05103001a garuDas tat tu zuzrAva yathAvRttamM mahAbalaH 'Kanwa said, 'Meanwhile, O bharata, the mighty Garuda heard what had happened, 'Kanwa continued,
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note: Here kaNva's story ended. Its moral is: "however strong you are, there is always someone that is stronger than you, but if you stop defying them in time, they'll forgive you".
05103031a tathA tvam api gAndhAre yAvat pANDusutAn raNe 'In the same way, O son of gAndhArI,
05103031c nAsAdayasi tAn vIrAMs tAvaj jIvasi putraka as long as thou approachest not the heroic sons of pANDu in battle, thou will live, sonny.
05103032a bhImaH praharatAM zreSTho vAyuputro mahAbalaH Who is there whom bhIma, that foremost of smiters, that mighty son of Vayu
05103032c dhanaJMjayaz cendrasuto na hanyAtAnM tu kaM raNe and dhanaJjaya, the son of indra, cannot slay in battle?
05103033a viSNur vAyuz ca zakraz ca dharmas tau cAzvinAv ubhau viSNu himself, and Vayu and dharma, and the azvins,
05103033c ete devAs tvayA kena hetunA zakyam IkSitum --these gods are thy enemies. What made you think you can even look at them?
05103034a tad alanM te virodhena zamaGM gaccha nRpAtmaja Therefore, O prince, do not set thy heart upon war; let peace be made
05103034c vAsudevena tIrthena kulaM rakSitum arhasi through the agency of vAsudeva. It behoveth thee to save thy race thus.
05103035a pratyakSo hy asya sarvasya nArado 'yamM mahAtapAH This great ascetic Narada witnessed with his own eyes the incident (I have related to thee)
05103035c mAhAtmyaM yat tadA viSNor yo 'yaJM cakragadAdharaH which shows the greatness of viSNu, and know that this kRSNa is that bearer of the discus and the mace!'
05103036a duryodhanas tu tac chrutvA nizHzvasan bhRkuTImukhaH 'Hearing these words of the RSi, duryodhana contracted his eye-brows and began to breathe heavily.
05103036c rAdheyam abhisamMprekSya jahAsa svanavat tadA And casting his eyes then on rAdhA's son, he burst out into a loud laughter.
05103037a kadarthIkRtya tad vAkyam RSeH kaNvasya durmatiH And setting at naught those words of the RSi,
05103037c UruGM gajakarAkAranM tADayann idam abravIt that wicked wretch began to slap his thigh that resembled the trunk of an elephant. And addressing the RSi, he said,
05103038a yathaivezvarasRSTo 'smi yad bhAvi yA ca me gatiH 'I am precisely what the Creator hath made me. What is to be, must be. What also hath been ordained in my case must happen,
05103038c tathA maharSe vartAmi kimM pralApaH kariSyati so I'll do that, O great RSi. Your chatter won't change anything.
