Duryodhana said: -
1. O descendant of Bharata hear about all the best of wealth that belongs to the Pandavas and that was brought by the kings of earth one after another.
2-3. Seeing that wealth of the enemy. I lost my reason, and I scarcely knew myself O descendant of Bharata, hear as I describe that wealth consisting of both manufactures and the produce of land. The king of Kamboja gave many of the best kinds of skins, woollen blankets, blankets made of the soft fur of mice and other animals living in holes and blankets made of the wool of cats, all inlaid with threads of gold;
4. Also three hundred horses of the Tittiri and Kalmasha kinds, all possessing nose like the parrots; also three hundred camels, three hundred female asses, all fattened with olive and Pilusha.
5. O great king, many Brahmanas, who rear cattle and who are fit to be engaged in menial service, in order to gratify the illustrious Dharmaraja (Yudhishthira) waited.
6-8. At the gate with hundred millions of tribute and were denied admittance. Hundreds of Brahmanas, possessing wealth of kine and living upon the lands that Yudhishthira gave them, came there with their handsome golden Kamandalus (water-pot) filled with Ghee. Though they brought such tribute, yet they were refused admittance. Hundred thousands of serving maids of the Karpasika country.
9-10. All of beautiful features of slender waist, and of long hair, and all adorned with golden ornaments, also many skins of Ranku deer worthy of the best Brahmanas, and also horses of the Gandhara country, were brought by the Shudra kings who lived in the regions on the coast of the sea. O great king.
11-13. The Vairamas, the Paradas, the Tungas and the Kitavas who lived upon crops that depended on water from the sky or of the river, and those who were bom in regions on these shores, in woodlands or in countries on the other side of the sea, being refused admittance waited at the gate, though they brought with them goats and kine, asses and camels, vegetable honey and blankets, jewels and gems of various kinds.
14-15. The brave ruler of Pragjyotisha, and the powerful king of the Mlecchas the car-warrior king Bhagadatta, waited at the gate at the head of a large number of Yavanas. He too was unable to enter, though he brought a large tribute comprising of horses of the best breed and of the speed of the wind.
16. Thereupon the king of Pragjyotisha Bhagadatta had to go away from the gate, giving away a number of swords with handles made of the purest ivory and well-adorned with diamonds and every kind of gems.
17. Many races, coming from various regions, some with eyes on the forehead, and also the Aushnikas, the Nishadas, the Romakas, also those that were cannibals.
18-19. And also those that possessed only one leg. I saw, were refused admittance at the gate. These kings brought as tribute ten thousand celebrated asses of various and innumerable colours, with black necks and huge bodies, with great speed and much docility.
20. They were all of good size and delightful colour; they were all bom on the coast and shore the Vanku, of all these kings gave much gold and silver.
21-23. Having given so much, tribute they got admission to the palace of Yudhishthira. the one legged people who came there gave him (Yudhishthira) many wild horses, some red as coccinella (a sort of red insect) and some white, some of the rain-bow colour, some looking like evening clouds and some of variegated colour, and all possessing the speed of mind. They also gave to the king much gold of superior quality. Innumerable chins, Shakas, Aodaras and many barbarians and dwellers of forest.
24. The Vrishnis, the Harahunas, the dark people of the Himalayas, the Nipas and the people living on the sea coast, were all refused admittance at the gate.
25-26. They gave as tribute ten thousand various asses of good size and black necks and capable of daily running two thousand miles, all of many shapes and all well-trained and celebrated over the world, all possessing symmetrical proportion and excellent colour, they skins being pleasant to the touch, also many woollen blankets made in chin, also many skins of Ranku deer, and also many clothes made of Jute and many others made of the threads of insects.
27-29. They also gave thousands of other cloths not made of cotton and all possessing the colour of the lotus, being made of smooth and soft texture. They also gave thousands of soft sheepskins, also many sharp and long swords and scimitars, hatches and fine-edged battle- axes, manufactured in the western countries also thousands of perfumes, jewels and gems. But being refused admittance they all waited at the gate.
30-31. The Shakas, the Tusharas, the Kankas, the Romakas and the men with horns, bringing with them (as tribute) many large elephants which could go long distance, and also ten thousand horses and also hundreds of millions of gold, waited at the gate being refused admittance.
32-33. Costly carpets, vehicles and beds, armours of various colours, decked with jewels, gems and ivory, and also weapons of various kinds and cars of various shapes handsomely made and adorned with gold.
34. Well-trained horses covered with the tiger skins, rich and variegated blankets for covering elephants, various kinds of gems and jewels,
35. Long and short arrows, and various other kinds of weapons such valuable things were presented by the eastern kings. They then entered the sacrificial palace of the illustrious Pandava.
Thus ends the fifty first chapter, the lamentations of Duryodhana, in the Dyuta of the Sabha Parva.