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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 30

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 30

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 30

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 30 of the classical Mahābhārata with 43 verses.

Total: 43 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.30.1–43 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 2 (Verses 30 shown)
स कथं काञ्चनष्ठीवी सृञ्जयस्य सुतोऽभवत् । पर्वतेन किमर्थं च दत्तः केन ममार च ॥
English Translation
How did the son as Srinjaya become Suvarnashthivin? Why also did Parvata give Srinjaya that child? And why did he die?
यदा वर्षसहस्रायुस्तदा भवति मानवः । कथमप्राप्तकौमारः सृञ्जयस्य सुतो मृतः ॥
English Translation
When all those men lived for a thousand years, why did Srinjaya's son die in infancy?
उताहो नाममात्रं वै सुवर्णष्ठीविनोऽभवत् । तथ्यं वा काञ्चनष्ठीवीत्येतदिच्छामि वेदितुम् ॥
English Translation
Or, was he in name only Suvarnashthivin? How also did he come to be so! I wish to know all this?
अत्र ते कथयिष्यामि यथा वृत्तं जनेश्वर । नारदः पर्वतश्चैव प्रागृषी लोकपूजितौ ॥
English Translation
Krishna said 'I will recount, О king, the incidents as they took place. There are two Rishis foremost in the world, named Narada and Parvata.
मातुलो भागिनेयश्च देवलोकादिहागतौ । विहर्तुकामौ संप्रीत्या मानुष्येषु पुरा प्रभू ॥
English Translation
Narada is the maternal uncle and Parvata is his sister's son. With cheerful hearts, the uncle Narada and the nephew Parvata had in days of yore, O king, left the celestial region for a journey on Earth for eating clarified butter and rice.
हविःपवित्रभोज्येन देवभोज्येन चैव ह । नारदो मातुलश्चैव भागिनेयश्च पर्वतः ॥
English Translation
Narada is the maternal uncle and Parvata is his sister's son. With cheerful hearts, the uncle Narada and the nephew Parvata had in days of yore, O king, left the celestial region for a journey on Earth for eating clarified butter and rice.
तावुभौ तपसोपेताववनीतलचारिणौ । भुञ्जानौ मानुषान्भोगान्यथावत्पर्यधावताम् ॥
English Translation
Both of them endued with great ascetic merit, they wandered over the Earth living on food taken by human beings.
प्रीतिमन्तौ मुदा युक्तौ समयं तत्र चक्रतुः । यो भवेद्धृदि संकल्पः शुभो वा यदि वाशुभः । अन्योन्यस्य स आख्येयो मृषा शापोऽन्यथा भवेत् ॥
English Translation
Filled with joy and cherishing great affection for each other, they entered into an agreement that whatever wish, good or bad, would be entertained by one, should be disclosed to the other, but if one happens to act otherwise, he should be visited by the other's curse.
तौ तथेति प्रतिज्ञाय महर्षी लोकपूजितौ । सृञ्जयं श्वैत्यमभ्येत्य राजानमिदमूचतुः ॥
English Translation
Coming at that understanding, those two great Rishis, worshipped of all the worlds, repaired to King Srinjaya the son of Shitya and said to him?
आवां भवति वत्स्यावः कंचित्कालं हिताय ते । यथावत्पृथिवीपाल आवयोः प्रगुणीभव । तथेति कृत्वा तौ राजा सत्कृत्योपचचार ह ॥
English Translation
We two, for your well-being shall live with you for a few days. O lord of Earth, do you satisfy all our wants duly! The king, saying,-So be it, began to treat them hospitably.
ततः कदाचित्तौ राजा महात्मानौ तथागतौ । अब्रवीत्परमप्रीतः सुतेयं वरवर्णिनी ॥
एकैव मम कन्यैषा युवां परिचरिष्यति । दर्शनीयानवद्याङ्गी शीलवृत्तसमन्विता । सुकुमारी कुमारी च पद्मकिञ्जल्कसंनिभा ॥
परमं सौम्य इत्युक्तस्ताभ्यां राजा शशास ताम् । कन्ये विप्रावुपचर देववत्पितृवच्च ह ॥
सा तु कन्या तथेत्युक्त्वा पितरं धर्मचारिणी । यथानिदेशं राज्ञस्तौ सत्कृत्योपचचार ह ॥
English Translation
