Arjuna returns from Dvaraka
His dejection unprecedented...
(22) Oh brahmin, while the king [Yudhishthhira] thus was thinking to himself observing the bad omens, Arjuna returned from the kingdom of the Yadus. (23) Bowing down at the feet of the king, his dejection [neerslachtigheid] was unprecedented, with the tears that fell from the lotus eyes of his downward looking face.
(24) Seeing Arjuna pale with a heart full of anxiety, the king, who remembered what Narada had said, questioned him in the midst of the friends.
Yudhishthhira said:
(25) Are our Yadu relatives of Madhu, Bhoja, Dasharha, Arha, Satvata and Andhaka all happy passing their days in Dvaraka? (26) Is also my respectable [maternal] grandfather Shurasena in good health passing his last days? And are my [maternal] uncle Vasudeva and his younger brothers all well? (27) Are my aunts - his wives - all the seven sisters headed by Devaki herself, all happy with their sons and daughters-in-law? (28-29) Is King Ugrasena, whose son was so wicked [Kamsa] still alive? Are his younger brother, Hridîka and his son Kritavarma and Akrura, Jayanta, Gada, Sarana as also Shatrujit and the rest all happy? Is also Balarama, the Supreme Personality, the protector of the devotees, doing well? (30) Are the great warrior Pradyumna [a son of Krishna] and all others of the Vrishni family happy? And is the, in every respect powerful, plenary expansion of Krishna Aniruddha [a grandson of Krishna] faring well? (31) And how are Sushena, Carudeshna and Samba, the son of Jambavati, doing, as also the other eminent sons of Krishna and their sons like Rishabha?
(32-33) Are likewise the constant companions of Krishna, such as Shrutadeva, Uddhava and others, as also Sunanda, Nanda, and the other leaders and liberated souls of excellence doing well? And are all those who are bound in friendship under the protection of Balarama and Krishna, also thinking of our well-being?
(34) Is the Supreme Lord, who is the pleasure of the cows, and the senses and always cares for the devotees and the brahmins, enjoying His assembly hall, surrounded by His friends in the city?
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(35-36) In order to protect and elevate all the worlds, the Original, Supreme Enjoyer resides together with Ananta [Balarama] in the company of the ocean of members of the Yadu dynasty. In His city the members of the Yadu family enjoy the deserved protection of His arms, and relish the same transcendental pleasure as the residents of heaven.
(37) By giving priority to managing the comforts at His feet, the sixteen thousand wives headed by Sathyabhama made the Lord subdue the denizens of heaven, so that they could enjoy matters [like the Parijata tree] that are normally the privilege of the wives of [Indra], the controller of the thunderbolt.
(38) The Yadus, enjoying the protection of His arms, always fearlessly enter the Sudharma assembly hall, which procured by force [from Indra] was worthy of the best of gods.
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(39) My dear brother, are you all healthy? You appear to have lost your luster. Is it because of missing the respect in being neglected, my brother, for having been away too long? (40) Has someone addressed you unfriendly with harsh words, or could you not be charitable to someone asking or keep a promise?
(41) Oh you who are approached for the protection of the brahmins, the children, the cows, the elderly, the diseased and the women, were you unable to offer shelter to any of them approaching you and deserving your care? (42) Have you contacted a questionable woman, have you treated an acceptable woman improperly maybe or has your good self been defeated on the road by a superior power or by equals? (43) Have you disregarded old men or boys who deserved to dine together with you, or have you done something abominable that is hard to forgive?
(44) Or is it so that you in your relation to the one most dear, my brother Arjuna, your heart's friend [Krishna], you feel a void missing Him all the time? I can think of no other reason why you should suffer such a mental distress.
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