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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 286

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 286

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 286

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 286 of the classical Mahābhārata with 42 verses.

Total: 42 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.286.1–42 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 2 (Verses 30 shown)
पिता सखायो गुरवः स्त्रियश्च; न निर्गुणा नाम भवन्ति लोके । अनन्यभक्ताः प्रियवादिनश्च; हिताश्च वश्याश्च तथैव राजन् ॥
English Translation
Parashara said The father, the friends, the preceptors, and the wishes of the preceptors of men who are shorn of devotion, are unable to give to those men the merits derivable from devotion. Only they who are firmly devoted to such elders, who speak what is agreeable to them, who speek their well-being, and who are submissive to them in conduct, can acquire the merit to devotion.
पिता परं दैवतं मानवानां; मातुर्विशिष्टं पितरं वदन्ति । ज्ञानस्य लाभं परमं वदन्ति; जितेन्द्रियार्थाः परमाप्नुवन्ति ॥
English Translation
That father is the highest of gods with his children. It is said that the father is superior to the mother. The acquirement of Knowledge is are considered as the hightest acquisition. They who have subjugating the objects of the senses, acquire what is highest.
रणाजिरे यत्र शराग्निसंस्तरे; नृपात्मजो घातमवाप्य दह्यते । प्रयाति लोकानमरैः सुदुर्लभा;न्निषेवते स्वर्गफलं यथासुखम् ॥
English Translation
That Kshatriya prince, who going to the battle-field, receives wounds amid fiery arrows shooting in all directions and burns therewith, certainly goes to regions which unattainable by the very gods and, arrived there enjoys the happiness of heaven in perfect contentiment.
श्रान्तं भीतं भ्रष्टशस्त्रं रुदन्तं; पराङ्मुखं परिबर्हैश्च हीनम् । अनुद्यतं रोगिणं याचमानं; न वै हिंस्याद्बालवृद्धौ च राजन् ॥
English Translation
A Kshatriya should not, O king, strike one who is fatigued, or one who is terrified, or one who has been disarmed, or one who is weeping, or one who is reluctant to fight, or one who is unequipped with mail and cars and horse and infantry, or one who has ceased to exert in the fight, or one who is ill, or one who cries for quarter. Or one who is of tender years, or one who is old.
परिबर्हैः सुसंपन्नमुद्यतं तुल्यतां गतम् । अतिक्रमेत नृपतिः संग्रामे क्षत्रियात्मजम् ॥
English Translation
A Kshatriya should, in battle, fight one of his order, who is equipped with mail and cars and horse and infantry who is ready for battle, and who is a compeer.
तुल्यादिह वधः श्रेयान्विशिष्टाच्चेति निश्चयः । निहीनात्कातराच्चैव नृपाणां गर्हितो वधः ॥
English Translation
Death at the hands of one who is equal or of a superior is praiseworthy, but not that at the hands of one that is low, or of one who is a coward, or of one who is a wretch. This is well known.
पापात्पापसमाचारान्निहीनाच्च नराधिप । पाप एव वधः प्रोक्तो नरकायेति निश्चयः ॥
English Translation
Death at the hands of one who is sinful, or of one who is of low birth and wicked conduct, O king is infamous and leads to hell.
न कश्चित्त्राति वै राजन्दिष्टान्तवशमागतम् । सावशेषायुषं चापि कश्चिदेवापकर्षति ॥
English Translation
One whose lease of life has run out, cannot be saved by any body. Likewise, one whose lease of life has not run out can never be killed by any one.
स्निग्धैश्च क्रियमाणानि कर्माणीह निवर्तयेत् । हिंसात्मकानि कर्माणि नायुरिच्छेत्परायुषा ॥
English Translation
One should prevent his affectionate elders from doing to his such acts as done by menials, as also all such acts as can injure others. One should never wish to extend his own life by taking the lives of others.
गृहस्थानां तु सर्वेषां विनाशमभिकाङ्क्षताम् । निधनं शोभनं तात पुलिनेषु क्रियावताम् ॥
English Translation
When they sacrifice their lives, it is laudable for all householders observing the duties of men living in sacred places to give up their lives on the banks of sacred rivers.
आयुषि क्षयमापन्ने पञ्चत्वमुपगच्छति । नाकारणात्तद्भवति कारणैरुपपादितम् ॥
English Translation
When one lease of life is over, his body dissolved into the five elements. Sometimes this occurs suddenly and some times it is brought about by (natural) causes.
तथा शरीरं भवति देहाद्येनोपपादितम् । अध्वानं गतकश्चायं प्राप्तश्चायं गृहाद्गृहम् ॥
English Translation
He who having obtained a body, destroys it himself becomes invested with another body of a similar nature. Though set on the path of Liberation, he yet becomes a traveller and acquires another body like a person going from one room into another.
द्वितीयं कारणं तत्र नान्यत्किंचन विद्यते । तद्देहं देहिनां युक्तं मोक्षभूतेषु वर्तते ॥
English Translation
About such a man's attainment of a second body the only cause is his accidental death. There is no second cause. That new body which embodied creatures obtain, comes into existence and becomes attached to Rudras and Pishachas.
सिरास्नाय्वस्थिसंघातं बीभत्सामेध्यसंकुलम् । भूतानामिन्द्रियाणां च गुणानां च समागमम् ॥
English Translation
