Shanti Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

आदी वर्तेत नृपतिस्तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह

English

" Vasudeva said, 'Listen, O son of Kunti, to the story of Rama's energy and powers and birth as heard by me from great Rishis discoursing upon the subject. Listen to the story of how millions of Kshatriyas were slain by Jamadagni's son and how those that sprung again in the diverse royal, races in Bharata were again slaughtered. Jadu had a son named Rajas. Rajas had a son named Valakaswa. King Valakaswa had a son named Kusika of righteous behaviour. Resembling the thousand-eyed Indra on earth, Kusika underwent the austerest of penances from desire of attaining the chief of the three worlds for a son. Beholding him engaged in the austerest of penances and competent to beget a son, the thousand-eyed Purandara himself inspired the king (with his force). The great lord of the three worlds, the chastiser of Paka, O king, then became Kusika's son known by the name of Gadhi. Gadhi had a daughter, O monarch, of the name of Satyavati. The puissant Gadhi gave her (for wife) unto Richika, a descendant of Bhrigu. Her lord of Bhrigu's race, O delighter of the Kurus, became highly gratified with her for the purity of her behaviour. He cooked the sacrificial food consisting of milk and rice for giving unto Gadhi (her sire) a son. Calling his wife, Richika of Bhrigu's race said, 'This portion of the sanctified food should be taken by thee, and this (other) portion by thy mother. A son will be born of her that will blaze with energy and be a bull among Kshatriyas. Invincible by Kshatriyas on earth, he will be the slayer of the foremost of Kshatriyas. As regards thee, O blessed lady, this portion of the food will give thee a son of great wisdom, an embodiment of tranquillity, endued with ascetic penances, and the foremost of Brahmanas. Having said these words unto his wife, the blessed Richika of Bhrigu's race, setting his heart on penances, proceeded to the woods. About this time, king Gadhi, resolved upon a pilgrimage to the holy waters, arrived with his queen at the retreat, of Richika. Satyavati, upon this, O king, taking the two portions of the sanctified food, cheerfully and in great haste, represented the worlds of her lord unto her mother. The queen-mother, O son of Kunti, gave the portion intended for herself unto her daughter, and herself took from ignorance the portion intended for the latter. Upon this, Satyavati, her body blazing with lustre, conceived a child of terrible form intended to become the exterminator of the Kshatriyas. Beholding a Brahmana child lying within her womb, that tiger among the Bhrigus said unto his wife of celestial beauty these words: 'Thou hast been deceived by the, mother, O blessed lady, in consequence

हिन्दी अर्थ

मूर्खोद्वारा सेवित मार्ग है

English

"Of gods, sages, ancestors and great souls, of yakshas, rakshasas and pishachas, and especially of mortals,

हिन्दी अर्थ

कालाकाडुशभक्षी हि क्षपयेद् यथा विश्रम्भमाप्तुयु:

English

of all creatures in the world, even those living among animals, the rod, all-pervading and of great splendour, is the best, lord.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उद्योगशील होकर उसके वधके उपायका अन्वेषण करे

English

Thus you have said: the whole moving and unmoving is to be ruled by the rod; it is seen attached to the world, with gods, demons and men.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तदा विवृत्य प्रहरेद् दस्यूनामविचारयन्

English

This I wish to know in truth, bull of the Bharatas: what is the rod, of what kind is the rod, what form, what support,

हिन्दी अर्थ

विपरीतं तु बोद्धव्यमरिलक्षणमेव तत्

English

of what nature, how constituted, of how many forms, how lord; how does that rod stay awake over the subjects, with attentive self?

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुरुषोंका स्वभाव अत्यन्त प्रबल होता है

English

And who stays awake, protecting this before and after? Who is known first, who second, named the rod? In what is the rod established, and what is considered its goal?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

निशम्य शास्त्रतत्त्वार्थ यथावदमरेश्वर

English

[Bhishma said:] "Hear, descendant of Kuru, what the rod is and how it is to be applied; for the rod alone here is that on which everything depends.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुरुषकी पहचान करानेवाले लक्षण बताये हैं

English

"Vyavahara" is deemed the name of dharma, great king; how could it be lost to one attentive in the worlds? For this reason vyavahara is called vyavahara.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बृहस्पतेश्व॒ संवादमिन्द्रस्य च युधिष्ठिर

English

of the substitution of the sanctified morsels. Thy son will become a person of cruel deeds and vindictive heart. Thy brother again (born of thy mother) will be a Brahmana devoted to ascetic penances. Into the sanctified food intended for thee had been placed the seed of the supreme and universal Brahma, while into that intended for thy mother had been placed the sum total of Kshatriya energy. In consequence, however, of the substitution of the two portions, O blessed lady, that which had been intended will not happen. Thy mother will obtain a Brahmana child while thou wilt obtain a son that will become a Kshatriya.' Thus addressed by her lord, the highly blessed Satyavati prostrated herself and placing her

हिन्दी अर्थ

संवादरूप एक प्राचीन इतिहासका उदाहरण दिया करते हैं

English

This was said before by Manu long ago, and by Vasishtha, and it is the great utterance of Brahma about birth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उपसंगम्य पप्रच्छ वासव: परवीरहा

English

This saying was spoken earlier, hence they call it the earlier saying; and from the telling of vyavahara it is here called vyavahara.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जा उन्हें हाथ जोड़कर प्रणाम किया और इस प्रकार पूछा

English

From a rightly applied rod the three aims constantly proceed; the rod is a supreme divinity, in form like a fire with flaming crest.

