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Mahābhārata • Parva 1 (Ādiparva) • Adhyāya 1

Ādiparva Adhyāya 1

आदिपर्व • अध्यायः 1

Ādiparva Adhyāya 1 of the classical Mahābhārata with 211 verses.

Total: 211 Verses • Citations: MBh 1.1.1–211 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 7 of 8 (Verses 30 shown)
हित्वा सुविपुलान्भोगान्बुद्धिमन्तो महाबलाः । राजानो निधनं प्राप्तास्तव पुत्रैर्महत्तमाः ॥
English Translation
Who were greatly powerful and wise, met death like your sons, quitting immense wealth and pleasure.
येषां दिव्यानि कर्माणि विक्रमस्त्याग एव च । माहात्म्यमपि चास्तिक्यं सत्यता शौचमार्जवम् ॥
English Translation
Even those men, who possessed all the noble virtues and whose heavenly valour, generosity, magnanimity, faith, truth, purity, simplicity and mercy, are published in the Puranas by the sacred bards of great learning, gave up their lives.
विद्वद्भिः कथ्यते लोके पुराणैः कविसत्तमैः । सर्वर्द्धिगुणसंपन्नास्ते चापि निधनं गताः ॥
English Translation
Even those men, who possessed all the noble virtues and whose heavenly valour, generosity, magnanimity, faith, truth, purity, simplicity and mercy, are published in the Puranas by the sacred bards of great learning, gave up their lives.
तव पुत्रा दुरात्मानः प्रतप्ताश्चैव मन्युना । लुब्धा दुर्वृत्तभूयिष्ठा न ताञ्शोचितुमर्हसि ॥
English Translation
Your wicked, envious, avaricious, of passionate temperament and vicious disposition; you are well-versed in the Shastras, you are intelligent and wise; those men whose understanding follows the dictates of the Shastras, never succumb to grief or misfortune.
श्रुतवानसि मेधावी बुद्धिमान्प्राज्ञसंमतः । येषां शास्त्रानुगा बुद्धिर्न ते मुह्यन्ति भारत ॥
English Translation
You are learned in the Shastras, you are intelligent and you are possessed of wisdom. (Hear), my inclinations were never for war, nor did I feel pleasure in the destruction of my race.
निग्रहानुग्रहौ चापि विदितौ ते नराधिप । नात्यन्तमेवानुवृत्तिः श्रूयते पुत्ररक्षणे ॥
English Translation
You know, O king, the severity and levity of fate. You know what anxiety you showed sons were for the safety of your sons. Therefore, this grief is unbecoming of you. It is not fit for you to grieve for that which must happen.
भवितव्यं तथा तच्च नातः शोचितुमर्हसि । दैवं प्रज्ञाविशेषेण को निवर्तितुमर्हति ॥
English Translation
You know, O king, the severity and levity of fate. You know what anxiety you showed sons were for the safety of your sons. Therefore, this grief is unbecoming of you. It is not fit for you to grieve for that which must happen.
विधातृविहितं मार्गं न कश्चिदतिवर्तते । कालमूलमिदं सर्वं भावाभावौ सुखासुखे ॥
English Translation
Who can avert by his cleverness the decrees of fate? None can go beyond the path marked for him by Providence. Existence and non-existence, pleasure and pain, come by Time.
कालः पचति भूतानि कालः संहरति प्रजाः । निर्दहन्तं प्रजाः कालं कालः शमयते पुनः ॥
English Translation
Time creates all things and Time destroys them all. Time burns all creatures and Time again extinguishes that fire.
कालो विकुरुते भावान्सर्वाँल्लोके शुभाशुभान् । कालः संक्षिपते सर्वाः प्रजा विसृजते पुनः । कालः सर्वेषु भूतेषु चरत्यविधृतः समः ॥
English Translation
All things, good and bad, in the three worlds, are created by Time. Time destroys them and Time creates them again.
अतीतानागता भावा ये च वर्तन्ति सांप्रतम् । तान्कालनिर्मितान्बुद्ध्वा न संज्ञां हातुमर्हसि ॥
English Translation
Knowing that all things, past, present and future, are the outcome of Time it is not fit for you to be overcome with grief.
अत्रोपनिषदं पुण्यां कृष्णद्वैपायनोऽब्रवीत् । भारताध्ययनात्पुण्यादपि पादमधीयतः । श्रद्दधानस्य पूयन्ते सर्वपापान्यशेषतः ॥
English Translation
The study of Bharata is such an act of piety that even he who reads only one line of a verse with reverence has his sins all destroyed.
देवर्षयो ह्यत्र पुण्या ब्रह्मराजर्षयस्तथा । कीर्त्यन्ते शुभकर्माणस्तथा यक्षमहोरगाः ॥
English Translation
In this Bharata, sinless and immaculate Devas, Devarshis and Brahmanas have been described as well as Yakshas and great Nagas.
