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# Arjuna and the Hunter 2.21

Kirātārjunīya 2.21

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya.2.21)

kim avekṣya phalaṃ payodharān dhvanataḥ prārthayate mṛgādhipaḥ  
prakṛtiḥ khalu sā mahīyasaḥ sahate nānyasamunnatiṃ yayā //

> Looking to what reward does the king of beasts / attack the thundering clouds? / That is truly the nature of the great, / by which he does not tolerate the exaltation of another.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya~en-mt.2.21) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (5)

- [Commentary of Jonarāja](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya!jonaraja.1.p179) — Jonarāja, Sanskrit
- [Ghaṇṭāpatha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya!mallinatha.2.21) — Mallinātha Sūri, Sanskrit
- [Kirātārjunīyaṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya!mallinatha-kiratarjuniyatika.2.21) — Mallinātha, Sanskrit
- [Traisargika](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya!citrabhanu) — Citrabhānu, Sanskrit
- [Śabdārthadīpikā Rasabodhinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya!sabdarthadipikarasabodhini) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (2)

- [Subhāṣitaratnabhāṇḍāgāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.subhasitaratnabhandagara.2.26.151) — Kāśīnātha Pāṇḍuraṅga Paraba 1886, Sanskrit
- [Altindische Grammatik](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.wackernagel-1896.v3.c9.53) — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German

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