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Mahābhārata • Parva 14 (Aśvamedhikaparva) • Adhyāya 16

Aśvamedhikaparva Adhyāya 16

अश्वमेधिकपर्व • अध्यायः 16

Aśvamedhikaparva Adhyāya 16 of the classical Mahābhārata with 44 verses.

Total: 44 Verses • Citations: MBh 14.16.1–44 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 2 of 2 (Verses 14 shown)
अशुभा गतयः प्राप्ताः कष्टा मे पापसेवनात् । काममन्युपरीतेन तृष्णया मोहितेन च ॥
English Translation
On account of my indulgence in sin. I had to come by various miserable and inauspicious ends, filled as I was with lust and anger, and deluded by cupidity.
पुनः पुनश्च मरणं जन्म चैव पुनः पुनः । आहारा विविधा भुक्ताः पीता नानाविधाः स्तनाः ॥
English Translation
I have repeatedly undergone death and rebirth. I have eaten various kinds of food, I have sucked at various breasts.
मातरो विविधा दृष्टाः पितरश्च पृथग्विधाः । सुखानि च विचित्राणि दुःखानि च मयानघ ॥
English Translation
I have seen various kinds of mothers, and various fathers dissimilar to one another. I have come by various kinds of happiness and misery, O sinless one.
प्रियैर्विवासो बहुशः संवासश्चाप्रियैः सह । धननाशश्च संप्राप्तो लब्ध्वा दुःखेन तद्धनम् ॥
English Translation
On various occasions have I been separated from what was agrecable and united with what was disagreeable. Having acquired wealth with great labour I have had to put up with its loss.
अवमानाः सुकष्टाश्च परतः स्वजनात्तथा । शारीरा मानसाश्चापि वेदना भृशदारुणाः ॥
English Translation
I have received from king and relatives insults and excessive misery. I have suffered from serve mental and physical pain.
प्राप्ता विमाननाश्चोग्रा वधबन्धाश्च दारुणाः । पतनं निरये चैव यातनाश्च यमक्षये ॥
English Translation
I have undergone humiliations and death and imprisonment under circumstances of great severity. I have had falls into Hell and have suffered great lortures in the domains of Yama.
जरा रोगाश्च सततं वासनानि च भूरिशः । लोकेऽस्मिन्ननुभूतानि द्वंद्वजानि भृशं मया ॥
English Translation
I have, again and again, suffered from decrepitude and diseases, and from frequent and great calamities. In this world I have repeatedly suffered from all those afflictions which arise from a perception of all pairs of opposites.
ततः कदाचिन्निर्वेदान्निकारान्निकृतेन च । लोकतन्त्रं परित्यक्तं दुःखार्तेन भृशं मया । ततः सिद्धिरियं प्राप्ता प्रसादादात्मनो मया ॥
English Translation
After all this one day, laden with sorrow, despair came upon me. I took refuge in the Formless. Suffering from great distress, I gave up the world with all its joys and sorrows.
नाहं पुनरिहागन्ता लोकानालोकयाम्यहम् । आ सिद्धेरा प्रजासर्गादात्मनो मे गतिः शुभा ॥
English Translation
I shall not have to come to this world again. Indeed, till I attain to absorption into eternal Brahma, till, in fact, the final dissolution of the universe, I shall look on those happy ends that will be mine and on those beings and that form this universe.
उपलब्धा द्विजश्रेष्ठ तथेयं सिद्धिरुत्तमा । इतः परं गमिष्यामि ततः परतरं पुनः । ब्रह्मणः पदमव्यग्रं मा ते भूदत्र संशयः ॥
English Translation
Having acquired this excellent success, I shall, after departing from this world, proceed to what is above it and thence to what is higher.
नाहं पुनरिहागन्ता मर्त्यलोकं परंतप । प्रीतोऽस्मि ते महाप्राज्ञ ब्रूहि किं करवाणि ते ॥
यदीप्सुरुपपन्नस्त्वं तस्य कालोऽयमागतः । अभिजाने च तदहं यदर्थं मा त्वमागतः । अचिरात्तु गमिष्यामि येनाहं त्वामचूचुदम् ॥
English Translation
I know that object for which you have sought me. I shall soon depart from this world. Hence it is that I have given you this hint.
भृशं प्रीतोऽस्मि भवतश्चारित्रेण विचक्षण । परिपृच्छ यावद्भवते भाषेयं यत्तवेप्सितम् ॥
English Translation
O you of great wisdom and experience, I have been highly pleased with you for your behaviour. Do you question me! I shall discourse on what is beneficial to you as desired by you.
बहु मन्ये च ते बुद्धिं भृशं संपूजयामि च । येनाहं भवता बुद्धो मेधावी ह्यसि काश्यप ॥
English Translation
I think your intelligence is great, Indeed I speak highly of it, for it was with the help of that intelligence that you were able to recognise me. Surely, O Kashyapa, you are endued with great intelligence.
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