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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 220

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 220

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 220

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 220 of the classical Mahābhārata with 119 verses.

Total: 119 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.220.1–119 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 2 of 4 (Verses 30 shown)
न मातृपितृशुश्रूषा न च दैवतपूजनम् । नान्यो गुणसमाचारः पुरुषस्य सुखावहः ॥
English Translation
Dutiful services to parents, respectful adoration of deities, due practice of any good quality,-none of these can confer happiness on any one.
न विद्या न तपो दानं न मित्राणि न बान्धवाः । शक्नुवन्ति परित्रातुं नरं कालेन पीडितम् ॥
English Translation
Neither knowledge nor penances, nor gifts, nor friends, nor kinsmen, can save one who is afflicted by Time.
नागामिनमनर्थं हि प्रतिघातशतैरपि । शक्नुवन्ति प्रतिव्योढुमृते बुद्धिबलान्नराः ॥
English Translation
Even by a thousand means, men cannot avert an impending danger. Intelligence and strength are useless in such cases.
पर्यायैर्हन्यमानानां परित्राता न विद्यते । इदं तु दुःखं यच्छक्र कर्ताहमिति मन्यते ॥
English Translation
Men are affected by pleasure and pain that come by turns in Time. There is no personal agency in this matter. In this lies sorrow.
यदि कर्ता भवेत्कर्ता न क्रियेत कदाचन । यस्मात्तु क्रियते कर्ता तस्मात्कर्ताप्यनीश्वरः ॥
English Translation
If the seeming performner of an act is the real actor thereof, that doer then would not himself be the creation of some one else (viz., the God). Therefore, because the seeming doer is himself the creation of another, that another is the Supreme Being superior to whom there is nothing else.
कालेन त्वाहमजयं कालेनाहं जितस्त्वया । गन्ता गतिमतां कालः कालः कलयति प्रजाः ॥
English Translation
Helped by Time I had defeated you. Helped by time you have defeated me. It is Time which moves all beings.
इन्द्र प्राकृतया बुद्ध्या प्रलपन्नावबुध्यसे । केचित्त्वां बहु मन्यन्ते श्रैष्ठ्यं प्राप्तं स्वकर्मणा ॥
English Translation
O Indra, because your intelligence is very mean you do not see that destruction awaits all things! Some, indeed, respect you as one who has acquired by his own acts the sovereignty of the universe.
कथमस्मद्विधो नाम जानँल्लोकप्रवृत्तयः । कालेनाभ्याहतः शोचेन्मुह्येद्वाप्यर्थसंभ्रमे ॥
English Translation
But, how can one like us who know the course of the world, grieve for having been afflicted by Time, or allow our understanding to be stupefied, or give way to the influence of error?
नित्यं कालपरीतस्य मम वा मद्विधस्य वा । बुद्धिर्व्यसनमासाद्य भिन्ना नौरिव सीदति ॥
English Translation
Even when we are possessed by Time, coming in contact with a calamity, shall my understanding or that of one like me allow itself to be destroyed like a wrecked vessel at sea.
अहं च त्वं च ये चान्ये भविष्यन्ति सुराधिपाः । ते सर्वे शक्र यास्यन्ति मार्गमिन्द्रशतैर्गतम् ॥
English Translation
Myself, yourself, and all those who will in future become the kings of the deities, shall have, O Shakra, to follow the way along which hundreds of Indras have gone before you.
त्वामप्येवं सुदुर्धर्षं ज्वलन्तं परया श्रिया । काले परिणते कालः कालयिष्यति मामिव ॥
English Translation
When your hour will be full, Time will surely destroy you like me,-who are now so invincible and who now shine with matchless splendour.
बहूनीन्द्रसहस्राणि दैतेयानां युगे युगे । अभ्यतीतानि कालेन कालो हि दुरतिक्रमः ॥
English Translation
In time's course many thousands of Indras and of gods have been swept off cycle after cycle. Time, Indeed, is irresistible.
