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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 306

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 306

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 306

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 306 of the classical Mahābhārata with 109 verses.

Total: 109 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.306.1–109 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 4 (Verses 30 shown)
अव्यक्तस्थं परं यत्तत्पृष्टस्तेऽहं नराधिप । परं गुह्यमिमं प्रश्नं शृणुष्वावहितो नृप ॥
English Translation
Yajnavalkya said You have asked me, O king, of that Supreme Brahma which lives in the Unmanifest. Your question relates to a deep mystery. Listen to me with rapt attention, O king.
यथार्षेणेह विधिना चरतावमतेन ह । मयादित्यादवाप्तानि यजूंषि मिथिलाधिप ॥
English Translation
Having behaved humbly according to the ordinances laid down by the Rishis I obtained the Yajushes, O king, from the Sun-god.
महता तपसा देवस्तपिष्ठः सेवितो मया । प्रीतेन चाहं विभुना सूर्येणोक्तस्तदानघ ॥
वरं वृणीष्व विप्रर्षे यदिष्टं ते सुदुर्लभम् । तत्ते दास्यामि प्रीतात्मा मत्प्रसादो हि दुर्लभः ॥
English Translation
With the hardest penances i formerly adored the heat-giving god. O sinless one, pleased with me, the powerful Sun, addressed me, saying, O regenerate Rishi, pray for the boon you covet, however difficult it may be of acquisition. I shall, with cheerful mind, grant it to you. It is very difficult to make me grant grace.
ततः प्रणम्य शिरसा मयोक्तस्तपतां वरः । यजूंषि नोपयुक्तानि क्षिप्रमिच्छामि वेदितुम् ॥
English Translation
Bowing to him with my head, I addressed that foremost of heat-giving luminaries thus, I have no knowledge of the Yajushes. I wish to know them forthwith.
ततो मां भगवानाह वितरिष्यामि ते द्विज । सरस्वतीह वाग्भूता शरीरं ते प्रवेक्ष्यति ॥
English Translation
The holy one, thus solicited, told ine,-I shall grant you the Yajushes. Made up of the essence of speech, the goddess of learning Sarasvati will enter into your person.
ततो मामाह भगवानास्यं स्वं विवृतं कुरु । विवृतं च ततो मेऽऽस्यं प्रविष्टा च सरस्वती ॥
English Translation
The god then ordered me to open my mouth. I did as I was cominanded. The goddess Sarasvati then entered into my body, O sinless one.
ततो विदह्यमानोऽहं प्रविष्टोऽम्भस्तदानघ । अविज्ञानादमर्षाच्च भास्करस्य महात्मनः ॥
English Translation
At this, I began to burn. Unable to suffer the pain I plunged into river. Not understanding what the great Sun had done for a me for my well-being, I became even angry with him.
ततो विदह्यमानं मामुवाच भगवान्रविः । मुहूर्तं सह्यतां दाहस्ततः शीतीभविष्यसि ॥
English Translation
While I was burning with the energy of the goddess, the holy Sun told me.-Do you suffer this burning sensation for only a little time. That will soon come to an end and you will be cool.
शीतीभूतं च मां दृष्ट्वा भगवानाह भास्करः । प्रतिष्ठास्यति ते वेदः सोत्तरः सखिलो द्विज ॥
English Translation
Indeed, I became cool. Beholding me restored to ease, the Maker of light said to me,-The whole Vedas, with its appendix, together with the Upanishads, will appear in you by inward light, О twice-born one.
कृत्स्नं शतपथं चैव प्रणेष्यसि द्विजर्षभ । तस्यान्ते चापुनर्भावे बुद्धिस्तव भविष्यति ॥
English Translation
You will also edit the entire Satapathas, O foremost of twice-born ones. After that, your understanding will turn to the path of Liberation.
प्राप्स्यसे च यदिष्टं तत्सांख्ययोगेप्सितं पदम् । एतावदुक्त्वा भगवानस्तमेवाभ्यवर्तत ॥
English Translation
You will also acquire that end which is desirable and which is coveted by both Sankhyas and Yogins. Having said so, the divine Sun proceeded to the setting hills.
ततोऽनुव्याहृतं श्रुत्वा गते देवे विभावसौ । गृहमागत्य संहृष्टोऽचिन्तयं वै सरस्वतीम् ॥
English Translation
Hearing his last words, and after he had departed from where I was, I came home in joy and then remembered the goddess Sarasvati.
ततः प्रवृत्तातिशुभा स्वरव्यञ्जनभूषिता । ओंकारमादितः कृत्वा मम देवी सरस्वती ॥
English Translation
