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11 - Sraddha (Funeral Rites) - Mahabharata · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Book eleven, stad funeral rites. The death of the Urauden
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  Speaker 1: concludes the war, and it is followed by the eleventh of
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  Speaker 1: women and the funerals of the deceased warriors. The passages
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  Speaker 1: translated in this book form section ten, portions of section sixteen, seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: and twenty six, and the whole of section twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: of book eleven. Of the original text, One Kuruimen visit
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  Speaker 1: the battlefield, speak the Ncientrithiashtra, father of a hundred sons,
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  Speaker 1: sunless now and sorrow streakan dark isabbing, lifetied runs, Gods
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  Speaker 1: fulfill my life's last wishes. Hanchmen yoke my royal car
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  Speaker 1: Triterdashtra meets his princess in the silent field of war,
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  Speaker 1: speed unto the Queen Gandhari, to the dames of Kuru's house,
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  Speaker 1: to each dear departed warrior. Whence his fare and faithful
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  Speaker 1: spows Queen gun Hurry sorrow ladin we dance, and Pritha came,
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  Speaker 1: and each weeping widowed princess, and each wailing childless dame,
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  Speaker 1: and the saught the weary monarch, father of a parish race,
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  Speaker 1: fresh and a loud awoke their sorrow volun tears suffused
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  Speaker 1: their face. Good bidoor Ever gentle whispered comfort unto all
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  Speaker 1: placed the dames within their chariots. Left Astina's palace hall loud,
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  Speaker 1: the wail of war and sorrow rose from every curu house,
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  Speaker 1: children who wept beside their mothers. For each widowed royal
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  Speaker 1: spows veiled dwellers of the palace scarce the gods their
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  Speaker 1: face had seen, heedless. Now through Martin City sped each widowed,
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  Speaker 1: childless queen from their royal brow and bosom, gem and
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  Speaker 1: jewel cast aside, lose their robs and lose their treances,
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  Speaker 1: quenched their haughty queenly pride, So one false dan leered monarch,
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  Speaker 1: struck by woe and sudden fear, issuing from their snowy mountains,
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  Speaker 1: leaseless stray that dappled year so upon the broad arena
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  Speaker 1: milk quiet feelius braved, the sun wildly tossed their flowing traces,
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  Speaker 1: and in sad disorder ran clinging to her rooping sister,
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  Speaker 1: Webped Its dame in careless pain for the Lord, the
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  Speaker 1: son or father in the doubtful battle slay Webped and
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  Speaker 1: smote her throbbing bosom and in bitter anguish, wailed till
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  Speaker 1: her senses reeled in sorrow, till her Roman's reason failed.
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  Speaker 1: Veiled queens and bashful maidens, or stay shunned the public
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  Speaker 1: eye blushed, nor same suffused their faces as they passed
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  Speaker 1: the city. By gentle bosoms, kindly hearted ors, they wiped
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  Speaker 1: each other's eye now by common sorrow. Laddin none for sister.
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  Speaker 1: Heaved a sigh with this troop of wailing women, deep
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  Speaker 1: in war, disconsolate, slow, the moner coblic curus passed, has
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  Speaker 1: Dina's outer gait man from stall and loom, and anvil
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  Speaker 1: man of every guild and trade left the city with
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  Speaker 1: the monarch through the open country strade, and the universal
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  Speaker 1: sorrow filled the air and answering sky, as when ends
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  Speaker 1: the mortal's yuga, and the end of world is nigh.
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  Speaker 1: Two Gunderri's lament for the sleeve stainless queen and stainless woman,
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  Speaker 1: ever righteous, ever good, stately in her mighty sorrow. On
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  Speaker 1: the field Gundharry stood stunit skulls and clotted dresses, darkened
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  Speaker 1: by the stream of gore, on the limbs of countless warriors.
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  Speaker 1: Was the red field covered over elephants and steeds of battle.
