Shanti Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वाध्यायघोषो ज्याघोषो दीयतामिति वै त्रय:

English

Vaisampayana said, "Hearing these words of Yajnasena's daughter, Arjuna once more spoke, showing proper regard for his mighty-armed eldest brother of unfading glory.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्राह्मणोंको सोनेके तीन पर्वत दान करके पूर्णतः संतुष्ट किया

English

"The protection of the subjects is the dharma of kings, lotus-eyed one; dharma is the standard of the world, and the constant following of dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुत्रात् पुण्यतरश्वैव मा पुत्रमनुतप्यथा:

English

Follow, king, the station of your father and grandfather; the dharma that is in Brahmanas is eternal, fixed by the Veda.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हिरण्यकवचा: सर्वे सर्वे चोत्तमधन्विन:

English

That is the standard of standards, eternal, bull of the Bharatas; the kshatriya is the protector of the whole of that dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गायें और एक-एक गायके साथ सौ-सौ भेड़-बकरियाँ प्राप्त हुई थीं

English

So the man who obstructs his command in his realm, a destroyer of the conduct of the world, must be restrained by arms.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शशबिन्दुर्महाराज ब्राह्मुणे भ्य: समार्पयत्

English

Whoever, fallen under delusion, treats the standard as no standard—servant, son or ascetic—should be restrained by all means or killed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुत्रात् पुण्यतरश्वैव मा पुत्रमनुतप्यथा:

English

A king acting otherwise incurs sin; one who does not protect dharma when it is being destroyed is a destroyer of dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जाय? अतः तुम्हें अपने मरे हुए पुत्रके लिये शोक नहीं करना चाहिए

English

Those destroyers of dharma have been slain by you with their followers; abiding in your own dharma, why do you grieve, Pandava? A king should slay, give and protect his subjects by dharma."

हिन्दी अर्थ

यः स वर्षशतं राजा हुतशिष्टाशनो5भवत्

English

[Yudhishthira said:] "I do not doubt your word, ascetic, what you say; for dharma is evident to you, best of upholders of all dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पूषदाज्योद्धव: श्रीमांस्त्रितोकविजयी नृप:

English

"Arjuna said, 'The man armed with the rod of chastisement governs all subjects and protects them. The rod of chastisement is awake when all else is sleep. For this, the wise have characterised the rod of chastisement to be Righteousness itself. The rod of chastisement protects Righteousness and Profit. It protects also, O king! For this, the rod of chastisement is identified with the triple objects of life. Corn and wealth are both protected by the rod of chastisement. Knowing this, O thou that art possessed of learning, take up the rod of chastisement and observe the course of the world. One class of sinful men desist from sin through fear of the rod of chastisement in the king's bands. Another class desist from similar acts through fear of Yama's rod, and yet another from fear of the next world. Another class of persons desist from sinful acts through fear of society. Thus, O king, in this world, whose course is such, everything is, dependent on the rod of chastisement. There is a class of persons who are restrained by only the rod of chastisement from devouring one another. If the rod of chastisement did not protect people, they would have sunk in the darkness of hell. The rod of chastisement (danda) has been so named by the wise because it restrains the ungovernable and punishes the wicked, The chastisement of Brahmanas should be by word of mouth; of Kshatriyas, by giving them only that much of food as would suffice for the support of life; of Vaisyas, by the imposition of fines and forfeitures of property, while for Sudras there is no punishment. I For keeping men awake (to their duties) and for the protection of property, ordinances, O king, have been established in the world, under the name of chastisement (or punitive legislation). Thither where chastisement, of dark complexion and red eyes, stands in an attitude of readiness (to grapple with every offender) and the king is of righteous vision, the subjects never forget themselves. The Brahmacharin and the house-holder, the recluse in the forest and the religious mendicant, all these walk in their respective ways through fear of chastisement alone. He

हिन्दी अर्थ

स आसीदू द्वादशसमो द्वादशाहेन पार्थिव:

English

that is without any fear, O king, never performs a sacrifice. He that is without fear never giveth away. The man that is without any fear never desires to adhere to any engagement or compact. Without piercing the vitals of others, without achieving the most difficult feats and without staying creatures like a fisherman (slaying fish), no person can obtain great prosperity, l Without slaughter, no man has been able to achieve fame in this world or acquire wealth or subjects. Indra himself, by the slaughter of Vritra, became the great Indra. Those amongst the gods that are given to slaughtering others are adored much more by men. Rudra, Skanda, Sakra, Agni, Varuna, are all slaughterers. Kala and Mrityu and Vayu and Kuvera and Surya, the Vasus, the Maruts, the Sadhyas, and the Viswadevas, O Bharata, are all slaughterers. Humbled by their prowess, all people bend to those gods, but not to Brahman or Dhatri or

हिन्दी अर्थ

धर्मात्मानं महात्मानं शूरमिन्द्रसमं युधि

English

Men appointed by the Lord do good and bad deeds, O king; the fruit of the deed goes to the Lord.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अड़ू बृहद्रथं चैव मान्धाता समरेडजयत्

English

As a man who fells a tree in the forest with an axe, the sin would be the feller's, never the axe's.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अददादू रोहितान् मत्स्यान् ब्राह्मणेभ्यो विशाम्पते

English

Or if, by taking it up, they would obtain the fruit of the deed, the sin made by rod and weapon does not exist in the man.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अतिरिक्तान द्विजातिभ्यो व्यभजंस्त्वितरे जना:

English

It is not accepted, son of Kunti, that the fruit made by another should be obtained; therefore place it on the Lord.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुत्रात् पुण्यतरश्वैव मा पुत्रनुतप्यथा:

English

Or if man is the doer of good and bad deeds, there is nothing beyond; therefore do another good.

हिन्दी अर्थ

य इमां पृथिवीं कृत्स्नां विजित्य सहसागराम्

English

No one, O king, ever turns back from what is fated; the sin made by rod and weapon does not exist in the man.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ईजान: क्रतुभिर्मुख्यै: पर्यगच्छद् वसुन्धराम्

English

Or if you think the world is established on chance, even so no evil deed has been or will be.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तर्पयामास विष्रेन्द्रांस्त्रेभि: काउचनपर्वतै:

English

Or if the world's approach to good and bad is to be taken, the raising of the rod is the most approached by kings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्यभजत् पृथिवीं कृत्स्नां ययातिर्नहुषात्मज:

English

Even so, in the world deeds revolve, Bharata, and I think they bring the fruit of good or bad.

हिन्दी अर्थ

करके यह सारी पृथ्वी अपने पुत्रोंको बाँट दी थी

English

Thus the truth, the good teaching, the fruit of the deed is certain; give it up, tiger among kings; do not set your mind on grief.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यं प्रजा वव्रिरे पुण्यं गोप्तारं नृपसत्तमम्

English

For one abiding in his own dharma, even if blameworthy, Bharata, such self-abandonment is not fitting for you, O king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ईजानो वितते यज्ञे ब्राह्मणेभ्य: सुसंहित:

English

Expiations are prescribed here for doers of deeds, son of Kunti; one with a body can perform them, one without a body would be undone.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्वेडश्वमेधैरीजानास्तेन्वयुर्दक्षिणायनम्

English

So, O king, while living you will perform the expiation; but having not performed expiation, you will be tormented after death, Bharata."

