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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 308

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 308

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 308

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 308 of the classical Mahābhārata with 192 verses.

Total: 192 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.308.1–192 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 6 of 7 (Verses 30 shown)
अमुक्तो मानसैर्दुःखैरिच्छाद्वेषप्रियोद्भवैः । शिरोरोगादिभी रोगैस्तथैव विनिपातिभिः ॥
English Translation
The king is seldom freed from mental sorrows caused by desire and aversion and fear. He is generally afflicted also by headaches and various other diseases.
द्वंद्वैस्तैस्तैरुपहतः सर्वतः परिशङ्कितः । बहुप्रत्यर्थिकं राज्यमुपास्ते गणयन्निशाः ॥
English Translation
The king is afflicted by all pairs of opposites. He is alarmed at everything. Indeed, beset with enemies and obstacles as kingdom is, the king, while he enjoys it, passes sleepless nights.
तदल्पसुखमत्यर्थं बहुदुःखमसारवत् । को राज्यमभिपद्येत प्राप्य चोपशमं लभेत् ॥
ममेदमिति यच्चेदं पुरं राष्ट्रं च मन्यसे । बलं कोशममात्यांश्च कस्यैतानि न वा नृप ॥
मित्रामात्यं पुरं राष्ट्रं दण्डः कोशो महीपतिः । सप्ताङ्गश्चक्रसंघातो राज्यमित्युच्यते नृप ॥
सप्ताङ्गस्यास्य राज्यस्य त्रिदण्डस्येव तिष्ठतः । अन्योन्यगुणयुक्तस्य कः केन गुणतोऽधिकः ॥
English Translation
You think also this army, this treasury, and these counsellors as yours. Whose, however, in sooth are they, and whose are they not? Allies, ministers, capital, provinces, punishment, treasury, and the king,—these seven which form the limbs of a kingdom exist, depending upon one another, like three sticks standing with one another's help. The merits of each are shown by the merits of the others. Which of them can be said to be superior to the rest?
तेषु तेषु हि कालेषु तत्तदङ्गं विशिष्यते । येन यत्सिध्यते कार्यं तत्प्राधान्याय कल्पते ॥
English Translation
Some particular ones are regarded as superior to the rest when some important purpose is served through their agency. Superiority, for the time being, is said to belong to that one whose efficacy is thus seen.
सप्ताङ्गश्चापि संघातस्त्रयश्चान्ये नृपोत्तम । संभूय दशवर्गोऽयं भुङ्क्ते राज्यं हि राजवत् ॥
English Translation
The seven limbs already mentioned, O best of kings, and the three others, forming ten, supporting one another, are said to enjoy the kingdom like the king himself.
यश्च राजा महोत्साहः क्षत्रधर्मरतो भवेत् । स तुष्येद्दशभागेन ततस्त्वन्यो दशावरैः ॥
English Translation
That king who is gifted with great energy and who is firmly attached to Kshatriya duties, should be satisfied with only a tenth part of the produce of the subject's field.Other kings are seen to be satisfied with less than a tenth part of such produce.
नास्त्यसाधारणो राजा नास्ति राज्यमराजकम् । राज्येऽसति कुतो धर्मो धर्मेऽसति कुतः परम् ॥
English Translation
There is no one who possessed the kingly office without some one else possessing it in the world, and there is no kingdom without a king. If there be no kingdom, there can be no virtue and if there be no virtue, whence can Liberation arise.
योऽप्यत्र परमो धर्मः पवित्रं राजराज्ययोः । पृथिवी दक्षिणा यस्य सोऽश्वमेधो न विद्यते ॥
English Translation
Merit of the most sacred and the highest order is associated with kings and kingdoms. By ruling a kingdom well, a king acquires the merit of a Horse-sacrifice with the whole Earth given away as sacrificial gift.
साहमेतानि कर्माणि राज्यदुःखानि मैथिल । समर्था शतशो वक्तुमथ वापि सहस्रशः ॥
English Translation
O king of Mithila, I can mention hundreds and thousands of faults like these that belong to kings and kingdoms.
स्वदेहे नाभिषङ्गो मे कुतः परपरिग्रहे । न मामेवंविधां मुक्तामीदृशं वक्तुमर्हसि ॥
English Translation
Then, again, when I have no real connection with even my body, how then can I be said to have any connection with the bodies of others? You cannot charge me with having tried to engender an inter-mixture of castes.
ननु नाम त्वया मोक्षः कृत्स्नः पञ्चशिखाच्छ्रुतः । सोपायः सोपनिषदः सोपासङ्गः सनिश्चयः ॥
English Translation
Have you heard the religion of Liberation in all its bearings from the lips of Panchashikha, together with its means, it methods, its practises, and its conclusion?
तस्य ते मुक्तसङ्गस्य पाशानाक्रम्य तिष्ठतः । छत्रादिषु विशेषेषु कथं सङ्गः पुनर्नृप ॥
English Translation
If you have prevailed over all your bonds and freed yourself from all attachments, may I ask you, O king, why you preserve your connections still with this umbrella and those other appendages of royalty.
श्रुतं ते न श्रुतं मन्ये मिथ्या वापि श्रुतं श्रुतम् । अथ वा श्रुतसंकाशं श्रुतमन्यच्छ्रुतं त्वया ॥
