[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [The Mahābhārata and its versions](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata) › [The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) › 3.79.25 # The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty 3.79.25 Mahābhārata 3.79.25 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.79.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.3.79.25) tamṛte bhīmadhanvānaṃ bhīmādavarajaṃ vane | kāmaye kāmyake vāsaṃ nedānīmamaropamam || 25 || > "After Bhima had concluded, Nakula the son of Pandu, with voice choked with tears, said, 'Without him whose extraordinary deeds on the field of battle constitute the talk of even the gods, without that foremost of warriors, what pleasure can we have in the woods? Without him who having gone towards the north had vanquished mighty Gandharva chiefs by hundreds, and who having obtained numberless handsome horses of the Tittiri and Kalmasha species all endowed with the speed of the wind, presented them from affection unto his brother the king, on the occasion of the great Rajasuya sacrifice, without that dear and illustrious one, without that terrible warrior born after Bhima, without that hero equal unto a god I do not desire to live in the Kamyaka woods any longer.' > — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa - [Previous: 3.79.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.3.79.24) - [Next: 3.79.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.3.79.26) - [Up: 3.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.3.79) ## Translations (1) - [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa~en-ganguli.3.80.4) — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, English ## Other recensions (2) - [Southern recension](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*southern.3.78.26) — Sanskrit - [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.3.80.26) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.3.79.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.3.79.25) · Pramāṇa