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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 137

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 137

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 137

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 137 of the classical Mahābhārata with 110 verses.

Total: 110 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.137.1–110 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 2 of 4 (Verses 30 shown)
उषितास्मि तवागारे दीर्घकालमहिंसिता । तदिदं वैरमुत्पन्नं सुखमास्स्व व्रजाम्यहम् ॥
English Translation
I have lived in your house for a long time, respected all along by you. a cause of eninity, however, has at last taken place. I should, therefore, quit this place without any hesitation.
यत्कृते प्रतिकुर्याद्वै न स तत्रापराध्नुयात् । अनृणस्तेन भवति वस पूजनि मा गमः ॥
English Translation
Brahmadatta said One, who does return injury for an injury, is never considered as offending. Indeed, the avenger closes his account by such behaviour. Therefore, O Pujani, continue to live here without quitting this place!
न कृतस्य न कर्तुश्च सख्यं संधीयते पुनः । हृदयं तत्र जानाति कर्तुश्चैव कृतस्य च ॥
English Translation
Pujani said No friendship can again be formed between a person who has injured and him who has inflicted an injury in return. The hearts cannot forget what has taken place.
कृतस्य चैव कर्तुश्च सख्यं संधीयते पुनः । वैरस्योपशमो दृष्टः पापं नोपाश्नुते पुनः ॥
English Translation
It is necessary that an injurer and the avenger of the injury should be united. Mutual enmity upon such a union has been seen to cool down. Usually, no fresh injury occurs.
नास्ति वैरमुपक्रान्तं सान्त्वितोऽस्मीति नाश्वसेत् । विश्वासाद्बध्यते बालस्तस्माच्छ्रेयो ह्यदर्शनम् ॥
English Translation
Enmity originating from mutual injuries can never die. The person injured should never trust his enemies, drinking-O I have been comforted with assurances of good will!-In this world, men frequently suffer destruction for (misplaced) confidence. Therefore, it is necessary that we should no longer meet each other.
तरसा ये न शक्यन्ते शस्त्रैः सुनिशितैरपि । साम्ना ते विनिगृह्यन्ते गजा इव करेणुभिः ॥
English Translation
Those, who cannot be subdued by force and Sharp weapons, can be conquered by insincere professions of love like (wild) elephants through a (tame) she-elephant.
संवासाज्जायते स्नेहो जीवितान्तकरेष्वपि । अन्योन्यस्य च विश्वासः श्वपचेन शुनो यथा ॥
English Translation
For two persons living together, even if one indlicts upon the other deadly injury, fraternal love and mutual trist naturally raise between them, as in the case of the Chandala and the dog.
अन्योन्यकृतवैराणां संवासान्मृदुतां गतम् । नैव तिष्ठति तद्वैरं पुष्करस्थमिवोदकम् ॥
English Translation
Amongst persons who have ir jured one another, living together blunts the sharpness of enmily. Indeed, that enmity does not last long, but disappears quickly like water poured upon the leaf of a louts.
वैरं पञ्चसमुत्थानं तच्च बुध्यन्ति पण्डिताः । स्त्रीकृतं वास्तुजं वाग्जं ससपत्नापराधजम् ॥
English Translation
Pujani said Emmity originates from five causes. Learned persons know it. Those five catises are woman, land, harsh words, natural disagreement, and injury.
तत्र दाता निहन्तव्यः क्षत्रियेण विशेषतः । प्रकाशं वाप्रकाशं वा बुद्ध्वा देशबलादिकम् ॥
English Translation
When the person, with whom enmity takes place, happens to be a liberal man, he should never be killed, particularly by a Kshatriya, openly or by hidden means. In such a case, the man's fault should be duly considered.
कृतवैरे न विश्वासः कार्यस्त्विह सुहृद्यपि । छन्नं संतिष्ठते वैरं गूढोऽग्निरिव दारुषु ॥
English Translation
When enmity has arisen with even a friend, no further trust should be placed in him. Feelings of enmity lie hidden like fire in forest.
न वित्तेन न पारुष्यैर्न सान्त्वेन न च श्रुतैः । वैराग्निः शाम्यते राजन्नौर्वाग्निरिव सागरे ॥
English Translation
Like the Aurvya fire within the waters of the ocean, the fire of enmity can never be put out by presents of riches, by display of prowess, by conciliation or by scriptural learning.
न हि वैराग्निरुद्भूतः कर्म वाप्यपराधजम् । शाम्यत्यदग्ध्वा नृपते विना ह्येकतरक्षयात् ॥
English Translation
The fire of eninity, once lighted.-the result of an injury once inflicted,-is never extinguished, O king, without destroying the right one of the parties.
सत्कृतस्यार्थमानाभ्यां स्यात्तु पूर्वापकारिणः । नैव शान्तिर्न विश्वासः कर्म त्रासयते बलात् ॥
English Translation
The mind of a person who has once injured another, becomes naturally filled with want of confidence, if he sees the injured person adoring him with gifts and honours. Such conduct especially when shorn by the strong, always strikes the weak with fear.
