Anushasana Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

यत्तु वाणिजके दत्तं नेह नामुत्र तद् भवेत्

English

name the descending node of the Moon by that name. Hence Rahu is the ascending node of the Moon. Graha, is that which seizes; Grahapati is Mangala, so called for its malevolence, Varah is Vrihaspati or Jupiter, who is the counterself of Sukra or Venus. In Hindu mythology, Sukra is a male person, the preceptor of the Daityas and Asuras. Atri is Vudha or Mercury, represented as the sons of Atri. Atryahnamaskarta is Durvasas who was the son of Atri's wife, got by the lady through a boon of Mahadeva. Daksha's Sacrifice sought to fly away from Siva, but the latter pursued it and shot his arrow at it for destroying it downright.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वेदविद्याव्रतस्नातो विप्र: पंक्ति पुनात्युत सत्यवादी धर्मशील: स्वकर्मनिरतश्न॒ सः

English

[Bhishma said:] The theft done for the lotus long ago, best of the Bharatas, by royal sages, great king, and by twice-born sages as well.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त॑ मध्यस्थं भोजयेद्धव्यकव्ये

English

The sages gathered at the western Prabhasa, assembled, consulted: "Let us all roam the earth with its holy fords; that is our task; come, let us all go."

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्य वंशे महाराज दत्तात्रेय इति स्मृत: प्रतापी ऋषि थे। उनके वंभमें दत्तात्रेयजीका प्रादुर्भाव हुआ

English

Shukra, Angiras, and the wise Kavi, Agastya, Narada and Parvata, Bhrigu, Vasishtha, Kashyapa, Gautama, Vishvamitra and Jamadagni, king,

हिन्दी अर्थ

भृशमाश्वासयामास वाग्भिरिष्टाभिरव्यय:

English

the sage Galava, Ashtaka, Bharadvaja, Arundhati, the Valakhilyas, Shibi, Dilipa, Nahusha, Ambarisha, King Yayati, Dhundhumara and Puru,

हिन्दी अर्थ

सप्तकः पितृवंशस्तु पूर्वदृष्ट: स्वयम्भुवा

English

went, putting in front the greatly glorious Shatakratu, slayer of Vritra, lord of men; circling all the fords, they came to the holy ford Kaushiki in Madhya.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उनकी संख्या सात है पानेके अधिकारी उन महात्माओंके नामोंको कहता हूँ

English

In all the fords, their sins shaken off, they then went to the very holy Brahmasara; plunging into the water at the god's ford, bright as fire, they were fruitful with eaten lotus stalks.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पार्ष्णिक्षेमा समूहश्च॒ दिव्यसानुस्तथैव च

English

Some dug stalks there, king, others, the brahmanas, dug lotus fibres there; then they saw the lotus being carried off, which Agastya had lifted from the lake.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जितात्मा मुनिवीर्यश्व दीप्तरोमा भयंकर: शैलाभ: परमक्रोधी धीरोष्णी भूपतिस्तथा

English

Agastya said to all those chief sages: "By whom was my well-grown lotus taken? I suspect you; let my lotus be given; you ought not to take the lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

हव्यं कव्यं प्रयच्छन्ति तेषां तत् प्रेत्य नश्यति द्विजको हव्य-कव्यका दान करते हैं, उनका वह दान परलोकमें नष्ट हो जाता है

English

his seed into it. That seed became a golden egg. It may also mean that Mahadeva is Agni or the deity of fire, for gold represents the seed of Agni.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुरीषं भुज्जते तेषां पितर: प्रेत्य निश्चय:

English

of this seed, Jiva travels from one world into another ceaselessly. This seed, therefore, is the conveyance or the means of locomotion of Jiva. Mahadeva is Jiva. The soul is called the rider, and the body is the car that bears the Soul on it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उनके पितर परलोकमें निश्चय ही उनकी विष्ठा खाते हैं शूद्राणामुपदेशं च ये कुर्वन्त्यल्पचेतस:

English

Mahadeva. This make up the first hundred names. The commentator takes Avala and Gana together.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पंक्‍्त्यां समुपविष्टायां तावद् दूषयते नृप

