Anushasana Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

देवह्द उपस्पृश्य ब्रह्मभूतो विराजते

English

"Yudhishthira said, 'It behoveth, O king to tell me truly which of the two viz., man or woman derives the greater pleasure from an act of union with each other. Kindly resolve my doubt in this respect."

हिन्दी अर्थ

सिध्यते तु महाबाहो यो नरो जायतेडमर:

English

[Bhishma said:] Some have the excellent secret vow of action: whoever begs whatever, "I shall give everything."

हिन्दी अर्थ

एक ही रातमें सिद्धि मिल जाती है तथा वह मृत्युके पश्चात् देवता होता है

English

We have heard that without troubling the group of servants; for one who troubles servants lowers himself.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वहाँ उपवासपूर्वक रहता है उसे अश्वमेधयज्ञका फल मिलता है

English

A worthy vessel may be one who is unprecedented, or one who has long lived with one, or one who comes from afar: so the wise know.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अग्निष्टोममवाप्रोति प्रभातां शर्वरीं शुचि:

English

[Yudhishthira said:] Without troubling servants and with non-violence to dharma, we should know the worthy vessel in truth, to whom a gift does not cause remorse.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुण्डरीकमवाप्नोति उपस्पृश्य नर: शुचि:

English

[Bhishma said:] Officiants, priests, teachers, pupils, relatives and kinsmen are all to be honoured and respected when joined with learning and conduct.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुण्डरीकयज्ञका फल पाता है

English

Those who behave otherwise than this are all unworthy of honour; therefore one should always examine men attentively.

हिन्दी अर्थ

काम॑ जित्वा च वै मासं सर्वयज्ञफलं लभेत्

English

Freedom from anger, truthful speech, non-violence, self-control, honesty, freedom from malice, absence of excess of pride, modesty, patience, austerity and peace.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अभ्येत्य योजनशताद्ू भ्रूणहा विप्रमुच्यते

English

In whom these are seen, and not forbidden acts, Bharata, established by feeling, that vessel deserves honour.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नन्दने सेव्यते दान्तस्त्वप्सरोभिरहिंसक:

English

"Bhishma said, 'In this connection is cited this old narrative of the discourse between Bhangaswana and Sakra as a precedent illustrating the question. In days of yore there lived a king of the name of Bhangaswana. He was exceedingly righteous and was known as a royal sage. He was, however, childless, O chief of man, and therefore performed a sacrifice from desire of obtaining an issue. The sacrifice which that mighty monarch performed was the Agnishtuta. In consequence of the fact that the deity of fire is alone adored in that sacrifice, this is always disliked by Indra. Yet it is the sacrifice that is desired by men when for the purpose of obtaining an issue they seek to cleanse themselves of their sins. 2 The highly blessed chief of the celestials, viz. Indra, learning that the monarch was desirous of performing the Agnishtuta, began from that moment to look for the laches of that royal sage of well- restrained soul (for if he could succeed in finding some laches, he could then punish his disregarder). Notwithstanding all his vigilance, however, O king, Indra failed to detect any laches, on the part of the high-souled monarch. Some time after, one

हिन्दी अर्थ

तीर्थका सेवन करता है उसकी स्वर्गस्थ नन्दनवनमें अप्सराएँ सेवा करती हैं

English

day, the king went on a hunting expedition. Saying unto himself—This, indeed, is an opportunity, —Indra stupefied the monarch. The king proceeded alone on his horse, confounded because of the chief of the celestials having stupefied his senses. Afflicted with hunger and thirst, the king's confusion was so great that he could not ascertain the points of the compass. Indeed, afflicted with thirst, he began to wander hither and thither. He then beheld a lake that was exceedingly beautiful and was full of transparent water. Alighting from his steed, and plunging into the lake, he caused his animal to drink. Tying his horse then, whose thirst had been slaked, to a tree, the king plunged into the lake again for performing his ablutions. To his amazement he found that he was changed, by virtue of the waters, into a woman. Beholding himself thus transformed in respect of sex itself, the king became overpowered with shame. With his senses and mind completely agitated, he began to reflect with his whole heart in this strain:— Alas, how shall I ride my steed? How shall I return to my capital? In consequence of the Agnishtuta sacrifice I have got a hundred sons all endued with great might, and all children of my own loins. Alas, thus transformed, what shall I say unto them? What shall I say unto my spouses, my relatives and well- wishers, and my subjects of the city and the provinces? Rishis conversant with the truths of duty and religion and other matters say that mildness and softness and liability to extreme agitation are the attributes of women, and that activity, hardness, and energy are the attributes of men. Alas, my manliness has disappeared. For what reason has femininity come over me? In consequence of this transformation of sex, how shall I succeed in mounting my horse again?— Having indulged in these sad thoughts, the monarch, with great exertion, mounted his steed and came back to his capital, transformed