हिन्दी अर्थ

वर्षोतक होमसे अवशिष्ट अन्नका ही भोजन किया

English

Pushan at any time. Only a few men that are noble of disposition adore in all their acts those among the gods that are equally disposed towards all creatures and that are self-restrained and peaceful. I do not behold the creature in this world that supports life without doing any act of injury to others. Animals live upon animals, the stronger upon the weaker. The mongoose devours mice; the cat devours the mongoose; the dog devours the cat; the dog again is devoured by the spotted leopard. Behold all things again are devoured by the Destroyer when he comes ! This mobile and immobile universe is food for living creatures. This has, been ordained by the gods. The man of knowledge, therefore, is never stupefied at it. It behoveth thee, O great king, to become that which thou art by birth. Foolish (Kshatriyas) alone, restraining wrath and joy take refuge in the woods. The very ascetics cannot support their lives without killing creatures. In water, on earth, and fruits, there are innumerable creatures. It is not true that one does not slaughter them. What higher duty is there than supporting one's life? 2 There are many creatures that are so minute that their existence can only be inferred. With the failing of the eyelids alone, they are destroyed. There are men who subduing wrath and pride betake themselves to ascetic courses of life and leaving village and towns repair to the woods. Arrived there, those men may be seen to be so stupefied as to adopt the domestic mode of life once more. Others may be seen, who (in the observance of domesticity) tilling the soil, uprooting herbs, cutting off trees and killing birds and animals, perform sacrifices and at last attain to heaven. O son of Kunti, I have no doubt in this that the acts of all creatures become crowned with success only when the policy of chastisement is properly applied. If chastisement were abolished from the world, creatures wood soon be destroyed. Like fishes in the water, stronger animals prey on the weaker. This truth was formerly spoken by Brahmana himself, viz., that chastisement, properly applied upholds creatures. Behold, the very fires, when extinguished, blaze up again, in fright, when blown. This is due to the fear of force or chastisement. If there were no chastisement in the world distinguishing the good from the bad, then the whole world would have been

हिन्दी अर्थ

उत्थायोत्थाय वै प्रादात् सहस्नं परिवत्सरान्

English

"Great-souled kshatriyas, kinsmen, friends, companions, relatives and brothers, grandsire,

हिन्दी अर्थ

पितृन् स्वधाभि: कामैश्न स्त्रिय: स पुरुषर्षभ

English

and many lords of men gathered from various countries have been slain by me alone, greedy for kingdom, grandsire.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सोनेकी पृथ्वी बनवाकर दक्षिणारूपसे दान की थी

English

Having slain such kings, devoted to dharma, many heroes who drank soma, what shall I obtain, ascetic?

हिन्दी अर्थ

तावतीरेव गा: प्रादादामूर्तरयसो गय:

English

I burn unceasingly today, thinking again and again of this earth bereft of those lion-like glorious kings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सम्यगाराध्य य: शक्राद् वरं लेभे महातपा:

English

Seeing the dreadful slaughter of kinsmen and hundreds of enemies slain, and crores of other men, I am tormented, grandsire.

हिन्दी अर्थ

श्रद्धा च नो मा व्यगमन्मा च याचिष्म कंचन

English

What will be the state today of those fair women, bereft of their sons, husbands and brothers?

हिन्दी अर्थ

ग्राम्यारण्या महात्मानं रन्तिदेवं यशस्विनम्

English

Cursing us, the dreadful Pandavas allied with the Vrishnis, enders, they, thin and wretched, fall on the ground.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततश्चर्मण्वतीत्येव॑ विख्याता सा महानदी

English

Not seeing fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, all the women, giving up their dear lives, will go to Yama's abode.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ददतो यो3क्षयं वित्तं धर्मे श्रद्धा च वर्धताम्

English

enveloped in utter darkness and all things would have been confounded. Even they that are breakers of rules, that are atheists and scoffers of the Vedas, afflicted by chastisement, soon become disposed to observe rules and restrictions. I Everyone in this world is kept straight by chastisement. A person naturally pure and righteous is scarce. Yielding to the fear of chastisement, man becomes disposed to observe rules and restraints. Chastisement was ordained by the Creator himself for protecting religion and profit, for the happiness of all the four orders, and for making them righteous and modest. If chastisement could not inspire fear, then ravens and beasts of prey would have eaten up all other animals and men and the clarified butter intended for sacrifice. If chastisement did not uphold and protect, then nobody would have studied the Vedas, nobody would have milked a milch cow, and no maiden would have married. 2 If chastisement did not uphold and protect, then ravage and confusion would have set in on every side, and all barriers would have been swept away, and the idea of property would have disappeared. If chastisement did not uphold and protect, people could never duly perform annual sacrifices with large presents. If chastisement did not uphold and protect, no one, to whatever mode of life he might belong, would observe the duties of that mode as declared (in the scriptures), and no one would have succeeded in acquiring knowledge. 3 Neither camels, nor oxen, nor horses, nor mules, nor asses, would, even if yoked thereto, drag cars and carriages, if chastisement did not uphold and protect. Upon chastisement depend all creatures. The learned, therefore, say that chastisement is the root of

हिन्दी अर्थ

लेभे च कामांस्तान् सर्वान् पावकादिति न: श्रुतम्

English

We who slew our friends and did endless sin shall fall into hell, head downward.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अयजद्धयमेधेन सहस््रं परिवत्सरान्

English

We shall abandon our bodies by fierce austerity, good one; tell me, grandsire, especially about the stages of life."

हिन्दी अर्थ

चर्मण्वती (चम्बल) के नामसे विख्यात हुई

English

everything. Upon chastisement rests the heaven that men desire, and upon it rests this world also. Thither where foe-destroying chastisement is well applied, no sin, no deception, and no wickedness, is to be seen. If the rod of 'chastisement be not uplifted, the dog will lick the sacrificial butter. The crow also would take away the first (sacrificial) offering, if that rod were not kept uplifted. Righteously or unrighteously, this kingdom hath now become ours. Our duty now is to abandon grief. Do thou, therefore, enjoy it and perform sacrifices. Men that are fortunate, living with their dear wives (and children), eat good food, wear excellent clothes, and cheerfully acquire virtue. All our acts, without doubt, are dependent on wealth; that wealth again is dependent on chastisement. Behold, therefore, the importance of chastisement. Duties have been declared for only the maintenance of the relations of the world. There are two things here, viz., abstention from injury and injury prompted by righteous motives. Of these, two, that is superior by which righteousness may be acquired. 4 There is no act that is wholly meritorious, nor any that is wholly

हिन्दी अर्थ

यस्य नाम्ना समुद्रश्न सागरत्वमुपागत:

English

"Do not despair, king; remember kshatriya dharma; these kshatriyas were slain by their own dharma, bull among kshatriyas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पथ्यं॑ मुमूर्षोरिव सुप्रयुक्तम्

English

Desiring all prosperity and great fame on earth, joined to the ordinance of the Ender, they met death by Time.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पर्वतेन किमर्थ वा दत्तस्तेन ममार च

English

You are not the slayer, nor Bhima, nor Arjuna, nor the twins; Time, by the rule of turns, takes the lives of embodied beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

किसलिये दिया और वह क्यों मर गया?

English

He who has no mother or father, to whom no one is to be favoured, the witness of the deeds of beings—by that Time they were withdrawn.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कथमप्राप्तकौमार: सृंजयस्य सुतो मृत:

English

This is a mere pretext of that Time, bull among men: that beings slay beings is his lordly form.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कुमारावस्था आनेसे पहले ही क्‍यों मर गया?

