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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 311

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 311

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 311

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 311 of the classical Mahābhārata with 28 verses.

Total: 28 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.311.1–28 • 250 Lexicon Terms
स लब्ध्वा परमं देवाद्वरं सत्यवतीसुतः । अरणीं त्वथ संगृह्य ममन्थाग्निचिकीर्षया ॥
English Translation
Bhishma said Having got this high boon from the great God, the son of Satyavati, was one day engaged in rubbing his sticks for making a fire.
अथ रूपं परं राजन्बिभ्रतीं स्वेन तेजसा । घृताचीं नामाप्सरसमपश्यद्भगवानृषिः ॥
English Translation
While thus engaged, the illustrious Rishi, O king, saw the . Apsara Ghritachi, who, on account of her energy, was then possessed of great beauty.
ऋषिरप्सरसं दृष्ट्वा सहसा काममोहितः । अभवद्भगवान्व्यासो वने तस्मिन्युधिष्ठिर ॥
English Translation
Seeing the Apasara in those woods, the illustrious Rishi Vyasa, O Yudhisthira, became suddenly possessed by desire.
सा च कृत्वा तदा व्यासं कामसंविग्नमानसम् । शुकी भूत्वा महाराज घृताची समुपागमत् ॥
English Translation
The Apsara, seeing the Rishi's heart smitten with desire, changed herself into a she-parrot and came to that spot.
स तामप्सरसं दृष्ट्वा रूपेणान्येन संवृताम् । शरीरजेनानुगतः सर्वगात्रातिगेन ह ॥
English Translation
Although he saw the Apsara disguised in another form, the desire that had arisen in the Rishi's heart spread itself over every part of his body.
स तु धैर्येण महता निगृह्णन्हृच्छयं मुनिः । न शशाक नियन्तुं तद्व्यासः प्रविसृतं मनः । भावित्वाच्चैव भावस्य घृताच्या वपुषा हृतः ॥
English Translation
Inviting all his patience, the ascetic tried to suppress that desire. With all his efforts, however, Vyasa could not control his agitated mind. On account of the inevitability of what was to take place the Rishi's heart was drawn by Ghritachi's beauty.
यत्नान्नियच्छतस्तस्य मुनेरग्निचिकीर्षया । अरण्यामेव सहसा तस्य शुक्रमवापतत् ॥
English Translation
He tried his best for making a fire for suppressing his emotion, but despite all his efforts his vital seed came out in the wood.
सोऽविशङ्केन मनसा तथैव द्विजसत्तमः । अरणीं ममन्थ ब्रह्मर्षिस्तस्यां जज्ञे शुको नृप ॥
English Translation
That best of twice-born ones, however O king, continued to rub his stick without feeling any scruples for what had taken place. From the seed that feil, was born a son to him called Shuka.
शुक्रे निर्मथ्यमाने तु शुको जज्ञे महातपाः । परमर्षिर्महायोगी अरणीगर्भसंभवः ॥
English Translation
On account of this incident about his birth, he came to be called by the name of Shuka. : Indeed, it was thus that great ascetic, that foremost of Rishis and highest of Yogins, was born from the two sticks.
यथाध्वरे समिद्धोऽग्निर्भाति हव्यमुपात्तवान् । तथारूपः शुको जज्ञे प्रज्वलन्निव तेजसा ॥
English Translation
As in a sacrifice a blazing fire spreads its effulgence all around when libations of clarified butter are poured upon it, similarly did Shuka take his birth, blazing with effulgence on account of his own energy.
बिभ्रत्पितुश्च कौरव्य रूपवर्णमनुत्तमम् । बभौ तदा भावितात्मा विधूमोऽग्निरिव ज्वलन् ॥
English Translation
Assuming the excellent form and hue of his father, Shuka, O son of Kuru, of purified Soul, shone like a smokeless fire.
तं गङ्गा सरितां श्रेष्ठा मेरुपृष्ठे जनेश्वर । स्वरूपिणी तदाभ्येत्य स्नापयामास वारिणा ॥
English Translation
