12002001a sa evam uktas tu munir nArado vadatAM varaH
12002001c kathayAmAsa tat sarvaM yathA zaptasH sa sUtajaH 'vaizaMpAyana said, 'That foremost of speakers, the sage Narada, thus questioned, narrated everything about the manner in which he who was believed to be a sUta's son had been cursed (in former days).'
12002002 nArada uvAca 'Narada said,
12002002a evam etan mahAbAho yathA vadasi bhArata 'It is even so, O mighty armed one, as thou sayest, O bharata!
12002002c na karNArjunayoH kiM cid aviSahyaM bhaved raNe Nothing could resist karNa and arjuna in battle.
12002003a guhyam etat tu devAnAGM kathayiSyAmi te nRpa This, O sinless one, that I am about to tell thee is unknown to the very gods.
12002003c tan nibodha mahArAja yathA vRttam idamM purA Listen to me, O mighty-armed one, as it befell in former days.
12002004a kSatraM svargaGM kathaGM gacchec chastrapUtam iti prabho How all the kSatriyas, cleansed by weapons should attain to regions of bliss, was the question.
12002004c saGMgharSajananas tasmAt kanyAgarbho vinirmitaH For this, a child was conceived by kuntI in her maidenhood, capable of provoking a general war.
12002005a sa bAlas tejasA yuktasH sUtaputratvam AgataH Endued with great energy, that child came to have the status of a sUta.
12002005c cakArAGgirasAM zreSThe dhanurvedaGM gurau tava He subsequently acquired the science of weapons from the preceptor (droNa), that foremost descendant of Angirasa's race.
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12002017a tatra karNasya vasato mahendre parvatottame While residing on the Mahendra mountains that resembled heaven itself,
12002017c gandharvai rAkSasair yakSair devaiz cAsIt samAgamaH karNa met and mixed with many gandharvas, yakSas, and gods.
