Shanti Parva

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.