English

became nude on one occasion. The real meaning, however, is that he is capable of covering and does actually cover even infinite space. In the sense of nude, the word means one that has empty space for his cover or vestments.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पंक्तिमें जितने लोगोंको देखता है, उन सबको दूषित कर देता है सोपानत्कश्च यद् भुंक्ते सर्व विद्यात् तदासुरम्

English

This is only another way of saying that thou hast Jnanamayam Tapah.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्व तदसुरेन्द्राय ब्रह्मा भागमकल्पयत्

English

soul through the doors of the senses. The meaning is that Mahadeva is he through whose puissance the mind succeeds in acquiring knowledge through the senses.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हुए स्थानमें श्राद्धका दान करे और वहाँ सब ओर तिल छींटे यातुधाना: पिशाचाश्च विप्रलुम्पन्ति तद्धवि:

English

letter n (the palatal one) signifies nivritti. Hence Krishna is anandatanmatra.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तावत्फलाद भ्रंशयति दातारं तस्य बालिशम्

English

the incident noted in the text, for the matted locks of Mahadeva had sucked up the river Ganga when it

हिन्दी अर्थ

ये त्वतस्तान् प्रवक्ष्यामि परी क्षस्वेह तान् द्विजान् उन्हें सर्वपावन जानना चाहिए

English

[Kashyapa said:] "May he sell everything everywhere, be greedy about a deposit, and give false witness, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्रिणाचिकेत: पञ्चाग्निस्त्रिसुपर्ण: षडंगवित्

English

[Gautama said:] "May he live made by understanding and sell himself as the lowest; may he be a farmer and envious, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

मखेषु च समन्त्रेषु भवन्त्यवभूथप्लुता:

English

[Angiras said:] "May he be impure, a fraud in Brahman, and drag dogs, and be a maker of loss of Brahman, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्वभूतहिता ये च श्राद्धेष्वेतान् निमन्त्रयेत् भी महान् भाग्यशाली पंक्तिपावन ब्राह्मण हैं, उन्हें इस प्रकार जानना चाहिए

English

[Dhundhumara said:] "May he be ungrateful to friends, be born of a shudra woman, and eat his prosperity alone, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

ये चेतिहासं प्रयता: श्रावयन्ति द्विजोत्तमान्

English

[Puru said:] "May he practise medicine, nourish himself by his wife, and have his livelihood from his father-in-law, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

अधीयते पुराण ये धर्मशास्त्राण्यथापि च उपपन्नो गुरुकुले सत्यवादी सहस्रश:

English

[Dilipa said:] "May a brahmana, husband of a shudra woman, in a village by a well-raft, go to his world from greed, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

यावदेते प्रपश्यन्ति पंक्त्यास्तावत्पुनन्त्युत

English

[Shukra said:] "May he eat meat from the back, go to women by day and be a servant of the king, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

क्रोशादर्धतृतीयाच्च पावयेदेक एव हि अकेला ही साढ़े तीन कोसतकका स्थान पवित्र कर सकता है

English

[Jamadagni said:] "May he study on non-study days, feed a friend at the funeral rite and eat at a shudra's funeral rite, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनृत्विगनुपाध्याय: स चेदग्रासनं व्रजेत्

English

[Shibi said:] "May he die without kindling the fire, make obstruction to sacrifice and quarrel with ascetics, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

अथ चेद् वेदवित् सर्व: पंक्तिदोषैविवर्जित: हुआ है तो वह पंक्तिपावन ही है

English

[Yayati said:] "May he beget in a vow-keeping wife, a matted-haired one, out of season, and reject the Vedas, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्मात् सर्वप्रयत्नेन परीक्ष्यामन्त्रयेद् द्विजान्

English

[Nahusha said:] "May a householder drive off a guest, may an initiated one be self-willed, and a hireling give learning, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

यस्य मित्रप्रधानानि श्राद्धानि च हवींषि च स्वर्गाल्लोकाच्च्यवते श्राद्धमित्र:

English

[Ambarisha said:] "May he be cruel, having abandoned dharma toward women, kinsmen and cows, and abandon a brahmana, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

न होकर मध्यस्थ हो तस्मै श्राद्ध न दातव्यं न हि भस्मनि हूयते

English

[Narada said:] "May he be hidden and ignorant, speak out of tune to those who recite scripture outside, and scorn his elders, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