English

Know Time as embodied in action, the witness of good and bad, giving the fruit of time, with happiness and sorrow as the result of qualities.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कथं वा काञ्चनष्ठीवीत्येतदिच्छामि वेदितुम्

English

Think, mighty-armed one, of the deeds of those too by which they fell under Time as causes of their own destruction.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नाम पड़नेका कारण क्या था? यह सब मैं जानना चाहता हूँ

English

And know your own restraint, vow and character, when you were made to do such a deed, overcome by the ordinance.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तुभ्यं निष्कं तुभ्यं निष्कमिति क्रोशन्ति वै द्विजा:

English

wicked. Right or wrong, in all acts, something of both is seen. Subjecting animals to castration, their horns again are cut off. They are then made to bear weights, are tethered, and chastised. In this world that is unsubstantial and rotten with abuses and rendered painful, O monarch, do thou practise the ancient customs of men, following the rules and analogies cited above. Perform sacrifices, give alms, protect thy subjects, and practise righteousness. Slay thy foes, O son of Kunti, and protect thy friends. Let no cheerlessness be thine. O king, while slaying foes. He that does it, O Bharata, does not incur the slightest sin. He that takes up a weapon and slays an armed foe advancing against him, does not incur the sin of killing a foetus, for it is the wrath of the advancing foe that provokes the wrath of the slayer. The inner soul of every creature is incapable of being slain. When the soul is incapable of being slain, how then can one be slain by another? As a person enters a new house, even so a creature enters successive bodies. Abandoning forms that are worn out, a creature acquires new forms. People capable of seeing the truth regard this transformation to be death.'"

हिन्दी अर्थ

नासीत् किंचिदसौवर्ण रन्तिदेवस्थ धीमत:

English

away all property, but care should be taken to give him food sufficient for maintaining life. A Vaisya should be punished by forfeiture of possessions. There is practically no punishment for a Sudra, for being unable to possess wealth, dispossession of wealth cannot be a punishment in his case; again, service being his duty, the imposition of labour on him cannot be a punishment. For all that, hard work may be imposed upon him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आलकभ्यन्त शतं गाव: सहस्राणि च विंशति:

English

And whatever distress there is in your mind here, because of that, king, perform an expiation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

करता था, उस समय उन्हें बीस हजार एक सौ गौएँ छूकर दी जाती थीं

English

And this is heard, Partha: in the war of gods and asuras of old, the asuras were the elder brothers and the gods the younger.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सूप॑ं भूयिष्ठमश्री ध्वं नाद्य भोज्यं यथा पुरा

English

For them too, for the sake of prosperity, there was a great upheaval, and the war, it is said, lasted thirty-two thousand years.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऐक्ष्वांकं पुरुषव्याप्रमतिमानुषविक्रमम्

English

Having made the earth a single ocean drenched in blood, the gods slew the Daityas and gained heaven.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नक्षत्रराजं वर्षान्ति व्यभ्रे ज्योतिर्गणा इव

English

Likewise, having obtained the earth, Brahmanas versed in the Veda, deluded by pride, took refuge to aid the Danavas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

योश्वमेधसहस्त्रेण तर्पयामास देवता:

English

They were famed in the three worlds as Shala-wolves, Bharata, and eighty-eight thousand of them were slain by the gods.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पूर्ण पद्मदलाक्षीणां स्त्रीणां शयनसंकुलम्

English

Those who wish for the ruin of dharma and promote unrighteousness, wicked ones, are to be slain by the gods, like the fierce Daityas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यस्यादेशेन तद् वित्त व्यभजन्त द्विजातय:

English

If by slaying one the family of the good is made safe, or by slaying a family or a kingdom, that does not harm conduct.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उन्हींके नामपर समुद्रकी 'सागर' संज्ञा हो गयी

English

There is something that is dharma in the form of adharma, O king, and dharma in the form of adharma; the wise must understand that.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुत्रात् पुण्यतरश्वैव मा पुत्रमनुतप्यथा:

English

So steady yourself, Pandava; you are learned; you have followed the path gone before by the gods, Bharata.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यमभ्यषिज्चन् सम्भूय महारण्ये महर्षय:

English

Such as you do not go to hell, bull of the Pandavas; comfort these brothers and friends, scorcher of foes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततो राजेति नामास्थ अनुरागादजायत

English

He who in a sinful undertaking is of sinful mind, doing it and having done it shamelessly,

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्वा द्रोणदुघा गावो वैन्यस्यासन् प्रशासत:

English

in him all that stain is said to be complete; there is no expiation or diminution of the sinful deed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथाभिकाममवसन क्षेत्रेषु च गृहेषु च

English

But you are of bright birth, made to act by another's fault; doing this deed unwilling, you are tormented.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सरितश्नानुदीर्यन्त ध्वजभड़श्न नाभवत्

English

The horse sacrifice, the great sacrifice, is declared the expiation; perform it, great king, and you will be free of sin.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्राह्मणोंको दान किये थे

English

Maghavan, Pakashasana, having conquered his foes with the Maruts, performed a hundred sacrifices, each hundred times,

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुत्रात् पुण्यतरश्वैव मा पुत्रमनुप्यथा:

English

purified of sin, conqueror of heaven, having obtained worlds of rising happiness, Shakra, surrounded by Marut hosts, shone, lighting the quarters.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अपने मरे हुए पुत्रके लिये शोक न करो

English

The sages and the gods attend the lord of Shachi, honoured in heaven by Apsarases.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रकार मेरा यह सारा प्रवचन निष्फल तो नहीं हो गया?”

English

You have come here by valour to the earth, and the kings are conquered by your valour, blameless one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कीर्त्या युक्तानां शोकनिर्णाशनार्थाम्

English

Going to their cities and kingdoms, king, surrounded by friends, consecrate your brothers, sons and grandsons in their own kingdoms.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरित्रसे युक्त आपका यह वचन सम्पूर्ण शोकोंका विनाश करनेवाला है

English

Conciliating even children and those in the womb, delight all the people and protect the earth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न ते तृप्याम्यमृतस्येव पानात्

English

Where there is no prince, consecrate the daughters there; for women's hearts are given to desire and in this way they will give up grief.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मिलनका सुख सुलभ हो जायगा

English

Having thus comforted all kingdoms, Bharata, sacrifice with the horse sacrifice, as Indra, victorious, did of old.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हिरण्यनाभं वर्षमहस्रिणं च

English

Those great-souled kshatriyas are not to be grieved for, bull among kshatriyas; they went to destruction by their own deeds, bewildered by the power of the Ender.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नामक एक पुत्र दे रहा हूँ, जिसकी आयु एक हजार वर्षोकी होगी

English

You have attained kshatriya dharma and a stainless kingdom; practise dharma, son of Kunti, which is better for the hereafter."