हिन्दी अर्थ

लौहित्ये विधिवत् स्नात्वा पुण्डरीकफलं लभेत्

English

A brahmana who thinks himself learned, a reviler of the Veda, devoted to the useless science of logic and reasoning,

हिन्दी अर्थ

द्वादशाहं निराहार: कल्मषादू विप्रमुच्यते

English

speaking arguments among the good, a winner by causeless arguing, and always a reviler and over-talkative against brahmanas,

हिन्दी अर्थ

उपवास करनेवाला पुरुष सब पापोंसे छूट जाता है

English

suspicious of all, foolish, childish, harsh-voiced: such a one, dear one, is to be understood; they call him a man-dog.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एकमासं निराहारो जमदग्निगतिं लभेत्

English

As a dog is let loose to bark and to kill, so for conversation and for the killing of all scripture are those of little learning, bad reasoners, seen and touched, bad pundits.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जमदग्निके समान सदगति प्राप्त होती है

English

One should follow those who know Shruti, Smriti, Itihasa, Purana, the Aranyaka and the Veda, the learned who know much and who know the essence.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विनयात्तप आस्थाय मासेनैकेन सिध्यति

English

The course of the world and dharma and what is good for oneself should be considered; a man acting so prospers for everlasting years.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एकपक्षं निराहारो राजपुत्रो विधीयते

English

Having discharged the debt to the gods, to the sages, to the ancestors, to brahmins, and fifth to guests,

हिन्दी अर्थ

अहोरात्रेण चैकेन सिद्धि समधिगच्छति

English

in turn, by pure and well-cleansed action, a householder doing deeds so does not fall from dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वर्गमार्गे नरः स्नात्वा ब्रह्मलोक॑ स गच्छति

English

though he had been into a woman. His sons and spouses and servants, and his subjects of the city and the provinces, beholding that extraordinary transformation, became exceedingly amazed. Then that royal sage, that foremost of eloquent men, addressing them all, said,— I had gone out on a hunting expedition, accompanied by a large force. Losing all knowledge of the points of the compass, I entered a thick and terrible forest, impelled by the fates. In that terrible forest, I became afflicted with thirst and lost my senses. I then beheld a beautiful lake abounding with fowl of every description. Plunging into that stream for performing my ablutions, I was transformed into a woman! —Summoning then his spouses and counsellors, and all his sons by their names, that best of monarchs transformed into a woman said unto them these words:— Do ye enjoy this kingdom in happiness. As regards myself, I shall repair to the woods, ye sons.— Having said so unto his children, the monarch proceeded to the forest. Arrived there, she came upon an asylum inhabited by an ascetic. By that ascetic the transformed monarch gave birth to a century of sons. Taking all those children of hers, she repaired to where her former children were, and addressing the latter, said,— Ye are the children of my loins while I was a man. These are my children brought forth by me in this state of transformation. Ye

हिन्दी अर्थ

पूर्वजन्मकी बातोंको स्मरण करता है

English

[Bhishma said:] On this too they recite this ancient Itihasa, the conversation of Narada and the wanton woman Panchachuda.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भीष्मस्तेषां कथा: श्रुत्वा ऋषीणां भावितात्मनाम्

English

Long ago the wise divine sage Narada, roaming the worlds, saw the apsara Panchachuda, a woman of Brahma's world, blameless.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ही वहाँसे अदृश्य हो गये

English

Seeing her lovely in every limb, the sage asked the apsara: "I have a doubt in my heart; tell me that, slender-waisted one."