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  Speaker 1: Carbon chiefs, untimely slain, headless trunks and heads dissevered filled
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  Speaker 1: the red and ghastly plain, and the long run haul
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  Speaker 1: of jackals over the scene of carnage. Rings and the
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  Speaker 1: vulture and the raven flapped their dark and loathsome winds
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  Speaker 1: feasting on the blood of warriors. Fowl pizars filled the air,
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  Speaker 1: vewless forms of hungry rockshes limp from limb. The corpsesed
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  Speaker 1: tear through this scene of death and carnage. Was danc
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  Speaker 1: and monarch lead Krudaims with faltering footsteps stepped amidst the
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  Speaker 1: countless death, and the piercing wail of anguish burst upon
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  Speaker 1: the aquin plain as they saw their sons and fathers, brothers,
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  Speaker 1: lords amidst the slave as they saw the wolves of
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  Speaker 1: jungle feed upon the dustine prey truk. Some wanderers of
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  Speaker 1: the midnight, prowling in the light of day, shriek of
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  Speaker 1: pain and wail of anguish over the ghostly fielery sound,
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  Speaker 1: and their feeble footsteps faltered, and the sink upon the ground,
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  Speaker 1: sands and life desert. The mourners as the faint in
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  Speaker 1: common grief. Death like swan, succeeding sorrow yields the moment's
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  Speaker 1: short relief. Then a mighty sigh of anguish from Gandary's
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  Speaker 1: bosom broke, gazing on her anguished daughters. Unto Krishna. Thus
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  Speaker 1: she spoke mark Man counsel daughters wid ooth queens of
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  Speaker 1: Koru's house, wailing for dear, dear departed, like the offspring
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  Speaker 1: for her spouse. How each cold and fading feature wakes
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  Speaker 1: in dam a woman's love. How amidst the lifeless warriors, steely,
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  Speaker 1: restless tapes, they rove mothers hugged their slaughtered children, all
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  Speaker 1: unconscious in their sleep, wi those bent upon their husbands,
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  Speaker 1: and in ceaseless sorrow weep mighty Vishma hath he fallen,
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  Speaker 1: Quen's disarcher, Current's pride, drupid Monarcho Pancha sleeps by foeman
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  Speaker 1: Rona's sigh. Shining mail and costly jewels, royal bangles strewed
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  Speaker 1: the plain, golden garlands, rich and varnished, tagged the chief's
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  Speaker 1: untimely sleigh lances hurled by stalwart fighters, clubs of mighty wrestlers,
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  Speaker 1: keeled swords and bows of ample measure quiver steel with
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  Speaker 1: arrow's field marked on forgotten heroes. Jungle prowlers made them
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  Speaker 1: stray on their brow and mailed bosoms heedless perch the
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  Speaker 1: birds of prey mark the great unconquered heroes famed on
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  Speaker 1: art from west to east. Conquers perch upon their foreheads,
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  Speaker 1: hung revolves upon them. Feast mark the kings on soft
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  Speaker 1: excushion scars. Then need address they found now the lying
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  Speaker 1: peaceful slumber on the hard and reddened ground. Mark the
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  Speaker 1: youths who morn and evening listed to the minstrel's sun.
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  Speaker 1: In the rear, the lonesome jackal doth his doleful wail prolonged.
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  Speaker 1: See the chieftains, with their mass and their swords of
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  Speaker 1: trusty steel steel. They grasped their tried weapons to the steel.
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  Speaker 1: The lifefulse feel tree Gandhari's lament for Duryudhan. Thus to Krishna,
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  Speaker 1: Queen Gandhari strove her woeful thoughts to tell when alas
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  Speaker 1: her rendering vision on her son Duryodhan, fell sudden anguish
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  Speaker 1: smote her bosom, and her senses seemed to stray like
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  Speaker 1: a tree by tempest, shaken senseless on the earth, she
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  Speaker 1: lay once again, she waked in no sorrow. Once again
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  Speaker 1: she cast her eye where her son, in blood and purple,
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  Speaker 1: slept beneath the top and sky, and she clapped her
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  Speaker 1: dear Duryudhan, hurled him close on to her breast. Sobs
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  Speaker 1: convulsive shook her bosom as the lifeless forms he pressed,
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  Speaker 1: and her tears like rains of summer, fell and washed
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  Speaker 1: his noble heath jagged at curland, still untarnished, grazed at
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  Speaker 1: Nishka's bright and wrath. Madr said, my dear Duryadan, when
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  Speaker 1: he went on too the war, wish me joy and
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  Speaker 1: wish me triumph. As I mount to battle car Son,
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  Speaker 1: I said to dear Duryodhan, have an ever to cruel
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  Speaker 1: faith yatudhrmasta tujaya triumph dot on virtue. Wait. But he
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  Speaker 1: set his heart on battle by his valor wiped his scenes.
