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अध्याय १००

श्लोक 1

श्रुत्वा तु वचनं देवी कृष्णेनोदाहृतं तदा ।प्रहर्षम् अतुलं लेभे रुक्मिणी वाक्यम् अब्रवीत् ॥ अहो धन्यतरास्मीति वीरपुत्रसमागमात् ।अद्य मे सफलः कामः पूर्णश् चाद्य मनोरथः ।चिरप्रनष्टपुत्रस्य दर्शनं प्रियया सह ॥ आगच्छ पुत्र भवनं विशस्व सह भार्यया ॥ ततो ऽभिवाद्य चरणौ गोविन्दं मातरं च सः ।प्रद्युम्नः पूजयाम् आस हलिनं च महाबलम् ॥ उत्थाप्य तं परिष्वज्य मूर्ध्न्य् उपाघ्राय वीर्यवान् ।प्रद्युम्नं बलिनां श्रेष्ठं केशवः परवीरहा ॥ स्नुषां चोत्थाप्य तां देवीं रुक्मिणी रुक्मभूषणां ।परिष्वज्योपसंगृह्य स्नेहाद् गद्गदभाषिणी ॥ समेतं भवनं पत्न्या शच्येन्द्रम् अदितिर् यथा ।प्रवेशयाम् आस तदा रुक्मिणी सुतम् आगतम् ।एवम् उक्ता तु कृष्णेन रुक्मिणी योषितां वरा ।पुत्रं प्रीत्या परिष्वज्य मूर्ध्नि चाघ्राय तां स्नुषाम् ।गृहं प्रवेशयाम् आस स्नुषया सह भामिनी ।हृतो यदैव प्रद्युम्नः शम्बरेणात्मघातिना तम् एव मासं साम्बस् तु जाम्बवत्याम् अजायत

śrutvā tu vacanaṃ devī kṛṣṇenodāhṛtaṃ tadā | praharṣam atulaṃ lebhe rukmiṇī vākyam abravīt || aho dhanyatarāsmīti vīraputrasamāgamāt | adya me saphalaḥ kāmaḥ pūrṇaś cādya manorathaḥ | cirapranaṣṭaputrasya darśanaṃ priyayā saha || āgaccha putra bhavanaṃ viśasva saha bhāryayā || tato 'bhivādya caraṇau govindaṃ mātaraṃ ca saḥ | pradyumnaḥ pūjayām āsa halinaṃ ca mahābalam || utthāpya taṃ pariṣvajya mūrdhny upāghrāya vīryavān | pradyumnaṃ balināṃ śreṣṭhaṃ keśavaḥ paravīrahā || snuṣāṃ cotthāpya tāṃ devīṃ rukmiṇī rukmabhūṣaṇāṃ | pariṣvajyopasaṃgṛhya snehād gadgadabhāṣiṇī || sametaṃ bhavanaṃ patnyā śacyendram aditir yathā | praveśayām āsa tadā rukmiṇī sutam āgatam | evam uktā tu kṛṣṇena rukmiṇī yoṣitāṃ varā | putraṃ prītyā pariṣvajya mūrdhni cāghrāya tāṃ snuṣām | gṛhaṃ praveśayām āsa snuṣayā saha bhāminī | hṛto yadaiva pradyumnaḥ śambareṇātmaghātinā tam eva māsaṃ sāmbas tu jāmbavatyām ajāyata

हिन्दी अर्थ

विव्याध हैत्यं विंशत्या विशिखेैर्नतपर्वभि: । मरुदृणानां प्रवरा दश दिव्या महौजस: पर्वत वारिधाराभि: प्रावषीव बलाहका:। करे गजकराकासमुद्यम्य युधि मारुतः। तेषां मूर्थसु हैत्यानां पातयामास वीर्यवान् शोणितक्लिन्नमुकुटा गैरिकाक्ता इवाद्रय:

English

Krishna said:—"O Garuda, those are the precious kine of Vāna drinking whose milk a man becomes immortal. Do thou soon go there. Satyabhāmā has asked me to take those cows drinking whose milk the great Asuras are not possessed by decrepitude and creatures are freed from fever. She has asked me to take these kine if it does not eface virtue and not to be covetous if it stands in the way of my work. O son of Vinatā, surely these are the kine of which Satyā spoke to me" (47-50).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 2

बाल्यात् प्रभृति रामेण मानेषु विनियोजितः रामाद् अनन्तरं चैव मानितः सर्ववृष्णिभिः

bālyāt prabhṛti rāmeṇa māneṣu viniyojitaḥ rāmād anantaraṃ caiva mānitaḥ sarvavṛṣṇibhiḥ

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततः प्रावर्तत नदी रौद्ररूपा भयावहा देवदेत्यगजाश्रानां रुधिरौघपरिप्लुता। रणभूमिरभूद् रौद्रा तत्र तत्र सहस्रशः उस हैत्यको झुकी हुई गाँठवाले बीस बाणोंसे घायल कर दिया। यह देखकर मरुद्रणोंमें श्रेष्ठ जो दस दिव्य वाह!)' कहकर बड़े वेगसे सिंहनाद किया। उस रोमाश्जकारी भयंकर सिंहनादके प्रकट होनेपर पौलोम नामवाले हैत्य क्रोधसे मूच्छित होकर दौड़े। उन्होंने वायुके पास पहुँचकर उन्हें अपने उत्तम बाणोंसे ढक दिया, ठीक वैसे ही, जैसे वर्षा-ऋतुमें बादल अपनी जलधाराओंसे पर्वतको आच्छादित कर देते हैं। क्रोधमें भरे हुए वे सात पौलोम महारथी वायुदेवको उसी तरह पीडा देने लगे, जैसे प्रजाके संहारकालमें सात घोर

English

Garuda said:—"These are the kine no doubt. I had seen them before in Varuna's abode. O Keshava, seeing me all on a sudden they are entering into Varuna's palace. Therefore thou shouldst do some thing at once for possessing them." Saying this Vinata's son agitated the ocean with the flapping of his wings and entered into Varuna's abode. Thereupon seeing Garuda enter by force into Varuna's residence all his followers were stricken with fear and bewildered. Afterwards when Varuna's irrepressible army, with diverse weapons, appeared before Vāsudeva, they had to fight a terrible fight with Garuda the enemy of serpents. Although thousands of Varuna's irrepressible soldiers came to the battle-field they were all routed by the high-souled Keshava. The sixty thousand cars of Varuna with burning weapons, that had come to fight there, all fled away and entered into Varuna's abode. Consumed entirely by Krishna with his arrows they broke down seeing nobody to protect them. That army was completely killed with arrows by powerful and heroic Baladeva, Janārddana, Pradyumna, Aniruddha and Garuda (51-58).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 3

रामस्यैव प्रियसुतः सो ऽभवज् ज्येष्ठ इत्य् अपि ।जातमात्रे ततः कृष्णः शुभं तत् पुरम् आविशत् निहतामित्रसामन्तः शक्रोद्यानं यथामरः

rāmasyaiva priyasutaḥ so 'bhavaj jyeṣṭha ity api | jātamātre tataḥ kṛṣṇaḥ śubhaṃ tat puram āviśat nihatāmitrasāmantaḥ śakrodyānaṃ yathāmaraḥ

हिन्दी अर्थ

ग्रह सोमको पीड़ित करने लगते हैं। तब बल-पराक्रमसे सम्पन्न वायु देवताने किसीसे भी क्षुब्ध न किये जाने योग्य, नाना प्रकारके रत्नोंसे विभूषित तथा हाथीकी सूँड़के समान आकारवाले दाहिने हाथको ऊपर उठाकर उसीसे युद्धस्थलमें उन सातों पौलोमोंके मस्तकोंपर प्रहार किया। उस वायुतुल्य वेगशाली कर-प्रहारसे वे छोड़कर नौ बाणोंसे उन्हें बींध डाला। पुलोमाकी ओरसे आये हुए उन प्रज्वलित बाणसमूहोंकी चिन्ता न करते हुए उन महाकाय दानवोंके तेज (मस्तक)-को विदीर्ण करके वायु देवताने उनके मुकुटोंको रक्तसे भिगो दिया। उस समय वे हैत्य गेरुसे भीगे हुए पर्वतोंके समान प्रतीत होते थे॥ ४४--७३ ॥ कवच, हड्डी और भुजाओंके छिन्न-भिन्न हो जानेसे पृथ्वीपर गिरते हुए वे दानव हाथियोंके झुंडद्वारा तोड़े गये पुष्पयुक्त वृक्षोंके समान

English

Seeing thus his own army routed by Krishna of unwearied actions Varuna was greatly worked up with anger and went where Keshava was. He was seen in the battle-field eulogised by the gods, Rishis, Gandharvas and bands of Apsaras. A beautiful yellow-colored umbrella, with water streaming from it, was held over his head. The lord of waters, followed by his sons, grand-sons and soldiers, took up his bow in anger, stringed it and invited Hari for battle. Thereupon blowing his conch-shell the lord of waters, in anger, ran towards Hari like Hara and covered him with arrows. Then the highly powerful Janārddana blew his conch-shell Pānchajanya and agitated all the quarters with shafts. Although assailed with clean shafts in the battle-field Varuna smilingly fought with Krishna (59-65). Seeing it Janārddana got ready in the battle-field the dreadful Vaishnava weapon and said to the intelligent Varuna who stood before him "Wait here for a moment: for killing you this dreadful Vaishnava weapon, destructive of enemies, has been taken up by me." Seeing the Vaishnava weapon upheld the highly powerful Varuna took up his Varuna weapon and sent up a leonine shout. O Victor of armies, when that Varuna weapon was discharged for counteracting Vaishnava weapon from it streamed down profuse water. However with the energy of Vaishnava weapon that water was ablaze. Thus when Varuna weapon was burnt down and Vaishnava weapon grew ablaze again all, filled with fear, fled away on all sides. Seeing it ablaze Varuna said to Krishna (66–71):—"O great one, remember the manifest Prakriti which was unmanifest before, O Lord of yoga, thou art always pervaded by Sattwa (goodness) still why are you possessed by the (disorganising) tendency? Cast off Tama (disorganising tendency) O god, throw off your egoism and other weaknesses begotten by the five elements. I am the eldest of thy Vaishnava form. Though I deserve thy respect, being the elder brother, still why dost thou wish to consume me? O foremost of warriors, fire does not display its power towards another fire. Therefore do thou relinquish your anger directed towards me. Thou art the primary cause of the universe and there is none who can lord over thee. Prakriti, capable of manifestating herself, was formerly created by thee. That Prakriti, subject to an end, resorted to thy energy on account of thine, being the origin of the universe. Through Prakriti thou didst create this universe identical with Vishnu, Agni, and Soma; and why dost thou then attack it now? Salutation unto thee who art the origin of elements, self-born, eternal, undecaying and identical with all, manifested and unmanifested. Do thou protect me, O thou of great effulgence, who am worthy of being protected. Thou art the prime cause of the universe. Through thee the creation has multiplied itself. As the boy plays with his toys so thou dost play with thy creations. I am not against Prakriti nor do I contaminate it. Thou dost put an end to the changes of Nature when she is subject to them. That, which creates change even in changes, cannot create any change in thee. Thou dost create changes in the impious and wicked. When the world is pervaded by the sinful tendencies, begotten by Nature, namely, the qualities of Raja (self-concentration) and Tama (disorganization) then stupefication possesses her. O lord, thou art the fountain of supreme knowledge, omniscient and the creator: why dost thou stupify me?" (72–84) Thus addressed by Varuna, Krishna, the omniscient hero, the creator of the world, was filled with joy. Thus spoken to Krishna smilingly said:—"O hero of dreadful prowess, do give me these kine for pacifying me." Thus addressed by Krishna, Varuna, clever in speaking, again said:—"Hear, O slayer of Madhu (85–87). O lord, I had made a contract with Vāna. How can I break it now? O Keshava, thou canst make every one break his promise. But O Sire, if a person's character is lost he becomes an object of censure unto the pious. O slayer of Madhu, only the pious always deserve respect from all. But the sinful breaker of his promise does not attain to any (blissful) region. Be thou propitiated therefore, O slayer of Madhu and do that by which my virtue may not be lost. O Mādhava, it does not behove thee to engage me in a work which will lead to a breach of promise. O thou having eyes like those of a bull, I had formerly promised, that if alive I would never give away these kine. If thou dost wish to possess these kine kill me and take them away. O thou of large arms, O king of the celestials, O slayer of Madhu, I have thus described unto thee my promise. Not a single portion of it is false. Every bit of it is true. O Mādhava, if thou hast any pity for me, save me. If, O thou of large arms, dost thou wish to take these kine away, kill me and take them." (88–94).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 4

यादवीं च श्रियं दृष्ट्वा स्वां श्रियं द्वेष्टि वासवः जनार्दनभयाच् चैव न शान्तिं लेभिरे नृपाः

yādavīṃ ca śriyaṃ dṛṣṭvā svāṃ śriyaṃ dveṣṭi vāsavaḥ janārdanabhayāc caiva na śāntiṃ lebhire nṛpāḥ

