is competent to upbraid me.  Riding on a suitable car, shaking his bow at the proper time, and with shafts in his (other) hand, that hero poureth showers of arrows in great battle like the clouds pouring torrents of rain.  Eight hundred elephants, I have seen, with their frontal globes split open and the ends of their tusks cut off, have today been slain by Bhima with shafts in battle.  That slayer of foes is competent to tell me harsh words.  The learned say that the strength of the foremost of Brahmanas lies in speech, and that the Kshatriya’s strength is in his arms.  Thou, O Bharata, art strong in words and very unfeeling.  Thou thinkest me to be like thyself.  I always strive to do thee good with my soul, life, sons and wives.  Since, not withstanding all this, thou still piercest me with such wordy darts, it is evident that we cannot expect any happiness from thee.  Lying on Draupadi’s bed thou insultest me, though for thy sake I slay the mightiest of car-warriors.  Thou art without any anxiety, O Bharata, and thou art cruel.  I have never obtained any happiness from thee.  It was for thy good, O chief of men, that Bhishma, firmly devoted to truth, himself told thee the means of his death in battle, and was slain by the heroic and high-souled Shikhandi, the son of Drupada, protected by me.  I do not derive any pleasure from the thought of thy restoration to sovereignty, since thou art addicted to the evil practice of gambling.  Having thyself committed a wicked act to which they only are addicted that are low, thou desirest now to vanquish thy foes through our aid.  Thou hadst heard of the numerous faults and the great sinfulness of dice that Sahadeva spoke about.  Yet dice, which are worshipped by the wicked, thou couldst not abandon.  It was for this that all of us have fallen into hell.  We have never derived any happiness from thee since thou wert engaged in gambling with dice.  Having, O son of Pandu, thyself caused all this calamity, thou art, again, addressing these harsh words to me.  Slain by us, hostile troops are lying on the field, with mangled bodies and uttering loud wails.  It was thou that didst that cruel act in consequence of which the Kauravas have become offenders and are being destroyed.  Nations from the North, the West, the East, and the South, are being struck, wounded and slain, after the performance of incomparable feats in battle by great warriors of both sides.  It was thou that hadst gambled.  It was for thee that we lost our kingdom.  Our calamity arose from thee, O king!  Striking us, again, with the cruel goad of thy speeches, O king, do not provoke our wrath.’”