शतं दासीसहस्राणां कार्पासिकनिवासिनाम् ॥
श्यामास् तन्व्यो दीर्घकेश्यो हेमाभरणभूषिताः ॥
शूद्रा विप्रोत्तमार्हाणि राङ्कवान्य् अजिनानि च ॥
बलिं च कृत्स्नम् आदाय भरुकच्छनिवासिनः ॥
उपनिन्युर् महाराज हयान् गान्धारदेशजान् ॥
इन्द्रकृष्टैर् वर्तयन्ति धान्यैर् नदीमुखैश् च ये ॥
समुद्रनिष्कुटे जाताः परिसिन्धु च मानवाः ॥
ते वैरामाः पारदाश् च वङ्गाश् च कितवैः सह ॥
विविधं बलिम् आदाय रत्नानि विविधानि च ॥
śataṃ dāsīsahasrāṇāṃ kārpāsikanivāsinām ||
śyāmās tanvyo dīrghakeśyo hemābharaṇabhūṣitāḥ ||
śūdrā viprottamārhāṇi rāṅkavāny ajināni ca ||
baliṃ ca kṛtsnam ādāya bharukacchanivāsinaḥ ||
upaninyur mahārāja hayān gāndhāradeśajān ||
indrakṛṣṭair vartayanti dhānyair nadīmukhaiś ca ye ||
samudraniṣkuṭe jātāḥ parisindhu ca mānavāḥ ||
te vairāmāḥ pāradāś ca vaṅgāś ca kitavaiḥ saha ||
vividhaṃ balim ādāya ratnāni vividhāni ca ||
“A hundred thousand maidservants, dwellers of Karpasika — dark-skinned, slender, long-haired, adorned with golden ornaments; and, having taken all the tribute, the dwellers of Bharukaccha offered, O great king, horses born in the land of Gandhara. Those who live on grain grown by the rain of Indra and by the irrigation of river-mouths, people born by the sea and along the Sindhu — the Vairamas, Paradas, and Vangas together with the Kitavas — having taken various tribute and various jewels, [came].”
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People stream in from every corner — from Gandhara to the seashore, from river-mouths to the banks of the Sindhu. It is telling how wide the circle of those who come is: tribute is borne not by one tribe alone but by the whole inhabited earth. The verse displays the universal reach of a righteous kingdom: where dharma has been established, peoples are drawn there from every land, as waters are drawn to a low place. But Duryodhana sees in this breadth only the size of another's holdings, not the glory of an order that has embraced the world. Righteous rule joins scattered tribes into a single harmony; and whoever envies this unity envies, in essence, peace and concord itself.