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रतीत होते थे॥७४॥ उन महाकाय दानवोंके विदीर्ण किये हुए शरीरोंसे खूनकी एक भयंकर नदी बह चली, जिसका स्वरूप बड़ा ही रौद्र था॥७५॥ वह रणभूमिमें रक्तका स्रोत बहाती हुई भीरु पुरुषोंके मनमें भयकी वृद्धि कर रही थी। देवताओं और हैत्योंके हाथी- घोड़ोंके रक्तके प्रवाहसे जहाँ-तहाँ सहस्ीरों स्थानोंमें डूबी हुई वह रणभूमि बड़ी भयंकर प्रतीत हो रही थी॥ ७६॥ निर्जीव यक्ष, राक्षस तथा खेचरोंसे वह भूमि भरी हुई थी। उनके सेवक, ध्वजा, पताका, उपासड़ और रथ सभी वहाँ बिखरे पड़े थे उण्टोंसे विभूषित गजराज धराशायी हो गये थे, सुवर्णपुड्डैज्वलितै्नाराचैस्तिग्मतेजसै: ॥ ७८ उनके कुम्भस्थल फट गये थे। सोनेके पर लगे हुए

English

Vaishampāyana said:—Thus addressed by Varuna Krishna, the multiplier of the Yadu race thought, that what Varuna had said about the kine could not be gainsaid and was accordingly silenced. Thereupon Keshava, who could understand all, smilingly said to Varuna:—"O Lord Varuna, on account of your contract with Vāna you are saved. Specially you have expressed the truth in sweet and charming words. How can I then perform an iniquity by you? O lord of water, you are truthful and therefore for pleasing you I let loose Vāna's cows. And you too are released. There is no doubt about it. Depart now." Thereupon sounding bugles Varuna adored Keshava with _Arghya_. After the Yadu chief Keshava had accepted it from Varuna, the lord of waters, adored Baladeva with a controlled mind. Giving protection unto Varuna, Shouri, the heroic descendant of Shura, with Sachi's lord set out for Dwārakā. The Devas, Maruts, Sāddhyas, Siddhas, Chāranas, Gandharvas, Apsaras, Kinnaras followed Krishna, the eternal lord of all creatures in the etherial way, (95–102). When Keshava, on acquiring victory and fame, proceeded the Adityas, Vasus, Rudras, the two Ashwinis, Yakshas, Rākshasas, Siddhas, Chāranas, and Vidyadharas followed him. Pleased at seeing Vāna and Varuna defeated the great and ever quarrelsome Nārada, set out for Dwārakā. Thus proceeding Keshava, the holder of discus and club, saw from a distance the city of Dwarakā having many doors and adorned with blue-turreted, beautiful palaces resembling the summits of the mount Kailāsha and blew his conch-shell Pānchajanya. As the blare of Pānchajanya used to indicate Keshava's arrival and departure he, with it, communicated the news of his approach to the citizens of Dwārakā. Hearing the sound of Pānchajanya the inhabitants of Dwaraka adorned their respective habitations with profuse flowers, jars full of water and fried paddy. The streets of that prosperous city, abounding in many jems, were cleansed; the Brāhmanas and the elderly persons with arghya and exclaiming his many victories adored Mādhava. People bowed unto Krishna, highly beautiful and resembling a mass of collyrium who sat on Vinatā's son. The Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Sudras in order adored the highly powerful Ananta, the slayer of Keshi. Waiting in a garden of Dwārakā, the lotus-eyed Mādhava was eulogised by the Rishis, gods, Gandharvas and Chāranas. Seeing those wonders and the large-armed Krishna the great Dāshārhas attained to an excess of joy. Beholding the great Purusottama return after defeating Vāna, the inhabitants of Dwārakā began to talk on diverse topics. After the great Krishna, the greatest car-warrior amongst the Yadavas, had returned from that long distance whither he had gone through the help of Suparna they conversed amongst themselves. "Blessed and favoured are we since the kind lord of the universe, the long and mighty-armed Krishna is our protector. Riding on Vinatā's son the lotus-eyed deity defeated the irrepressible Vāna: and now returning to Dwārakā he has gladdened our hearts." While the inhabitants of Dwārakā thus conversed, the gods, the car-warriors, entered into Vasudeva's palace. Then coming down from Garuda's back Vāsudeva, Bahadeva, Pradyumna and Aniruddha entered into the palace. Celestial cars of various forms were then seen moving about in the sky. Drawn by swans, bulls, deer, elephants, horses, Sarasas and peacocks, those thousands of cars displayed a great beauty there (103-121).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 5

कस्यचित् त्व् अथ कालस्य पुरे वारणसाह्वये दुर्योधनस्य यज्ञे वै समेयुः सर्वपार्थिवाः

kasyacit tv atha kālasya pure vāraṇasāhvaye duryodhanasya yajñe vai sameyuḥ sarvapārthivāḥ

हिन्दी अर्थ

देवदानवनिर्मुक्ति: सविषैरुरगैरिव। प्रासतोमरनाराचै: शक्तिखड्गपरश्चथे: कनकाड्ढदकेयूरैर्मणिभिश्व सकुण्डलै: विमर्दो देवहैत्यानां सदृशः कर्मणा बभौ। अथ हैत्यसहस्त्रण पोलोमेन महारथः मुझ्नतः कर्षतो वापि ददृशुस्तत्र नानतरम्

English

Thereupon in sweet words Krishna addressed Pradyumna and other princes:—"Salute them in due order—those Rudras, Adityas who have come here. Do you all salute the thousand-eyed Nāga who has come here with his followers and dreadful Dānavas. The seven great Rishis, other saints, and those holders of discuses have all come here for pleasing me—do ye adore them all. The oceans and other quarters have come here for satisfying me. Do you adore them in due order. The great Nāgas headed by Vāsuki and cows have come here for pleasing me: do you adore them in due order. The Yakshas, Rākshasas, Kinnaras, stars and other luminous bodies have come here for pleasing me: do you adore them in due order." Hearing the words of Vasudeva the princes, in due order, saluted the high-souled gods and stood before them. Beholding the celestials the citizens, filled with surprise, soon collected articles for Puja and said:—"Oh I under the protection of Vasudeva, we have, even here, witnessed this great wonder." Afterwards showering flowers, scents and powdered sandal they adored the gods. Controlling their senses and intellectual faculties the other inhabitants of Dwārakā worshipped the gods with fried paddy, incense and prostration. Thereupon Vāsava embraced Ahuka, Vasudeva, Shamva, Satyaki, Nishatha, Ulmukha, the highly powerful Viprithu and the great Akrura and smelt their heads. Afterwards aiming at the slayer of Keshi, worthy of being eulogised, the great Shakra, in the midst of the Yādavas, gave vent to the following most excellent words:—"This foremost of Sātwatas and Yadus has displayed his glory and manliness in the battle field whilst releasing Aniruddha. Having vanquished Vāna in the battle-field before Mahadeva and Guha he has returned to Dwarakā. His thousands arms were reduced by him into two (122-139). Having left him only with two arms Hari has returned to his own city. All the works, for which the high-souled Krishna has been born in the land of men, have been accomplished and we too have been divested of sorrow. Without any anxiety do you drink Madhvika wine. Thus attached to worldly objects you will be able to spend your days happily. Under the protection of this high-souled one, I too, shorn of grief, will live happily with the celestials." Having thus chanted the glories of the great Keshava the destroyer of Dānavas and adored of the world, the thousand-eyed Purandara, encircled by the gods, embraced him. Thereupon obtaining his permission, he, along with the gods and Marutas, set out for the celestial region. Having honored the highly powerful Keshava with blessings of victory the great Rishis, along with Yakshas, Rakshasas and Kinnaras, repaired to their respective quarters.

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 6

तां श्रुत्वा माधवीं लक्ष्मीं सपुत्रं च जनार्दनम् पुरीं द्वारावतीं चैव निविष्टां सागरान्तरे

tāṃ śrutvā mādhavīṃ lakṣmīṃ saputraṃ ca janārdanam purīṃ dvārāvatīṃ caiva niviṣṭāṃ sāgarāntare

हिन्दी अर्थ

अग्निचक्रोपमं दीप मण्डलीकृतकार्मुकम् । तदासीद् दानवेन्द्रस्थ सव्यदक्षिणमस्यतः प्रचण्ड तेजवाले प्रज्बलित बाण, जिन्हें देवताओं और दानवोंने छोड़ा था, विषैले सर्पोके समान वहाँ पड़े हुए थे। प्रास, तोमर, नाराच, शक्ति, खड़ग, फरसे, सुवर्ण- निर्मित गदा, मुसल, पट्टिश, सोनेके बाजूबंद, केयूर, तथा रथसे रहित मरे हुए हैत्य तथा घायल होकर पड़े हुए सैकड़ों और हजारों सैनिकोंसे वह रणभूमि भर गयी थी। जहाँ बहुत-से ध्वज और रथ गिराये गये थे, घोड़े, हाथी और रथी मार डाले गये थे, वह देवताओं तथा हैत्योंका विमर्द (संग्राम) उनके कर्मके अनुरूप ही प्रतीत होता था। तदनन्तर हाथोंमें गदा और मुसल लिये हुए पौलोम नामवाले एक सहस्र हैत्योंने श्रीमान् महारथी पवनदेवको घेर लिया॥७८--८४॥ फिर तो लाखों श्रेष्ठ दानवोंने पबनदेवको मारना आरम्भ किया। वे चारों ओरसे बाण मारकर उन्हें चोट पहुँचाने लगे। शरीरमें धँसे हुए उन बाणोंसे उनकी अद्भुत शोभा हो रही थी॥ ८५॥ प्रभावशाली, महारथी, सुरश्रेष्ठ पवनदेवने

English

After the departure of Purandara for the celestial region the highly powerful and great lotus-navelled deity enquired after their well-being. Thereupon there arose on all sides tumult of persons for seeing the moon-like countenance of Keshava. Seeing their devotion the sinless Keshava was highly pleased. Having thus returned to Dwārakā, Krishna, obtaining all objects of desire, riches and prosperity, lived happily

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 7

दूतैस् तैः कृतसंधानाः पृथिव्यां सर्वपार्थिवाः श्रियं द्रष्टुं हृषीकेशम् आजग्मुः कृष्णमन्दिरम्

dūtais taiḥ kṛtasaṃdhānāḥ pṛthivyāṃ sarvapārthivāḥ śriyaṃ draṣṭuṃ hṛṣīkeśam ājagmuḥ kṛṣṇamandiram

हिन्दी अर्थ

वहाँ आठ सौ पौलोम योद्धाओंका वध करके अपने लिये मार्ग बना लिया और बड़े जोरसे सिंहनाद किया॥ ८६॥ आज भी आकाशमें वह सुविस्तृत मार्ग दिखायी देता है, जो वायुरथके नामसे प्रसिद्ध है। सिद्ध पुरुष झुलोकमें उसका दर्शन करते हैं वैशम्पायनजी कहते हैं--जनमेजय ! हयग्रीव नामक पराक्रमी एवं महारथी हैत्यने पूषापर आक्रमण करके बड़े जोरसे सिंहनाद किया॥ ८८ ॥ क्रोधमें भरे हुए उस हैत्यने सोनेकी जालीसे विभूषित विशाल धनुषको तानकर पूषाकी ओर घोर दृष्टिसे देखा॥८९॥ उस हैत्यके दोनों हाथोंसे बाणोंके लेने, धनुषपर रखने, प्रत्यज्चाको खींचने और उन बाणोंको छोड़नेमें कितने क्षणका अन्तर होता है, यह कोई भी वहाँ देख नहीं पाते

English

Vaishampāyana said:—Thereupon having his eyes expanded with joy the large-armed Ahuka said to the highly effulgent Krishna:—"O descendant of Yadu, hear what I say. O my child, seeing thee safely return we are all enjoying with the Apsaras. Do thou undertake a great festival for Aniruddha's return and wedding. United with Aniruddha and encircled by her friends the great Ushā is living with the greatest possible pleasure. Baidarbhi says that the great daughter of the high-souled Kumbhānda should be enlisted as Ushā's companion. Confer now that charming and beautiful daughter of Kumbhānda on Shāmva and the remaining maidens should be duly given unto the other princes. Let a great festival take place in thy residence as well as in that of Aniruddha. Hear, the damsels of sweet voice are playing on musical instruments in the inner appartment. Some of them are dancing and others are singing. Some with glee are conversing with one another. And some, adorned with garlands and clad in variegated raiments, are moving about hither and thither. Some, under the influence of wine, are going to others, and some, with eyes expanded in joy, are playing at chess. Ushā is encircled by her companions; take her into the palace. The beautiful and noble daughter of Vāna, by name Ushā, is a worthy daughter-in-law of thy race. Welcome her with all dignity (1-11)."

