Winds Yoked To Fight Our Friends

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Winds Yoked To Fight Our Friends

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Saṃjaya: "King! The Saindhava horses." (guides Dhṛtarāṣṭra's hand)

Dhṛtarāṣṭra (feeling): "Duḥśalā's messenger said, Ājāneya breed. Tall, swift, untiring." (guides Gāndhārī's hand) "They'll draw Droṇa's chariot."

Vidura: "Beautiful animals, unseen ... winds yoked to fight our friends."

Gāndhārī (feeling): "Ājāneyas ignore noise and pain to finish the fight. What colour?"

Saṃjaya: "Blood."

Canonical basis: Udyogaparvan 37.1-6

Vidura uvāca

saptadaś'emān rāj'endra Manuḥ Svāyaṃbhuvo'bravīt

Vaicitravīrya puruṣān ākāśaṃ muṣṭibhir ghnataḥ

tān ev'Endrasya hi dhanur anāmyaṃ namato'bravīt

atho Marīcinaḥ pādān anāmyān namatas tathā

yaś c'āśiṣyaṃ śāsati yaś ca kupyate

yaś c'ātivelaṃ bhajate dviṣantam

striyaś ca yo'rakṣati bhadram astu te

yaś c'āyācyaṃ yācati yaś ca katthate

yaś c'ābhijātaḥ prakaroty akāryaṃ

yaś c'ābalo balinā nitya-vairī

aśraddadhānāya ca yo bravīti

yaś c'ākāmyaṃ kāmayate nar'endra

vadhvā hāsaṃ śvaśuro yaś ca manyate

vadhvā vasann uta yo māna-kāmaḥ

para-kṣetre nirvapati yaś ca bījaṃ

striyaṃ ca yaḥ parivadate'tivelam

yaś c'aiva labdhvā na smarām'īty uvāca

dattvā ca yaḥ katthati yācyamānaḥ

yaś c'āsataḥ sāntvam upāsat'īha

ete'nuyānty anilaṃ pāśa-hastāḥ

Canonical basis: Droṇaparvan 7.10

tasya śoṇita-digdh'āṅgāḥ śoṇās te vāta-raṃhasaḥ

Ājāneyā hayā rājann avibhrāntāḥ śriyaṃ dadhuḥ

Canonical basis: Droṇaparvan 8.15-19

te ca śoṇā bṛhanto'śvāḥ Saindhavā hema-mālinaḥ

rathe vāta-javā yuktāḥ sarva-śabd'ātigā raṇe

balino ghoṣiṇo dāntāḥ Saindhavāḥ sādhu-vāhinaḥ

dṛḍhāḥ saṃgrāma-madhyeṣu kaccid āsan na vihvalāḥ

kariṇāṃ bṛṃhatāṃ yuddhe śaṅkha-dundubhi-nisvanam

jyā-kṣepa-śara-varṣāṇāṃ śastrāṇāṃ ca sahiṣṇavaḥ

āśaṃsantaḥ parāñ jetuṃ jita-śvāsā jita-vyathāḥ

hayāḥ prajavitāḥ śīghrā Bhāradvāja-rath'odvahāḥ

te sma rukma-rathe yuktā nara-vīra-samāhitāḥ

kathaṃ n'ābhyataraṃs tāta Pāṇḍavānām anīkinīm