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द्रुपदशासन (drupadazAsana)

 
Mahabharata
English
[Drupadaśāsana(ṃ)]
(“the chastising of Drupada”). § 209 (Sambhavap.): Droṇa now one day asked the Dhārtarāshṭras and Pāṇḍavas for his fee as their instructor, saying: “Seize ye the Pāñcāla king Drupada in battle and bring him to me.” Duryodhana, Karṇa, Yuyutsu, Duḥśāsana, Vikarṇa, Jalasandha, Sulocana, Subāhu, Dīrghalocana, etc., smote the Pāñcālas and conquered the capital of Drupada, while Arjuna, etc., waited outside the town at a distance of half a krośa, thinking that the others were not able to seize Drupada. Defeated by Drupada, they fell back upon the Pāṇḍavas. Arjuna, bidding Yudhishṭhira not to engage in the fight, appointed the sons of Mādrī his cakrarakshas, while Bhīmasena, mace in hand, ran ahead to slay the elephants, while Arjuna attacked the Pāñcālas and Sṛñjayas and felled Drupada from his elephant. Drupada and Satyajit rushed at Arjuna. Satyajit had his bows repeatedly cut in twain and his horses, etc., slain, and desisted from the fight. Drupada also had his bow cut in twain, etc., by Arjuna, who then took a scimitar and, leaping from his own chariot upon that of his foe, seized Drupada, while the Pāñcālas ran away. Bhīma, etc., began to lay waste his capital, but were prevented by Arjuna. Droṇa prevailed upon Drupada to accept his friendship, and restored half his kingdom to him, viz., that part of it that lay on the southern side of the Bhāgīrathī, with the southern Pāñcālas, up to the banks of the Carmaṇvatī river, where Drupada thenceforth resided sorrowfully in Kāmpilya in Mākandī, on the banks of Gaṅgā, while Droṇa (because Drupada had said that only a king could be the friend of a king) retained that half that lay to the north of the Bhāgīrathī, and thenceforth continued to reside in Ahicchatra (I, 138).