Bhagavata Purana — Skandha 5 — Chapter 7
SB 5 7.1
श्री-शुक उवाच भरतस् तु महा-भागवतो यदा भगवतावनि-तल-परिपालनाय सञ्चिन्तितस् तद्-अनुशासन-परः पञ्चजनीं विश्वरूप-दुहितरम् उपयेमे
śrī-śuka uvāca bharatas tu mahā-bhāgavato yadā bhagavatāvani-tala-paripālanāya sañcintitas tad-anuśāsana-paraḥ pañcajanīṃ viśvarūpa-duhitaram upayeme
Śrī Śuka said: But Bharata, the great devotee, when he was appointed by the Lord to protect the surface of the earth, being devoted to carrying out that command, married Pañcajanī, the daughter of Viśvarūpa.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
SB 5 7.2
_* तस्याम् उ ह वा आत्मजान् कार्त्स्न्येनानुरूपान् आत्मनः पञ्च जनयाम् आस भूतादिर् इव भूत-सूक्ष्माणि सुमतिं राष्ट्रभृतं सुदर्शनम् आवरणं धूम्रकेतुम् इति
_* tasyām u ha vā ātmajān kārtsnyenānurūpān ātmanaḥ pañca janayām āsa bhūtādir iva bhūta-sūkṣmāṇi sumatiṃ rāṣṭrabhṛtaṃ sudarśanam āvaraṇaṃ dhūmraketum iti
By her he begot five sons wholly resembling himself, as the origin of the elements (begets) the subtle elements: Sumati, Rāṣṭrabhṛt, Sudarśana, Āvaraṇa and Dhūmraketu.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
SB 5 7.3
_* अजनाभं नामैतद् वर्षं भारतम् इति यत आरभ्य व्यपदिशन्ति
_* ajanābhaṃ nāmaitad varṣaṃ bhāratam iti yata ārabhya vyapadiśanti
This region, formerly named Ajanābha, they call Bhārata, beginning from him.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
SB 5 7.4
_* स बहुविन् मही-पतिः पितृ-पितामहवद् उरु-वत्सलतया स्वे स्वे कर्मणि वर्तमानाः प्रजाः स्व-धर्मम् अनुवर्तमानः पर्यपालयत्
_* sa bahuvin mahī-patiḥ pitṛ-pitāmahavad uru-vatsalatayā sve sve karmaṇi vartamānāḥ prajāḥ sva-dharmam anuvartamānaḥ paryapālayat
That lord of the earth, of wide learning, with great affection like his father and grandfather, following his own duty, protected the people, who abided each in his own work.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
SB 5 7.5
_* ईजे च भगवन्तं यज्ञ-क्रतु-रूपं क्रतुभिर् उच्चावचैः श्रद्धयाहृताग्निहोत्र-दर्श-पूर्णमास-चातुर्मास्य-पशु-सोमानां प्रकृति-विकृतिभिर् अनुसवनं चातुर्होत्र-विधिना
_* īje ca bhagavantaṃ yajña-kratu-rūpaṃ kratubhir uccāvacaiḥ śraddhayāhṛtāgnihotra-darśa-pūrṇamāsa-cāturmāsya-paśu-somānāṃ prakṛti-vikṛtibhir anusavanaṃ cāturhotra-vidhinā
And he worshipped the Lord, whose form is sacrifice and rite, with high and low rites, with faith, at each session, by the rule of the four priests, with the primary and derived forms of the agnihotra, the new-moon and full-moon offerings, the four-monthly rites, the animal and soma sacrifices, whose fires had been duly brought.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
SB 5 7.6
_* सम्प्रचरत्सु नाना-यागेषु विरचिताङ्ग-क्रियेष्व् अपूर्वं यत् तत् क्रिया-फलं धर्माख्यं परे ब्रह्मणि यज्ञ-पुरुषे सर्व-देवता-लिङ्गानां मन्त्राणाम् अर्थ-नियाम-कतया साक्षात्-कर्तरि पर-देवतायां भगवति वासुदेव एव भावयमान आत्म-नैपुण्य-मृदित-कषायो हविःष्व् अध्वर्युभिर् गृह्यमाणेषु स यजमानो यज्ञ-भाजो देवांस् तान् पुरुषावयवेष्व् अभ्यध्यायत्
_* sampracaratsu nānā-yāgeṣu viracitāṅga-kriyeṣv apūrvaṃ yat tat kriyā-phalaṃ dharmākhyaṃ pare brahmaṇi yajña-puruṣe sarva-devatā-liṅgānāṃ mantrāṇām artha-niyāma-katayā sākṣāt-kartari para-devatāyāṃ bhagavati vāsudeva eva bhāvayamāna ātma-naipuṇya-mṛdita-kaṣāyo haviḥṣv adhvaryubhir gṛhyamāṇeṣu sa yajamāno yajña-bhājo devāṃs tān puruṣāvayaveṣv abhyadhyāyat