शालान्तरे गौरिव नष्टवत्सा

English

[Nabhaga said:] "May he always speak untruth, quarrel with the good and give a maiden for a price, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

यां चानृते दक्षिणामावृणोति निश्चिता: सर्वधर्मज्ञास्तान् देवा ब्राह्मणान् विदु:

English

[Kavi said:] "May he strike a cow with his foot, urinate toward the sun and abandon a refugee, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

तपोनिष्ठ और किन्हींको कर्मनिष्ठ जानना चाहिए

English

[Vishvamitra said:] "May he, as a hireling, make no rain, be king's priest and be an officiant for one not fit to sacrifice for, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत्र ये ब्राह्मणान् केचिन्न निन्दन्ति हि ते नरा: ब्राह्मणोंकी निन्‍्दा नहीं करते, वे ही श्रेष्ठ मनुष्य हैं

English

[Parvata said:] "May he be an official in a village, go on a donkey cart and drag dogs for a livelihood, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्राह्मणा निन्दिता राजन हन्युस्त्रैपुरुषं कुलम्

English

[Bharadvaja said:] "The taking up of all sins toward the cruel and the false, may that sin always be his who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

दूरादेव परीक्षेत ब्राह्मणान् वेदपारगान् एकस्तान्मन्त्रवित् प्रीत: सर्वानहति भारत

English

[Ashtaka said:] "May he be a king of untrained understanding, self-willed and a doer of sin, and rule the earth by unrighteousness, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

भृग्वंगिरसिके काले मुनिना कतरेण वा

English

[Galava said:] "May he be priceless to the most sinful, a doer of his own sin, and proclaim a gift after giving it, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

धान्यजात्यश्व का वज्यस्तिन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह येन संकल्पितं चैव तन्‍्मे शूणु जनाधिप

English

[Arundhati said:] "May she speak blame of her mother-in-law, be ill-minded toward her husband and eat sweets alone, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

सब तुम्हें बता रहा हूँ, सुनो

English

[Valakhilya said:] "May he stand at the village gate on one foot for a livelihood, a knower of dharma who has abandoned dharma, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

निमेश्चाप्पभवत् पुत्र: श्रीमान्नाम श्रिया वृत:

English

[Pashusakha said:] "May that twice-born sleep in comfort disregarding the fire offering, may he be a mendicant by choice, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

था श्रीमान। वह बड़ा कान्तिमान् था कालधर्मपरीतात्मा निधनं समुपागत:

English

[Surabhi said:] "With the cord of balbaja grass for a fastener, may the milking vessel be bronze; may she be milked with a calf placed, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

संतापमगमत् तीव्र पुत्रशोकपरायण:

English

[Bhishma said:] Then, as those oaths were sworn, of many kinds, O lord of the Kauravas, the thousand-eyed king of the gods, greatly glad, looked at that angry chief of sages.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तमेव गणयन् शोक विरात्रे प्रत्यबुध्यत मन: संवृत्य विषये बुद्धिर्विस्तारगामिनी

English

Then Maghavan, addressing that sage who had become angry, said his own conviction among Brahmarishis, divine sages and royal sages; hear that now, king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यानि तस्यैव भोज्यानि मूलानि च फलानि च

English

[Shakra said:] "May he give his daughter to an Adhvaryu or to a Chhandogya, though a celibate student; the brahmana who studies the Atharvan and bathes, who takes the lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

तानि सर्वाणि मनसा विनिक्षित्य तपोधन: दक्षिणावर्तिका: सर्वा बृसी: स्वयमथाकरोत्

English

"May he study all the Vedas, be meritorious and righteous, and go to Brahma's abode, who takes your lotus."

हिन्दी अर्थ

पादयोश्रैव विप्राणां ये त्वन्नमुपभुञज्जते

English

[Agastya said:] "You have spoken a blessing, slayer of Bala, not an oath; let my lotus be given to me; this is eternal dharma."