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुनिये। नारद और पर्वत--ये दोनों ऋषि सम्पूर्ण लोकोंमें श्रेष्ठ हैं

English

chastisement, and maidens also marry, without practising free love, through fear of chastisement by the king, society, or Yama in the next world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दर्शनीयानवद्याजड्री शीलवृत्तसमाहिता

English

[Vyasa said:] "One who does not do the prescribed rite, practises the forbidden, and lives falsely, is subject to expiation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुकुमारी च देवर्षि वानरप्रतिमाननम्

English

One for whom the sun has risen while he was a celibate student, or has set, one with defective nails or black teeth,

हिन्दी अर्थ

तमुवाच ततो दृष्टवा पर्वतं नारदस्तथा

English

the younger brother married before the elder, the elder unmarried, a Brahmana who has forsaken the Veda, a slanderer, the husband of a woman previously married, and the first such woman,

हिन्दी अर्थ

अत्यन्त दीन होकर उनसे बोले--

English

one who breaks his vow of celibacy, a slayer of the twice-born, one who gives up a Brahmana at a wrong place, and one who does not give at a tirtha,

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्वयाहं प्रथमं शप्तो वानरस्त्वं भविष्यसि

English

a village priest, son of Kunti, a seller of a king, a slayer of a Shudra or a woman—each earlier is the more blameworthy.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अद्यप्रभृति वै वासं स्वर्गे नावाप्स्यसीति ह

English

One who vainly slaughters animals, a forest-burner, one who serves by lies, and one who obstructs his teacher,

हिन्दी अर्थ

न्यवर्तयेतां तौ शापावन्योन्येन तदा मुनी

English

one who casts away the sacred fires, a seller of the Veda—these are all sins, and he who has broken an agreement.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुकुमारी प्रदुद्राव परपत्यभिशड्कया

English

I shall also tell the things that are not to be done; hear them from me, those that conflict with the world and the Veda; listen with a single mind.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विहर्तुकामौ सम्प्रीत्या मानुषेषु पुरा विभो

English

is plain that the fear of being regarded a dunce and a fool and incurring the ridicule or displeasure of the tutor and class-mates, induces one to acquire knowledge.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नारदो मातुलश्चैव भागिनेयश्व पर्वत:

English

that remain quiet for fear of injuring that beast of prey and commit sin. For that slaughter there is merit, for if not slaughtered, the beast will slaughter the kine before the spectator's eyes and the latter would incur sin by passively witnessing the sight. At any rate, to be more general, it is better to injure, says Arjuna, from righteous motives than not to injure from fear of sin.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नारदजी मामा हैं और पर्वत इनके भानजे हैं

English

One who being capable does not perform the rites beginning with the installation of fires, and, Bharata, does not give all that is always to be given,

हिन्दी अर्थ

भुज्जानौ मानुषान् भोगान् यथावत् पर्यधावताम्

English

non-giving of fees, and touching a Brahmana: those who know dharma call all these things not to be done.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथावत््रूपसे परिभ्रमण करने लगे

English

A son who divides with his father, and one who defiles his teacher's bed; a man who does not beget offspring is unrighteous by adharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यो भवेद्धृदि संकल्प: शुभो वा यदि वाशुभ:

English

These deeds have been told in detail and briefly, for doing or not doing which a person becomes subject to expiation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तौ तथेति प्रतिज्ञाय महर्षी लोकपूजितौ

English

But hear in which circumstances men doing these very deeds are not stained.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनुकूल होकर रहो”

English

One who kills, in battle, a man even versed in the Vedanta who comes against him with weapon raised and wishing to slay him is not a slayer of a Brahmana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथेति कृत्वा राजा तौ सत्कृत्योपचचार ह

English

On this too, son of Kunti, a mantra is recited in the Vedas; I tell you that dharma prescribed by the authority of the Veda.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अब्रवीत् परमप्रीत: सुतेयं वरवर्णिनी

English

One who kills a Brahmana fallen from his conduct, an attacker, is not a slayer of a Brahmana; anger meets anger.

हिन्दी अर्थ

परम सौम्यमित्युक्त ताभ्यां राजा शशास ताम्

English

One who, when life is at stake or from ignorance, drinks wine, if unprompted and devoted to dharma, deserves a rite of purification again.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सा तु कन्या तथेत्युक्त्वा पितरं धर्मचारिणी

English

All this has been told to you, son of Kunti, about eating the forbidden; all is purified by the rule of expiation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्यास्तेनोपचारेण रूपेणाप्रतिमेन च

English

Intercourse with a teacher's bed for the teacher's purpose does not defile a man; Uddalaka begot Shvetaketu through a pupil.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ववृधे हि ततस्तस्य हृदि कामो महात्मन:

English

In calamities, one who commits theft for his teacher's sake is not bound, unless he acts so often by desire.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नच तं भागिनेयाय पर्वताय महात्मने

English

One who takes from those who are not Brahmanas is not defiled; and one who has not eaten himself is not stained by sin.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तपसा चेड़ितैश्वैव पर्वतो5थ बुबोध तम्

English

To save a life, untruth may be spoken for oneself or another, for a teacher's sake, with women, and in marriages.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न हि काम प्रवर्तन्तं भवानाचष्ट मे पुरा

English

A vow is not broken by seminal emission in a dream in any way; a ghee oblation in a kindled fire is prescribed as the expiation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आपने मुझे नहीं बताया; इसलिये यह मैं आपको शाप दे रहा हूँ

English

Marrying before an elder brother is not a fault when the brother is fallen or has gone forth, nor intercourse with another's wife who begs; that does not stain dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्रह्मचारी गुरुर्यस्मात् तपस्वी ब्राह्मणश्व॒ सन्

English

One should neither make vain slaughter of animals nor have it done; kindness to animals is the rite enjoined by the rule.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पर्वत: पृथिवीं कृत्स्नां विचचार महामति:

English

A gift given to an unworthy Brahmana in ignorance is not a fault; so also giving at a tirtha or elsewhere, for a reason.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उपतस्थे च भर्तारें न चान्यं मनसाप्यगात्

English

For unchaste women there is a purification which is not defiling; she too is purified by it, but the husband is not defiled.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चिन्तन नहीं करती थी

English

Knowing the truth, the sale of soma is not defiling; dismissing a servant who is unable is blameless; burning a forest for the sake of cattle is not defiling.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततः कदाचिद् भगवान् पर्वतोडनुचचार ह

English

These deeds have been told which one does without being defiled; I shall tell the expiations in detail, Bharata."

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनब्रवीत् तव भर्तैष नात्र कार्या विचारणा

English

Vaisampayana said, "After the conclusion of Arjuna's speech, Bhimasena of great wrath and energy, mustering all his patience, said these words unto his eldest brother, 'Thou art, O monarch, conversant with all duties. There is nothing unknown to thee. We always wish to imitate thy conduct, but, alas, we cannot do it!— "7 will not say anything! I will not say anything— ■! Even this is what I had wished! Impelled, however, by great grief I am constrained to say something. Listen to these words of mine, O ruler of men! Through the stupefaction of thy faculties, everything is endangered, and ourselves are being made cheerless and weak. How is it that thou that art the ruler of the world, thou that art conversant with all branches of knowledge, sufferest thy understanding to be clouded, in consequence of cheerlessness, like a coward? The righteous and unrighteous paths of the world are known to thee. There is nothing belonging either to the future or the present that is also unknown to thee, O puissant one! When such is the case, O monarch, I will indicate, O ruler of men, the reasons in favour of your assuming sovereignty. Listen to me with undivided attention. There are two kinds of diseases, viz., physical and mental. Each springs from the other. None of them can be seen existing independently. Without doubt, mental diseases

हिन्दी अर्थ

आवयोस्तपसा सिद्ध) प्राप्नोतु यदि मन्‍्यसे

English

"Eating once a day, living by alms, doing his own work, with a skull in hand and a skull-topped staff, a celibate, ever rising early,

हिन्दी अर्थ

देवराजाभि भूत्यर्थ संकल्पो होष ते हृदि

English

free of envy, sleeping on the ground, proclaiming his deed to the world, a slayer of a Brahmana is freed after twelve full years.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कुमारमन्तरप्रेक्षी नित्यमेवान्वपद्यत

English

With six years of hard diet the slayer of a Brahmana is purified; eating once a month he is freed in three years.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उसका सारा रक्त बाघके द्वारा पी लिया गया है और वह आनन्दहीन हो गया है

English

Eating once a month for a year he is purified, without doubt; likewise, O king, by desisting he is freed even with little.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुत्र रुधिरसंसिक्तं पर्यदेवयदातुर:

English

By the horse sacrifice he is purified, without doubt; and certain such men who bathe at its closing bath are purified."