When the various sacrifices were being performed, with their subsidiary acts arranged, whatever that unprecedented fruit of the act called dharma was, he meditated on it as being in the supreme Brahman, the Person of sacrifice, the sole direct agent, since the mantras that bear the marks of all the gods have their meaning fixed in him — in the supreme deity, the Lord Vāsudeva alone; and thus, his taint rubbed away by his own skill, while the oblations were being taken up by the adhvaryu priests, he, the sacrificer, meditated on those gods who share in the sacrifice as being limbs of the Person.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
SB 5 7.7
_* एवं कर्म-विशुद्ध्या विशुद्ध-सत्त्वस्यान्तर्-हृदयाकाश-शरीरे ब्रह्मणि भगवति वासुदेवे महा-पुरुष-रूपोपलक्षणे श्रीवत्स-कौस्तुभ-वन-मालारि-दर-गदादिभिर् उपलक्षिते निज-पुरुष-हृल्-लिखितेनात्मनि पुरुष-रूपेण विरोचमान उच्चैस्तरां भक्तिर् अनुदिनम् एधमान-रयाजायत
_* evaṃ karma-viśuddhyā viśuddha-sattvasyāntar-hṛdayākāśa-śarīre brahmaṇi bhagavati vāsudeve mahā-puruṣa-rūpopalakṣaṇe śrīvatsa-kaustubha-vana-mālāri-dara-gadādibhir upalakṣite nija-puruṣa-hṛl-likhitenātmani puruṣa-rūpeṇa virocamāna uccaistarāṃ bhaktir anudinam edhamāna-rayājāyata
Thus, by the purification of his works, in one whose being had become wholly pure, devotion arose towards Brahman, the Lord Vāsudeva, whose body is the space within the heart, marked by the form of the Great Person, distinguished by the Śrīvatsa, the Kaustubha gem, the forest garland, the disc, the conch, the club and the rest — shining forth in himself as the Person-form inscribed on the heart of his own devotee — devotion whose momentum increased ever more strongly day by day.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
SB 5 7.8
_* एवं वर्षायुत-सहस्र-पर्यन्तावसित-कर्म-निर्वाणावसरो ऽधिभुज्यमानं स्व-तनयेभ्यो रिक्थं पितृ-पैतामहं यथा-दायं विभज्य स्वयं सकल-सम्पन्-निकेतात् स्व-निकेतात् पुलहाश्रमं प्रवव्राज
_* evaṃ varṣāyuta-sahasra-paryantāvasita-karma-nirvāṇāvasaro 'dhibhujyamānaṃ sva-tanayebhyo rikthaṃ pitṛ-paitāmahaṃ yathā-dāyaṃ vibhajya svayaṃ sakala-sampan-niketāt sva-niketāt pulahāśramaṃ pravavrāja
Thus, when the occasion for the cessation of his works had come, completed at the end of ten million years, he divided his paternal and ancestral wealth, which he had been enjoying, among his own sons according to their shares, and himself went forth from his own home, the abode of every prosperity, to the hermitage of Pulaha.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
SB 5 7.9
_* यत्र ह वाव भगवान् हरिर् अद्यापि तत्रत्यानां निज-जनानां वात्सल्येन सन्निधाप्यत इच्छा-रूपेण
_* yatra ha vāva bhagavān harir adyāpi tatratyānāṃ nija-janānāṃ vātsalyena sannidhāpyata icchā-rūpeṇa
There indeed the Lord Hari, even today, out of affection for his own people who dwell there, makes himself present in the form they desire.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
SB 5 7.10
_* यत्राश्रम-पदान्य् उभयतो नाभिभिर् दृषच्-चक्रैश् चक्र-नदी नाम सरित्-प्रवरा सर्वतः पवित्री-करोति
_* yatrāśrama-padāny ubhayato nābhibhir dṛṣac-cakraiś cakra-nadī nāma sarit-pravarā sarvataḥ pavitrī-karoti
There, where the best of rivers, named Cakra-nadī, sanctifies the hermitage grounds on all sides, with stone discs bearing navel-marks on both banks.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
SB 5 7.11
