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Mahābhārata • Parva 9 (Śalyaparva) • Adhyāya 2

Śalyaparva Adhyāya 2

शल्यपर्व • अध्यायः 2

Śalyaparva Adhyāya 2 of the classical Mahābhārata with 66 verses.

Total: 66 Verses • Citations: MBh 9.2.1–66 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 3 (Verses 30 shown)
विसृष्टास्वथ नारीषु धृतराष्ट्रोऽम्बिकासुतः । विललाप महाराज दुःखाद्दुःखतरं गतः ॥
English Translation
Vaishampayana said After the ladies had been sent away, Dhritarashtra, the son of Ambika, sunk into grief greater than that which had afflicted him before, began, O monarch, to bewail.
सधूममिव निःश्वस्य करौ धुन्वन्पुनः पुनः । विचिन्त्य च महाराज ततो वचनमब्रवीत् ॥
English Translation
Exhaling smoky breaths and repeatedly shaking his arms and reflecting a little, O monarch, he said these words.
अहो बत महद्दुःखं यदहं पाण्डवान्रणे । क्षेमिणश्चाव्ययांश्चैव त्वत्तः सूत शृणोमि वै ॥
English Translation
Dhritarashtra said Alas, O Suta, painful is the news that I hear from you viz., that the Pandavas are all safe and have suffered no loss in battle!
वज्रसारमयं नूनं हृदयं सुदृढं मम । यच्छ्रुत्वा निहतान्पुत्रान्दीर्यते न सहस्रधा ॥
English Translation
Forsooth, my hard heart is made of the essence of thunder since it breaks not upon hearing of the fall of my sons!
चिन्तयित्वा वचस्तेषां बालक्रीडां च संजय । अद्य श्रुत्वा हतान्पुत्रान्भृशं मे दीर्यते मनः ॥
English Translation
Thinking of their ages, O Sanjaya and of their sports in childhood and learning today that all of them have died, my heart seems to break into pieces!
अन्धत्वाद्यदि तेषां तु न मे रूपनिदर्शनम् । पुत्रस्नेहकृता प्रीतिर्नित्यमेतेषु धारिता ॥
English Translation
Although owing to my blindness I never saw their forms, still I cherished a great love for them on account of the affection one feels for his children.
बालभावमतिक्रान्तान्यौवनस्थांश्च तानहम् । मध्यप्राप्तांस्तथा श्रुत्वा हृष्ट आसं तथानघ ॥
English Translation
Hearing that they had passed out of childhood and entered the period of youth and then of early manhood, I became highly glad, Osinless one.
तानद्य निहताञ्श्रुत्वा हृतैश्वर्यान्हृतौजसः । न लभे वै क्वचिच्छान्तिं पुत्राधिभिरभिप्लुतः ॥
English Translation
Hearing today that they have been killed and divested of prosperity and energy, I do not enjoy peace of mind, being overwhelmed with grief on account of the calamity that has befallen them.
एह्येहि पुत्र राजेन्द्र ममानाथस्य सांप्रतम् । त्वया हीनो महाबाहो कां नु यास्याम्यहं गतिम् ॥
English Translation
Come, come, O king of kings, to me that am without a lord now! Deprived of you, O mighty-armed one, what will be my condition?
गतिर्भूत्वा महाराज ज्ञातीनां सुहृदां तथा । अन्धं वृद्धं च मां वीर विहाय क्व नु गच्छसि ॥
English Translation
Having been, O monarch, the refuge of kinsmen and friends, where do you go now, O hero, leaving me that am blind and old?
सा कृपा सा च ते प्रीतिः सा च राजन्सुमानिता । कथं विनिहतः पार्थैः संयुगेष्वपराजितः ॥
English Translation
Where now, O king, is that pity of yours, that love and that respectfulness? Invincible you were in battle, how, alas, have you been killed by the Parthas?
