Shanti Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

भी वे बदलेमें मारना नहीं चाहते हैं न चातीतानि शोचन्ति न चैव प्रतिजानते

English

such a mansion. Agnidhras are those priests that have charge of the celestial fires.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ले। फिर वह प्रकृतिसे परे अविनाशी ब्रह्मपदको प्राप्त हो जाता है

English

[Jajali said:] "From farming food comes, and you too live by it; mortals live by cattle and herbs; and trade.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुवाक्य श्चाप्यनीर्ष्यश्व॒ तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजित: उत्तम वचन बोलनेवाले तथा ईष्यसे रहित हैं; इसीलिये उनकी सर्वत्र पूजा हुई है

English

From which sacrifice arises; you also babble of unbelief; for this world would not go on if it gave up livelihood entirely."

हिन्दी अर्थ

और परम प्रिय आत्मतत्त्वके ज्ञाता हैं; फिर कौन उन्हें अपना प्रिय नहीं बनायेगा?

English

[Tuladhara said:] "I shall tell you my livelihood, Jajali; I am not a brahmana, nor an unbeliever; I do not blame sacrifice, but a knower of sacrifice is very hard to find.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यही बात आपसे पूछता हूँ। आप मुझे बताइये भरद्वाजस्य विप्रर्षेस्ततो मे बुद्धिरुत्तमा

English

Honour to the brahmana's sacrifice, and to those who know sacrifice; leaving their own sacrifice, brahmanas here have taken the kshatriya's sacrifice.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुनकर मुझे उत्तम बुद्धि प्राप्त हुई थी

English

By the greedy, wealth-intent unbelievers, brahmana, it was introduced, not understanding the Vedic words, like falsehood that looks like truth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततो भूयस्तु पृच्छामि तद् भवान् वक्तुमरहति आप इस विषयका वर्णन करनेकी कृपा करें

English

"This is to be given, this is to be given": it has no end; hence theft arises and wrong deeds, Jajali. That alone is a good offering with which the gods are pleased.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उपदेश दिया था, वही प्राचीन इतिहास मैं दुहराऊँगा

English

Honour of the gods is with salutation, oblation, study and herbs, as the shastra shows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पप्रच्छ संदेहमिमं छिन्नधर्मार्थसंशयम् ब्राह्मणस्य च यत् कृत्यं तद् भवान् वक्तुमरहति

English

From sacrifice and gifts of the wicked, subjects of uneven kind are born; from the greedy a greedy one is born, from the even, an even one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथोपपपत्ति कुर्वन्ति शक्तिमन्त: कृतव्रता:

English

As the sacrificer is himself, so are the priests and the subjects; from sacrifice come subjects, like pure water from the sky.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मनसा कर्मणा वाचा नापराध्यन्ति करहिचित् न च जातूपतप्यन्ते धीरा: परसमृद्धिभि:

English

An offering thrown in the fire, brahmana, reaches the sun; from the sun rain is born; from rain food, then the subjects.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुरुष दूसरोंकी समृद्धियोंसे कभी मन-ही-मन जलते नहीं हैं

English

Therefore from what the earlier ones rightly practised they obtained all desires; the earth gave without ploughing, plants grew by blessings. They see no fruit in sacrifices or in themselves.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न च निन्दाप्रशंसाभ्यां विक्रियन्ते कदाचन न क्रुद्धयन्ति न हृष्यन्ति नापराध्यन्ति करह्िचित्

English

Those who in any way sacrifice with doubt about the fruit in sacrifice are born wicked, rogues, greedy, with wealth as their aim.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न येषां बान्धवा: सन्ति ये चान्येषां न बान्धवा:

English

He who does inauspicious deeds goes to the worlds of sinners; he who does evil with the authority of the non-authority is sinful, of untrained wisdom, always here, best of the twice-born.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ये हातो विच्युता मार्गात् ते हृष्यन्त्युद्धिजन्ति च जाते हैं, उन्हें ही हर्ष-उद्वेग आदि प्राप्त होते हैं

English

The brahmana who knows "this is to be done" as to be done, in both ways, lives in Brahman alone in the world and does not return to what is to be done.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निन्द्यमान: प्रशस्तो वा हृष्ये5हं केन हेतुना

English

We have heard that an act with defect is better still; yet harm to all beings and restraint when there is fruit.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न मे निन्दाप्रशंसाभ्यां हासवृद्धी भविष्यत: लाभ उठा लें। उस निन्दा और प्रशंसासे न मेरी कोई हानि होगी, न लाभ

English

Those whose sacrifices were truth, whose sacrifices were self-control, ungreedy, satisfied in the self, all abandoning what had arisen, were without envy.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विषस्येवोद्धिजेन्नित्यं सम्मानस्य विचक्षण:

English

Knowing the truth of field and the knower of field, devoted to their own sacrifice, reading the Brahmic Veda, they satisfy even the immortals.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एतद् व्रतं समाश्रित्य सुखमेधन्ति ते जना: प्राप्नोति ब्रह्मण: स्थान यत्परं प्रकृतेर्धुवम्

English

All deity, everything, Brahman rests in the brahmana; when he is satisfied the gods are satisfied, satisfied in him who is satisfied, Jajali.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गन्धर्व, न पिशाच कर पाते हैं और न राक्षस ही गुणै: सर्वैरुपेतश्न॒ को न्वस्ति भुवि मानव:

English

As one satisfied by all tastes does not delight in anything, so one satisfied by wisdom is ever satisfied, with satisfaction giving rise to happiness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उग्रसेनस्य संवादं नारदे केशवस्य च

English

Delighting in dharma, happy in dharma, wholly resolved, seeking wisdom: "There is more in truth for us."

हिन्दी अर्थ

संवाद सुनाता हूँ, जो नारदजीके विषयमें हुआ था मन्ये स गुणसम्पन्नो ब्रूहि तन्मम पृच्छत:

English

Some knowers of knowledge, wishing to cross to the far shore, are ever exceedingly holy, of holy birth and joined with it,

हिन्दी अर्थ

नारदस्य गुणान् साधून् संक्षेपेण नराधिप

English

to which having gone they do not grieve, nor fall nor suffer; those good-natured ones reach that seat of Brahma here.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अभिन्नश्रुतचारित्रस्तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजित: करनेवाला है। उसके न होनेसे ही नारदजीकी सर्वत्र पूजा (प्रतिष्ठा) होती है

English

They do not wish for heaven, nor sacrifice for fame and wealth; they follow the path of the good with non-violence as they are able.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अदीर्घसूत्र: शूरश्न॒ तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजित:

English

They know plants and herbs, fruits and roots; but greedy priests, seeking wealth, do not sacrifice with these.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कामतो यदि वा लोभात् तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजित: अपनी बात पलटी नहीं जाती; इसीलिये उनका सर्वत्र सम्मान होता है

