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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 128

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 128

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 128

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 128 of the classical Mahābhārata with 50 verses.

Total: 50 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.128.1–50 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 2 of 2 (Verses 20 shown)
परस्पराभिसंरक्षा राज्ञा राष्ट्रेण चापदि । नित्यमेवेह कर्तव्या एष धर्मः सनातनः ॥
English Translation
The king and the kingdom should always mutually protect each other. This is an eternal duty.
राजा राष्ट्रं यथापत्सु द्रव्यौघैः परिरक्षति । राष्ट्रेण राजा व्यसने परिरक्ष्यस्तथा भवेत् ॥
English Translation
As the king protects, by spending all his money, the kingdom, when it is in distress, so should the kingdom protect the kingdom protect the king when he is in distress.
कोशं दण्डं बलं मित्रं यदन्यदपि संचितम् । न कुर्वीतान्तरं राष्ट्रे राजा परिगते क्षुधा ॥
English Translation
The king, even when reduced to straits, should never abandon his treasury, his machinery for punishing the wicked, his army, his friends and allies, and uther necessary institutions and the chiefs living in his kingdom.
बीजं भक्तेन संपाद्यमिति धर्मविदो विदुः । अत्रैतच्छम्बरस्याहुर्महामायस्य दर्शनम् ॥
English Translation
Masters of duty say that one must keep his seeds, even from his very food. This a truth cited from the work of Shamvara, well-known for his great powers of illusion.
धिक्तस्य जीवितं राज्ञो राष्ट्रे यस्यावसीदति । अवृत्त्यान्त्यमनुष्योऽपि यो वै वेद शिबेर्वचः ॥
English Translation
Fie on the life of that king whose kingdom is weakened. Fie on the life of that men who from want of means goes to a foreign country in quest of a living.
राज्ञः कोशबलं मूलं कोशमूलं पुनर्बलम् । तन्मूलं सर्वधर्माणां धर्ममूलाः पुनः प्रजाः ॥
English Translation
The king depends upon his treasury and army. His army, again, depends on his treasury. His army is the source of all his religious merits. His religious merits, again, are the root of his people.
नान्यानपीडयित्वेह कोशः शक्यः कुतो बलम् । तदर्थं पीडयित्वा च दोषं न प्राप्तुमर्हति ॥
English Translation
The treasury can never be replenished without oppressing others. How then can the army be maintained without oppression? The king, therefore, in times of difficulty, commits no sin by oppressing his subjects for filling the treasury.
अकार्यमपि यज्ञार्थं क्रियते यज्ञकर्मसु । एतस्मात्कारणाद्राजा न दोषं प्राप्तुमर्हति ॥
English Translation
For celebrating sacrifices many improper deeds are done. Therefore a king commits no sin by doing improper acts (when he seeks to fill his treasury in a time of distress).
अर्थार्थमन्यद्भवति विपरीतमथापरम् । अनर्थार्थमथाप्यन्यत्तत्सर्वं ह्यर्थलक्षणम् । एवं बुद्ध्या संप्रपश्येन्मेधावी कार्यनिश्चयम् ॥
English Translation
Virtue is not always the root of Profit, for other things then Virtue lead to Wealth. There is again the opposite view. In some cases, Wealth acquired has produced evil. Other things again than Wealth have brought on the acquisition of Virtue. Therefore, an ignorant man, whose understanding has been debased by ignorance, never succeeds in acquiring the highest object of Virtue and Profit, viz., Emancipation.
यज्ञार्थमन्यद्भवति यज्ञे नार्थस्तथापरः । यज्ञस्यार्थार्थमेवान्यत्तत्सर्वं यज्ञसाधनम् ॥
English Translation
As animals and other articles are a necessary or sacrifices, as sacrifices are for purifying the heart, and as animals, sacrifices, and purity of the heart, are all for final liberation, even so policy and punishment exist for the treasury, the treasury, exists for the army, and policy and treasury and army all the three exists for defeating enemies and protecting or enlarging the kingdom.
उपमामत्र वक्ष्यामि धर्मतत्त्वप्रकाशिनीम् । यूपं छिन्दन्ति यज्ञार्थं तत्र ये परिपन्थिनः ॥
English Translation
I shall here quote an example illustrating the true way of morality. A large tree is cut down for making out of it a sacrificial stake. In cutting it, other trees which stand in its way have also to be cut down. These, also, while falling down, kill others standing there about.
द्रुमाः केचन सामन्ता ध्रुवं छिन्दन्ति तानपि । ते चापि निपतन्तोऽन्यान्निघ्नन्ति च वनस्पतीन् ॥
एवं कोशस्य महतो ये नराः परिपन्थिनः । तानहत्वा न पश्यामि सिद्धिमत्र परंतप ॥
English Translation
So they who stand in the way of replenishing a treasury must be killed. I do not see how else success can be acquired.
धनेन जयते लोकावुभौ परमिमं तथा । सत्यं च धर्मवचनं यथा नास्त्यधनस्तथा ॥
English Translation
By wealth, both the worlds, viz., this and the other, can be acquired, as also Truth and religious merit. A person who has no wealth is more dead than alive.
सर्वोपायैराददीत धनं यज्ञप्रयोजनम् । न तुल्यदोषः स्यादेवं कार्याकार्येषु भारत ॥
English Translation
Wealth for the celebration of sacrifices should be won by every means. The demerit of an act, done in an hour of difficulty, does not equal to that which permeates the same, if done at other tinies, O Bharata.
नैतौ संभवतो राजन्कथंचिदपि भारत । न ह्यरण्येषु पश्यामि धनवृद्धानहं क्वचित् ॥
English Translation
The acquisition of wealth and its abandonment cannot both be possibly suen in the same individual, O king. I do not see a rich man in the forest.
यदिदं दृश्यते वित्तं पृथिव्यामिह किंचन । ममेदं स्यान्ममेदं स्यादित्ययं काङ्क्षते जनः ॥
English Translation
With respect to wealth which is seen in this world, every one fights with every one else, saying,-This shall be mine.-This shall be imine.
न च राज्यसमो धर्मः कश्चिदस्ति परंतप । धर्मं शंसन्ति ते राज्ञामापदर्थमितोऽन्यथा ॥
English Translation
There is nothing, O scorcher of foes, which yields greater merit to a king than the possession of a kingdom. It is sinful for a king to oppress his subjects with heavy taxes at ordinary times. In a season of distress, it is quite different.
दानेन कर्मणा चान्ये तपसान्ये तपस्विनः । बुद्ध्या दाक्ष्येण चाप्यन्ये चिन्वन्ति धनसंचयान् ॥
English Translation
Some acquire wealth by gifts and sacrifices; some who like penances acquire the same by penances; some acquire it by the help of their intelligence and cleverness.
अधनं दुर्बलं प्राहुर्धनेन बलवान्भवेत् । सर्वं धनवतः प्राप्यं सर्वं तरति कोशवान् । कोशाद्धर्मश्च कामश्च परो लोकस्तथाप्ययम् ॥
English Translation
A person who has no wealth is said to be weak, while he who has wealth becomes powerful. A man of riches may acquire everything. A king who has a well-replenished treasury can accomplish everything.
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