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  Speaker 1: Now he dwells in real cele steel which the faithful
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  Speaker 1: warrior winds. And I weep not for Duryode like a prince.
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  Speaker 1: He fought and fell. But my sorrow streacken husband, who
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  Speaker 1: can his misfortunes teal aye, My son was brave and princely,
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  Speaker 1: all resistless in the war. Now he sleeps the sleep
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  Speaker 1: of warriors, sunk in gloom. His glorious star I my
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  Speaker 1: son meet ground monarchs held the first and foremost way.
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  Speaker 1: Now he rests upon the red art, quenched his bright
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  Speaker 1: offult and ray Aye my son, the best of heroes.
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  Speaker 1: He had won the warrior's sky, Shetrya's nobly conquered Krishna.
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  Speaker 1: When in war the nobly die. Hark the loathesome cry
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  Speaker 1: of jackals. How the wolves their vigils keep maidens rich
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  Speaker 1: in song and beauty. Airstwe to watch his sleep hark
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  Speaker 1: the foullen, bloodbeaked vultures plapped their wings upon the dead.
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  Speaker 1: Maidens swept their feedery. Ponkahs round Turitan's royal bed, Peerless bowmen,
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  Speaker 1: mighty mowner nations steel his hasts obeyed as a lion
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  Speaker 1: slay is a tiger. Vima had Turyatan's slay thirteen years
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  Speaker 1: over Kuru's empire. Proud Duritan held his sway Rolldestino's ensient city,
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  Speaker 1: where fair Ganga's water stray. I have seen his regal
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  Speaker 1: splendor with these ancient eyes of mine, elephants and battle chariots,
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  Speaker 1: steeds of war and hearts of kin. Kurwans another master,
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  Speaker 1: and Durliton's day is fled, and I leave to be
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  Speaker 1: a witness. Krishna, Oh that I were dead marked Ruden's
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  Speaker 1: noble widow murther proud of blushment, bold, queenly in her
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  Speaker 1: eat and beauty like an altar of bright gold, turn
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  Speaker 1: from husband's sweet embraces, from her son's and twining arms.
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  Speaker 1: Doomed to lifelong war and anguish in her ut and
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  Speaker 1: in her charms, rand my herd and stony bosom crushed
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  Speaker 1: beneath this cruel pain, should gun her relief to witness
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  Speaker 1: noble son and grandsons, laying mark again. Turitan's widow, How
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  Speaker 1: she Hugsy's gory head, How with gentle hands and tender
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  Speaker 1: softly holds him on his bed. How from dear departed
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  Speaker 1: husband tawned she to her dearer son, And the tear
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  Speaker 1: drops of the murder choked the widow's bitter groan like
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  Speaker 1: the fiber of the lotus tell under golden is her frame,
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  Speaker 1: O my lortus, Oh my daughter were it's pride and
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  Speaker 1: CRU's fay. If the truth resideth in vadas, brave do
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  Speaker 1: did and dwells above, wherefore lingerine sadness severed from his
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  Speaker 1: cherished love. If the truth resides in sastre dwells in sky,
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  Speaker 1: my hero's son for Guandharry and her daughter. Now their
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  Speaker 1: earthly task is done for funeral. Rite victor of a
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  Speaker 1: doubtful battle said, it is to reviewed the plain, friends
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  Speaker 1: and kinsmen, kings and chieftains, countless troops, untimely slain, and
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  Speaker 1: he speak to white sudermand pious priest of CRU's race Untu,
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  Speaker 1: Sanjay and Doomia to bidure full of grace, spake unto
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  Speaker 1: the brave Jiujitsu, CRU's last surviving chief, speak to faithful
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  Speaker 1: in Rosenna and to warriors sunk in grief. Pious rides
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  Speaker 1: her due to foemen and to friends and kinsman's lane.
