of separation myself from thee! O king, that wretched woman who liveth even fora moment, separated from her lord, liveth in woe and suffereth the pangs of hell even here! Some loving couple had doubtless been separated by me in former life, as the consequence of which sinful act I am suffering this torture born of my separation from thee! O king, from this day I will lay myself down on a bed of Kusa grass and abstain from every luxury desiring once more to behold thee! O thou tiger among men, show thyself to me! O king, O lord, command once more thy wretched and bitterly weeping wife plunged in woe!—'
"Kunti continued, 'It was thus, O Pandu, that the beautiful Vadra wept on the death of her lord. And the weeping Vadra clasped in her arms the corpse in anguish of heart. Then she was addressed by an incorporeal voice in these words:—Rise up, O Vadra, and leave this place! O thou of sweet smiles, I grant thee this boon. I will beget offspring upon thee. Lie thou down with me on thy own bed, after the catamenial bath, on the night of the eighth or the fourteenth day of the moon.—Thus addressed by the incorporeal voice, the chaste Vadra did as she was directed, for obtaining offspring. And, O thou bull of the Bharatas, the corpse of her husband begat upon her seven children in all, viz, three Shalwas and four Madras. O thou bull of the Bharatas, do thou also beget offspring upon me, like the illustrious Vyushitaswa, in the exercise of that ascetic power which thou possessest!'"
Thus ends the hundred and twenty first Section in the Sambhava of the Adi Parva.
( Sambhava Parva continued. )
Vaisampayana said, "Thus addressed by his loving wife, king Pandu, well-acquainted with all rules of morality, replied in these words of virtuous import: 'O Kunti, what thou hast said is quite true. Vyushitaswa of old did even as thou hast said. Indeed, he was equal to the celestials themselves! But I shall now tell thee about the practices of old indicated
