the sister of Dhrishtadyumna, and the friend of thee, be dragged to the assembly!  Alas, during my season, stained with blood, with but a single cloth on, trembling all over, and weeping, I was dragged to the court of the Kurus!  Beholding me, stained with blood in the presence of those kings in the assembly, the wicked sons of Dhritarashtra laughed at me!  O slayer of Madhu, while the sons of Pandu and the Panchalas and the Vrishnis lived, they dared express the desire of using me as their slave!  O Krishna, I am according to the ordinance, the daughter in-law of both Dhritarashtra and Bhishma!  Yet, O slayer of Madhu, they wished to make of me a slave by force!  I blame the Pandavas who are mighty and foremost in battle, for they saw (without stirring) their own wedded wife known over all the world, treated with such cruelty!  Oh, fie on the might of Bhimasena, fie on the Gandiva of Arjuna, for they, O Janardana, both suffered me to be thus disgraced by little men!  This eternal course of morality is ever followed by the virtuous—­viz, that the husband, however weak, protecteth his wedded wife!  By protecting the wife one protecteth his offspring and by protecting the offspring one protecteth his own self!  One’s own self is begotten on one’s wife, and therefore it is that the wife is called Jaya.  A wife also should protect her lord, remembering that he is to take his birth in her womb!  The Pandavas never forsake the person that soliciteth their protection, and yet they abandoned me who solicited it!  By my five husbands five sons of exceeding energy have been born of me:  Prativindhya by Yudhishthira, Sutasoma by Vrikodara, Srutakirti by Arjuna, Satanika by Nakula and Srutakarman by the youngest, all of them of energy that cannot be baffled.  For their sake, O Janardana, it was necessary to protect me!  Even as (thy son) Pradyumna, they are, O Krishna, mighty warriors all!  They are foremost of bowmen, and invincible in battle by any foe!  Why do they bear the wrongs inflicted (on me) by the sons of Dhritarashtra of such contemptible strength?  Deprived of their kingdom by deception, the Pandavas were made bondsmen and I myself was dragged to the assembly while in my season, and having only a single cloth on!  Fie on that Gandiva which none else can string save Arjuna and Bhima and thyself, O slayer of Madhu!  Fie on the strength of Bhima, and fie on the prowess of Arjuna, since, O Krishna, Duryodhana (after what he had done) hath drawn breath even for a moment!  He it is, O slayer of Madhu, who formerly drove the guileless Pandavas with their mother from the kingdom, while they were children still engaged in study and the observance of their vows.  It is that sinful wretch, who, horrible to relate, mixed in Bhima’s food fresh and virulent poison in full dose.  But, O Janardana, Bhima digested that poison with the food, without sustaining any injury, for, O best of men and mighty-armed one, Bhima’s days had not been ended!  O Krishna, it is Duryodhana who at