अध्याय ९७
श्लोक 1
हता ब्रह्मद्विषः सर्वे यजध्वं ब्राह्मणाः सदा ।नमस्कुरुध्वं हरये सदा नमत माधवम् ॥ यजध्वं सततं यज्ञैर् एनं लोकनमस्कृतम् ।आरण्यकाः सदा सन्तु भवतां ज्ञानहेतवः ।सादिता मौरवाः पाशा निसुन्दनरकौ हतौ कृतः क्षेमः पुनः पन्थाः पुरं प्राग्ज्योतिषं प्रति
hatā brahmadviṣaḥ sarve yajadhvaṃ brāhmaṇāḥ sadā | namaskurudhvaṃ haraye sadā namata mādhavam || yajadhvaṃ satataṃ yajñair enaṃ lokanamaskṛtam | āraṇyakāḥ sadā santu bhavatāṃ jñānahetavaḥ | sāditā mauravāḥ pāśā nisundanarakau hatau kṛtaḥ kṣemaḥ punaḥ panthāḥ puraṃ prāgjyotiṣaṃ prati
हिन्दी अर्थ
व॒तो हैत्यसहस्रौधेर्गिरिपादपयोधिभि:। नानारूपधरैर्दूमिदत्यैस्त्रिदशशत्रुभि:ः खं छादयन्तस्तपनीयनिष्का यथोन्नताः प्रावृषि कालमेघा: देवशत्रुर्महाकायस्ताप्रास्यो निर्नतोदरः महामायाधरो भीमो हेमकेयूरभूषण:
English
Vaishampāyana said:—Having said this the highly illustrious Krishna, the foremost of strikers, again spoke to Jvara:—"Hear, how you will range in the world, having spread yourself amongst the entire creation mobile and immobile. If you seek my pleasure divide yourself into three parts. With one do you possess the four-legged animals, with the second the immobile objects and with the third the human beings. And with the fourth portion of your third part you will always live in the midst of the birds. Dividing yourself into four parts namely appearing every day, after two days, three days and four days you are to live amongst mankind. Hear how you are to live amongst other creatures. In trees you will live in the shape of an insect and the disease that withers up the leaves and turns them pale; in the fruits you will live like Aturya disease; in the lotuses like frost, in the earth like a desert, in the water like Neelikā (a plant), in the peacocks like the growing of the tuft, in the mountain like mineral and in the cows like _Khoraka_ or a cow-disease; you will live on earth under these numerous forms. With your very view and touch the animals will be shorn of their lives. Only gods and men will be able to withstand you" (19-28).