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Mahābhārata • Parva 15 (Āśramavāsikaparva) • Adhyāya 25

Āśramavāsikaparva Adhyāya 25

आश्रमवासिकपर्व • अध्यायः 25

Āśramavāsikaparva Adhyāya 25 of the classical Mahābhārata with 19 verses.

Total: 19 Verses • Citations: MBh 15.25.1–19 • 250 Lexicon Terms
ततो भागीरथीतीरे मेध्ये पुण्यजनोचिते । निवासमकरोद्राजा विदुरस्य मते स्थितः ॥
English Translation
Vaishampayana said Acting according to the advice of Vidura, the king took up his residence on the banks of the Bhagirathi which were sacred and deserved to be inhabited by the righteous.
तत्रैनं पर्युपातिष्ठन्ब्राह्मणा राष्ट्रवासिनः । क्षत्रविट्शूद्रसंघाश्च बहवो भरतर्षभ ॥
English Translation
There many Brahmanas who had taken up their residence in the forest, as also many Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras, came to see the old king.
स तैः परिवृतो राजा कथाभिरभिनन्द्य तान् । अनुजज्ञे सशिष्यान्वै विधिवत्प्रतिपूज्य च ॥
English Translation
Silting in their midst, he plcased them all by his words. Having duly adored the Brahmanas with their disciples, he disinissed them all.
सायाह्ने स महीपालस्ततो गङ्गामुपेत्य ह । चकार विधिवच्छौचं गान्धारी च यशस्विनी ॥
English Translation
As evening camne, the king, and the illustrious Gandhari, both descended into the stream of the Bhagirathi and duly performed their ablutions for purifying themselves.
तथैवान्ये पृथक्सर्वे तीर्थेष्वाप्लुत्य भारत । चक्रुः सर्वाः क्रियास्तत्र पुरुषा विदुरादयः ॥
English Translation
The king and the queen, and Vidura and others, O Bharata, having bathed in the sacred river, performed the usual rites of religion.
कृतशौचं ततो वृद्धं श्वशुरं कुन्तिभोजजा । गान्धारीं च पृथा राजन्गङ्गातीरमुपानयत् ॥
English Translation
After the king had purified himself by a bath, the daughter of Kuntibhoja, gently conducted both him who was to her as her father-in-law, and Gandhari, from the water into the dry bank.
राज्ञस्तु याजकैस्तत्र कृतो वेदीपरिस्तरः । जुहाव तत्र वह्निं स नृपतिः सत्यसंगरः ॥
English Translation
The Yajakas had made a sacrificial alter there for the king. Devoted to truth, the latter poured libations then on the fire.
ततो भागीरथीतीरात्कुरुक्षेत्रं जगाम सः । सानुगो नृपतिर्विद्वान्नियतः संयतेन्द्रियः ॥
English Translation
From the banks of the Bhagirathi the old king, with his followers, observing vows and with senses controlled, then proceeded to Kurukshetra.
तत्राश्रमपदं धीमानभिगम्य स पार्थिवः । आससादाथ राजर्षिः शतयूपं मनीषिणम् ॥
English Translation
Endued with great intelligence, the king arrived at the hermitage of the royal sage Shatayupa of grcat wisdom and saw him.
स हि राजा महानासीत्केकयेषु परंतपः । स पुत्रं मनुजैश्वर्ये निवेश्य वनमाविशत् ॥
English Translation
Shatayupa, O scorcher of enemies had been the great king of the Kaikeyas. Having made over the sovereignty of his kingdom to his son, he had come into the forest,
तेनासौ सहितो राजा ययौ व्यासाश्रमं तदा । तत्रैनं विधिवद्राजन्प्रत्यगृह्णात्कुरूद्वहम् ॥
English Translation
Shatayupa received king Dhritarashtra with due rites. Accompanied by him, the latter went to the hermitage of Vyasa.
स दीक्षां तत्र संप्राप्य राजा कौरवनन्दनः । शतयूपाश्रमे तस्मिन्निवासमकरोत्तदा ॥
English Translation
Arrived at Vyasa's hermitage the delighter of the Kurus received his initiation into the forest mode of life. Returning he took up his residence in the hermitage of Shatayupa.
तस्मै सर्वं विधिं राजन्राजाचख्यौ महामतिः । आरण्यकं महाराज व्यासस्यानुमते तदा ॥
English Translation
The great Shatayupa instructed Dhritarashtra in all the rites of the forest mode, at the command of Vyasa.
एवं स तपसा राजा धृतराष्ट्रो महामनाः । योजयामास चात्मानं तांश्चाप्यनुचरांस्तदा ॥
English Translation
Thus the great Dhritarashtra set himself to the practice of penances, and all his followers also to the same course of conduct.
तथैव देवी गान्धारी वल्कलाजिनवासिनी । कुन्त्या सह महाराज समानव्रतचारिणी ॥
English Translation
Queen Gandhari also, O monarch, along with Kunti, put on barks of trees and deerskins, and began to observe the same vows as her husband.
कर्मणा मनसा वाचा चक्षुषा चापि ते नृप । संनियम्येन्द्रियग्राममास्थिताः परमं तपः ॥
English Translation
Restraining their senses in thought, words, and deeds, as well as by cye, they began to perforin sever austerities.
त्वगस्थिभूतः परिशुष्कमांसो; जटाजिनी वल्कलसंवृताङ्गः । स पार्थिवस्तत्र तपश्चचार; महर्षिवत्तीव्रमपेतदोषः ॥
English Translation
Shorn of all stupefaction of mind, king Dhritarashthra began to practice vows and penances like a great Rishi, reducing his body to skin and bones, for his flesh was all dried up, bearing inatted locks on heard, and his person clad in barks and skins.
क्षत्ता च धर्मार्थविदग्र्यबुद्धिः; ससंजयस्तं नृपतिं सदारम् । उपाचरद्घोरतपो जितात्मा; तदा कृशो वल्कलचीरवासाः ॥
English Translation
Vidura, conversant with the true interpretations of Virtue, and gifted with great intelligence, as also Sanjaya, waited upon the old king with his wife. Both of them with souls under control, Vidura and Sanjaya also reduced themselves, and wore barks and rags.
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