नैवापकारे कस्मिंश्चिदहं त्वयि तथा भवान् । विश्वासादुषिता पूर्वं नेदानीं विश्वसाम्यहम् ॥
English Translation
I never injured you, You also did never do me an injury. Therefore. I lived in your house. All that is changed, ind at present I cannot trust you.
कालेन क्रियते कार्यं तथैव विविधाः क्रियाः । कालेनैव प्रवर्तन्ते कः कस्येहापराध्यति ॥
English Translation
Brahmadatta said It is Time that does every work. There are various sorts all of which proceed form Time. Who, therefore, injures whom?
तुल्यं चोभे प्रवर्तेते मरणं जन्म चैव ह । कार्यते चैव कालेन तन्निमित्तं हि जीवति ॥
English Translation
Birth and Death take place in the same way. Creatures act under the influence of Time, and it is in consequence also of Time that they cease to live.
बध्यन्ते युगपत्केचिदेकैकस्य न चापरे । कालो दहति भूतानि संप्राप्याग्निरिवेन्धनम् ॥
English Translation
Some are seen to die at once. Some die one at a time. Some are seen to live for a long time. Like fire consuming the fuel it gets, Time destroys all creatures.
नाहं प्रमाणं नैव त्वमन्योन्यकरणे शुभे । कालो नित्यमुपाधत्ते सुखं दुःखं च देहिनाम् ॥
English Translation
O blessed lady, I am, therefore, not the cause of your sorrow, nor are you the cause of inine. It is time which always ordains the happiness and misery of embodied creatures.
एवं वसेह सस्नेहा यथाकालमहिंसिता । यत्कृतं तच्च मे क्षान्तं त्वं चैव क्षम पूजनि ॥
English Translation
Do you then continue to live here at your pleasure, with love for me and without fear of any injury from me. What you have done has been forgiven by me. Do you also forgive me, O Pujani.
यदि कालः प्रमाणं ते न वैरं कस्यचिद्भवेत् । कस्मात्त्वपचितिं यान्ति बान्धवा बान्धवे हते ॥
English Translation
If Time, as you say, be the cause of all acts, then, of course, nobody can entertain fevlings of enmity towards anybody on earth. I ask, however, why do friends and kinsmen, when friends and kinsmen are killed, try to avenge the latter.
कस्माद्देवासुराः पूर्वमन्योन्यमभिजघ्निरे । यदि कालेन निर्याणं सुखदुःखे भवाभवौ ॥
English Translation
Why also did the gods and the Asuras in days of old kill each other in battle? If it is Time that begets happiness and misery and birth and death, why do physicians then seek to administer medicines to the sick? If it is Time that is shaping the course of everything, what need is thereof medicines,
भिषजो भेषजं कर्तुं कस्मादिच्छन्ति रोगिणे । यदि कालेन पच्यन्ते भेषजैः किं प्रयोजनम् ॥
English Translation
Why also did the gods and the Asuras in days of old kill each other in battle? If it is Time that begets happiness and misery and birth and death, why do physicians then seek to administer medicines to the sick? If it is Time that is shaping the course of everything, what need is thereof medicines,
प्रलापः क्रियते कस्मात्सुमहाञ्शोकमूर्छितैः । यदि कालः प्रमाणं ते कस्माद्धर्मोऽस्ति कर्तृषु ॥
English Translation
Why do people, deprived of their senses by grief, indulge in such lamentations? If Time, as you say, be the cause of all works, how can religious merit be acquired by persons performing religious acts?
तव पुत्रो ममापत्यं हतवान्हिंसितो मया । अनन्तरं त्वया चाहं बन्धनीया महीपते ॥
English Translation
Your son killed my child. I have injured him for that. I have by inat act, o king, become liable to be killed by you.
अहं हि पुत्रशोकेन कृतपापा तवात्मजे । तथा त्वया प्रहर्तव्यं मयि तत्त्वं च मे शृणु ॥
English Translation
Moved by grief for my son, I have thus injured your son. Listen now to the reason why I should be killed by you.
भक्षार्थं क्रीडनार्थं वा नरा वाञ्छन्ति पक्षिणः । तृतीयो नास्ति संयोगो वधबन्धादृते क्षमः ॥
English Translation
Men wish either to kill birds for food or to keep them in cages for sport. There is no third reason except killing or caging for which men would seek birds.
वधबन्धभयादेके मोक्षतन्त्रमुपागताः । मरणोत्पातजं दुःखमाहुर्धर्मविदो जनाः ॥
English Translation
Birds again, from fear of being either killed or put into cage by rnen, seek safety in flight.। Persons conversant with the Vedas have said। that death and imprisonment both painful.
सर्वस्य दयिताः प्राणाः सर्वस्य दयिताः सुताः । दुःखादुद्विजते सर्वः सर्वस्य सुखमीप्सितम् ॥
English Translation
Life is dear to all. All creatures are made miserable by grief and pain. All creatures wish for happiness.
दुःखं जरा ब्रह्मदत्त दुःखमर्थविपर्ययः । दुःखं चानिष्टसंवासो दुःखमिष्टवियोगजम् ॥
English Translation
Misery originates from various sources. Decrepitude, O Brahmadatta, is misery. The loss of wealth is misery. The nearness of anything disagreeable or evil is misery. Separation or dissociation from friends and beloved objects is misery.
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