Sauptika Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्यक्त्वा द्वाराणि च द्वा:स्थास्तथा गुल्मानि गौल्मिका:

English

you all. The thought of that slaughter is cutting all my vitals. How could a person like me live for even a moment after hearing the Pancalas say that they have slain my father? I cannot bear the thought of supporting life without having slain Dhrishtadyumna in battle. In consequence of the slaughter of my father he hath become slayable by me, as also all with whom he is united. Who is there so hard-hearted that would not burn after having heard the lamentations that I have heard of the king lying with broken thighs? Who is there so destitute of compassion whose eyes would not be filled with tears after hearing such words uttered by the king with broken thighs? They whose side was adopted by me have been vanquished. The thought of this enhances my sorrow as a rush of waters enhances the sea.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सायुधान् साज्भदान् बाहून् विचकर्त शिरांसि च

English

Going to him, they found the king with a little life left; then, leaping from their chariots, they surrounded your son.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तद्रजस्तुमुलं घोरं क्षणेनान्तरधीयत

English

They saw him with broken thighs, lying on the ground, barely alive, senseless, vomiting blood from his mouth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विविधानि च रूपाणि तत्रादृश्यन्त रक्षसाम्

English

Surrounded on every side by many terrible beasts, jackals and packs of wolves, ready to devour him close by,

हिन्दी अर्थ

निष्क्रम्य शिबिरात् तस्मात् ताभ्यां संगम्य वीर्यवान्

English

warding off with effort those beasts that wished to eat him, writhing on the ground in severe pain,

हिन्दी अर्थ

यदि जीवति नो राजा तस्मै शंसमहे वयम्

English

the three surviving heroes, afflicted with grief, surrounded the great soul lying on the ground smeared with his own blood: Ashvatthaman, Kripa, and Kritavarman the Satvata.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दुर्योधन जीवित हों तो हम उन्हें भी यह समाचार कह सुनावें"

English

The king, surrounded by those three great chariot-warriors, smeared with blood and sighing, shone like an altar with three fires.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इति श्रीमहा भारते सौप्तिकपर्वणि रात्रियुद्धे पाज्चालादिवधेडष्टमो5ध्याय:

English

Seeing the king lying thus, unfit for such a state, those three wept with unbearable grief.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आगच्छन् सहितास्तत्र यत्र दुर्योधनो हतः

English

Then, wiping the blood from his mouth with their hands, they piteously lamented the king lying in the battle.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पलायतां दिशस्तेषां स्वानप्युत्सृज्य बान्धवान्

English

Protected as they are by Vasudeva and Arjuna, I regard them, O uncle, to be irresistible by the great Indra himself. I am unable to restrain this rising wrath in my heart. I do not behold the man in this world that can assuage this wrath of mine ! The messengers informed me of the defeat of my friends and the victory of the Pandavas. That is burning my heart. Having however, caused a slaughter of my enemies during their sleep, I shall then take rest and shall then sleep without anxiety."

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत्रापरे वध्यमाना मुहुर्मुहुरचेतस:

English

"Look at this mace, adorned with gold, golden-hued, of the mace-loving one, fallen on the ground near him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हो शिविरसे बाहर निकलने लगे

English

This mace does not leave the hero in battle after battle; it does not leave the renowned one even as he goes to heaven.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भूयश्वैव चिकीर्षन्तौ द्रोणपुत्रस्य तौ प्रियम्

English

See this gold-adorned mace lying with the hero on his bed, like a loving wife on the bed of dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततः प्रकाशे शिबिरे खड्गेन पितृनन्दन:

English

The scorcher of foes who went at the head of the anointed kings, slain, eats the dust; behold the turning of Time.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कांश्रिदापततो वीरानपरांश्ैव धावत:

English

He by whom foes were once felled to lie on the ground lies felled on the ground now by his enemies, this king of the Kurus.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कांश्चिद् योधान् स खड्गेन मध्ये संछिद्य वीर्यवान्

English

He before whom kings bowed in fear by hundreds lies on the hero's bed surrounded by flesh-eaters.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निनदद्धिर्भशायस्तैर्नराश्वद्विरदोत्तमै:

English

He whom kings once served for wealth, their lord, fie! lies slain suddenly; behold the turning of Time."

