Madraka - AncientVoice

Mbh.1.67.3486	Madraka, and Karnaveshta, Siddhartha, and also Kitaka; Suvira, and Suvahu, and Mahavira, and also Valhika, Kratha, Vichitra, Suratha, and the handsome king Nila; and Chiravasa, and Bhumipala; and Dantavakra, and he who was called Durjaya; that tiger amongst kings named Rukmi; and king Janamejaya, Ashada, and Vayuvega, and also Bhuritejas; Ekalavya, and Sumitra, Vatadhana, and also Gomukha; the tribe of kings called the Karushakas, and also Khemadhurti; Srutayu, and Udvaha, and also Vrihatsena; Kshema, Ugratirtha, the king of the Kalingas; and Matimat, and he was known as king Iswara; these first of kings were all born of the Asura class called Krodhavasa.
Mbh.8.40.2097	The Madraka is always a hater of friends.
Mbh.8.40.2098	He that hateth us is a Madraka.
Mbh.8.40.2099	There is no friendship in the Madraka who is mean in speech and is the lowest of mankind.
Mbh.8.40.2100	The Madraka is always a person of wicked soul, is always untruthful and crooked.
Mbh.8.40.2107	No one should make friends with a Madraka or provoke hostilities with him.
Mbh.8.40.2108	In the Madraka land there is no friendship.
Mbh.8.40.2109	The Madraka is always the dirt of humanity.
Mbh.8.40.2112	As there is no friendship in the Madraka, so, O scorpion, thy poison is nought'
Mbh.8.40.2115	Those women that, intoxicated by spirits, cast off their robes and dance, those women that are not attached to particular individuals in the matter of intercourse and that they do as they please without owning any restrictions, I say, that being as thou art the child of one of those women, how canst thou, O Madraka, be a fit person for declaring the duties of men?
Mbh.8.40.2117	When a Madraka woman is solicited for the gift of a little quantity of vinegar, she scratches her hips and without being desirous of giving it, says these cruel words, Let no man ask any vinegar of me that is so dear to me.
Mbh.8.40.2119	The young Madraka maidens, we hear, are generally very shameless and hairy and gluttonous and impure.
Mbh.8.43.2340	Incapable of speaking of my merits, thou sayst many bitter things, O thou of wicked heart; Karna was never born, O Madraka, for fear in battle.
Mbh.8.43.2348	It is for this that thou livest, O Madraka.
Mbh.8.47.2624	Meanwhile the Kuru king Duryodhana with his brothers, O bull of Bharata's race, and supported by many Kuru heroes and many mighty Madraka car-warriors, protected Karna while the latter was engaged in battle with the Pandavas, the Pancalas, the Cedis, and Satyaki.
Mbh.9.18.1114	Duryodhana riding upon an elephant gigantic as a hill, with an umbrella held over his head, and fanned the while with yak-tails, forbade the Madraka warriors, saying, Do not proceed, Do not proceed
Mbh.9.18.1117	Meanwhile, hearing that Shalya had been slain and that Yudhishthira was afflicted by the mighty car-warriors of the Madrakas devoted to the welfare of the Madraka king, the great car-warrior Partha came there, stretching his bow Gandiva, and filling the Earth with the rattle of his car.
Mbh.9.18.1131	Then Shakuni, the son of the Gandhara king, possessed of eloquence, O monarch, said unto Duryodhana these words, How is this that we are standing here, while the Madraka host is being slaughtered before our eyes?
Mbh.9.21.1408	Then the Madraka warriors, endued with great activity, amongst those on our side that were advancing, became filled with joy and uttered diverse sounds of delight.

Jijith Nadumuri Ravi
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Reference:- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli; Source of Plain Text: www.sacred-texts.com; Wikified at AncientVoice.

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