English

Doing their own work, the twice-born again made sacrifice, their work complete, wishing to favour the subjects.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऋजुश्न सत्यवादी च तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजित:

English

"The subjects would reach heaven by practising their own dharma": this is my view, equal everywhere, Jajali.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सत्यवादी हैं। इसीलिये वे सर्वत्र पूजे जाते हैं जन्मना तपसा वृद्धस्तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजित:

English

What the wise ever use in sacrifice, best of the twice-born, by that they go by the path of the gods, great sage.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इसीलिये उनकी सर्वत्र पूजा होती है

English

There, for one there is return; for the wise there is none; both go by the path of the gods, Jajali.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न प्रीयते परानर्थस्तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजित:

English

The oxen of theirs are yoked and draw of themselves, and the cows are milked of themselves, by success of mental intention.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तितिक्षुरनवज्ञाता तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजित: किसीकी अवज्ञा नहीं करते हैं; इसीलिये उनकी सर्वत्र पूजा होती है

English

They themselves take up the sacrificial posts and sacrifice with fees they have obtained; one whose self is so formed deserves to take up a cow.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मनोनुकूलवादी च तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजित:

English

Brahmana, they would sacrifice with herbs; not such as they; putting forward the giving up of intellect, I tell you of such.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ही है। वे मनके अनुकूल बोलते हैं, इसलिये सर्वत्र उनका आदर होता है अदीनोडक्रोधनोलुब्धस्तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजित:

English

Without hope, without undertaking, without salutation or praise, with deeds spent and unspent: the gods know him as a brahmana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लोभ आदि दोषणसे वे सर्वथा रहित हैं; इसीलिये उनका सर्वत्र सम्मान होता है

English

Not reciting, not sacrificing, not giving to brahmanas, wishing a village livelihood: what goal does he reach, Jajali? Making this a deity, one may gain sacrifice."

हिन्दी अर्थ

वीतसम्मोहदोषश्न तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजित: अदीर्घसंशयो वाग्मी तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजित:

English

[Jajali said:] "We do not hear the truth of the sages; I ask you, trader, who is he? Those before did not look to this; beyond this the sages do not establish him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उनकी सर्वत्र पूजा होती है

English

In this very holy place of the self animals could not gain happiness; then by what action of his own may one gain happiness? Tell me that, greatly wise one; I have great faith in you."

हिन्दी अर्थ

अर्नीर्ष्मुदुसंवादस्तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजित: संसर्गविद्याकुशलस्तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजित:

English

[Tuladhara said:] "Sacrifices and non-sacrifices do not deserve the rite anywhere; with ghee, milk, curds and with a full oblation especially; with hair, horn and foot the cow becomes the rite.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इसीलिये वे सर्वत्र पूजित होते हैं

English

By this rule one accomplishes it, engaging the wife; the sacrificial cake of all animals is called pure.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नित्ययुक्तो5प्रमत्तश्न तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजित: कालज्ञं च प्रियज्ञं च क: प्रियं न करिष्यति

English

All rivers are Sarasvatis, all rocky heights are holy, Jajali; the self alone is the holy place; do not be a guest of places.

हिन्दी अर्थ

युगोंमें मनुष्योंकी कितनी आयु होती है? सर्गश्न निधनं चैव कुत एतत् प्रवर्तते

English

Practising such dharmas here, Jajali, seeking dharma by reasons, one does not gain good worlds."

हिन्दी अर्थ

एतदू भवन्तं पृच्छामि तद् भवानू प्रब्रवीतु मे

English

[Bhishma said:] "Tuladhara praises these and such dharmas, ever practised by the good and endowed with reasoning."

हिन्दी अर्थ

बातें आप बतानेकी कृपा करें

English

"Bhishma said, 'In this connection is cited the old story of the battle between Pratardana and the ruler of Mithila. The ruler of Mithila, viz., Janaka, after installation in the sacrifice of battle, gladdened all his troops (on the eve of fight). Listen to me, O as I recite the story. Janaka, the high souled king of Mithila, conversant with the truth of everything, showed both heaven and hell unto his own warriors. He addressed them, saying, 'Behold, these are the regions, endued with great splendour, for those that fight fearlessly. Full of Gandharva girls, those regions are eternal and capable of granting every wish. There, on the other side, are the regions of hell, intended for those that fly away from battle. They would have to rot there for eternity in everlasting ingloriousness. Resolved upon casting away your very lives, do ye conquer your foes. Do not fall into inglorious hell. The laying down of life, (in battle) constitutes, in respect of heroes, their happy door of heaven.' Thus addressed by their king, O subjugator of hostile towns, the warriors of Mithila, gladdening their rulers, vanquished their foes in battle. They that are of firm souls should take their stand in the van of battle. The car-warriors should be placed in the midst of elephants. Behind the car-warriors should stand the horsemen. Behind the last should be placed the foot- soldiers all accoutred in mail. That king who forms his array in this manner always succeeds in vanquishing his foes. Therefore, O Yudhishthira, the array of battle should always be thus formed. Filled with rage, heroes desire to will blessedness in heaven by

हिन्दी अर्थ

नाधर्मेणागम: कश्चित् परस्तस्य प्रवर्तते चौर्यकानृतमायाभिर धर्म श्वोपचीयते

English

[Tuladhara said:] "These many sparrows move about on every side, born on your head, and hawks and other kinds.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सहस्रपरिवर्त तद् ब्राह्मं दिवसमुच्यते मान्यता है। एक सहस्र चतुर्युगको ब्रह्माका एक दिन बताया जाता है

English

Call them, great Brahmin, entering here and there; see them clinging to your hands, feet and body everywhere.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रलये ध्यानमाविश्य सुप्त्वा सोन्ते विबुद्धयते

English

Birds honoured by you honour you as their father; without doubt you are their father; call your sons, Jajali."

हिन्दी अर्थ

एकत्रिशदधिकद्विशततमो ध्याय: एकस्य ब्रह्मुभूतस्य द्ववं स्थावरजड्रमम्

English

[Bhishma said:] Then, called by that Jajali, the birds uttered a divine voice, at the command of dharma:

हिन्दी अर्थ

दूरगं बहुधागामि प्रार्थनासंशयात्मकम्

English

"A deed such as non-violence, done here and hereafter: rivalry kills it, brahmana, and being killed it kills the man.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अभिभूत करके सात- मानस ऋषियोंकी सृष्टि करता है आकाशं जायते तस्मात् तस्य शब्दं गुणं विदु:

English

Faith, aged, speech and mind: sacrifice cannot save. Here the sages of old recite verses sung of Brahman.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बलवान जायते वायुस्तस्य स्पर्शो गुणो मत:

English

The gods thought the heart of the pure one without faith and of the faithful one impure was the same in sacrifice.

