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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 192

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 192

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 192

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 192 of the classical Mahābhārata with 128 verses.

Total: 128 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.192.1–128 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 3 of 5 (Verses 30 shown)
नायं लोकोऽस्ति न परो न च पूर्वान्स तारयेत् । कुत एवावरान्राजन्मृषावादपरायणः ॥
English Translation
He who is given to falsehood has neither this world nor the next. Such a person cannot rescue his departed manes. How again shall he succeed in doing good to progeny?
न यज्ञाध्ययने दानं नियमास्तारयन्ति हि । तथा सत्यं परे लोके यथा वै पुरुषर्षभ ॥
English Translation
The rewards of sacrifices and gifts, as also of fasts and religious observances, are not so powerful in rescuing as truth, O foremost of men, in both this and the next world.
तपांसि यानि चीर्णानि चरिष्यसि च यत्तपः । समाः शतैः सहस्रैश्च तत्सत्यान्न विशिष्यते ॥
English Translation
All the penances that have been practised by you and all those that you will practised in the future of hundreds and thousands of years are more cfficacious than truth.
सत्यमेकाक्षरं ब्रह्म सत्यमेकाक्षरं तपः । सत्यमेकाक्षरो यज्ञः सत्यमेकाक्षरं श्रुतम् ॥
English Translation
Truth is the one undecaying Brahma. Truth is the one undecaying Penance. Truth is the one undecaying Sacrifice. Truth is the one undecaying Veda.
सत्यं वेदेषु जागर्ति फलं सत्ये परं स्मृतम् । सत्याद्धर्मो दमश्चैव सर्वं सत्ये प्रतिष्ठितम् ॥
English Translation
Truth is awake in the Vedas. The fruits attached to truth have been described as the highest. From truth originate Righteousness and Self-control. Everything depends on truth.
सत्यं वेदास्तथाङ्गानि सत्यं यज्ञस्तथा विधिः । व्रतचर्यास्तथा सत्यमोंकारः सत्यमेव च ॥
English Translation
Truth is the Vedas and their branches. Truth is knowledge. Truth is the Ordinance. Truth is the observance of vows and fasts. Truth is the Prime Syllable OM.
प्राणिनां जननं सत्यं सत्यं संततिरेव च । सत्येन वायुरभ्येति सत्येन तपते रविः ॥
English Translation
Truth is the origin of creatures. Truth is their progeny. It is by truth that the Wind moves. It is by truth that the Sun gives heat.
सत्येन चाग्निर्दहति स्वर्गः सत्ये प्रतिष्ठितः । सत्यं यज्ञस्तपो वेदाः स्तोभा मन्त्राः सरस्वती ॥
English Translation
It is by truth that Fire burns. It is on truth that Heaven rests. Truth is Sacrifice. Penance, Vedas, the verses of Samans, Mantras, and Sarasvati.
तुलामारोपितो धर्मः सत्यं चैवेति नः श्रुतम् । समां कक्षां धारयतो यतः सत्यं ततोऽधिकम् ॥
English Translation
We have heard that once on a time truth and all religious observances were weighted in a scale. When both were weighted, that scale on which truth was, proved heavier.
यतो धर्मस्ततः सत्यं सर्वं सत्येन वर्धते । किमर्थमनृतं कर्म कर्तुं राजंस्त्वमिच्छसि ॥
English Translation
There is truth where Righteousness is. Everything multiplies through truth. Why, O king, do you wish to do false act.
सत्ये कुरु स्थिरं भावं मा राजन्ननृतं कृथाः । कस्मात्त्वमनृतं वाक्यं देहीति कुरुषेऽशुभम् ॥
English Translation
Be firm in truth. Do not fact falsely, O king. Why do you falsify the falsify the words-Give (me)!-which you have said?
यदि जप्यफलं दत्तं मया नेषिष्यसे नृप । स्वधर्मेभ्यः परिभ्रष्टो लोकाननुचरिष्यसि ॥
English Translation
If you refuse, O king, to accept the fruits that I have given you of my recitations, you shall then have to wander over the world, fallen away from Righteousness.
संश्रुत्य यो न दित्सेत याचित्वा यश्च नेच्छति । उभावानृतिकावेतौ न मृषा कर्तुमर्हसि ॥
English Translation
That person who does not give after having promised, and he also that does not accept after having begged, are both stained with falsehood. You should not, therefore, falsify your own words.
योद्धव्यं रक्षितव्यं च क्षत्रधर्मः किल द्विज । दातारः क्षत्रियाः प्रोक्ता गृह्णीयां भवतः कथम् ॥
English Translation
The king said To fight and to protect from the duties of Kshatriyas. It is said that Kshatriyas are givers. How then shall I take anything from you.
न छन्दयामि ते राजन्नापि ते गृहमाव्रजम् । इहागम्य तु याचित्वा न गृह्णीषे पुनः कथम् ॥
English Translation
