“Janamejaya said, ‘When that foremost person among the Kauravas, viz.,Bhishma, was lying on a bed of arrows,–a bed that is always coveted byheroes,–and when the Pandavas, were sitting around him, my greatgrandsire Yudhishthira of much wisdom, heard these expositions ofmysteries with respect to the subject of duty and had all his doubtssolved.
1 [स]
समरे ऽतयुग्र कर्माणः कर्मभिर वयञ्जित शरमाः
स कृष्णाः पाण्डवाः पञ्च देवैर अपि दुरासदाः
बादशाह अकबर ने बीरबल से पूछा – “क्या किसी मनुष्य में एक साथ पीर, बावर्ची, भिश्ती और खर (मजदूरी करने वाला) के गुण हो सकते हैं? मुझे ऐसे मनुष्य से मिलने की बहुत इच्छा है|”
1 [जनम]
एवं हृतायां कृष्णायां पराप्य कलेशम अनुत्तमम
परतिलभ्य ततः कृष्णां किम अकुर्वन्त पाण्डवाः
“Sanjaya said, ‘I did thee farewell, O divine ruler of men. I will nowdepart, O son of Pandu. Let prosperity be thine. I hope, I have notcarried away by the feelings of my heart, given utterance to anythingoffensive.
1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither Jehovah thy God hath driven thee,
“Bhishma continued, ‘The Nagas of that city became exceedingly distressedwhen they saw that that Brahmana, devoted to the practice of penances,continued to reside in the forest, entirely abstaining all the while fromfood, in expectation of the arrival of the Naga chief.
