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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 308

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 308

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 308

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 308 of the classical Mahābhārata with 192 verses.

Total: 192 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.308.1–192 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 7 of 7 (Verses 12 shown)
पृथक्त्वादाश्रमाणां च वर्णान्यत्वे तथैव च । परस्परपृथक्त्वाच्च कथं ते वर्णसंकरः ॥
English Translation
Simnilarly, colour and practices, though they may exist together with and in a person that is liberated, do not really belong to him. How then can an intermingly of orders be possible on account of this union of myself with you.
नास्मि वर्णोत्तमा जात्या न वैश्या नावरा तथा । तव राजन्सवर्णास्मि शुद्धयोनिरविप्लुता ॥
English Translation
Then, again, I am not superior to you in colour. Nor am I a Vaishya, nor a Shudra, I am, O king, of the same caste with you, born of a pure family.
प्रधानो नाम राजर्षिर्व्यक्तं ते श्रोत्रमागतः । कुले तस्य समुत्पन्नां सुलभां नाम विद्धि माम् ॥
English Translation
There was a royal sage named Pradhana. It is clear that you have heard of him. I am born in his family, and my name is Sulabha.
द्रोणश्च शतशृङ्गश्च वक्रद्वारश्च पर्वतः । मम सत्रेषु पूर्वेषां चिता मघवता सह ॥
English Translation
In the sacrifices performed by my ancestors, the foremost of the gods, viz., Indra, used come, accompanied by Drona, Shatashringa, and Chakradvara.
साहं तस्मिन्कुले जाता भर्तर्यसति मद्विधे । विनीता मोक्षधर्मेषु चराम्येका मुनिव्रतम् ॥
English Translation
Born in such a family, it was found that no fitting husband could be found for me. Instructed then in the religion of Liberation, I wander over the Earth alone, practising asceticism. to
नास्मि सत्रप्रतिच्छन्ना न परस्वाभिमानिनी । न धर्मसंकरकरी स्वधर्मेऽस्मि धृतव्रता ॥
English Translation
I am not a hypocrite with regard to the life of Renunciation I follow; I am not a thief that appropriates others properties. I am not a confuser of the practices of the different castes. I am firm in the practices of the mode of life I follow.
नास्थिरा स्वप्रतिज्ञायां नासमीक्ष्यप्रवादिनी । नासमीक्ष्यागता चाहं त्वत्सकाशं जनाधिप ॥
English Translation
I am firm and steady in my vows. I never utter any word without thinking of its fitness. I did not come to you, without having thought properly, O king!
मोक्षे ते भावितां बुद्धिं श्रुत्वाहं कुशलैषिणी । तव मोक्षस्य चाप्यस्य जिज्ञासार्थमिहागता ॥
English Translation
Having heard that your understanding has been purified by the religion of Liberation, I came here from desire of some good. Indeed, it was for enquiring of you about Liberation that I had come.
न वर्गस्था ब्रवीम्येतत्स्वपक्षपरपक्षयोः । मुक्तो न मुच्यते यश्च शान्तो यश्च न शाम्यति ॥
English Translation
I do not say so for glorifying myself and humiliating my opponents. But I say it, out of sincerity only. What I say is that he who is liberated never vaunts that intellectual superiority which one shows by logical discussions for the sake of victory. He, on the other hand, is really liberated who devotes himself to Brahima, that sole seat of peace.
यथा शून्ये पुरागारे भिक्षुरेकां निशां वसेत् । तथा हि त्वच्छरीरेऽस्मिन्निमां वत्स्यामि शर्वरीम् ॥
English Translation
As a person of the mendicant order lives for only one night in an emphy house, similarly, I shall live for this one night in your body.
साहमासनदानेन वागातिथ्येन चार्चिता । सुप्ता सुशरणा प्रीता श्वो गमिष्यामि मैथिल ॥
English Translation
You have honoured me with both words and other offers that are due from a host to a guest. Having slept this one night in your body, O king of Mithila, which is as it were my own chamber now, tomorrow I shall go.
इत्येतानि स वाक्यानि हेतुमन्त्यर्थवन्ति च । श्रुत्वा नाधिजगौ राजा किंचिदन्यदतः परम् ॥
English Translation
Bhishma said Hearing these words fraught with excellent sense and with reason, king Janaka could not replay thereto.
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