The pious princess, saying,-So be it-began to serve them in obedience to her father's command.
तस्यास्तथोपचारेण रूपेणाप्रतिमेन च । नारदं हृच्छयस्तूर्णं सहसैवान्वपद्यत ॥
English Translation
Her dutiful services and her peerless beauty very soon created love in Narada's heart.
ववृधे च ततस्तस्य हृदि कामो महात्मनः । यथा शुक्लस्य पक्षस्य प्रवृत्तावुडुराट्छनैः ॥
English Translation
That tender feeling began to grow in the heart of the great saint, like the moon gradually increasing in the light fortnight.
न च तं भागिनेयाय पर्वताय महात्मने । शशंस मन्मथं तीव्रं व्रीडमानः स धर्मवित् ॥
English Translation
The virtuous Narada, however, out of shame, could not give out that burning love to his sister's son the high-souled Parvata.
तपसा चेङ्गितेनाथ पर्वतोऽथ बुबोध तत् । कामार्तं नारदं क्रुद्धः शशापैनं ततो भृशम् ॥
English Translation
By his ascetic power, as also by signs, Parvata understood all. Excited with rage, the latter thereupon made up his mind to curse the love-stricken Narada.
कृत्वा समयमव्यग्रो भवान्वै सहितो मया । यो भवेद्धृदि संकल्पः शुभो वा यदि वाशुभः ॥
English Translation
And he said, ‘Having of your own accord made an agreement with me that, whatever wish, good or bad, would be entertained by either of us should be disclosed to the other you have violated it! These were your own words. O Brahman! It is for this that I shall curse you.
अन्योन्यस्य स आख्येय इति तद्वै मृषा कृतम् । भवता वचनं ब्रह्मंस्तस्मादेतद्वदाम्यहम् ॥
English Translation
And he said, ‘Having of your own accord made an agreement with me that, whatever wish, good or bad, would be entertained by either of us should be disclosed to the other you have violated it! These were your own words. O Brahman! It is for this that I shall curse you.
न हि कामं प्रवर्तन्तं भवानाचष्ट मे पुरा । सुकुमार्यां कुमार्यां ते तस्मादेष शपाम्यहम् ॥
English Translation
You did not tell me before that your heart has been stricken with the beauty of the maiden Sukumari, I shall, therefore, curse you.
ब्रह्मवादी गुरुर्यस्मात्तपस्वी ब्राह्मणश्च सन् । अकार्षीः समयभ्रंशमावाभ्यां यः कृतो मिथः ॥
English Translation
You are a Brahmacharin. You are my preceptor. You are an ascetic and a Brahmana. Yet you have broken the agreement you had made with me.
शप्स्ये तस्मात्सुसंक्रुद्धो भवन्तं तं निबोध मे । सुकुमारी च ते भार्या भविष्यति न संशयः ॥
English Translation
Filled with anger I shall, for this, curse even you. Listen to me. This Sukumari shall, forsooth, become your wife.
वानरं चैव कन्या त्वां विवाहात्प्रभृति प्रभो । संद्रक्ष्यन्ति नराश्चान्ये स्वरूपेण विनाकृतम् ॥
English Translation
From the time of your marriage, however, O powerful one, both she and all men shall see you a monkey, for your real features having disappeared, you will appear like a monkey to all.
स तद्वाक्यं तु विज्ञाय नारदः पर्वतात्तदा । अशपत्तमपि क्रोधाद्भागिनेयं स मातुलः ॥
तपसा ब्रह्मचर्येण सत्येन च दमेन च । युक्तोऽपि धर्मनित्यश्च न स्वर्गवासमाप्स्यसि ॥
तौ तु शप्त्वा भृशं क्रुद्धौ परस्परममर्षणौ । प्रतिजग्मतुरन्योन्यं क्रुद्धाविव गजोत्तमौ ॥
English Translation
Filled with anger and feelings of vengeance, they thus cursed each other like a pair of infuriate elephants.
पर्वतः पृथिवीं कृत्स्नां विचचार महामुनिः । पूज्यमानो यथान्यायं तेजसा स्वेन भारत ॥
English Translation
From that time the great Parvata began to wander over the Earth, respected as he deserved, O Bharata, for his own power.
अथ तामलभत्कन्यां नारदः सृञ्जयात्मजाम् । धर्मेण धर्मप्रवरः सुकुमारीमनिन्दिताम् ॥
English Translation
Narada then, that best of Brahmanas, duly married Srinjaya's daughter, the faultless Sukumari.
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