हिन्दी अर्थ

बड़े हाथियोंसे वहाँकी भूमि ढँक गयी थी

English

[Sanjaya said:] Seeing that best of kings lying there, Ashvatthaman, best of the Bharatas, lamented piteously.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मानुषाणां सहस्रेषु हतेषु पतितेषु च

English

"They called you, tiger among kings, the chief of all bowmen, like the lord of wealth in battle, a pupil of Sankarshana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पृष्ठच्छिन्नान् पार्श्वच्छिन्नान् शिरश्छिन्नांस्तथा परान्

English

How, blameless one, did Bhimasena find an opening against you, mighty and skilled as you were, and he the sinful-souled?

हिन्दी अर्थ

मध्यदेशे नरानन्यांश्रिच्छेदान्यांक्ष कर्णत:

English

Time is surely stronger in this world, great king, if we see you slain in battle by Bhimasena.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवं विचरतस्तस्य निघ्नतः सुबहून् नरान्

English

How did the petty, sinful, foolish Vrikodara slay you, who know all dharma, by trickery? Surely Time is hard to overcome.

हिन्दी अर्थ

किज्वित्प्राणैश्न पुरुषै्हतै श्चान्यी: सहस्रश:

English

In a righteous fight, called out unrighteously, by Bhimasena with his mace your two thighs were broken.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यत् कृतं नः प्रसुप्तानां रक्षोभि: क्रूरकर्मीभि:

English

Fie on Yudhishthira, the petty, who overlooked your head being crushed by a foot after you were slain unrighteously in battle.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न चासुरैर्न गन्धर्वर्न यक्षैर्न च राक्षसै:

English

Warriors in battles will surely speak ill of Vrikodara as long as beings endure, for you were felled by trickery.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्रह्मण्य: सत्यवाग दान्त: सर्वभूतानुकम्पक:

English

Did not Rama, the delight of the Yadus, always say to you, king: 'There is none equal to Duryodhana with the mace'?

हिन्दी अर्थ

धावन्तं मुक्तकेशं वा हन्ति पार्थो धनंजय:

English

Vrishni praises you, king, in assemblies: 'The Kaurava is my good pupil in mace-fighting,' lord.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इति लालप्यमाना: सम शेरते बहवो जना:

English

The state that great sages call praiseworthy for a kshatriya, slain facing the enemy in battle—you have attained that state.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततो मुहूर्तात् प्राशाम्यत् स शब्दस्तुमुलो महान्

English

I do not grieve for you, Duryodhana, bull among men; I grieve for Gandhari, her sons slain, and your father, who will wander as beggars over this earth, grieving.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न्यपातयन्नरान् क्रुद्ध: पशून् पशुपतिर्यथा

English

Fie on Krishna the Vrishni and on ill-minded Arjuna, who think themselves knowers of dharma yet overlooked you being struck down.

हिन्दी अर्थ

संलीनान् युद्धयमानांश्व सर्वान् द्रौणिरपोथयत्

English

And what will all those Pandavas say to the kings, shameless: 'How was Duryodhana slain by us'?

हिन्दी अर्थ

परस्परं तदा योधा अनयन् यमसादनम्

English

You are fortunate, son of Gandhari, who were slain on the battlefield, going against the enemy in dharma, bull among men.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गमयामास राजेन्द्र द्रौणियमनिवेशनम्

English

Gandhari, her sons slain, her kinsmen and relatives slain, and the king whose eye is wisdom, hard to approach, what refuge will they find?

हिन्दी अर्थ

विशाल सेनाको यमराजके घर भेज दिया

English

Fie on Kritavarman, on me and on the great chariot-warrior Kripa, that we did not go to heaven, putting you, king, in front,

हिन्दी अर्थ

आसीजक्नरगजाश्चधानां रौद्री क्षयकरी भूशम्

English

you, giver of all desires, protector, benefactor of subjects; fie on us, the vilest of men, who do not follow you.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हाथियोंके लिये अत्यन्त विनाशकारिणी सिद्ध हुई

English

Through your valour, tiger among men, and through Kripa and my father, the houses of us and our servants were full of treasures.

हिन्दी अर्थ

खादन्तो नरमांसानि पिबन्त: शोणितानि च

English

By your grace, we with our friends and kinsmen performed many chief sacrifices with abundant fees.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जटिला दीर्घशड्खाश्न॒ पजचपादा महोदरा:

English

Where shall we ever find such a company as that with which you went, putting all kings before you?

हिन्दी अर्थ

घण्टाजालावसक्ताश्न नीलकण्ठा विभीषणा:

English

We three alone, O king, do not follow you as you go to the highest state; for that we shall be tormented.

हिन्दी अर्थ

परमांसानि खादन्त: क्रव्यादा मांसजीविन:

English

Deprived of heaven with you, bereft of fortune, remembering your good deeds, what deed could be that we might follow you?

