gachhami gandhamadana
tatra  shukaha.
gachhami mandakini teerey
tatra shukaha.
yada dwapara
saha kathati

The dice
The two spot face of the dice
Stays an eye wink, turns full circle
tadaakalaagachchati.
moorkha nagarasya janah.
They go about trading trinkets
Know little, hear nothing at all of
                                     the game
Played behind their tired
Backs:
Rivers that change their course,
Fortune that changes hands.
And I tried hard
Ho Pitamaha, I tried hard
To stem the tide,
To keep the water from the land and time
From my people.

My country was a great land
My city, Indraprastha.

But something came over me,
I was hungry, waterless, unready,
And no one to look to for advice.
And tried, I tried hard
And I was only a boy with two
                              eyes
And the city had ten doors on ten
                                 sides

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