Anushasana Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

इत्युक्तो नहुषस्तेन योजयामास त॑ मुनिम् न चुकोप स धर्मात्मा ततः पादेन देवराट्

English

hands a quantity of Homa-fuel and Kusa grass and some fallen fruits. And he seemed to have already taken his daily food, for he had washed himself properly. Throwing down those things from his hand, my father, with eyes bathed in tears (of joy), raised me, for I had prostrated myself at his feet.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सो5भिषिक्तो भगवता देवराज्ये च वासव:

English

What does the Grandsire know that is higher than the power of austerity? Tell me what is supreme above austerity.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तासां मे रजसा ध्वस्तं भैक्षमासीन्नराधिप करनेवाले वे राजा भी नरकगामी हो गये

English

[Bhishma] As long as people speak of austerity, Yudhishthira, so long it is for the worlds; but in my view, son of Kunti, there is no austerity higher than fasting.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ह॒त्वा प्राणान् प्रमोक्षस्ते नान्‍्यथा मोक्षमर्हसि

English

On this too they cite an ancient tale: the dialogue between Bhagiratha and the great-souled Brahma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गौतमस्य मुनेस्तात संवादं वासवस्य च

English

Having passed beyond the world of the gods and the world of the cows, O Bharata, and the world of the sages, Bhagiratha came there, so it is heard.

हिन्दी अर्थ

महावने हस्तिशिशुं परिद्यूनममातृकम् स तु दीर्घेण कालेन बभूवातिबलो महान्

English

Seeing him, Brahma spoke to King Bhagiratha: "How, Bhagiratha, have you come to this place, so hard to approach?

हिन्दी अर्थ

धृतराष्ट्रस्य रूपेण शक्रो जग्राह हस्तिनम्

English

Neither gods nor gandharvas nor men, Bhagiratha, come here without austerities. How have you come here?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

अभ्यभाषत राजानं धृतराष्ट्र महातपा: मित्रद्रोहो मैव राजन् स्पृशेत् त्वाम्

English

[Bhagiratha] "I fearlessly gave food to brahmins, a hundred thousand times, and gave always; I held constantly the Brahmic vow. Know that I did not come here by the fruit of that.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मित्रद्रोहका पाप लगेगा। तुम्हें यह पाप न लगे, ऐसी चेष्टा करो

English

Nor by the fruit of the ten eleven-night rites, the ten five-night rites, the eleven elevens, or the rites, or the hundred Jyotishtoma sacrifices I have offered.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यस्मात् पदा55हत: क्रोधाच्छिरसीमं महामुनिम्

English

Embracing me he smelt my head, O son of Pandu, and said.— By good luck, O son, art thou seen by me. Thou hast come back, having acquired knowledge from the preceptor.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

इत्युक्त: स तदा तेन सर्पो भूत्वा पपात ह स तु तैस्तै: प्रदानैश्व तपोभिर्नियमैस्तथा

English

" Vaisampayana continued, 'Hearing these marvellous and most wonderful feats of the illustrious Mahadeva recited by the ascetics, the son of Pandu became amazed. Then Krishna, that foremost of all intelligent persons, spoke once more unto Yudhishthira, that ocean of righteousness, like Vishnu speaking unto Puruhuta.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रसादयामास भृगुं शापान्तो मे भवेदिति

English

"Vasudeva said, 'Upamanyu, who seemed to blaze with effulgence like the Sun, said unto me,— Those sinful men that are stained with unrighteous deeds, do not succeed in attaining to Isana. Their dispositions being stained by the attributes of Rajas and Tamas, they can never approach the Supreme Deity. It is only those regenerate persons who are of cleansed souls that succeed in attaining to the Supreme Deity. Even if a person lives in the enjoyment of every pleasure and luxury, yet if he be devoted to the Supreme Deity, he comes to be regarded as the equal of forest recluses of cleansed souls. If Rudra be gratified with a person, he can confer upon him the states of ether Brahma or of Kesava or of Sakra with all the deities under him, or the sovereignty of the three worlds. Those men, O sire, who worship Bhava even mentally, succeed in freeing themselves from all sins and attain to a residence in heaven with all the gods. A person who raises houses to the ground and destroys tanks and lakes indeed, who devastates the whole universe, does not become stained with sin, if he adores and worships the illustrious Deity of three eyes. A person that is destitute of every auspicious indication and that is stained by every sin, has all his sins destroyed by meditating upon Siva. Even worm and insects and birds, O Kesava, that devote themselves to Mahadeva, are enabled to rove in perfect fearlessness. Even this is my settled conviction that those men who devote themselves to Mahadeva become certainly emancipated from rebirth. After this, Krishna again addressed Yudhishthira the son of Dharma in the following words.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शापान्तार्थ महाराज स च प्रादात् कृपान्वित: प्रसन्न किया। तब कृपायुक्त हुए भूगुने उस शापका अंत इस प्रकार निश्चित किया