_* तस्मिन् वाव किल स एकलः पुलहाश्रमोपवने विविध-कुसुम-किसलय-तुलसिकाम्बुभिः कन्द-मूल-फलोपहारैश् च समीहमानो भगवत आराधनं विविक्त उपरत-विषयाभिलाष उपभृतोपशमः परां निर्वृतिम् अवाप
_* tasmin vāva kila sa ekalaḥ pulahāśramopavane vividha-kusuma-kisalaya-tulasikāmbubhiḥ kanda-mūla-phalopahāraiś ca samīhamāno bhagavata ārādhanaṃ vivikta uparata-viṣayābhilāṣa upabhṛtopaśamaḥ parāṃ nirvṛtim avāpa
There indeed, all alone, in the grove of Pulaha's hermitage, striving at the worship of the Lord with various flowers, young shoots, tulasī and water, and with offerings of bulbs, roots and fruits, secluded, his craving for objects of sense having ceased, having attained inner calm, he reached the highest bliss.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
SB 5 7.12
_* तयेत्थम् अविरत-पुरुष-परिचर्यया भगवति प्रवर्धमाना-नुराग-भर-द्रुत-हृदय-शैथिल्यः प्रहर्ष-वेगेनात्मन्य् उद्भिद्यमान-रोम-पुलक-कुलक औत्कण्ठ्य-प्रवृत्त-प्रणय-बाष्प-निरुद्धावलोक-नयन एवं निज-रमणारुण-चरणारविन्दानुध्यान-परिचित-भक्ति-योगेन परिप्लुत-परमाह्लाद-गम्भीर-हृदय-ह्रदावगाढ-धिषणस् ताम् अपि क्रियमाणां भगवत्-सपर्यां न सस्मार
_* tayettham avirata-puruṣa-paricaryayā bhagavati pravardhamānā-nurāga-bhara-druta-hṛdaya-śaithilyaḥ praharṣa-vegenātmany udbhidyamāna-roma-pulaka-kulaka autkaṇṭhya-pravṛtta-praṇaya-bāṣpa-niruddhāvaloka-nayana evaṃ nija-ramaṇāruṇa-caraṇāravindānudhyāna-paricita-bhakti-yogena paripluta-paramāhlāda-gambhīra-hṛdaya-hradāvagāḍha-dhiṣaṇas tām api kriyamāṇāṃ bhagavat-saparyāṃ na sasmāra
By that unceasing service of the Person in this manner, his heart melted and softened by the growing weight of love for the Lord, with the hairs of his body standing up in bristling clusters through the force of his rapture, his eyes' vision blocked by tears of affection that flowed from longing — thus, by the yoga of devotion made familiar through continual meditation on the reddish lotus feet of his beloved, his mind plunged into the deep lake of his heart flooded with supreme delight, he did not even remember the worship of the Lord that he was performing.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
SB 5 7.13
_* इत्थं धृत-भगवद्-व्रत ऐणेयाजिन-वाससानुसवनाभिषेकार्द्र-कपिश-कुटिल-जटा-कलापेन च विरोचमानः सूर्यर्चा भगवन्तं हिरण्मयं पुरुषम् उज्जिहाने सूर्य-मण्डले ऽभ्युपतिष्ठन्न् एतद् उ होवाच
_* itthaṃ dhṛta-bhagavad-vrata aiṇeyājina-vāsasānusavanābhiṣekārdra-kapiśa-kuṭila-jaṭā-kalāpena ca virocamānaḥ sūryarcā bhagavantaṃ hiraṇmayaṃ puruṣam ujjihāne sūrya-maṇḍale 'bhyupatiṣṭhann etad u hovāca
Thus holding to his vow to the Lord, clothed in a black antelope skin, and shining with the mass of his tawny curling matted locks, wet from his bathing at each session, he worshipped the Lord, the golden Person, with a hymn to the sun as the orb of the sun was rising, and said this:
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
SB 5 7.14
_* परो-रजः सवितुर् जात-वेदो देवस्य भर्गो मनसेदं जजान सुरेतसादः पुनर् आविश्य चष्टे हंसं गृध्राणं नृषद्-रिङ्गिराम् इमः
_* paro-rajaḥ savitur jāta-vedo devasya bhargo manasedaṃ jajāna suretasādaḥ punar āviśya caṣṭe haṃsaṃ gṛdhrāṇaṃ nṛṣad-riṅgirām imaḥ
Beyond the dust (of matter), the knower of things born, the radiance of the god Savitṛ — by mind he generated this (world); with good seed he then, entering again, beholds the swan, the seizer, the one seated in men, moving in speech — these (things).
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain