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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 59

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 59

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 59

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 59 of the classical Mahābhārata with 142 verses.

Total: 142 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.59.1–142 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 3 of 5 (Verses 30 shown)
मृगयाक्षास्तथा पानं स्त्रियश्च भरतर्षभ । कामजान्याहुराचार्याः प्रोक्तानीह स्वयंभुवा ॥
English Translation
The four kinds of vices begotten of lust, viz., hunting, gambling, drinking and sexual intercourse were described by the Self-sprung in that work.
वाक्पारुष्यं तथोग्रत्वं दण्डपारुष्यमेव च । आत्मनो निग्रहस्त्यागोऽथार्थदूषणमेव च ॥
English Translation
Roughness of speech, fierceness, severity of chastisement, infliction of pain on the body, suicide, and frustrating one's own objects, these six kinds of faults begotten of anger have also been described.
यन्त्राणि विविधान्येव क्रियास्तेषां च वर्णिताः । अवमर्दः प्रतीघातः केतनानां च भञ्जनम् ॥
English Translation
Various kinds of machines and their actions have been described there. Devastation of the enemy's territories, attacks upon enemies, the destruction and removal of boundary lines and other indications, the cutting down of large trees, siege of forts, supervision of agriculture and other useful operations, and the hoarding of necessaries, dresses and the best means of manufacturing them, were all described.
चैत्यद्रुमाणामामर्दो रोधःकर्मान्तनाशनम् । अपस्करोऽथ गमनं तथोपास्या च वर्णिता ॥
पणवानकशङ्खानां भेरीणां च युधां वर । उपार्जनं च द्रव्याणां परमर्म च तानि षट् ॥
लब्धस्य च प्रशमनं सतां चैव हि पूजनम् । विद्वद्भिरेकीभावश्च प्रातर्होमविधिज्ञता ॥
मङ्गलालम्भनं चैव शरीरस्य प्रतिक्रिया । आहारयोजनं चैव नित्यमास्तिक्यमेव च ॥
एकेन च यथोत्थेयं सत्यत्वं मधुरा गिरः । उत्सवानां समाजानां क्रियाः केतनजास्तथा ॥
प्रत्यक्षा च परोक्षा च सर्वाधिकरणेषु च । वृत्तिर्भरतशार्दूल नित्यं चैवान्ववेक्षणम् ॥
अदण्ड्यत्वं च विप्राणां युक्त्या दण्डनिपातनम् । अनुजीविस्वजातिभ्यो गुणेषु परिरक्षणम् ॥
रक्षणं चैव पौराणां स्वराष्ट्रस्य विवर्धनम् । मण्डलस्था च या चिन्ता राजन्द्वादशराजिका ॥
द्वासप्ततिमतिश्चैव प्रोक्ता या च स्वयंभुवा । देशजातिकुलानां च धर्माः समनुवर्णिताः ॥
धर्मश्चार्थश्च कामश्च मोक्षश्चात्रानुवर्णितः । उपायश्चार्थलिप्सा च विविधा भूरिदक्षिणाः ॥
English Translation
Religion, Profit, Pleasure, and liberation were also treated in it. The various means of acquisition, the desire for various sorts of wealth, O giver of profuse presents, the methods of agriculture and other works constituting the chief source of the revenue, and the various means for producing and applying illusions, the methods by which stagnant water is rendered foul, were described in it.
मूलकर्मक्रिया चात्र माया योगश्च वर्णितः । दूषणं स्रोतसामत्र वर्णितं च स्थिराम्भसाम् ॥
यैर्यैरुपायैर्लोकश्च न चलेदार्यवर्त्मनः । तत्सर्वं राजशार्दूल नीतिशास्त्रेऽनुवर्णितम् ॥
English Translation
All those means, O foremost of kings, by which men might be prevented from falling off from the path of righteousness and honesty were all treated in it.
एतत्कृत्वा शुभं शास्त्रं ततः स भगवान्प्रभुः । देवानुवाच संहृष्टः सर्वाञ्शक्रपुरोगमान् ॥
English Translation
