वैशंपायन उवाच
वसमानेषु पार्थेषु मत्स्यस्य नगरे तदा ॥
महारथेषु छन्नेषु मासा दश समत्ययुः ॥
याज्ञसेनी सुदेष्णां तु शुश्रूषन्ती विशां पते ॥
अवसत् परिचारार्हा सुदुःखं जनमेजय ॥
तथा चरन्तीं पाञ्चालीं सुदेष्णाया निवेशने ॥
सेनापतिर् विराटस्य ददर्श जलजाननाम् ॥
तां दृष्ट्वा देवगर्भाभां चरन्तीं देवताम् इव ॥
कीचकः कामयाम् आस कामबाणप्रपीडितः ॥
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca
vasamāneṣu pārtheṣu matsyasya nagare tadā ||
mahāratheṣu channeṣu māsā daśa samatyayuḥ ||
yājñasenī sudeṣṇāṃ tu śuśrūṣantī viśāṃ pate ||
avasat paricārārhā suduḥkhaṃ janamejaya ||
tathā carantīṃ pāñcālīṃ sudeṣṇāyā niveśane ||
senāpatir virāṭasya dadarśa jalajānanām ||
tāṃ dṛṣṭvā devagarbhābhāṃ carantīṃ devatām iva ||
kīcakaḥ kāmayām āsa kāmabāṇaprapīḍitaḥ ||
Vaishampayana said: 'While the Parthas lived in the city of Matsya, while the great chariot-warriors remained hidden, ten months passed. Yajnaseni, worthy to be served by others, herself served Sudeshna and lived in great suffering, Janamejaya. As Panchali went about thus in Sudeshna's house, Virata's commander-in-chief saw her -- lotus-faced. Seeing her, radiant as one born of a god and moving like a goddess, Kichaka, pierced by the arrows of desire, was overcome with longing for her.'
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Ten months of patient endurance had almost passed, and it is exactly then that a new danger arrives. A trial often grows sharper at the very edge of its term.