अध्याय ६०
श्लोक 1
दामोदरवचः श्रुत्वा हृष्टास् ते गोषु जीविनः तद्वाग् अमृतम् आख्यातं प्रत्यूचुर् अविशङ्कया
dāmodaravacaḥ śrutvā hṛṣṭās te goṣu jīvinaḥ tadvāg amṛtam ākhyātaṃ pratyūcur aviśaṅkayā
हिन्दी अर्थ
रहें ॥ १७॥ ब्रतके आरम्भसे लेकर प्रतिदिन इन पुराणोक्त यह पुराणमें कहा गया है॥१८॥ शुभे! स्नान करके अपने पतिको स्वयं ही सूत कातकर बनाये हुये दो वस्त्र भेंट करे। यदि किसी विपष्नविशेषके कारण अपने ही काते हुए सूतका वस्त्र न हो तो दूसरा ही वस्त्र दे दे। वह वस्त्र शुद्ध, नवीन, उत्तम और श्रेतवर्ण- का होना चाहिए। उस वस्त्रके साथ अपना काता हुआ विज्ञानकोविद, पवित्र, जितेन्द्रिय ब्राह्मणको अपने पतिके साथ बिठाकर यथाशक्ति भोजन कराये॥ २१॥ महान् तप करनेवाली देवि! अरुन्धति! ब्राह्मणको भी यथासम्भव आभूषण, सब प्रकारके धान्यों और विशेषत: तिलोंके मिश्रित रत्रमय पर्वत, जो नाना रंगके वस्त्रोंसे आच्छादित हो, यथाशक्ति दान करना चाहिए। सम्भव हो तो हाथी-घोड़ोंका समूह दिया जाय अन्यथा एक गौका
English
Salwa said:—"What is the use of this fear? Had we trembled in Krishna's fear and thought it proper to make peace with him, we would have left our weapons at that time (26). Besides what is the necessity of speaking ill of our own army and extolling another? Such is not the duty of the Kshatriya kings (27). We are all born in great royal families and have glorified our respective races. Why should then our sense be poorly like that of a coward (28)? I know Devaki's son Krishna as the immortal, eternal, Prime Deity Vishnu, invincible unto the kings, powerful, adored of all the worlds, Vaikuntha and the preceptor of the entire world, mobile and immobile (29-30). I know full well all the objects of Vishnu. He has in view, for incarnating a portion of His Self, the destruction of king Kansa, the relieving of the earth of her burden, our destruction and the protection of the worlds. (I know also) that a great battle will take place between Vishnu and all the kings (31–32). O kings, I know truly that consumed by the fire of his discus we will go to the abode of Yama. Still considering that no one meets with untimely death, no one survives when the proper time comes and the lease of his life runs out in due time; therefore a man should not entertain fear (33–34). When the ascetic virtue of the Daityas is annihilated the Divine Vishnu, conversant with Yoga, brings about their destruction in proper time (35). This Lord of gods sent down Virochona's son, the highly powerful Bali, to the nether region (36). O kings, Vishnu has performed many other feats like this; you should not therefore question the subject of fighting—for Vishnu has not come here to fight. Besides he, whom the maiden will choose, will get her. What chance is there of a quarrel amongst the kings? Let us all be reconciled now (37-38)".