Winds Yoked To Fight Our Friends
A Nano Drama
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
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