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 8

दुर्योधनमुखाः सर्वे धृतराष्ट्रवशानुगाः पाण्डवप्रमुखाश् चैव धृष्टद्युम्नादयो नृपाः

duryodhanamukhāḥ sarve dhṛtarāṣṭravaśānugāḥ pāṇḍavapramukhāś caiva dhṛṣṭadyumnādayo nṛpāḥ

हिन्दी अर्थ

थे॥ ९०॥ दायें-बायें दोनों ओर बाण छोड़ते हुए उस दानवराजका दीपतिमान् धनुष मण्डलाकार होकर अलात- चक्रके समान प्रतीत होता था॥९१॥ उसके धनुषसे छूटे हुए तीखे बाणोंसे, जिनमें सोनेके पर लगे थे और जिन्हें सानपर चढ़ाकर तेज किया गया था, सम्पूर्ण दिशाएँ और सूर्यकी प्रभाएँ भी आच्छादित हो गयीं श्रेणीभूता: प्रकाशन्ते यान्तः एयेना इवाम्बरे॥ गृश्नपत्राउछलाधौतान् कार्तस्वरविभूषितान् । देहे समवकीर्यन्त पूष्ण: संनिहिता: शरा: ॥

English

After Ahuka had said this females, performing benedictory ceremonies, as laid down in the ritualistic code, conducted the beautiful Ushā to Aniruddha's house. Beholding Aniruddha Devaki, Revati and the Bidarbha princess Rukshmini shed tears of joy. Thus when Ushā was taken into the room, the beautiful damsels, blowing bugles, began to perform benedictory ceremonies. The beautiful Ushā too, under the shelter of the Yadu chiefs, lived in their palace and enjoyed best of happiness (12-16). After a few days, the Apsarā Chitralekha, who was living there under the guise of a woman, with the permission of Ushā and other companions, started for the celestial region. Thus after the departure of her companions Māyāvati first invited the beautiful Asura princess Ushā and took her to her own residence. Seeing her youthful and beautiful daughter-in law Ushā Pradyumna's wife welcomed her with costly jewels and dresses. Thereupon according to the custom of the family all the ladies of the Yadu race duly treated the new daughter in-law Ushā

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 9

पाण्ड्यचोलकलिङ्गेशा बाह्लीका द्रविडाः शकाः अक्षौहिणीः प्रकर्षन्तो दश चाष्टौ च भूमिपाः आजग्मुर् यादवपुरीं गोविन्दभुजपालिताम्

pāṇḍyacolakaliṅgeśā bāhlīkā draviḍāḥ śakāḥ akṣauhiṇīḥ prakarṣanto daśa cāṣṭau ca bhūmipāḥ ājagmur yādavapurīṃ govindabhujapālitām

हिन्दी अर्थ

ते व्योप्नि रुक्मविकृता: सम्प्रकाशन्त सर्वश: । ततः सपृष्णो5देवस्य बल॑ वीर्य पराक्रमम् । व्यवसायंच सत्त्वं च पश्यन्ति त्रिदशाद्भुतम् प्रादुरासीन्‍्महाघोरा बृहती पूषकार्मुकात् । ततो व्योप्नि विभक्तानि शरजालानि सर्वश: नामाड्डेरर्कसदृशैर्दिव्यहेमपरिष्कृते: . ।

English

Vaishampāyana said:—O upholder of the Kuru race, I have thus described to you how Vāna was vanquished by Vishnu in battle and left alive. Afterwards, encircled by the Yadavas and enjoying the highest prosperity Krishna lived in Dwarakā and governed the whole world. O king, thus incarnating himself on earth Vishnu was celebrated by the name of Vāsudeva the foremest of the Yadu race. You had formerly questioned me as to the cause of the powerful Vishnu's taking birth from Devaki in Vasudeva's family in the Vrishni race. These are all the causes thereof. O Janameyaja, you heard all that I had said at length relating to Nārada's question and Vasudeva's reply in the episode of the wonderful incident. I have removed your doubts about Krishna's life and conduct in Mathurā and have described all his movements. Krishna is the abode of wonders: there is nothing more wonderful than he. There is no wonder which has not been performed by Vishnu. Vishnu is the foremost of the blessed—the origin and bestower of good fortune. Amongst the Aditvas and Daityas there is none more wonderful than Achyuta. He is Adityas, Vasas, Rudras, Maruts, the two Ashwinis, the sky, earth, quarters, water and luminous bodies. Vishnu alone is the creator, preserver and destroyer, truth, Tapas and the grand-father Brahma. Salute him, O descendant of Bharata. This lord of the celestials is the whole universe, is Ananta amongst the Nāgas and Shankara amongst the Rudras. This universe, mobile and immobile, has emanated from Nārāyana. Janārddana has created this whole universe. That Eternal One alone is always adorable unto the gods. Thus have I recounted Keshava's glories and Vāna's battle. Listening to them you will acquire incomparable family prestige. Sin will not invade them, who will meditate on Vāna's battle and the most excellent deed of Keshava. O Janamejaya, thus after the termination of the sacrifice as questioned by you, I have described all the glorious deeds of Vishnu. O king, the man who can meditate on all these wonderful themes, in his mind, is freed from sins and repairs to the region of Vishnu. He, who will recite this every morning, will meet with no calamity either in this world or in the next. By reciting it the Brāhmanas will be versed in the Saman, the Kshatriyas will acquire victories, the Vaishyas will amass riches and the Sudras will fare well. He, who will recite this, will be visited by no misfortune and live a long life.

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 10

ते पर्वतं रैवतकं परिवार्यावनीश्वराः विविशुर् योजनाढ्यासु स्वासु स्वास्व् अवनीष्व् अथ

te parvataṃ raivatakaṃ parivāryāvanīśvarāḥ viviśur yojanāḍhyāsu svāsu svāsv avanīṣv atha

हिन्दी अर्थ

तदनन्तर झुकी हुई गाँठ और सुवर्णमय पंखवाले आकाशचारी बाणोंके बहुत-से समूह अन्तरिक्षमें दिखायी देने लगे॥९३॥ पर्वतशिखरके समान उसके विशाल धनुषसे प्रकट होनेवाले उत्तम बाण आकाशणमें श्रेणीबद्ध होकर उड़ते हुए बाजोंके समान सुशोभित होते थे वह हैत्य गीधके पंख लगे हुए, शिलापर तेज किये गये, सुवर्णसे विभूषित, महान् वेगशाली तथा अच्छी नोकवाले बाणोंका प्रहार कर रहा था॥९५॥ तदनन्तर धनुषसे बलपूर्वक उठे हुए सुवर्णभूषित बाण पूषाके शरीरमें गिरने और धँसने लगे॥९६॥ जैसे वर्षा-ऋतुमें जुगुनुओंके समुदाय आकाशमें सब ओर विचरते हैं, उसी प्रकार वे सुवर्णनिर्मित बाण व्योममण्डलमें सब ओर प्रकाशित हो रहे थे॥ ९७॥ जैसे वर्षाकालमें बादल अपनी जलधाराओंसे पर्वतको नहलाते हैं, उसी प्रकार शिलापर चढ़ाकर तेज किये गये स्वच्छ अग्रभागवाले वे बाण मानो पूषाकों सींच रहे थे॥९८॥ तत्पश्चात् अपनी जलधाराओंसे पर्वतको आच्छादित करनेवाले

English

Souti said:—O foremost of the twice-born, hearing this Harivamsha, Parikshit's son Janamejaya was freed from sins. O Sounaka, I have thus described to you Hari's family at length and in brief. What more do you wish to hear again? (21-41).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 11

दूतैर् आज्ञापितो देवो बलभद्रपुरोगमः ।सात्यकिं पुरतः कृत्वा ससैन्यः सपदानुगः ॥ शार्ङ्गं च धनुर् आदाय किं स्याद् इति विचिन्तयन् ।ततः श्रीमान् हृषीकेशः सह यादवपुंगवैः समीपं मानवेन्द्राणां निर्ययौ कमलेक्षणः

dūtair ājñāpito devo balabhadrapurogamaḥ | sātyakiṃ purataḥ kṛtvā sasainyaḥ sapadānugaḥ || śārṅgaṃ ca dhanur ādāya kiṃ syād iti vicintayan | tataḥ śrīmān hṛṣīkeśaḥ saha yādavapuṃgavaiḥ samīpaṃ mānavendrāṇāṃ niryayau kamalekṣaṇaḥ

हिन्दी अर्थ

मेघकी भाँति हयग्रीवने अपने बाणोंकी वर्षसे पूषाको ढक दिया॥९९॥ उस समय सब देवता पूषासहित उस हैत्यके बल, वीर्य, पराक्रम, व्यवसाय और धेर्यकोी अद्भुतरूपसे देख रहे थे॥ १००॥ तदनन्तर समुद्रसे उठी हुई जलवर्षके समान उस बाणवर्षाकी पूषाने कोई परवा नहीं की। उन्होंने तत्काल ही रणभूमिमें उस हैत्यपर धावा किया॥ १०१॥ पूषाका विशाल धनुष बड़े जोरसे ट्ट्कलार करनेवाला था। उसके पृष्ठभागमें सोना जड़ा हुआ था। वह खींचा जानेपर मण्डलाकार हो दूसरे इन्द्र-वज्रके समान जान पड़ता था॥ १०२॥ तत्पश्चात् पूषाके धनुषसे सोनेके पर लगे हुए बाण आकाशको भरते हुए-से प्रकट होने लगे। उस समय पूषाके शरासनसे आकाशमें सुनहरे पंखवाले बाणोंकी महाघोर, विस्तृत एवं विशाल माला-सी प्रकट हो गयी। फिर तो झुकी हुई गाँठवाले बाणोंसे आहत हो वे हैत्यके बाणजाल आकाशमें छिन्न-भिन्न

English

Shounaka said:—O son of Lomaharshana, who are the sons of Janamejaya? And by whom the family of Pandavas was founded? I have been stricken with curiosity to hear this history. I wish therefore to learn every detail about it as you have said (1-2).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 12

स तेषां नरदेवानां मध्ये मधुनिषूदनः व्यराजत यदुश्रेष्ठः शरदीव नभःशशी

sa teṣāṃ naradevānāṃ madhye madhuniṣūdanaḥ vyarājata yaduśreṣṭhaḥ śaradīva nabhaḥśaśī

हिन्दी अर्थ

हो सब ओर बिखरकर गिरने लगे। तदनन्तर सोनेके पंख और कड्ढ पक्षीके परवाले बाण कटकर गिरने और आच्छादित हो गया। पूषाने अपने नामसे चिह्नित, सूर्यतुल्य तेजस्त्री तथा दिव्य सुवर्णसे भूषित हुए, शिलापर तेज किये गये बाणोंसे हयग्रीवको ढक दिया। पृष्णस्त्वाजी ध्वजं चैव पताकां धनुरेव च अथाप्यश्चानू पुनईत्वा चतुर्भि: सायकोत्तमै: सप्तकिष्कुपरीणाहं द्वादशारत्रिकार्मुकम् । चाप॑ चाशनिनिर्धोष॑ दृढज्यं भारसाधनम्

English

Souti said:—Parikshit's son Janamejaya begat on his wife Kāshyā two sons, the king Chandrāpida and Suryāpida who was conversant with the knowledge of emancipation. By performing works befitting the Kshatriyas, the hundred sons of Chandrāpida, who were all clever archers, acquired celebrity on earth under the appellation of Janamejayas (3–4). Of them the eldest Satyakarana of long arms, the performer of many sacrifices accompanied with profuse gifts, was installed on the throne of Hastināpur. Satyakarna's son the virtuous and powerful Swetakarna had no issue and he therefore entered into woods with his spouse (5–6). The beautiful Yadu princess Mālini, of fair eye-brows, conceived through the forest-ranging Swetakarna. Just in the beginning of this conception the patriarch Swetakarna entered like his fore-fathers into woods for good (7-8). Beholding her husband retire into forest, Mālini, who was quick with a child, followed him, and on the way gave birth to a son having eyes like lotus petals. As Draupadi followed her husbands in the days of yore so the chaste and noble Mālini followed her consort leaving the new-born baby behind. While that tender baby, divorced from his mother, was crying in the mountain cave, some cranes, stricken with compassion for the great prince, came there (9–11). Seeing that crying prince Shravistha's sons the Rishis Paippaladi and Koushika felt compassion and took him up. They then washed with water his two sides which were bruised against the rock and covered with blood. The sides of the prince were dark-blue like those of a goat and were high and well-formed. He therefore passed by the name of Ajapārsha. Thereupon those two foremost of the twice-born (Paippaladi and Koushika) named him Ajapārsha and brought him up in the house of a Rishi named Vemaka (12–14). Vemaka's wife brought up Ajapārsha as her son, so he became Vemaka's son and those two Brāhmanas became his councillors. Ajapārsha and the sons and grand-sons of Paippaladi and Koushika lived the same life. This Ajapārsha, born in the race of Puru, founded the family of the Pandavas (15-16). Formerly while transferring his decrepitude Nashusha's son the intelligent Yayāti sang this verse: "Earth will forsooth be divested of the sun, moon and planets but she will never be shorn of the Purus

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 13

स तत्र समुदाचारं यथास्थानं यथावयः कृत्वा सिंहासने कृष्णः काञ्चने निषसाद ह

sa tatra samudācāraṃ yathāsthānaṃ yathāvayaḥ kṛtvā siṃhāsane kṛṣṇaḥ kāñcane niṣasāda ha

हिन्दी अर्थ

विक्षिपन्नक्षसदृशान् व्यसृजत् सायकान् बहूनू। क्रोधसंरक्तनयन: शम्बरः सर्वयोगवित् तेन वित्रास्यमानानि देवसैन्यानि सर्वशः । समकम्पन्त भीतानि सिन्धोरिव महोर्मय: अवाकिर द् हैत्यगणाज्छरजालेन छादयनू तमभ्यगाद् भगो हैत्य॑ तूर्णमस्यन्तमन्तिकात् । मातड्ढरमिव मातड़्े वृष प्रति वृषो यथा

English

Sounaka said:—I have thus recited to you the entire Harivamsha with all its Parvas as recounted by Vyasa's disciple. May this endless history of Hari's family, nectar-like and destructive of all sins, please us. O you endued with patience, because this history is pleasant to ears it has greatly gladdened our hearts. Afterwards, O Sauti, what did the king Janamejaya do on the termination of the _Sarpayajna_ after listening to this most excellent history (1-3)?