हिन्दी अर्थ

'स्पर्श! माना गया है रोचिष्णु जायते शुक्र तद्रूपगुणमुच्यते

English

Having examined both, a learned priest and a miser, a generous man and a usurer, the gods ordained the food as equal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अतीतानागते विद्वान सर्वज्ञ: सर्वधर्मवित् प्रकार उपदेश किया

English

fighting fairly. Like Makaras agitating the ocean, they agitate the ranks of the foe. Assuring one another, they should gladden those (amongst them) that are cheerless. The victor should protect the land newly conquered (from acts of aggression). He should not cause his troops to pursue too much the routed foe. The onset is irresistible of persons that rally after the rout and that, despairing of safety, assail their pursuers. For this reason, O king, thou shouldst not cause thy troops to pursue too much the routed roe. Warriors of courage do not wish to strike them that run away with speed. That is another reason why the routed foe should not be pursued hotly. Things that are immobile are devoured by those that are mobile; creatures that are toothless are devoured by those that have teeth; water is drunk by the thirsty; cowards are devoured by heroes. Cowards sustain defeat though they have, like the victors, similar backs and stomachs and arms and legs. They that are afflicted with fear bend their heads and joining their hands stay before those that are possessed of courage. This world rests on the arms of heroes like a son on those of his sire. He, therefore, that is a hero deserves respect under every circumstance. There is nothing higher in the three worlds than heroism. The hero protects and cherishes all, and all things depend upon the hero.'"

हिन्दी अर्थ

अमर, ध्रुव, अविकारी, अतर्क्य और ज्ञानातीत ब्रह्म ही रहता है

English

The faithless alone does not deserve the offering of the gods; his food should not be eaten, so the knowers of dharma know.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भाग: कलाया दशमश्न यः स्यात् संख्याविदो दक्षिणमुत्तरं च

English

Faithlessness is the greatest sin; faith frees from sin; the faithful gives up sin as a snake its old skin."

हिन्दी अर्थ

रात्रि: स्वप्लाय भूतानां चेष्टायै कर्मणामह:

English

The turning away from the impure with faith is better; he who has turned from faults of character and has faith is pure indeed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

और दिन काम करनेके लिये शुक्लो5ह: कर्मचेष्टायां कृष्ण: स्पप्नाय शर्वरी

English

What need has he of austerity, of conduct, of self? This person is made of faith; whoever has faith, he is that.

हिन्दी अर्थ

करनेके लिये दिन है और कृष्णपक्ष उनके विश्रामके लिये रात है

English

Thus dharma has been declared by the good who see the aims of dharma; we, wishing to know, have come to you to see dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अहस्तत्रोदगयन रात्रि: स्याद् दक्षिणायनम् इस प्रकार है। उत्तरायण उनका दिन है और दक्षिणायन उनकी रात्रि

English

Give up rivalry, greatly wise one; then you will gain the highest; the trader, faithful and trusting, established in his own path, is the greater, Jajali."

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्य तावच्छती संध्या संध्यांशक्ष तथाविध:

English

Thus was spoken by Tuladhara a matter held in high esteem; and thus was he rightly rebuked, and eternal dharma was told.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एक पादेन हीयन्ते सहस्राणि शतानि च क्रमश: एक-एक चौथाई घटती जाती है-

English

Hearing the words of Tuladhara of renowned valour, that twice-born, Kaunteya, attained peace.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एतद् ब्रह्माविदां तात विदितं ब्रह्म शाश्वतम्

English

Then in no long time Tuladhara and he, the two greatly wise ones, going to heaven, took their pleasure happily, each gone to his own place won by the fruit of his own deeds.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कृते त्रेतायुगे त्वेषां पादशो हसते वय:

English

For those who do what is called sacrifice, equal, faithful, restrained, of good mind, sacrifice is never unfit.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आयूंषि चाशिषश्चैव वेदस्यैव च यत्फलम् अन्ये कलियुगे नृणां युगहासानुरूपत:

English

Faith is indeed the goddess of goodness, daughter of the sun, king, Savitri, the mother, and the one who trusts life.

हिन्दी अर्थ

द्वापरे यज्ञमेवाहुर्दानमेक॑ कलौ युगे

English

Faith protects the aged in speech and in mind, Bharata, as taught by this comparison; what more do you wish to hear?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

पञ्चमहाभूतोंकी सृष्टि बतायी जाती है

English

" Yudhishthira said, 'Tell me, O grandsire, how kings desirous of victory should, O bull of Bharata's race, lead their troops to battle even by offending slightly against the rules of righteousness!'

हिन्दी अर्थ

शरीराश्रयणं प्राप्तास्तत: पुरुष उच्यते तमाविशन्ति भूतानि महान्ति सह कर्मणा

English

Seeing the bull with cut sinews and the cows crying out greatly, in the seizure of cows at the sacrifice, that king, looking on,

हिन्दी अर्थ

आदिकर्ता स भूतानां तमेवाहु: प्रजापतिम्

English

said, "Good luck to the cows in the worlds!" Then a derivation was made: when violence had begun, this blessing was devised.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततः स सृजति ब्रह्मा देवर्षिपितृमानवान् अव्ययं च व्ययं चैव द्वयं स्थावरजज्रमम्

English

Violence has been declared by men who have no fixed limits, the deluded, unbelievers, doubting, obscure.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तान्येव प्रतिपाद्यन्ते सृज्यमाना: पुनः पुन:

English

Manu, the righteous-souled, said that all action is non-violence toward oneself; out of desire and passion men kill animals outside the altar.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कारण वैसे ही कर्म करने लगते हैं तद्धाविता: प्रपद्यन्ते तस्मात् तत् तस्य रोचते

English

Therefore dharma, being subtle, must be known by one who knows with authority; non-violence alone is held greater than all dharmas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विनियोगं च भूतानां धातैव विदधात्युत

English

Having fasted, sharpened, and given up the scriptural rules made in the Veda, the wretched, seeking fruit, call what is misconduct "conduct."