हिन्दी अर्थ

तानृषीन् सुमहाभागानन्तर्धानगतानपि

English

Thus addressed, she replied to the brahmana Narada: "If it is within my domain, I shall tell you, if you think me able."

हिन्दी अर्थ

और उन्हें प्रणाम करते रहे

English

[Narada said:] "I shall not engage you in a matter outside your domain, fair one. I wish to hear from you the nature of women, fair-faced one."

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रसन्नमनस: सर्वे गाज़ेयं कुरुसत्तमम्

English

[Bhishma said:] Hearing his words, the best of apsarases replied to the divine sage: "I, a woman, being good, cannot blame women."

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रभावात् तपसस्तेषामृषीणां वीक्ष्य पाण्डवा:

English

"You know which women are and of what kind by nature; you ought not to engage me, divine sage, in such a question."

हिन्दी अर्थ

पाण्डवा: सह भीष्मेण कथाश्षक्रुस्तदाश्रया:

English

The divine sage said to her, "Speak the truth, slender-waisted one; there is a fault in untruth; in truth there is no fault."

हिन्दी अर्थ

आकर: सर्वरत्नानां सिद्धचारणसेवित:

English

sons, do ye all enjoy my kingdom together, like brothers born of the same parents.— At this command of their parent, all the brothers, uniting together, began to enjoy the kingdom as their joint property. Beholding those children of the king all jointly enjoying the kingdom as brothers born of the same parents, the chief of the celestials, filled with wrath, began to reflect— By transforming this royal sage into a woman I have, it seems, done him good instead of an injury. Saying this, the chief of the celestials viz., Indra of a hundred sacrifices, assuming the form of a Brahmana, repaired to the capital of the king and meeting all the children succeeded in disuniting the princes. He said unto them— Brothers never remain at peace even when they happen to be the children of the same father. The sons of the sage Kasyapa, viz., the deities and the Asuras, quarrelled with each other on account of the sovereignty of the three worlds. As regards ye princes, ye are the children of the royal sage Bhangaswana. These others are the children of an ascetic. The deities and the Asuras are children of even one common sire, and yet the latter quarrelled with each other. How much more, therefore, should you quarrel with each other? This kingdom that is your paternal property is being enjoyed by these children of an ascetic. With these words, Indra succeeded in causing a breach between them, so that they were very soon engaged in battle and slew each other. Hearing this, king Bhangaswana, who was living as an ascetic woman, burnt with grief and poured forth her lamentations. The lord of the celestials viz. Indra, assuming the guise of a Brahmana, came to that spot where the ascetic lady was living and meeting her, said,— O thou that art possessed of a beautiful face, with what grief dost thou burn so that thou art pouring forth thy lamentations?— Beholding the Brahmana the lady told him in a piteous voice,— Two hundred sons of mine O regenerate one, have been slain by Time. I was formerly a king, O learned Brahmana and in that state had a hundred sons. These were begotten by me after my own form, O best of regenerate persons. On one occasion I went on a hunting expedition. Stupefied, I wandered amidst a thick forest. Beholding at last a lake, I plunged into it. Rising, O foremost of Brahmanas, I found that I had become a woman. Returning to my capital I installed my sons in the sovereignty of my dominions and then departed for the forest. Transformed into a woman, I bore a hundred sons to my husband who is a high souled ascetic. All of them were born in the ascetic's retreat. I took them to the capital. My children, through the

हिन्दी अर्थ

अध्रुवं जीवित ज्ञात्वा यो वै वेदान्तगो द्विज:

English

[Panchachuda said:] "Women of good family, beautiful, with protectors, do not stay within limits; that fault is in women, Narada.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततः सिद्धो दिवं गच्छेद् ब्रह्मलोक॑ सनातनम्

English

There is nothing else more sinful than women; women are the root of faults, as you too know.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न तेन किज्वचिन्न प्राप्त तीर्थाभिगमनाद् भवेत्

