The Mahabharata/Book 1: Adi Parva/Section 188

Section CLXXXVIII. *( Svayamvara Parva continued. )* "Dhrista-dyumna said, 'Duryodhana, Durvishaha, Durmukha and Dushpradharshana; Vivingsati, Vikarna, Saha, and Dushasana; Yuyutsu and Vayuvega and Bhima-vegrava; Urgrā-yudha, Valāki, Kankāyu, and Virochana, Sukundala, Chitra-sena, Suvarcha, and Kanaka-dhaja; Nandaka, and Vàhusali, and Tuhunda, and Vikata; these, O sister, and many other mighty sons of Dhrita-rashtra—heroes all—accompanied with Karna, have come for thy hand! Innumerable other illustrious monarchs—all bulls among Kshatriyas—have also come for thee! Sakuni, Sauvala, Vrishaka, and Vrihadvala,—these sons of the king of Gāndhara—have also come. Foremost of all wielders of weapons—the illustrious Aswathama and Bhoja—adorned with every ornament have also come for thee! Vrihanta, Manimāna, Danda-dhara, Sahadeva, Jayat-sena, Megha-sandhi, Virāta with his two sons Sankha and Uttara, Vārdha-kshemi, Susharmā, Senā-vindu, Suketu with his two sons Sunāmā and Suvarchā, Suchitra, Sukumāra, Vrika, Satyadhriti, Suryadhaja, Rochamāna, Nila, Chitrāyudha, Angsumāna, Chekitāna, the mighty Srenimāna, Chandra-sena the mighty son of Samudra-sena, Jalasandha, Vidanda and Danda—the father and son, Paundraka, Vāsudeva, Bhagadatta endued with great energy, Kalinga, Tāmralipta, the king of Pattana, the mighty charioteer Salya the king of Madra with his son the heroic Rukmangada, Rukma-ratha, Somadatta of the Kuru race with his three sons, all mighty charioteers and heroes, *viz*, Bhuri, Bhurisrava, and Shala, Sudhakshina, Kamvoja, Dhridadhanvā of the Puru race, Vrihadvala Sushena, Shivi the son of Usinara, Patach-charanibantā, the king of Kārusha, Sankarsana (Valadeva), Vāsudeva (Krishna), the mighty son of Rukminy, Shamva Charudeshna, the son of Pradyumna with Gada, Akrura, Satyaki, the high-souled Udhava, Kritavarmá the son of Hridikā, Prithu, Viprithu, Viduratha, Kanka, Sankha with Gaveshana, Asāvaha, Anirudha, Samika, Sārimejaya, the heroic Vātāpati, Jhilli, Pindāraka, the powerful Usinara,—all these of the Vrishni race, Bhagiratha, Vrihatkshatra, Jayadratha the king of Sindhu, Vrihadratha, Vālhika, the mighty charioteer Srutāyu, Uluka, Kaitava, Chitrāngada and Suvàngada, the highly intelligent Vatsaraja, the king of Koshala, Shishupāla and the powerful Jarà-sandha, these and many other great kings—all Kshatriyas celebrated throughout the world—have come, O blessed one, for thee! Endued with prowess, these will shoot the mark. And thou shalt choose him for thy husband who amongst these will shoot the mark!'" Thus ends the hundred and eighty-eighth Section in the Svayamvara of the Adi Parva.