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 14

राजानो ऽपि यथास्थानं निषेदुर् विविधेष्व् अथ सिंहासनेषु चित्रेषु पीठेषु च जनाधिपाः

rājāno 'pi yathāsthānaṃ niṣedur vividheṣv atha siṃhāsaneṣu citreṣu pīṭheṣu ca janādhipāḥ

हिन्दी अर्थ

तब वह अमर्षशील बलवान् कुपित तथा जलानेकी इच्छावाले अग्निदेवके समान तेजस्वी दानव वहाँ भयड्डूर बाणसमूहोंकी वर्षा करने लगा। हयग्रीवने रणभूमिमें पूषाके ध्वज, पताका, धनुष, बागडोर और घोड़ोंके जोते काट डाले। तत्पश्चात् चार उत्तम सायकोंसे उनके घोड़ोंको मारकर उस महातेजस्वी हैत्यने पूषाके सारथिको भी रथकी बैठकसे नीचे गिरा दिया। उस युद्धस्थलमें हयग्रीवके द्वारा रथहीन किये गये पूषा उससे पराजित हो उसके रथके पाससे दूर चले गये। वे मृत्युके मुखसे मुक्त हुएके समान उस दानवसे बचकर इन्द्रके रथके समीप चले गये॥ १०३--११२॥ तदनन्तर वहाँ पुनः शम्बरासुर और भग देवताका अद्भुत, घोर और दारुण युद्ध आरम्भ हुआ, जिसमें दोनों ओरसे प्रहार और उसका प्रतीकार किया जा रहा था॥११३॥ सब प्रकारके योग (या प्रयोग )-का ज्ञान रखनेवाले शम्बरासुरके नेत्र क्रोधमे लाल हो रहे थे। उसके धनुषकी लम्बाई बारह अरत्िन थी और उसकी चौड़ाई सात किष्कु (साढ़े तीन हाथ)-की थी। उससे वज्की गड़गड़ाहटके समान ट्ल्भारध्वनि प्रकट होती थी। उसकी प्रत्यञ्ञा सुदृढ़ थी और वह धनुष भारी-से-भारी कार्यको सिद्ध

English

Souti said:—Hear, I will describe to you all what the king Janamejaya did listening to this most excellent history after the termination of the _Sarpayajna_. When this sacrifice was finished Parikshit's son Janamejaya collected materials for the celebration of a horse-sacrifice. Then inviting the Ritwikas, priests and preceptors he said:—"I am desirous of celebrating a horse-sacrifice. Do ye dedicate these horses"

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 15

स यादवनरेन्द्राणां समाजः शुशुभे तदा सुराणाम् असुराणां च सदने ब्रह्मणो यथा

sa yādavanarendrāṇāṃ samājaḥ śuśubhe tadā surāṇām asurāṇāṃ ca sadane brahmaṇo yathā

हिन्दी अर्थ

कर सकता था। शम्बरासुर उस धनुषको खींचकर धुरेके समान मोटे-मोटे बहुसंख्यक सायकोंकी वृष्टि करने लगा॥ ११४-११५॥ शम्बरासुरके द्वारा आत्धभित की गयी सम्पूर्ण देवसेनाएँ भयभीत हो महासागरकी बड़ी- बड़ी तरड्रोंके समान काँपने लगीं॥११६॥ विरूप नेत्रवाले उस भयंकर हैत्यको आते देख भगदेवताके ओष्ठ फड़क उठे। उन्होंने बड़ी उतावलीके साथ उसे अपने अस्त्रोंद्ार घायल कर दिया॥ ११७॥ तदनन्तर महाधनुर्धर भगने अपने दिव्य धनुषको तानकर हैत्यगणोंको अपने बाणोंके जालसे आच्छादित करते हुए उनपर बाणोंकी बौछार आरम्भ कर दी॥ ११८॥ लगातार बाण फेंकते हुए उस हैत्यके समीप भग देवता तुरंत जा पहुँचे। मानो एक हाथी दूसरे हाथीसे और एक साँड़ दूसरे साँड्से भिड़नेके लिये उसके पास जा पहुँचा हो ॥ ११९॥ वे दोनों महान् वेगशाली वीर भारसाधनमें समर्थ धनुष हाथमें लेकर रणभूमिमें बाणोंद्वार एक-

English

Thereupon informed of the object of Parikshit's son Janamejaya, of indefatigable energy, the virtuous-souled Krishna Dwaipāyana, the foremost of the omniscient, all on sudden came there for witnessing (the sacrifice). Beholding the great Rishi Veda-Vyasa arrive there the king Janamejaya offered him Arghya, a seat and water for washing his feet according to the rules laid down in Sastras. O Shounaka, after they had both taken their seats the courtiers, from all sides, began to discourse on diverse Vedic themes. After they had finished their discourses, king Janamejaya said to the great Muni Veda-Vysa, the grand-father of the Pandavas and his own great grand-father (7–10):—"The story of the Mahabharata, having many meanings and abounding in Srutis, is exceedingly pleasant to ears. It was finished as if in a moment. The history, which spreads glories and gives fame like unto milk in a conch-shell, has been beautifully recorded by thee. As a man is not satisfied with ambrosia and bliss of heaven, so I am not with listening to the stories of the Mahabharata. Thou art omniscient, O Brahman and therefore I accost thee whether Rajasuya was not the cause of the destruction of the Kurus. It appears to me that as many unconquerable kings meet with death at the time of revolution so the Rajasuya Yajna was ordained for battle. I have heard that when this Rajasuya was undertaken by Soma it was followed by the war of which Taraka was the root. Afterwards when Varuna undertook this great sacrifice it was followed by the war between gods and Asuras. When the royal saint Harishchandra undertook this sacrifice it was followed by the battle Adivaka in which many Kshatriyas were killed. Last of all when the worshipful Pandavas undertook this most arduous sacrifice it was followed by the great Bhārata war. O great sir, why did you not all put a stop to that Rajasuya Yajna the root of the world-destroying war? It is difficult to celebrate this sacrifice well with all its branches. When one of the branches of a sacrifice is neglected it leads to the destruction of people. Thou art the grand-father of our ancestors, their first lord and art cognizant of the past and future. Thyself living as their guide why did those intelligent kings, as if having none to govern them, and deviating from the paths of morality, commit sin?" (11-23).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 16

इदं प्रोवाच भगवान् क्षत्रियान् द्रष्टुम् आगतान् ।सर्वन् एतन् नृपतयो युष्माकं समुदाहृतम् ॥ यद् अस्माकं नृपश्रेष्ठास् तुल्यं तद् भवतां सदा ।गृह्यतां वसु यद् दिव्यं यथेष्टं नृपसत्तमाः ॥ ते तथेति जगन्नाथम् ऊचुर् यादवसंसदि ।तेषां चित्राः कथास् तत्र प्रवृत्तास् तत्समागमे यदूनां पार्थिवानां च केशवस्योपशृण्वतः

idaṃ provāca bhagavān kṣatriyān draṣṭum āgatān | sarvan etan nṛpatayo yuṣmākaṃ samudāhṛtam || yad asmākaṃ nṛpaśreṣṭhās tulyaṃ tad bhavatāṃ sadā | gṛhyatāṃ vasu yad divyaṃ yatheṣṭaṃ nṛpasattamāḥ || te tatheti jagannātham ūcur yādavasaṃsadi | teṣāṃ citrāḥ kathās tatra pravṛttās tatsamāgame yadūnāṃ pārthivānāṃ ca keśavasyopaśṛṇvataḥ

हिन्दी अर्थ

दूसरेको क्षत-विक्षत करते हुए आच्छादित करने लगे॥ १२०॥ उस महासमरमें महामनस्वी भग और शम्बरासुरमें अनृपम, भीषण, तुमुल और घोर युद्ध होने लगा व्यदारयेतामन्योन्यं कार्ष्णे निर्भिद्या चर्मणी नाराचै: क्रोधताग्राक्ष; कालान्तकयमोपम: गरुत्मानिव चाकाशे पोथयानो महोरगम् नाराचा न्यपतन् देहे तूर्ण शम्बरचोदिता: तदा तत् सुचिरं काल॑ युद्धं सममिवाभवत्। शम्बरस्य च मायाभिरनादृश्यत ततो5म्बरम्

English

Vyasa said:—O king, forsooth urged on by Destiny those kings acted against the established usages and customs. They did not ask me any thing about the future. And, I too did not tell them any thing unasked. Besides I was not capable of counteracting the future result, for none can with stand the work of Destiny. I will describe to you the future subject about which you have questioned me. But Destiny is now very powerful. And even listening to my words you will not be able to carry them out. Either through fear or zeal you will not be able to stand in the ways of a man for it is impossible to overcome predestination. The Sruti lays down that the Kshatriyas should celebrate Ashwamedha, the foremost of sacrifices. On account of the greatness of that sacrifice Vāsava will violate your Ashwamedha. O king, even if you are capable of withstanding Vāsava either by your manliness or through the will of the Providence you should not celebrate such a sacrifice. However you, Sakra, or the presiding priests will commit no sin thereby for Destiny is all-powerful. Ordained by Destiny Brahmā will obstruct the termination of Indra's sacrifice. In the course of time and according to the will of the Providence creation will come to an end with the termination of a cycle and the Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of sacrifices. Therefore know this universe mobile and immobile, as being subject to Destiny (24-32).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 17

तं दृष्ट्वा देवदेवेशं प्रहृष्टाः क्षत्रियास् तदा ।एतस्मिन्न् अन्तरे वायुर् ववौ मेघरवोद्धतः तुमुलं दुर्दिनं चासीत् सविद्युत् स्तनयित्नुमत्

taṃ dṛṣṭvā devadeveśaṃ prahṛṣṭāḥ kṣatriyās tadā | etasminn antare vāyur vavau megharavoddhataḥ tumulaṃ durdinaṃ cāsīt savidyut stanayitnumat

हिन्दी अर्थ

भगदेवस्य हैत्येन शम्बरेणास्त्रघातिना देवस्य चाद्भुतं दिव्यमस्त्रमस्त्रेण वारयन्। मायायुद्धेन मायावी शम्बरस्तमयोधयत् अवश्जयद् भगं हैत्यो मायाभिलाघवेन च। भगस्तस्य रथ साश्रं शरवर्षरवाकिरत् सहस्रमायो द्युतिमान् देवसेनां निषूदयन्। अदृश्यत शरैश्छन्न: शम्बर: शतशो रणे

English

Janamejaya said:—O reverend sir, tell me, what cause will arrive for putting a stop to the horse-sacrifice. Hearing it I will desist (33).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 18

तद् दुर्दिनतलं भित्त्वा नारदः प्रत्यदृश्यत संवेष्टितजटाभारो वीणासक्तेन बाहुना

tad durdinatalaṃ bhittvā nāradaḥ pratyadṛśyata saṃveṣṭitajaṭābhāro vīṇāsaktena bāhunā

हिन्दी अर्थ

उन्होंने पूर्णतः: कानोंतक खींचकर छोड़े गये झुकी हुई गाँठवाले बाणोंद्वारा लोहेकी ढालोंकों भी छिन्न- भिन्न करके एक-दूसरेको विदीर्ण कर दिया उनके सारे अड्गभ विकृत तथा रक्तसे लथपथ हो गये थे तो भी वे दोनों रथी परम दुर्मद (युद्धके लिये उन्मत्त) दिखायी देते थे। वे तीखे बाणोंसे परस्पर गहरी चोट कर रहे थे और दूसरेकी ओर देख नहीं पाते थे॥ १२३॥ तदनन्तर शम्बरासुरकी आँखें क्रोधसे लाल हो उठीं। वह काल, अन्तक और यमके समान विकराल हो गया। उसने तुरंत ही समरभूमिमें भगदेवताको घायल कर दिया॥ १२४॥ जैसे गरुड़ आकाशमें बड़े भारी सर्पको दबोच लेता है, उसी प्रकार शम्बरासुरने भगको पीड़ित कर दिया। शम्बरासुरके चलाये हुए नाराच भगके शरीरपर तीत्र बेगसे गिरने लगे, किंतु भगने अन्तरिक्षमें ही अपने बाणोंद्वारा उन सभी नाराचोंको काट दिया। तब असुरशिरोमणि शम्बरने अग्निके समान तेजस्वी और पर्वतके समान स्थिरभावसे खड़े हुए प्रकाशमान भगदेवताको महान् वेगशाली सुवर्णभूषित चौंसठ बाणोंसे बींध डाला॥ १२५--१२७॥ उस समय

English

Vyasa said:—O king, the cause thereof will be the ireful curse of a Brāhmana. You may fare well if you try to avoid it. O slayer of enemies, as long as the world will last, the Kshatriyas will not be able to collect materials for your horse-sacrifice (34–35).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 19

गायन्न् एव हरीं साम्ना वसन्तं यदुसंसदि ।स पपात नरेन्द्राणां मध्ये पावकवर्चसाम् नारदो ऽग्निशिखाकारः श्रीमाञ् शक्रसखो मुनिः

gāyann eva harīṃ sāmnā vasantaṃ yadusaṃsadi | sa papāta narendrāṇāṃ madhye pāvakavarcasām nārado 'gniśikhākāraḥ śrīmāñ śakrasakho muniḥ

हिन्दी अर्थ

उन दोनोंमें बहुत देरतक एक-सा युद्ध चलता रहा। शम्बरासुरकी मायाओंसे आकाशका दिखायी देना बंद हो गया॥ १२८॥ रणभूमिमें धनुषको तानकर खड़े हुए और दोनों हाथोंसे बाण चलाते हुए शम्बरासुरके धनुषका शब्द वज्रकी गड़गड़ाहटके समान सुनायी देता था शम्बरासुर उस महासमरमें भगके घोड़ों और सारथिको मारकर भगके ऊपर वर्षा करनेवाले मेघकी भाँति बाणोंकी वृष्टि करने लगा॥ १३०॥ भगदेवताके शरीरमें दो अदज्भजुल भी ऐसा स्थान नहीं रह गया, जिसे अस्त्रघाती हैत्य शम्बरने बाणोंद्वारा विदीर्ण न किया हो

