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[ The Burdwan Pundits render this verse by carelessly taking, Viryavat as an adjective of saram. It qualifies Sahadeva. The reading Viryavat occurs in no text.]
417 ([return])
[ Lit. “This one no longer is” i.e., ‘alive’.]
418 ([return])
[ The original is Vichnvantas (a practical) meaning ‘plucking as flowers’.]
419 ([return])
[ These, in Hindu physiology, are the three humours of the body always contending for mastery over the vital forces.]
420 ([return])
[ Bhima had vowed to slay the sons of Dhritarashtra; therefore, Abhimanyu liked not to falsify his uncle’s vow by himself slaying any of them.]