हिन्दी अर्थ

कार्योमें नियुक्ति है, इन सबका विधान विधाता ही करते हैं हैवमित्यपरे विप्रा: स्वभावं भूतचिन्तका:

English

If men eat meat in vain, with sacrifices, trees and posts as their pretext, this dharma is not praised.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्रय एतेडपृथग्भूता न विवेक॑ तु केचन

English

Meat, honey, liquor, fish, spirits and rice with sesame were introduced by rogues; this is not laid down in the Vedas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तेषां यावद् यथा यच्च तत्तत् तावदगुणं स्मृतम् है, उसके गुण भी उतने ही समयतक रहते हैं

English

"Bhishma said: 'Some say that righteousness is made stable by truth; some, by reasoning: so me, by good behaviour; and some, by the application of means and contrivances. 1 1 shall presently tell thee what the means and contrivances, productive of immediate fruit, are. Robbers, transgressing all wholesome bounds, very often become destroyers of property and religious merit. For resisting and restraining them. I shall tell thee what the contrivances are, as indicated in the scriptures. Listen to me as I speak of those means for the success of all acts. Both kinds of wisdom, straight and crooked, should be within call of the king. Though acquainted with it, he should not, however, apply that wisdom which is crooked (for injuring others). He may use it for

हिन्दी अर्थ

पृथिव्यामेव तं॑ विद्यादपां वायोश्व संश्रितम्

English

resisting the dangers that may overtake him. Enemies frequently injure a king by producing disunion (among his ministers or troops or allies or subjects). The king, conversant with deceit, may, by the aid of deceit, counteract those enemies. Leathern armour for protecting the bodies of elephants, armour of the same material for bovine bulls, bones, thorns, and keen-pointed weapons made of iron, coats of mail, yak-tails, sharp and well-tempered weapons, all kinds of armour, yellow and red, banners and standards of diverse hues, swords, and lances and scimitars of great sharpness and battle-axes, and spears and shields, should be manufactured and stored in abundance. The weapons should all be properly whetted. The soldiers should be inspired with courage and resolution. It is proper to set the troops in motion in the month of Chaitra or Agrahayana. The crops ripen about that time and water also does not become scarce. That time of the year, O Bharata, is neither very cold nor very hot. Troops should, therefore, be moved at that time. If the enemy, however, be overtaken by distress, troops should immediately be set in motion (without waiting for such a favourable time). These (two) are the best occasions for the motion of troops with a view to subjugate foes. That road which has abundance of water and grass along it, which is level and easy of march, should be adopted (in moving the troops). The regions lying near the road (on both its sides) should previously be well ascertained through spies possessed of skill and having an intimate knowledge of the woods. The troops must not, like animals, be marched through woody regions. Kings desirous of victory should, therefore, adopt good roads for marching their troops. In the van should be placed a division of brave men, endued with strength and high birth. As regards forts, that which has walls and a trench full of water on every side and only one entrance, is worthy of praise. In respect of invading foes, resistance may be offered from within it. In pitching the camp, a region lying near the woods is regarded as much better than one under the open sky by men conversant with war and possessed of military accomplishments. The camp should be pitched for the troops not far from such a wood. Pitching the camp at such a place, planting the foot-soldiers in a position of safety, and collision

हिन्दी अर्थ

तो वह आगन्तुककी भाँति स्थित होता है नाशवनुवन् प्रजा: स्रष्टमसमागम्य कृत्स्नश:

English

[Yudhishthira said:] "The body and calamities dispute with one who is non-violent; how will the maintenance of the body of one who undertakes nothing succeed?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

तबतक उनमें प्रजाकी सृष्टि करनेकी शक्ति नहीं आयी

English

[Bhishma said:] "Let him act in works so that the body does not waste away and does not fall under the power of death; being capable, he should practise dharma."

हिन्दी अर्थ

हैं। इनका अलग-अलग होना कार्यकी सिद्धिका हेतु नहीं होता है कर्मस्था विषयं ब्रूयु: सत्त्वस्था: समदर्शिन:

English

with the foe as soon as he comes, are the means for warding off danger and distress. Keeping the constellation called Ursa Major l behind them, the troops should fight taking up their stand like hills. By this means, one may vanquish even foes that are irresistible. The troops should be placed in such a position that the wind, the sun, and the planet Sukra 2 should blow and shine from behind them. As means for ensuing victory the wind is superior to the Sun, and the Sun is superior to Sukra, O Yudhishthira. Men conversant with war approve of a region that is not miry, not watery, not uneven, and not abounding with bricks and stone, as well-fitted for the operations of cavalry. A field that is free from mire and holes is fitted for car- warriors. A region that is overgrown with bushes and large trees and that is under water is fitted for elephant- warriors.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सृज्यन्ते जड़मस्थानि तथा धर्मा युगे युगे

English

[Bhishma said:] "Here too they cite this ancient tale of Chirakarin, which took place long ago in the family of Angiras.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्वमेवेदमापूर्य तिष्ठन्ति च चरन्ति च तरंगें उठने लगती हैं। वह सम्पूर्ण विश्वको अपनेमें निमग्न करके लहराता रहता है

English

"Chirakarin, good luck to you; good luck to you, Chirakarin; for the wise Chirakarin does not err in his actions."

हिन्दी अर्थ

बोध्यं विद्यामयं दृष्टवा योगिभि: परमात्मभि:

English

Chirakarin, greatly wise, was the son of Gautama; the thoughtful one comes to all tasks after a long time.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न वृथा प्रतिगृह्लीयान्न च दद्यात् कथंचन यदा55गच्छेद् यजेद् दद्यान्नैको5श्रीयात् कथंचन

English

Thinking long on matters, long awake, long asleep, from reaching his tasks late, he is so called, Chirakarin.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वर्गलोक प्राप्त कर लिया था

English

He was called a dullard, taken as lazy, by people of light mind and short sight.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवं धर्मेण वर्तेत क्रियां शिष्टवदाचरेत् सद्भ्य आगतविज्ञान: शिष्ट: शास्त्रविचक्षण:

English

Once, in some case of misconduct, his father, angered, passing over his other sons, told him, "Kill this mother."

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऋतवाड्मोक्षतीरेण विहिंसातरुवाहिना

English

He said "so be it" after a long time, from his nature as Chirakarin; reflecting, from being a slow doer, he thought long.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धात्रा सृष्टानि भूतानि कृष्यन्ते यमसादनम् प्लवैरप्लववन्तो हि कि करिष्यन्त्यचेतस:

English

"How shall I do my father's command? How shall I not kill my mother? How can I escape this trap of dharma without becoming wicked?

