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Markandya Purana (Markendya Rishi)

मार्कण्डेयपुराणम्

The Markandeya Purana is one of the eighteen major Puranas, a Sanskrit text. It includes the famous Devi Mahatmya section, which praises the goddess Devi.

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 1

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 1

धर्मात्मा पृथिवीपालः प्रोल्लसत्कीर्तिरुत्तमः।।

dharmātmā pṛthivīpālaḥ prollasatkīrtiruttamaḥ||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 2

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 2

नाधर्मरुचयः पौरास्तस्मिन शासति पार्थिवे।।

nādharmarucayaḥ paurāstasmin śāsati pārthive||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 3

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 3

नाजायन्त स्त्रियश्चैव काश्चिदप्राप्तयौवनाः।।

nājāyanta striyaścaiva kāścidaprāptayauvanāḥ||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 4

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 4

शुश्राव शब्दमसकृत त्रायस्वेति च योषिताम।।

śuśrāva śabdamasakṛt trāyasveti ca yoṣitām||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 5

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 5

मयि शासति दुर्मेधाः को ऽयमन्यायवृत्तिमान।।

mayi śāsati durmedhāḥ ko 'yamanyāyavṛttimān||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 6

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 6

एकस्मिन्नन्तरे रौद्रो विघ्नराट समचिन्तयत।।

ekasminnantare raudro vighnarāṭ samacintayat||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 7

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 7

प्रागसिद्धाभवादीनां विद्याः साध्यति व्रती।।

prāgasiddhābhavādīnāṃ vidyāḥ sādhyati vratī||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 8

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 8

ता वै भयार्ताः क्रन्दन्ति कथं कार्यमिदं मया।।

tā vai bhayārtāḥ krandanti kathaṃ kāryamidaṃ mayā||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 9

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 9

क्रोशन्त्येतास्तथा भीता दुष्पारं प्रतिभाति मे।।

krośantyetāstathā bhītā duṣpāraṃ pratibhāti me||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 10

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 10

इममेव प्रविश्याशु साधयिष्ये यथेप्सितम।।

imameva praviśyāśu sādhayiṣye yathepsitam||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 11

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 11

तेनाविष्टो नृपः कोपादिदं वचनमब्रवीत।।

tenāviṣṭo nṛpaḥ kopādidaṃ vacanamabravīt||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 12

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 12

बलोष्णतेजसा दीप्ते मयि पत्यावुपस्थिते।।

baloṣṇatejasā dīpte mayi patyāvupasthite||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 13

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 13

शरैर्विभिन्नसर्वाङ्गो दीर्घनिद्रां प्रवेक्ष्यति।।

śarairvibhinnasarvāṅgo dīrghanidrāṃ pravekṣyati||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 14

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 14

क्रुद्धे चर्षिवरे तस्मिन नेशुर्विद्याः क्षणेन ताः।।

kruddhe carṣivare tasmin neśurvidyāḥ kṣaṇena tāḥ||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 15

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 15

भीतः प्रावेपतात्यर्थं सहसाश्वत्थपर्णवत।।

bhītaḥ prāvepatātyarthaṃ sahasāśvatthaparṇavat||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 16

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 16

ततः स राजा विनयात प्रणिपत्याभ्यभाषत।।

tataḥ sa rājā vinayāt praṇipatyābhyabhāṣata||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 17

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 17

न क्रोद्धुमर्हसि मुने निजधर्मरतस्य मे।।

na kroddhumarhasi mune nijadharmaratasya me||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 18

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 18

चापं चोद्यम्य योद्धव्यं धर्मशास्त्रानुसारतः।।

cāpaṃ codyamya yoddhavyaṃ dharmaśāstrānusārataḥ||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 19

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 19

क्षिप्रमेतत समाचक्ष्व यद्यधर्मभयं तव।।

kṣiprametat samācakṣva yadyadharmabhayaṃ tava||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 20

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 20

रक्ष्या भीताः सदा युद्धं कर्तव्यं परिपन्थिभिः।।

rakṣyā bhītāḥ sadā yuddhaṃ kartavyaṃ paripanthibhiḥ||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 21

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 21

निर्वेष्टुकामो विप्रो ऽहं दीयतामिष्टदक्षिणा।।

nirveṣṭukāmo vipro 'haṃ dīyatāmiṣṭadakṣiṇā||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 22

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 22

पुनर्जातमिवात्मानं मेने प्राह च कौशिकम।।

punarjātamivātmānaṃ mene prāha ca kauśikam||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 23

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 23

दत्तमित्येव तद्विद्धि यद्यपि स्यात सुदुर्लभम।।

dattamityeva tadviddhi yadyapi syāt sudurlabham||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 24

