Karna Parva — Karna offering to give rewards

Sanjaya said After Karna, gladdening your army, had started for battle he addressed to every Pandava soldier he met with these harsh words.

I shall give him whatever riches he will want who will point out to me today the highsouled (Arjuna) of white horses.

I shall further more confer upon him, if he is not satisfied, a cart-load of jewels who will tell me where Dhananjaya is.

If the person who will point out Arjuna be not contented with it, I shall give him a hundred kine with an equal number of brass vessels for milching them.

I will confer one hundred prosperous villages upon the man who will find out Arjuna for w. I will also give him who will point out Arjuna a number of damsels having long tresses and black eyes and a car drawn by white mules.

If the person, who will point out Arjuna, be not contented with it I shall give him another best of cars made of gold and drawn by six bulls as large as elephants. I shall furthermore confer upon him one hundred well-adorned females wearing golden necklaces, fair and accomplished in singing and dancing.

If the person, who will point out Arjuna, be not contented with it I shall give him a hundred clephants, a hundred villages, a hundred golden cars, ten thousand horses of most superior breed, fat, docile, gifted with other qualities, capable of dragging cars and well-trained.

I shall also give the person who will point out Arjuna four hundred kine, each with golden horns and her calf.

If the person, who will find out Arjuna for me, be not satisfied with it i shall give him a more valuable present, namely five hundred horses-with gold trappings and jewelled ornaments.

I shall also give him eighteen other tame horses. I shall give him, who will point out Arjuna to me, a golden car adorned with various ornaments and drawn by best Kamboja horses.

If the person showing Arjuna to me considers it again inchoate reward, I will give him some more precious wealth. I will offer him six hundred elephants decorated with different gold ornaments and garlands who have born in the western border of India and suffice training given by the expert Mahavatas.

In case that person still considers it inchoate reward, I will give him another wealth more previous than the above. I will grant him ownership of fourteen prosperous and fertile villages equipped with facilities of water and forest in adjacent areas and where fear and discomfort any kind is not existed. These fourteen villages will prosperous and filled with kingly luxuries.

I will offer in gift on hundred young maids from Magadha state, well dressed and with gold garlands to the man who will tell me whereabouts of Arjuna.

If the person producing Arjuna is yet consider it insufficient, I shall grace him with another thing for which he should ask himself.

I will give him all that wished by him and had in my possession whether wife, son, the garden and parks including clubs and whatever is with me in term of wealth and prosperity.

I shall give him who will find out Keshava and Arjuna all the riches that will be left by them after slaying these two.

Having expressed himself thus in the battle Karna blew his excellent conch sea-born and making sweet blare.

Hearing the words of the charioteer's son, which seemed proper to him, the great king Duryodhana, with all his followers, became filled with delight.

Then there arose in the midst of the army, O king, O foremost, of men, the beat of cymbals and druirs, leonine roars of the elephants and the sounds of the various musical instruments as well as war-cries of the heroes filled with joy.

When the Kuru ariny was thus filled with joy the king of Madra said in derision the following words to the subduer of foes, the son of Radha, the powerful car-warrior who was thus bragging and about to plunge himself into that ocean of battle.