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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 149

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 149

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 149

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 149 of the classical Mahābhārata with 118 verses.

Total: 118 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.149.1–118 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 2 of 4 (Verses 30 shown)
तपः कुरुत वै तीव्रं मुच्यध्वं येन किल्बिषात् । तपसा लभ्यते सर्वं विलापः किं करिष्यति ॥
English Translation
Do you practise austerities by which you will succeed in purifying yourselves from sin! Everything may be got by penances. What will lamentations do?
अनिष्टानि च भाग्यानि जानीत सह मूर्तिभिः । येन गच्छति लोकोऽयं दत्त्वा शोकमनन्तकम् ॥
English Translation
Death is born with the body. It is for ill-luck that this boy has departed, plunging you into infinite grief!
धनं गाश्च सुवर्णं च मणिरत्नमथापि च । अपत्यं च तपोमूलं तपोयोगाच्च लभ्यते ॥
English Translation
Wealth, kine, gold, precious gems, children, all originate from penances. Penances again are the outcome of Yoga.
यथाकृता च भूतेषु प्राप्यते सुखदुःखता । गृहीत्वा जायते जन्तुर्दुःखानि च सुखानि च ॥
English Translation
Amongst creatures, the measure of happiness or misery depends on pristine deeds. Every creature is born in the world, taking with him his own measure of happiness and misery.
न कर्मणा पितुः पुत्रः पिता वा पुत्रकर्मणा । मार्गेणान्येन गच्छन्ति त्यक्त्वा सुकृतदुष्कृते ॥
English Translation
The son is not fettered by the acts of the father, or the father by those of the son. Fettered by their own acts good and bad, all have to wend this common road.
धर्मं चरत यत्नेन तथाधर्मान्निवर्तत । वर्तध्वं च यथाकालं दैवतेषु द्विजेषु च ॥
English Translation
Duly follow all the duties, and abstain from acts of unrighteousness! Reverentially wait, according to scriptural injunctions, upon the gods and the Brahmanas!
शोकं त्यजत दैन्यं च सुतस्नेहान्निवर्तत । त्यज्यतामयमाकाशे ततः शीघ्रं निवर्तत ॥
English Translation
Shake off sorrow and cheerlessness, and abstain from parental affection! Lcave the child on this open ground, and go away forthwith.
यत्करोति शुभं कर्म तथाधर्मं सुदारुणम् । तत्कर्तैव समश्नाति बान्धवानां किमत्र हि ॥
English Translation
The doer alone reaps the fruits of his good or bad acts. What concern have kinsmen with them.
इह त्यक्त्वा न तिष्ठन्ति बान्धवा बान्धवं प्रियम् । स्नेहमुत्सृज्य गच्छन्ति बाष्पपूर्णाविलेक्षणाः ॥
English Translation
Leaving dead kinsman however dear, kinsman leave this spot. With eyes full of tcars, they go away, ccasing to show affection for the dead.
प्राज्ञो वा यदि वा मूर्खः सधनो निर्धनोऽपि वा । सर्वः कालवशं याति शुभाशुभसमन्वितः ॥
English Translation
Wise or ignorant, rich or poor, every one yields to Time, endued with good and bad acts.
किं करिष्यथ शोचित्वा मृतं किमनुशोचथ । सर्वस्य हि प्रभुः कालो धर्मतः समदर्शनः ॥
English Translation
Of what use is mourning? Why do you grieve for the dead? Time is the master of all, and he by his very nature looks impartially on all things.
यौवनस्थांश्च बालांश्च वृद्धान्गर्भगतानपि । सर्वानाविशते मृत्युरेवंभूतमिदं जगत् ॥
English Translation
In proud youth or in helpless infancy, in age or while lying in the mother's womb, every one is subject to be attacked by Death. Such is the course of the world.
अहो मन्दीकृतः स्नेहो गृध्रेणेहाल्पमेधसा । पुत्रस्नेहाभिभूतानां युष्माकं शोचतां भृशम् ॥
English Translation
Alas, the love which you entertain for your dead child, and manifested in your sorrowing cyes and mournful looks, has been lessened by that foolish vulture.
समैः सम्यक्प्रयुक्तैश्च वचनैः प्रश्रयोत्तरैः । यद्गच्छथ जलस्थायं स्नेहमुत्सृज्य दुस्त्यजम् ॥
English Translation
It is, indeed, so, since influenced by his well-applied words teaching tranquility and capable of producing conviction, that man there returns to the town, casting off affection that is so hard to throw off.