हिन्दी अर्थ

तेन सर्वानिवाप्नोति यान् कामान् मनसेच्छति

English

A region that has many inaccessible spots, that is overgrown with large trees and topes of cane bushes, as also a mountainous or woody tract, is well-fitted for the operations of infantry. An army, O Bharata, which has a large infantry force, is regarded very strong. An army in which cars and horsemen predominate is regarded to be very effective in a clear (unrainy) day. An army, again; in which footsoldiers and elephants predominate becomes effective in the rainy season. Having attended to these points (about the characters of the different kinds of forces and the manner of marching, quartering, and leading them), the king should turn his attention to the characteristics of place and time. That king, who having attended to all these considerations, sets out under a proper constellation and on an auspicious lunation, always succeeds in obtaining victory by properly leading his troops. No one should slay those that are asleep or thirsty or fatigued, or those whose accoutrements have fallen away, or one that has set his heart on final emancipation, l or one that is flying away, or one that is walking (unprepared) along a road, or one engaged in drinking or eating, or one that is mad, or one that is insane, or one that has been wounded mortally, or one that has been exceedingly weakened by his wounds, or one that is staying trustfully, or one that has begun any task without having been able to complete it, 2 or one that is skilled in some especial art (as mining, etc.), or one that is in grief, or one that goes out of the camp for procuring forage or fodder, or men who set up camps or are camp-followers, or those that wait at the gates of the king or of his ministers, or those that do menial services (unto the chiefs of the army), or those that are chiefs of such servants. Those amongst thy warriors that break the rank of foes, or rally thy retreating troops, should have their pay doubled and should be honoured by thee with food, drink, and seats equal to thy own. Those amongst such that are chiefs of ten soldiers should be made chiefs of a hundred. That heedful hero again (amongst them) who is the chief of a hundred soldiers should be made the chief of a thousand. Collecting together the principal warriors, they should be addressed, thus: 'Let us swear to conquer, and never to desert one another. Let those that are inspired with fear stay here. Let those also stay here that would cause their chiefs to be slain by themselves neglecting to act heroically in the press of battle. Let such men come as would never break away from battle or cause their own comrades to be slain. Protecting their own selves as also their comrades, they are certain to slay the enemy in fight. The consequence of flying away from battle are loss of wealth, death, infamy, and reproach. Disagreeable and cutting speeches have to be heard by that man who flies away from battle, who loses his lips and teeth, 3 who throws away all his weapons, or who suffers himself to be taken as a captive by the foe. Let such evil consequences always overtake the warriors of our foes. Those that fly away from battle are wretches among men. They simply swell the tale of

हिन्दी अर्थ

स तद्भूतश्व सर्वेषां भूतानां भवति प्रभु: अपना प्रभुत्व स्थापित करता है

English

Who ever becomes happy by killing a woman and his mother? And who gains standing by disregarding his father?

हिन्दी अर्थ

नानारूपं च भूतानां कर्मणां च प्रवर्तनम्

English

Not disregarding the father is fitting; supporting and protecting the mother is fitting; how may I not transgress these two, patience and propriety?

हिन्दी अर्थ

नामथेयानि चर्षीणां याश्व वेदेषु सृष्टय: नामभेदतप:कर्मयज्ञाख्या लोकसिद्धय:

English

The father places himself in the wife, 'to be born,' for the upholding of the character, conduct and lineage of the family.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शब्दब्रद्मणि निष्णात: परं ब्रह्माधिगच्छति

English

I am that self, made again by my father as a son; how should I not have knowledge, who have understood my own origin?

हिन्दी अर्थ

परिचारयज्ञा: शूद्रास्तु तपोयज्ञा द्विजातय: द्वापरे विप्लवं यान्ति यज्ञा: कलियुगे तथा

English

What the father said at the birth-rite and the initiation is the firm authority in the determination of the father's weight.

हिन्दी अर्थ

छोड़ केवल ज्ञानरूप तपस्यामें ही संलग्न होते हैं

English

The teacher is the foremost, the highest dharma, beneficial through support and teaching; what the father says is dharma, well settled even in the Vedas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

संयन्तार: स्थावराणां जड़मानां च सर्वश: उत्सीदन्ते सयज्ञाश्ष॒ केवलाधर्मपीडिता:

English

The son is mere affection for the father; the father is all to the son; the body and the rest are to be given, and the father alone gives them.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उस समय केवल अधर्मसे पीड़ित होकर यज्ञ और वेद लुप्त हो जाते हैं

English

Therefore the father's word is to be done, and not at all to be examined; even sins are purified for those who do the father's word.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आत्मवत्सु तपोवत्सु श्रुतवत्सु प्रतिक्तित: विक्रियन्ते स्वधर्मस्था वेदवादा यथागमम्

English

In enjoyment, in fortune, in procreation, in all the world's evidence, in union with the husband, and at the parting of the hair,

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रत्येक युगमें धर्म और अधर्मकी वृद्धि एवं हास होते रहते हैं और कभी अधिक दिखायी देती हैं

English

the father is heaven, the father is dharma, the father is the highest austerity; when the father is pleased, all the deities are pleased.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कीर्तितं तत्पुरस्तात् ते तत्सूते चात्ति च प्रजा:

English

The blessings a father speaks cling to that man; the father's delight is the atonement for all sins.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बेटा! यह बात मैं तुमसे पहले ही बता चुका हूँ स्वभावेनैव वर्तन्ते द्वन्द्ययुक्तानि भूरिश:

English

A flower is released from its bond, a fruit from its stalk; though troubled by love of the son, a father does not let go of affection.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रोक्त ते पुत्र सर्व वै यन्मां त्वं परिपृच्छसि

English

This is the son's reflection on the father's weight; but I shall think of the mother as of lesser standing.

हिन्दी अर्थ

क्रिया, वेद, कर्ता, कार्य तथा क्रियाफल आदि सब विषय बता दिये यथेदं कुरुते5 ध्यात्मं सुसूक्ष्मं विश्वमीश्वर:

English

This aggregate in me of five elements in mortality: my mother is its cause, as the kindling-stick of fire; the mother is the kindling-stick of the body of men, the ease of everyone distressed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्वमेतत् तदार्चिरभि: पूर्ण जाज्वल्यते जगत्

English

He does not grieve, nor does the aged man drag him, who, though without a wife, calls "mother" in his house.

हिन्दी अर्थ

होकर जाज्वल्यमान दिखायी देने लगता है तान्येवाग्रे प्रलीयन्ते भूमित्वमुपयान्ति च

English

He who is surrounded by sons and grandsons and resorts to his mother, at the end of a hundred years goes about like a two-year-old.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निर्वक्षा निस्तृणा भूमिर्दृश्यते कूर्मपृष्ठठत्

English

Whether capable or incapable, thin or not thin, the mother protects her son; no other is a supporter by rule.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यह भूमि कछुएकी पीठ-सी दिखायी देने लगती है आत्तगन्धा तदा भूमि: प्रलयत्वाय कल्पते

English

He is old when he is afflicted; then the world is empty for him, then he is parted from his mother.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अपने कारणभूत जलमें लीन हो जाती है

English

There is no shade like a mother, no goal like a mother, no protection like a mother, no water-stand like a mother.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आपफस्तदा त्वात्तगुणा ज्योति:षूपरमन्ति वै

English

By bearing in the womb she is the bearer, by giving birth the begetter; by nourishing the limbs, the mother; by bearing heroes, the mother of heroes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्वमेवेदमर्चिरभिं: पूर्ण जाज्वल्यते नभ: सम्पूर्ण आकाश ज्वालाओंसे व्याप्त होकर प्रज्वलित होता-सा जान पड़ता है

English

By serving the child, she is the nurse; the mother is the body, next; what conscious man would kill her, whose head is not hollow?