हिन्दी अर्थ

असमुच्छिद्य चैवैतान् नियच्छेयमुपायत:

English

Dark as a blue lotus petal, four-fanged, four-armed, eight-footed, many-eyed, with ears like pegs and hair standing upright,

हिन्दी अर्थ

सबका समूलोच्छेद किये बिना ही उन्हें किस उपायसे वशमें करूँ?

English

matted, two-tongued, copper-faced, clad in the hide of the king of beasts—this fierce form the rod always bears, hard to withstand.

हिन्दी अर्थ

किंकुर्वाणं न मां जह्याज्ज्वलिता श्री:प्रतापिनी

English

Sword, mace, bow, spear, trident, club, arrow, pestle, axe, discus, lance, staff, javelin and dart,

हिन्दी अर्थ

राजधर्मविधानज्ञ: प्रत्युवाच पुरंदरम्

English

all weapons that there are in the world—the rod alone, the self of all, moves embodied in the world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथा राजधर्मके विधानको जाननेवाले बृहस्पतिने इन्द्रको इस प्रकार उत्तर दिया

English

Splitting, cutting, afflicting, severing, tearing, rending, slaying and running upon—the rod itself moves about.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बालैरासेवितं होतद् यदमर्षो यदक्षमा

English

It is the sword, the slayer, dharma, with a sharp path, hard to approach, the womb of fortune, victory, the ruler, vyavahara, the ever-wakeful.

हिन्दी अर्थ

क्रोधं भयं च हर्ष च नियम्य स्वयमात्मनि

English

It is scripture, the Brahmana's mantra, the ruler, gone to the earlier saying, guardian of dharma, imperishable, divine, going to truth, ever going, a seizer.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मनमें ही रोक ले तथा शत्रुकी सावधान न करे

English

Unattached, Rudra's son, eldest of Manu's line, auspicious doer—these are the names of the rod told, Yudhishthira.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रियमेव वदेन्नित्यं नाप्रियं किंचिदाचरेत्

English

The rod is the blessed Vishnu, sacrifice, Narayana the lord, ever bearing a great form, called the Great Person.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथा वैतंसिको युक्तो द्विजानां सदृशस्वन:

English

As said, the daughter of Brahma—Lakshmi, Niti, Sarasvati—is Dandaniti, supporter of the world; the rod has many bodies.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जागर्त्येंव हि दुष्टात्मा संकरेडग्निरिवोत्थित:

English

Gain and loss, pleasure and pain, dharma and adharma, strength and weakness, ill fortune and good fortune, merit and demerit, virtue and vice,

हिन्दी अर्थ

विश्वास्यैवोपसन्नार्थों वशे कृत्वा रिपु: प्रभो

English

desire and absence of desire, season, month, night, day, moment, displeasure and favour, joy, anger, calm and restraint,

हिन्दी अर्थ

उपेक्ष्यमाणो5वज्ञातो हृदयेनापराजित:

English

fate and human effort, release and non-release, fear and fearlessness, harm and non-harm, austerity and sacrifice, control, poison and non-poison,

हिन्दी अर्थ

दण्डं च दूषयेदस्य पुरुषैराप्तकारिभि:

English

end and beginning and middle, the expansion of deeds, pride, negligence, arrogance, hypocrisy, steadiness, policy and impolicy,

हिन्दी अर्थ

बलानि दूषयेदस्य जानन्नेव प्रमाणत:

English

weakness and strength, pride and stiffness, expense and income, humility and release, time and non-time, Bharata,

हिन्दी अर्थ

न त्वेवं खलु संसर्ग रोचयेदरिभि: सह

English

falsehood, knowledge and ignorance, truth, faith and faithlessness, impotence and resolve, gain and loss, victory and defeat,

हिन्दी अर्थ

पाकर उन्हें मार ही डाले

English

sharpness and gentleness, death, coming and non-coming, failure and success, what is to be done and not done, strength and weakness,

हिन्दी अर्थ

न शल्यं वा घटयति न वाचा कुरुते व्रणम्

English

envy and freedom from envy, dharma and adharma, shamelessness and shame, modesty, prosperity and calamity,

हिन्दी अर्थ

दुर्लभ: स पुनस्तेन काल: कर्मचिकीर्षुणा

English

energy, skill in work, learning, power of speech, true understanding—thus, descendant of Kuru, the rod has many forms in this world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

युक्तो विवरमन्विच्छेदहितानां पुनः पुनः

English

If the rod did not exist here, they would crush one another; from fear of the rod they do not kill one another, Yudhishthira.

