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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 112

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 112

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 112

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 112 of the classical Mahābhārata with 87 verses.

Total: 87 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.112.1–87 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 3 of 3 (Verses 27 shown)
शून्यात्तच्च गृहान्मांसं यदद्यापहृतं तव । नेच्छते दीयमानं च साधु तावद्विमृश्यताम् ॥
English Translation
If meat had really been stolen from your house in your absence, remember the jackal refuses to take any meat that is even given to him. Let sufficient attention be paid to his fact.
असत्याः सत्यसंकाशाः सत्याश्चासत्यदर्शिनः । दृश्यन्ते विविधा भावास्तेषु युक्तं परीक्षणम् ॥
English Translation
Wicked persons sometimes pass for the virtues, and the virtues are sometimes taken for the wicked. There are various aspects in creatures. It is, therefore, necessary to examine which is which.
तलवद्दृश्यते व्योम खद्योतो हव्यवाडिव । न चैवास्ति तलं व्योम्नि न खद्योते हुताशनः ॥
English Translation
The sky seems to be like the solid base of a vessel. The fire-fly appears like the actual spark of fire. In sooth, however, the sky has no base and there is no fire in the fire-fly.
तस्मात्प्रत्यक्षदृष्टोऽपि युक्तमर्थः परीक्षितुम् । परीक्ष्य ज्ञापयन्ह्यर्थान्न पश्चात्परितप्यते ॥
English Translation
You should there scrutinise even things which you see with your own eyes. If a person determines everything after scrutiny, he never regrets afterwards.
न दुष्करमिदं पुत्र यत्प्रभुर्घातयेत्परम् । श्लाघनीया च वर्या च लोके प्रभवतां क्षमा ॥
English Translation
It is not at all difficult, O son, for a master to put his servant to death. Forgiveness, however, in persons endued with power, is always praiseworthy and yields fame.
स्थापितोऽयं पुत्र त्वया सामन्तेष्वधि विश्रुतः । दुःखेनासाद्यते पात्रं धार्यतामेष ते सुहृत् ॥
English Translation
You had made the jackal your first minister. For that act, you had acquired great fame among all the neighbouring chiefs. A good minister cannot be secured easily. The jackal is your well wisher. Let him, therefore, be supported.
दूषितं परदोषैर्हि गृह्णीते योऽन्यथा शुचिम् । स्वयं संदूषितामात्यः क्षिप्रमेव विनश्यति ॥
English Translation
That king, who considers a really innocent person falsely accused by his enemies to be guilty, is soon ruined by the wicked ministers who create that conviction in him!
तस्मादथारिसंघाताद्गोमायोः कश्चिदागतः । धर्मात्मा तेन चाख्यातं यथैतत्कपटं कृतम् ॥
English Translation
After the tiger's mother had her say, a righteous agent of the jackal, coming out of that array of his enemies, disclosed everything about the way in which that false accusation had been made.
ततो विज्ञातचारित्रः सत्कृत्य स विमोक्षितः । परिष्वक्तश्च सस्नेहं मृगेन्द्रेण पुनः पुनः ॥
English Translation
The jackal's innocence being proved, he was acquitted and respected by his master. The king of beasts embraced him affectionately again and again.
अनुज्ञाप्य मृगेन्द्रं तु गोमायुर्नीतिशास्त्रवित् । तेनामर्षेण संतप्तः प्रायमासितुमैच्छत ॥
English Translation
Burning with grief, the jackal, however, who was master of the science of policy, salutated the king of beasts and solicited his permission for sacrificing his life by observing the Praya vow.
शार्दूलस्तत्र गोमायुं स्नेहात्प्रस्रुतलोचनः । अवारयत्स धर्मिष्ठं पूजया प्रतिपूजयन् ॥
English Translation
Looking upon the virtuous jackal with affection and honouring him with reverential worship, the tiger, tried to dissuade him from fulfilling his wishes.
तं स गोमायुरालोक्य स्नेहादागतसंभ्रमम् । बभाषे प्रणतो वाक्यं बाष्पगद्गदया गिरा ॥
English Translation
Seeing his master moved with affection, the jackal bowed down to him, and, in a voice suppressed with tears, said
