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The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose

Note (return) — SECTION III

Kisari Mohan Ganguli translation

"Draupadi replied, 'There is a class of persons called Sairindhris,5 who enter the services of other. Other females, however (that are respectable) do not do so. Of this class there are some. I shall give myself out as a Sairindhri, skilled in dressing hair. And, O Bharata, on being questioned by the king, I shall say that I served as a waiting woman of Draupadi in Yudhishthira's household. I shall thus pass my days in disguise. And I shall serve the famous Sudeshna, the wife of the king. Surely, obtaining me she will cherish me (duly). Do not grieve so, O king.'

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