हिन्दी अर्थ

माया: सुविहिता: शक्र सादयन्त्यविचक्षणम्

English

Subjects protected by the rod, king, day by day make the king prosper here; therefore the rod is the refuge.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत: शक्‍्नोति शत्रूणां प्रहर्तुमविचारयन्

English

It quickly establishes this world, lord of men; dharma, established in truth, abides in the Brahmanas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यच्छन्ति सचिवा गुह्मां मिथो विश्रावयन्त्यपि

English

Twice-born, joined to dharma, are the best and become joined to the Vedas; sacrifice came from the Vedas, and sacrifice pleases the gods.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्रह्मदण्डमदृष्टेषु दृष्टेषु चतुरद्धिणीम्

English

And the gods, pleased, always yield to Indra; and Shakra gives food, favouring these creatures.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भेजकर आक्रमण करे

English

And the breaths of all beings are ever established in food; therefore the subjects are established, and the rod stays awake over them.

हिन्दी अर्थ

युक्तो5स्य वधमन्विच्छेदप्रमत्त: प्रमाद्यत:

English

Thus, and for this purpose, the rod has become the kshatriya state; protecting the subjects it stays awake, ever well disposed and imperishable.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अमित्रमपि सेवेत न च जातु विशड्कयेत्

English

Lord, person, life-breath, being, wealth, Prajapati, self of beings, soul—it is called by these eight names.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न च तेष्वाश्वसेद् राजा जाग्रतीह निराकृता:

English

The rod gave him surely sovereignty and might; ever joined in strength with policy, it is of a fivefold nature.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथा विविधवृत्तानामैश्वर्यममराधिप

English

Family, arms, wealth, ministers and wisdom are said to be strengths, and with eightfold goods the other strength is gained, Yudhishthira.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यतते योगमास्थाय मित्रामित्रं विचारयेत्

English

Elephants, horses, chariots, footmen, boats, forced labour, and guides and spies—that is called the eight-limbed strength.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मित्र है तथा कौन शत्रु; इसका विचार करता रहे

English

Of the eight-limbed one, joined: elephants and elephant-riders, horsemen and footmen, ministers and suppliers of provisions,

हिन्दी अर्थ

मा तीक्ष्णो मा मृदुर्भूस्त्वं तीक्ष्णो भव मृदुर्भव

English

mendicants, judges, astrologers and diviners, treasury, allies, grain and all equipment—

हिन्दी अर्थ

कठोरता भी धारण करो और कोमल भी हो जाओ

English

the seven constituents and the eight limbs, which they know as the body here: of the kingdom the rod is a limb, and the rod is also its origin.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नित्यं विवरणाद् बाधस्तथा राज्यं प्रमाद्यत:ः

English

By the Lord, with effort, the rod was given to the kshatriya to uphold; the rod is self-same, eternal; there is no other more to be honoured by kings, so showing dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

साम्ना दानेन भेदेन दण्डेन च पुरंदर

English

By Brahma, for the protection of the world and the establishment of one's own dharma, vyavahara arose resting on the master's authority and another besides; hence that which is seen united, marked by the master's authority.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न तु शक्तो5पि मेधावी सवनिवारभेन्नूप:

English

Vyavahara has the Veda as its self, and is called resting on the Veda; and, tiger among men, it is rooted in the original and also stated in the scriptures.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुरेषु राष्ट्रेषु च सम्प्रयुक्तान्

English

And the rod that is told, marked by the master's authority, is not to be known as resting on the king, but as resting on the rod itself.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुरेषु राष्ट्रषु च योजयन्ति

English

Even that seen as resting on the rod is held to be of the nature of vyavahara; and vyavahara that is held to be so has the Veda as its sphere.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अर्पित करके उनके साथ कुछ अन्य आत्मीय जनोंको भी लगा देते हैं

English

And what is born of the Veda is dharma, showing virtue; dharma arises resting on dharma, as done by the perfected.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कथं दुष्ट विजानीयामेतत् पृष्टो वदस्व मे

English

Vyavahara, protector of the subjects, ordained by Brahma, Yudhishthira, supports the three worlds, truth-souled and increasing prosperity.

हिन्दी अर्थ

परैर्वा कीर्त्यमानेषु तृष्णीमास्ते पराड्मुख:

English

What is the rod is seen by us as the eternal vyavahara; and the vyavahara that is seen is dharma, as we have heard; what is the Veda is dharma, and what is dharma is the good path.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निःश्वासं चोष्ठसंदंशं शिरसश्न प्रकम्पनम्

English

Brahma Prajapati was first, then the grandfather, of all the worlds, of gods, demons and rakshasas, of men and serpents, and he is the maker of beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अदृष्टितो न कुरुते दृष्टो नैवाभिभाषते

English

Therefore this vyavahara of ours is marked by the master's authority; hence we have spoken this illustration of vyavahara.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आसने शयमने याने भावा लक्ष्या विशेषत:

English

Mother, father, brother, wife and household priest—for kings there is none not to be punished who does not stand in his own dharma."