Chapter 71

“Dhritarashtra said, ‘O Sanjaya, I envy those gifted with sight, who willbehold before them that Vasudeva whose body endued with great beautyshineth with effulgence, illuminating the cardinal and subsidiary pointsof the compass; who will give utterance to words that will be listened towith respect by the Bharatas,–words that are auspicious to theSrinjayas, acceptable, by those desirous of prosperity, faultless inevery respect, and unacceptable by those that are doomed to death; who isfull of high resolves, eternal, possessed of unrivalled heroism, who isthe bull of the Yadavas and their leader, and who is the slayer andawe-inspirer of all foes, and who is the destroyer of the fame of everyenemy? The assembled Kauravas will behold that high-souled and adorableOne, that slayer of foes, that chief of the Vrishnis, uttering words fullof kindness, and fascinating all of my party. I put myself in the hand ofthat Eternal one, that Rishi endued with knowledge of Self, that ocean ofeloquence, that Being who is easily attainable by ascetics, that birdcalled Arishta furnished with beautiful wings, that destroyer ofcreatures, that refuge of the universe; that one of a thousand heads,that Creator and Destroyer of all things, that Ancient one, that onewithout beginning, middle, or end, that one of infinite achievements,that cause of the Prime seed, that unborn one, that Eternity’s self, thathighest of the high, that Creator of the three worlds, that Author ofgods, Asuras, Nagas, and Rakshasas, that foremost of all learned personsand rulers of men, that younger brother of Indra.'”