English

Janamejaya said:—Aswamedha will be stopped by the power of the fiery curse of a Brāhmana, but I will be the instrument thereof. Indeed I am filled with fear and shame. How will a man like myself, the performer of many good deeds, like unto a bird, tied with a noose, flying into the sky, engage in such a cursed work, and exert to live? If I engage in such a work, through me a rite, practised from generation to generation, will be spoiled. Console me, saying that the horse-sacrifice will again be undertaken (by kings) (36–38).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 20

तस्मिन् भूमौ निपतिते नारदे मुनिपुंगवे तद् उद्धतमहामेघं दुर्दिनं व्यपकृष्यत

tasmin bhūmau nipatite nārade munipuṃgave tad uddhatamahāmeghaṃ durdinaṃ vyapakṛṣyata

हिन्दी अर्थ

मायावी शम्बरासुर भगदेवताके अद्भुत दिव्यास्त्रका अपने अस्त्रद्वारा वारण करता हुआ मायामय युद्धके द्वारा उनके साथ जूझता रहा॥ १३२॥ वह हैत्य अपनी मायाओं तथा फुर्तीसे भगदेवताको चकमा देने लगा और भगदेवता उसके घोड़ोंसहित रथपर बाणोंकी वर्षा करने लगे॥ १३३ ॥ सहस्रों मायाओंका ज्ञाता तेजस्वी शम्बरासुर देवसेनाका संहार करता हुआ बाणोंसे आच्छन्न हो समरभूमिमें सैकड़ोंकी संख्यामें दिखायी देने लगा वह असुर कभी भूमिपर अचेत-सा होकर गिरा हुआ दिखायी देता था और पुन: सैकड़ों पर्वताकार शरीर धारण करके युद्ध करने लगता था सर्वा भीषयते सेनां देवानां भीमदर्शन:। ते भीता: प्रपलायन्ते सिंहं दृष्ठा मृगा यथा संवर्तकाम्बुदप्रख्य: पूरयन् पृथिवीतलम्

English

Vyasa said:—As an energy, counteracted by another, lives in it, so the Aswamedha sacrifice, although stopped, will exist in the gods and Brāhmanas. Leading the life of a soldier, some descendants of Kashyapa will again revive this horse-sacrifice in the Kali-Yuga. O king, as the hour of universal dissolution brings into being many evil portends such as white planets so a Brāhmana, born in his race, will revive this sacrifice in the cycle of Kali. This sacrifice will bestow proper fruits on men celebrating it and they will range at the gate of the end of the cycle encircled by the Rishis. From that time the senses of men will not renounce the fruits of the pristine good works and will not be attached to them in this world. A highly subtle religion, deviating from the duties of the four orders, and having charity at its root only, the offspring of the time, will flourish. Practising austerities to a small extent men, O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle will acquire spiritual powers. Thus blessed they will practise pious rites (39–45).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 21

सो ऽवगाह्य नरेन्द्राणां मध्यं सागरसंनिभम् आसनस्थं यदुश्रेष्टम् उवाच मुनिर् अव्ययः

so 'vagāhya narendrāṇāṃ madhyaṃ sāgarasaṃnibham āsanasthaṃ yaduśreṣṭam uvāca munir avyayaḥ

हिन्दी अर्थ

संवर्तको5नलश्चैव भूत्वा भीमपराक्रम: । शतवर्त्मा शतशिखो ददाह च पुनः सुरान् येड्न्ये देवाश्व साध्याश्व ये च विश्वे च देवता: । क्षिपन्त्यस्त्राणि दिव्यानि तानि सो5ग्रसतासुर: गन्धर्वनगराकारस्तत्रैवान्तरधीयत. पराजित्य तु त॑ देवं दानवेन्द्र: प्रतापवान्। गतो यत्र महातेजा जातवेदा महाप्रभः

English

Janamejaya said:—I do not know whether the time for Moksha (emancipation) is distant or near. Therefore I wish to know about the cycle of Kali which has followed Dwāpara struck with the arrows of virtue and sin. With deeds easily performed we will acquire virtue. Stricken with this desire we have been born in this Kali-yuga (1-2).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 22

आश्चर्यं खलु देवानाम् एकस् त्वं पुरुषोत्तम धन्यश् चासि महाबाहो लोके नान्यो ऽस्ति कश् चन

āścaryaṃ khalu devānām ekas tvaṃ puruṣottama dhanyaś cāsi mahābāho loke nānyo 'sti kaś cana

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुनः: वह बलवान हैत्य दिग्गजकी पीठपर बैठा हुआ दृष्टिगोचर होता था। फिर कुछ ही देरमें वह प्रादेशमात्रका हो जाता और दूसरे ही क्षणमें पुनः पर्वत- जैसा रूप धारण कर लेता था॥ १३६॥ वह तेजस्वी हैत्य महान् मेघोंकी घटाके समान ऊपर और अगल- बगलकी दिशाओंमें छा जाता था। फिर विकृत एवं विकराल रूप धारण करके भयानक दिखायी देनेवाला वह असुर सब ओरसे सारी देवसेनाको भयभीत करने लगता था। जैसे सिंहकों देखकर मृग भाग जाते हैं, उसी प्रकार उसे देखकर देवताओंके सैनिक भयभीत होकर भागने लगे॥ १३७-१३८॥ तत्पश्चात् वह घोर हैत्य पुनः दूसरा श्रेष्ठ एवं बहुत ही ऊँचा शरीर धारण करके ऊपरकी ओर चला गया और वहींसे भयंकर सिंहनाद करके सम्पूर्ण दिशाओंको प्रतिध्वनित करने लगा॥ १३९॥ आकाशमें पहुँचकर संवर्तक नामक मेघके समान रूप धारण करके पृथ्वीतलको पूर्ण करता हुआ इन्द्रकी भाँति वर्षा करने लगा॥ १४०॥ फिर वह भयंकर पराक्रमी हैत्य संवर्तक अग्नि बनकर सैकड़ों ज्वालाओंसे युक्त हो, सैकड़ों मार्गोंसे चलकर देवताओंको बारम्बार दग्ध करने लगा॥ १४१॥ फिर दो घड़ीमें महान् पर्वतके

English

Shounaka said "O thou conversant with religion the cycle of Kali, a source of trouble to the creatures and the destruction of virtue, is about to set in. Do thou therefore describe it with its characteristics

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 23

एवम् उक्तः स्मितं कृत्वा प्रत्युवाच मुनिं प्रभुः आश्चर्यश् चैव धन्यश् च दक्षिणाभिः सहेत्य् अहम्

evam uktaḥ smitaṃ kṛtvā pratyuvāca muniṃ prabhuḥ āścaryaś caiva dhanyaś ca dakṣiṇābhiḥ sahety aham

हिन्दी अर्थ

समान रूप धारण करके वह सौ मस्तकों और सौ पेटोंसे युक्त हो गया (अथवा महानू पर्वतरूप होकर सैकड़ों शिखरों एवं कन्दराओंसे सम्पन्न हो गया)। उस समय वह शतश्रुड्र पर्वतकी भाँति स्वर्गलोकका स्तम्भ- सा दिखायी देता था॥ १४२॥ जो दूसरे देवता, साध्यगण और विश्वेदेव उसके ऊपर दिव्यास्त्र चलाते थे, उनके उन सभी अस्त्रोंको वह असुर अपना ग्रास बना लेता था॥ १४३ ॥ समराज्भणणमें युद्ध करता हुआ वह असुरशिरोमणि शम्बर अपने रथके साथ गन्धर्व-नगरकी भाँति वहीं वे प्रसिद्ध देवता समरभूमिमें विचित्र युद्ध करनेवाले सहस््र मायाधारी शम्बरासुरको भयभीत होकर देखने लगे॥ १४५॥ उस युद्धस्थलमें दानवराज शम्बरासुरके भयसे संत्रस्त हो महाभाग भगदेवता अपना रथ छोड़कर

English

Shouti said:—Thus accosted the Divine Vyāsa accurately thought of the condition of men in the Kali-yuga and began to describe the future cycle

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 24

एवम् उक्तो मुनिश्रेष्ठः प्राह मध्ये महीक्षिताम् कृष्ण पर्याप्तवाक्यो ऽस्मि गमिष्यामि यथागतम्

evam ukto muniśreṣṭhaḥ prāha madhye mahīkṣitām kṛṣṇa paryāptavākyo 'smi gamiṣyāmi yathāgatam

हिन्दी अर्थ

देवराज इन्द्रकी शरणमें चले गये ॥ १४६॥ भग देवताको पराजित करके प्रतापी दानवराज शम्बर उस स्थानपर गया, जहाँ महातेजस्वी तथा महान प्रभापुञ्लसे परिपूर्ण जातवेदा (सर्वज्ञ) अग्निदेव विराजमान थे स वहिं वाग्भिरुग्राभि: क्ुद्धस्तर्जयते बली। भवाम्थेष हि ते मृत्युरित्युक्त्वान्तरधीयत कैलासशिखराकारो झ्युतिमद्धिर्गणैर्वृतः । अवधीद दानवान् दृष्ठा दण्डपाणिरिवान्तकः हैत्येषुविचरज्छीमान् युगान्ते कालवद्ूबली युगान्तकोपम:ः श्रीमान् हैत्येषु व्यचरद् बली। आवार्य महतीं सेनां प्राद्रवन्तीं पुन: पुनः:

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 25

तं प्रस्थितम् अभिप्रेक्ष्य पार्थिवाः प्राहुर् ईश्वरम् गुह्यं मन्त्रम् अजानन्तो वचनं नारदेरितम्

taṃ prasthitam abhiprekṣya pārthivāḥ prāhur īśvaram guhyaṃ mantram ajānanto vacanaṃ nāraderitam

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततस्ततो व्यशीर्यन्त हैत्यसैन्यानि संयुगे। व्यदारयत् स सैन्यानि स्वबलेनाभिसंवृत: वह बलवान हैत्य कुपित हो अपनी कठोर वाणीसे अग्निदेवको डाँट बताता हुआ बोला--'मैं अभी तुम्हारे लिये मृत्युरूप होता हूँ।' ऐसा कहकर वह अन्तर्धान हो गया वैशम्पायनजी कहते हैं--जनमेजय ! इसी बीचमें ब्राह्मणोंके राजा महाबली सोम रणभूमिमें शीतास्त्र लेकर दानवोंकी सेनाका संहार करने लगे उनकी आकृति कैलास-शिखरके समान गौर थी; वे तेजस्वी नक्षत्रगणोंसे घिरे हुए थे, उन्होंने दण्डधारी यमराजके समान दानवोंको देख-देखकर मारना आरम्भ किया॥ १५०॥ सामर्थ्यशाली एवं कान्तिमान् चन्द्रदेव

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 26

आश्चर्य इत्य् अभिहितो धन्यो ऽसीति च माधव दक्षिणाभिः सहेत्य् एवं प्रत्युक्ते ऽपि च नारदे

āścarya ity abhihito dhanyo 'sīti ca mādhava dakṣiṇābhiḥ sahety evaṃ pratyukte 'pi ca nārade

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रलयकालमें प्रकट हुए कालके समान हैत्योंकी सेनामें विचरते हुए उनके रथसमूहों और अश्वसमुदायोंका संहार करने लगे॥ १५१ ॥ चन्द्रमाने अमर्षवश बड़े वेगसे समस्त दानवों और उनके रथसमूहोंको उसी तरह दग्ध करना आरम्भ किया, जैसे वनमें प्रकट हुआ दावानल सारे वृक्षोंको जलाकर भस्म कर देता है॥ १५२॥ वे रथोंसे रथियों, हाथियोंसे हाथी-सवार योद्धाओं और घोड़ोंकी पीठोंसे घुड़सवारों तथा पैदल सैनिकोंको भी पृथ्वीपर गिराकर रौंद डालते थे॥ १५३॥ जैसे वायुदेव अपने बलसे वृक्षोंको तोड़ डालते हैं, उसी प्रकार महातेजस्वी चन्द्रमाने समस्त दानवों तथा उनकी विशाल सेनाको अपने शीतास्त्रसे नष्टप्राय कर दिया उनका वह अस्त्र क्रोधपूर्वक पशुओंका संहार करने- वाले रुद्रदेवके पिनाककी भाँति शत्रुओंके रक्तसे सन गया॥ १५५॥ वे बलवान् एवं कान्तिमान् चन्द्रदेव युगान्तकारी कालके समान हैत्योंकी सेनामें विचरने लगे। वे भागती हुई विशाल हैत्य-सेनाको बारम्बार रोककर उसका संहार करते थे॥१५६॥ चन्द्रमाको मृत्युके समान आते देख सारे हैत्य योद्धा विस्मित हो जाते थे। अन्धकारका निवारण करनेवाले चन्द्रदेव

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 27

किम् एतन् नाभिजानीमो दिव्यं मन्त्रपदं महत् यदि श्राव्यम् इदं कृष्ण श्रोतुम् इच्छामि तत्त्वतः

kim etan nābhijānīmo divyaṃ mantrapadaṃ mahat yadi śrāvyam idaṃ kṛṣṇa śrotum icchāmi tattvataḥ