English

Having got an opening, women cannot wait for husbands well known, prosperous, suited and under their control.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुण्यसे कोई वस्तु दुर्लभ नहीं रहती

English

This is the evil dharma of us women, lord: that casting off shame we resort to sinful men.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मनसा तानि गम्यानि सर्वतीर्थसमीक्षया

English

Women wish for the very man who asks for a woman, comes close and does a little service.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तीर्थोमें शरीरसे न जा सके, वहाँ मनसे यात्रा करे

English

From men's not asking and from fear of relatives, the unrestrained women stay within limits with their husbands.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इदं रहस्यं वेदानामाप्लाव्यं पावनं तथा

English

There is none unapproachable for them, and no fixity in age; ugly or handsome, they enjoy a male just as a male.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुहृदां च जपेत् कर्णे शिष्यस्यानुगतस्य च

English

Women do not stay with their husbands from fear or from compassion or for wealth, nor from the bond of kin or family.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अज्धिरा: समनुज्ञात: काश्यपेन च धीमता

English

Women of good family long for women who are in youth, well adorned and clothed and who act as they please.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पराक्रमे शक्रसममादित्यसमतेजसम्

English

Even women who are always highly esteemed and guarded as dear cling to hunchbacks, the blind, the dull and the dwarfish.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भ्रातृभि: सहितो्यैश्न पर्यपृच्छद् युधिछ्िर:

English

Even to the lame, divine sage, and other despised men, there is none in this world unapproachable to women, great sage.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आज ममुर्भरतश्रेष्ठ द्रष्टकामा महर्षय:

English

If men are not found somehow, they act upon one another; they do not stay with their husbands.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अज्धिरागौतमोडगस्त्य: सुमति: सुयतात्मवान्

English

From not getting men, from fear of relatives and from fear of death and bondage, they become self-guarded.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बृहस्पत्युशनोव्यासाश्ष्यवन: काश्यपो थ्रुव:

English

Fickle by nature, hard to serve, hard to grasp by feeling: for a wise man here women are as speech is.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भरद्वाजोथ रैभ्यक्ष यवक्रीतस्त्रितस्तथा

English

Fire is not satisfied with wood, nor the great ocean with rivers, nor the ender with all beings, nor fair-eyed women with men.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नारद: पर्वतश्चैव सुधन्वाथैकतो द्विज:

English

Here is another secret of all women, divine sage: on seeing a man to the heart's liking, a woman's womb moistens.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तेषां महात्मनां पूजामागतानां युधिष्ठिर:

English

Women do not forgive the husband who is the giver of desires, the maker of mind's comfort and protector, the highest.

हिन्दी अर्थ

राजा युधिष्ठिरने उनकी क्रमश: विधिवत् पूजा की

English

They do not value many desires and enjoyments or the heaping of ornaments as they value favour in love.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ते पूजिता: सुखासीना: कथाशक्षक्रुर्महर्षय:

English

The ender, Death, the underworld, the mare's-mouth fire, a razor's edge, poison, a snake, fire: women are all that in one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततस्ते भीष्ममामन्त्रय पाण्डवांश्व महर्षय:

English

From where the five great elements, from where the worlds were ordained by the creator, from where men and women were made, there too, Narada, are the faults in women."

हिन्दी अर्थ

रखकर धर्मपुत्र पाण्डुनन्दन युधिष्ठिरने यह धर्मानुकूल प्रश्न पूछा--

English

influence of Time, quarrelled with each other, O twice-born one. Thus afflicted by Destiny, I am indulging in grief. Indra addressed him in these harsh words. —In former days, O lady, thou gayest me great pain, for thou didst perform a sacrifice that is disliked by Indra. Indeed, though I was present, thou didst not invoke me with honours. I am that Indra, O thou of wicked understanding. It is I with whom thou hast purposely sought hostilities. Beholding Indra, the royal sage fell at his feet, touching them with his head, and said,— Be gratified with me, O foremost of deities. The sacrifice of which thou speakest was performed from desire of offspring

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुरुषका किसी सिद्ध पुरुषके साथ जो संवाद हुआ था, वह प्राचीन इतिहास सुनो

