Mahabharata · Chapter 5.5
drupadenaivamukte tu vākye vākyavidāṃ varaḥ /
vasudevasutastatra pṛṣṇisiṃho'bravīdidam //
upapannamidaṃ vākyaṃ somakānāṃ dhurandhare /
arthasiddhikaraṃ rājñaḥ pāṇḍavasyāmitaujasaḥ //
etacca pūrvaṃ kāryaṃ naḥ sunītimabhikāṅkṣatām /
anyathā hyācarankarma puruṣaḥ syātsubāliśaḥ //
kiṃ tu sambandhakaṃ tulyamasmākaṃ kurupāṇḍuṣu /
yatheṣṭaṃ vartamāneṣu pāṇḍaveṣu ca teṣu ca //
te vivāhārthamānītā vayaṃ sarve tathā bhavān /
kṛte vivāhe muditā gamiṣyāmo gṛhānprati //
bhavānvṛddhatamo rājñāṃ vayasā ca śrutena ca /
śiṣyavatte vayaṃ sarve bhavāmeha na saṃśayaḥ //
bhavantaṃ dhṛtarāṣṭraśca satataṃ bahu manyate /
ācāryayoḥ sakhā cāsi droṇasya ca kṛpasva ca //
sa bhavānpreṣayatvadya pāṇḍavārthakaraṃ vacaḥ /
sarveṣāṃ niścitaṃ tannaḥ preṣayiṣyati yadbhavān //
yadi tāvacchamaṃ kuryannyāyena kurupuṅgavaḥ /
na bhavetkurupāṇḍūnāṃ saubhrātreṇa mahānkṣayaḥ //
atha darpānvito mohānna kuryāddhṛtarāṣṭrajaḥ /
anyeṣāṃ preṣayitvā ca paścādasmānsabhāhvaye //
tato duryodhano mandaḥ sahāmātyaḥ sabāndhavaḥ /
niṣṭhāmāpatsyate mūḍhaḥ kruddhe gāṇḍīvadhanvani //
vaiśampāyana uvāca /
tataḥ satkṛtya vārṣṇeyaṃ virāṭaḥ pṛthivīpatiḥ /
gṛhānprasthāpayāmāsa sagaṇaṃ sahabāndhavam //
dvārakaṃ tu gate kṛṣṇe yudhiṣṭhirapurogamāḥ /
cakruḥ sāṅghrāmikaṃ sarvaṃ virāṭaśca mahīpatiḥ //
tataḥ sampreṣayāmāsa virāṭaḥ saha bāndhavaiḥ /
sarveṣāṃ bhūmipālānāṃ drupadaśca mahīpatiḥ //
vacanātkurusiṃhānāṃ matsyapāñcālayośca te /
samājagmurmahīpālāḥ samprahṛṣṭā mahābalāḥ //
tacchrutvā pāṇḍuputrāṇāṃ samāgacchanmahadbalam /
dhṛtarāṣṭrasutāścāpi samāninyurmahīpatīn //
samākulā mahī rājankurupāṇḍavakāraṇāt /
tadā samabhavatkṛtsnā samprayāṇe mahīkṣitām //
sankulā ca tadā bhūmiścaturaṅgavalānvitā /
balāni teṣāṃ vīrāṇāmāgacchanti tatastataḥ //
cālayantīva gāṃ devīṃ saparvatavanāmimām / tataḥ prajñāvayovṛddhaṃ pāñcālyaḥ svapurohitam /
kurubhyaḥ preṣayāmāsa yudhiṣṭhiramate sthitaḥ //
Original text: Mahābhārata (southern recension) · Edition: Śrīman Mahābhāratam, ed. T. R. Krishnacharya and T. R. Vyasacharya, Nirnaya Sagar Press, Bombay 1906–1910; e-text by SARIT (Shrinivasa Varakhedi and others) · SARIT: Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts · SARIT (e-text) via Internet Archive · CC BY-SA 3.0