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Mahābhārata • Parva 11 (Strīparva) • Adhyāya 26

Strīparva Adhyāya 26

स्त्रीपर्व • अध्यायः 26

Strīparva Adhyāya 26 of the classical Mahābhārata with 45 verses.

Total: 45 Verses • Citations: MBh 11.26.1–45 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 2 (Verses 30 shown)
उत्तिष्ठोत्तिष्ठ गान्धारि मा च शोके मनः कृथाः । तवैव ह्यपराधेन कुरवो निधनं गताः ॥
English Translation
Krishna said "Arise, arise, O Gandhari, do not grieve. Through your fault, this huge destruction has taken place.
या त्वं पुत्रं दुरात्मानमीर्षुमत्यन्तमानिनम् । दुर्योधनं पुरस्कृत्य दुष्कृतं साधु मन्यसे ॥
English Translation
Your son Duryodhana, was wicked, envious,. and exceedingly arrogant. Praising his wicked acts, you thought them to be good.
निष्ठुरं वैरपरुषं वृद्धानां शासनातिगम् । कथमात्मकृतं दोषं मय्याधातुमिहेच्छसि ॥
English Translation
Highly ruthless, he was the embodiment of hostilities, and disobedient to the commands of the old. Why do you then attribute your own faults to me?
मृतं वा यदि वा नष्टं योऽतीतमनुशोचति । दुःखेन लभते दुःखं द्वावनर्थौ प्रपद्यते ॥
English Translation
Dead or lost, the person who grieves for what has already taken place, and suffers great grief. By grieving one increases it twofold.
तपोर्थीयं ब्राह्मणी धत्त गर्भं; गौर्वोढारं धावितारं तुरंगी । शूद्रा दासं पशुपालं तु वैश्या; वधार्थीयं त्वद्विधा राजपुत्री ॥
English Translation
A saintly woman bears children for the practice of austerities; the cow brings forth offspring for bearing burden; the mare brings forth her young for acquiring speed of motion; the Shudra woman bears a child for increasing the number of keepers of cattle. A princes, however, like you, brings forth soon for being killed.
तच्छ्रुत्वा वासुदेवस्य पुनरुक्तं वचोऽप्रियम् । तूष्णीं बभूव गान्धारी शोकव्याकुललोचना ॥
English Translation
Vaishampayana said Hearing these words of Vasudeva that were unpleasant to her, Gandhari, with heart stricken greatly with grief, remained silent.
धृतराष्ट्रस्तु राजर्षिर्निगृह्याबुद्धिजं तमः । पर्यपृच्छत धर्मात्मा धर्मराजं युधिष्ठिरम् ॥
English Translation
Restraining the grief that originates from folly, the royal sage Dhritarashtra, enquired of Yudhishthira the just, saying,-'If, O son of Pandu, you know it, tell me the number of those that have been killed in this battle, as also of those that have escaped alive.'
जीवतां परिमाणज्ञः सैन्यानामसि पाण्डव । हतानां यदि जानीषे परिमाणं वदस्व मे ॥
English Translation
Restraining the grief that originates from folly, the royal sage Dhritarashtra, enquired of Yudhishthira the just, saying,-'If, O son of Pandu, you know it, tell me the number of those that have been killed in this battle, as also of those that have escaped alive.'
दशायुतानामयुतं सहस्राणि च विंशतिः । कोट्यः षष्टिश्च षट्चैव येऽस्मिन्राजमृधे हताः ॥
English Translation
Yudhishthira answered One billion six hundred and sixty millions and twenty thousand men have been killed in this battle:
अलक्ष्याणां तु वीराणां सहस्राणि चतुर्दश । दश चान्यानि राजेन्द्र शतं षष्टिश्च पञ्च च ॥
English Translation
The number is twenty-four thousand one hundred and sixty five heroes that have escaped.'
युधिष्ठिर गतिं कां ते गताः पुरुषसत्तमाः । आचक्ष्व मे महाबाहो सर्वज्ञो ह्यसि मे मतः ॥
English Translation
Dhritarashtra said Tell me, O mighty-armed one, for you know everything, what ends those foremost of men have attained to.'