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रशाम्पति ततो ज्योतिर्वायुर्दोधूयते महान्

English

The intent formed at the joining of the breaths of husband and wife, that the mother or father knows; the truth of the matter rests with the mother.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अधश्चोर्ध्व च तिर्यक् च दोधवीति दिशों दश सर्वलोकप्रणदितं खं तु तिषतति नादवत्

English

The mother knows the family and whose he is; the father has affection for his child through the mere nourishing by the mother.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शब्द गुणसे युक्त होकर शेष रहता है

English

Having himself taken her hand and come into shared dharma, if men then discard women, women do not deserve discarding.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मनसो व्यक्तमव्यक्तं ब्राह्मः सम्प्रतिसंचर: ब्रह्माके मनमें लय होना ब्राह्म प्रलय कहलाता है

English

A husband is bhartri by supporting women and pati by protecting women; when this quality is gone, he is neither bhartri nor pati.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लेते हैं। तब मन उपरत (शान्त) हो जाता है; फिर वह चन्द्रमामें उपस्थित रहता है

English

So a woman does not offend; it is the man who offends; transgressing, committing a great fault, it is the man who offends.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चित्तं ग्रसति संकल्पं तच्च ज्ञानमनुत्तमम् ज्ञान माना गया है

English

For a woman the husband is the highest deity; he gave her to himself, like himself, as the highest; in all tasks women are not offenders.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बलं॑ कालो ग्रसति तु त॑ विद्वान् कुरुते वशे

English

He who speaks no direction of woman for satisfaction of union, as he recalls it clearly, there is certainly adharma; no doubt.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवं सर्वाणि भूतानि ब्रह्मैव प्रतिसंचर: परब्रह्म परमात्मा ही है

English

Even animals, though unwise, would know a woman and a mother as inviolable, standing in higher honour.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इसका यथार्थरूपसे वर्णन किया है, यह उत्तम ज्ञान नि:संदेह ऐसा ही है पहले ही बता दी गयी है

English

They hold the father as the assembly of the gods in one place; for mortals and gods, they approach the mother out of affection."

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्रयस्त्रिंशदधिकद्वधिशततमो ध्याय:

English

As he thus pondered at length, from being Chirakarin, a long time passed; then his father came.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्राह्मणस्य तु यत् कृत्यं तत् ते वक्ष्यामि तच्छूणु क्रिया स्यादासमावृत्तेराचार्ये वेदपारगे

English

Medhatithi, greatly wise Gautama, abiding in austerity, reflected that in that time he had transgressed the rule concerning his wife.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गुरूणामनृणो भूत्वा समावर्तेत यज्ञवित्

English

Burning with sorrow, shedding tears, he said, having come to remorse afterward through the grace of learning and steadiness:

हिन्दी अर्थ

संस्कारके पश्चात् घर लौटे आविमोक्षाच्छरीरस्य सोडवतिछेद् यथाविधि

English

"Indra, lord of the three worlds, came to my hermitage, taking the vow of a guest and assuming the form of a brahmana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वने गुरुसकाशे वा यतिधर्मेण वा पुन:

English

He was comforted by her with words, honoured with welcome, and offered water for the feet and arghya properly by her.

हिन्दी अर्थ

करे अथवा गुरुके समीप रहे या संन्यास-धर्मके अनुसार जीवन व्यतीत करे यत्र पक्‍्वकषायो हि दान्तः सर्वत्र सिध्यति

English

'I am a chaste woman,' she said, 'I shall lead with policy'; in that mishap there is no transgression by the woman.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दोष पक जानेपर जितेन्द्रिय पुरुषको सर्वत्र सिद्धि प्राप्त होती है

English

Thus neither the woman nor I nor the traveller, lord of the thirty gods, offends against dharma; it is heedlessness that offends.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अथान्यानाश्रमान् पश्चात् पूतो गच्छेत कर्मभि: यतेत तस्मिन् प्रामाण्यं गन्तुं यशसि चोत्तमे

English

They call it the calamity born of envy, and so for those of upward seed; by envy I was flung and sunk in an ocean of wrongdoing.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इज्यया वा प्रदानैर्वा विप्राणां वर्धते यश:

English

Having killed a virtuous woman, and chastised in calamity my wife who should be supported, who will carry me across?

हिन्दी अर्थ

यज्ञ करे, दान दे, अकेला किसी तरह उस धनका उपभोग न करे

English

If the noble-minded Chirakarin, commanded by me at the hour, should today be slow, he would save me from sin.

हिन्दी अर्थ

देवर्षिपितृगुर्वर्थ वृद्धातुरबुभुक्षताम् देवानामतिशक्त्यापि देयमेषां कृतादपि

English

Chirakarin, good luck to you; if today you are Chirakarin, then you are truly Chirakarin.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वै: प्राणैब्राह्मणप्राणान् परित्राय दिवं गत:

English

Save me and your mother, and the austerity I have earned; save yourself from sins; be Chirakarin today.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अप: प्रदाय शीतोष्णा नाकपृछ्ठे महीयते दत्त्वा लोकान् ययौ धीमाननन्तान् स महीपतिः

English

Slowness is innate to you, from your long wisdom; let that slowness be fulfilled today; be Chirakarin today.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उपदिश्य महातेजा गतो लोकाननुत्तमान्

English

For long hoped for by your mother, for long carried in the womb: make your slowness fruitful, Chirakarin.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उत्तम लोकोंको प्राप्त हुए अर्बुदानि दशैकं च सराष्ट्रो3भ्यपतद् दिवम्

English

He delays from distress and sleeps long, restrained; see, Chirakarin, the long distress of us both."

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्राह्मणार्थे परित्यज्य जग्मतुर्लोकमुत्तमम्

English

So, king, the great sage Gautama, thus grieved, saw his son Chirakarin standing near.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शरीरका परित्याग किया था। इससे वे दोनों उत्तम लोकमें गये रम्यमावसथं चैव दत्त्वा स्वलॉकमास्थित:

English

Seeing his father, Chirakarin, in great sorrow, threw down his weapon and began to appease him with his head bowed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्राह्मणेभ्यो ददौ चापि गयश्नोरवी सपत्तनाम्

English

Gautama, seeing his son fallen with head on the ground, and his wife formless, felt supreme joy.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वसिष्ठो जीवयामास प्रजापतिरिव प्रजा: कन्यामज्ञिरसे दत्त्वा दिवमाशु जगाम ह

English

For she had not been joined to him by that great soul, the wife in the lonely hermitage; and the son was collected.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मदयन्तीं प्रियां दत्ता तया सह दिव॑ गत: स्वर्गलोकमें पदार्पण किया था

English

One might kill, without blame, a son standing with weapon in hand; but having made him humble and modest, he should settle him in his own duties.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्राह्मणार्थ परित्यज्य गतो लोकाननुत्तमान्

English

His thought, seeing his son bowed at his father's feet, was that the restlessness of taking up a weapon is covered by fear.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मुद्गलाय गत: स्वर्ग शतझुम्नो महीपति: दत्त्वा राज्यमूचीकाय गतो लोकाननुत्तमान्

English

Then the father, praising him long, smelling his head long, embracing him long with his arms, long said, "Live long."

