अश्रुतपुर्वे खलु.....तावद्भण । These words of thine are, indeed, of a kind never hitherto heard by me; so do repeat them Once more.
P. 7. संदेशोऽयमांर्यपुत्रेण अव्युत्पन्न इव गृहीतः-You have taken the message as if it were mearningless or without significance.
का पुनरत्र व्युत्पत्तिः -Where lies the significance of it, pray ?
st, r6. Translation :-Give us the four villages, इन्द्रप्रस्थ, वृकप्रस्थ, जयन्त and वारणावत and any fifth.
तदेवमनया etc..... मन्ये । So this demand for villages by their specific names and the non-mention of the fifth by name signify, to my mind, emphatic mention of places signalised by grievous wrongs clone to us, such as, administering poison, burning the house of lac and decoying us into gambling.
उद्घाटनम् =Bringing to prominent notice, emphatic mention.
When turned out from हस्तिनापुर, the Pandavas betook thernselves to इन्द्रप्रस्थ. At वृकप्रस्थ Bhima was poisoned. At जयन्त the Pandavas were tempted to gamble. And at वारणावत they were put into the house of lac and fire was set to it.
साटोप==Vehemently, with vehermence, or proudly, magestically. ।
एवं कृते लोके......भवति । This mode of procedure will, on the one hand, reveal to the public a heart shrinking from the thought of the extinction of our own race ; on the other hand, it will prove to the world the irreconcilableness of the Kuru King.
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St. x7. क्रोधात् शत्रुकुलक्षय: युष्मान् लोके द्वेपयति । सभायां दाराणां कैशकर्षणं (यष्मान् ) न लज्जयति । द्वेपयति a लज्जयति are both causals.
Traslation :-Extirpating the enemy's family in a furry is what makes you feel ashamed in public ? The pulling of your wife's hair in an open assembly does not make you blush?
मा बिस्मार्षीः, Idiomatic use of the Aorist in the second person with the prohibitive particle मा and the temporal argument' dropped.
चिरयति-Denominative from चिरम्, Delays.
का खलु वेलात्रभवत्याः प्राप्तायाः । How long is it now since her ladyship arrived !