अहो पुत्रवियोगेन मृतशून्योपसेवनात् । क्रोशतां वै भृशं दुःखं विवत्सानां गवामिव ॥
English Translation
Alas, I had thought that the grief felt by men bewailing aloud for the death of a child and for the corpse on a creinatorium, is great like that of kine bereft of calves.
अद्य शोकं विजानामि मानुषाणां महीतले । स्नेहं हि करुणं दृष्ट्वा ममाप्यश्रूण्यथागमन् ॥
English Translation
To-day, however, I perceive the extent of grief of human beings on earth. Seeing their great affection I had shed tears myself.
यत्नो हि सततं कार्यः कृतो दैवेन सिध्यति । दैवं पुरुषकारश्च कृतान्तेनोपपद्यते ॥
English Translation
One should always exert. From it and through destiny one succeeds. Exertion and destiny, joining together, yield fruits.
अनिर्वेदः सदा कार्यो निर्वेदाद्धि कुतः सुखम् । प्रयत्नात्प्राप्यते ह्यर्थः कस्माद्गच्छथ निर्दयाः ॥
English Translation
One should always exert hopefully. How can happiness be secured from despondency? Objects of desire may be acquired by resolution. Why then do you return so heartlessly?
आत्ममांसोपवृत्तं च शरीरार्धमयीं तनुम् । पितॄणां वंशकर्तारं वने त्यक्त्वा क्व यास्यथ ॥
English Translation
Where do you go, leaving in the forest this your own begotten son, this perpetuator of the race of his father.
अथ वास्तं गते सूर्ये संध्याकाल उपस्थिते । ततो नेष्यथ वा पुत्रमिहस्था वा भविष्यथ ॥
English Translation
Stay here till the sun sets and the evening comes. You may then take away this boy with yourselves or remain here with him.
अद्य वर्षसहस्रं मे साग्रं जातस्य मानुषाः । न च पश्यामि जीवन्तं मृतं स्त्रीपुंनपुंसकम् ॥
English Translation
I am, Ye men, thousand years old this day, but I have never seen a dead creature, male or female or eunuch, revive after death.
मृता गर्भेषु जायन्ते म्रियन्ते जातमात्रकाः । विक्रमन्तो म्रियन्ते च यौवनस्थास्तथापरे ॥
अनित्यानीह भाग्यानि चतुष्पात्पक्षिणामपि । जङ्गमाजङ्गमानां चाप्यायुरग्रेऽवतिष्ठते ॥
English Translation
The fortunes of all creatures, including beasts and birds, are fickle. The extent of life of all mobile and immobile creatures is fixed beforehand.
इष्टदारवियुक्ताश्च पुत्रशोकान्वितास्तथा । दह्यमानाः स्म शोकेन गृहं गच्छन्ति नित्यदा ॥
English Translation
Shorn of wives and dear ones and filled with sorrow for children, men leave this spot every day with aggrieved hearts for returning home.
अनिष्टानां सहस्राणि तथेष्टानां शतानि च । उत्सृज्येह प्रयाता वै बान्धवा भृशदुःखिताः ॥
English Translation
Leaving here thousands of both friends and enemies, kinsmen stricken with grief go back to their homes.
त्यज्यतामेष निस्तेजाः शून्यः काष्ठत्वमागतः । अन्यदेहविषक्तो हि शावं काष्ठमुपासते ॥
English Translation
Leave off this dead body which has no longer any animal heat in it and which is as stiff as a piece of wood. Why then do you not go away, leaving the body of this child which is like a piece of wood and whose life had entered a new body?
भ्रान्तजीवस्य वै बाष्पं कस्माद्धित्वा न गच्छथ । निरर्थको ह्ययं स्नेहो निरर्थश्च परिग्रहः ॥
न चक्षुर्भ्यां न कर्णाभ्यां संशृणोति समीक्षते । तस्मादेनं समुत्सृज्य स्वगृहान्गच्छताशु वै ॥
मोक्षधर्माश्रितैर्वाक्यैर्हेतुमद्भिरनिष्ठुरैः । मयोक्ता गच्छत क्षिप्रं स्वं स्वमेव निवेशनम् ॥
English Translation
Leaving him here go away forthwith. Thus addressed by me in words which are seemingly cruel but which in reality are reasonable and are directly connected with the great religion of emancipation, return he to your respective homes.
प्रज्ञाविज्ञानयुक्तेन बुद्धिसंज्ञाप्रदायिना । वचनं श्राविता रूक्षं मानुषाः संनिवर्तत ॥
English Translation
Addressed thus by the vulture gifted with wisdom and knowledge and capable of giving intelligence and awakening the understanding, those men were about to go away from the crematorium. Grief becomes two-fold two-fold on seeing its object and on remembering the acts of that object (in life).
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