Thought of by me, the auspicious Sarasvati appeared immediately before my eyes, adorned with all the vowels and the consonants and having placed the syllable OM in the van.
ततोऽहमर्घ्यं विधिवत्सरस्वत्यै न्यवेदयम् । तपतां च वरिष्ठाय निषण्णस्तत्परायणः ॥
English Translation
was I then, according to the ordinance, offered to the goddess the usual Arghya, and dedicated another to the Sun, that foremost of all heatgiving gods. Doing this duty I took my seat, devoted to both those gods.
ततः शतपथं कृत्स्नं सरहस्यं ससंग्रहम् । चक्रे सपरिशेषं च हर्षेण परमेण ह ॥
English Translation
Thereupon the entire Satapatha Brahmanas, with all their mysteries and with all their abstracts as also their appendices, appeared of themselves before my minds-eye, at which I became filled with great joy.
कृत्वा चाध्ययनं तेषां शिष्याणां शतमुत्तमम् । विप्रियार्थं सशिष्यस्य मातुलस्य महात्मनः ॥
English Translation
I then taught them to a hundred competent disciples and thereby did what disagreeable to my great maternal uncle (Vaishampayana) with the disciples round him.
ततः सशिष्येण मया सूर्येणेव गभस्तिभिः । व्याप्तो यज्ञो महाराज पितुस्तव महात्मनः ॥
English Translation
Then, shining in the midst of my disciples like the Sun himself with his rays, I took the management of the Sacrifice, of your noble father, O king.
मिषतो देवलस्यापि ततोऽर्धं हृतवानहम् । स्ववेददक्षिणायाथ विमर्दे मातुलेन ह ॥
English Translation
In that Sacrifice, a quarrel arose between me and my maternal uncle as to who should be allowed to take the sacrificial fee that was paid for the recitation of the Vedas. In the very presence of Deval, I took half of that fee.
सुमन्तुनाथ पैलेन तथा जैमिनिना च वै । पित्रा ते मुनिभिश्चैव ततोऽहमनुमानितः ॥
English Translation
Your father and Sumanta and Paila and Jaimini and other ascetics all agreed to that arrangement.
दश पञ्च च प्राप्तानि यजूंष्यर्कान्मयानघ । तथैव लोमहर्षाच्च पुराणमवधारितम् ॥
English Translation
I had thus got from the Sun the five times ten Yajushes, O king. I then studied the Puranas with Romaharshan.
बीजमेतत्पुरस्कृत्य देवीं चैव सरस्वतीम् । सूर्यस्य चानुभावेन प्रवृत्तोऽहं नराधिप ॥
English Translation
Keeping before me those Mantras and the goddess Sarasvati, I then, O king, helped by the inspiration of the Sun, set myself to compile the excellent Satapatha Brahmanas, and succeeded in performing the task never before undertaken by any one else. That path which I has wished to take, has been taken by me and I have also taught it to my disciples.
कर्तुं शतपथं वेदमपूर्वं कारितं च मे । यथाभिलषितं मार्गं तथा तच्चोपपादितम् ॥
शिष्याणामखिलं कृत्स्नमनुज्ञातं ससंग्रहम् । सर्वे च शिष्याः शुचयो गताः परमहर्षिताः ॥
English Translation
Indeed I gave to my disciples the whole of those Vedas with their abstracts. Pure in mind and body, all those disciples have, on account of my instructions, become filled with joy.
शाखाः पञ्चदशेमास्तु विद्या भास्करदर्शिताः । प्रतिष्ठाप्य यथाकामं वेद्यं तदनुचिन्तयम् ॥
English Translation
Having established this knowledge consisting of fifty branches which I had acquired from the Sun, I now meditate on the great object of that knowledge (viz., Brahma).
किमत्र ब्रह्मण्यमृतं किं च वेद्यमनुत्तमम् । चिन्तये तत्र चागत्य गन्धर्वो मामपृच्छत ॥
विश्वावसुस्ततो राजन्वेदान्तज्ञानकोविदः । चतुर्विंशतिकान्प्रश्नान्पृष्ट्वा वेदस्य पार्थिव । पञ्चविंशतिमं प्रश्नं पप्रच्छान्वीक्षिकीं तथा ॥
विश्वाविश्वं तथाश्वाश्वं मित्रं वरुणमेव च । ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं तथाज्ञो ज्ञः कस्तपा अतपास्तथा । सूर्यादः सूर्य इति च विद्याविद्ये तथैव च ॥
वेद्यावेद्यं तथा राजन्नचलं चलमेव च । अपूर्वमक्षयं क्षय्यमेतत्प्रश्नमनुत्तमम् ॥
English Translation
What is Knowledge? What is the object of knowledge? What is Unintelligent? What is Intelligent? Who is Ka? Who is endued with the principle of change? Who is not endued with the same What is he that devours the Sun and what is the Sun? What is Vidya and what is Avidya? What is Vedya and Avedya? What is Immobile and Mobile? What is without beginning, what is indestructible, and what is Destructible? These were the transcendental questions put to me by that foremost of Gandharvas.
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