यैर्हुतानि शरीराणि हृष्टैः परमसंयुगे । देवराजसमाँल्लोकान्गतास्ते सत्यविक्रमाः ॥
English Translation
Yudhishthira said Those truly powerful warriors that have cheerfully met with death in fierce battle, have all attained to regions like those of Indra.
ये त्वहृष्टेन मनसा मर्तव्यमिति भारत । युध्यमाना हताः संख्ये ते गन्धर्वैः समागताः ॥
English Translation
Knowing death to be certain, they that have met it cheerlessly, have attained to the region of the Gandharvas.
ये तु संग्रामभूमिष्ठा याचमानाः पराङ्मुखाः । शस्त्रेण निधनं प्राप्ता गतास्ते गुह्यकान्प्रति ॥
English Translation
Those warriors that have been killed by weapons, while turning away from the field of begging for quarter, have reached the region of the Guhyakas.
पीड्यमानाः परैर्ये तु हीयमाना निरायुधाः । ह्रीनिषेधा महात्मानः परानभिमुखा रणे ॥
छिद्यमानाः शितैः शस्त्रैः क्षत्रधर्मपरायणाः । गतास्ते ब्रह्मसदनं हता वीराः सुवर्चसः ॥
ये तत्र निहता राजन्नन्तरायोधनं प्रति । यथा कथंचित्ते राजन्संप्राप्ता उत्तरान्कुरून् ॥
English Translation
The remaining warriors, that have anyhow been killed on the field of battle, have attained to the region of the Uttara Kuru.'
केन ज्ञानबलेनैवं पुत्र पश्यसि सिद्धवत् । तन्मे वद महाबाहो श्रोतव्यं यदि वै मया ॥
English Translation
Dhritarashtra said By what knowledge, O son, you see these things like one crowned with ascetic success? Tell me this, O mighty-armed one, if you think that I can listen to it properly!'
निदेशाद्भवतः पूर्वं वने विचरता मया । तीर्थयात्राप्रसङ्गेन संप्राप्तोऽयमनुग्रहः ॥
English Translation
Yudhishthira said While at your behest I wandered in the foremost, I obtained this boon at the time of sojourning to the sacred places!
देवर्षिर्लोमशो दृष्टस्ततः प्राप्तोऽस्म्यनुस्मृतिम् । दिव्यं चक्षुरपि प्राप्तं ज्ञानयोगेन वै पुरा ॥
English Translation
I met with the celestial Rishi Lomasha and acquired from him the boon of spiritual vision. Again on another occasion I obtained second sight through the power of knowledge!
येऽत्रानाथा जनस्यास्य सनाथा ये च भारत । कच्चित्तेषां शरीराणि धक्ष्यन्ति विधिपूर्वकम् ॥
English Translation
Dhritarashtra said It is necessary that our people should burn duly the dead bodies of both who have friends and who have not?
न येषां सन्ति कर्तारो न च येऽत्राहिताग्नयः । वयं च कस्य कुर्यामो बहुत्वात्तात कर्मणः ॥
English Translation
What shall we do with those that have none to look after them and that have no sacred fires? We have many duties to perform. Who are those whose (funeral) rites we should perform?
यान्सुपर्णाश्च गृध्राश्च विकर्षन्ति ततस्ततः । तेषां तु कर्मणा लोका भविष्यन्ति युधिष्ठिर ॥
English Translation
O Yudhishthira, will they obtain blissful regions by the merit of their deeds, they whose bodies are now being torn and dragged by vultures and other birds?'
एवमुक्तो महाप्राज्ञः कुन्तीपुत्रो युधिष्ठिरः । आदिदेश सुधर्माणं धौम्यं सूतं च संजयम् ॥
विदुरं च महाबुद्धिं युयुत्सुं चैव कौरवम् । इन्द्रसेनमुखांश्चैव भृत्यान्सूतांश्च सर्वशः ॥
भवन्तः कारयन्त्वेषां प्रेतकार्याणि सर्वशः । यथा चानाथवत्किंचिच्छरीरं न विनश्यति ॥
शासनाद्धर्मराजस्य क्षत्ता सूतश्च संजयः । सुधर्मा धौम्यसहित इन्द्रसेनादयस्तथा ॥
चन्दनागुरुकाष्ठानि तथा कालीयकान्युत । घृतं तैलं च गन्धांश्च क्षौमाणि वसनानि च ॥
समाहृत्य महार्हाणि दारूणां चैव संचयान् । रथांश्च मृदितांस्तत्र नानाप्रहरणानि च ॥
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