04.008
वैशम्पायन उवाच॥
Vaiśampāyana said.
ततः केशान्समुत्क्षिप्य वेल्लिताग्राननिन्दितान्। जुगूह दक्षिणे पार्श्वे मृदूनसितलोचना ॥०४-८-१॥
Then, the fair-eyed woman took her blameless, curled-tipped hair, lifted it up, and concealed the soft locks on her right side. (04-8-1)
वासश्च परिधायैकं कृष्णं सुमलिनं महत्। कृत्वा वेषं च सैरन्ध्र्याः कृष्णा व्यचरदार्तवत् ॥०४-८-२॥
Kṛṣṇā, having put on a single large, dark, very dusty garment and having assumed the appearance of Sairandhri, moved about appearing afflicted. (04-8-2)
तां नराः परिधावन्तीं स्त्रियश्च समुपाद्रवन्। अपृच्छंश्चैव तां दृष्ट्वा का त्वं किं च चिकीर्षसि ॥०४-८-३॥
Men running around and women also approached her closely, and having seen her, they indeed asked: "Who are you? What do you intend to do?" (04-8-3)
सा तानुवाच राजेन्द्र सैरन्ध्र्यहमुपागता। कर्म चेच्छामि वै कर्तुं तस्य यो मां पुपुक्षति ॥०४-८-४॥
She said to them, O king, 'I am Sairandhrī, I have come. I wish to do work for the one who desires me.' (04-8-4)
तस्या रूपेण वेषेण श्लक्ष्णया च तथा गिरा। नाश्रद्दधत तां दासीमन्नहेतोरुपस्थिताम् ॥०४-८-५॥
By her appearance, dress, gentleness, and speech in that manner, they did not believe her to be a maidservant who had appeared merely for the sake of food. (04-8-5)
विराटस्य तु कैकेयी भार्या परमसंमता। अवलोकयन्ती ददृशे प्रासादाद्द्रुपदात्मजाम् ॥०४-८-६॥
But Kaikeyī, the greatly esteemed wife of Virāṭa, while looking from the palace, saw the daughter of Drupada. (04-8-6)
सा समीक्ष्य तथारूपामनाथामेकवाससम्। समाहूयाब्रवीद्भद्रे का त्वं किं च चिकीर्षसि ॥०४-८-७॥
She, seeing her in such a state—helpless and wearing a single garment—called her and said: 'O auspicious one, who are you, and what do you wish to do?' (04-8-7)
सा तामुवाच राजेन्द्र सैरन्ध्र्यहमुपागता। कर्म चेच्छाम्यहं कर्तुं तस्य यो मां पुपुक्षति ॥०४-८-८॥
She said to her, "O king, I have come as a female attendant; I wish also to do the work of the one who will employ me." (04-8-8)
सुदेष्णोवाच॥
Sudeshna said.
