा । एषा ते पृथिवी राजन्भुङ्क्षैनां विगतज्वरः ॥

hatabāndhavabhūyiṣṭhā hatāśvā hatakuñjarā | eṣā te pṛthivī rājanbhuṅkṣaināṃ vigatajvaraḥ

Here is your earth, O king, with most of her kinsmen slain, her horses and elephants slain. Enjoy her, free of fever.

Verse 51 (9.31.51)

वनमेव गमिष्यामि वसानो मृगचर्मणी । न हि मे निर्जनस्यास्ति जीवितेऽद्य स्पृहा विभो ॥

vanameva gamiṣyāmi vasāno mṛgacarmaṇī | na hi me nirjanasyāsti jīvite'dya spṛhā vibho

I shall go to the forest itself, wearing the hide of a deer; for I, a man bereft of my people, have no longing for life now, O lord.

Verse 52 (9.31.52)

गच्छ त्वं भुङ्क्ष राजेन्द्र पृथिवीं निहतेश्वराम् । हतयोधां नष्टरत्नां शीर्णक्षत्रां यथासुखम् ॥

gaccha tvaṃ bhuṅkṣa rājendra pṛthivīṃ nihateśvarām | hatayodhāṃ naṣṭaratnāṃ śīrṇakṣatrāṃ yathāsukham

Go, O king of kings, and enjoy the earth as you please, with her rulers slain, her warriors dead, her jewels lost, her kshatriyas withered."

Verse 53 (9.31.53)

दुर्योधनं तव सुतं सलिलस्थं महायशाः । श्रुत्वा तु करुणं वाक्यमभाषत युधिष्ठिरः ॥

duryodhanaṃ tava sutaṃ salilasthaṃ mahāyaśāḥ | śrutvā tu karuṇaṃ vākyamabhāṣata yudhiṣṭhiraḥ

Hearing the piteous words of Duryodhana, your son, as he lay in the water, the glorious Yudhishthira answered:

Note on the text: Removed the square brackets and the speaker heading "सञ्जय उवाच" that had slipped into the verse text (the heading is made the speaker), and the stray double danda before the verse-end mark. The page prints the verse in brackets, as an interpolation. Not in the critical edition's constituted text (found in the vulgate recension); the critical edition records it in its apparatus as the star passage 9.30.50d*0186_01–02 (introduced by its speaker line *0186_00, "saṃjaya uvāca"). The input gave Duryodhana as speaker.

Verse 54 (9.31.54)

आर्तप्रलापान्मा तात सलिलस्थः प्रभाषथाः । नैतन्मनसि मे राजन्वाशितं शकुनेरिव ॥

ārtapralāpānmā tāta salilasthaḥ prabhāṣathāḥ | naitanmanasi me rājanvāśitaṃ śakuneriva

"Do not pour out pitiful laments from the water, dear sir. This talk finds no place in my mind, O king, any more than a bird's chirping.

Verse 55 (9.31.55)

यदि वापि समर्थः स्यास्त्वं दानाय सुयोधन । नाहमिच्छेयमवनिं त्वया दत्तां प्रशासितुम् ॥

yadi vāpi samarthaḥ syāstvaṃ dānāya suyodhana | nāhamiccheyamavaniṃ tvayā dattāṃ praśāsitum

Even if you were able to give, Suyodhana, I would not wish to rule an earth given by you.

Verse 56 (9.31.56)

अधर्मेण न गृह्णीयां त्वया दत्तां महीमिमाम् । न हि धर्मः स्मृतो राजन्क्षत्रियस्य प्रतिग्रहः ॥

adharmeṇa na gṛhṇīyāṃ tvayā dattāṃ mahīmimām | na hi dharmaḥ smṛto rājankṣatriyasya pratigrahaḥ

I would not accept this earth from you by adharma, for acceptance of a gift is not held to be dharma for a kshatriya, O king.

Verse 57 (9.31.57)

त्वया दत्तां न चेच्छेयं पृथिवीमखिलामहम् । त्वां तु युद्धे विनिर्जित्य भोक्ताऽस्मि वसुधामिमाम् ॥

tvayā dattāṃ na ceccheyaṃ pṛthivīmakhilāmaham | tvāṃ tu yuddhe vinirjitya bhoktā'smi vasudhāmimām

I do not want the whole earth if you give it. I shall defeat you in battle and enjoy this earth myself.

Verse 58 (9.31.58)

अनीश्वरश्च पृथिवीं कथं त्वं दातुमिच्छसि । त्वयेयं पृथिवी राजन्किं न दत्ता तदैव हि ॥

anīśvaraśca pṛthivīṃ kathaṃ tvaṃ dātumicchasi | tvayeyaṃ pṛthivī rājankiṃ na dattā tadaiva hi

And how can you, who are not its master, wish to give the earth away? Why did you not give it then?

