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Mahābhārata • Parva 5 (Udyogaparva) • Adhyāya 62

Udyogaparva Adhyāya 62

उद्योगपर्व • अध्यायः 62

Udyogaparva Adhyāya 62 of the classical Mahābhārata with 32 verses.

Total: 32 Verses • Citations: MBh 5.62.1–32 • 250 Lexicon Terms
सदृशानां मनुष्येषु सर्वेषां तुल्यजन्मनाम् । कथमेकान्ततस्तेषां पार्थानां मन्यसे जयम् ॥
English Translation
Dhritarashtra said Why do you consider victory to be the sole monopoly of the sons of Pritha who are similar to those of all men.
सर्वे स्म समजातीयाः सर्वे मानुषयोनयः । पितामह विजानीषे पार्थेषु विजयं कथम् ॥
नाहं भवति न द्रोणे न कृपे न च बाह्लिके । अन्येषु च नरेन्द्रेषु पराक्रम्य समारभे ॥
अहं वैकर्तनः कर्णो भ्राता दुःशासनश्च मे । पाण्डवान्समरे पञ्च हनिष्यामः शितैः शरैः ॥
ततो राजन्महायज्ञैर्विविधैर्भूरिदक्षिणैः । ब्राह्मणांस्तर्पयिष्यामि गोभिरश्वैर्धनेन च ॥
शकुनीनामिहार्थाय पाशं भूमावयोजयत् । कश्चिच्छाकुनिकस्तात पूर्वेषामिति शुश्रुम ॥
English Translation
Vidura said For the capture of birds did a certain fowler set his net in this world. O Sire, so we have heard from old men.
तस्मिन्द्वौ शकुनौ बद्धौ युगपत्समपौरुषौ । तावुपादाय तं पाशं जग्मतुः खचरावुभौ ॥
English Translation
There were two birds, companions to each other, captured in that net and they both went up into the air with that net.
तौ विहायसमाक्रान्तौ दृष्ट्वा शाकुनिकस्तदा । अन्वधावदनिर्विण्णो येन येन स्म गच्छतः ॥
English Translation
The fowler seeing them fly up in the air without losing his senses followed them in the direction they took.
तथा तमनुधावन्तं मृगयुं शकुनार्थिनम् । आश्रमस्थो मुनिः कश्चिद्ददर्शाथ कृताह्निकः ॥
English Translation
A certain Rishi living in a hermitage, who had finished his daily worship I saw that fowler following the birds, still in the hope of getting hold of the birds.
तावन्तरिक्षगौ शीघ्रमनुयान्तं महीचरम् । श्लोकेनानेन कौरव्य पप्रच्छ स मुनिस्तदा ॥
English Translation
Then did the anchoring address, O Kauravya, that denizen of the earth following the wanderers of the sky in this couplet.
विचित्रमिदमाश्चर्यं मृगहन्प्रतिभाति मे । प्लवमानौ हि खचरौ पदातिरनुधावसि ॥
English Translation
Slayer of animals, it seems to me wonderfully strange that you who move by your feet in this earth are following wanderers of the sky.
पाशमेकमुभावेतौ सहितौ हरतो मम । यत्र वै विवदिष्येते तत्र मे वशमेष्यतः ॥
English Translation
The fowler said These two united are taking that one net of mine but they will come under my control where they will quarrel.
तौ विवादमनुप्राप्तौ शकुनौ मृत्युसंधितौ । विगृह्य च सुदुर्बुद्धी पृथिव्यां संनिपेततुः ॥
English Translation
Vidura said The two birds who were doomed to death quarreled; and having quarrelled the two fools fell to the earth.
तौ युध्यमानौ संरब्धौ मृत्युपाशवशानुगौ । उपसृत्यापरिज्ञातो जग्राह मृगयुस्तदा ॥
English Translation
The slayer of animals then approaching those two fighting with each other, subject to the trap of death, without their knowledge caught hold of them.
एवं ये ज्ञातयोऽर्थेषु मिथो गच्छन्ति विग्रहम् । तेऽमित्रवशमायान्ति शकुनाविव विग्रहात् ॥
English Translation
In the same way those cousins who quarrel in matters of wealth are brought under the control of enemies like the birds owing to their quarrel.
संभोजनं संकथनं संप्रश्नोऽथ समागमः । एतानि ज्ञातिकार्याणि न विरोधः कदाचन ॥
English Translation
Dining in one another's company and conversing among, one another, inquiring about one another's health and living together, these are the duties of cousins and quarrel is never.
यस्मिन्काले सुमनसः सर्वे वृद्धानुपासते । सिंहगुप्तमिवारण्यमप्रधृष्या भवन्ति ते ॥
English Translation