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 24

प्राणा राज्यं पुरं लक्ष्मीर्यदभिप्रेतमात्मनः।।

prāṇā rājyaṃ puraṃ lakṣmīryadabhipretamātmanaḥ||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 25

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 25

प्रयच्छ प्रथमं तावद दक्षिणां राजसूयिकीम।।

prayaccha prathamaṃ tāvad dakṣiṇāṃ rājasūyikīm||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 26

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 26

व्रियतां द्विजशार्दूल यस्तवेष्टः प्रतिग्रहः।।

vriyatāṃ dvijaśārdūla yastaveṣṭaḥ pratigrahaḥ||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 27

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 27

राज्यं च सकलं वीर रथाश्व-गजसङ्कुलम।।

rājyaṃ ca sakalaṃ vīra rathāśva-gajasaṅkulam||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 28

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 28

विना भार्यां च पुत्रं च शरीरं च तवानघ।।

vinā bhāryāṃ ca putraṃ ca śarīraṃ ca tavānagha||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 29

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 29

बहुना वा किमुक्तेन सर्वमेतत प्रदीयताम।।

bahunā vā kimuktena sarvametat pradīyatām||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 30

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 30

तस्यर्षेर्वचनं श्रुत्वा तथेत्याह कृताञ्जलिः।।

tasyarṣervacanaṃ śrutvā tathetyāha kṛtāñjaliḥ||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 31

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 31

प्रभुत्वं कस्य राजर्षे राज्यस्थे तापसे मयि।।

prabhutvaṃ kasya rājarṣe rājyasthe tāpase mayi||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 32

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 32

तस्मिन्नपि भवान स्वामी किमुताद्य महीपतिः।।

tasminnapi bhavān svāmī kimutādya mahīpatiḥ||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 33

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 33

यत्र मे विषये स्वाम्यं तस्मान्निष्क्रान्तुमर्हसि।।

yatra me viṣaye svāmyaṃ tasmānniṣkrāntumarhasi||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 34

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 34

तरुवल्कलमाबध्य सह पत्न्या सुतेन च।।

taruvalkalamābadhya saha patnyā sutena ca||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 35

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 35

स्वपत्न्या शैव्यया सार्धं बालकेनात्मजेन च।।

svapatnyā śaivyayā sārdhaṃ bālakenātmajena ca||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 36

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 36

क्व यास्यसीत्यदत्त्वा मे दक्षिणां राजसूयिकीम।।

kva yāsyasītyadattvā me dakṣiṇāṃ rājasūyikīm||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 37

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 37

अवशिष्टमिदं ब्रह्मन्नद्य देहत्रयं मम।।

avaśiṣṭamidaṃ brahmannadya dehatrayaṃ mama||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 38

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 38

विशेषतो ब्राह्मणानं हन्त्यदत्तं प्रतिश्रुतम।।

viśeṣato brāhmaṇānaṃ hantyadattaṃ pratiśrutam||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 39

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 39

तावदेव तु दातव्या दक्षिणा राजसूयिकी।।

tāvadeva tu dātavyā dakṣiṇā rājasūyikī||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 40

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 40

रक्षितव्यास्तथा चार्तास्त्वयैव प्राक प्रतिश्रुतम।।

rakṣitavyāstathā cārtāstvayaiva prāk pratiśrutam||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 41

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 41

प्रसादं कुरु विप्रर्षे सद्भावमनुचिन्त्य च।।

prasādaṃ kuru viprarṣe sadbhāvamanucintya ca||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 42

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 42

शीघ्रमाचक्ष्व शापाग्निरन्यथा त्वां प्रधक्ष्यति।।

śīghramācakṣva śāpāgniranyathā tvāṃ pradhakṣyati||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 43

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 43

साम्प्रतं नास्ति मे वित्तमनुज्ञां दातुमर्हसि।।

sāmprataṃ nāsti me vittamanujñāṃ dātumarhasi||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 44

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 44

शिवश्च ते ऽध्वा भवतु मा सन्तु परिपन्थिनः।।

śivaśca te 'dhvā bhavatu mā santu paripanthinaḥ||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 45

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 45

पद्भ्यामनुचिता गन्तुमन्वगच्छत तं प्रिया।।

padbhyāmanucitā gantumanvagacchata taṃ priyā||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 46

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 46

दृष्ट्वा प्रचुक्रुशुः पौरा राज्ञश्चैवानुयायिनः।।

dṛṣṭvā pracukruśuḥ paurā rājñaścaivānuyāyinaḥ||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 47