हिन्दी अर्थ

युद्धस्थलमें जिस-जिस ओर शिशिरास्त्रका प्रहार करते थे, उस-उस ओरकी सारी हैत्यसेनाएँ अकड़कर धराशायी हो जाती थीं। वे अपने बलसे सुरक्षित हो सारी हैत्य-सेनाओंको विदीर्ण करने लगे ग्रसमानमनीकानि व्यादितास्यमिवान्तकम्। तं तथा भीमकर्माणं गृहीतास्त्रं महाहवे दूष्ठा शशांकमायान्त हैत्याभं चन्द्रभास्करौ । तालमात्राणि चापानि कर्षमाणो महाबलो अथ विस्फार्यमाणानां कार्मुकाणां सुरासुर:

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 28

तान् उवाच ततः कृष्णः सर्वान् पार्थिवपुंगवान् श्रोतव्यं नारदस् त्व् एष द्विजो वः कथयिष्यति

tān uvāca tataḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sarvān pārthivapuṃgavān śrotavyaṃ nāradas tv eṣa dvijo vaḥ kathayiṣyati

हिन्दी अर्थ

भेरीशड्डुनिनाहैश्व तुमुलं सर्वतो5भवत्। युयुत्सवस्ते संरब्धा जयगृद्धा यशस्विन: अश्मवृष्टिरिवाकाशे हाभवत् सेनयोस्तथा। कुण्डलोष्णीषधारीणि जातरूपस्त्रजांसि च विशिखेर्मथितेगत्रिबाहुभिश्च सकार्मुकै: मुखैश्च चन्द्रसंकाशैस्तप्तकुण्डलभूषणै: । गजवाजिमनुष्याणां सर्वगात्रै: समन्तत: आसीतू सर्वा समाकीर्णा मुहूर्तेन वसुंधरा । चापमेघाश्व विपुला: शस्त्रविद्युत्प्रकाशिन: । वाहनानां च निर्घोष: स्तनयित्रुसमो5 भवत्

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 29

ब्रूहि नारद तत्त्वार्थं श्राव्यन्तां पृथिवीक्षितः यत् त्वयाभिहितं वाक्यं मया च प्रतिभाषितम्

brūhi nārada tattvārthaṃ śrāvyantāṃ pṛthivīkṣitaḥ yat tvayābhihitaṃ vākyaṃ mayā ca pratibhāṣitam

हिन्दी अर्थ

उस महासमरमें भयंकर कर्म करनेवाले चन्द्रमाको इस प्रकार मुँह बाये यमराजके समान हैत्यसेनाओंको अपना ग्रास बनाते तथा हैत्यकी भाँति भयानक रूपसे हैत्य धनुष खींचकर वर्षा करनेवाले दो मेघोंके समान अपने बाणोंसे उन चन्द्रदेवको आच्छादित करने लगे। तदनन्तर देवता और असुर सभी अपने धनुषोंकी ट्ट्रार करने लगे। उनका वह महान् शब्द सम्पूर्ण दिशाओंको प्रतिध्वनित-सा करने लगा। चि०ग्घाड़ते हुए बड़े-बड़े हाथियों और हिनहिनाते हुए घोड़ोंकी आवाजों तथा शट्ठ्ु और भेरियोंके घोषोंसे वहाँ सब ओर बड़ा भयंकर शब्द गूँजने लगा। जयकी अभिलाषासे युद्धेके लिये उत्सुक वे यशस्वी योद्धा गोशालाओंमें हँकड़नेवाले साँड्ोंके समान एक-दूसरेके प्रति भयंकर गर्जना करने लगे। समराज्भणमें दोनों सेनाओंके भीतर तीखे बाणोंसे गिराये जाते हुए योद्धाओंके मस्तकोंका

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 30

स पीठे काञ्चने शुभ्रे सूपविष्टः स्वलंकृतः प्रभवं तस्य वाक्यस्य प्रवक्तुम् उपचक्रमे

sa pīṭhe kāñcane śubhre sūpaviṣṭaḥ svalaṃkṛtaḥ prabhavaṃ tasya vākyasya pravaktum upacakrame

हिन्दी अर्थ

शब्द ऐसा जान पड़ता था, मानो आकाशमें पत्थरोंकी वर्षा हो रही हो। युद्धके मुहानेपर कुण्डल, पगड़ी तथा सोनेके हार धारण करनेवाले योद्धाओंके मस्तक पृथ्वीपर पड़े हुए दृष्टिगोचर होते थे। वहाँ सब ओर दो ही घड़ीमें सारी भूमि योद्धाओंके बाणोंद्वारा मथे भूषणसहित हाथों, अन्यान्य रक्तरझ्जित कटे हुए अड़्ों कवचावृत शरीरों, चन्दनचर्चित बहुत-से अवयवबों, तप्त सुवर्णके कुण्डल आदि भूषणोंसे अलंकृत चन्द्रोपम मुखों तथा हाथी, घोड़े और मनुष्योंके सम्पूर्ण गात्रों (लाशों)-से आच्छादित हो गयी। वहाँ विशाल धनुष मेघोंके समान शस्त्ररूपी विद्युत्से प्रकाशित हो रहे थे। रथ आदि वाहनोंका घोष घनमण्डलकी गर्जनाके समान प्रतीत होता था॥ १५९--१६९॥ युद्धस्थलमें देवताओं और दानवोंका वह घोर संग्राम रक्तरूपी जलकी धारा बहाता हुआ उग्र रूप धारण करता जा रहा था

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 31

श्रुयतां भो नृपश्रेष्ठा यावन्तः स्थ समागताः अस्य प्रश्नस्य महतो यथा पारम् अहं गतः

śruyatāṃ bho nṛpaśreṣṭhā yāvantaḥ stha samāgatāḥ asya praśnasya mahato yathā pāram ahaṃ gataḥ

हिन्दी अर्थ

इति श्रीमहाभारते खिलभागे हरिवंशे भविष्यपर्वणि वामनप्रादुर्भावे देवासुरयुद्धे पदञ्भपञ्चाशत्तमोउध्याय: इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत खिलभाग हरिव॑शके अन्तर्गत भविष्यपर्वमें वामनावतारके ग्रसड़में देवताओं और असुरोका युद्धविषयक पचपनवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ कुजम्भका अंश देवताके साथ युद्ध करते समय घोर पराक्रम प्रकट करना ववर्षु;ः शरवर्षाणि संरब्धा देवदानवा:

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 32

अहं कदाचिद् गङ्गायास् तीरे त्रिषवणातिथिः चराम्य् एकः क्षपापाये संदृश्यति दिवाकरे

ahaṃ kadācid gaṅgāyās tīre triṣavaṇātithiḥ carāmy ekaḥ kṣapāpāye saṃdṛśyati divākare

हिन्दी अर्थ

देवानां दानवानां च गजाश्वरथिनां रणे निजल्नुर्महतीं सेनामन्योन्यस्थ परंतप बाहूनामुत्तमाड़ानां कार्मुकाणां च संयुगे। राशयस्तत्र दृश्यन्ते देवहैत्यसमागमे योधास्तत्राभ्यहन्यन्त हस्त्यश्च॑ चामितं बहु तदा मध्ये तु सैन्यानां केशशैवलशाद्वला॥ हाहाकारो महाशब्दो योधानामभवत् तदा। दानवैहन्यमानानां त्रिदशानां महारणे

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 33

अपश्यम् अश्मकूटाभं कपालद्वयदेहिनम् क्रोशमण्डलविस्तारं तावद्वृत्तं समन्ततः

apaśyam aśmakūṭābhaṃ kapāladvayadehinam krośamaṇḍalavistāraṃ tāvadvṛttaṃ samantataḥ

हिन्दी अर्थ

तेषां तदभवद् युद्धं देवानामसुरैः सह। विभीषणं महारौद्रं विकृतं भीमदर्शनम् विरोचनस्तु तत्रैव विष्वक्सेन॑ महाहवे। जघान रुधिराभाक्ष॑ साध्यं परमधन्विनम् वैज्ञम्पायनजी कहते हैं--जनमेजय ! वह महायुद्ध बड़ा ही भयंकर, तुमुल और रोमाश्लकारी था। उसमें बाणोंकी वर्षा करते थे॥१॥ वहाँ बाणोंके आघातसे अत्यन्त पीड़ित हो हाथी घोर चीत्कार कर रहे थे और जिनके सवार मारे गये थे, वे घोड़े दसों दिशाओंमें चक्कर लगा रहे थे॥ २॥ कितने ही घोड़े बाणोंकी वर्षासे

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 34

चतुश्चरणसंश्लिष्टं क्लिन्नं शैवलपङ्किलम् मम वीणाकृतिं कूर्मं गजचर्मचयोपमम्

catuścaraṇasaṃśliṣṭaṃ klinnaṃ śaivalapaṅkilam mama vīṇākṛtiṃ kūrmaṃ gajacarmacayopamam

हिन्दी अर्थ

अत्यन्त व्यथित हो उछलकर गिर पड़ते थे। देवताओं और दानवोंके शूरबीर गजारोही, अश्वारोही तथा रथी समराड्रणमें एक-दूसरेपर धावा करते थे। उनके धनुषोंकी प्रत्यज्ञाके शब्दसे इतना कोलाहल होता था कि दूसरी किसी बातका ज्ञान नहीं होता था॥ ३-४॥ शत्रुओंको शक्ति, गदा और खड़्गोंसे एक-दूसरेकी विशाल सेनाका संहार कर रहे थे॥५॥ देवताओं और हैत्योंके उस संग्राममें युद्धक्षेत्र, भीतर कटी हुई भुजाओं, मस्तकों और धनुषोंकी बहुत-सी राशियाँ दिखायी देती थीं वहाँ देवताओं और असुरोंद्वारा मारे गये घोड़ों, हाथियों, आवरणयुक्त रथों और रथियोंका कोई अन्त नहीं पाता था॥ ७॥ उस युद्धमें गदाओं, तलवारों, प्रासों और झुकी हुई गाँठवाले भल्लोंद्रार बहुत-से योद्धा और सेनाओंके बीचमें खूनकी भयंकर नदी बह चली। जिसमें रक्तके स्लोत और तरड्रें दिखायी देती थीं। योद्धाओंके केश उसमें सेवार और घासके समान प्रतीत

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 35

सो ऽहं तं पाणिना स्पृष्ट्वा प्रोक्तवाञ् जलचारिणम् त्वम् आश्चर्यशरीरो ऽसि कूर्म धन्यश् च मे मतः

so 'haṃ taṃ pāṇinā spṛṣṭvā proktavāñ jalacāriṇam tvam āścaryaśarīro 'si kūrma dhanyaś ca me mataḥ

हिन्दी अर्थ

होते थे॥९॥ उस महायुद्धमें दानवोंद्वारा मारे जाते हुए देवयोद्धाओंका महान् हाहाकार शब्द उस समय सब ओर गूँज रहा था वैशम्पायनजी कहते हैं--जनमेजय ! उन देवताओंका असुरोंके साथ बड़ा भयंकर, महारौद्र, विकराल तथा देखनेमें डरावना युद्ध हो रहा था॥११॥ वहीं उस महासमरमें विरोचनने लाल नेत्रवाले उत्तम धनुर्धर साध्य देवता विष्वक्सेनको अपने बाणोंका निशाना बनाया

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 36

यस् त्वम् एवम् अभेद्याभ्यां कपालाभ्यां समावृतः तोये चरसि निःशङ्कः किं चिद् अप्य् अविचिन्तयन्

yas tvam evam abhedyābhyāṃ kapālābhyāṃ samāvṛtaḥ toye carasi niḥśaṅkaḥ kiṃ cid apy avicintayan

हिन्दी अर्थ

तमायान्तमभिप्रेक्ष्य विष्वक्सेन: सुरैर्वतः। अमेयात्मा सुरश्रेष्ठ: प्रत्यविध्यत् स्तनान्तरे स॒कार्मुकविनिर्मुक्तै: शरैर्दानवसत्तम:। विष्वक्सेनं विभेदाजो दीमै: सप्तभिराशुगैः विस्फार्य च महाचाप॑ हैत्यमध्ये व्यवस्थित: जगर्ज च महाघोषो विनिध्नन् देववाहिनीम्। चअण्डवेगाशए्मवर्षी च सविद्युत्स्तनयित्रुमान्॥ सर्वसैन्यानि देवानामुद्यतास्त्रो महाहवे

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 37

स माम् उवाचाम्बुचरः कूर्मो मानुषवत् स्वयम् किम् आश्चर्यं मयि मुने धन्यश् चाहं कथं विभो

sa mām uvācāmbucaraḥ kūrmo mānuṣavat svayam kim āścaryaṃ mayi mune dhanyaś cāhaṃ kathaṃ vibho

हिन्दी अर्थ

श्रुत्वा कार्मुकनिर्घोषं विस्फूर्जितमिवाशने: । सर्वसैन्यानि भीतानि निव्यलीयन्त संयुगे पदातीनां ययु: संघा यत्र देव: शचीपति: विष्वक्सेनस्य साध्यस्य सर्वतः सुमहाबल:। पदा रक्ष:सहस्राणि निजघान चतुर्दश अश्ववृन्देषु नागेषु रथानीकेषु चाभिभू:। पदातीनां च संघेषु विनिध्नन् प्रत्यदृश्यत

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 38

गङ्गेयं निम्नगा धन्या किम् आश्चर्यम् अतः परम् यत्राहम् इव सत्त्वानि चरन्त्य् अयुतशो जले

gaṅgeyaṃ nimnagā dhanyā kim āścaryam ataḥ param yatrāham iva sattvāni caranty ayutaśo jale

