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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 4 of 4 (Verses 20 shown)
कुमित्रे नास्ति विश्वासः कुभार्यायां कुतो रतिः । कुराज्ये निर्वृतिर्नास्ति कुदेशे न प्रजीव्यते ॥
English Translation
One should not confide in a bad son. One cannot find delight in a bad wife. There can be no happiness in a had kingdom. One cannot obtain a livelihood in a bad country.
कुमित्रे संगतं नास्ति नित्यमस्थिरसौहृदे । अवमानः कुसंबन्धे भवत्यर्थविपर्यये ॥
English Translation
There can be no permanent friendship with a bad friend whose attachinent is very uncertain. There is disgrace in a bad connection, when there is no necessity for it.
सा भार्या या प्रियं ब्रूते स पुत्रो यत्र निर्वृतिः । तन्मित्रं यत्र विश्वासः स देशो यत्र जीव्यते ॥
English Translation
She, indeed, is a wife who speaks only what is pleasant. He is a son who makes the father happy. He is a friend whoin one can trust. That, indeed, is one's country where one acquires his living.
यत्र नास्ति बलात्कारः स राजा तीव्रशासनः । न चैव ह्यभिसंबन्धो दरिद्रं यो बुभूषति ॥
English Translation
He is a strict king who does not oppress, who supports the indigent and in whose kingdom there is no fear.
भार्या देशोऽथ मित्राणि पुत्रसंबन्धिबान्धवाः । एतत्सर्वं गुणवति धर्मनेत्रे महीपतौ ॥
English Translation
One can have wife, country, friends, son, kinsmen, and relatives, if the king be accomplished and virtuous.
अधर्मज्ञस्य विलयं प्रजा गच्छन्त्यनिग्रहात् । राजा मूलं त्रिवर्गस्य अप्रमत्तोऽनुपालयन् ॥
English Translation
If the king happens to be sinful, his subjects, for his oppressions, meet with destruction. The king is the root of threefold objects, i.e., Virtue, Wealth, and Pleasure. He should protect his subject carefully.
बलिषड्भागमुद्धृत्य बलिं तमुपयोजयेत् । न रक्षति प्रजाः सम्यग्यः स पार्थिवतस्करः ॥
English Translation
Taking from his subjects a sixth part of their riches, he should protect them all. That king, who does not protect his subjects, is indeed, a thief.
दत्त्वाभयं यः स्वयमेव राजा; न तत्प्रमाणं कुरुते यथावत् । स सर्वलोकादुपलभ्य पाप;मधर्मबुद्धिर्निरयं प्रयाति ॥
English Translation
That king, who, after holding out hopes of protection, does not, from rapacity satisfy them, that sinful king is visited by the sins of all his subjects and ultimately goes into hell.
दत्त्वाभयं यः स्म राजा प्रमाणं कुरुते सदा । स सर्वसुखकृज्ज्ञेयः प्रजा धर्मेण पालयन् ॥
English Translation
On the other hand, that king, who, having given hopes of protection, fulfils them, is honoured as a universal benefactor in consequence of his protecting all his subjects.
पिता माता गुरुर्गोप्ता वह्निर्वैश्रवणो यमः । सप्त राज्ञो गुणानेतान्मनुराह प्रजापतिः ॥
English Translation
The lord of all creatures, viz., Manu, has declared that the king has seven attributes : he is mother, father, preceptor, protector, fire, Vaishravana, and Yama.
पिता हि राजा राष्ट्रस्य प्रजानां योऽनुकम्पकः । तस्मिन्मिथ्याप्रणीते हि तिर्यग्गच्छति मानवः ॥
English Translation
The king by treating his people mercifully is called their father. The subject who plays him false, is born in his next life as an animal or a bird.
संभावयति मातेव दीनमभ्यवपद्यते । दहत्यग्निरिवानिष्टान्यमयन्भवते यमः ॥
English Translation
By doing good to them and by supporting the poor, the king becomes a mother to his people. By consuming the wicked he is regarded as fire, and by restraining the sinful he is called Yama.
इष्टेषु विसृजत्यर्थान्कुबेर इव कामदः । गुरुर्धर्मोपदेशेन गोप्ता च परिपालनात् ॥
English Translation
By making presents of riches to his dear ones, the king is regarded as Kubera, the grantor of wishes. By delivering instructions of morality and virtue, he becomes a preceptor, and by exercising the duty of protection he becomes the preceptor.
यस्तु रञ्जयते राजा पौरजानपदान्गुणैः । न तस्य भ्रश्यते राज्यं गुणधर्मानुपालनात् ॥
English Translation
That king who pleases the inhabitants of his cities and provinces by means of his virtues, is never divested of his kingdom for observing such a duty.
स्वयं समुपजानन्हि पौरजानपदक्रियाः । स सुखं मोदते भूप इह लोके परत्र च ॥
English Translation
That king who knows how to honour his subjects, never suffers misery either in this world or in the next.
नित्योद्विग्नाः प्रजा यस्य करभारप्रपीडिताः । अनर्थैर्विप्रलुप्यन्ते स गच्छति पराभवम् ॥
English Translation
That king whose subjects are always stricken with anxiety or laden with taxes, and overwhelmed with all sorts of evils is defeated by his enemies.
प्रजा यस्य विवर्धन्ते सरसीव महोत्पलम् । स सर्वयज्ञफलभाग्राजा लोके महीयते ॥
English Translation
That king, on the other hand, whose subjects grow like a large lotus in a lake, acquires every reward here and at last meets with łonour in the celestial region.
बलिना विग्रहो राजन्न कथंचित्प्रशस्यते । बलिना विगृहीतस्य कुतो राज्यं कुतः सुखम् ॥
English Translation
Enmity with a powerful person, O king, is never spoken highly of. That king who has incurred the hostility of one more powerful than himself, loses both kingdom and happiness.
सैवमुक्त्वा शकुनिका ब्रह्मदत्तं नराधिपम् । राजानं समनुज्ञाप्य जगामाथेप्सितां दिशम् ॥
English Translation
O monarch, having said so to Brahmadatta, the bird, took the king's leave and went away of her pleasure.
एतत्ते ब्रह्मदत्तस्य पूजन्या सह भाषितम् । मयोक्तं भरतश्रेष्ठ किमन्यच्छ्रोतुमिच्छसि ॥
English Translation
I have thus recited to you, O foremost of kings, the conversation between Brahmadatta and Pujani. What else do you wish to hear.'
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