पूजितोऽहं त्वया पूर्वं पश्चाच्चैव विमानितः । परेषामास्पदं नीतो वस्तुं नार्हाम्यहं त्वयि ॥
English Translation
Honoured by you first, I have afterwards been insulted by you. Your conduct towards me is calculated to make me an enemy of yours. It is not meet, therefore, that I should any longer live with you.
स्वसंतुष्टाश्च्युताः स्थानान्मानात्प्रत्यवरोपिताः । स्वयं चोपहृता भृत्या ये चाप्युपहृताः परैः ॥
परिक्षीणाश्च लुब्धाश्च क्रूराः काराभितापिताः । हृतस्वा मानिनो ये च त्यक्तोपात्ता महेप्सवः ॥
संतापिताश्च ये केचिद्व्यसनौघप्रतीक्षिणः । अन्तर्हिताः सोपहिताः सर्वे ते परसाधनाः ॥
अवमानेन युक्तस्य स्थापितस्य च मे पुनः । कथं यास्यसि विश्वासमहमेष्यामि वा पुनः ॥
English Translation
I have been insulted by you and degraded from my place. How will you trust me again? How shall I continue to live with you?
समर्थ इति संगृह्य स्थापयित्वा परीक्ष्य च । कृतं च समयं भित्त्वा त्वयाहमवमानितः ॥
English Translation
Knowing me to be competent you appointed me, and having examined me you had placed me in office. Violating the agreement then made (between us) you have insulted me.
प्रथमं यः समाख्यातः शीलवानिति संसदि । न वाच्यं तस्य वैगुण्यं प्रतिज्ञां परिरक्षता ॥
English Translation
If one speaks of a particular person before others of righteous conduct, one should not, if desirous of keeping one's consistency, afterwards describe the same person as wicked.
एवं चावमतस्येह विश्वासं किं प्रयास्यसि । त्वयि चैव ह्यविश्वासे ममोद्वेगो भविष्यति ॥
English Translation
I, who have thus been dishonoured by you, cannot any longer enjoy your confidence. On my part, when I shall find you withdraw your confidence from me, I shall be stricken with alarm and anxiety.
शङ्कितस्त्वमहं भीतः परे छिद्रानुदर्शिनः । अस्निग्धाश्चैव दुस्तोषाः कर्म चैतद्बहुच्छलम् ॥
English Translation
You entertaining suspicion and myself entertaining fear, our enemies will always try to find out opportunities for injuring us. Your subjects will, as a matter of fact, become anxious and discontented. Such a state of things has many shortcomings.
दुःखेन श्लेष्यते भिन्नं श्लिष्टं दुःखेन भिद्यते । भिन्नश्लिष्टा तु या प्रीतिर्न सा स्नेहेन वर्तते ॥
English Translation
It is difficult to unite again two who have been separated, as it is difficult to separate two that are united. If persons, reunited after separation, meet one another again, their conduct cannot be affectionate.
कश्चिदेव हि भीतस्तु दृश्यते न परात्मनोः । कार्यापेक्षा हि वर्तन्ते भावाः स्निग्धास्तु दुर्लभाः ॥
English Translation
No servant is to be seen who always wishes to do good to his master. People work with the desire of doing good to his master as also to one's own self. All works are undertaken from selfish desires. Unselfish works or motives are very rare.
सुदुःखं पुरुषज्ञानं चित्तं ह्येषां चलाचलम् । समर्थो वाप्यशक्तो वा शतेष्वेकोऽधिगम्यते ॥
English Translation
Those kings, whose hearts are restless and unquiet; cannot gain a true knowledge of men. Only one in a hundred can be found who is either capable or undaunted.
अकस्मात्प्रक्रिया नॄणामकस्माच्चापकर्षणम् । शुभाशुभे महत्त्वं च प्रकर्तुं बुद्धिलाघवात् ॥
English Translation
The prosperity of men, as also their downfall, originates of itself. Prosperity and adversity, and greatness, all originate from weakness of understanding.
एवं बहुविधं सान्त्वमुक्त्वा धर्मार्थहेतुमत् । प्रसादयित्वा राजानं गोमायुर्वनमभ्यगात् ॥
English Translation
Bhishma said Having said these conciliatory words pregnant with virtue, pleasure and profit, and having pleased the king, the jackal retired to the forest.
अगृह्यानुनयं तस्य मृगेन्द्रस्य स बुद्धिमान् । गोमायुः प्रायमासीनस्त्यक्त्वा देहं दिवं ययौ ॥
English Translation
Without heeding the entreaties of the king of beasts, the intelligent jackal renounced his body by sitting in Praya and went to heaven.
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