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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 15]
field, constantly require water to quench their thrist. Especially wounded soldiers and generals feel very thirsty at the time of death, and it sometimes so happens that simply for want of water one has to die unavoidably. But such scarcity of water was solved in the Battle of Kurukṣetra by means of boring the ground. By God's grace, water can be easily obtained from any place if there is facility for boring the ground. The modern system works on the same principle of boring the ground, but modern engineers are still unable to dig immediately wherever necessary. It appears, however, from the history as far back as the days of the Pāṇḍavas, that big generals like Arjuna could at once supply water even to the horses, and what to speak of men, by drawing water from underneath the hard ground simply by penetrating the stratum with a sharp arrow, a method still unknown to the modern scientists.
TEXT 18
नमस्पृदाररुचिरसितशोभितानि  
 हे पार्थ हेऽर्जुन सखे कुरुनन्दनेति ।  
 संजल्पितानि नरदेव हृदिस्पृशानि  
 सतुर्लुठन्ति हृदयं मम माधवस्य ॥१८
narmāṇy udāra-rucira-smita-śobhitāni  
 he pārtha he 'rjuna sakhe kuru-nandaneti  
 sañjalpitāni nara-deva hṛdi-spṛśāni  
 smartur luṭhanti hṛdayam mama mādhavasya
narmāṇi —conversation in jokes;  udāra —talked very frankly;  rucira —pleasing;  smita-śobhitāni —decorated with a smiling face;  he —note of address;  pārtha —O son of Pṛthā;  he —note of address;  arjunaḥ —Arjuna;  sakhe —friend;  kuru-nandana —son of the Kuru dynasty;  iti —and so on;  sañjalpitāni —such conversations;  nara-deva —O King;  hṛdi —heart;  spṛśāni —touching;  smartuḥ —by remembering them;  luṭhanti —overwhelms;  hṛdayam —heart and soul;  mama —my;  mādhavasya —of Mādhava (Kṛṣṇa).
TRANSLATION
O King! His jokings and frank talks were pleasing and beautifully decorated with smiles. And His addresses unto me as “O son of Pṛthā, O friend, O son of the Kuru dynasty,” and all such heartiness are now remembered by me, and thus I am overwhelmed.