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Mahābhārata • Parva 15 (Āśramavāsikaparva) • Adhyāya 45

Āśramavāsikaparva Adhyāya 45

आश्रमवासिकपर्व • अध्यायः 45

Āśramavāsikaparva Adhyāya 45 of the classical Mahābhārata with 45 verses.

Total: 45 Verses • Citations: MBh 15.45.1–45 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 2 (Verses 30 shown)
द्विवर्षोपनिवृत्तेषु पाण्डवेषु यदृच्छया । देवर्षिर्नारदो राजन्नाजगाम युधिष्ठिरम् ॥
English Translation
After two years had passed from the date of the return of the Pandavas from the retreat of heir sire), the celestial Rishi, Narada, O king, came to Yudhishthria.
तमभ्यर्च्य महाबाहुः कुरुराजो युधिष्ठिरः । आसीनं परिविश्वस्तं प्रोवाच वदतां वरः ॥
English Translation
the mighty-armed Kuru king, that foremost of speakers, viz., Yudhishthira, having duly adored him, made him take a seat. After the Rishi had rested a while, the king asked him saying, 'It is after a long time that I see your holy self arrived at my court. Are you in peace and happiness, O learned Bhimasena?
चिरस्य खलु पश्यामि भगवन्तमुपस्थितम् । कच्चित्ते कुशलं विप्र शुभं वा प्रत्युपस्थितम् ॥
English Translation
the mighty-armed Kuru king, that foremost of speakers, viz., Yudhishthira, having duly adored him, made him take a seat. After the Rishi had rested a while, the king asked him saying, 'It is after a long time that I see your holy self arrived at my court. Are you in peace and happiness, O learned Bhimasena?
के देशाः परिदृष्टास्ते किं च कार्यं करोमि ते । तद्ब्रूहि द्विजमुख्य त्वमस्माकं च प्रियोऽतिथिः ॥
English Translation
What are toe countries which you have passed through? What can I do for you? Do you tell me. You are the foremost of twiceborn ones, and you are our highest refuge.
चिरदृष्टोऽसि मे राजन्नागतोऽस्मि तपोवनात् । परिदृष्टानि तीर्थानि गङ्गा चैव मया नृप ॥
English Translation
Narada said I have not seen you for a long time. Hence it is that I have come to you from my asylum. I have seen many sacred waters and the sacred rivers Ganga, also, O king.
वदन्ति पुरुषा मेऽद्य गङ्गातीरनिवासिनः । धृतराष्ट्रं महात्मानमास्थितं परमं तपः ॥
English Translation
People living on the banks of Ganga report that the great Dhritarashtra is practicing the austerest of penances.
अपि दृष्टस्त्वया तत्र कुशली स कुरूद्वहः । गान्धारी च पृथा चैव सूतपुत्रश्च संजयः ॥
English Translation
Have you seen him there? Is that perpetuator o Kuru's race in peace? Are Gandhari and Pritha and the Suta's son Sanjaya also in peace?
कथं च वर्तते चाद्य पिता मम स पार्थिवः । श्रोतुमिच्छामि भगवन्यदि दृष्टस्त्वया नृपः ॥
English Translation
How, indeed, is that royal sire of mine doing? I wish to hear this, O holy one, if you have seen the king.
स्थिरीभूय महाराज शृणु सर्वं यथातथम् । यथा श्रुतं च दृष्टं च मया तस्मिंस्तपोवने ॥
English Translation
Narada said Listen, O king, with calmness to me as I tell you what I have heard and seen in that asylum.
वनवासनिवृत्तेषु भवत्सु कुरुनन्दन । कुरुक्षेत्रात्पिता तुभ्यं गङ्गाद्वारं ययौ नृप ॥
English Translation
After your return from Kurukshetra, O delighter of the Kurus, Your sire, O king, proceeded towards Gangadvara.
गान्धार्या सहितो धीमान्वध्वा कुन्त्या समन्वितः । संजयेन च सूतेन साग्निहोत्रः सयाजकः ॥
English Translation
That intelligent king took with him his (sacred) fire, Gandhari and his daughter-in-law Kunti, as also Sanjaya of the Suta caste, and all the Yajakas.
आतस्थे स तपस्तीव्रं पिता तव तपोधनः । वीटां मुखे समाधाय वायुभक्षोऽभवन्मुनिः ॥
English Translation