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  Speaker 1: None shall lack a fitting funeral. None shall paris on
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  Speaker 1: the plain. Wise Widurr and his comrades sped on sacred duty,
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  Speaker 1: bound Sandalut and Santa Deelowis, oil and key and perfumes
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  Speaker 1: found silken robes of costly splendor, fabrics by the artist's wharf,
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  Speaker 1: drivoot from the torny jungle, perfume from the sanded grove,
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  Speaker 1: shattered cars and splintered lances, hewed and ready for the fire,
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  Speaker 1: piled and ranged in perfect order into many a funeral pyre.
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  Speaker 1: Kings and princes, noble warriors were in rank and order
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  Speaker 1: laid and with streams of melted butter were the rich
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  Speaker 1: libations made waste the fire with wondrous radiance by their
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  Speaker 1: rich libations fed sanctifying and consuming mortal remnants of the dead.
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  Speaker 1: Brave di Urdan and his brothers Celia of the Mighty
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  Speaker 1: car Uistawa's King of Nations Jadrad famed in war of
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  Speaker 1: him Nu, son of Virtun, Lutschman Proud Dathan son so
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  Speaker 1: Madata and the Syringes feigned for deeds of Valor Duane,
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  Speaker 1: much as Monarch Proud Bidad drupet Fair Panchal's king and
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  Speaker 1: his sons Panchal's princess, whose great deeds the minstrels sing cultured.
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  Speaker 1: Monarch of Koshal and Gandhar's wildly lord Kern proud in
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  Speaker 1: puerist archer matchless with his flaming sword Vagadat the Eastern
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  Speaker 1: monarch all registers in his car Qotad Katch son of
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  Speaker 1: Wema Alumbasha faimed in war, and a hundred other monarchs
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  Speaker 1: all received a pious rite till the radiance of the
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  Speaker 1: firelight chased the shadows of the night. Pittrimidha due to
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  Speaker 1: Fathers was performed with pious care. Hemns and wails and
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  Speaker 1: lamentations mingled in the midnight air. Sacred songs of reek
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  Speaker 1: and summon rose with women's piercing wail, and the creatures
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  Speaker 1: of the wide heart hard the sound subdued and pale, smokeless,
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  Speaker 1: and its radiant luster shone, its red and lighted pyre
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  Speaker 1: like the planets of the bright sky, dropping with celestial fire.
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  Speaker 1: Countless myriads, nameless, friendless from each court and camp afar
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  Speaker 1: from the east and west collected fell in Kurukshetra's war.
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  Speaker 1: Thousand fires for them were lighted. They received a pious ride.
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  Speaker 1: Such was good distres mandate, Such was wise Bidure's smile.
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  Speaker 1: All the dead were burned to ashes, and the sacred
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  Speaker 1: ride was over Thritarashtra and it his tear slowly walked
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  Speaker 1: to Gangha's shore. Five oblation to Kern. Sacred Gangha ample
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  Speaker 1: bosomed sweeps along in regal pride, rolling down her limpid
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  Speaker 1: waters through high banks on either side, kru daimes and
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  Speaker 1: weeping widows teeter in their anguish came theven holy rights
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  Speaker 1: to render to departed chiefs of fame. Casting forth their
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  Speaker 1: jeweled girdles, gems and scarves belazed with gold, gave oblations
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  Speaker 1: of the water to which Hero true and bold, unto fathers,
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  Speaker 1: unto husbands, unto sons in battle, slave offerings of the
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  Speaker 1: sacred water, soaring wives and mother's maid and so great
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  Speaker 1: the host of mourners went in to perform their ride,
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  Speaker 1: that their footsteps made a pathway in the sad and
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  Speaker 1: sacred side, and the shelving banks of Gangha, peopled by
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  Speaker 1: the soaring train, wide, expanding, vast and sea like, form
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  Speaker 1: a scene of woe and pane. But a wave of
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  Speaker 1: keener sorrow swept over Pritha's heaving breast. As unto her
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  Speaker 1: whooping children does her secrets, She expressed, He my sons,
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  Speaker 1: the peerless bowman mighty in his battle car, he who
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  Speaker 1: bore a stamp of Hero slain by Urgin in the war,
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  Speaker 1: He whom, as the son of brad chariot driver, ye
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  Speaker 1: have taught, he who shown itch Suria's lusser, as his
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  Speaker 1: countless foes he fought. He who faced your stoutest warriors,
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  Speaker 1: and in battle never failed. He who led the crew forces,
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  Speaker 1: and in danger never quailed. He who knew no peer
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  Speaker 1: in prois owned in war no hoftier name. He who
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  Speaker 1: wielded life not honor, and by death had conquered fame.
