ये च कृष्णे गुणाः स्फीताः पाण्डवेषु च ये गुणाः ॥
अभिमन्यौ किलैकस्था दृश्यन्ते गुणसंचयाः ॥
युधिष्ठिरस्य धैर्येण कृष्णस्य चरितेन च ॥
कर्मभिर् भीमसेनस्य सदृशो भीमकर्मणः ॥
धनंजयस्य रूपेण विक्रमेण श्रुतेन च ॥
विनयात् सहदेवस्य सदृशो नकुलस्य च ॥
ye ca kṛṣṇe guṇāḥ sphītāḥ pāṇḍaveṣu ca ye guṇāḥ ||
abhimanyau kilaikasthā dṛśyante guṇasaṃcayāḥ ||
yudhiṣṭhirasya dhairyeṇa kṛṣṇasya caritena ca ||
karmabhir bhīmasenasya sadṛśo bhīmakarmaṇaḥ ||
dhanaṃjayasya rūpeṇa vikrameṇa śrutena ca ||
vinayāt sahadevasya sadṛśo nakulasya ca ||
Those qualities that are abundant in Krishna, and those qualities that are in the Pandavas -- in Abhimanyu, they say, are seen gathered together, as accumulations of virtues. By the steadfastness of Yudhishthira, by the conduct of Krishna, and by the deeds of Bhimasena, terrible in deeds, he is equal [to them]; by the beauty, valor, and learning of Dhananjaya, and by the good breeding of Sahadeva and Nakula, he is equal [to them].
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In one boy, Abhimanyu, says Dhritarashtra, all the virtues of Krishna and the five brothers have come together -- steadfastness, conduct, terrible might, beauty, valor, good breeding. Thus it is shown that the best of ancestors can gather in a single descendant, as in a vessel -- the jewels of a lineage. And all the more bitter: a child in whom everything lofty in the line was joined perishes unlawfully. It is significant that this praise sounds like a eulogy -- Dhritarashtra glorifies one already fallen. The verse teaches that in a descendant the fullness of the virtues of an entire lineage may be embodied, and such a child is the most precious fruit of generations; that the death of such a youth is a loss twofold -- not of one life alone, but of the heritage of many gathered within him; and that the tradition, in listing his virtues before the tale of his death, sharpens the grief for him, showing how perfect a thing was destroyed.