कथं त्वं पृथिवीपालान्भुक्त्वा तात समागतान् । शेषे विनिहतो भूमौ प्राकृतः कुनृपो यथा ॥
English Translation
Why, O sire, leaving all the assembled kings do you lie on the nacked ground, deprived of life, like an ordinary and wretched king?
को नु मामुत्थितं काल्ये तात तातेति वक्ष्यति । महाराजेति सततं लोकनाथेति चासकृत् ॥
परिष्वज्य च मां कण्ठे स्नेहेनाक्लिन्नलोचनः । अनुशाधीति कौरव्य तत्साधु वद मे वचः ॥
English Translation
Who will now, after I will get up from bed at the proper hour, repeatedly address me in such loving and respectful words as-O father, O father-O great king-O Lord of the world!-and affectionately clasping my neck with tearful eyes, will ask for my orders, saying-Command me, you of Kuru's race!-address me, O son, in that sweet language once inore!
ननु नामाहमश्रौषं वचनं तव पुत्रक । भूयसी मम पृथ्वीयं यथा पार्थस्य नो तथा ॥
English Translation
O dear child, I heard even these words from your lips, viz.-This wide Earth is cqually ours with Pritha's son!
भगदत्तः कृपः शल्य आवन्त्योऽथ जयद्रथः । भूरिश्रवाः सोमदत्तो महाराजोऽथ बाह्लिकः ॥
अश्वत्थामा च भोजश्च मागधश्च महाबलः । बृहद्बलश्च काशीशः शकुनिश्चापि सौबलः ॥
म्लेच्छाश्च बहुसाहस्राः शकाश्च यवनैः सह । सुदक्षिणश्च काम्बोजस्त्रिगर्ताधिपतिस्तथा ॥
भीष्मः पितामहश्चैव भारद्वाजोऽथ गौतमः । श्रुतायुश्चाच्युतायुश्च शतायुश्चापि वीर्यवान् ॥
जलसंधोऽथार्श्यशृङ्गी राक्षसश्चाप्यलायुधः । अलंबुसो महाबाहुः सुबाहुश्च महारथः ॥
एते चान्ये च बहवो राजानो राजसत्तम । मदर्थमुद्यताः सर्वे प्राणांस्त्यक्त्वा रणे प्रभो ॥
येषां मध्ये स्थितो युद्धे भ्रातृभिः परिवारितः । योधयिष्याम्यहं पार्थान्पाञ्चालांश्चैव सर्वशः ॥
English Translation
Stationed on the field amidst these and encircled by my brothers, I will fight against all the Parthas and the Panchalas and the Chedis, O foremost to kings and the son of Draupadi and Satyaki and Kuntibhoja and the Rakshasa Ghatotkacha.
चेदींश्च नृपशार्दूल द्रौपदेयांश्च संयुगे । सात्यकिं कुन्तिभोजं च राक्षसं च घटोत्कचम् ॥
English Translation
Stationed on the field amidst these and encircled by my brothers, I will fight against all the Parthas and the Panchalas and the Chedis, O foremost to kings and the son of Draupadi and Satyaki and Kuntibhoja and the Rakshasa Ghatotkacha.
एकोऽप्येषां महाराज समर्थः संनिवारणे । समरे पाण्डवेयानां संक्रुद्धो ह्यभिधावताम् । किं पुनः सहिता वीराः कृतवैराश्च पाण्डवैः ॥
English Translation
Even one amongst these, O king, worked up with anger, is able to resist in battle the Pandavas rushing towards him!
अथ वा सर्व एवैते पाण्डवस्यानुयायिभिः । योत्स्यन्ति सह राजेन्द्र हनिष्यन्ति च तान्मृधे ॥
कर्णस्त्वेको मया सार्धं निहनिष्यति पाण्डवान् । ततो नृपतयो वीराः स्थास्यन्ति मम शासने ॥
यश्च तेषां प्रणेता वै वासुदेवो महाबलः । न स संनह्यते राजन्निति मामब्रवीद्वचः ॥
English Translation
Their leader, the mighty Vasudeva, will not, he has told me, take up arms for them, O king. In this way, O Suta, did Duryodhana often use to speak to me. Hearing what he said, I believed that the Pandavas would be killed in battle.
तस्याहं वदतः सूत बहुशो मम संनिधौ । युक्तितो ह्यनुपश्यामि निहतान्पाण्डवान्मृधे ॥
तेषां मध्ये स्थिता यत्र हन्यन्ते मम पुत्रकाः । व्यायच्छमानाः समरे किमन्यद्भागधेयतः ॥
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