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऋष्यश्ज्भाय विपुलै: सर्वकामैरयुज्यत

English

Thus Gautama, the greatly wise, joined with joy and delight, welcomed his son and spoke these words.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हिरण्यहस्ताय गतो लोकान् देवैरभिष्टतान् सवत्सानां महातेजा गतो लोकाननुत्तमान्

English

"Chirakarin, good luck to you; be Chirakarin, long; while you were slow, I was greatly pained long."

हिन्दी अर्थ

महात्मानो गता: स्वर्ग शिष्टात्मानो जितेन्द्रिया:

English

The learned Gautama, best of sages, also spoke verses on the virtues of the slow-doers, the Chirakarins, as dreadful matters:

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वर्गलोकमें चले गये दानयज्ञप्रजासगैरेते हि दिवमाप्नुवन्

English

"Slowly one should make a friend, and slowly give up what is done; for a friend made slowly deserves to be kept long.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यज्ञ और प्रजा-सृष्टिके द्वारा स्वर्गलोक प्राप्त किया था

English

In passion, pride and conceit, in treachery, in sin and in disagreeable deeds to be done, the slow-doer is praised.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चतुस्त्रिंशदधिकद्धिशततमोध्याय: ऋषक्सामवर्णाक्षरतो यजुषो5थर्वणस्तथा

English

With kinsmen, friends, servants and women, in unmanifest offences, the slow-doer is praised."

हिन्दी अर्थ

विराजमान भगवान् धर्म ही इन वेदोंमें प्रतिष्ठित हैं

English

Thus Gautama was pleased with his son's deed, Bharata, Kauravya, and with that slowness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

और शास्त्रकी व्याख्या करनेमें कुशल हो

English

Thus in all tasks, having reflected and made a decision slowly, one does not suffer long.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तिषछ्ठते तेषु गृहवान् षट्सु कर्मसु स द्विज: धृतिमानप्रमत्तश्न दान्तो धर्मविदात्मवान्

English

He holds his anger long, restrains action long; no deed that brings later remorse arises.

हिन्दी अर्थ

संयममें रखे, धर्मका ज्ञाता बने और मनको भी अपने अधीन रखे

English

One should long attend the aged, long follow and honour, long practise dharmas, and long make inquiry.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एषा पूर्वगता वृत्तित्राह्मिणस्य विधीयते पज्चेन्द्रियजलां घोरां लोभकूलां सुदुस्तराम्

English

Long following the learned, long serving the refined, long disciplining himself, he goes long unscorned.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कालमभ्युद्यतं पश्येन्नित्यमत्यन्तमोहनम्

English

Even the words of another that are joined with dharma one should long ask about and long speak; so he is long unrebuked."

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वभावस्रोतसा वृत्तमुहते सततं जगत् मासोर्मिणर्तुवेगेन पक्षोलपतृणेन च

English

Having lived many years there in that hermitage in great austerity, the brahmana went to heaven then with his son.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वैसी नौकाओंसे रहित हैं, वे अविवेकी मनुष्य क्या करेंगे?

English

human beings on earth. For true manhood, however, they are neither here nor hereafter. Victorious foes, O sire, proceed cheerfully. Their praises recited the while by bards, in pursuit of the flying combatants. When enemies, coming to battle tarnish the fame of a person, the misery the latter feels is more poignant, I think, than that of death itself. Know that victory is the root of religious merit and of every kind of happiness. That which is regarded as the highest misery by cowards is cheerfully borne by those that are heroes, l Resolved upon acquiring heaven, we should fight, regardless of life itself, and determined to conquer or die, attain a blessed end in heaven. Having taken such an oath, and prepared to throwaway life itself, heroes should courageously rush against the enemy's ranks. In the van should be placed a division of men armed with swords and shields. In the rear should be placed the car-division. In the space intervening should be placed other classes of combatants. This should be the arrangement made for assailing the foe. Those combatants in the army that are veterans should fight in the van. They would protect their comrades behind them. Those amongst the army that would be regarded as foremost for strength and courage, should be placed in the van. The others should stand behind them. They that are inspired with fear should, with care, be comforted and encouraged. These weaker combatants should be placed on the field (without being withdrawn) for at least showing the number of the army (to the foe). 2 If the troops are few, they should be drawn close together for the fight. At times, if their leader wishes, the close array may be extended wide. When a small number of troops is to fight with a great army, the array called Suchimukha should be formed. 3 When a small force is engaged with a large one, the leader of the former may shake hands with his men and utter loud cries to effect, The enemy has broken! The enemy has broken!' Those among them that are endued with strength should resist the enemy, loudly unto their comrades, 'Fresh friends have arrived! Fearlessly strike at your foes!' Those that are in advance of the rest should utter loud shouts and make diverse kinds of noises, and should blow and beat Krakachas, cow-horns, drums, cymbals, and kettle-drums.'"

हिन्दी अर्थ

कर्म करनेवाले ब्राह्मणको सर्वत्र सिद्धि प्राप्त होती है धर्म वाधर्मसंकाशं शोचन्निव करोति सः

English

[Bhishma said:] "Here too they cite this ancient tale, the dialogue of Dyumatsena with the king Satyavan.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पृष्ठतः पार्श्वतश्चान्यास्तावत्यस्ता: प्रधारणा:

English

We have heard that Satyavan spoke what had not been said when men were being led to execution by his father's command:

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऊर्णारूपसवर्णस्य तस्य रूप॑ प्रकाशते अशुक्लं चेतस: सौक्ष्म्यमप्युक्तं ब्राह्मणस्य वै

English

"Dharma goes to adharma and adharma goes to dharma; what is called killing as dharma cannot be so."

हिन्दी अर्थ

जातस्य पार्थिविश्वर्य: सृष्टिरत्र विधीयते

English

[Dyumatsena said:] "But if killing is not dharma, what could ever be dharma? If robbers were not slain, Satyavan, there would be confusion.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आकाशभूतश्चाकाशे सवर्णत्वात् प्रकाशते अहड्कारेडस्य विजिते पज्चैते स्युर्वशानुगा:

English

"This is mine": that would not go on in the Kali age; and the course of the world would not be. If you know, tell us."