English

"Vishnu said, O Great King, Aditya, Chandra, Wind, Fire, Heaven, Earth, the Vasus, the Viswedevas, Dhatri, Aryyaman, Sukra, Vrihaspati, the Rudras, the Saddhyas, Varuna, Brahma, Sakra, Maruts, the Upanishads that deal with knowledge of Brahman, Truth, the Vedas, the Sacrifices, Sacrificial Presents, Brahmanas reciting the Vedas, Soma, Sacrificer, the shares of the deities in sacrificial offerings or clarified butter poured in sacrifices, Raksha, Diksha, all kinds of restraints in the form of vows and fasts and rigid observances, Swaha, Vashat, the Brahmanas, the celestial cow, the foremost acts of righteousness, the wheel of Time, Strength, Fame, Self-restraint, the Steadiness of all persons endued with intelligence, all acts of goodness and the reverse, the seven Rishis, Understanding of the foremost order, all kinds of excellent touch, the success of all (religious) acts, the diverse tribes of the deities, those beings that drink heat, those that are drinkers of Soma, Clouds, Suyamas, Rishitas, all creatures having Mantras for their bodies, Abhasuras, those beings that live upon scents

हिन्दी अर्थ

सत्वां मोक्षयिता शापादित्युक्त्वान्तरधीयत

English

In each of the Aptoryama rites I regularly gave ten, and gave milch cows, red cows, and Rohinis, and for that reason also.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जो तुम्हें इस शापसे मुक्त करेंगे--ऐसा कहकर भृगुजी अंतर्धान हो गये स्वमाश्रमपदं प्रायात् पूज्यमानो द्विजातिभि:

English

I gave, O brahmin, ten times ten myriads of milk cows, yet I did not come by that.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अपने आश्रमको चले गये

English

I gave ten myriads of horses of the Bahlika breed, adorned with gold garlands, and yet did not come by that.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जगाम ब्रह्मभवनं पश्यतस्ते जनाधिप ब्रह्मतोकको चले गये

English

I gave eight crores of gold, O Brahma, ten in every sacrifice, and yet I did not come by the fruit of that.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जगाम ब्रद्मुभवनं ब्रह्मणे च न्यवेदयत्

English

Of dark-eared green horses, O Grandsire, I gave seventeen crores with gold garlands, O Brahma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न च शकक्‍्यं विना राज्ञा सुरा वर्तयितुं क्वचित् और बोले--'भगवन्! ऐसा ही हो”

English

I gave seventeen thousand huge elephants with tusks like ploughshares, adorned with gold garlands, each with a mate.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवमेतत् पुरावृत्तं नहुषस्थ व्यतिक्रमात् पुरुष परलोकमें दिव्य नेत्र प्राप्त करता है

English

Lord of the gods, I gave seventeen thousand golden-limbed chariots adorned with divine gold ornaments, yoked with well-adorned horses.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पूर्णचन्द्रप्रतिकाशा दीपदाश्व॒ भवन्त्युत

English

Of the sacrificial fees that the Vedas proclaim, I gave in ten Vajapeyas; yet by that too I have not come here.

हिन्दी अर्थ

रूपवान् बलवांश्वापि नरो भवति दीपद: नृशंसकारिणो मूढा: क्व ते गच्छन्ति मानवा:

English

By sacrifice and valour, equal in power to Shakra, I gave a thousand men wearing gold necklaces as sacrificial fee.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चाण्डालस्य च संवाद क्षत्रबंधोश्व॒ भारत

English

Having conquered all kings and sacrificed, O Grandsire, in eight Rajasuyas, I did not come by that.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्राचीन इतिहासका उदाहरण दिया करते हैं श्वखराणां रज:सेवी कस्मादुद्धिजसे गवाम्

English

O lord of the world, as long as the Ganga's stream flowed, the world was covered with my sacrificial fees, and I did not come by that.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उद्विग्न हो रहा है

English

Two thousand horses adorned with a hundred gold ornaments each, and a hundred choice villages, I gave in three parts to each; being an ascetic who eats by rule, restrained in speech, having taken up peace,

हिन्दी अर्थ

कस्माद् गोरजसा ध्वस्तमपां कुण्डे निषिउचसि शरीरको क्यों जलके कुण्डमें डालकर धो रहा है?