हिन्दी अर्थ

नानावक्त्रास्तथा रीौद्रा: क्रव्यादा: पिशिताशना:

English

We shall surely wander over this earth in sorrow, best of the Kurus; how, O king, can there be peace or happiness for us bereft of you?

हिन्दी अर्थ

रक्षसां घोररूपाणां महतां क्रूरकर्मणाम्

English

Going there, great king, and meeting those great chariot-warriors, honour them in my name as is fitting, the best and the eldest.

हिन्दी अर्थ

समेतानि बहून्यासन् भूतानि च जनाधिप

English

Honouring the teacher, the banner of all bowmen, tell him, king, that Dhrishtadyumna has been slain by me today.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नृशोणितावसिक्तस्य द्रौणेरासीदसित्सरु:

English

Embrace King Bahlika, the great chariot-warrior, and Saindhava, Somadatta and Bhurishravas,

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऐसी जान पड़ती थी, मानो वह उससे अभिन्न हो

English

and the other best kings who have gone before to heaven; embrace them in my words and ask them of their welfare."

हिन्दी अर्थ

दुर्गमां पदवीं गत्वा विरराज जनक्षये

English

Having said this to the king with broken thighs and senseless, Ashvatthaman looked at him and spoke again.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथाप्रतिज्ञं तत् कर्म कृत्वा द्रौणायनि: प्रभो

English

"Duryodhana, if you live, hear this word, pleasant to the ear: seven of the Pandavas' side remain, and three of us Dhritarashtras.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सारा कार्य पूर्ण करके शोक और चिन्तासे रहित हो गया

English

Those five brothers and Vasudeva and Satyaki on one side, and I, Kritavarman and Kripa Sharadvata on ours.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथैव संसुप्तजने शिबिरे प्राविशन्निशि

English

The sons of Draupadi are all slain, and the sons of Dhrishtadyumna, the Panchalas are all slain, and the remnant of the Matsyas, Bharata.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रीत्या चोच्चैरुदक्रोशंस्तथैवास्फोटयंस्तलान्

English

See retribution for what was done: the Pandavas have lost their sons; in the Sauptika their camp, with men and mounts, is slain.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तादृशा निहता यत्र कृत्वास्माकं जनक्षयम्

English

And that sinner Dhrishtadyumna, king, was slain by me, entering the camp at night, like a beast."

हिन्दी अर्थ

नाकरोदीदृशं कस्मान्मत्पुत्रविजये धृत:

English

Hearing that speech, Duryodhana regained his senses with pleasure in his mind and said these words again:

हिन्दी अर्थ

द्रोणपुत्रो महात्मा स तन्मे शंसितुमहसि

English

"That was not done for me by the son of Ganga, nor Karna, nor your father, what you have done today with Kripa and the Bhoja (Kritavarman).

हिन्दी अर्थ

किया? यह सब मुझे बताओ

English

If that petty general (Dhrishtadyumna) is slain together with Shikhandin, then I think myself today equal to Maghavan (Indra).

हिन्दी अर्थ

असांनिध्याद्धि पार्थानां केशवस्य च धीमत:

English

Good fortune to you; may you prosper; we shall meet again in heaven." Having said this, the great-minded king of the Kurus fell silent and gave up his life, leaving his friends in grief.

हिन्दी अर्थ

को हि तेषां समक्ष तान् हन्यादपि मरुत्पति:

English

They embraced the king, saying "So be it," and, looking at him again and again, mounted their own chariots.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पर्यष्वजत् ततो द्रौणिस्ताभ्यां सम्प्रतिनन्दित:

English

Hearing thus the piteous words of your son, at daybreak, afflicted with grief, I ran to the city.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बड़े हर्षसे यह महत्त्वपूर्ण उत्तम वचन मुँहसे निकाला--

English

When your son went to heaven, blameless one, the divine sight given me by the sage was lost to me today, as I was struck with grief.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पजञ्चाला निहताः: सर्वे द्रौपदेयाश्व॒ सर्वशः

English

[Vaishampayana said:] Hearing this, the king, sighing long and hot over the slaying of his sons and kinsmen, then fell into thought.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुत्रोंका वध करके एक साथ उस स्थानमें आये, जहाँ राजा दुर्योधन मारा गया था

