वङ्गाः कलिङ्गपतयस् ताम्रलिप्ताः सपुण्ड्रकाः ॥
दुकूलं कौशिकं चैव पत्रोर्णं प्रावरान् अपि ॥
तत्र स्म द्वारपालैस् ते प्रोच्यन्ते राजशासनात् ॥
कृतकाराः सुबलयस् ततो द्वारम् अवाप्स्यथ ॥
ईषादन्तान् हेमकक्षान् पद्मवर्णान् कुथावृतान् ॥
शैलाभान् नित्यमत्तांश् च अभितः काम्यकं सरः ॥
दत्त्वैकैको दशशतान् कुञ्जरान् कवचावृतान् ॥
क्षमावतः कुलीनांश् च द्वारेण प्राविशंस् ततः ॥
vaṅgāḥ kaliṅgapatayas tāmraliptāḥ sapuṇḍrakāḥ ||
dukūlaṃ kauśikaṃ caiva patrorṇaṃ prāvarān api ||
tatra sma dvārapālais te procyante rājaśāsanāt ||
kṛtakārāḥ subalayas tato dvāram avāpsyatha ||
īṣādantān hemakakṣān padmavarṇān kuthāvṛtān ||
śailābhān nityamattāṃś ca abhitaḥ kāmyakaṃ saraḥ ||
dattvaikaiko daśaśatān kuñjarān kavacāvṛtān ||
kṣamāvataḥ kulīnāṃś ca dvāreṇa prāviśaṃs tataḥ ||
The Vaṅgas, the lords of Kaliṅga, the Tāmraliptas with the Puṇḍrakas [brought] dukūla, kauśika silk, patrorṇa, and cloaks. There the gatekeepers, by royal decree, say to them: 'When you have made your gifts, O mighty ones, then you shall reach the gate.' And, each having given a thousand elephants — ivory-tusked, gold-girded, lotus-hued, covered with blankets, like mountains, ever in must, from around Lake Kāmyaka — clad in armor, hardy and of good breed, they then entered through the gate.
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Order is strict even for the wealthiest: 'when you have made your gifts, then you may enter.' It is telling that entry to the sanctum is conditioned on an offering — not as a bribe, but as a sign of right disposition: one approaches the sacrifice having brought one's own. The verse teaches that approaching the sacred demands not empty hands but a heart ready to give: the gift at the gate is a symbol of self-surrender. And a thousand war elephants from each is not ransom for entry but a measure of the givers' devotion. Duryodhana sees only a wall of elephants; but behind it stands the law by which one enters the presence of the Highest only after having given. Whoever wishes to enter the hall of the Lord must first offer — himself.