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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=563119" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mahabharata, Book XI - Kuru Women Visit The Battle-Field</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Spake the ancient Dhrita-rashtra, father of a hundred sons,<br>Sonless now and sorrow-stricken, dark his ebbing life-tide runs:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Gods fulfil my life's last wishes! Henchmen, yoke my royal car,<br>Dhrita-rashtra meets his princes in the silent field of war,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Speed unto the Queen Gandhari, to the dames of Kuru's house,<br>To each dear departed warrior wends his fair and faithful spouse! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Queen Gandhari sorrow-laden with the ancient Pritha came,<br>And each weeping widowed princess and each wailing childless dame,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And they saw the hoary monarch, father of a perished race,<br>Fresh and loud awoke their sorrow, welling tears suffused their face,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Good Vidura ever gentle whispered comfort unto all,<br>Placed the dames within their chariots, left Hastina's palace hall! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Loud the wail of woe and sorrow rose from every Kuru house,<br>Children wept beside their mothers for each widowed royal spouse,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Veiléd dwellers of the palace, scarce the gods their face had seen,<br>Heedless now through mart and city sped each widowed childless queen,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From their royal brow and bosom gem and jewel cast aside,<br>Loose their robes and loose their tresses, quenched their haughty queenly pride! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So when falls the antlered monarch, struck by woe and sudden fear<br>Issuing from their snowy mountains listless stray the dappled deer,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So when smit by sudden panic, milk-white mares that scour the plain,<br>Wildly toss their flowing tresses, shake their soft and glossy mane! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Clinging to her weeping sister wept each dame in cureless pain,<br>For the lord the son or father in the deathful battle slain,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wept and smote her throbbing bosom and in bitter anguish walled,<br>Till her senses reeled in sorrow, till her woman's reason failed! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Veiléd queens and bashful maidens, erst they shunned the public eye,<br>Blush nor shame suffused their faces as they passed the city by,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gentle-bosomed, kindly hearted, erst they wiped each other's tear,<br>Now by common sorrow laden knew no sister's words of cheer! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With this troop of wailing women, deep in woe, disconsolate,<br>Slow the monarch of the Kurus passed Hastina's outer gate,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men from stall and loom and anvil, men of every guild and trade,<br>Left the city with the monarch, through the open country strayed,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And a universal sorrow filled the air and answering sky,<br>As when ends the mortal's Yuga and the end of world is nigh!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Veda+Vyasa">Veda Vyasa</a><div class=q>
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