04.015
Kīcaka said.
Welcome to you at the close of the night, my mistress; you have arrived after the night has beautifully passed—please do my beloved wish. (04-15-1)
Let them bring golden necklaces, conch-shells, earrings, armlets, and also garments—both silken and deerskins. (04-15-2)
I have a white bed prepared for you. Come there with me and drink Madhu-Mādhavī. (04-15-3)
Draupadī said.
The princess sent me, the liquor-server, to you. She said: "Bring me a drink quickly, for I am thirsty." (04-15-4)
Kīcaka said.
Vaiśampāyana said: "O auspicious one, other princesses will bring the beverage called parisrutam."
Thus, the son of the charioteer touched her with his right hand. She, having been seized, shaking, threw Kīcaka to the ground and ran towards the assembly for refuge where King Yudhiṣṭhira was. (04-15-6)
Kīcaka, as she was running, caught her by the hair. Then, as the king looked on, he threw her down and struck her with his foot. (04-15-7)
Then, O Bhārata, that demon who had been associated with the sun at that time carried away Kīcaka with the force of the wind. (04-15-8)
He fell to the ground, struck by the strength of the demon, reeling and motionless like a tree whose root had been cut. (04-15-9)
Bhīmasena and Yudhiṣṭhira, sitting there, saw her—Kṛṣṇā—suffering violence by Kīcaka's foot, unable to bear it. (04-15-10)
Bhima, full of anger and intent on killing, crushed the wicked Kīcaka's teeth with his own teeth, being great-minded. (04-15-11)
Then, the king of righteousness pressed down his own thumb with his thumb and, out of fear of waking him, restrained Bhīma, O king. (04-15-12)
She approached the assembly door weeping, and addressed King Matsya while looking at her husbands, who were despondent. (04-15-13)
The daughter of Drupada, as if being burned by a fierce gaze, was protecting her form and her vow joined with righteousness. (04-15-14)
Draupadī said.
Of those whose enemy does not sleep, touching the ground with his foot, of them—the charioteer's son struck me, the proud wife, with his foot. (04-15-15)
The son of a charioteer struck me, the proud wife of those who would give but not beg, who are devoted to Brahman and speakers of truth, with his foot. (04-15-16)
The son of the charioteer struck me, the proud wife of those whose kettle-drum and bowstring are always heard, by the foot. (04-15-17)
Those who are powerful, self-controlled, strong, and proud—of them, to me, their proud wife, the charioteer's son struck with his foot. (04-15-18)
Those who, though bound by the fetters of dharma, would slay all this world, of those, me—the proud wife—the charioteer's son struck on the foot. (4-15-19)
Those who are the refuge of those who have submitted and of those who seek refuge, who move about hidden in the world—where indeed are those great chariot-warriors today? (04-15-20)
How do your powerful and immensely energetic men tolerate their dear and virtuous wife being slain by the charioteer's son like impotent men? (04-15-21)
Where now is their anger, power, and energy, those who do not wish to protect a wife being slain by a wicked man? (04-15-22)
What violation of dharma is possible for me to do here in the kingdom of Virāṭa? Who, seeing me, would tolerate my being slain, though I am innocent? (04-15-23)
O king, you do not act in the least like a king, O Kīcaka. Your conduct is like that of bandits; indeed, it does not shine in the assembly. (04-15-24)
Neither is Kīcaka established in his own duty, nor is the Matsya (king/kingdom) in any way. Even the assembly members are aware of unrighteousness who support this person. (04-15-25)
O King Virāṭa, I did not find you in the public assembly. I most certainly am not involved with him in a way to kill him in your presence in Matsya. Let the members of the assembly see the wrongdoing of Kīcaka. (04-15-26)
Virāṭ said.
I do not know the hidden reason for your quarrel; without understanding the real essence of the matter, how can my welfare be ensured? (04-15-27)
Vaiśampāyana said.
Then the assembly members, recognizing Kṛṣṇā (Draupadī), once more honored her; they said, 'Well done, well done,' and censured Kīcaka. (04-15-28)
The assembly members said.
He who has this charming, beautiful-limbed wife with large eyes, for whom there is such a gain, should never grieve. (04-15-29)
Vaiśampāyana said.
Thus, while honoring Kṛṣṇā there and seeing her, the members of the assembly saw that, due to Yudhiṣṭhira's anger, sweat appeared upon his forehead. (04-15-30)
Then the Kaurava said to the princess, the beloved queen: "Go, Sairandhri, and remain only in Sudeshna's quarters." (04-15-31)
The wives of heroes, who follow their husbands and suffer, endure hardship by dutiful service and thereby truly attain the realm of their husbands. (04-15-32)
I think your masters do not recognize the time for anger. Therefore, Gandharvas of sun-like brilliance do not rush against you. (04-15-33)
You do not know the appropriate time, Sairandhri, and act like an actress. You create disturbance for the Matsyas while they play in the royal court. Leave, Sairandhri—let the Gandharvas do what pleases you. (04-15-34)
Draupadī said.
I, practicing righteousness, am especially angered at those cruel ones for whose sake, here, those ought to be slain whose eldest (brother) worships dice. (04-15-35)
Vaiśampāyana said.
Having said this, Kṛṣṇā (Draupadī), her hair loosened, eyes reddened in agitation, and possessing beautiful hips, ran toward Sudēṣṇā’s residence. (4-15-36)
Then her face, when her weeping stopped, shone like the disk of the moon freed from streaks of cloud in the sky. (04-15-37)
Sudeṣṇa said.
Who has killed you, O lady with beautiful thighs? Why are you weeping, O lovely one? O blessed lady, whose happiness is absent today? By whom has some unpleasant act been done to you? (04-15-38)
Draupadī said.
Kīcaka killed me there, your attendant who had gone to fetch liquor, both in the assembly before the watching king and in privacy in just the same way. (04-15-39)
Sudeṣṇa said.
O Sukeśāntā, if you agree, I will have Kīcaka killed—that man who, intoxicated with desire, covets you, who are hard to attain. (04-15-40)
Draupadī said.
Others, indeed, will kill him who commits an offence against them; I think that he will clearly go to the other world today itself. (04-15-41)