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुरश्रेष्ठ विष्वक्सेनने विरोचनको आते देख उसकी छातीमें बाणोंद्वार गहरी चोट पहुँचायी॥ १३॥ साध्य खाये हाथीके समान बड़ा कोप हुआ। वह यज्ञशालामें अग्निकी भाँति उस रणभूमिमें क्रोधसे प्रज्वलित हो उठा॥ १४॥ उस दानवशिरोमणिने अपने धनुषसे छूटे हुए सात तेजस्वी तथा शीघ्रगामी बाणोंद्वारा युद्धस्थलमें विष्वक्सेनको विदीर्ण कर दिया॥ १५॥ उस बलवान् दानवके द्वारा गहरा आघात पाकर प्रभावशाली सुरश्रेष्ठ विष्वक्सेनको तुरंत मूर्च्छा आ गयी और वे ध्वजका सहारा लेकर टिक गये॥ १६॥ तदनन्तर पुनः होशमें आकर हैत्योंके बीचमें खड़े हुए साध्य देवताने अपने विशाल धनुषको तानकर युद्धमें मन लगाया उधर बलवान विरोचन अपने तीखे बाणोंद्वारा देवसेनाओंको सब ओससे क्षोभमें डालता हुआ सबके सामने युद्ध करने लगा॥१८॥ युद्धस्थलमें जूझते हुए उस असुरशिरोमणिका गर्जते हुए मेघके समान भयंकर

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 39

सो ऽहं कुतूहलाविष्टो नदीं गङ्गाम् उपस्थितः धन्यासि त्वं नदीश्रेष्ठे नित्यम् आश्चर्यदर्शने

so 'haṃ kutūhalāviṣṭo nadīṃ gaṅgām upasthitaḥ dhanyāsi tvaṃ nadīśreṣṭhe nityam āścaryadarśane

हिन्दी अर्थ

सिंहनाद सुनायी पड़ता था॥१९॥ वह महान् घोष करनेवाला हैत्य प्रचण्ड वेगसे पत्थरोंकी वर्षा करनेवाले बिजलीसहित मेघसमूहकी भाँति देवसेनाका संहार करता हुआ जोर-जोरसे गर्जना करने लगा॥ २० ॥ उस महायुद्धमें अस्त्र उठाये हुए उस दानवने अपने बाणोंकी वर्षासे देवसैनिक रथी रथोंसे और घुड़सवार घोड़ोंकी पीठोंसे उतरकर भयभीत होकर भागे, भूमिपर खड़े हुए पैदल योद्धा भी पलायन करने लगे॥ २२ ॥ वज्रकी गड़गड़ाहटके समान उसके धनुषकी टंकार सुनकर सारी देवसेनाएँ भयभीत हो युद्धस्थलमें लुकने-छिपने लगीं

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 40

या त्वम् एवं महादेहैः श्वापदैर् उपशोभिता ह्रदिनी सागरं यासि रक्षन्ती तापसालयान्

yā tvam evaṃ mahādehaiḥ śvāpadair upaśobhitā hradinī sāgaraṃ yāsi rakṣantī tāpasālayān

हिन्दी अर्थ

विरोचनके भयसे डरे हुए रथी रथोंसे उतरकर पैदलसमूहोंको साथ ले उस स्थानपर चले गये, जहाँ शचीवल्लभ इन्द्रदेव विराजमान थे॥ २४॥ साध्य देवता विष्वक्सेनके चारों ओर जो चौदह हजार राक्षस (कुबेरकी सेनामें देव- पक्षकी ओरसे आये) थे, उन्हें महाबली विरोचनने लातोंसे ही मार गिराया॥२५॥ शत्रुओंको पराजित करनेवाला विरोचन देवताओंके अश्वसमूहों, नागों, रथसमुदायों तथा पैदलोंके दलोंमें भी मारकाट मचाता हुआ दृष्टिगोचर होता था॥ २६ ॥ वह महाबाहु वीर पंख फैलाकर आक्रमण करनेवाले बाजकी भाँति देवसेनाकों सब ओरसे छिल्न- भिन्न करके योद्धाओंके सिर काट लेता था विष्वक्सेनेन सहिता विरोचनमथाद्रवन् चकर्त रधिनामाजौ शिरांसि च धनूंषि च

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 41

एवम् उक्ता ततो गङ्गा रूपिणी प्रत्यभाषत नारदं देवगन्धर्वं शक्रस्य दयितं द्विजम्

evam uktā tato gaṅgā rūpiṇī pratyabhāṣata nāradaṃ devagandharvaṃ śakrasya dayitaṃ dvijam

हिन्दी अर्थ

विरोचनश्चरन् मार्गान् प्रकारानेकविंशतिम् केचिद् वरासिना रुग्णा दानवेन महात्मना। विनेदुश्छिन्नवर्माणो निपेतुश्ष गतासवः विद्वुता: स्वान्यनीकानि जष्नुस्त्रिदशवारणा: निपेतुरुर्व्यामाकाशे निकृता दृढ्धन्विना। विविधास्तोमराश्चापा महामात्रशिरांसि च

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 42

नाहं धन्या द्विजश्रेष्ठ नाप्य् आश्चर्योपशोभिता तव सत्ये निविष्टस्य वाक्यं मां प्रतिबाधते

nāhaṃ dhanyā dvijaśreṣṭha nāpy āścaryopaśobhitā tava satye niviṣṭasya vākyaṃ māṃ pratibādhate

हिन्दी अर्थ

चकर्त रथिन: कांश्वित् परामृश्य महाबलः। सूतांश्विच्छेद खड़्गेन रथानपि च दानव: निजघान पदा कांश्रिदाक्षिप्यान्यानपोथयत्। खड़गेन चान्यांश्रिच्छेद नादेनान्यांश्व भीषयन् अपरे हैत्यमालोक्य भयात् प्राणानवासृजन् मरनेसे बचे हुए घुड़सवार, पैदल और रथी विष्वक्सेनेक साथ होकर विरोचनपर टूट पड़े तोमरोंद्वारा उस एकमात्र विरोचनकी ओर दौड़े तथा सिंहनाद करने लगे॥ २९॥ परंतु उस दानवने उत्तम वेगका आश्रय ले तलवार उठाकर युद्धस्थलमें शत्रुपक्षके रथी योद्धाओंके सिर और धनुष काट लिये

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 43

लोकाश्चर्यकरो लोके धन्यश् चैवार्णवो द्विज यत्राहम् इव विस्तीर्णाः शतशो यान्ति निम्नगाः

lokāścaryakaro loke dhanyaś caivārṇavo dvija yatrāham iva vistīrṇāḥ śataśo yānti nimnagāḥ

हिन्दी अर्थ

बलवान शत्रुसूदन विरोचन रथ, नाग तथा अश्वोंके समुदायमें विचरता हुआ श्रान्त, उदभ्नान्त, आविद्ध, तलवारके इक्कीस पैंतरे दिखाने लगा॥ ३१-३२॥ उस महामनस्वी दानवने कितनोंको अपनी उत्तम तलवारसे बहुत ही घायल कर दिया, उनके कवच भी छिल्न- भिन्न कर दिये, अत: वे आर्तनाद करने लगे और प्राणशून्य होकर पृथ्वीपर गिर पड़े ॥ ३३॥ उस महाकाय हैत्य विरोचनने देवताओंके हाथियोंके पृष्ठभागमें घाव कर दिये और उनके सवारोंको मार डाला, अतः वे भागते हुए अपनी ही सेनाओंको कुचलने लगे सुदृढ़ धनुष धारण करनेवाले उस दानव वीरने नाना प्रकारके तोमर, धनुष और महावतोंके सिर आकाशमें ही काट दिये। वे कटे हुए तोमर आदि पृथ्वीपर गिर

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 44

सो ऽहं त्रिपथगावाक्यं श्रुत्वार्णवम् उपस्थितः आश्चर्यः खलु लोकानां धन्यश् चासि महार्णव तेन खल्व् असि योनिस् त्वम् अम्भसां सलिलेश्वरः

so 'haṃ tripathagāvākyaṃ śrutvārṇavam upasthitaḥ āścaryaḥ khalu lokānāṃ dhanyaś cāsi mahārṇava tena khalv asi yonis tvam ambhasāṃ salileśvaraḥ

हिन्दी अर्थ

हाथियों और घोड़ोंको भी पीछे खींच लेता था। कितने ही रथियोंको पकड़कर तलवारसे काट डालता था तथा सारथियों और रथोंके भी टुकड़े-टुकड़े कर देता था॥ ३६॥ सम्पूर्ण दिशाओंमें बारम्बार उछलते और दौड़ते हुए यशस्वी वीरोंको भी उसने तलवारके घाट उतार दिया। वह विचित्र मार्गों (पैंतरों)-से चलता था, जिससे असुर भी विस्मयमें पड़ जाते थे॥ ३७॥ उसने कितने ही वीरोंको पैरोंसे कुचल डाला, दूसरे बहुत- से योद्धाओंको घुमाकर पृथ्वीपर दे मारा, कितनोंको तलवारसे काट डाला और अन्य कितने ही सैनिकोंको भीषण सिंहनादसे डरा दिया ॥ ३८ ॥ कितने ही योद्धाओंकी बहुत-से सैनिकोंने उस हैत्यको देखते ही भयके मारे प्राण त्याग दिये लेना चाहिए। भ्रान्त आदिकी व्याख्या भी वहीं देखें।

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 45

स्थाने त्वा वारिवाहिन्यः सरितो लोकभावनाः इमाः समभिगच्छन्ति पत्न्यो लोकनमस्कृताः

sthāne tvā vārivāhinyaḥ sarito lokabhāvanāḥ imāḥ samabhigacchanti patnyo lokanamaskṛtāḥ

हिन्दी अर्थ

जघानाचलसंकाशो मत्तवारणविक्रमः । स्फुरद्धिर्निशितैस्तीक्ष्णशरैर्बहुभिराशुगै: देवसैन्यसहस्राणि सरथानि महाहवे। तस्य बाणपथं प्राप्य नाभ्यवर्तन्त सर्वशः देवानामजयः क्रूरः प्रत्यपद्यत दारुण: अकरोद् दानवश्रेष्ठ उद्दिश्योद्दिश्य तान् बली

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 46

समुद्रस् त्व् एवम् उक्तस् तु ततो माम् अब्रवीद् वचः स्वं जलौघतलं भित्त्वा व्युत्थितः पवनेरितः

samudras tv evam uktas tu tato mām abravīd vacaḥ svaṃ jalaughatalaṃ bhittvā vyutthitaḥ pavaneritaḥ

हिन्दी अर्थ

अश्मवृष्टिरिवाकाशे बहुभिश्व सहाडुशैः जघानैकेषुणा क्रुद्धस्ततः स विमुखो5भवत् रथसमूह, हाथी और पैदल योड्धाओं तथा देवताओंका महान् विनाश करनेवाला वह अत्यन्त भयंकर महायुद्ध युद्धस्थलमें आकर अंश नामक आदित्यके साथ युद्ध करने लगा, जैसे एक साँड़ अपने विरोधी साँडसे ऊ भिड़ा हो ॥ ४०-४१॥ पर्वतके समान विशालकाय और मतवाले हाथीके समान पराक्रमी कुजम्भने अपने तीखे चमकीले, बहुसंख्यक, शीघ्रगामी और पैने बाणोंद्रर उस महासमरमें देवसेनाके सहस्रों योद्धाओंका रथें- सहित संहार कर डाला। उसके बाणके मार्गमें पड़जः कोई भी ठहर न सका। सभी प्राणी आर्तनाद करने

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 47

मा मैवं देवगन्धर्व नास्म्य् आश् चर्यो द्विजोत्तम वसुधेयं मुने धन्या यत्राहम् उपरि स्थितः ऋते तु पृथिवीं लोके किम् आश्चर्यम् अतः परम्

mā maivaṃ devagandharva nāsmy āś caryo dvijottama vasudheyaṃ mune dhanyā yatrāham upari sthitaḥ ṛte tu pṛthivīṃ loke kim āścaryam ataḥ param

हिन्दी अर्थ

लगे तथा समस्त दिशाओंमें अन्धकार छा गद्य कुजम्भके दस हजार वेगशाली हाथियोंकी सेनऋ संहार कर डाला॥ ४०५॥ देवताओंकी गजसेनाको आर ऊपर आक्रमण करती देख शत्रुओंका दमन करनेवाल दानव कुजम्भ हाथमें गदा लेकर रथकी बैठकसे उतर पड़ा ॥ ४६॥ पर्वतके सारभूत लोहेकी बनी हुई उस भरे एवं विशाल गदाको हाथमें लेकर कुजम्भ मुँह बाये हुए कालके समान देवताओंकी गजसेनाकी ओर दौड़ा दानवशिरोमणि कुजम्भ बलमें बहुत बढ़ा-चढ़ा था। उ5च गदाधारी बलवान वीर गदासे हाथियोंका वध करता हुआ समराज्गणमें विचरने लगा॥ ४८ ॥ बलवान् दानवशिरोमाः कुजम्भने नाम ले-लेकर बहुतेरे भयंकर गजराजोंके दॉः

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 48

सो ऽहं सागरवाक्येन क्षितिं क्षितितले स्थितः कौतूहलसम् आविष्टो ह्य् अब्रुवं जगतो गतिम्

so 'haṃ sāgaravākyena kṣitiṃ kṣititale sthitaḥ kautūhalasam āviṣṭo hy abruvaṃ jagato gatim

