Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.68.50-51

duryodhanaḥ pāribarhaḿ

kuñjarān ṣaṣṭi-hāyanān

dadau ca dvādaśa-śatāny

ayutāni turańgamān

rathānāḿ ṣaṭ-sahasrāṇi

raukmāṇāḿ sūrya-varcasām

dāsīnāḿ niṣka-kaṇṭhīnāḿ

sahasraḿ duhitṛ-vatsalaḥ

SYNONYMS

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; turańgamān — 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.

TRANSLATION

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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