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रददौ श्रीमत: पिण्डान् नामगोत्रमुदाहरन् पश्चात्तापेन महता तप्यमानो5भ्यचिन्तयत्

English

[Indra said:] "Blessed one, I did not take the lotus out of greed; I took it wishing to hear your dharma; you ought not to be angry.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कथं नु शापेन न मां दहेयुत्राह्मिणा इति

English

Dharma was heard, the elevation, a bridge of dharma free of ill, the sages', eternal, always imperishable; I have heard it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ध्यातमात्रस्तथा चात्रिराजगाम तपोधन: उनके चिन्तन करते ही तपोधन अत्रि वहाँ आ पहुँचे

English

So take this lotus, learned one, best of sages; blessed one, you ought to forgive my transgression, blameless one."

हिन्दी अर्थ

मा ते भूद् भी: पूर्वदृष्टो धर्मो5यं ब्रह्मणा स्वयम् ऋते स्वयम्भुव: कोडन्य: श्राद्धेयं विधिमाहरेत्

English

Thus addressed by Mahendra, the angry wise ascetic took the lotus, and the sage became pleased.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दूसरा कौन इस श्राद्धविधिका उपदेश कर सकता है

English

They went on again to the fords, roaming the forest, and bathed their limbs in the holy fords.

हिन्दी अर्थ

करता हूँ, इसे सुनो और सुनकर इसी विधिके अनुसार श्राद्धका अनुष्ठान करो ततो5ग्नये5थ सोमाय वरुणाय च नित्यश:

English

One who, composed, recites this account at each festival will not beget a foolish son and will not be outcast.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वैष्णवी काश्यपी चेति तथैवेहाक्षयेति च

English

No calamity touches him, no fever or disease; free of dust, joined with good, he would gain heaven after death.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उष्णपा ये महाभागास्तेषां भाग: प्रकल्पित: पितरोंको उष्णप भी कहते हैं। स्वयम्भूने श्राद्धमें उनका भाग निश्चित किया है

English

And whoever meditates on the treatise guarded by sages goes to Brahma's imperishable world, best of men.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विद्युद्रर्चा: सोमवर्चा: सूर्यश्रीक्षेति नामतः

English

first fell from heaven. Then Rit means sovereignty or lordship. Riddah is one that gives sovereignty. Combining the two, the compound Kaparddin is formed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सोममेवाभ्यपद्यन्त तदा हुन्नाभिपीडिता: निवापान्नेन पीड्याम: श्रेयो नो5त्र विधीयताम्

English

[Yudhishthira said:] Not only in the funeral rite but in other meritorious acts too it is given; I wish to hear this at length and in truth, king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पिण्ड देना चाहिए, फिर पितामहको

English

[Bhishma said:] Hear attentively, king, the detail of the umbrella and sandals, how it became famed in the world and by whom it was set going.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्रूयाच्छाद्धे च सावित्रीं पिण्डे पिण्डे समाहित: एकाग्रचित्त हो प्रत्येक पिण्ड देते समय गायत्री-मन्त्रका उच्चारण करना चाहिए

English

And how it gained imperishability and holiness, and how it came: I shall tell all this fully, lord of men.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निवापे नोपतिषेत संग्राह्मा नान्यवंशजा

English

Hear this ancient event, lord of men: the conversation of Jamadagni and the great-souled Sun.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नदीमासाद्य कुर्वीत पितृणां पिण्डतर्पणम् बाद वहाँ पितरोंके लिये पिण्डदान और तर्पण करना चाहिए

English

Long ago the blessed Bhargava himself played with a bow, setting arrows and shooting them.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मासार्थे कृष्णपक्षस्य कुर्यान्निर्वपणानि वै

English

Renuka brought all those arrows of his, shining with splendour, and gave them to him again and again, unfallen one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पितामह:ः पुलस्त्यश्न वसिष्ठ: पुलहस्तथा एते कुरुकुलश्रेष्ठ महायोगेश्वरा: स्मृता:

English

Then, glad at the sound of the bowstring and the arrow, he shot, and she brought them back.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रेतास्तु पिण्डसम्बन्धान्मुच्यन्ते तेन कर्मणा

English

Then, when the sun had climbed to midday over the root of Jyeshtha, the twice-born, having struck her with arrows, said this to Renuka.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उष्णीनाभो नभोददश्च विश्वायुर्दीप्तिरेव च ईश: कर्ता कृतिर्दक्षो भुवनो दिव्यकर्मकृत्