नैवंरूपा भवन्त्येवं यथा वदसि भामिनि। प्रेषयन्ति च वै दासीर्दासांश्चैवंविधान्बहून् ॥०४-८-९॥
They are not of such a form as you say, O beautiful lady. Indeed, they send forth many female and male servants of this kind. (04-8-9)
गूढगुल्फा संहतोरुस्त्रिगम्भीरा षडुन्नता। रक्ता पञ्चसु रक्तेषु हंसगद्गदभाषिणी ॥०४-८-१०॥
She has hidden ankles, joined thighs, three deep marks, six elevations, a reddish hue in five reddish parts, and speaks in a broken voice like a swan. (04-8-10)
सुकेशी सुस्तनी श्यामा पीनश्रोणिपयोधरा। तेन तेनैव सम्पन्ना काश्मीरीव तुरङ्गमा ॥०४-८-११॥
She, with beautiful hair and lovely breasts, dark-complexioned and full-hipped and full-breasted, endowed with those very qualities, was like a mare from Kashmir. (04-8-11)
स्वरालपक्ष्मनयना बिम्बोष्ठी तनुमध्यमा। कम्बुग्रीवा गूढसिरा पूर्णचन्द्रनिभानना ॥०४-८-१२॥
She has eyes with long eyelashes, lips like the bimba fruit, a slender waist; a neck shaped like a conch, hidden veins, and a face like the full moon. (04-8-12)
का त्वं ब्रूहि यथा भद्रे नासि दासी कथञ्चन। यक्षी वा यदि वा देवी गन्धर्वी यदि वाप्सराः ॥०४-८-१३॥
Who are you? Tell me, O auspicious one, since you are not a maidservant in any way. Are you a female Yakṣa, or perhaps a goddess, or a Gandharvī, or an Apsaras? (04-8-13)
अलम्बुसा मिश्रकेशी पुण्डरीकाथ मालिनी। इन्द्राणी वारुणी वा त्वं त्वष्टुर्धातुः प्रजापतेः ॥ देव्यो देवेषु विख्यातास्तासां त्वं कतमा शुभे ॥०४-८-१४॥
Are you Alambusā, Miśrakeśī, Puṇḍarīkā, or Mālinī; Indrāṇī, Vāruṇī, or (the goddess) of Tvaṣṭā, Dhātā, or Prajāpati? Among the goddesses renowned among the gods, which one are you, O auspicious lady? (04-8-14)
द्रौपद्युवाच॥
Draupadī said.
नास्मि देवी न गन्धर्वी नासुरी न च राक्षसी। सैरन्ध्री तु भुजिष्यास्मि सत्यमेतद्ब्रवीमि ते ॥०४-८-१५॥
I am not a goddess, not a female Gandharva, not an Asura, nor a demoness. I am truly Sairandhri, a waiting-woman; this is truth I tell you. (04-8-15)
केशाञ्जानाम्यहं कर्तुं पिंषे साधु विलेपनम्। ग्रथयिष्ये विचित्राश्च स्रजः परमशोभनाः ॥०४-८-१६॥
I know how to prepare an excellent unguent for the hair; I will also make various and very beautiful garlands. (04-8-16)
आराधयं सत्यभामां कृष्णस्य महिषीं प्रियाम्। कृष्णां च भार्यां पाण्डूनां कुरूणामेकसुन्दरीम् ॥०४-८-१७॥
Worshipping Satyabhāmā, the beloved queen of Kṛṣṇa, and also Kṛṣṇā, the wife of the Pāṇḍavas and the one peerlessly beautiful woman among the Kurus. (04-8-17)
तत्र तत्र चराम्येवं लभमाना सुशोभनम्। वासांसि यावच्च लभे तावत्तावद्रमे तथा ॥०४-८-१८॥
I wander here and there in this way, acquiring beautiful garments; as long as I can obtain them, to that extent I take pleasure in them in this way. (4-8-18)
मालिनीत्येव मे नाम स्वयं देवी चकार सा। साहमभ्यागता देवि सुदेष्णे त्वन्निवेशनम् ॥०४-८-१९॥
"Mālinī" is the name she herself has given me; I have come, O lady, O Sudeṣṇā, to your house. (04-8-19)
सुदेष्णोवाच॥
Sudeṣṇā said.
