वैशंपायन उवाच
एवं ते विलपन्ति स्म वारणावतका जनाः ॥
परिवार्य गृहं तच् च तस्थू रात्रौ समन्ततः ॥
पाण्डवाश् चापि ते राजन् मात्रा सह सुदुःखिताः ॥
बिलेन तेन निर्गत्य जग्मुर् गूढम् अलक्षिताः ॥
तेन निद्रोपरोधेन साध्वसेन च पाण्डवाः ॥
न शेकुः सहसा गन्तुं सह मात्रा परंतपाः ॥
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca
evaṃ te vilapanti sma vāraṇāvatakā janāḥ ||
parivārya gṛhaṃ tac ca tasthū rātrau samantataḥ ||
pāṇḍavāś cāpi te rājan mātrā saha suduḥkhitāḥ ||
bilena tena nirgatya jagmur gūḍham alakṣitāḥ ||
tena nidroparodhena sādhvasena ca pāṇḍavāḥ ||
na śekuḥ sahasā gantuṃ saha mātrā paraṃtapāḥ ||
"Thus the people of Varanavata mourned, surrounding that house, standing at night on every side. The Pandavas, o king, together with their mother, deeply grieved, went out through that tunnel and departed secretly, unnoticed; but from lack of sleep and from agitation they, those scorchers of foes, could not go swiftly with their mother."
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Here deliverance comes to pass — but is granted not without hardship and weakness. It is telling that even the saved Pandavas are frail: worn by sleepless nights of vigilance and by shock, they can barely walk. Here is the truthfulness of the scripture: the deliverance of the righteous is not always easy or triumphant — it comes through weariness, fear, and grief. It is telling that they are "deeply grieved" even in the hour of their rescue: it is bitter for the righteous to suffer persecution from their own kin, and salvation from death does not erase the sorrow over the wrong done to them. So the scripture reveals the human frailty of those being saved — that the strength of the one who will carry them may shine forth all the more clearly.