01122001a tato drupadam AsAdya bhAradvAjaH pratApavAn 'Then, O king, the mighty son of Bharadyaja presented himself before drupada,
01122001c abravIt pArSataM rAjan sakhAyaM viddhi mAm iti and addressing that monarch, said, 'Know me for thy friend.' Thus addressed by his friend, the son of Bharadwaja, with a joyous heart, the lord of the pAJcalas was ill-able to bear that speech. The king, intoxicated with the pride of wealth, contracted his brows in wrath, and with reddened eyes spake these words unto droNa,
01122002 drupada uvAca
01122002a akRteyanM tava prajJA brahman nAtisamaJjasI 'O brAhmaNa, thy intelligence is scarcely of a high order,
01122002c yan mAmM bravISi prasabhaM sakhA te 'ham iti dvija inasmuch as thou sayest unto me, all on a sudden, that thou art my friend!
01122003a na hi rAjJAm udIrNAnAm evamMbhUtair naraiH kva cit
01122003c sakhyamM bhavati mandAtmaJ zriyA hInair dhanacyutaiH O thou of dull apprehension, great kings can never be friends with such luckless and indigent wights as thou!
01122004a sauhRdAny api jIryante kAlena parijIryatAm But Time that impaireth everything in its course, impaireth friendship also.
01122004c sauhRdamM me tvayA hy AsIt pUrvaM sAmarthyabandhanam It is true there had been friendship between thee and me before, for we were then both equally circumstanced.
01122005a na sakhyam ajaraM loke jAtu dRzyeta karhi cit In this world, friendship never endureth for ever in any heart.
01122005c kAmo vainaM viharati krodhaz cainamM pravRzcati Time weareth it off and anger destroyeth it too.
01122006a maivaJM jIrNam upAsiSThAsH sakhyanM navam upAkuru Do not stick, therefore, to that worn-off friendship. Think not of it any longer.
01122006c AsIt sakhyanM dvijazreSTha tvayA me 'rthanibandhanam The friendship I had with thee, O first of brAhmaNas, was for a particular purpose.
01122007a na daridro vasumato nAvidvAn viduSasH sakhA Friendship can never subsist between a poor man and a rich man, between a man of letters and an unlettered mind,
01122007c zUrasya na sakhA klIbasH sakhipUrvaGM kim iSyate between a hero and a coward. Why dost thou desire the continuance of our former friendship?
