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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 318

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 318

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 318

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 318 of the classical Mahābhārata with 64 verses.

Total: 64 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.318.1–64 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 3 (Verses 30 shown)
सुखदुःखविपर्यासो यदा समुपपद्यते । नैनं प्रज्ञा सुनीतं वा त्रायते नापि पौरुषम् ॥
English Translation
Narada said When the changes of happiness and sorrow appear or disappear, they cannot be prevented by either wisdom or policy or exertion.
स्वभावाद्यत्नमातिष्ठेद्यत्नवान्नावसीदति । जरामरणरोगेभ्यः प्रियमात्मानमुद्धरेत् ॥
English Translation
Without suffering himself to deviate from his true nature, one should try his best for protecting his own Self. He who makes such care and exertion, has never to to perish. Considering Self as something dear, one should always try to rescue himself from decrepitude death, and disease.
रुजन्ति हि शरीराणि रोगाः शारीरमानसाः । सायका इव तीक्ष्णाग्राः प्रयुक्ता दृढधन्विभिः ॥
English Translation
Metal and physical ailments afflict the body, like keen-pointed arrows discharged from the bow by a strong bowman.
व्याधितस्य विवित्साभिस्त्रस्यतो जीवितैषिणः । अवशस्य विनाशाय शरीरमपकृष्यते ॥
English Translation
The body of a person who is tortured by thirst, who is moved by agony, who is perfectly helpless, and that is desirous of prolonging his life, is dragged towards destruction.
स्रवन्ति न निवर्तन्ते स्रोतांसि सरितामिव । आयुरादाय मर्त्यानां रात्र्यहानि पुनः पुनः ॥
English Translation
Days and nights are continually running, carrying away in their current the periods of life of all human beings. Like currents of rivers, these flow ceaselessly without ever returning.
व्यत्ययो ह्ययमत्यन्तं पक्षयोः शुक्लकृष्णयोः । जातं मर्त्यं जरयति निमेषं नावतिष्ठते ॥
English Translation
The continued succession of the lighted and the dark fortnights is destroyed all mortal creatures without stopping for even a moment in this work.
सुखदुःखानि भूतानामजरो जरयन्नसौ । आदित्यो ह्यस्तमभ्येति पुनः पुनरुदेति च ॥
English Translation
Rising and setting day after day, the Sun, who is himself undecaying, is perpetually coO king the joys and sorrows of all men.
अदृष्टपूर्वानादाय भावानपरिशङ्कितान् । इष्टानिष्टान्मनुष्याणामस्तं गच्छन्ति रात्रयः ॥
English Translation
The nights are continually going away, taking with them the good and bad incidents that befall man, that depend on destiny, and that are unexpected by him.
यो यमिच्छेद्यथाकामं कामानां तत्तदाप्नुयात् । यदि स्यान्न पराधीनं पुरुषस्य क्रियाफलम् ॥
English Translation
If the fruits of men's deeds were not dependent on other circumstances, then one would acquire whatever object he would long for.
संयताश्च हि दक्षाश्च मतिमन्तश्च मानवाः । दृश्यन्ते निष्फलाः सन्तः प्रहीणाश्च स्वकर्मभिः ॥
English Translation
Even men of controlled senses, of cleverness, and of intelligence, if destitute of acts, never succeed in acquiring any fruits.
अपरे बालिशाः सन्तो निर्गुणाः पुरुषाधमाः । आशीर्भिरप्यसंयुक्ता दृश्यन्ते सर्वकामिनः ॥
English Translation
Other, though shorn of intelligence and accomplishments of any sort, and who are really the lowest of men, are seen, even when they do not wish for success, to be crowned with the fruition of all their desires.
भूतानामपरः कश्चिद्धिंसायां सततोत्थितः । वञ्चनायां च लोकस्य स सुखेष्वेव जीर्यते ॥
English Translation
Some one else, who is always ready to injure all creatures, and who is engaged in imposing on all the world, is seen to languish in happiness.
अचेष्टमानमासीनं श्रीः कंचिदुपतिष्ठति । कश्चित्कर्मानुसृत्यान्यो न प्राप्यमधिगच्छति ॥
English Translation
Some one who sits idly, acquires great prosperity; while another, by working earnestly, is seen to miss desirable fruits almost within his reach.
अपराधं समाचक्ष्व पुरुषस्य स्वभावतः । शुक्रमन्यत्र संभूतं पुनरन्यत्र गच्छति ॥
English Translation
Do you ascribe it as one of the faults of man! The seminal fluid, originating in one's nature from sight of one person, goes to another person.
तस्य योनौ प्रसक्तस्य गर्भो भवति वा न वा । आम्रपुष्पोपमा यस्य निवृत्तिरुपलभ्यते ॥
English Translation