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  Speaker 1: He in truth, who never faltered, never left his vow
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  Speaker 1: undone offer unto him oblation. Kern was my eldest son.
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  Speaker 1: Karn was your honored elder, and the son inspired his birth. Kern,
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  Speaker 1: in his rings and armor, son like drought, the spacious
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  Speaker 1: art Pritta spake, and terror stricken punder brothers groaned in pain,
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  Speaker 1: and they wept in war and anguish for the brother
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  Speaker 1: they slain. He sing forth his sigh of sorrow like
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  Speaker 1: a trodden hissing snake, said it is dear to his mother.
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  Speaker 1: Thus his in not feeling spake, didst thou mother bear
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  Speaker 1: the hero fathomless like ocean dread, whose unfailing glistening arrows
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  Speaker 1: like its countless below spead? Didst thou bear that pure
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  Speaker 1: des archer, all resistless, in his car sweeping with a
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  Speaker 1: roar of ocean through the shattered ranks of war, didst
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  Speaker 1: thou bear the mighty hero, mortal man of avonlea bird
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  Speaker 1: crushing beneath his arm of valor, all his foemen on
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  Speaker 1: the earth, didst thou hide the Barton lineage obbed a
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  Speaker 1: chief of that full liar, as a man in folds
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  Speaker 1: of garments seeks to hide the flaming fire. Urgent Wilder
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  Speaker 1: of Gandhi was for us no true or stay. Then
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  Speaker 1: was Karne for the Curus in the battle's drd array
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  Speaker 1: monarchs match. Not Carne's glory nor his deeds of valor
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  Speaker 1: done means the mighty carbon Warriors, mightiest warrior, krn Shorn
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  Speaker 1: was eaten, our eldest brother we have in the battle, slain,
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  Speaker 1: and our nearest dearest elder fell upon the gory play.
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  Speaker 1: Not the death of our revenue from the affairs of Hadratorn,
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  Speaker 1: Not the slaughter of the princess by the proud drop
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  Speaker 1: of the born, Not the fall of Kuru warriors, nor
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  Speaker 1: Pancha's mighty host like die that afflicts my bosom, noble
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  Speaker 1: Kern loved and lost, Monarch's empire, Victor's glory. All the
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  Speaker 1: treasure's art can yield righteous, bless and heavenly gladness, harvest
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  Speaker 1: of the swark's field, All that wish can shape and utter,
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  Speaker 1: all that nourish can hope and pride. All were our
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  Speaker 1: so noble Karna, with thee by thy brother's side, and
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  Speaker 1: this carnage of the Curuz, these sad eyes had never seen.
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  Speaker 1: Peace had graced our blessed empire. Happy. The art had
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  Speaker 1: beam long bewailed the sandy steir for his elder, loved
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  Speaker 1: and dead, and the oblation of the water to the
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  Speaker 1: noble carn maid and the royal names of Kuru viewed
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  Speaker 1: the slighted, freshening pain wept to see the gooded his
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  Speaker 1: tar offering to his brother slain, and the widowed Queen
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  Speaker 1: of Karn, with the women of his house, gave oblations
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  Speaker 1: to her hero wept her loved and slaughtered spous turned
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  Speaker 1: their rights to the departed, done oblations to the dead. Slowly,
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  Speaker 1: then the set survivors of the river's margins spread far
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  Speaker 1: along the shore and sand bank of the sacred sea
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  Speaker 1: extreme made in matron, laved their bodies beneath the morning's
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  Speaker 1: holy beam, and ablutions done. The crew's slow and sad
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  Speaker 1: and cheerless part went their way to Horace Dinner with
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  Speaker 1: a wide and vacant heart, and of book eleven