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 47

त्वं धर्मतत्परो राजन पौरानुग्रहकृत तथा।।

tvaṃ dharmatatparo rājan paurānugrahakṛt tathā||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 48

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 48

मुहूर्तं तिष्ठ राजेन्द्र भवतो मुखपङ्कजम।।

muhūrtaṃ tiṣṭha rājendra bhavato mukhapaṅkajam||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 49

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 49

यस्य प्रयातस्य पुरो यान्ति पृष्ठे च पार्थिवाः।।

yasya prayātasya puro yānti pṛṣṭhe ca pārthivāḥ||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 50

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 50

यस्य भृत्याः प्रयातस्य यान्तयग्रे कुञ्जचरस्थिताः।।

yasya bhṛtyāḥ prayātasya yāntayagre kuñjacarasthitāḥ||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 51

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 51

हा राजन सुकुमारं ते सुभ्रु सुत्वचमुन्नसम।।

hā rājan sukumāraṃ te subhru sutvacamunnasam||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 52

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 52

तिष्ठ तिष्ठ नृपश्रेष्ठ स्वधर्ममनुपालय।।

tiṣṭha tiṣṭha nṛpaśreṣṭha svadharmamanupālaya||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 53

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 53

किं दारैः किं सुतैर्नाथ धनैर्धान्यैरथापि वा।।

kiṃ dāraiḥ kiṃ sutairnātha dhanairdhānyairathāpi vā||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 54

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 54

हानाथ हा महाराज हा स्वामिन किं जहासि नः।।

hānātha hā mahārāja hā svāmin kiṃ jahāsi naḥ||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 55

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 55

नगरं तद्भवान यत्र स स्वर्गो यत्र नो नृपः।।

nagaraṃ tadbhavān yatra sa svargo yatra no nṛpaḥ||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 56

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 56

अतिष्ठत स तदा मार्गे तेषामेवानुकम्पया।।

atiṣṭhat sa tadā mārge teṣāmevānukampayā||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 57

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 57

रोषमर्षविवृत्ताक्षः समागम्य वचो ऽब्रवीत।।

roṣamarṣavivṛttākṣaḥ samāgamya vaco 'bravīt||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 58

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 58

मम राज्यं च दत्वा यः पुनः प्राक्रष्टुमिच्छसि।।

mama rājyaṃ ca datvā yaḥ punaḥ prākraṣṭumicchasi||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 59

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 59

ब्रुवन्नेवं ययौ शीघ्रमाकर्षन दयितां करे।।

bruvannevaṃ yayau śīghramākarṣan dayitāṃ kare||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 60

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 60

सहसा दण्डकाष्ठेन ताडयामास कौशिकः।।

sahasā daṇḍakāṣṭhena tāḍayāmāsa kauśikaḥ||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 61

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 61

गच्छामीत्याह दुः खार्तो नान्यत किञ्चिदुदाहरत।।

gacchāmītyāha duḥ khārto nānyat kiñcidudāharat||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 62

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 62

विश्वामित्रः सुपापो ऽयं लोकान कान समवाप्स्यति।।

viśvāmitraḥ supāpo 'yaṃ lokān kān samavāpsyati||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 63

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 63

पीत्वा वयं प्रयास्यामो मुदं मन्त्रपुरः सरम।।

pītvā vayaṃ prayāsyāmo mudaṃ mantrapuraḥ saram||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 64

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 64

शशाप तान मनुष्यत्वं सर्वे यूयमवाप्स्यथ।।

śaśāpa tān manuṣyatvaṃ sarve yūyamavāpsyatha||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 65

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 65

मानुषत्वे ऽपि भवतां भवित्री नैव सन्ततिः।।

mānuṣatve 'pi bhavatāṃ bhavitrī naiva santatiḥ||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 66

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 66

कामक्रोधविनिर्मुक्ता भविष्यथ सुराः पुनः।।

kāmakrodhavinirmuktā bhaviṣyatha surāḥ punaḥ||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 67

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 67

द्रौपदीगर्भसम्भूताः पञ्च वै पाण्डुनन्दनाः।।

draupadīgarbhasambhūtāḥ pañca vai pāṇḍunandanāḥ||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 68

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 68

न दारसंग्रहं प्राप्ताः शापात तस्य महामुनेः।।

na dārasaṃgrahaṃ prāptāḥ śāpāt tasya mahāmuneḥ||

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The Birth of the Sons of Draupadī - Verse 69

Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 7 · Verse 69

प्रश्नं चतुष्टयं गीतं किमन्यच्छ्रोतुमिच्छसि।।

praśnaṃ catuṣṭayaṃ gītaṃ kimanyacchrotumicchasi||

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