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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 320

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 320

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 320

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 320 of the classical Mahābhārata with 42 verses.

Total: 42 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.320.1–42 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 2 (Verses 30 shown)
इत्येवमुक्त्वा वचनं ब्रह्मर्षिः सुमहातपाः । प्रातिष्ठत शुकः सिद्धिं हित्वा लोकांश्चतुर्विधान् ॥
English Translation
Bhishma said “Having spoken in this way, the twice-born Rishi of austere penances, viz., Shuka, lived on his success, renouncing the four sorts of faults.
तमो ह्यष्टविधं हित्वा जहौ पञ्चविधं रजः । ततः सत्त्वं जहौ धीमांस्तदद्भुतमिवाभवत् ॥
English Translation
Renouncing also the eight kinds of Tamas, he dismissed the five kinds of Rajas. Gifted with great intelligence, he the renounced the attribute of Sattva. All this seemed extremely wonderful.
ततस्तस्मिन्पदे नित्ये निर्गुणे लिङ्गवर्जिते । ब्रह्मणि प्रत्यतिष्ठत्स विधूमोऽग्निरिव ज्वलन् ॥
English Translation
He then lived in that eternal station which is shorn of attributes, freed from every indication, that is, in Brahma, shining like a smokeless fire.
उल्कापाता दिशां दाहा भूमिकम्पास्तथैव च । प्रादुर्भूताः क्षणे तस्मिंस्तदद्भुतमिवाभवत् ॥
English Translation
Meteors began to shoot. The points of the horizon seemed to be ablaze. The Earth trembled. All these phenomena seemed extremely wonderful.
द्रुमाः शाखाश्च मुमुचुः शिखराणि च पर्वताः । निर्घातशब्दैश्च गिरिर्हिमवान्दीर्यतीव ह ॥
English Translation
The trees began to throw off their branches and the mountains their summits. Loud peals were heard that seemed to rive the Himavat mountains.
न बभासे सहस्रांशुर्न जज्वाल च पावकः । ह्रदाश्च सरितश्चैव चुक्षुभुः सागरास्तथा ॥
English Translation
The Sun seemed at that moment to be shorn of effulgence. Fire refused to burn forth. The lakes and rivers and seas were all moved.
ववर्ष वासवस्तोयं रसवच्च सुगन्धि च । ववौ समीरणश्चापि दिव्यगन्धवहः शुचिः ॥
English Translation
Vasava poured showers of rain of excellent taste and smell. A pure breeze began to blow, carrying excellent taste and smell. A pure breeze began to blow, carrying excellent perfumes.
स शृङ्गेऽप्रतिमे दिव्ये हिमवन्मेरुसंभवे । संश्लिष्टे श्वेतपीते द्वे रुक्मरूप्यमये शुभे ॥
English Translation
Shuka, as he went through the sky, saw two beautiful summits, one belonging to Himavat and another to Meru. These were side by side with each other. One of them was made of gold and was, therefore, yellow; the other was white, being made of silver.
शतयोजनविस्तारे तिर्यगूर्ध्वं च भारत । उदीचीं दिशमाश्रित्य रुचिरे संददर्श ह ॥
English Translation
Each of them, O Bharata, was a hundred Yojanas in height and of the same breath. Indeed, as Shuka went towards the north, he beheld those two beautiful summits,
सोऽविशङ्केन मनसा तथैवाभ्यपतच्छुकः । ततः पर्वतशृङ्गे द्वे सहसैव द्विधाकृते । अदृश्येतां महाराज तदद्भुतमिवाभवत् ॥
English Translation
With a fearless heart he dashed against those two summits that were close to each other. Unable to bear the force, the summits were suddenly rent in two parts.
ततः पर्वतशृङ्गाभ्यां सहसैव विनिःसृतः । न च प्रतिजघानास्य स गतिं पर्वतोत्तमः ॥
English Translation
The spectacle, O monarch, was extremely wonderful to look at. Shuka pierced through those summits, for they were unable to stop his onward course. At this a loud noise was made in heaven by the dwellers thereof.
ततो महानभूच्छब्दो दिवि सर्वदिवौकसाम् । गन्धर्वाणामृषीणां च ये च शैलनिवासिनः ॥
दृष्ट्वा शुकमतिक्रान्तं पर्वतं च द्विधाकृतम् । साधु साध्विति तत्रासीन्नादः सर्वत्र भारत ॥
English Translation
The Gandharvas and the Rishis also and others who lived in that mountain sent up loud cheers at the sight of the mountain being rent in two and Shuka passing through it. Indeed, O Bharata, a loud noise was heard everywhere at that moment, saying,-Excellent, Excellent.
स पूज्यमानो देवैश्च गन्धर्वैरृषिभिस्तथा । यक्षराक्षससंघैश्च विद्याधरगणैस्तथा ॥