English Translation
I think that you have not listened to the scriptures, or, you have listened to them without any advantage, or, perhaps, you have listened to some other books loO king like the scriptures.
अथापीमासु संज्ञासु लौकिकीषु प्रतिष्ठसि । अभिषङ्गावरोधाभ्यां बद्धस्त्वं प्राकृतो यथा ॥
English Translation
It appears that you are endued with only worldly knowledge, and that like an ordinary man of the world, you are bound by the fetters of touch and wives and mansions and the like.
सत्त्वेनानुप्रवेशो हि योऽयं त्वयि कृतो मया । किं तवापकृतं तत्र यदि मुक्तोऽसि सर्वतः ॥
English Translation
If be true that you have been freed from all fetters, what harm then have I done you by entering your body with only my Intellect?
नियमो ह्येष धर्मेषु यतीनां शून्यवासिता । शून्यमावासयन्त्या च मया किं कस्य दूषितम् ॥
English Translation
The practice with Yatis is to live in uninhabited or deserted adodes. What harm them have I done to whom by entering your understanding which is indeed shorn of true knowledge?
न पाणिभ्यां न बाहुभ्यां पादोरुभ्यां न चानघ । न गात्रावयवैरन्यैः स्पृशामि त्वा नराधिप ॥
English Translation
I have not touched you, O king, with my hands, or arms, or feet, or thighs, O sinless One, or with any other part of the body.
कुले महति जातेन ह्रीमता दीर्घदर्शिना । नैतत्सदसि वक्तव्यं सद्वासद्वा मिथः कृतम् ॥
English Translation
You are born in a great family. You have modesty. You have foresight. Whether the act has been good or bad, my entrance into your person has been a private one, concerning us two only. Was it not unfair for you to proclaim that private act before all your ministers.
ब्राह्मणा गुरवश्चेमे तथामात्या गुरूत्तमाः । त्वं चाथ गुरुरप्येषामेवमन्योन्यगौरवम् ॥
English Translation
All these Brahmanas deserve respect. They are foremost of preceptors. You also are worthy of their respect, being their king. Doing them respect, you are entitled to receive reverence from them.
तदेवमनुसंदृश्य वाच्यावाच्यं परीक्षता । स्त्रीपुंसोः समवायोऽयं त्वया वाच्यो न संसदि ॥
English Translation
Thinking on all this, it was not proper for you to proclaim before these foremost of men the fact of this union between two persons of opposite sexes, if indeed, you are really acquainted with the rules of propriety about speech.
यथा पुष्करपर्णस्थं जलं तत्पर्णसंस्थितम् । तिष्ठत्यस्पृशती तद्वत्त्वयि वत्स्यामि मैथिल ॥
English Translation
O king of Mithila, I am living in you without touching you at all even like a drop of water on a lotus leaf that rests on it without drenching it in the least.
यदि वाप्यस्पृशन्त्या मे स्पर्शं जानासि कंचन । ज्ञानं कृतमबीजं ते कथं तेनेह भिक्षुणा ॥
English Translation
If, despite this, you still feel my touch, how can it be believed that through the instructions of the mendicant Panchashika, your knowledge has become disassociated from the sensual objects.
स गार्हस्थ्याच्च्युतश्च त्वं मोक्षं नावाप्य दुर्विदम् । उभयोरन्तराले च वर्तसे मोक्षवातिकः ॥
English Translation
You have, it is evident, deviated from the domestic mode of life, but you have not yet acquired Liberation that is so difficult to acquire. You live between the two, pretending that you have reach the goal of Liberation.
न हि मुक्तस्य मुक्तेन ज्ञस्यैकत्वपृथक्त्वयोः । भावाभावसमायोगे जायते वर्णसंकरः ॥
English Translation
The contact of one that is liberated with another that has been so, or of Soul with Nature, cannot lead to an intermingling which you fear.
वर्णाश्रमपृथक्त्वे च दृष्टार्थस्यापृथक्त्विनः । नान्यदन्यदिति ज्ञात्वा नान्यदन्यत्प्रवर्तते ॥
English Translation
Only those who consider the Soul to be at one with the body, and who think the several orders and modes of life to be really different from one another, commit the inistake of supposing an intermingling to be possible. My body is different from yours. But my soul is not different from your soul. When I am able to realise this, I have not the least doubt that my understanding is really not living in yours, though I have entered into you by Yoga.
पाणौ कुण्डं तथा कुण्डे पयः पयसि मक्षिकाः । आश्रिताश्रययोगेन पृथक्त्वेनाश्रया वयम् ॥
English Translation
A pot is carried in the hand. In the pot there is milk. On the milk is a fly. Though the hand and pot, the pot and milk, and the milk and the fly, cxist together, yet they are all different from each other.
न तु कुण्डे पयोभावः पयश्चापि न मक्षिकाः । स्वयमेवाश्रयन्त्येते भावा न तु पराश्रयम् ॥
English Translation
The pot does not assume the nature of the milk. Nor does the milk partake the nature of the fly. The condition of each is in dependent of itself, and can never be changed by the condition of that other with which it may for the time being exist.
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