Having penances for wealth, your sire set himself to the practice of severe austerities. He held pebbled of stone in his mouth and had air alone for his food, and abstained altogether from speech.
वने स मुनिभिः सर्वैः पूज्यमानो महातपाः । त्वगस्थिमात्रशेषः स षण्मासानभवन्नृपः ॥
English Translation
Engaged in severe penances, he was adored by all the ascetics in the forest. In six months the king was reduced to only a skeleton.
गान्धारी तु जलाहारा कुन्ती मासोपवासिनी । संजयः षष्ठभक्तेन वर्तयामास भारत ॥
English Translation
Gandhari lived on water alone, while Kunti took a little food a intervals of month. Sanjaya, O Bharata, lived, eating a little every sixth day.
अग्नींस्तु याजकास्तत्र जुहुवुर्विधिवत्प्रभो । दृश्यतोऽदृश्यतश्चैव वने तस्मिन्नृपस्य ह ॥
English Translation
The sacred fire, O monarch, (bclonging to the Kuru king) was duly adored by the sacrificing assistants who were with him, with libations of clarified butter poured on it. They did this whether the king saw the rite or not.
अनिकेतोऽथ राजा स बभूव वनगोचरः । ते चापि सहिते देव्यौ संजयश्च तमन्वयुः ॥
English Translation
The king had no fixed dwelling. He became a wanderer through those forests. The two queens, as also Sanjaya, followed him.
संजयो नृपतेर्नेता समेषु विषमेषु च । गान्धार्यास्तु पृथा राजंश्चक्षुरासीदनिन्दिता ॥
English Translation
Sanjaya acted as the guide on even and uneven land. The faultless Pritha, O king, became the eye of Gandhari.
ततः कदाचिद्गङ्गायाः कच्छे स नृपसत्तमः । गङ्गायामाप्लुतो धीमानाश्रमाभिमुखोऽभवत् ॥
English Translation
One day, that best of kings went to a spot on the margin of Ganga. He then bathed in the sacred river and finishing his ablutions turned his face toward his hermitage.
अथ वायुः समुद्भूतो दावाग्निरभवन्महान् । ददाह तद्वनं सर्वं परिगृह्य समन्ततः ॥
English Translation
The wind rose high. A fierce wild fire set in. It began to burn that forest all around.
दह्यत्सु मृगयूथेषु द्विजिह्वेषु समन्ततः । वराहाणां च यूथेषु संश्रयत्सु जलाशयान् ॥
English Translation
When the herds of animals were being burnt all around, as also the snakes which inhabited. that region, herds of wild board began to take themselves to the nearest marshes and waters.
समाविद्धे वने तस्मिन्प्राप्ते व्यसन उत्तमे । निराहारतया राजा मन्दप्राणविचेष्टितः । असमर्थोऽपसरणे सुकृशौ मातरौ च ते ॥
English Translation
When that forest was thus afflicted on all sides and such distress came upon all the living creature living there, the king, who had taken no food, was incapable of moving or exerting himself at all.
ततः स नृपतिर्दृष्ट्वा वह्निमायान्तमन्तिकात् । इदमाह ततः सूतं संजयं पृथिवीपते ॥
गच्छ संजय यत्राग्निर्न त्वां दहति कर्हिचित् । वयमत्राग्निना युक्ता गमिष्यामः परां गतिम् ॥
तमुवाच किलोद्विग्नः संजयो वदतां वरः । राजन्मृत्युरनिष्टोऽयं भविता ते वृथाग्निना ॥
English Translation
As regards ourselves, we shall allow our bodies to be destroyed by this fire and attain to the greatest end. To him, Sanjaya, that foremost of speakers, said-'O king, this death, brought on by a fire that is not sacred, will prove calamitous to you. I do not, however, see any means by which you can escape from this fire. our
न चोपायं प्रपश्यामि मोक्षणे जातवेदसः । यदत्रानन्तरं कार्यं तद्भवान्वक्तुमर्हति ॥
इत्युक्तः संजयेनेदं पुनराह स पार्थिवः । नैष मृत्युरनिष्टो नो निःसृतानां गृहात्स्वयम् ॥
जलमग्निस्तथा वायुरथ वापि विकर्शनम् । तापसानां प्रशस्यन्ते गच्छ संजय माचिरम् ॥
इत्युक्त्वा संजयं राजा समाधाय मनस्तदा । प्राङ्मुखः सह गान्धार्या कुन्त्या चोपाविशत्तदा ॥
संजयस्तं तथा दृष्ट्वा प्रदक्षिणमथाकरोत् । उवाच चैनं मेधावी युङ्क्ष्वात्मानमिति प्रभो ॥
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