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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 3 of 4 (Verses 30 shown)
वैरबन्धकृतं दुःखं हिंसाजं स्त्रीकृतं तथा । दुःखं सुखेन सततं जनाद्विपरिवर्तते ॥
English Translation
Misery originates from death and imprisonment. Misery arises from women and from other natural causes. The misery that originates from the death of children changes and afflicts all creatures very greatly.
न दुःखं परदुःखे वै केचिदाहुरबुद्धयः । यो दुःखं नाभिजानाति स जल्पति महाजने ॥
English Translation
Some foolish persons say that there is no misery in seeing other's misery. Only he wno has not felt any misery himself can say so before men.
यस्तु शोचति दुःखार्तः स कथं वक्तुमुत्सहेत् । रसज्ञः सर्वदुःखस्य यथात्मनि तथा परे ॥
English Translation
He, however, who has felt sorrow and misery, would never venture to say so. One, who has felt the pangs of all sorts of misery, sympathises with the misery of others.
यत्कृतं ते मया राजंस्त्वया च मम यत्कृतम् । न तद्वर्षशतैः शक्यं व्यपोहितुमरिंदम ॥
English Translation
What I have done to you, O king, and what you have done to me, cannot be washed away by even a century.
आवयोः कृतमन्योन्यं तत्र संधिर्न विद्यते । स्मृत्वा स्मृत्वा हि ते पुत्रं नवं वैरं भविष्यति ॥
English Translation
There cannot be a reconciliation after what we have done to each other. Whenever you will thirt of your son, .'our enmity towards me will become fresh.
वैरमन्तिकमासज्य यः प्रीतिं कर्तुमिच्छति । मृन्मयस्येव भग्नस्य तस्य संधिर्न विद्यते ॥
English Translation
If a person after avenging an injury, wishes to make peace with the injured, the parties cannot be properly reunited even like the pieces of an earthen vessel.
निश्चितश्चार्थशास्त्रज्ञैरविश्वासः सुखोदयः । उशनाश्चाथ गाथे द्वे प्रह्रादायाब्रवीत्पुरा ॥
English Translation
Men well read in scriptures have laid it down that trust never yields happiness. Ushanas himself sang two verses to Prahlada in days of yore.
ये वैरिणः श्रद्दधते सत्ये सत्येतरेऽपि वा । ते श्रद्दधाना वध्यन्ते मधु शुष्कतृणैर्यथा ॥
English Translation
He, who trust the words, true or false, of an enemy, meets with destruction like a seeker of honey, in a pit covered with dry grass.
न हि वैराणि शाम्यन्ति कुलेष्वा दशमाद्युगात् । आख्यातारश्च विद्यन्ते कुले चेद्विद्यते पुमान् ॥
English Translation
Enmities outlive the enemies, for there is no want of persons who speak of the quarrels of deceased fathers before their surviving children.
उपगुह्य हि वैराणि सान्त्वयन्ति नराधिपाः । अथैनं प्रतिपिंषन्ति पूर्णं घटमिवाश्मनि ॥
English Translation
Kings kill animosities by means of conciliation but, when the opportunity presents itself, they break their enemies tu pieces like earthen jars full of water dashed against stone.
सदा न विश्वसेद्राजन्पापं कृत्वेह कस्यचित् । अपकृत्य परेषां हि विश्वासाद्दुःखमश्नुते ॥
English Translation
If the king injures any one, he should never trust him again. By trusting a person who has been injured, one suffers great misery.
नाविश्वासाच्चिन्वतेऽर्थान्नेहन्ते चापि किंचन । भयादेकतरान्नित्यं मृतकल्पा भवन्ति च ॥
English Translation
No man can secure the fruitfulness of any object by distrusting others. By cherishing fear one always is compelleu to live as a dead person.
यस्येह व्रणिनौ पादौ पद्भ्यां च परिसर्पति । क्षण्येते तस्य तौ पादौ सुगुप्तमभिधावतः ॥
English Translation
He whose feet have become sore, certainly meets with a fall if he seeks to move, however cautiously he may do it.
नेत्राभ्यां सरुजाभ्यां यः प्रतिवातमुदीक्षते । तस्य वायुरुजात्यर्थं नेत्रयोर्भवति ध्रुवम् ॥
English Translation
By opening his eyes against the wind, a man, who has got sore ejus, finds them greatly pained by the wind.
दुष्टं पन्थानमाश्रित्य यो मोहादभिपद्यते । आत्मनो बलमज्ञात्वा तदन्तं तस्य जीवितम् ॥
English Translation
He, who, without knowing his own । strength, treads a wicked path and persists in wa'king along it, soon loses his very life as the result of it.
