Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

Part One. Translations from Sanskrit
Section Two. The Mahabharata

Udyoga Parva

Passage from Adhyayas 75

But the mighty-armed Keshava when he heard these words of Bhema, packed with mildness, words such as those lips had never uttered before, laughing a little,– for it seemed to him like lightness in a mountain or in fire coldness, to him the Showrian, the brother of Rama, the wielder of the bow of horn,– thus he spake to Bhema even as he sat submerged with sudden pity, and woke the heat and flame of him with his words as wind the fire hearteneth.