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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 217

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 217

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 217

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 217 of the classical Mahābhārata with 60 verses.

Total: 60 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.217.1–60 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 2 (Verses 30 shown)
पुनरेव तु तं शक्रः प्रहसन्निदमब्रवीत् । निःश्वसन्तं यथा नागं प्रव्याहाराय भारत ॥
English Translation
Bhishma said Again, laughing at Vali who was sighing like a snake, Shakra addressed him for saying something more painful than what he had said before.
यत्तद्यानसहस्रेण ज्ञातिभिः परिवारितः । लोकान्प्रतापयन्सर्वान्यास्यस्मानवितर्कयन् ॥
English Translation
Formerly you used to march through the words, with your train consisting of thousands of carriages and thousands of kinsmen, and to move along, burning, everybody with your splendour and disregarding us all.
दृष्ट्वा सुकृपणां चेमामवस्थामात्मनो बले । ज्ञातिमित्रपरित्यक्तः शोचस्याहो न शोचसि ॥
English Translation
You are now, however, deserted by both kinsmen and friends. Beholding this miserable condition of yours, do you or do you not indulge in grief?
प्रीतिं प्राप्यातुलां पूर्वं लोकांश्चात्मवशे स्थितान् । विनिपातमिमं चाद्य शोचस्याहो न शोचसि ॥
English Translation
Formerly all the worlds were under your sway and great was your joy. I ask, do you or you not grieve now, for this loss of your splendour?
अनित्यमुपलक्ष्येदं कालपर्यायमात्मनः । तस्माच्छक्र न शोचामि सर्वं ह्येवेदमन्तवत् ॥
English Translation
Vali said Regarding all this as transitory,-due, indeed, to the course of time,-I do not, O Shakra, grieve. These things have an end.
अन्तवन्त इमे देहा भूतानाममराधिप । तेन शक्र न शोचामि नापराधादिदं मम ॥
English Translation
These bodies of creatures, O king of the celestials, are all transitory. Therefore, 0 Shakra, I do not grieve. Nor is this form due to any fault of mine.
जीवितं च शरीरं च प्रेत्य वै सह जायते । उभे सह विवर्धेते उभे सह विनश्यतः ॥
English Translation
The animating principle and the body come into existence simultaneously for their own nature. They grow together and meet with destruction together.
तदीदृशमिदं भावमवशः प्राप्य केवलम् । यद्येवमभिजानामि का व्यथा मे विजानतः ॥
English Translation
Having obtained this form of birth I have not been enslaved by it for good. Since I know this, I have no cause for sorrow.
भूतानां निधनं निष्ठा स्रोतसामिव सागरः । नैतत्सम्यग्विजानन्तो नरा मुह्यन्ति वज्रभृत् ॥
English Translation
As the final place of all rivers is the ocean, so the end of all embodied creatures is death. Those persons that know this well are never stupefied, O holder of the thunder-bolt. 10. They, however, who, overwhelmed with Darkness and loss of judgement, do not know this, they whose understanding is lost, sink under the load of misfortune.
ये त्वेवं नाभिजानन्ति रजोमोहपरायणाः । ते कृच्छ्रं प्राप्य सीदन्ति बुद्धिर्येषां प्रणश्यति ॥
English Translation
As the final place of all rivers is the ocean, so the end of all embodied creatures is death. Those persons that know this well are never stupefied, O holder of the thunder-bolt. 10. They, however, who, overwhelmed with Darkness and loss of judgement, do not know this, they whose understanding is lost, sink under the load of misfortune.
बुद्धिलाभे हि पुरुषः सर्वं नुदति किल्बिषम् । विपाप्मा लभते सत्त्वं सत्त्वस्थः संप्रसीदति ॥
English Translation
A person wins a keen understanding, succeeds in dissipating all his sins. A sinless person acquires the quality of Goodness, and having acquired it becomes cheerful.
ततस्तु ये निवर्तन्ते जायन्ते वा पुनः पुनः । कृपणाः परितप्यन्ते तेऽनर्थैः परिचोदिताः ॥
English Translation
They, however, that deviate from the quality of Goodness, and go through repeated re-births, are obliged to indulge in sorrow and grief, led on by desire and the objects of the senises,
अर्थसिद्धिमनर्थं च जीवितं मरणं तथा । सुखदुःखफलं चैव न द्वेष्मि न च कामये ॥
English Translation
I neither dislike nor like success or defeat, regarding the attainment of all objects of desire, life, or death, the fruits of action that are represented by pleasure or pain.
हतं हन्ति हतो ह्येव यो नरो हन्ति कंचन । उभौ तौ न विजानीतो यश्च हन्ति हतश्च यः ॥
English Translation
When one kills another, he kills only that other's body. That man who thinks that it is he who kills another, is himself killed. Indeed, both of then do not know the truth, viz., he who kills and he who is killed.
हत्वा जित्वा च मघवन्यः कश्चित्पुरुषायते । अकर्ता ह्येव भवति कर्ता त्वेव करोति तत् ॥
