duryodhanaḥ pāribarhaṁ
kuñjarān ṣaṣṭi-hāyanān
dadau ca dvādaśa-śatāny
ayutāni turaṅgamān
rathānāṁ ṣaṭ-sahasrāṇi
raukmāṇāṁ sūrya-varcasām
dāsīnāṁ niṣka-kaṇṭhīnāṁ
sahasraṁ duhitṛ-vatsalaḥ

 duryodhanaḥ - Duryodhana; pāribarham - as a dowry; kuñjarān - elephants; ṣaṣṭi - sixty; hāyanān - years old; dadau - gave; ca - and; dvādaśa - twelve; śatāni - hundred; ayutāni - tens of thousands; turaṅgamān - horses; rathānām - of chariots; ṣaṭ-sahasrāṇi - six thousand; raukmāṇām - golden; sūrya - (like) the sun; varcasām - whose effulgence; dāsīnām - of maidservants; niṣka - jeweled lockets; kaṇṭthīnām - on whose throats; sahasram - one thousand; duhitṛ - for his daughter; vatsalaḥ - having fatherly affection.


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Duryodhana, being very affectionate to his daughter, gave as her dowry 1,200 sixty-year-old elephants, 120,000 horses, 6,000 golden chariots shining like the sun, and 1,000 maidservants with jeweled lockets on their necks.

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