Verse 59 (9.31.59)

धर्मतो याचमानानां प्रशमार्थं कुलस्य नः । वार्ष्णेयं प्रथमं राजन्प्रत्याख्याय महाबलम् ॥

dharmato yācamānānāṃ praśamārthaṃ kulasya naḥ | vārṣṇeyaṃ prathamaṃ rājanpratyākhyāya mahābalam

When we asked, in accordance with dharma, for the sake of peace for our family, you turned away the mighty Vrishni at the very start, O king.

Note on the text: Corrected महाबालम् → महाबलम् (misprint in Wikisource; stray ा; the critical edition reads mahābalam).

Verse 60 (9.31.60)

किमिदानीं ददासि त्वं को हि ते चित्तविभ्रमः । अभियुक्तस्तु को राजा दातुमिच्छेद्धि मेदिनीं ॥

kimidānīṃ dadāsi tvaṃ ko hi te cittavibhramaḥ | abhiyuktastu ko rājā dātumiccheddhi medinīṃ

What are you giving now? What confusion of mind has seized you? What king, hard pressed by his attackers, would wish to give away the earth?

Note on the text: Corrected जित्तविभ्रमः → चित्तविभ्रमः (misprint in Wikisource; ज for च; the critical edition reads cittavibhramaḥ).

Verse 61 (9.31.61)

न त्वमद्य महीं दातुमीशः कौरवनन्दन । आच्छेत्तुं वा बलाद्राजन्स कथं दातुमिच्छसि ॥

na tvamadya mahīṃ dātumīśaḥ kauravanandana | ācchettuṃ vā balādrājansa kathaṃ dātumicchasi

Today you are not the master to give the earth, O joy of the Kauravas, nor to wrest it away by force, O king; how then do you wish to give it?

Note on the text: Not matched by the automatic alignment: lines 1–2 are lines a and c of the critical edition's 9.30.58 (na tvam adya mahīṃ dātum īśaḥ …); its third line (58e) begins the next verse here.

Verse 62 (9.31.62)

मां तु निर्जित्य सङ्ग्रामे पालयेमां वसुन्धराम् । सूच्यग्रेणापि यद्भूमेरपि भिद्येत भारत ॥

māṃ tu nirjitya saṅgrāme pālayemāṃ vasundharām | sūcyagreṇāpi yadbhūmerapi bhidyeta bhārata

Defeat me in battle and then rule this earth. Even as much land, Bharata, as the tip of a needle could pierce,

Note on the text: Not matched by the automatic alignment: line 1 is 9.30.58e and line 2 is 9.30.59a of the critical edition (line 2 there reads dhrīyeta for the page's भिद्येत, a recension variant).

Verse 63 (9.31.63)

तन्मात्रमपि तन्मह्यं न ददाति पुरा भवान् । स कथं पृथिवीमेतां प्रददासि विशाम्पते ॥

tanmātramapi tanmahyaṃ na dadāti purā bhavān | sa kathaṃ pṛthivīmetāṃ pradadāsi viśāmpate

that much even you did not give me before. How then, O lord of men, do you now offer this whole earth?

Note on the text: Not matched by the automatic alignment: line 1 is 9.30.59c and line 2 is 9.30.60a of the critical edition.

Verse 64 (9.31.64)

सूच्यग्रं नात्यजः पूर्वं स कथं त्यजसि क्षितिम् ॥

sūcyagraṃ nātyajaḥ pūrvaṃ sa kathaṃ tyajasi kṣitim

You would not give up even a needle's point before; how can you give up the earth now?

Note on the text: Not matched by the automatic alignment: a one-line verse as printed on the page; it is the second line (9.30.60c) of the critical edition's verse 9.30.60.

Verse 65 (9.31.65)

एवमैश्वर्यमासाद्य प्रशास्य पृथिवीमिमाम् । को हि मूढो व्यवस्येत शत्रोर्दातुं वसुन्धराम् ॥

evamaiśvaryamāsādya praśāsya pṛthivīmimām | ko hi mūḍho vyavasyeta śatrordātuṃ vasundharām

Having gained such sovereignty and ruled this earth, what fool would resolve to hand the land to his enemy?

Verse 66 (9.31.66)

त्वं तु केवलमौर्ख्येण विमूढो नावबुध्यसे । पृथिवीं दातुकामोऽपि जीवंस्त्वं नैव मोक्ष्यसे ॥

tvaṃ tu kevalamaurkhyeṇa vimūḍho nāvabudhyase | pṛthivīṃ dātukāmo'pi jīvaṃstvaṃ naiva mokṣyase

But you are deluded by sheer folly and do not understand: even if you wish to give away the earth, you will not leave here alive.