हिन्दी अर्थ

अभ्यधावन्त तं॑ देशं यत्र राजा स सूंजय:

English

All of those, the supreme scripture says, become purified of sin; one slain in battle for a Brahmana's sake is freed from the sin of Brahmin-slaying.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तदाहं चिन्तन ज्ञात्वा गतवांस्तस्य दर्शनम्

English

A slayer of a Brahmana who gives a hundred thousand cows to worthy recipients is freed from all sins.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भवितव्यं तथा तच्च न तच्छक्यमतोन्यथा

English

One who gives twenty-five thousand tawny milch cows is freed from all sins.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तवैवाभेद्यह्ददयो मा ते5भूदत्र संशय:

English

spring from physical ones. Similarly physical diseases spring from mental ones. This is the truth. He that indulgeth in regrets on account of past physical or mental woes, reapeth woe from woe and suffereth double woe. Cold, heat, and wind,— these three are the attributes of the body, l Their existence in harmony is the sign of health. If one of the three prevails over the rest, remedies have been laid down. Cold is checked by heat, and heat is checked by cold. Goodness, passion, and darkness are the three attributes of the mind. The existence of these three in harmony is the sign of (mental) health. If one of these prevails over the rest, remedies have been prescribed. Grief is checked by joy, and joy is checked by grief. One, living in the present enjoyment of this, wishes to recollect his past woes. Another, living in the present suffering of woe, wishes to recollect his past bliss. Thou, however, wert never sad in grief or glad in bliss. 2 Thou, shouldst not, therefore, use thy memory for becoming sad during times of bliss, or glad during times of woe. It seems that Destiny is all-powerful. Or, if it be thy nature, in consequence of which thou art thus afflicted, how is it that it does not behove thee to recollect the sight thou sawest before, viz., the scantily-clad Krishna dragged, while in her season, before the assembly. 3 Why does it not behove thee to recollect our expulsion from the (Kuru) city and our exile (into the woods) dressed in deerskins, as also our living in the great forests? Why hast thou forgotten the woes inflicted by Jatasura, the battle with Chitrasena, and the distress suffered at the hands of the Sindhu king? Why hast thou forgotten the kick received by the princess Draupadi from Kichaka white we were living in concealment? A fierce battle, O chastiser of foes, like that which thou hast fought with Bhishma and Drona is now before thee, to be fought (however) with thy mind alone. In deed, that battle is now before

हिन्दी अर्थ

शापदोषं च त॑ भर्तु: श्रुत्वा प्रकृतिमागता

English

One who gives a hundred Kamboja horses to restrained Brahmanas, lord of the earth, is freed from the sin.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भगवज्छोतुमिच्छामि सुवर्णष्ठीविसम्भवम्

English

One who fulfils a wish of even one person, Bharata, and does not proclaim it after giving, is freed from sin.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आचचक्षे यथावृत्तं सुवर्णष्ठीविनं प्रति

English

A twice-born who once drinks wine, and then drinks it fire-hot, purifies himself here and hereafter.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कार्यस्यास्य तु यच्छेषं तत् ते वक्ष्यामि पृच्छत:

English

By falling from Mount Meru, or entering fire, or undertaking the great departure, one is freed of all sins.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सत्य है। इस प्रसड़में जो कुछ शेष है, वह तुम्हारे प्रश्नके अनुसार मैं बता रहा हूँ

English

A Brahmana who has drunk wine, having sacrificed with the Brihaspati-sava, should go again to the assembly of Brahmanas—so says the Brahmana scripture.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्वकामै: सुविहिती निवसावोस्य वेश्मनि

English

One who, free of envy, gives a gift of land after drinking wine and does not drink again, O king, being purified is cleansed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पर्वतो मामुवाचेदं काले वचनमर्थवत्

English

One who defiles his teacher's bed should lie on a heated iron slab, or with his organ in his hand go forth looking upward.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इस समय इनका कुछ उपकार करनेकी बात सोचिये'

English

By leaving the body he is freed from the evil deed; women are freed from their deeds by restraint for a year.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्वमेतत् त्वयि विभो भागिनेयोपपद्यते

English

One who practises the great vow and gives all his wealth, or is slain in battle for his teacher, is freed from the evil deed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पर्वतो5नुमतो वाक्यमुवाच कुरुपुड़व

English

One who has served by falsehood or obstructed his teacher, having brought him something pleasing, is freed from that sin.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आवाभ्यामभ्यनुज्ञातो वरं नृवर चिन्तय

English

For breaking the vow of celibacy, one should practise the vow for Brahmin-slaying, wearing an ass's hide for six months; thus he is freed from the offence.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तुम्हें आज्ञा देते हैं कि तुम इच्छानुसार कोई वर सोचकर माँग लो

English

An abductor of another's wife and one taking another's property, keeping the vow for a year, is likewise freed from the offence.

हिन्दी अर्थ

संहार ही हो सके। तुम हमारी दृष्टिमें आदरके योग्य हो”

English

One from whom something is stolen should be given equal wealth; by various means he is freed from the offence.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एष एव परो लाभो निर्वत्तों मे महाफल:

English

By hardship for twelve days, well practised, or at least ten, the younger brother married before the elder and the elder unmarried become pure, Bharata.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यही हमारे लिये महान् फलदायक परम लाभ सिद्ध हो गया

English

The marriage of the younger should be arranged by him, who ever saves his ancestors; there is no fault in the woman, and she is not stained by it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वृणीष्व राजन् संकल्पं यत् ते हृदि चिरं स्थितम्

English

In union the woman is pure by her season; the Chaturmasya rite is prescribed; women are thereby purified, so those who know dharma say.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हृदयमें जो चिरकालसे संकल्प हो, वही माँग लो”

English

Women suspected of sin are not to be approached by one who knows; they are purified by their menses as a vessel by ashes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आयुष्मन्तं महाभागं देवराजसमदुतिम्

English

Dharma is fourfold and complete for Brahmanas; for the kshatriya a quarter less, so dharma is ordained.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इन्द्रके समान तेजस्वी हो

English

Likewise for the Vaishya and Shudra a quarter each is ordained; by such a rule know the weightiness and lightness of their duties.

