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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 7

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 7

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 7

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 7 of the classical Mahābhārata with 42 verses.

Total: 42 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.7.1–42 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 2 of 2 (Verses 12 shown)
आत्मनो हि वयं दोषाद्विनष्टाः शाश्वतीः समाः । प्रदहन्तो दिशः सर्वास्तेजसा भास्करा इव ॥
English Translation
We also have through Duryodhana's folly, been lost for ever, like suns burning everything around them with their own heat.
सोऽस्माकं वैरपुरुषो दुर्मन्त्रिप्रग्रहं गतः । दुर्योधनकृते ह्येतत्कुलं नो विनिपातितम् । अवध्यानां वधं कृत्वा लोके प्राप्ताः स्म वाच्यताम् ॥
English Translation
The wicked man, that embodiment of enmity, was our evil star. Alas, Alas, for Duryodhana's deeds alone, this race of ours has been rooted out. Having killed those whom we should never have killed, we have incurred the blame of the world.
कुलस्यास्यान्तकरणं दुर्मतिं पापकारिणम् । राजा राष्ट्रेश्वरं कृत्वा धृतराष्ट्रोऽद्य शोचति ॥
English Translation
Having installed that wicked prince of sinful acts, that exterminator of his race, as the monarch, King Dhritarashtra is obliged to grieve today.
हताः शूराः कृतं पापं विषयः स्वो विनाशितः । हत्वा नो विगतो मन्युः शोको मां रुन्धयत्ययम् ॥
English Translation
Our heroic enemies have been killed. We have committed sin. His wealth and kingdom are gone. Having killed them, our anger has been pacified. But grief is overcoming me.
धनंजय कृतं पापं कल्याणेनोपहन्यते । त्यागवांश्च पुनः पापं नालं कर्तुमिति श्रुतिः ॥
English Translation
O Dhananjaya, sin is always expiated by pious acts, by giving wide publicity to it, by repentance, by alms giving, by penances, by sojourn to Tirthas after renunciation of everything, by constant meditation on the scriptures. Of all these, he who has practised renunciation is believed to be incapable of committing fresh sins.
त्यागवाञ्जन्ममरणे नाप्नोतीति श्रुतिर्यदा । प्राप्तवर्त्मा कृतमतिर्ब्रह्म संपद्यते तदा ॥
English Translation
The Shrutis say that he who practices renunciation escapes from birth and death, and obtaining the right way, that person of controlled mind, attains Brahman.
स धनंजय निर्द्वंद्वो मुनिर्ज्ञानसमन्वितः । वनमामन्त्र्य वः सर्वान्गमिष्यामि परंतप ॥
English Translation
I shall, therefore, O Dhananjaya, go to the forest, with your permission, O scorcher of enemies, disregarding all the pairs of opposites, adopting the vow of silence, and walking in the way pointed out by knowledge.
न हि कृत्स्नतमो धर्मः शक्यः प्राप्तुमिति श्रुतिः । परिग्रहवता तन्मे प्रत्यक्षमरिसूदन ॥
English Translation
O destroyer of foes, the Shrutis say it, and I myself have seen it with my eyes, that one who is addicted to worldly objects can never obtain any kind of religious merit.
मया निसृष्टं पापं हि परिग्रहमभीप्सता । जन्मक्षयनिमित्तं च शक्यं प्राप्तुमिति श्रुतिः ॥
English Translation
Desirous of obtaining worldly objects, I have committed sin, which as the Shrutis declare, begets birth and death.
स परिग्रहमुत्सृज्य कृत्स्नं राज्यं तथैव च । गमिष्यामि विनिर्मुक्तो विशोको विज्वरस्तथा ॥
English Translation
Abandoning the whole of my kingdom, therefore, and all the worldly objects, I shall go to the forest, escaping from the worldly fetters, freed from grief, and without affection for anything.
प्रशाधि त्वमिमामुर्वीं क्षेमां निहतकण्टकाम् । न ममार्थोऽस्ति राज्येन न भोगैर्वा कुरूत्तम ॥
English Translation
Do you govern this Earth, on which peace has been restored, and which has been freed of all its thorns. O best of Kuru's race, I do not require kingdom or pleasure.'
एतावदुक्त्वा वचनं धर्मराजो युधिष्ठिरः । व्युपारमत्ततः पार्थः कनीयान्प्रत्यभाषत ॥
English Translation
Having said so, King Yudhishthira just stopped. His younger brother Arjuna then addressed him as follows.
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