English

The Bengal texts which read Nabhastala are vicious.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सप्तकृत् सोमवर्चाश्च विश्वकृत् कविरेव च

English

What is said, therefore, here is that thou art the deities and thou art their foes of the Daityas and others.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कीर्तितास्ते महाभागा: कालस्य गतिगोचरा: हिंगुद्रव्येषु शाकेषु पलाण्डुं लसुनं तथा

English

eternal space, it is believed to have an existence. Unmanifest Brahman is frequently represented as anahatah savdah or unstruck sound.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कूृष्माण्डजात्यलाबुं च कृष्णं लवणमेव च

English

due to Mahadeva's kindness for Krishna, even as Krishna broke his own vow of never taking up arms in the battle of Kurukshetra, for honouring his worshipper Bhishma who had vowed that he would compel Krishna to take up arms.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अंकुराद्यास्तथा वर्ज्या इह शृंगाटकानि च अवक्षुतावरुदितं तथा श्राद्धे च वर्जयेत्

English

there appears a banian tree under whose shade the immortal Rishi Markandeya sees a boy who is

हिन्दी अर्थ

पितरक्न हि देवाश्न नाभिनन्दन्ति तद्धवि:

English

recluse. House-holders bear a tuft of hair on their heads, Sanyasins have bald heads, while forest recluses or Vanaprasthis have matted locks.

हिन्दी अर्थ

काषायवासा: कुछ्छी वा पतितो ब्रह्म॒हापि वा वर्जनीया बुधैरेते निवापे समुपस्थिते

English

identical with Brahman is displayed in the heart that is within the physical case. Hence, he may be said to take birth or appear in his effulgence within every one's body.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पितामहसभां दिव्यां जगामात्रिस्तपोधन:

English

with the illusion of the Supreme Deity. This all covering illusion, again, has the Supreme Deity for its

हिन्दी अर्थ

हुए, उसके बाद सभी महर्षि शास्त्रविधिके अनुसार पितृयज्ञका अनुष्ठान करने लगे तर्पणं चाप्यकुर्वन्त तीर्थाम्भोभिययतव्रता:

English

[Bhishma said:] He, stretching the divine bow and taking many arrows, stood facing the sun, in the direction the sun goes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तर्पिता: पितरो देवास्तत्रान्नं जरयन्ति वै

English

Then, as he was about to strike him, the Sun came up in the form of a brahmana and said, Kaunteya, "What offence has the sun done to you?

हिन्दी अर्थ

बहुत कष्ट पा रहे हैं। अब आप हमारा कल्याण कीजिये!

English

The sun, learned one, takes up with his rays the essence from here and there in the sky; and the sun rains that essence in the rains.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वयम्भूसदनं यात स व: श्रेयोडभिधास्यति मेरुशृंगे समासीनं पितामहमुपागमन्

English

Then grain arises, brahmana, bringing comfort to men; grain is breath, as it is read in the Vedas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रसाद कुरु नो देव श्रेयो न: संविधीयताम्

English

Then, hidden in clouds and surrounded by rays, brahmana, he rains with rain on these seven islands.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वष्ट पा रहे हैं। देव! हमलोगोंपर कृपा कीजिये और हमें कल्याणके भागी बनाइये एष मे पार्श्चतो वद्िययुष्मच्छेयोभिधास्यति

English

Then from the herbs and creepers all that is produced of leaf and flower comes about by the rain, grain arises, lord.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जरयिष्यथ चाप्यन्नं मया सार्ध न संशय:

English

All birth rites, vows and initiations, the cow-gifts, marriages and the prosperity of sacrifices,

हिन्दी अर्थ

इसमें संशय नहीं है अग्निको ही भाग अर्पित किया जाता है

English

sessions and gifts, unions and hoards of wealth go on from grain, as you know, Bhargava.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न ब्रह्ाराक्षसास्तं वै निवापं धर्षयन्त्युत

English

All lovely things and all undertakings arise from grain; I tell you what is known.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उसे ब्रह्मराक्षस दूषित नहीं करते पूर्व पिण्डं पितुर्दद्यात् ततो दद्यात् पितामहे

English

You know all this, brahmana, that I have told; I propitiate you, brahmana sage; why is the sun to be struck down?"