हिन्दी अर्थ

रक्ष्यश्ष देवराजात् स देवराजसमद्युति:

English

Having slain animals, and cut many other trees, a man should live three nights on air and make his deed known.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रसादयामास तदा नैतदेवं भवेदिति

English

For intercourse with the forbidden, O king, expiation is prescribed: wearing wet clothes for six months, he should live lying in ashes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न च त॑ पर्वत: किंचिदुवाचेन्द्रव्यपेक्षया

English

This same rule would apply to all the things not to be done, by the rule declared by Brahmanas, with examples, scriptures and reasons.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्मर्तव्यो5स्मि महाराज दर्शयिष्यामि ते सुतम्

English

One who recites the Savitri in a pure place, with moderate food, harmless, unhurried and silent, is freed from all offences.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सृंजयश्चव यथाकामं प्रविवेश स्वमन्दिरम्

English

He should stay in the open air by day and sleep under the sky at night; three times by day and three times by night, he should enter water with his clothes on.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हो रहा था। वह महान् बलशाली था

English

In the vow he should not speak to women, Shudras or outcasts; having done sins unknowingly, the twice-born is freed by this vow.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कुमारस्यान्तरप्रेक्षी बभूव बलवृत्रहा

English

After death one receives the fruit of good and evil, with beings as witnesses; whichever of the two is greater, that fruit the doer receives.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वृत्रासुरका वध करनेवाले इन्द्र उस राजकुमारके वधका अवसर देखने लगे

English

Therefore by giving, austerity and action one should increase the good fruit after doing evil, so as to have the excess.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्याप्रो भूत्वा जहीम॑ त्वं राजपुत्रमिति प्रभो

English

One should do good deeds in the matter of sinful deeds and give wealth always; thus he is freed from the offence.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सृंजयस्य सुतो वज्र यथैनं पर्वतो5ब्रवीत्

English

Expiation is declared corresponding to the sin; expiation is prescribed excepting the great sins.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हृष्ट: सान्त:पुरो राजा वननित्यो बभूव ह

English

In all matters of the edible and the forbidden, the speakable and unspeakable, O king, those who know allow distinctions between ignorance and knowledge.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धात्रीद्वितीयो बाल: स क्रीडार्थ पर्यधावत

English

A sin done knowingly becomes wholly heavy; for a fault in a lapse from ignorance, expiation is prescribed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

खेलनेके लिये गया और इधर-उधर दौड़ने लगा

English

Sin can be removed by the rule as stated; this rule is prescribed for the believing and faithful.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पृथ्वीपर गिर पड़ा। यह देखकर धाय चिल्ला उठी

English

This rule is never seen for unbelievers and faithless men, in whom the fault of hypocrisy predominates.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शार्टूलो देवराजस्य माययान्तर्हितस्तदा

English

The conduct of the good and the good one, best of those who uphold dharma, tiger among men, are to be followed by one who wishes happiness here and hereafter.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अभ्यधावत तं॑ देशं स्वयमेव महीपति:

English

You, O king, will be freed from sin by that former reason, whether in saving or in slaying them, or by action.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कुमारं विगतानन्दं निशाकरमिव च्युतम्

English

Or if you feel any disgust, you will perform expiation; but do not meet death by a deed practised by the ignoble."

हिन्दी अर्थ

थी। उसे कोई पलट नहीं सकता था

English

thee in which there is no need of arrows, of friends, of relatives and kinsmen, but which will have to be fought with thy mind alone. If thou givest up thy life-breath before conquering in this battle, then, assuming another body, thou shalt have to fight these very foes again. 4 Therefore, fight that battle this very day, O bull of Bharata's race, disregarding the concerns of thy body, and aided by thy own acts, conquer and identify with thy mind's foe. 5 If thou canst not win that battle, what wilt be thy condition?

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्राह्मणेषु तपो धर्म: स नित्यो वेदनिश्चित:

English

"What is edible and what forbidden, what is to be given and praised, and who is a worthy and who an unworthy recipient—tell me that, grandsire."

हिन्दी अर्थ

हठो वा वर्तते लोके कर्मजं वा फलं स्मृतम्

English

[Vyasa said:] "Here they recite this ancient history, the dialogue of the perfected with Manu, the Prajapati.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शुभाशुभफल चैते प्राप्तुवन्तीति मे मति:

English

Long ago the perfected, devoted to austerity and vows, gathered and asked about dharma the lord seated, the Prajapati of the beginning:

हिन्दी अर्थ

श्वशुरा गुरवश्चैव मातुलाश्न पितामहा:

English

'How is food, how is giving, how is study, how is austerity, and what is to be done and not done? Tell us all that, Prajapati.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

वयस्या भागिनेयाश्र ज्ञातयक्षु पितामह

English

Thus addressed, the revered Manu Svayambhuva said: 'Listen to dharma briefly, Vyasa, as it is.

हिन्दी अर्थ

घातिता राज्यलुब्धेन मयैकेन पितामह

English

Not taking what is not given, giving, study, austerity, non-violence, truth, freedom from anger, forbearance and sacrifice are the marks of dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

असकृत् सोमपान् वीरान् कि प्राप्स्पामि तपोधन

English

That which is dharma becomes adharma in the wrong place and time; taking, falsehood and violence are held to be dharma by circumstance.

हिन्दी अर्थ

थे, वैसे वीर भूपालोंका वध करके मैं कौन-सा फल पाऊँगा?

English

For those who know dharma and adharma, both are twofold: inaction and action—the twofold in the world and in the Veda.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चित्तं प्रसादयामास पितुर्मातुश्च वीर्यवान्

English

On the other hand, by winning it, O monarch, thou shalt have attained the great end of life. Applying thy intellect to this, and ascertaining the right and the wrong paths of creatures, follow thou the course adopted by thy sire before thee and govern properly thy kingdom. By good luck, O king, the sinful Duryodhana hath been stain with all his followers. By good luck, thou too hast attained to the condition of Draupadi's locks. I Perform with due rites and profuse presents the horse-sacrifice. We, are thy servants, O son of Pritha, as also Vasudeva of great energy!'"

हिन्दी अर्थ

माताके चित्तको प्रसन्न किया

English

with joy or depressed with grief.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वर्षाणां शतमेक॑ च सहस््रं भीमविक्रम:

English

before thee, why dost thou not then recollect the insult to your wife? The recollection of this insult will fill thee with wrath and convince thee that in slaying thy foes,~those insulters of thy wife—thou hast acted very properly.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तर्पयामास देवांश्व पितृश्वैव महाद्युति:

English

of the means of effecting thy salvation by sacrifice and gifts and other act, of piety, thou shalt have to he re-born and to renew this mental battle with thy doubts.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कालेन महता राजन् कालधर्ममुपेयिवान्

English

explained by Nilakantha as connected with paramavyaktarupasya. According to Nilakantha, this means that thou shouldst go to, i.e. conquer, and identify thyself with, the param or foe of that which is of unmanifest form, the mind; of course, this would mean that Yudhishthira should identify himself with his own soul, for it is the soul which is his foe and with which he is battling. Such conquest and identification implies the cessation of the battle and, hence, the attainment of tranquillity.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथा त्वां केशव: प्राह व्यासश्व॒ सुमहातपा:

English

Ten who know the Veda and scriptures, or three who recite dharma, what they say when a matter arises is dharma, in a doubt about dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इष्ट्वा पुण्यर्महायज्ञैरिष्ट लोकमवाप्स्यसि

English

Red earth, ants, the shleshmataka fruit, and poison are forbidden to Brahmanas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तपस्वी धर्मतत्त्वज्ञ: कृष्णद्वैपायनोडब्रवीत्

English

Fish without scales are forbidden to Brahmanas; of quadrupeds, other than the tortoise; frogs and water-creatures;

हिन्दी अर्थ

देख धर्मके तत्त्वको जाननेवाले तपोधन श्रीकृष्णद्वैपायनने कहा

English

bhasa birds, swans, Garuda-like birds, chakravakas, cranes, plavas, herons, madgu birds, vultures, kalolukas;

हिन्दी अर्थ

धर्म: प्रमाणं लोकस्य नित्यं धर्मनिवर्तिन:

English

all flesh-eating birds and tusked quadrupeds, those with teeth in both jaws and those with four tusks.