हिन्दी अर्थ

यतो निःसरते लोको भवति व्यक्तसंज्ञक:

English

[Satyavan said:] "All three classes should be made subject to the brahmana; of those bound by the nooses of dharma, few will go astray.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथा व्यक्तमयं चैव सांख्ये पूर्व निबोध मे द्वावात्मानौ च वेदेषु सिद्धान्तेष्वप्युदाहृतो

English

Whoever of them goes astray, the twice-born should report, saying 'this one does not listen to me'; the king should then decide about him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विषयात् प्रतिसंहार: सांख्यानां सिद्धि लक्षणम्

English

The scripture that is without difference of principle should be followed, not otherwise; killing, without examining actions, is not the policy-science as it is prescribed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अप्राज्ञो न तरत्येनं यो हवास्ते न स गच्छति कामग्राहगृहीतस्य ज्ञानमप्यस्य न प्लव:

English

in the above, means the ordinances in respect of Kshatriya duties; that Upapatti, which I understand means reasoning (or conclusion), indicates a disregard for life, for those ordinances lead to no other conclusion. Good behaviour, according to him, means encouraging the soldiers, speaking sweetly to them, and promoting the brave, etc. Means and contrivances consist in punishing desertion and cowardliness, etc. If Nilakantha be right, what Bhishma says is that battles (which, of course, are intended for the protection of righteousness) become possible in consequence of these four causes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एतदुन्मज्जनं तस्य यदयं ब्राह्मणो भवेत्

English

Angira, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu, and Vasishtha.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्मादुन्मज्जने तिषछेत् प्रज्ञया निस्तरेद् यथा करे, उस कालनदसे पार हो जाय

English

The root should not be struck; this is not eternal dharma; indeed atonement is ordained even without killing.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्राज्ञस्यानन्तरा सिद्धिरिहलोके परत्र च

English

By harassment, bondage, disfigurement and the penalty of death they are to be afflicted, not before by the wealth of the harmful.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्राप्त होते देर नहीं लगती पज्चभि: सततं यज्जैर्विघसाशी यजेत च

English

When they go to the priest for refuge, saying, 'Brahmana, we shall not do wrong again,'

हिन्दी अर्थ

रहे। नित्य पठ्चमहायज्ञोंका अनुष्ठान करे और यज्ञशिष्ट अन्नका ही भोजन करे

English

then they should be released: so is the king's rule. A brahmana wearing the staff and deerskin, shaven, deserves clothing.

हिन्दी अर्थ

असंरोधेन लोकस्य वृत्तिं लिप्सेदगर्हिताम् स्वधर्मेण क्रियावांक्ष॒ कर्मणा सो5प्यसंकर:

English

The more weighty, with repeated offence, deserve release again, but not as at the first."

हिन्दी अर्थ

धर्माधर्मविशेषज्ञ: सर्व तरति दुस्तरम्

English

[Dyumatsena said:] "Wherever the subjects can be restrained by agreement, so far dharma is said to be, so long as it is not transgressed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वीतहर्षमदक्रोधो ब्राह्णो नावसीदति वह ब्राह्मण कभी विषादको नहीं प्राप्त होता है

English

When there is no killing, all would be defeated; earlier and still earlier people were easily ruled.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ज्ञानवत्त्वेन कर्माणि कुर्वन् सर्वत्र सिध्यति

English

Gentle, mostly truthful, of little malice and little anger; formerly there was only the rod of 'Shame on you!' and then the rod of words.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स जायते म्रियते चापि देही

English

There was also the rod of taking, and now the rod of killing is in use; and even by killing other people cannot be restrained.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पज्चत्रिंशदधिकद्विशततमोध्याय: उन्मज्जंश्न॒ निमज्जंश्व ज्ञानवान् प्लववान् भवेत्

English

The robber is not of men, nor of the gods, so it is heard, nor of gandharvas and ancestors; who here is anyone's?

हिन्दी अर्थ

देशकर्मानुरागार्थानुपायापायनिश्चयै:

English

He takes a lotus from the cremation ground and a deity from a pishacha; he who makes an agreement with the ignorant and dull-witted..."

हिन्दी अर्थ

ध्यानयोगका अभ्यास करे" यच्छेद् वाडुमनसी बुद्धया य इच्छेज्ज्ञानमुत्तमम्

English

[Satyavan said:] "If you cannot save the good by non-violence, then make an end by gaining something of the past and future."

हिन्दी अर्थ

परमात्मामें नियन्त्रित करना चाहिए

English

[Dyumatsena said:] "Kings perform the highest austerity for the course of the world; they are ashamed before such men, and so they become.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एतेषां चेदनुद्रष्टा पुरुषो5पि सुदारुण: यदि वा धार्मिको यज्वा यदि वा पापकृत्तम:

English

Terrified, the virtuous do not kill evildoers by desire; kings rule the subjects mostly by virtue.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तरत्येवं महादुर्ग जरामरणसागरम्

English

The world follows the better and better livelihood; men ever follow the conduct of the elder.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जिज्ञासु हो तो वेदोक्त सकाम कर्मोकी सीमाको लाँघ जाता है अपानाक्ष: प्राणयुग: प्रज्ञायुर्जीवबन्धन:

English

Men laugh at the one who, without restraining himself, wishes to restrain others, under the sway of senses in objects.

हिन्दी अर्थ

क्षेत्रज्ञाधिष्ठितो धीर: श्रद्धादमपुर:सर:

English

Whoever does something improper through the king's pride and delusion should be restrained by every means, and so he turns from sin.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जीवयुक्तो रथो दिव्यो ब्रह्मलोके विराजते अक्षरं गन्तुमनसो विधि वक्ष्यामि शीघ्रगम्

English

One should first restrain oneself, for one who restrains evil; and punish with great punishments even near kinsmen.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अव्यक्तस्य तथैश्वर्य क्रमश: प्रतिपद्यते भी प्राप्त कर लेता है-

English

Where a sinner is afflicted yet meets no great sorrow, there sins grow and dharma surely shrinks; so the learned brahmana of compassionate nature taught.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथा योगस्य युक्तस्य सिद्धिमात्मनि पश्यत:

English

So I was instructed by earlier fathers and grandfathers, very much comforting me out of compassion.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सिद्धि प्राप्त होती है, उसका भी वर्णन करता हूँ शैशिरस्तु यथा धूम: सूक्ष्म: संश्रयते नभ:

English

In the first age, the Krita, the king followed this; by this dharma a quarter goes in the Treta, a half in the Dvapara, a quarter in the other age.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अथ धूमस्य विरमे द्वितीयं रूपदर्शनम्

English

So in the Kali, by the kings' ill conduct, according to the particular time dharma would be a sixteenth part.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जब कुहरा निवृत्त हो जाता है, तब दूसरे रूपका दर्शन होता है अपां व्यतिक्रमे चास्य वह्नलिरूपं प्रकाशते

English

Then, Satyavan, by the first rule there would be confusion; stating life, power and time, one should enjoin austerity.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अग्नि प्रकाशित दिखायी देती है

English

So that one not give up the great fruit of dharma for truth here, Manu the Self-born spoke, out of compassion for beings."