O king, coming to the breast of Meru, in her own embodied form, the foremost of rivers, viz., Ganga, bathed Shuka with her waters.
अन्तरिक्षाच्च कौरव्य दण्डः कृष्णाजिनं च ह । पपात भुवि राजेन्द्र शुकस्यार्थे महात्मनः ॥
English Translation
There fell from the sky, O son of Kuru, an ascetic's stick and a dark deer skin for the use, O king, of the great Shuka.
जेगीयन्ते स्म गन्धर्वा ननृतुश्चाप्सरोगणाः । देवदुन्दुभयश्चैव प्रावाद्यन्त महास्वनाः ॥
English Translation
The Gandharvas sang repeatedly and the various clans of Apsaras danced; and celestial kettle drums of loud sound began to bcat.
विश्वावसुश्च गन्धर्वस्तथा तुम्बुरुनारदौ । हाहाहूहू च गन्धर्वौ तुष्टुवुः शुकसंभवम् ॥
English Translation
The Gandharvas Vishvavasu, and Tumvuru, and Narada, and those other Gandharvas called by the name of Haha, and Huhu, eulogised the birth of Shuka.
तत्र शक्रपुरोगाश्च लोकपालाः समागताः । देवा देवर्षयश्चैव तथा ब्रह्मर्षयोऽपि च ॥
English Translation
There the regents of the world headed by Indra, as also the gods and the celestial and the regenerate Rishis.
दिव्यानि सर्वपुष्पाणि प्रववर्षात्र मारुतः । जङ्गमं स्थावरं चैव प्रहृष्टमभवज्जगत् ॥
English Translation
The Wind-god poured there showers of celestial flowers. The entire universe, mobile and immobile, became filled with joy.
तं महात्मा स्वयं प्रीत्या देव्या सह महाद्युतिः । जातमात्रं मुनेः पुत्रं विधिनोपानयत्तदा ॥
English Translation
The great and the highly effulgent Mahadeva, accompanied by the Goddess, and moved by affection, came there and soon after the birth of the Muni's son invested him with the sacred thread.
तस्य देवेश्वरः शक्रो दिव्यमद्भुतदर्शनम् । ददौ कमण्डलुं प्रीत्या देववासांसि चाभिभो ॥
English Translation
Shakra, the king of the gods, gave him, from affection, a celestial pitcher of excellent form, and some celestial dresses.
हंसाश्च शतपत्राश्च सारसाश्च सहस्रशः । प्रदक्षिणमवर्तन्त शुकाश्चाषाश्च भारत ॥
English Translation
Thousands of Swans and Shatapatras and cranes, and many parrots and Chasas, O Bharata, wheeled over his head.
आरणेयस्तथा दिव्यं प्राप्य जन्म महाद्युतिः । तत्रैवोवास मेधावी व्रतचारी समाहितः ॥
English Translation
Highly effulgent and intelligent Shuka, having obtained his birth from the two sticks, continued to live there, practising many vows and fasts.
उत्पन्नमात्रं तं वेदाः सरहस्याः ससंग्रहाः । उपतस्थुर्महाराज यथास्य पितरं तथा ॥
English Translation
As soon as Shuka was born, the Vedas, with all their mysteries and all their abstracts, came for living in him, O king, even as they live in his father.
बृहस्पतिं तु वव्रे स वेदवेदाङ्गभाष्यवित् । उपाध्यायं महाराज धर्ममेवानुचिन्तयन् ॥
English Translation
For all that, Shuka, selected Brihaspati, who was a master of all the Vedas together with their branches and commentaries, for his preceptor, remembering universal practice.
सोऽधीत्य वेदानखिलान्सरहस्यान्ससंग्रहान् । इतिहासं च कार्त्स्न्येन राजशास्त्राणि चाभिभो ॥
गुरवे दक्षिणां दत्त्वा समावृत्तो महामुनिः । उग्रं तपः समारेभे ब्रह्मचारी समाहितः ॥
देवतानामृषीणां च बाल्येऽपि स महातपाः । संमन्त्रणीयो मान्यश्च ज्ञानेन तपसा तथा ॥
English Translation
Even in his childhood, he became an object of reverence with the gods and Rishis for his knowledge and penances.
न त्वस्य रमते बुद्धिराश्रमेषु नराधिप । त्रिषु गार्हस्थ्यमूलेषु मोक्षधर्मानुदर्शिनः ॥
English Translation
The mind of the great ascetic, O king, found pleasure in the three modes of life, keeping in view, as he did, the Religion of Liberation.
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