यस्तु वर्षमविज्ञाय क्षेत्रं कृषति मानवः । हीनं पुरुषकारेण सस्यं नैवाप्नुते पुनः ॥
English Translation
The man, who, shorn of exertion, tills his land, without taking care of the season of rain, never reaps a harvest.
यश्च तिक्तं कषायं वाप्यास्वादविधुरं हितम् । आहारं कुरुते नित्यं सोऽमृतत्वाय कल्पते ॥
English Translation
He, who takes daily nutritive food, be it bitter or astringent or palatable or sweet, lives long.
पथ्यं भुक्त्वा नरो लोभाद्योऽन्यदश्नाति भोजनम् । परिणाममविज्ञाय तदन्तं तस्य जीवितम् ॥
English Translation
He, on the other hand, who neglects wholesome food and takes injurious ones regardless of consequences, soon meets with death.
दैवं पुरुषकारश्च स्थितावन्योन्यसंश्रयात् । उदात्तानां कर्म तन्त्रं दैवं क्लीबा उपासते ॥
English Translation
Destiny and Exertion depend upon each other. The high-minded perform good and grcat feats, while eunuchs only flatters Destiny.
कर्म चात्महितं कार्यं तीक्ष्णं वा यदि वा मृदु । ग्रस्यतेऽकर्मशीलस्तु सदानर्थैरकिंचनः ॥
English Translation
Whether it is harsh or mild, a beneficial act should be done. The unfortunate man of inaction, however, is always assailed with all sorts of calamity.
तस्मात्संशयितेऽप्यर्थे कार्य एव पराक्रमः । सर्वस्वमपि संत्यज्य कार्यमात्महितं नरैः ॥
English Translation
Therefore casting of everything else, one should display his energy. Indeed, disregarding everything, men should do what does good to themselves.
विद्या शौर्यं च दाक्ष्यं च बलं धैर्यं च पञ्चमम् । मित्राणि सहजान्याहुर्वर्तयन्तीह यैर्बुधाः ॥
English Translation
Knowledge, courage, cleverness, strength and patience, are one's natural friends. The wise live in this world with the help of those five.
निवेशनं च कुप्यं च क्षेत्रं भार्या सुहृज्जनः । एतान्युपचितान्याहुः सर्वत्र लभते पुमान् ॥
English Translation
Houses, precious metals, land, wife, ar.J friends,-these are spoken by the learned as the secondary sources of good. A man may obtain them everywhere.
सर्वत्र रमते प्राज्ञः सर्वत्र च विरोचते । न विभीषयते कंचिद्भीषितो न बिभेति च ॥
English Translation
A wise man may be delighted everywhere. Such a mari shines everywhere. He never strikes anybody with fear. If tried to be frightened, he never yields to fear himself.
नित्यं बुद्धिमतो ह्यर्थः स्वल्पकोऽपि विवर्धते । दाक्ष्येण कुरुते कर्म संयमात्प्रतितिष्ठति ॥
English Translation
The wealth, however little, of an intelligent man is certain to increase. Such a man does every act cleverly. By self-restraint he acquires great fame.
गृहस्नेहावबद्धानां नराणामल्पमेधसाम् । कुस्त्री खादति मांसानि माघमा सेगवामिव ॥
English Translation
Home-sick foolish wights have to put ur with shrew wives who eat up their flesh like the young ones of a crab eating up their mothers. There are men v ho through loss of understanding become very disspirited at the prospect of leaving home. They say,-These are our friends! This is our country! Alas, how shall we leave thesc?
गृहं क्षेत्राणि मित्राणि स्वदेश इति चापरे । इत्येवमवसीदन्ति नरा बुद्धिविपर्यये ॥
English Translation
Home-sick foolish wights have to put ur with shrew wives who eat up their flesh like the young ones of a crab eating up their mothers. There are men v ho through loss of understanding become very disspirited at the prospect of leaving home. They say,-These are our friends! This is our country! Alas, how shall we leave thesc?
उत्पतेत्सरुजाद्देशाद्व्याधिदुर्भिक्षपीडितात् । अन्यत्र वस्तुं गच्छेद्वा वसेद्वा नित्यमानितः ॥
English Translation
One should, forsooth, leave his mothercountry if it be affected by plague or famine. One should live in one's own country, re.ipected of all, or go to a foreign country for living there.
तस्मादन्यत्र यास्यामि वस्तुं नाहमिहोत्सहे । कृतमेतदनाहार्यं तव पुत्रेण पार्थिव ॥
English Translation
I shall, therefore, repair to some other region. I do not venture to live any longer in this place, for I have greatly injured your child, O king.
कुभार्यां च कुपुत्रं च कुराजानं कुसौहृदम् । कुसंबन्धं कुदेशं च दूरतः परिवर्जयेत् ॥
English Translation
One should from a distance renounce a bad wife, a bad son, a bad king, a bad friend, a bad allie and a bad country.
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