"Then she received her fainting husband in her arms, and sate herself On the cold ground, and gently laid his drooping head upon her lap; Sorrowing, she call'd to mind the sage's prophecy, and reckoned up The days and hours. All in an instant she beheld an awful shape Standing before her, dressed in blood~red garments, with a glittering crown Upon his head; his form though glowing like the sun, was yet obscure; And eyes he had like flames, a noose descended from his hand, and he Was terrible to look upon, by her husband’s side he stood And gazed upon him with a fiery glance. Shuddering she started up And laid her dying Satyavan upon the ground, and with her hands Joined reverently, she thus with beating heart addressed the Shape: Surely thou art a god, such form as thine must more than mortal be. Tell me, though godlike being, who though art, and wherefore art though here."
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