When given to the womb, it sometimes produces an embryo and sometimes fails. When sexual intercourse fails, it resembles a mango tree that puts forth a great many flowers without, however, producing a single fruit.
केषांचित्पुत्रकामानामनुसंतानमिच्छताम् । सिद्धौ प्रयतमानानां नैवाण्डमुपजायते ॥
English Translation
As regards some men who are desirous of having offspring and who, for the fruition of their object, work earnestly, they fail to procreate an embryo in the womb.
गर्भाच्चोद्विजमानानां क्रुद्धादाशीविषादिव । आयुष्माञ्जायते पुत्रः कथं प्रेतः पितैव सः ॥
English Translation
Some person, again, who fears the birth of an embryo as one fears a snake of deadly poison, finds, a long-lived son born to him and sources who seems to be his own self return to the stages through which he has passed.
देवानिष्ट्वा तपस्तप्त्वा कृपणैः पुत्रगृद्धिभिः । दश मासान्परिधृता जायन्ते कुलपांसनाः ॥
English Translation
Many persons with strong desire for children, and cheerless on that account, after sacrificing to many gods and practising severe austerities, at last beget children, duly borne for ten long months, that prove to be veritable wretches of their race.
अपरे धनधान्यानि भोगांश्च पितृसंचितान् । विपुलानभिजायन्ते लब्धास्तैरेव मङ्गलैः ॥
English Translation
Others, who have been obtained by virtue of such blessed rites and observances, at once acquires riches and grain and various other of enjoyment acquired and accumulated by their fore fathers.
अन्योन्यं समभिप्रेत्य मैथुनस्य समागमे । उपद्रव इवाविष्टो योनिं गर्भः प्रपद्यते ॥
English Translation
In an act of sexual intercourse, when two persons of opposite sexes come into contact with one another, the embryo takes birth in the womb, like a calamity attacking the mother.
शीर्णं परशरीरेण निच्छवीकं शरीरिणम् । प्राणिनां प्राणसंरोधे मांसश्लेष्मविचेष्टितम् ॥
English Translation
Very soon after suspension of the vital airs, other physical forms possess that embodied creature whose gross body has been destroyed but whose deeds have all been performed with that gross body, made of flesh and phlegm.
निर्दग्धं परदेहेन परदेहं चलाचलम् । विनश्यन्तं विनाशान्ते नावि नावमिवाहितम् ॥
English Translation
Upon the destruction of the body, another body which is as much destructible as the one which is destroyed, is kept ready for the burnt and destroyed creature even as one boat goes to another for transferring to itself the passengers of the other.
संगत्या जठरे न्यस्तं रेतोबिन्दुमचेतनम् । केन यत्नेन जीवन्तं गर्भं त्वमिह पश्यसि ॥
English Translation
By sexual intercourse, a drop of the seminal fluid that is inanimate, is cast into the womb. I ask you, through whose or what care is the embryo kept alive?
अन्नपानानि जीर्यन्ते यत्र भक्षाश्च भक्षिताः । तस्मिन्नेवोदरे गर्भः किं नान्नमिव जीर्यते ॥
English Translation
That part of the body into which the food that is eaten goes and where it is digested, is the place where the embryo lives, but it is not disgested there.
गर्भमूत्रपुरीषाणां स्वभावनियता गतिः । धारणे वा विसर्गे वा न कर्तुर्विद्यते वशः ॥
English Translation
In the womb, amid urine and faeces, one's sojourn is governed by Nature. The born creature is not free in the matter or residence therein or escape therefrom. In fact, in these respects, he is perfectly helpless.
स्रवन्ति ह्युदराद्गर्भा जायमानास्तथापरे । आगमेन सहान्येषां विनाश उपपद्यते ॥
English Translation
Some embryos fall from the womb. Some come out alive. While as regards some, they are destroyed in the womb, after being quickened with life, on account of some other bodies being ready for them.
एतस्माद्योनिसंबन्धाद्यो जीवन्परिमुच्यते । प्रजां च लभते कांचित्पुनर्द्वंद्वेषु मज्जति ॥
English Translation
That man who, in an act of sexual intercourse, injects the seminal fluid, obtains from it a son or daughter. The offspring thus obtained, when the time comes, takes part in a similar act of sexual intercourse.
शतस्य सहजातस्य सप्तमीं दशमीं दशाम् । प्राप्नुवन्ति ततः पञ्च न भवन्ति शतायुषः ॥
English Translation
When the lease of a person's life ends, the five primal elements of his body attain to the seventh and the ninth stages and they cease to be. The person, however, suffers no change.
नाभ्युत्थाने मनुष्याणां योगाः स्युर्नात्र संशयः । व्याधिभिश्च विमथ्यन्ते व्यालैः क्षुद्रमृगा इव ॥
English Translation
Forsooth, when persons are attacked by diseases as little animals assailed by hunters, they then lose the power of rising up and moving about.
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