हिन्दी अर्थ

करो। तपस्या तो ब्राह्मणोंका नित्य धर्म है। यही वेदका निश्चय है

English

A Brahmana should not drink the milk of ewes, mares, she-asses, camels, cows that have just calved, women and deer.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्य धर्मस्य कृत्स्नस्य क्षत्रिय: परिरक्षिता

English

Food of the dead and of the newly delivered, anything unprepared, and milk of a cow before ten days, is not to be eaten or drunk.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स बाहुभ्यां विनिग्राह्मो लोकयात्राविधातक:

English

Food of a carpenter, a leather-cutter, an unchaste woman, a washerman, a physician, and a guard is not to be eaten.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भृत्यो वा यदि वा पुत्रस्तपस्वी वाथ कश्नन

English

Nor of those cursed by guilds or villages, those who live on the stage or on women, the married-before-elder, eunuchs, bards and gamblers.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अतोडन्यथा वर्तमानो राजा प्राप्रोति किल्बिषम्

English

Food brought when refused, sour, stale, accompanied by liquor, left over and remnants are not to be eaten.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धर्मकी रक्षा नहीं करता, वह राजा धर्मका घात करनेवाला है

English

Preparations of flour, meat, sugarcane and vegetables, and milk, barley meal, parched grain and gruel kept long are not to be eaten.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ते त्वया धर्महन्तारो निहता: सपदानुगा:

English

Payasa, krisara, meat and cakes made for no purpose are not to be eaten by householder Brahmanas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

राजा हि हन्याद् दद्याच्च प्रजा रक्षेच्च धर्मत:

English

Having worshipped gods, ancestors, men, sages and the household deities, the householder may then eat.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तानि कर्माणि मे ब्रह्मन् दहन्ति च पचन्ति च

English

As a mendicant who has gone forth lives, so a householder in his own house; living thus with dear wives he obtains dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मेरे वे ही कर्म मुझे जलाते और पकाते हैं

English

A righteous man should not give a gift for fame, nor from fear, nor to a benefactor, nor to those who dance, sing or jest.

हिन्दी अर्थ

फल इस रूपमें प्राप्त होनेके कारण प्रारब्ध ही कर्ता है?

English

Nor to the drunk or mad, nor to a thief or physician, nor to the speechless, discoloured, limb-deficient or dwarf.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कुरुते पुरुष: कर्म फलमीश्वरगामि तत्

English

Nor to a wicked man or one of bad family, or one not refined by vows; a gift to an unlearned Brahmana who does not expound Brahma is dead.

हिन्दी अर्थ

छेत्तुरेव भवेत् पापं परशोर्न कथठ्चन

English

What is given improperly and accepted improperly leads to harm for both, giver and taker.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कुल्हाड़ी चलानेवाले पुरुषको ही लगता है। कुल्हाड़ीको किसी प्रकार नहीं लगता

English

As one who clings to a khadira branch or a stone and crosses the sea sinks, so sink the giver and the receiver.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उत्तरदायित्व नहीं है

English

As fire spread with wet wood does not blaze, so the recipient lacking austerity, Vedic study and character.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्राप्रुयादिति यस्माच्च ईश्वरे तन्निवेशय

English

As water in a skull or milk in a dog's skin, so learning in one lacking conduct, through the fault of the vessel.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ईश्वरको ही सारे शुभाशुभ कर्मोका कर्तृत्व और फल सौंप दो

English

One who is without mantras, vows, scripture and free of envy, to him out of compassion one should give, even among the wretched.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न परो विद्यते तस्मादेवमेतच्छुभं कृतम्

English

Out of compassion one should not give even to a wretched wrongdoer; "It is the practice of the trustworthy" or "It is dharma"—that is the reason.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवमप्यशुभं कर्म न भूतं न भविष्यति

English

What is given to a Brahmana devoid of dharma is without cause, it is from the fault of an unworthy recipient; I have no doubt here.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अभिपन्नमिदं लोके राज्ञामुद्यतदण्डनम्

English

As a wooden elephant, as a leather deer, so is a Brahmana who has not studied; the three bear only the name.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्यज त्वं राजशार्दूल मैवं शोके मन: कृथा:

English

As a eunuch is fruitless among women, as a cow is fruitless with a cow, as a bird is wingless, so is a Brahmana without mantras.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवमात्मपरित्यागस्तव राजन् न शोभन:

English

As a village's grain is empty, as a well is waterless, as an oblation is in a fireless place, so is one rejected.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शरीरवांस्तानि कुर्यादशरीर: पराभवेत्

English

A fool who is a destroyer of the oblations for gods and ancestors, an enemy, a robber of wealth, cannot attain the worlds.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रायश्षित्तमकृत्वा तु प्रेत्य तप्तासि भारत

English

All this has been told to you as it was, Yudhishthira, briefly; this great matter is to be heard, bull of the Bharatas."

हिन्दी अर्थ

कोटिशश्व नरानन्यान् परितप्ये पितामह

English

had kept her locks dishevelled since the day they had been seized by Duhsasana. After the slaughter of the Kurus, those locks were bound up as before, or restored to their normal condition.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इसके लिये कोई विशेष आश्रम हो तो बताइये

English

"And how a king should apply policy in calamities, and how I may conquer the earth relying on the path of dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्राणियोंका वध करता है, वही उसका ईश्वरीय रूप है

English

This talk of expiation, expanded with edible and forbidden things and leading to curiosity, brings me a kind of joy.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हन्तव्यास्ते दुरात्मानो देवैर्हैत्या इवोल्बणा:

English

The practice of dharma and kingship are ever opposed, and my mind is bewildered by constant thought of it."

हिन्दी अर्थ

बार अश्वमेध यज्ञका अनुष्ठान किया। इससे वे “शतक्रतु' नामसे विख्यात हो गये

English

[Vaishampayana said:] Greatly radiant Vyasa, best of those who know the Veda, looking at Narada, knowing all that was ancient, said to him:

हिन्दी अर्थ

मरुदगणैर्वृत: शक्र: शुशुभे भासयन् दिश:

English

"If you wish to hear dharma in full, Yudhishthira, go to Bhishma, mighty-armed, the old grandsire of the Kurus.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऋषय: पर्युपासन्ते देवाश्न विबुधेश्वरम्

English

He will cut the doubts in your mind concerning all secrets, the son of Bhagirathi, omniscient, knower of all dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

और महर्षि भी उपासना करते हैं

English

Born of the divine river Ganga who goes by three paths, who saw directly all the gods led by Shakra,

हिन्दी अर्थ

बलसे समस्त राजाओंको परास्त किया है

English

and the divine sages led by Brihaspati, often, the lord, pleasing them by service, learned the science of kingship.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विहीनानां तु तनयै: पतिभि भ्रातृभिस्तथा

English

Whatever scripture Ushanas knows, the twice-born teacher of gods and asuras, that all the best of the Kurus obtained, with its explanation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्त्रियोंकी आज क्‍या दशा होगी?