English

Kripa said, "A person who is bereft of intelligence and who hath not his passions under control, cannot, even if he waits dutifully upon his superiors, understand all the considerations of morality. This is my opinion. Similarly, an intelligent person who does not practise humility fails to understand the settled conclusions of morality. A brave man, if bereft of understanding, by waiting all his life upon a learned person fails to know his duties, like a wooden ladle unable to taste the juicy soup (in which it may lie immersed). The wise man, however, by waiting upon a learned person for even a moment, succeeds in knowing his duties, like the tongue tasting the juicy soup (as soon as it comes into contact with the latter). That person who is endued with intelligence, who waits upon his superiors, and who has his passions under control succeeds in knowing all the rules of morality and never disputes with what is accepted by all. An ungovernable, irreverent, and sinful person of wicked soul perpetrates sin in seeking his well-being by disregarding destiny.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वर्गायापि व्रजन्तं हि न जहाति यशस्विनम्

English

"The sons of Draupadi, great king, with the sons of Drupada, careless and trusting at night, were sleeping in their own camp.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गदया भीमसेनेन निर्भग्ने सक्थिनी तव

English

Your camp was slain at night by the cruel Kritavarman, Gautama (Kripa) and the sinful Ashvatthaman.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यावत् स्थास्यन्ति भूतानि निकृत्या हासि पातित:

English

By those, cutting down thousands of men, elephants and horses with lances, spears and axes, your host was left without remainder.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दुर्योधनसमो नास्ति गदया इति वीर्यवान्

English

Like a great forest being cut by axes, a very great sound of your army was heard, Bharata.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स शिष्यो मम कौरव्यो गदायुद्ध इति प्रभो

English

I alone remain, king, from that army, freed somehow, righteous one, while Kritavarman was occupied."

हिन्दी अर्थ

हतस्याभिमुखस्याजोौ प्राप्तस्त्वमसि तां गतिम्

English

Hearing that inauspicious speech, Yudhishthira, son of Kunti, the invincible, fell to the earth, overcome with grief for his sons.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गति बतायी है, आपने वही गति प्राप्त की है

English

As he fell, Satyaki rushed and caught him, and Bhimasena, Arjuna and the two Pandavas, sons of Madri.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धिगस्तु कृष्ण वार्ष्णेयमर्जुनं चापि दुमीतिम्

English

Regaining consciousness, the son of Kunti, with a voice distraught with grief, lamented in distress: "Having conquered the foes, I am afterwards conquered."

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततो रथेभ्य: प्रस्कन्द्य परिवद्रुस्तवात्मजम्

English

Well-wishers seek to restrain a friend from sin. He who suffers himself to be dissuaded, succeeds in winning prosperity. He that does otherwise reaps misery. As a person of disordered brains is restrained by soothing words, even so should a friend be restrained by well-wishers. He that suffers himself to be so restrained never becomes a prey to misery. When a wise friend is about to perpetrate a wicked act, well-wishers possessed of wisdom repeatedly and according to the extent of their power endeavour to restrain him. Setting thy heart on what is truly beneficial, and restraining thyself by thy own self, do my bidding, O son, so that thou mayst not have to repent afterwards.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वे रथोंसे कूद पड़े और आपके पुत्रके पास जा उसे सब ओरसे घेरकर बैठ गये

English

In this world, the slaughter of sleeping persons is not applauded, agreeably to the dictates of religion. The same is the case with persons that have laid down their arms and come down from cars and steeds. They also are unslayable who say 'We are thine ! ' and they that surrender themselves, and they whose locks are dishevelled, and they whose animals have been killed under them or whose cars have been broken. All the Pancalas will sleep tonight. O lord, divesting themselves of armour. Trustfully sunk in sleep, they will be like dead men. That crooked-minded man who would wage hostility with them then, it is evident, would sink in deep and limitless hell without a raft save himself. In this world thou art celebrated as the foremost of all persons conversant with weapons. Thou hast not as yet committed even a minute trespass. When the sun rises next morning and light shall discover all things, thyself, like a second sun in effulgence wilt conquer the foe in battle. This censurable deed, so impossible in one like thee, will look like a red spot on a white sheet. Even this is my opinion."

