794 Srimad-Bhagavatam {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 Kuruksetra 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 Pandavas, 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
aTaPacrerfaraitrants
Ly bat
& mi tsgaaa Fercais |
aa ferent Acer TeeTTA
Udaata et AA ATITeL Re
narmany udara-rucira-smita-sobhitani
he partha he ’rjuna sakhe kuru-nandaneti
sanjalpitani nara-deva hrdi-sprsani
smartur luthanti hrdayam mama madhavasya

narmani—conversation in jokes; udara—talked very frankly; rucira—
pleasing; smita-Sobhitani—decorated with a smiling face; he—note of
address; partha—O son of Prtha; he—note of address; arjunah— Arjuna;
sakhe—friend; kuru-nandana—son of the Kuru dynasty; iti—and so on;
sanjalpitani—such conversations; nara-deva—O King; hrdi—heart; sprsani--
touching; smartuh—by remembering them; luthanti— overwhelms; hrdayam
—heart and soul; mama—my; madhavasya—of Madhava (Krsna).

TRANSLATION
O King! His jokings and frank talks were pleasing and beautifully

decorated with smiles. And His addresses unto me as “O son of Prtha, O
friend, O son of the Kuru dynasty,” and all such heartiness are now remem-
bered by me, and thus I am overwhelmed.