Those who in proper season serve the old men out of pure motives, become invincible like a forest protected by lions.
येऽर्थं संततमासाद्य दीना इव समासते । श्रियं ते संप्रयच्छन्ति द्विषद्भ्यो भरतर्षभ ॥
English Translation
Those, who attaining to prosperity behave like the mean-minded contribute to the prosperity of their despisers, O you bull among the race of Bharata.
धूमायन्ते व्यपेतानि ज्वलन्ति सहितानि च । धृतराष्ट्रोल्मुकानीव ज्ञातयो भरतर्षभ ॥
English Translation
Cousins, O you bull among the race of Bharata, smoke when quarrelling and blaze up when like charcoals.
इदमन्यत्प्रवक्ष्यामि यथा दृष्टं गिरौ मया । श्रुत्वा तदपि कौरव्य यथा श्रेयस्तथा कुरु ॥
English Translation
or I shall speak of something else, which was seen by me in a mountain and hearing that too, O son of Kuru, do whatever is good.
वयं किरातैः सहिता गच्छामो गिरिमुत्तरम् । ब्राह्मणैर्देवकल्पैश्च विद्याजम्भकवातिकैः ॥
English Translation
We want to the Northern mountains accompanied by hunters and godlike Brahmanas fond of conversations incantations and medicines.
कुञ्जभूतं गिरिं सर्वमभितो गन्धमादनम् । दीप्यमानौषधिगणं सिद्धगन्धर्वसेवितम् ॥
English Translation
The Gandhamadana mountain was like a grove (owing to tress growing on it) in every way. It was shining, as it were, with cluster of medicinal plants and inhabited by ascetics and the Gandharvas,
तत्र पश्यामहे सर्वे मधु पीतममाक्षिकम् । मरुप्रपाते विषमे निविष्टं कुम्भसंमितम् ॥
English Translation
There we all saw some honey of a yellow colour inside a pot placed at a very high point of the mountain.
आशीविषै रक्ष्यमाणं कुबेरदयितं भृशम् । यत्प्राश्य पुरुषो मर्त्यो अमरत्वं निगच्छति ॥
English Translation
This was guarded by snakes, the favourite drink of Kubera, as it was drinking which even an earthy man gets immortality.
अचक्षुर्लभते चक्षुर्वृद्धो भवति वै युवा । इति ते कथयन्ति स्म ब्राह्मणा जम्भसाधकाः ॥
English Translation
Those without eyes get eyes, and the old become young. There was the honey described by the Brahmanas conversant with incantations.
ततः किरातास्तद्दृष्ट्वा प्रार्थयन्तो महीपते । विनेशुर्विषमे तस्मिन्ससर्पे गिरिगह्वरे ॥
English Translation
Then did the hunters, seeing that strive to obtain it, О king and were destroyed in thai frightful mountain cavern full of snakes.
तथैव तव पुत्रोऽयं पृथिवीमेक इच्छति । मधु पश्यति संमोहात्प्रपातं नानुपश्यति ॥
English Translation
Thus does this son of yours desire to be the one supreme individual in this world; out of loss of his senses, does he see only the honey and not the fall.
दुर्योधनो योद्धुमनाः समरे सव्यसाचिना । न च पश्यामि तेजोऽस्य विक्रमं वा तथाविधम् ॥
English Translation
Duryodhana is desirous of a fight with Savyasachin; but I do not see in him the strength or energy necessary for that purpose.
एकेन रथमास्थाय पृथिवी येन निर्जिता । प्रतीक्षमाणो यो वीरः क्षमते वीक्षितं तव ॥
English Translation
That Savyasachin, who alone in his car has brought the earth under his control and who inspired dared into Bhishma, Drona and others accompanied by their hosts.
द्रुपदो मत्स्यराजश्च संक्रुद्धश्च धनंजयः । न शेषयेयुः समरे वायुयुक्ता इवाग्नयः ॥
English Translation
Drupada, the king of the Matsyas and Dhananjaya, fired with wrath, will leave no trace (of your army) like a conflagration urged on by the wind.
अङ्के कुरुष्व राजानं धृतराष्ट्र युधिष्ठिरम् । युध्यतोर्हि द्वयोर्युद्धे नैकान्तेन भवेज्जयः ॥
English Translation
0 Dhritarashtra, take the king Yudhishthira on your lap; for by a struggle between you two none can get an absolute victory.
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