English Translation
He was worshipped by the Gandharvas and the Rishis, by Yakhas and Rakshasas, and by all tribes of the Vidyadharas.
दिव्यैः पुष्पैः समाकीर्णमन्तरिक्षं समन्ततः । आसीत्किल महाराज शुकाभिपतने तदा ॥
English Translation
The entire sky became covered with celestial flowers showered from heaven at that moment when Shuka thus cut through that impenetrable barrier, O king.
ततो मन्दाकिनीं रम्यामुपरिष्टादभिव्रजन् । शुको ददर्श धर्मात्मा पुष्पितद्रुमकाननाम् ॥
English Translation
The pious Shuka then saw from a high region the extremely beautiful celestial river Mandakini, running below through a region adorned by many flowering groves and forests.
तस्यां क्रीडन्त्यभिरताः स्नान्ति चैवाप्सरोगणाः । शून्याकारं निराकाराः शुकं दृष्ट्वा विवाससः ॥
English Translation
In these waters many beautiful Apsaras were playing. Seeing Shuka who was bodiless, those naked aerial beings felt no shame.
तं प्रक्रमन्तमाज्ञाय पिता स्नेहसमन्वितः । उत्तमां गतिमास्थाय पृष्ठतोऽनुससार ह ॥
English Translation
Learning that Shuka had undertaken his great journey, his father Vyasa, filled with affection, followed him behind along the same aerial path.
शुकस्तु मारुतादूर्ध्वं गतिं कृत्वान्तरिक्षगाम् । दर्शयित्वा प्रभावं स्वं सर्वभूतोऽभवत्तदा ॥
English Translation
Meanwhile Shuka, passing through thai region of the sky which is above the region of the wind, showed his Yoga-power and identified himself with Brahma.
महायोगगतिं त्वग्र्यां व्यासोत्थाय महातपाः । निमेषान्तरमात्रेण शुकाभिपतनं ययौ ॥
English Translation
Following the subtile path of high Yoga, Vyasa of austere penances, reached within the twinkling of the eye that place whence Shuka first started.
स ददर्श द्विधा कृत्वा पर्वताग्रं शुकं गतम् । शशंसुरृषयस्तस्मै कर्म पुत्रस्य तत्तदा ॥
English Translation
Proceeding along the same way, Vyasa saw the mountain summit rent in two parts and through which Shuka has passed. Meeting the Island-born ascetic, the Rishis began to describe to him the achievements of his own.
ततः शुकेति दीर्घेण शैक्षेणाक्रन्दितस्तदा । स्वयं पित्रा स्वरेणोच्चैस्त्रीँल्लोकाननुनाद्य वै ॥
English Translation
Vyasa, however, began to lament, loudly naming his son and causing the three worlds to resound with the noise he made.
शुकः सर्वगतो भूत्वा सर्वात्मा सर्वतोमुखः । प्रत्यभाषत धर्मात्मा भोःशब्देनानुनादयन् ॥
English Translation
Meanwhile, the pious Shuka, who had entered all things, had become the soul of all things, and had acquired omnipresence, answered his fathers by uttering the monosyllable BHO in the form of an echo.
तत एकाक्षरं नादं भो इत्येव समीरयन् । प्रत्याहरज्जगत्सर्वमुच्चैः स्थावरजङ्गमम् ॥
English Translation
Thereat, the entire universe of mobile and immobile creatures, uttering the monosyllable BHO, echoed the answer of Shuka.
ततः प्रभृति चाद्यापि शब्दानुच्चारितान्पृथक् । गिरिगह्वरपृष्ठेषु व्याजहार शुकं प्रति ॥
English Translation
Thereforward, when sounds are made in mountain-caves or on mountain-breasts, the latter, as if in answer to Shuka, still echo them.
अन्तर्हितः प्रभावं तु दर्शयित्वा शुकस्तदा । गुणान्संत्यज्य शब्दादीन्पदमध्यगमत्परम् ॥
English Translation
Having renounced all the attributes of sound, etc., and showing his Yoga-power in the manner of his disappearance, Shuka in this way acquired the highest station.
महिमानं तु तं दृष्ट्वा पुत्रस्यामिततेजसः । निषसाद गिरिप्रस्थे पुत्रमेवानुचिन्तयन् ॥
English Translation
Seeing that glory and power of his son of immeasurable energy, Vyasa sat down on the breast of the mountain and began to think of his son sorrowfully.
ततो मन्दाकिनीतीरे क्रीडन्तोऽप्सरसां गणाः । आसाद्य तमृषिं सर्वाः संभ्रान्ता गतचेतसः ॥
English Translation
Seeing the Rishi seated there, the Apsaras who were sporting on the banks of the celestial river Mandakini, became all moved with shame and dispirited.
जले निलिल्यिरे काश्चित्काश्चिद्गुल्मान्प्रपेदिरे । वसनान्याददुः काश्चिद्दृष्ट्वा तं मुनिसत्तमम् ॥
English Translation
Some of them, to hide their nakedness, plunged into the river, and some entered the groves hard by, and some quickly took up their clothes, at seeing the Rishi.
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