Note on the text: Line 2 is a recension variant of the critical edition's pṛthivīṃ dātukāmo 'pi jīvitenādya mokṣyase.

Verse 67 (9.31.67)

अस्मान्वा त्वं पराजित्य प्रशाधि पृथिवीमिमाम् । अथवा निहतोऽस्माभिर्व्रज लोकाननुत्तमान् ॥

asmānvā tvaṃ parājitya praśādhi pṛthivīmimām | athavā nihato'smābhirvraja lokānanuttamān

Either defeat us and rule this earth, or, slain by us, go to the highest worlds.

Verse 68 (9.31.68)

आवयोर्जीवतो राजन्मयि च त्वयि च ध्रुवम् । संशयः सर्वभूतानां विजये नौ भविष्यति ॥

āvayorjīvato rājanmayi ca tvayi ca dhruvam | saṃśayaḥ sarvabhūtānāṃ vijaye nau bhaviṣyati

While we both live, O king, both you and I, there will surely be doubt among all beings as to which of us will win.

Verse 69 (9.31.69)

जीवितं त्वयि दुष्प्रापं मयि यत्परिवर्तते । जीवयेयमहं कामं न तु त्वं जीवितुं क्षमः ॥

jīvitaṃ tvayi duṣprāpaṃ mayi yatparivartate | jīvayeyamahaṃ kāmaṃ na tu tvaṃ jīvituṃ kṣamaḥ

Your life is hard to keep, for it turns on me; I might let you live if I chose, but you are not fit to live.

Note on the text: Line 1 is a recension variant of the critical edition's 9.30.65a (jīvitaṃ tava duṣprajña mayi saṃprati vartate); line 2 is 9.30.65c.

Verse 70 (9.31.70)

दहने हि कृतो यत्नस्त्वयाऽस्मासु विशेषतः । आशीविषैर्विषैश्चापि जले चापि प्रवेशनैः । त्वया विनिकृता राजन्राज्यस्य हरणेन च ॥

dahane hi kṛto yatnastvayā'smāsu viśeṣataḥ | āśīviṣairviṣaiścāpi jale cāpi praveśanaiḥ | tvayā vinikṛtā rājanrājyasya haraṇena ca

You made a special effort against us to burn us; and with venomous snakes and poisons, and by throwing us into the water, and by seizing our kingdom, you wronged us, O king,

Note on the text: Corrected जले जापि → जले चापि (misprint in Wikisource; ज for च; the critical edition reads jale cāpi).

Verse 71 (9.31.71)

अप्रियाणां च वचनैर्द्रौपद्याः कर्षणेन च । एतस्मात्कारणात्पाप जीवितं न विद्यते ॥

apriyāṇāṃ ca vacanairdraupadyāḥ karṣaṇena ca | etasmātkāraṇātpāpa jīvitaṃ na vidyate

and with insulting words and by the dragging of Draupadi. For this reason, wicked man, your life is forfeit.

Note on the text: Line 1 is the critical edition's star passage 9.30.66f*0187_01 (apriyāṇāṃ ca vacanair draupadyāḥ karṣaṇena ca), which it prints after 9.30.66; line 2 is 9.30.67a (the page omits ते: जीवितं न विद्यते).

Verse 72 (9.31.72)

उत्तिष्ठोत्तिष्ठ युध्यस्व युद्धे श्रेयो भविष्यति ॥

uttiṣṭhottiṣṭha yudhyasva yuddhe śreyo bhaviṣyati

Rise, rise, and fight! Your good lies in battle."

Note on the text: A one-line verse as printed on the page; it corresponds to the critical edition's 9.30.67c (uttiṣṭhottiṣṭha yudhyasva tat te śreyo bhaviṣyati), which the page varies (युद्धे for तत् ते); compare also the star passage 9.30.66f*0189_01 (hradān niṣkramya yudhyasva tataḥ śreyo bhaviṣyati).

Verse 73 (9.31.73)

एवं तु विविधा वाचो जययुक्ताः पुनःपुनः । कीर्तयन्ति स्म ते वीरास्तत्रतत्र जनाधिप ॥

evaṃ tu vividhā vāco jayayuktāḥ punaḥpunaḥ | kīrtayanti sma te vīrāstatratatra janādhipa

In this way, again and again, O lord of men, those heroes uttered many kinds of words full of the confidence of victory, here and there.

Note on the text: Speaker: narration by Sanjaya (the input gave Yudhishthira).