Having heard this delightful news about the
discomfiture of our enemies, we have been exceedingly gratified, O
Kauravya. Do thou now ordain what should next be done.'"
[20] _Krita-krita_--Nilakantha explains this to mean 'imagining
themselves to have achieved success in their mission' for having
learnt of Kichaka's death, they could readily guess the presence
of the Pandavas there. This is too far-fetched and does not at
all agree with the spirit of their report to Duryodhana below.
And then the same word occurs in the very last line of the
Section. I take it that in both places the word has been used in
the same sense.
SECTION XXVI
(_Go-harana Parva_)
Vaisampayana said, "Having listened to these words of his spies, king
Duryodhana reflected inwardly for some time and then addressed his
courtiers, saying, 'It is difficult to ascertain the course of events
definitely. Discern ye all, therefore, whither the sons of Pandu have
gone, of this thirteenth year which they are to pass undiscovered by us
all, the greater part hath already expired. What remains is by much the
smaller. If, indeed, the sons of Pandu can pass undiscovered what
remains of this year, devoted to the vow of truth as they are, they will
then have fulfilled their pledge. They will then return like mighty
elephants with temporal juice trickling down, or like snakes of virulent
poison. Filled with wrath, they will, without doubt, be inflicters of
terrible chastisement on the Kurus.
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