Having composed that highly beneficial work, the divine Lord cheerfully said to the deities led by Indra, these words.
उपकाराय लोकस्य त्रिवर्गस्थापनाय च । नवनीतं सरस्वत्या बुद्धिरेषा प्रभाविता ॥
English Translation
For the behoof of the world and for establishing the three-fold objects (viz., Religion, Profit, and Pleasure), I have composed this science representing the very essence of speech.
दण्डेन सहिता ह्येषा लोकरक्षणकारिका । निग्रहानुग्रहरता लोकाननु चरिष्यति ॥
English Translation
Helped by punishment this science will protect the world. Meting out rewards and punishments, this science will work among men.
दण्डेन नीयते चेयं दण्डं नयति चाप्युत । दण्डनीतिरिति प्रोक्ता त्रीँल्लोकाननुवर्तते ॥
English Translation
And because men will be governed by punishment, therefore will this science be known in the three worlds as Dandaniti (science of punishment).
षाड्गुण्यगुणसारैषा स्थास्यत्यग्रे महात्मसु । महत्त्वात्तस्य दण्डस्य नीतिर्विस्पष्टलक्षणा ॥
नयचारश्च विपुलो येन सर्वमिदं ततम् । आगमश्च पुराणानां महर्षीणां च संभवः ॥
तीर्थवंशश्च वंशश्च नक्षत्राणां युधिष्ठिर । सकलं चातुराश्रम्यं चातुर्होत्रं तथैव च ॥
English Translation
Thus, O Yudhishthira, the histories of the past, the origin of the great Rishis, the holy rivers, the planets and stars and asterisms, the duties of the four modes of life, the four kinds of Homa, the characteristics of the four castes and the four branches of learning were all described in that work (of Brahma).
चातुर्वर्ण्यं तथैवात्र चातुर्वेद्यं च वर्णितम् । इतिहासोपवेदाश्च न्यायः कृत्स्नश्च वर्णितः ॥
तपो ज्ञानमहिंसा च सत्यासत्ये नयः परः । वृद्धोपसेवा दानं च शौचमुत्थानमेव च ॥
English Translation
Whatever objects or things, O son of Pandu, there are on Earth, were all described in that work of the Grandfather. Histories, the Vedas and the Nyaya (logic) were all described in it, as also penances, knowledge, abstention from injury to all creatures, truth, falsehood, and high morality.
सर्वभूतानुकम्पा च सर्वमत्रोपवर्णितम् । भुवि वाचोगतं यच्च तच्च सर्वं समर्पितम् ॥
तस्मिन्पैतामहे शास्त्रे पाण्डवैतदसंशयम् । धर्मार्थकाममोक्षाश्च सकला ह्यत्र शब्दिताः ॥
English Translation
Containing the cream of all the attributes of the six, this science will always be much respected by great persons. Religion, Profit, Pleasure, and Liberation have all been described in it.
ततस्तां भगवान्नीतिं पूर्वं जग्राह शंकरः । बहुरूपो विशालाक्षः शिवः स्थाणुरुमापतिः ॥
English Translation
After this, the husband of Uma,—the divine and many-formed Shiva of large eyes, the source of all blessings, first read and mastered it.
युगानामायुषो ह्रासं विज्ञाय भगवाञ्शिवः । संचिक्षेप ततः शास्त्रं महार्थं ब्रह्मणा कृतम् ॥
English Translation
In view, however, of the gradual decrease of the span of human existence, the divine Shiva abridged that highly important science compiled by Brahman.
वैशालाक्षमिति प्रोक्तं तदिन्द्रः प्रत्यपद्यत । दशाध्यायसहस्राणि सुब्रह्मण्यो महातपाः ॥
English Translation
The abridgement, called Vaishalaksha, consisting of ten thousand chapters was then received by Indra, devoted to Brahman and possessed of great ascetic merit.
भगवानपि तच्छास्त्रं संचिक्षेप पुरंदरः । सहस्रैः पञ्चभिस्तात यदुक्तं बाहुदन्तकम् ॥
English Translation
The divine Indra again abridged it into a work containing five thousand chapters and named it Vahudantaka.
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