इदं तु लब्ध्वा त्वं स्थानमात्मानं बहु मन्यसे । सर्वभूतभवं देवं ब्रह्माणमिव शाश्वतम् ॥
English Translation
Having secured your present position, you think too much of yourself, even as the Creator of all beings, the divine and eternal Brahman.
न चेदमचलं स्थानमनन्तं वापि कस्यचित् । त्वं तु बालिशया बुद्ध्या ममेदमिति मन्यसे ॥
English Translation
Having secured your present position of yours. With none did it last for ever. On account of a foolish understanding, you consider it immutable and eternal.
अविश्वास्ये विश्वसिषि मन्यसे चाध्रुवं ध्रुवम् । ममेयमिति मोहात्त्वं राजश्रियमभीप्ससि ॥
English Translation
You trust in that which is not worthy of trust. You consider that to be eternal which is not eternal. O king of the gods, one who is possessed and stupefied by Time really considers himself thus.
नेयं तव न चास्माकं न चान्येषां स्थिरा मता । अतिक्रम्य बहूनन्यांस्त्वयि तावदियं स्थिता ॥
कंचित्कालमियं स्थित्वा त्वयि वासव चञ्चला । गौर्निपानमिवोत्सृज्य पुनरन्यं गमिष्यति ॥
English Translation
It had belonged to numberless persons before you. Passing over them it has now become yours. It will say with you, O Vasava, for sometime and then prove its fickleness. Like a cow leaving one drinking ditch for another, it will surely leave you for somebody else.
राजलोका ह्यतिक्रान्ता यान्न संख्यातुमुत्सहे । त्वत्तो बहुतराश्चान्ये भविष्यन्ति पुरंदर ॥
English Translation
So many kings have gone before you that I venture not to calculate them. In the future also, O Purandara, numberless sovereigns will rise after you.
सवृक्षौषधिरत्नेयं ससरित्पर्वताकरा । तानिदानीं न पश्यामि यैर्भुक्तेयं पुरा मही ॥
English Translation
I do not see those kings now that had formerly enjoyed this Earth with her trees, plants, gems, living creatures, waters and mines.
पृथुरैलो मयो भौमो नरकः शम्बरस्तथा । अश्वग्रीवः पुलोमा च स्वर्भानुरमितध्वजः ॥
प्रह्रादो नमुचिर्दक्षो विप्रचित्तिर्विरोचनः । ह्रीनिषेधः सुहोत्रश्च भूरिहा पुष्पवान्वृषः ॥
सत्येषुरृषभो राहुः कपिलाश्वो विरूपकः । बाणः कार्तस्वरो वह्निर्विश्वदंष्ट्रोऽथ नैरृतः ॥
रित्थाहुत्थौ वीरताम्रौ वराहाश्वो रुचिः प्रभुः । विश्वजित्प्रतिशौरिश्च वृषाण्डो विष्करो मधुः ॥
हिरण्यकशिपुश्चैव कैटभश्चैव दानवः । दैत्याश्च कालखञ्जाश्च सर्वे ते नैरृतैः सह ॥
एते चान्ये च बहवः पूर्वे पूर्वतराश्च ये । दैत्येन्द्रा दानवेन्द्राश्च यांश्चान्याननुशुश्रुम ॥
बहवः पूर्वदैत्येन्द्राः संत्यज्य पृथिवीं गताः । कालेनाभ्याहताः सर्वे कालो हि बलवत्तरः ॥
सर्वैः क्रतुशतैरिष्टं न त्वमेकः शतक्रतुः । सर्वे धर्मपराश्चासन्सर्वे सततसत्रिणः ॥
English Translation
All of them had adored the Creator in hundreds of sacrifices. You are not the only person that has done so. All of them were given to righteousness and all of them always celebrated great sacrifices.
अन्तरिक्षचराः सर्वे सर्वेऽभिमुखयोधिनः । सर्वे संहननोपेताः सर्वे परिघबाहवः ॥
English Translation
All of them were capable of passing through the welkin and all were heroes that never retreated from the battle field. All of them had very strong bodies and all had arms resembling heavy bludgeons.
सर्वे मायाशतधराः सर्वे ते कामचारिणः । सर्वे समरमासाद्य न श्रूयन्ते पराजिताः ॥
English Translation
All of them were adepts in hundreds of illusions, and all could assume any form they liked. We have never heard that having undertaken a battle any of them had ever met with defeat.
सर्वे सत्यव्रतपराः सर्वे कामविहारिणः । सर्वे वेदव्रतपराः सर्वे चासन्बहुश्रुताः ॥
English Translation
All observed the vow of truth, and all of them sported as they wished. Devoted to the Vedas and Vedic rites, all of them were endued with great learning.
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