English

for a long time in the Himalaya, I bore on my head the Ganga's stream, so hard to bear, which Mahadeva held on his head. Not by that fruit either, Grandsire, have I come here.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सह तैर्याजकै: सर्वर्त्रद्यस्वमुपजीव्य तत्

English

The gods I worshipped with the shami throw, with ten thousands of one-day rites, with thirteens and twelve-day rites, and with the Paundarikas; yet not by their fruit.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्राह्मणा: सहराजन्या: सर्वे नरकमाविशन् उपभोग किया, वे सभी ब्राह्मण और क्षत्रिय आदि नरकमें पड़े

English

Eight thousand white-humped bulls I gave to brahmins, each with a golden horn, and I gave their mates with gold necklaces.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पशूनवेक्षमाणाश्च साधुवृत्तेन दम्पती

English

I gave mountains of jewels heaped with gold and gems, and villages rich in wealth and grain by the hundred thousand.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्रह्मस्वं रजसा ध्वस्तं भुक्त्वा मां पश्य यादृशम्

English

Tirelessly I gave a hundred hundred milch cows to brahmins, having offered many great sacrifices; yet not by that.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ते तु वैवस्वतं प्राप्य रौरवं यान्ति सर्वश: जाकर रौरव नरकमें पड़ते हैं

English

I sacrificed with eleven-day rites with fees, with twelve-day rites, with Ashvamedhas, and with sixteen Arkayanas, O brahman; by their fruit I have not come here.

हिन्दी अर्थ

श्वचर्यामभिमानं च सखिदारे च विप्लवम्

English

I gave a gold necklace to a single person, and a forest of golden trees and gem-adorned mango trees a yojana wide; yet I have not come by their fruit.

हिन्दी अर्थ

श्वानं वै पापिनं पश्य विवर्ण हरिणं कृशम् अहं वै विपुले तात कुले धनसमन्विते

English

Without anger I kept the unassailable Turayana vow for thirty years, and day after day I gave brahmins a hundred cows and eight hundred more.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अभवं तत्र जानानो होतान् दोषान् मदात् सदा

English

Milch cows and red cows, and likewise bulls, O lord of the world, I gave brahmins constantly, O lord of the gods; yet not by that fruit have I come here.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आदीप्तमिव चैलान्तं भ्रमरैरिव चार्दितम् स्वाध्यायैस्तु महत्पापं हरन्ति गृहमेधिन:

English

O brahman, I sacrificed to the thirty fires, and constantly, with eight Sarvamedhas and seven Naramedhas,

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथा पापकृतं विप्रमाश्रमस्थं महीपते

English

with ten Vishvajits and hundreds, eighteen more; yet not by their fruit, lord of the gods, have I come here.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निश्चयं नाधिगच्छामि कथं मुच्येयमित्युत किस उपायसे मुक्त हो सकूँगा?

English

On the Sarayu, the Bahuda, the Ganga and at Naimisha, I gave a myriad hundreds of cows; yet not by that.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शुभेन येन मोक्ष॑ वै प्राप्तुमिच्छाम्यहं नृप

English

What Indra hid in a cave, what Bhargava gained here by austerity, blazing here with Ushanas's brilliance, that choice thing I accomplished by a boon.

हिन्दी अर्थ

है, जिससे मैं मोक्ष पानेकी इच्छा करता हूँ ब्राह्मणार्थे त्यजन् प्राणान् गतिमिष्टामवाप्स्यसि

English

Then the brahmins were pleased when that rite was accomplished; there were a thousand sages gathered there, and they said to me, 'Go to Brahma's world,' O lord.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अन्यथा तू मोक्ष नहीं पा सकेगा हुत्वा रणमुखे प्राणान् गतिमिष्टामवाप ह

English

I was told so by a thousand pleased brahmins, O lord, and I came to this world; let there be no doubt about it here.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यदीच्छसि महाबाहो शाश्वतीं गतिमात्मन:

English

What was ordained by the Creator is as it is; but asked, I must speak truly: in my view there is no austerity higher than fasting. Salutations to you, best of gods; be gracious."

हिन्दी अर्थ

नामैकोत्तरशततमो ध्याय: तत्र तत्रापि भिन्नास्ते तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह

English

[Bhishma] To King Bhagiratha who had spoken so, Brahma paid honour, worthy of honour, by the rite seen in the rules.