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[ Some texts read, Vilwam nagaviodhara—i.e., ‘As an elephant lifts up a vela fruit.’
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[ Veri means both a kettle-drum and a trumpet. The latter however conveys a better meaning here.]
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[ Literally, force of his thighs.]
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[ What Bhima says is this.—The Gandharvas, your husbands, are always obedient to thee! If they have been able to do thee a service, they have only repaid a debt.]
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[ Krita-krita—Nilakantha explains this to mean ‘imagining themselves to have achieved success in their mission’ for having learnt of Kichaka’s death, they could readily guess the presence of the Pandavas there. This is too far-fetched and does not at all agree with the spirit of their report to Duryodhana below. And then the same word occurs in the very last line of the Section. I take it that in both places the word has been used in the same sense.]