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Rh So the Lord of all the Senses, by the Lord of Sleep addrest, Placed that best of cars, O Bhârat, right between the armies’ best.

Right in face of Bhishma, Drona, and of all the Lords of land;— Then he said, “O son of Pritha, see the Kurus in a band.”

There the mighty son of Pritha fathers and grandfathers saw, Tutors, uncles, brothers, children, grandsons, kinsmen, sires-in-law,

Comrades too in either army;———then beholding kin and kind, Said the son of Kunti, deeply moved by passion, sad in mind:

“Seeing all these kinsmen, Krishna here prepared to fight or die, Lo! my limbs are waxing languid, and my mouth is waxing dry;

“Lo! a quake is on my body, and my hair on bristles turns, Gandiv from my hand is slipping and my skin with fever burns;

“Nay, I cannot stand erect, for all my mind is whirling round, And a crowd of froward omens, O thou Hairy One, is found.

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