English Translation
O Maghavat, that person, who having killed or defeated any one brags of his manliness, should know that he is not the actor, but that the act has been performed by another who is the real agent.
को हि लोकस्य कुरुते विनाशप्रभवावुभौ । कृतं हि तत्कृतेनैव कर्ता तस्यापि चापरः ॥
English Translation
When it is asked that who is it that brings about the creation and destruction of things in the world, it is generally thought that some person has caused it. Know, however, that the person who is so known has a creator.
पृथिवी वायुराकाशमापो ज्योतिश्च पञ्चमम् । एतद्योनीनि भूतानि तत्र का परिदेवना ॥
English Translation
Earth, light or heat, ether, water, and wind form the fifth-from these do all creatures originate. (When I know this) what sorrow can I feel?
महाविद्योऽल्पविद्यश्च बलवान्दुर्बलश्च यः । दर्शनीयो विरूपश्च सुभगो दुर्भगश्च यः ॥
English Translation
One who is endued with great learning, one who is not much learned, one who is strong, one who is destitute of strength, one who is beautiful, and one who is very ugly, one who is lucky, and one who is not blessed by fortune, are all carried away by Time, which is too deep to be measured by its own energy. When I know that I have been defeated by Time what sorrow can I feel.
सर्वं कालः समादत्ते गम्भीरः स्वेन तेजसा । तस्मिन्कालवशं प्राप्ते का व्यथा मे विजानतः ॥
English Translation
One who is endued with great learning, one who is not much learned, one who is strong, one who is destitute of strength, one who is beautiful, and one who is very ugly, one who is lucky, and one who is not blessed by fortune, are all carried away by Time, which is too deep to be measured by its own energy. When I know that I have been defeated by Time what sorrow can I feel.
दग्धमेवानुदहति हतमेवानुहन्ति च । नश्यते नष्टमेवाग्रे लब्धव्यं लभते नरः ॥
English Translation
One that burns anything burns a thing that has been already burnt. One who kills, only kills, a victim already killed. One who is destroyed, has been before destroyed. A thing that is acquired by a person is what is already arrived and intended for his acquirement.
नास्य द्वीपः कुतः पारं नावारः संप्रदृश्यते । नान्तमस्य प्रपश्यामि विधेर्दिव्यस्य चिन्तयन् ॥
English Translation
This Time is like an ocean. There is no island in it. Its other shore is beyond reach. Its boundary cannot be seen. Thinking even deeply, I do not see the end of this continuous steam that is the great ordainer of all things and that is, forsooth celestial.
यदि मे पश्यतः कालो भूतानि न विनाशयेत् । स्यान्मे हर्षश्च दर्पश्च क्रोधश्चैव शचीपते ॥
English Translation
If I did not know that it is Time which destroys all creatures, then, perhaps, I would have experienced the emotions of joy, pride and anger, O husband of Shachi.
तुषभक्षं तु मां ज्ञात्वा प्रविविक्तजने गृहे । बिभ्रतं गार्दभं रूपमादिश्य परिगर्हसे ॥
English Translation
Have you come here to condemn me, having come to know that I am now assuming the form of an ass that lives upon chaff and that is now passing his days in a lonely spot remote from the dwellings of men.
इच्छन्नहं विकुर्यां हि रूपाणि बहुधात्मनः । विभीषणानि यानीक्ष्य पलायेथास्त्वमेव मे ॥
English Translation
If I wish, even now I can assume various dreadful forms, seeing any one of which you would immediately fly away from my presence.
कालः सर्वं समादत्ते कालः सर्वं प्रयच्छति । कालेन विधृतं सर्वं मा कृथाः शक्र पौरुषम् ॥
English Translation
It is Time that gives every thing and again takes away everything. It is Time that ordains all things. Do not, O Shakra, brag of your manliness.
पुरा सर्वं प्रव्यथते मयि क्रुद्धे पुरंदर । अवैमि त्वस्य लोकस्य धर्मं शक्र सनातनम् ॥
English Translation
Formerly, O Purandara, whenever, I used to be angry everything used to become agitated. I know, however, O Shakra, that eternal attributes of all things in the world.
त्वमप्येवमपेक्षस्व मात्मना विस्मयं गमः । प्रभवश्च प्रभावश्च नात्मसंस्थः कदाचन ॥
English Translation
Do you also know the truth. Do not allow yourself to be filled with wonder. Prosperity and its origin are not under one's control.
कौमारमेव ते चित्तं तथैवाद्य यथा पुरा । समवेक्षस्व मघवन्बुद्धिं विन्दस्व नैष्ठिकीम् ॥
English Translation
Your mind is like that of a child. It is the same as it was before. Open your eyes, O Maghavat and acquire an understanding which is sure and true.
देवा मनुष्याः पितरो गन्धर्वोरगराक्षसाः । आसन्सर्वे मम वशे तत्सर्वं वेत्थ वासव ॥
English Translation
In days gone by, that gods, men, the Pitris, the Gandharvas, the Nagas, and the Rakshasas, were all under my control. You know this, O Vasava.
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