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Mahābhārata • Parva 1 (Ādiparva) • Adhyāya 68

Ādiparva Adhyāya 68

आदिपर्व • अध्यायः 68

Ādiparva Adhyāya 68 of the classical Mahābhārata with 81 verses.

Total: 81 Verses • Citations: MBh 1.68.1–81 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 3 of 3 (Verses 21 shown)
ननु नामाङ्कमारोप्य स्नेहाद्ग्रामान्तरं गताः । मूर्ध्नि पुत्रानुपाघ्राय प्रतिनन्दन्ति मानवाः ॥
English Translation
Men, going to places remote from their homes, take up other men's sons on their laps and smelling their heads, feel great happiness.
वेदेष्वपि वदन्तीमं मन्त्रवादं द्विजातयः । जातकर्मणि पुत्राणां तवापि विदितं तथा ॥
English Translation
You know that the Brahmanas utter the following Vedic Mantras at the birthday, ceremony of the child.
अङ्गादङ्गात्संभवसि हृदयादभिजायसे । आत्मा वै पुत्रनामासि स जीव शरदः शतम् ॥
English Translation
“You are born of my body; you have sprung from my heart. You are myself in the form of my son. Live for one hundred years."
पोषो हि त्वदधीनो मे संतानमपि चाक्षयम् । तस्मात्त्वं जीव मे वत्स सुसुखी शरदां शतम् ॥
English Translation
"My life depends on you. The continuation of my race also depends on you. Therefore, live in happiness for one hundred years."
त्वदङ्गेभ्यः प्रसूतोऽयं पुरुषात्पुरुषोऽपरः । सरसीवामलेऽऽत्मानं द्वितीयं पश्य मे सुतम् ॥
English Translation
He (this boy) has sprung from your body, he is a second being begotten from you. Behold your own self in your own son, as you see your image in the clear waters of the lake.
यथा ह्याहवनीयोऽग्निर्गार्हपत्यात्प्रणीयते । तथा त्वत्तः प्रसूतोऽयं त्वमेकः सन्द्विधा कृतः ॥
English Translation
As the sacrificial fire is kindled from the domestic fire, so has this one (your son), sprung from you. Though you are one, you have divided yourself in two. O king, in your hunting expedition, I was approached by you when I was a virgin in my father's hermitage.
मृगापकृष्टेन हि ते मृगयां परिधावता । अहमासादिता राजन्कुमारी पितुराश्रमे ॥
English Translation
As the sacrificial fire is kindled from the domestic fire, so has this one (your son), sprung from you. Though you are one, you have divided yourself in two. O king, in your hunting expedition, I was approached by you when I was a virgin in my father's hermitage.
उर्वशी पूर्वचित्तिश्च सहजन्या च मेनका । विश्वाची च घृताची च षडेवाप्सरसां वराः ॥
English Translation
Urvashi, Purvachitti, Sahajanya, Menaka, Vishvachi and Ghritachi, these are the six foremost Apsaras.
तासां मां मेनका नाम ब्रह्मयोनिर्वराप्सराः । दिवः संप्राप्य जगतीं विश्वामित्रादजीजनत् ॥
English Translation
Amongst them again, Menaka, born of a Brahmana, is the first. Descending from heaven on earth, she gave me birth from her association with Vishvamitra.
सा मां हिमवतः पृष्ठे सुषुवे मेनकाप्सराः । अवकीर्य च मां याता परात्मजमिवासती ॥
English Translation
The Apsara Menaka gave me birth in a valley of the Himalayas. Devoid of affections, she went away, leaving me there, as if I was a child of some others.
किं नु कर्माशुभं पूर्वं कृतवत्यस्मि जन्मनि । यदहं बान्धवैस्त्यक्ता बाल्ये संप्रति च त्वया ॥
English Translation
What great sin did I commit of old in some other life that I was cast away by my parents in my infancy and now I am cast away by you?
कामं त्वया परित्यक्ता गमिष्याम्यहमाश्रमम् । इमं तु बालं संत्यक्तुं नार्हस्यात्मजमात्मना ॥
English Translation
Cast off from you, I am ready to go back to the hermitage. But you should not cast off this child who is your own son.
न पुत्रमभिजानामि त्वयि जातं शकुन्तले । असत्यवचना नार्यः कस्ते श्रद्धास्यते वचः ॥
English Translation
Dushyanta said : O Shakuntala, I do not know that I begot this child on you. Women generally speak falsehood. Who will believe your words? Your mother is lewd Menaka, destitute of affection; she cast off you in the valley of the Himalayas as one casts off the flowers after offering them to the gods.
मेनका निरनुक्रोशा बन्धकी जननी तव । यया हिमवतः पृष्ठे निर्माल्येव प्रवेरिता ॥
English Translation
Dushyanta said : O Shakuntala, I do not know that I begot this child on you. Women generally speak falsehood. Who will believe your words? Your mother is lewd Menaka, destitute of affection; she cast off you in the valley of the Himalayas as one casts off the flowers after offering them to the gods.
स चापि निरनुक्रोशः क्षत्रयोनिः पिता तव । विश्वामित्रो ब्राह्मणत्वे लुब्धः कामपरायणः ॥
English Translation
Your father also is lustful Vishvamitra of the Kshatriya race, destitute of all affection, the ! man who was tempted to become a Brahmana.
मेनकाप्सरसां श्रेष्ठा महर्षीणां च ते पिता । तयोरपत्यं कस्मात्त्वं पुंश्चलीवाभिधास्यसि ॥
English Translation
But (if you say), Menaka is the foremost of Apsaras and Vishvamitra is the foremost of Rishis, why then do you, being their daughter, speak like a lewd woman?
अश्रद्धेयमिदं वाक्यं कथयन्ती न लज्जसे । विशेषतो मत्सकाशे दुष्टतापसि गम्यताम् ॥
English Translation
Your these words deserve no credence. Are you not ashamed to utter them, specially before me? Go away, O wicked ascetic woman.
क्व महर्षिः सदैवोग्रः साप्सरा क्व च मेनका । क्व च त्वमेवं कृपणा तापसीवेषधारिणी ॥
English Translation
Where is now that best of great Rishis (Vishvamitra) and that best of Apsaras Menaka? And where are you, (though) in the humble garb of ascetics.
अतिकायश्च पुत्रस्ते बालोऽपि बलवानयम् । कथमल्पेन कालेन शालस्कन्ध इवोद्गतः ॥
English Translation
Your this son is very big and appears to be very strong. How has he, within so short time, grown up like a Sala sprout?
सुनिकृष्टा च योनिस्ते पुंश्चली प्रतिभासि मे । यदृच्छया कामरागाज्जाता मेनकया ह्यसि ॥
English Translation
You are born very low, you speak also like a lewd woman. You were lustfully conceived by Menaka.
सर्वमेतत्परोक्षं मे यत्त्वं वदसि तापसि । नाहं त्वामभिजानामि यथेष्टं गम्यतां त्वया ॥
English Translation
O ascetic woman, all that you say is quite unknown to me. I do not know you. Go away wherever you please.
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