Learned men, conversant with spiritual science say that the body is a compound of arteries and sinews and bones and much repulsive and impure matter and a compound of essences, and the senses and the objects of the senses born of desire, all having an outer cover of skin close to them. Shorn of beauty and other accomplishments, this compound, through force of the desires of a pristine life, assumes a human forin.
त्वगन्तं देहमित्याहुर्विद्वांसोऽध्यात्मचिन्तकाः । गुणैरपि परिक्षीणं शरीरं मर्त्यतां गतम् ॥
English Translation
Learned men, conversant with spiritual science say that the body is a compound of arteries and sinews and bones and much repulsive and impure matter and a compound of essences, and the senses and the objects of the senses born of desire, all having an outer cover of skin close to them. Shorn of beauty and other accomplishments, this compound, through force of the desires of a pristine life, assumes a human forin.
शरीरिणा परित्यक्तं निश्चेष्टं गतचेतनम् । भूतैः प्रकृतिमापन्नैस्ततो भूमौ निमज्जति ॥
English Translation
Left off by the owner, the body becomes inanimate and motionless. Indeed, when the principal ingredients return to their respective natures, the body is mixed up with the dust.
भावितं कर्मयोगेन जायते तत्र तत्र ह । इदं शरीरं वैदेह म्रियते यत्र तत्र ह । तत्स्वभावोऽपरो दृष्टो विसर्गः कर्मणस्तथा ॥
English Translation
Caused by its union with deeds, this body reappears under circumstances determined by its deeds. Indeed O king of the Videhas, under whatever circumstances this body is dissolved, its next birth, determined by the these circumstances, is seen to enjoy and endure the fruits of all its pristine deeds.
न जायते तु नृपते कंचित्कालमयं पुनः । परिभ्रमति भूतात्मा द्यामिवाम्बुधरो महान् ॥
स पुनर्जायते राजन्प्राप्येहायतनं नृप । मनसः परमो ह्यात्मा इन्द्रियेभ्यः परं मनः ॥
द्विविधानां च भूतानां जङ्गमाः परमा नृप । जङ्गमानामपि तथा द्विपदाः परमा मताः । द्विपदानामपि तथा द्विजा वै परमाः स्मृताः ॥
English Translation
Amongst mobile creatures the two legged are superior. Amongst two-legged creatures, those that are are twice-born are superior.
द्विजानामपि राजेन्द्र प्रज्ञावन्तः परा मताः । प्राज्ञानामात्मसंबुद्धाः संबुद्धानाममानिनः ॥
English Translation
Amongst those that are twice-born they who are endued with wisdom are superior. Amongst them who are endued with wisdom they that have succeeded in acquiring a knowledge of the soul are superior. Amongst those who are endued with a knowledge of the soul, those who are endued with humility are superior.
जातमन्वेति मरणं नृणामिति विनिश्चयः । अन्तवन्ति हि कर्माणि सेवन्ते गुणतः प्रजाः ॥
English Translation
Death follows birth in all men. This is settled. Creatures, influenced by the qualities of Goodness, Darkness and Ignorance, pursue acts which have an end.
आपन्ने तूत्तरां काष्ठां सूर्ये यो निधनं व्रजेत् । नक्षत्रे च मुहूर्ते च पुण्ये राजन्स पुण्यकृत् ॥
English Translation
That man is considered as righteous who meets with dissolution when the Sun is in the northern declension, and at a time and under a constellation both of which are sacred and auspicious, He is righteous who, having purified himself of all sins and performed all his acts according to the best of his might and having abstained from giving pain to any man, meets with death when it comes.
अयोजयित्वा क्लेशेन जनं प्लाव्य च दुष्कृतम् । मृत्युनाप्राकृतेनेह कर्म कृत्वात्मशक्तितः ॥
विषमुद्बन्धनं दाहो दस्युहस्तात्तथा वधः । दंष्ट्रिभ्यश्च पशुभ्यश्च प्राकृतो वध उच्यते ॥
English Translation
The death that one meets with by taking poision, by hanging, by burning, at the hands of robbers and at the teeth of animals, is said to be an infamous one.
न चैभिः पुण्यकर्माणो युज्यन्ते नाभिसंधिजैः । एवंविधैश्च बहुभिरपरैः प्राकृतैरपि ॥
English Translation
Those man who are righteous never meet with such or similar deaths even if they be afflicted with mental and physical diseases of the most painful sort.
ऊर्ध्वं हित्वा प्रतिष्ठन्ते प्राणाः पुण्यकृतां नृप । मध्यतो मध्यपुण्यानामधो दुष्कृतकर्मणाम् ॥
English Translation
The lives of the pious, O king, piercing through the Sun, ascend into the regions of Brahman. The lives of those who are both righteous and sinful rove in the middle regions. The lives of those who are sinful sink into the lowest depths. There is one only enemy (of man) and not another. That enemy is at one with Ignorance, O king. Overwhelmed by it, is led to perpetrate frightful and exceedingly cruel deeds.
एकः शत्रुर्न द्वितीयोऽस्ति शत्रु;रज्ञानतुल्यः पुरुषस्य राजन् । येनावृतः कुरुते संप्रयुक्तो; घोराणि कर्माणि सुदारुणानि ॥
प्रबोधनार्थं श्रुतिधर्मयुक्तं; वृद्धानुपास्यं च भवेत यस्य । प्रयत्नसाध्यो हि स राजपुत्र; प्रज्ञाशरेणोन्मथितः परैति ॥
English Translation
That enemy for resisting which one should display his energy waiting upon the aged according to the duties laid down in the Shrutis,-~-that enemy which cannot be Overcome except by steady endeavours,-meets with destruction, O king, only when it is crushed by the arrows of wisdom. One
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