भगवान्वासुदेवश्च कीर्त्यतेऽत्र सनातनः । स हि सत्यमृतं चैव पवित्रं पुण्यमेव च ॥
English Translation
In it has also the possessor of six attributes, the eternal Vasudeva, been described. He is true and just, pure and holy.
शाश्वतं ब्रह्म परमं ध्रुवं ज्योतिः सनातनम् । यस्य दिव्यानि कर्माणि कथयन्ति मनीषिणः ॥
English Translation
In it is described the eternal Brahma, the great true light, whose great and divine deeds the wise and learned men declare.
असत्सत्सदसच्चैव यस्माद्देवात्प्रवर्तते । संततिश्च प्रवृत्तिश्च जन्म मृत्युः पुनर्भवः ॥
English Translation
From whom has been produced the nonexistent and existent-non-existent universe with the principle of reproduction and progression, birth, death and rebirth.
अध्यात्मं श्रूयते यच्च पञ्चभूतगुणात्मकम् । अव्यक्तादि परं यच्च स एव परिगीयते ॥
English Translation
In it has also been described He who is Adhyatma and who partakes the attributes of the five elements and He to whom unmanifested and other such words cannot be applied.
यत्तद्यतिवरा युक्ता ध्यानयोगबलान्विताः । प्रतिबिम्बमिवादर्शे पश्यन्त्यात्मन्यवस्थितम् ॥
English Translation
And also He whom the Yogis, possessed of meditation and Tapa, behold in their hearts as the reflection of an image in a mirror.
श्रद्दधानः सदोद्युक्तः सत्यधर्मपरायणः । आसेवन्निममध्यायं नरः पापात्प्रमुच्यते ॥
English Translation
The man of faith, ever devoted, ever employed in the exercise of virtue, is freed from sin on reading this chapter, of the Bharata.
अनुक्रमणिमध्यायं भारतस्येममादितः । आस्तिकः सततं शृण्वन्न कृच्छ्रेष्ववसीदति ॥
English Translation
The believer who always hears this introductory chapter, of the Bharata from the beginning, never meets with any difficulties (in this world).
उभे संध्ये जपन्किंचित्सद्यो मुच्येत किल्बिषात् । अनुक्रमण्या यावत्स्यादह्ना रात्र्या च संचितम् ॥
English Translation
The man, who repeats any part of its introduction at the inorning and evening twilights, at the time of repeating, is freed from sins collected during the day and night.
भारतस्य वपुर्ह्येतत्सत्यं चामृतमेव च । नवनीतं यथा दध्नो द्विपदां ब्राह्मणो यथा ॥
English Translation
In the body of Bharata this chapter, is truth and ambrosia; as butter is among curds and a Brahmana among bipeds.
ह्रदानामुदधिः श्रेष्ठो गौर्वरिष्ठा चतुष्पदाम् । यथैतानि वरिष्ठानि तथा भारतमुच्यते ॥
English Translation
As Aranyaka among the Vedas, as ambrosia among medicines, as the ocean is great among all lakes, as cow among all quadrupeds.
यश्चैनं श्रावयेच्छ्राद्धे ब्राह्मणान्पादमन्ततः । अक्षय्यमन्नपानं तत्पितॄंस्तस्योपतिष्ठति ॥
English Translation
So is Bharata, among all histories. He, who causes to be recited by a Brahmana even one line of it during a Shraddha, gives to the dead ancestors his offerings of food and drink which become inexhaustible. The Vedas expounded by the aid of history and Purana.
इतिहासपुराणाभ्यां वेदं समुपबृंहयेत् । बिभेत्यल्पश्रुताद्वेदो मामयं प्रतरिष्यति ॥
कार्ष्णं वेदमिमं विद्वाञ्श्रावयित्वार्थमश्नुते । भ्रूणहत्याकृतं चापि पापं जह्यान्न संशयः ॥
य इमं शुचिरध्यायं पठेत्पर्वणि पर्वणि । अधीतं भारतं तेन कृत्स्नं स्यादिति मे मतिः ॥
यश्चेमं शृणुयान्नित्यमार्षं श्रद्धासमन्वितः । स दीर्घमायुः कीर्तिं च स्वर्गतिं चाप्नुयान्नरः ॥
English Translation
I tell you, the whole Bharata has been read by the man who reads this chapter,. The man who with reverence hears every day these sacred words, gains long life and goes to heaven. In time gone by, the celestials met together and placed the four Vedas on one side and this Bharata on the other side of a scale and the Bharata weighed heavier.
चत्वार एकतो वेदा भारतं चैकमेकतः । समागतैः सुरर्षिभिस्तुलामारोपितं पुरा । महत्त्वे च गुरुत्वे च ध्रियमाणं ततोऽधिकम् ॥
English Translation
From that time, it is called Mahabharata. It is considered superior to the Vedas, both in substance and gravity of import.
महत्त्वाद्भारवत्त्वाच्च महाभारतमुच्यते । निरुक्तमस्य यो वेद सर्वपापैः प्रमुच्यते ॥
English Translation
It is called Mahabharata from this superiority in substance and gravity of import. He who understands its real meaning, is freed from all sins.
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