English

"The lady said, 'I desire to remain a woman, O Sakra. In fact,— do not wish to be restored to the status of manhood, O Vasava.— Hearing this answer, Indra once more asked her, saying,— Why is it, O puissant one, that abandoning the status of manhood thou wishest that of womanhood? Questioned thus, that foremost of monarchs transformed into a woman answered, 'In acts of congress, the pleasure that women enjoy is always much greater than what is enjoyed by men. It is for this reason, O Sakra, that I desire to continue a woman; O foremost of the deities, truly do I say unto thee that I derive greater pleasure in my present status of womanhood. I am quite content with this status of womanhood that I now have. Do thou leave me now, O lord of heaven.— Hearing these words of hers, the lord of the celestials answered,— So be it,— and bidding her farewell, proceeded to heaven. Thus, O monarch, it is known that woman derives much greater pleasure than man under the circumstances thou hast asked.'"

हिन्दी अर्थ

असकृद द्विपदां श्रेष्ठ: श्रेष्टस्य गृहमेधिन:

English

[Yudhishthira said:] Thus, tiger among men, how can these women be guarded by a man here? You ought to explain that to me.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उवास रजनी तत्र सुमुख: सुखभागृषि:

English

These cheat men with illusions of their own making, and no man who comes into their hands is freed; like cows taking new grass, they take new men after new.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कृतकृत्यमुपातिष्ठत् सिद्ध तमतिथिं तदा

English

The illusion of Shambara, of Namuchi, of Bali and of Kumbhinasi: all those, know, are women.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चक्रतुर्वेदसम्बद्धास्तच्छेषकृतलक्षणा:

English

They laugh with one laughing, weep with one weeping, and by pleasant words take the unwelcome in time.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रश्न॑ पप्रच्छ मेधावी यन्मां त्वं परिपृच्छसि

English

In the scripture that Ushanas knows and what Brihaspati knows, the minds of women are not surpassed; how can they be guarded by men?

हिन्दी अर्थ

हैं, जिनके बीचसे होकर सरिताओंमें उत्तम भागीरथी गड़ा बहती हैं

English

"Untruth is truth" they say, and truth also so, untruth; how can such women be guarded by men here, hero?

हिन्दी अर्थ

गतिं तां न लभेज्जन्तुर्गज्भां संसेव्य यां लभेत्

English

By drawing out the minds of women, I think, slayer of foes, the treatises on wealth were made by the good, Brihaspati and others.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रकृष्टा: पुण्यत: काश्च ज्ञेया नद्य: पितामह

English

(and not from any wish to hurt thee). It behoveth thee therefore, to grant me thy pardon. —Indra, seeing the transformed monarch prostrate himself thus unto him, became gratified with him and desired to give him a boon. Which of your sons, O king, dost thou wish, should revive, those that were brought forth by thee transformed into a woman, or those that were begotten by thee in thy condition as a person of the male sex? The ascetic lady, joining her hands, answered Indra, saying, O Vasava, let those sons of mine come to life that were borne by me as a woman. Filled with wonder at this reply, Indra once more asked the lady, Why dost thou entertain less affection for those children of thine that were begotten by thee in thy form of a person of the male sex? Why is it that thou bearest greater affection for those children that were borne by thee in thy transformed state? I wish to hear the reason of this difference in respect of thy affection. It behoveth thee to tell me everything.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

पर्वत और कौन-कौन-सी नदियाँ पुण्यकी दृष्टिसे सर्वश्रेष्ठ समझने योग्य हैं?

English

"The lady said, 'The affection that is entertained by a woman is much greater than that which is entertained by a man. Hence, it is, O Sakra, that I wish those children to come back to life that were borne by me as a woman.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिलोज्छवृत्ते: संवादं सिद्धस्य च युधिष्ठिर

English

"Bhishma continued, 'Thus addressed, Indra became highly pleased and said unto her, O lady that art so truthful, let all thy children come back into life. Do thou take another boon, O foremost of kings, in fact, whatever boon thou likest. O thou of excellent vows, do thou take from me whatever status thou choosest, that of woman or of man.'