हिन्दी अर्थ

वमन्तं रुधिरं वकत्रादपश्यन् वसुधातले

English

Ashvatthama said, "Without doubt, it is even so, O maternal uncle, as thou sayest. The Pandavas, however, have before this broken the bridge of righteousness into a hundred fragments. In the very sight of all the kings, before thy eyes also, my sire, after he had laid down his weapons, was slain by Dhrishtadyumna. Kama also, that foremost of car-warriors, after the wheel of his car had sunk and he had been plunged into great distress, was slain by the wielder of gandiva. Similarly, Shantanu's son

हिन्दी अर्थ

शालावृकगणैश्वैव भक्षयिष्यद्धिरन्तिकात्

English

"Abandoning whom, the ill-minded one later suffers as if fallen into calamity; he would consider his victory worthless, being then conquered more by his enemies.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विचेष्टमानं महयां च सुभूशं गाढवेदनम्

English

For whose sake—fie on the victory of the sinful—the friends are slain; the victors, overcome by the careful vanquished, are conquered.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ते तं शयानं सम्प्रेक्ष्य राजानमतथोचितम्

English

Those who in the battle were spared through Karna's carelessness, of the one with arrow-teeth, sword-tongue, bow-mouth, terrible, roaring with the twang of the bowstring,

हिन्दी अर्थ

रणे राज्ञ: शयानस्य कृपणं पर्यदेवयन्

English

the enraged lion among men, who never fled in battle—these have been slain.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वे तीनों दीन वाणीमें विलाप करने लगे

English

The lake of chariots, with waves of arrow-showers, adorned with jewels, with rows of vehicles, with fish of spears and lances, banners and elephant-crocodiles, the whirlpool of bows with arrows for foam,

हिन्दी अर्थ

एकादशचमूभर्ता शेते दुर्योधनो हतः

English

the shore swelling with the moonrise of battle, the Drona ocean with the sound of the bowstring as its rim—those who crossed it in boats of weapons high and low, those princes have been slain by carelessness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गदां गदाप्रियस्येमां समीपे पतितां भुवि

English

For there is no greater death for men in this world of the living than carelessness; wealth abandons the careless man on all sides, and misfortunes enter.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शयानां शयने हम्यें भार्या प्रीतिमतीमिव

English

The best of banners as the lofty comet, arrows as flames, anger as the great wind, the great bow with the twang of the string as its rim, armour and various weapons as the oblations,

हिन्दी अर्थ

मारे जाकर धरतीपर पड़े-पड़े धूल फाँक रहे हैं। यह समयका उलट-फेर तो देखो

English

the great-forest-like great army, Bhishma the great forest fire in the great battle—those who bore the force of raised weapons, those princes have been slain by carelessness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आज शशत्रुओंद्वारा स्वयं मारे जाकर भूमिपर शयन करते हैं

English

A careless man cannot win learning, austerity, glory or vast fortune; see how, by carelessness, all enemies being slain, Mahendra prospers in happiness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स वीरशयमने शेते क्रव्याद्धि: परिवारित:

English

See the sons and grandsons of kings, like Indra, slain alike by carelessness; like rich merchants who crossed the ocean and sank in a small river, careless. Those slain by the intolerant as they lay, without doubt, have gone to heaven.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हुए वीर-शय्यापर सो रहे हैं

English

I grieve for Krishna, the virtuous: how will she not perish in an ocean of grief, hearing of her brothers and sons slain, the Panchala king, her father, and her aged one? Surely she will fall senseless to the ground, her slender frame wasted by grief.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उपासते च तं हाद्य क्रव्यादा मांसहेतव:

English

How, unable to bear that grief born of sorrow, will she, accustomed to happiness, live, driven by the slaying of her sons and brothers, as if burning in fire?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

अश्वत्थामा समालोक्य करुणं पर्यदेवयत्

English

Lamenting thus in distress, the king of the Kurus said to Nakula: "Go, bring here this unfortunate princess with her mother's side."

हिन्दी अर्थ

धनाध्यक्षोपमं युद्धे शिष्यं संकर्षणस्य च

English

Taking the words of the king, like dharma itself in dharma, the son of Madri went by chariot swiftly to the dwelling of the queen, where were the wives of the Panchala king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बलिनं कृतिनं नित्यं स च पापात्मवान् नृप

English

Having sent Madri's son, the descendant of Ajamidha, afflicted with grief, went with his friends, weeping, to the battlefield of his sons, thronged with hosts of spirits.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निकृत्या हतवान् मन्दो नूनं कालो दुरत्यय:

English

Entering that inauspicious, fierce place, he saw his sons, friends and companions lying on the ground, their bodies wet with blood, their heads split, broken and carried off.

हिन्दी अर्थ

य उपेक्षितवान क्षुद्रे धिक् कृष्णं धिग् युधिष्ठिरम्

English

Seeing them, Yudhishthira, best of upholders of dharma, in great distress cried out loudly, the foremost Kaurava, and fell to the ground senseless with his companions.