Brother's Chariot Returns

Brother's Chariot Returns

A Nano Tale

"Dhṛṣṭaketu's dappled horses that once conveyed me home," Kareṇuvatī thought, "reunite us from afterlife tonight."

Canonical basis: Ādiparvan 90.86

Nakulas tu Caidyāṃ Kareṇuvatīṃ nāma bhāryām udavahat

tasyāṃ putraṃ Niramitraṃ nām'ājanayat

Canonical basis: Āraṇyakaparvan 23.47

Dhṛṣṭaketuḥ svasāraṃ ca samādāy'ātha Cedi-rāṭ

jagāma Pāṇḍavān dṛṣṭvā ramyāṃ Śuktimatīṃ purīm

Canonical basis: Droṇaparvan 22.15-16

putraṃ tu Śiśupālasya nara-siṃhasya māriṣa

ākrīḍanto vahanti sma sāraṅga-śabalā hayāḥ

Dhṛṣṭaketuś ca Cedīnām ṛṣabho'ti-bal'oditaḥ

Kāmbojaiḥ śabalair aśvair abhyavartata durjayaḥ

Canonical basis: Āśramavāsikaparvan 1.22

Dhṛṣṭaketoś ca bhaginī ...

kiṃkarāḥ sm'opatiṣṭhanti sarvāḥ Subala-jāṃ tathā

Canonical basis: Āśramavāsikaparvan 32.13

indīvara-śyāma-tanuḥ sthitā tu

y'aiṣā'par'āsanna-mahī-tale ca

bhāryā matā Mādravatī-sutasya

jyeṣṭhasya se'yaṃ kamal'āyat'ākṣī

Canonical basis: Āśramavāsikaparvan 40.11-14

... Dhṛṣṭaketuś ca s'ānujaḥ ...

ete c'ānye ca bahavo bahutvād ye na kīrtitāḥ

sarve bhāsura-dehās te samuttasthur jalāt tataḥ

yasya vīrasya yo veṣo yo dhvajo yac ca vāhanam

tena tena vyadṛṡyanta samupetā nar'ādhipāḥ