हिन्दी अर्थ

पीड़ित हो टूटे दाँत और फूटे कुम्भस्थलवाले बहुत-से हाथी दसों दिशाओंमें भाग रहे थे॥ ५० ॥ कुजम्भके जो नाराचोंसे गजारोहियोंको धराशायी कर दिया अज्ललिक नामक बाणोंसे शत्रुपक्षके हाथियोंके मस्तक काट डाले॥ ५२॥ अड्डशोंसहित हाथियोंके बहुसंख्यक मस्तकोंके गिरनेसे सारा आकाश भर गया। उस समय ऐसा जान पड़ता था, मानो आकाशमें पत्थरोंकी वर्षा हो रही हो॥ ५३॥ महाराज! हाथियोंके कंधोंपर बैठे हुए गजारोही योद्धा मस्तकोंके कट जानेपर शिखारहित ताड़-वृक्षोंके समान जान पड़ते थे॥ ५४॥ अपनी ओर आते हुए अंशके महान् गजराजको असुर-शिरोमणि कुजम्भने कुपित होकर एक बाण मारा, जिससे वह युद्धसे विमुख हो गया

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 49

धरित्रि देहिनां योनिर् धन्या खल्व् असि शोभने आश्चर्या चासि भूतेषु महत्या क्षमया युते

dharitri dehināṃ yonir dhanyā khalv asi śobhane āścaryā cāsi bhūteṣu mahatyā kṣamayā yute

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथा हि भगवान् क्रुद्ध: प्रजानां संक्षये पुरा। विक्रीडमानो गदया रणमध्ये महासुरः गोपाल इव दण्डेन कालयन् स महागजान्। क्रुद्धं कालमिवाकाले दण्डमुद्यम्य दानवम्। अपएयन्त सुरा: सर्वे कुजम्भं भीमविक्रमम् स्वान्यनीकानि मृदूनन्तः प्राद्रवन्त महागजा: अतिष्ठत् समर हैत्य: काल: संवर्तको यथा

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 50

तेन खल्व् असि लोकानां धरणी मनुजारणिः क्षमा त्वत्तः प्रसूता च कर्म चाम्बरगामिनाम्

tena khalv asi lokānāṃ dharaṇī manujāraṇiḥ kṣamā tvattaḥ prasūtā ca karma cāmbaragāminām

हिन्दी अर्थ

इस प्रकार हाथियोंकी सेनामें प्रविष्ट होकर बलवानोंमें श्रेष्ठ दानवप्रवर कुजम्भ गदासे उस सेनाके बड़े-बड़े गजराजोंका वध करता हुआ वहाँ विचरने लगा कुजम्भके एक ही प्रहारसे मारे गये महान् गजराजोंको समस्त देवताओंने धराशायी हुए पर्वतोंके समान देखा कुजम्भके मार्गोपर छिन्न-भिन्न होकर पड़े हुए महान् गज इन्द्रके वज़्से आहत एवं चूर-चूर होकर ढहे हुए पर्वतोंके समान प्रतीत होते थे॥५८॥ समस्त देवता कुजम्भको मूर्तिमानू कालके समान देखने लगे। जैसे सिंहके डरसे दूसरे वन्य पशु भाग जाते हैं, उसी प्रकार उसे देखकर हाथियोंकी सेनामें दरार पड़ जाती थी हाथियोंके खूनसे रँगी हुई उस गदाकों धारण किये रौद्ररूपधारी भयानक हैत्य कुजम्भ कुपित हो मुँह बाकर जोर-जोरसे गर्जनगा कर रहा था॥६०॥ जैसे पूर्वकालमें प्रजाओंके संहारके समय कुपित हुए भगवान्

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 51

ततो भूः स्तुतिवाक्येन सा मयोक्तेन लज्जिता विहाय सहजं धैर्यम् अथ मां प्रत्यभाषत

tato bhūḥ stutivākyena sā mayoktena lajjitā vihāya sahajaṃ dhairyam atha māṃ pratyabhāṣata

हिन्दी अर्थ

रुद्र क्रोडा करते हैं, उसी प्रकार उस रणभूमिमें महान् असुर कुजम्भ गदासे खेल रहा था॥६१॥ जैसे ग्वाला डंडेसे गौओंको हाँकता है, उसी प्रकार वह गदासे बड़े-बड़े गजराजोंको खदेड़ रहा था। उस समय सब कुपित हो कालदण्ड उठाये हुए कालके समान देखते थे॥ ६२॥ जिनके सवार मारे गये थे, वे दूसरे-दूसरे मदवर्षी गजराज उसकी गदासे आहत और बाणोंसे बहुत ही क्षत-विक्षत हो गये थे॥ ६३ ॥ उस महासमरमें कुजम्भकी गदाके वेगको सहन न कर सकनेके कारण बड़े-बड़े गजराज अपनी ही सेनाओंको कुचलते हुए भागने लगे॥६४॥ जैसे आँधी बादलोंको छिन्न-भिन्न कर देती है, उसी प्रकार गदाके आघातसे गजराजोंको विदीर्ण करता हुआ वह हैत्य समराज्भणमें संहारकारी कालके समान खड़ा था

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 52

देवगन्धर्व मा मैवं संग्रामकलहप्रिय नास्मि धन्या न चाश्चर्या पारक्येयं धृतिर् मम

devagandharva mā maivaṃ saṃgrāmakalahapriya nāsmi dhanyā na cāścaryā pārakyeyaṃ dhṛtir mama

हिन्दी अर्थ

इति श्रीमहाभारते खिलभागे हरिवंशे भविष्यपर्वणि वामनप्रादुर्भावे देवासुरयुद्धे कुजम्भोत्कर्षवर्णने षट्पञ्लाशत्तमोउध्याय: इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारतके खिलभाग हरिव॑शके अन्तर्गत भविष्यपर्वमें वामनाववारके प्रसड़में देवायुर-संग्रामयें कुजम्भके उत्कर्षका वर्णगविषयक छप्पनवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ देवासुससंग्राममें कुजम्भ, असिलोमा और वृत्रासुरके उत्कर्षका वर्णन तथा हरि एवं अश्विनीकुमारकी पराजय ततः सर्वाणि सैन्यानि देवराजस्य शासनात्। अभ्यद्रवन्त दितिजान् नदन्तो भैरवान् रवान् त॑ बलौधमपर्यन्तं देवानां सुदुरासदम्। रथनागाश्वकलिलं शद्भुदुन्दुभिनिःस्वनम्

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

अध्याय १००

श्लोक 53

एते धन्या द्विजश्रेस्थ पर्वता धारयन्ति माम् एष्व् आश्चर्याणि दृश्यन्ते एते लोकस्य सेतवः

ete dhanyā dvijaśrestha parvatā dhārayanti mām eṣv āścaryāṇi dṛśyante ete lokasya setavaḥ

हिन्दी अर्थ

सैन्यसागरमक्षोभ्यं वेलेव मकरालयम् सैन्यार्णव॑ देवतानां गिरिमेरुरिवाचल: सा तथा वारिता सेना विह्ललाभून्निरुद्यममा देवसैन्यस्यथ सर्वस्य धूमकेतुरिवोत्थित: ।

English

Vyasa said:—When Kali will set in the kings, incapable of protecting their subjects, will only guard themselves busily exacting tributes from them. At the end of this cycle the kings will not act like the Kshatriyas, the Brāhmanas will carry on their livelihood like the Sudras and the Sudras will behave like the Brāhmanas. O Janamejaya, at the end of this cycle the Brāhmanas, well read in Srutis and Vedas, will take up arrows and Havi will be divorced from sacrifices and all people will take their meals in the same row. When the last of the cycles Kali will appear men will be artizans, untruthful, fond of wine and meat and know the wives of their friends. In the Kali Yuga the thieves will fare like the kings and the kings will act like thieves and the servants will enjoy unfixed incomes. In the last cycle wealth will be spoken of highly, the character of the pious will be despised and the fallen will not be censured. The widows, divorced from the consciousness of virtue and sin, the ascetics and men of fifteen years of age will procreate offspring through promiscuous intercourse. In that last cycle the villagers will sell food, the Brāhmanas will sell the Vedas, and the women will sell their persons. In this cycle all will read the Vedas and celebrate Vajasaneyi sacrifices and the Sudras will (boldly) address all as "O". The Sudras following the tenets of Buddha will abstain from taking meat. And with white teeth, keen observation and shaving their heads and wearing silk raiments they will practise religion (5-15). The Mlechchas will live in the province of Kurupānchāla and people of that country will live in that of the former. In the end of the cycle men will go downwards. The Brāhmanas will sell the fruits of Tapas and sacrifices and the seasons will be perverted. The beasts, with tusks and teeth, will be set to ploughs and carts: men will till with the water of ponds and the clouds will irregularly discharge their contents. The thieves will steal the wealth of one another and wretched men will be rich acquiring very little money. In this last cycle men will be divorced from religious rites, the divisions of the land will abound in deserts, and the cities will be traversed by many roads. In the Kali yuga every body will become a merchant and the sons will divide the ancestral gifts. Impelled by covetuousness and false-hood people will fight with one another and rob their wealth. In the absence of beauty, personal grace and ornaments the women will be only adorned with hairs (16-22). In this last cycle, men, divorced from all objects of enjoyment, as garlands, sandal, etc., will find pleasure only in their wives (22–23). When the wicked and non-aryans will multiply, when the number of males will decrease, and dis-proportionate to it that of women will increase know this as the real sign of the end of the cycle. Then every body will be a beggar: and no one will give alms. Without distinction people will accept gifts from other Varnas (orders), And afflicted by the king, thieves and fire, people will meet with extinction. In this last cycle people will not get crops, youthful persons will be visited by decrepitude and people will be unhappy for their bad ambition. Blowing high and downwards the wind will shower dust in the rany season and people will feel doubts about the next world. Every one will be wicked by nature, will villify the God and be egoistic: being covetous the Brāhmanas will blame others. Adopting the ways of the Vaishyas the Kshatriyas will maintain themselves by cultivation and trade and the Brāhmanas will destroy the dignity of religion (24-29). In the end of the cycle men will not observe their vows and promise. And what to speak of their satisfying their own debts, they will, for it, even cast off courtesy. Fruitless will be a man's joy and fruitful will be his anger. For milk the sheep will be regarded. In the end of the cycle, men, shorn of the knowledge of scriptures, will naturally behave thus. Disregarding moral laws, men, proud of their own learning, will interpret the Sastras. When the last cycle will set in every one, without the instruction of their elders, will acquire knowledge in all branches and there will be no one who will not be a poet. Deviating from their right duties the Brāhmanas will turn out astrologers and the kings will become thieves (30–34). In the end of the cycle those men, who will co-habit with bastard women, be deceiptful and drunkards, will be Brahmavadins and celebrate horse sacrifices. Eager for acquiring riches the Brāhmanas will officiate as priests for unworthy persons and partake of the forbidden food. Every one will recite "Bho!" and no one will study the Vedas. The women will put on one conch bangle and use an ornament of the shape of a paddy. The stars will not be united with proper planets, the quarters will be contrary—the appearance of an evening and burning will always be seen. The son will engage his father in works and the daughter-in-law will order her mother-in-law. Men will co-habit with beasts and women of different castes. The disciples will wound their preceptors with wordy shafts and men, maddened, will speak many things. Without offering the first four oblations to the gods the Agnihotris will take their meals; and without offering food to their guests, men will eat themselves. Deceiving their sleeping husbands the women will visit other men, and men too, leaving their sleeping wives, will go to other women. When the cycle will run out people will be visited with diseases, mental agony and envy and they will not remedy their own actions (35–43).

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अपौरुषेय / प्रामाणिक शास्त्र (Primary Canonical Scripture)

मूल संस्कृत, प्राकृत अथवा अवधी श्लोक/मंत्र। यह सर्वोच्च प्रमाण (प्रस्थान) है। इस पाठ में किसी भी आधुनिक व्याख्याकार का हस्तक्षेप नहीं है।

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पदार्थ व अन्वय (Direct Grammatical & Word-for-Word Meaning)

व्याकरणसम्मत प्रत्यक्ष शब्दार्थ (अन्वय)। बिना किसी दार्शनिक संप्रदाय के पूर्वाग्रह के, संस्कृत शब्दों का सटीक भाषांतर।

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आचार्य परंपरा व टीका (Classical Lineage Commentary)

प्राचीन आचार्य परंपरा (यथा शंकराचार्य, रामानुजाचार्य, मध्वाचार्य, श्रीधर स्वामी) द्वारा विरचित शास्त्रीय भाष्य व टीकाएं।

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आधुनिक जिज्ञासुओं के लिए सरल भाषा में भावार्थ। यह मूल मंत्र नहीं, बल्कि पाठ को सुगम बनाने हेतु संपादकीय व्याख्या है।

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दार्शनिक, मनोवैज्ञानिक व वैज्ञानिक समरूपताओं पर आधुनिक चिंतन। यह मूल शास्त्र का अंग नहीं है और इसे शास्त्रोक्त सिद्धांत के रूप में नहीं देखा जाना चाहिए।

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पांडुलिपि विविधताएं, पाठ-भेद (variant readings), छंद रचना, और ऐतिहासिक व तुलनात्मक भाषावैज्ञानिक शोध। यह शास्त्र का मूल संदेश बदलने हेतु नहीं, बल्कि पाठ की प्रामाणिकता परखने के लिए है।

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