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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 312

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 312

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 312

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 312 of the classical Mahābhārata with 47 verses.

Total: 47 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.312.1–47 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 2 of 2 (Verses 17 shown)
पूजयित्वा यथान्यायमभिवाद्य कृताञ्जलिः । प्रावेशयत्ततः कक्ष्यां द्वितीयां राजवेश्मनः ॥
English Translation
Adoring him in due form and saluting him properly, with joined hands he conducted him to the first chamber of the palace.
तत्रासीनः शुकस्तात मोक्षमेवानुचिन्तयन् । छायायामातपे चैव समदर्शी महाद्युतिः ॥
English Translation
Seated there, Shuka, O son, began to think of Liberation only. Gifted with equality he considered impartially a shaded spot and one exposed to the Sun's rays.
तं मुहूर्तादिवागम्य राज्ञो मन्त्री कृताञ्जलिः । प्रावेशयत्ततः कक्ष्यां तृतीयां राजवेश्मनः ॥
English Translation
Adoring him in due form and saluting him properly, with joined hands he conducted him to the first chamber of the palace.
तत्रान्तःपुरसंबद्धं महच्चैत्ररथोपमम् । सुविभक्तजलाक्रीडं रम्यं पुष्पितपादपम् ॥
English Translation
That chamber led to a spacious garden which formed a part of the inner apartments of the palace. It looked like a second Chaitraratha. Beautiful pools of water were here and there at regular intervals. Delightful trees, all of which were in their flowering season, were in that garden.
तद्दर्शयित्वा स शुकं मन्त्री काननमुत्तमम् । अर्हमासनमादिश्य निश्चक्राम ततः पुनः ॥
English Translation
Bevies of damsels, of celestial beauty, were in attendance. The minister led Suka from the second chamber to that charming spot. commanding those ladies to give the ascetic a seat, the minister left him there.
तं चारुवेषाः सुश्रोण्यस्तरुण्यः प्रियदर्शनाः । सूक्ष्मरक्ताम्बरधरास्तप्तकाञ्चनभूषणाः ॥
English Translation
Those well-dressed well-dressed damels were of beautiful features, possessed to excellent hips, young in years, clad in red dresses of fine texture, and decked with many ornaments of burnished gold.
संलापोल्लापकुशला नृत्तगीतविशारदाः । स्मितपूर्वाभिभाषिण्यो रूपेणाप्सरसां समाः ॥
English Translation
They well-skilled in sweet conversation and maddening revelry, and consummate mistresses of the arts of dancing and singing. Always opening their lips with smiles, they were like the very Apsaras in beauty.
कामोपचारकुशला भावज्ञाः सर्वकोविदाः । परं पञ्चाशतो नार्यो वारमुख्याः समाद्रवन् ॥
English Translation
Well-skilled in all the acts of dalliance, capable of reading the thoughts of men upon whom they wait, endued with every accomplishment, fifty damsels, of a very high order and of east virtue, surrounded the ascetic.
पाद्यादीनि प्रतिग्राह्य पूजया परयार्च्य च । देशकालोपपन्नेन साध्वन्नेनाप्यतर्पयन् ॥
English Translation
Presenting him with water for washing his feet, and adoring him respectfully with the were offer of usual articles, they pleased him with excellent viands agreeable to the season.
तस्य भुक्तवतस्तात तदन्तःपुरकाननम् । सुरम्यं दर्शयामासुरेकैकश्येन भारत ॥
English Translation
After he had eaten, those damsels then, one after another, singly conducted him through the grounds, showing him every objection of interest, O Bharata.
क्रीडन्त्यश्च हसन्त्यश्च गायन्त्यश्चैव ताः शुकम् । उदारसत्त्वं सत्त्वज्ञाः सर्वाः पर्यचरंस्तदा ॥
English Translation
Sporting and laughing and singing, those ladies conversant with the thoughts of all men, entertained that ascetic of noble soul.
आरणेयस्तु शुद्धात्मा त्रिसंदेहस्त्रिकर्मकृत् । वश्येन्द्रियो जितक्रोधो न हृष्यति न कुप्यति ॥
English Translation
The pure-souled ascetic born in the firesticks, performing all his duties unhesitatingly, having all his senses under complete control, and a thorough master of his anger, was neither pleased nor angered at all this.
तस्मै शय्यासनं दिव्यं वरार्हं रत्नभूषितम् । स्पर्ध्यास्तरणसंस्तीर्णं ददुस्ताः परमस्त्रियः ॥
पादशौचं तु कृत्वैव शुकः संध्यामुपास्य च । निषसादासने पुण्ये तमेवार्थं विचिन्तयन् ॥
English Translation
Then those foremost of beautiful women offered him an excellent seat. Washing his feet and other limbs, Shuka said his evening prayers, sat on that excellent seat, and began to think of the object for which he had come there.
पूर्वरात्रे तु तत्रासौ भूत्वा ध्यानपरायणः । मध्यरात्रे यथान्यायं निद्रामाहारयत्प्रभुः ॥
English Translation
In the first part of the night, he gave himself of Yoga. The powerful ascetic, passed the middle part of the night in sleep.
ततो मुहूर्तादुत्थाय कृत्वा शौचमनन्तरम् । स्त्रीभिः परिवृतो धीमान्ध्यानमेवान्वपद्यत ॥
English Translation
Very soon waking up from his sleep, he performed the necessary rites of cleansing his body, and though surrounded by those beautiful ladies, he once again devoted himself to Yoga.
अनेन विधिना कार्ष्णिस्तदहःशेषमच्युतः । तां च रात्रिं नृपकुले वर्तयामास भारत ॥
English Translation
It was in this way, O Bharata, that the son of the Island-born Krishna passed the latter part of that day and the whole of that night in the mansion of king Janaka.
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