Sakuni

After the fall of Salya, the high-souled Sahadeva of immeasurable prowess slew Sakuni, the man who had brought about the quarrel (between the Pandavas and the Kurus).

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Sakuni, who had a bitter rememberance of the grudge his sire bore to the

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Sakuni was the maternal uncle of Duryodhana and, therefore, of

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When the Gandhara warriors were thus being slain all around him in battle, the royal son of Sakuni came forward to resist the son of

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Comforting the son of Sakuni, he said, 'Thou hast not, O mighty-armed hero, done what is agreeable to me by getting thy heart upon these measures of hostility.

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Unable to bear and, therefore, burning to avenge, the slaughter of their king Sakuni, those warriors, armed with bows, rushed together at

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Indeed, through the fault of Duryodhana, of Karna, of Sakuni, and of

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Know that Duryodhana was Kali, and Sakuni was Dwapara.

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Sakuni, and the other children, endued with great strength, of

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Thus addressed the son of Sakuni, stupefied by folly, disregarded that advice and covered with many swift arrows the Kuru hero who resembled Sakra himself in the feats he accomplished in battle.

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