English

From Bhargava Chyavana he learned the Vedas with their supplements, wise as he is, and from Vasishtha of strict vows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आक्रोशन्त्य: कृशा दीना: प्रपतिष्यन्ति भूतले

English

He studied of old with the eldest son of the Grandsire, the shining Kumara, who knows the truth of the course of the Self.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पृथ्वीपर पछाड़ खा-खाकर गिरेंगी

English

From Markandeya's mouth he obtained the entire ascetic dharma, and from Rama and Shakra weapons, bull of the Bharatas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्यक्त्वा प्राणान् स्त्रिय: सर्वा गमिष्यन्ति यमक्षयम्

English

He whose death came by his own wish, though born among men, and who, childless, has holy worlds in heaven, as heard.

हिन्दी अर्थ

और यमलोकमें चली जायूँगी

English

In whose assembly holy Brahmin-sages were always present, and for whom nothing is unknown among things to be known and known.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्यक्त सौक्ष्म्याच्च धर्मस्य प्राप्स्याम: स्त्रीवधं वयम्

English

That knower of dharma, knower of subtle dharma and the truth of wealth, will tell you; go to him before he gives up his life."

हिन्दी अर्थ

नारीहत्याके पापका भागी होना पड़ेगा

English

Thus addressed, the son of Kunti, of long insight and great splendour, said to Vyasa, son of Satyavati, best of speakers:

हिन्दी अर्थ

सकता; अतः हमें नीचे सिर करके निस्संदेह नरकमें ही गिरना पड़ेगा

English

"Having made a very great, hair-raising slaughter of kinsmen, the doer of a wrong to the whole world, destroyer of the earth,

हिन्दी अर्थ

आश्रमाणां विशेषं त्वमथाचक्ष्व पितामह

English

having had him slain in the battle by trickery, that straight fighter, for what reason should I dare to approach him?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

निरीक्ष्य निपुणं बुद्धया ऋषि: प्रोवाच पाण्डवम्

English

Then the mighty-armed, greatly radiant best of the Yadus again said to that best of kings, wishing the good of the four classes:

हिन्दी अर्थ

पश्चात् उन पाण्डुकुमारसे कहा

English

"Now you ought not to persist too strongly in grief; do what the revered Vyasa says, best of kings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वधर्मेण हता होते क्षत्रिया: क्षत्रियर्षभ

English

The Brahmanas and your mighty brothers wait on you, mighty-armed one, hoping like the sun-tormented for the rain-god.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विषाद न करो; क्योंकि ये सभी क्षत्रिय अपने धर्मके अनुसार मारे गये हैं

English

The remaining kings are slain and the whole four-class realm has come together, great king, your Kurujangala kingdom.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यमराजके विधानसे प्रेरित हो कालके गालमें चले गये हैं

English

For the pleasure of these great-souled Brahmanas and at the command of the teacher Vyasa of immeasurable splendour,

हिन्दी अर्थ

काल: पर्यायधर्मेण प्राणानादत्त देहिनाम्

English

and for the sake of friends such as ourselves, and of Draupadi, scorcher of foes, do what is dear and do what is good for the world."

हिन्दी अर्थ

बारी-बारीसे आकर अपने नियमके अनुसार उन सभी देहधारियोंके प्राण लिये हैं

English

Thus addressed by Krishna, the lotus-eyed king, the great ascetic, rose for the welfare of all the world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कर्मसाक्षी प्रजानां यस्तेन कालेन संहृता:

English

Persuaded by Vistarashravas himself, tiger among men, and by Dvaipayana, and by Devasthana and Jishnu,

हिन्दी अर्थ

कर्मका साक्षी है, उसी कालने तुम्हारे शत्रुओंका संहार किया है

English

persuaded by these and many others, the high-minded Yudhishthira cast off mental sorrow and anguish.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यद्धन्ति भूतैर्भूतानि तदस्मै रूपमैश्वरम्

English

Learned in what is heard, a treasure of the heard, skilled in all that is to be heard, the delight of Pandu resolved and attained peace of mind.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुखदुःखगुणोदर्क कालं कालफलप्रदम्

English

Surrounded by them like the moon by stars, the king entered his own city, putting Dhritarashtra before him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विनाशहेतुकानि त्वं यैस्ते कालवशं गता:

English

Wishing to enter, the righteous son of Kunti, Yudhishthira, honoured the gods and thousands of Brahmanas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यदा त्वमीदृशं कर्म विधिना55क्रम्प कारित:

English

Then he mounted a new, bright chariot covered with blankets and deerskins, yoked with sixteen white, auspicious-marked oxen,

हिन्दी अर्थ

कर्मणा कालयुक्तेन तथेदं चेष्टते जगत्

English

honoured with holy mantras and praised by great sages, as the god Soma his nectar-made chariot.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तदर्थमिष्यते राजन प्रायश्षित्तं तदाचर

English

The son of Kunti, Bhima of terrible valour, took the reins; Arjuna held the white umbrella, sun-bright.

हिन्दी अर्थ

असुरा भ्रातरो ज्येष्ठा देवाश्नापि यवीयस:

English

That white umbrella held over his head shone like the moon among the stars, like cloud in the sky.

हिन्दी अर्थ

युद्ध वर्षमहस्राणि द्वात्रिंशभवत् किल

English

The two heroes, sons of Madri, adorned, held the white chowries, radiant like moonbeams.

हिन्दी अर्थ

डाला और स्वर्गलोक पर अधिकार कर लिया

English

Those five brothers, mounted on the chariot, adorned, appeared then like all the elements, O king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

संश्रिता दानवानां वै साहार्थ दर्पमोहिता:

English

Mounting a bright chariot yoked with swift horses, Yuyutsu followed behind, O king, the elder of the Pandavas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अष्टाशीतिसहस्राणि ते चापि विबुधैर्हता:

English

Krishna, with Satyaki, mounted a bright golden chariot yoked with Sainya and Sugriva and followed the Kurus.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धर्मश्चाधर्मरूपो5स्ति तच्च ज्ञेयं विपक्षिता

English

The eldest (Dhritarashtra), borne by men, went with Gandhari in front of Partha's father (Dharmaraja).

हिन्दी अर्थ

देवै: पूर्वगतं मार्गमनुयातो5सि भारत

English

And all the Kuru women, Kunti, Krishna Draupadi, went in vehicles high and low, led by Vidura.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भ्रातृनाश्वासयैतांस्त्वं सुहृदक्ष परंतप

English

Then many chariots and adorned elephants, foot-soldiers and horses followed behind.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भाइयों और सुहृदोंको आश्वासन दो

English

Then praised by bards, charioteers and Magadhas with fine words, the king went to the city of Nagasahvaya (Hastinapura).

हिन्दी अर्थ

कुर्वन्नपि तथैव स्यात् कृत्वा च निरपत्रप:

English

That procession of the mighty-armed one was incomparable on earth, crowded, overflowing, filled with glad and well-fed people.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रायश्षित्तं न तस्यास्ति हासो वा पापकर्मण:

English

For Partha's entry, the people of the city had duly adorned the city and the royal road.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनिच्छमान: कर्मेदं कृत्वा च परितप्यसे

English

The royal road was covered with white garlands, banners and platforms, and well perfumed with incense.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निरन्तर पश्चात्ताप ही कर रहे हो

English

With powders of fragrance and various flowers and priyangu, and with garlands hung, the royal palace was surrounded.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तमाहर महाराज विपाप्मैवं भविष्यसि

English

At the city gate were set firm new jars filled with water, maidens, flowers and goats here and there.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एकैकं क्रतुमाहृत्य शतकृत्व: शतक्रतु:

English

Thus the son of Pandu, praised with auspicious words, surrounded by friends, entered the city with its gates adorned.