The Brahmana said I never pressed you, O king. I did not seek your house. Yourself, coming here, coming here, you yourself begged of me, Why then do you not take?
अविवादोऽस्तु युवयोर्वित्तं मां धर्ममागतम् । द्विजो दानफलैर्युक्तो राजा सत्यफलेन च ॥
English Translation
Dharma said Know you both that I am Dharma himself, Let there be no dispute between you. Let the Brahmana possess the reward of gift, and let the king also obtain the merit of truth.
स्वर्गं मां विद्धि राजेन्द्र रूपिणं स्वयमागतम् । अविवादोऽस्तु युवयोरुभौ तुल्यफलौ युवाम् ॥
English Translation
Heaven said Know, O great king, that I am Heaven's self-incarnate, come here in person. Let this dispute between you cease. You are both equal in respect of the merit or rewards that you have acquired.
कृतं स्वर्गेण मे कार्यं गच्छ स्वर्ग यथासुखम् । विप्रो यदीच्छते दातुं प्रतीच्छतु च मे धनम् ॥
English Translation
The king said I have no use with heaven. Go, O Heaven, to the place you have come from. If this learned Brahmana wishes to go to you, let him take the rewards that I have acquired.
बाल्ये यदि स्यादज्ञानान्मया हस्तः प्रसारितः । निवृत्तिलक्षणं धर्ममुपासे संहितां जपन् ॥
English Translation
Thc Brahmana said In the boyhood I had, through Ignorance, stretched my hand for accepting gifts. Now, however, I recite the Gayatri, observing the duty of abstention.
निवृत्तं मां चिरं राजन्विप्रं लोभयसे कथम् । स्वेन कार्यं करिष्यामि त्वत्तो नेच्छे फलं नृप । तपःस्वाध्यायशीलोऽहं निवृत्तश्च प्रतिग्रहात् ॥
English Translation
Why do you, O king, tempt me thus, me who have for a long time followed duty of abstention? I shall myself do what my duty is. I do not wish to participate in the rewards acquired by you, O king. I am given too penances and to the study of the Vedas, and I have abstained from acceptance.
यदि विप्र निसृष्टं ते जप्यस्य फलमुत्तमम् । आवयोर्यत्फलं किंचित्सहितं नौ तदस्त्विह ॥
English Translation
The king said If, O Brahmana, you are really prepared to give me the excellent reward of your recitation, then let half that reward be mine, you also take at the same time half the reward that I myself have gained by my acts.
द्विजाः प्रतिग्रहे युक्ता दातारो राजवंशजाः । यदि धर्मः श्रुतो विप्र सहैव फलमस्तु नौ ॥
English Translation
Brahmanas follows the duty of acceptance. Persons born in the royal order follow the duty of giving. If you are not unaware of the duties, let our fruits be equal.
मा वा भूत्सहभोज्यं नौ मदीयं फलमाप्नुहि । प्रतीच्छ मत्कृतं धर्मं यदि ते मय्यनुग्रहः ॥
English Translation
Or, if you do not wish to be my equal regarding our rewards, that I may have gained. Do take the merit I have gained if you wish to show me favour.'
ततो विकृतचेष्टौ द्वौ पुरुषौ समुपस्थितौ । गृहीत्वान्योन्यमावेष्ट्य कुचेलावूचतुर्वचः ॥
English Translation
Bhishma continued 'At this time two very ugly persons came there. Each had his arm upon the other's shoulder; both were ill-dressed. They said these
न मे धारयसीत्येको धारयामीति चापरः । इहास्ति नौ विवादोऽयमयं राजानुशासकः ॥
English Translation
You owe me nothing!-I really owe you!-If we dispute in this way, here is the king, who governs men.
सत्यं ब्रवीम्यहमिदं न मे धारयते भवान् । अनृतं वदसीह त्वमृणं ते धारयाम्यहम् ॥
English Translation
I say truly, you owe me nothing!-You speak falsely. I owe you a debt!
तावुभौ भृशसंतप्तौ राजानमिदमूचतुः । परीक्ष्यतां यथा स्याव नावामिह विगर्हितौ ॥
English Translation
Both of them, greatly exercises in dispute, then addressed the king, saying,-See, O king, that none of us may be visited by sin!
धारयामि नरव्याघ्र विकृतस्येह गोः फलम् । ददतश्च न गृह्णाति विकृतो मे महीपते ॥
English Translation
Virupa said I owe my companion Vikrita, O king, the merits of the gift of a cow. I am willing to satisfy that debt. This Vikrita, however, refuses to accept repayment.
न मे धारयते किंचिद्विरूपोऽयं नराधिप । मिथ्या ब्रवीत्ययं हि त्वा मिथ्याभासं नराधिप ॥
English Translation
Vikrita said This Virupa, O king, owes me nothing. He speaks an untruth under the appearance of truth, O King.
विरूप किं धारयते भवानस्य वदस्व मे । श्रुत्वा तथा करिष्यामीत्येवं मे धीयते मतिः ॥
English Translation
The king said Tell me, O Virupa, what is that which you owe your friend here. I wish to first hear you and then do what is proper.
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