मूर्ध्नि त्वां वासयेयं वै संशयो मे न विद्यते। नो चेदिह तु राजा त्वां गच्छेत्सर्वेण चेतसा ॥०४-८-२०॥
I would indeed place you upon my head; I have no doubt about it. But if the king, here, should go with all his heart, (then it is so). (04-8-20)
स्त्रियो राजकुले पश्य याश्चेमा मम वेश्मनि। प्रसक्तास्त्वां निरीक्षन्ते पुमांसं कं न मोहयेः ॥०४-८-२१॥
See the women of the royal family, and these here in my house, who are attached, gaze at you; what man would you not cause to be deluded? (04-8-21)
वृक्षांश्चावस्थितान्पश्य य इमे मम वेश्मनि। तेऽपि त्वां संनमन्तीव पुमांसं कं न मोहयेः ॥०४-८-२२॥
See also the trees standing here in my house; even they seem to bow down to you. What man would you not delude? (04-8-22)
राजा विराटः सुश्रोणि दृष्ट्वा वपुरमानुषम्। विहाय मां वरारोहे त्वां गच्छेत्सर्वचेतसा ॥०४-८-२३॥
King Virāṭa, O beautiful-thighed one, upon seeing your human form, may abandon me and turn to you with all his heart, O best among women. (04-8-23)
यं हि त्वमनवद्याङ्गि नरमायतलोचने। प्रसक्तमभिवीक्षेथाः स कामवशगो भवेत् ॥०४-८-२४॥
O wide-eyed and faultless-limbed one, any man whom you look upon with attachment indeed becomes subject to desire. (04-8-24)
यश्च त्वां सततं पश्येत्पुरुषश्चारुहासिनि। एवं सर्वानवद्याङ्गि स चानङ्गवशो भवेत् ॥०४-८-२५॥
And the man who always looks at you, O one with a charming smile, in this way, O one with faultless limbs, he too becomes subject to the sway of Kāma (the god of love). (04-8-25)
यथा कर्कटकी गर्भमाधत्ते मृत्युमात्मनः। तथाविधमहं मन्ये वासं तव शुचिस्मिते ॥०४-८-२६॥
Just as the female crab bears within herself the cause of her own death, so too I consider living with you, O pure-smiling one. (04-8-26)
द्रौपद्युवाच॥
Draupadī said.
नास्मि लभ्या विराटेन न चान्येन कथञ्चन। गन्धर्वाः पतयो मह्यं युवानः पञ्च भामिनि ॥०४-८-२७॥
I cannot be obtained by Virāṭa nor by anyone else in any way. The Gandharvas, five young men, are my husbands, O beautiful one. (04-8-27)
पुत्रा गन्धर्वराजस्य महासत्त्वस्य कस्यचित्। रक्षन्ति ते च मां नित्यं दुःखाचारा तथा न्वहम् ॥०४-८-२८॥
The sons of a certain great-souled king of the Gandharvas always protect me and are accustomed to sorrow; thus indeed am I. (04-8-28)
यो मे न दद्यादुच्छिष्टं न च पादौ प्रधावयेत्। प्रीयेयुस्तेन वासेन गन्धर्वाः पतयो मम ॥०४-८-२९॥
Whoever does not give me food leavings and does not make my feet hurry, the Gandharvas, my lords, would be pleased by that garment. (04-8-29)
यो हि मां पुरुषो गृध्येद्यथान्याः प्राकृतस्त्रियः। तामेव स ततो रात्रिं प्रविशेदपरां तनुम् ॥०४-८-३०॥
If a man should desire me as ordinary men do other women, then, from that night, he would enter another body. (04-8-30)
न चाप्यहं चालयितुं शक्या केनचिदङ्गने। दुःखशीला हि गन्धर्वास्ते च मे बलवत्तराः ॥०४-८-३१॥
O lady, I too am not able to be moved by anyone. The Gandharvas indeed are of a suffering nature, and they are stronger than me. (4-8-31)
सुदेष्णोवाच॥
Sudeṣṇa said;
एवं त्वां वासयिष्यामि यथा त्वं नन्दिनीच्छसि। न च पादौ न चोच्छिष्टं स्प्रक्ष्यसि त्वं कथञ्चन ॥०४-८-३२॥
Thus I will make you stay as you, Nandini, wish. And you shall not touch feet nor leavings of food in any way. (04-8-32)
वैशम्पायन उवाच॥
Vaiśampāyana said.
एवं कृष्णा विराटस्य भार्यया परिसान्त्विता। न चैनां वेद तत्रान्यस्तत्त्वेन जनमेजय ॥०४-८-३३॥
Thus Kṛṣṇā was consoled by the wife of Virāṭa. No one else there truly recognized her, O Janamejaya. (04-8-33)
