Meanwhile, Satyaki and Soma had concluded their fourteenth glaha. Satyaki held the upper hand for the first time in the match. He was just about to start off the attack in the fifteenth when he put down the dice and invited Soma to raise the value of the unit counter, from ten to a hundred head of cattle.
‘He cannot get my land using the language of force, so now he seeks to deprive me of my cattle through the language of the dice!’ Soma turned to his second. ‘Well, Shakuni, shall I go with him?’
‘Certainly,’ replied Shakuni, without a moment’s hesitation. Drona agreed to the change of stake, and the game resumed.
With most of the excitement at the other two tables, few people had noticed that in his current glaha, his ninth, Drupada had suddenly started to bet so heavily that he had ru
