Brahmavaivarta Purana — Prakriti Khanda — Chapter 52
BvP 2 52.1
श्रीपार्वत्युवाच ।। अन्येषां च कृतघ्नानां यद्यत्कर्मफलं प्रभो ।। तेषां किमूचुर्मुनयो वेदवेदाङ्गपारगाः
śrīpārvatyuvāca || anyeṣāṃ ca kṛtaghnānāṃ yadyatkarmaphalaṃ prabho || teṣāṃ kimūcurmunayo vedavedāṅgapāragāḥ
Śrī Pārvatī said: O lord, whatever the fruit of the deeds of other ingrates may be — what did the sages, masters of the Vedas and the Vedāṅgas, say about them?
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BvP 2 52.2
श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच ।। प्रश्नं कुर्वति राजेन्द्रे सर्वेषु मुनिषु प्रिये ।। तत्र प्रवक्तुमारेभे ऋषिर्नारायणो महान् तप्तक्षारोदकं पापी नित्यं पिबति वै ततः ।। सप्तजन्मस्वतः सर्पः काकः पञ्चस्वतः शुचिः सन्ततं वेष्टितः सर्पैर्भीतो वै भक्षितस्तथा ।। भुङ्क्ते च सर्वविण्मूत्रं यमदूतेन ताडितः दैवं गुरुं ब्राह्मणं च नमस्कर्तुं न चार्हति ।। विष्ठाधिकं तदन्नं च जलं मूत्राधिकं तथा लब्ध्वैवं सप्त जन्मानि महापापी भवेच्छुचिः
śrīmaheśvara uvāca || praśnaṃ kurvati rājendre sarveṣu muniṣu priye || tatra pravaktumārebhe ṛṣirnārāyaṇo mahān taptakṣārodakaṃ pāpī nityaṃ pibati vai tataḥ || saptajanmasvataḥ sarpaḥ kākaḥ pañcasvataḥ śuciḥ santataṃ veṣṭitaḥ sarpairbhīto vai bhakṣitastathā || bhuṅkte ca sarvaviṇmūtraṃ yamadūtena tāḍitaḥ daivaṃ guruṃ brāhmaṇaṃ ca namaskartuṃ na cārhati || viṣṭhādhikaṃ tadannaṃ ca jalaṃ mūtrādhikaṃ tathā labdhvaivaṃ sapta janmāni mahāpāpī bhavecchuciḥ
Śrī Maheśvara said: When the lord of kings put the question to all the sages, O beloved, the great sage Nārāyaṇa began to speak there. Thereafter the sinner constantly drinks hot alkaline water; then (he is) a serpent for seven births, then a crow for five, then pure. He is constantly wrapped about by serpents, terrified, and devoured by them; and he eats all manner of dung and urine, beaten by Yama's messenger. He is not fit to bow to a deity, a teacher, or a brahmin; his food is worse than excrement and his water worse than urine. Having got this for seven births, the great sinner becomes pure.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
BvP 2 52.3
श्रीनारायण उवाच ।। स्वदत्तां परदत्तां वा ब्रह्मवृत्तिं हरेत्तु यः ।। स कृतघ्न इति ज्ञेयः फलं च शृणु भूमिप
śrīnārāyaṇa uvāca || svadattāṃ paradattāṃ vā brahmavṛttiṃ harettu yaḥ || sa kṛtaghna iti jñeyaḥ phalaṃ ca śṛṇu bhūmipa
Śrī Nārāyaṇa said: He who seizes a brahmin's livelihood, whether given by himself or given by another, is to be known as an ingrate; hear the result, O king.
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BvP 2 52.4
यावन्तो रेणवः सिक्ता विप्राणां नेत्रबिन्दुभिः ।। तावद्वर्षसहस्रं च शूलपोते स तिष्ठति
yāvanto reṇavaḥ siktā viprāṇāṃ netrabindubhiḥ || tāvadvarṣasahasraṃ ca śūlapote sa tiṣṭhati
As many grains of dust as are wetted by the teardrops of the brahmins, for that many thousands of years he remains impaled on a stake.
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BvP 2 52.5
तप्ताङ्गारं च तद्भक्ष्यं पानं वै तप्तमूत्रकम् ।। तप्ताङ्गारे च शयनं ताडितो यमकिङ्करैः
taptāṅgāraṃ ca tadbhakṣyaṃ pānaṃ vai taptamūtrakam || taptāṅgāre ca śayanaṃ tāḍito yamakiṅkaraiḥ
Hot coals are his food, and his drink is hot urine; his bed is on hot coals, and he is beaten by Yama's servants.
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BvP 2 52.6
तदन्ते च महापापी विष्ठायां जायते कृमिः ।। षष्टिवर्षसहस्राणि देवमानेन भारते
tadante ca mahāpāpī viṣṭhāyāṃ jāyate kṛmiḥ || ṣaṣṭivarṣasahasrāṇi devamānena bhārate
And at the end of that the great sinner is born as a worm in excrement, for sixty thousand years by the divine reckoning, in Bhārata.
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BvP 2 52.7
ततो भवेद्भूमिहीनः प्रजाहीनश्च मानवः ।। दरिद्रः कृपणो रोगी शूद्रो निन्द्यस्ततः शुचिः
tato bhavedbhūmihīnaḥ prajāhīnaśca mānavaḥ || daridraḥ kṛpaṇo rogī śūdro nindyastataḥ śuciḥ
Then the man becomes landless and childless, poor, wretched, diseased, a despised Śūdra — after that he is pure.
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BvP 2 52.8
नारद उवाच ।। हन्ति यः परकीर्त्तिं च स्वकीर्त्तिं वा नराधमः।। स कृतघ्न इति ख्यातस्तत्फलं च निशामय
nārada uvāca || hanti yaḥ parakīrttiṃ ca svakīrttiṃ vā narādhamaḥ|| sa kṛtaghna iti khyātastatphalaṃ ca niśāmaya
Nārada said: The lowest of men who destroys another's fame, or his own, is known as an ingrate; hear the fruit of that.
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BvP 2 52.9
अन्धकूपे वसेत्सोऽपि यावदिन्द्राश्चतुर्दश।। कीटैर्नकुलगृध्रैश्च भक्षितः सततं नृप
andhakūpe vasetso'pi yāvadindrāścaturdaśa|| kīṭairnakulagṛdhraiśca bhakṣitaḥ satataṃ nṛpa
He too dwells in the blind well for as long as fourteen Indras (reign), constantly devoured by worms, mongooses and vultures, O king.
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BvP 2 52.11
देवल उवाच ।। ब्रह्मस्वं वा गुरुस्वं वा देवस्वं वाऽपि यो हरेत् ।। स कृतघ्न इति ज्ञेयो महापापी च भारते
devala uvāca || brahmasvaṃ vā gurusvaṃ vā devasvaṃ vā'pi yo haret || sa kṛtaghna iti jñeyo mahāpāpī ca bhārate
Devala said: He who steals the property of a brahmin, or of a teacher, or of a god, is to be known as an ingrate and a great sinner in Bhārata.
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BvP 2 52.12
अवटोदे वसेत्सोऽपि यावदिन्द्राश्चतुर्दश ।। ततो भवेत्सुरापी स ततः शूद्रस्ततः शुचिः
avaṭode vasetso'pi yāvadindrāścaturdaśa || tato bhavetsurāpī sa tataḥ śūdrastataḥ śuciḥ
He too dwells in (the hell) Avaṭoda for as long as fourteen Indras (reign); then he becomes a liquor-drinker, then a Śūdra, and then pure.
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BvP 2 52.13
जैगीषव्य उवाच ।। पितृमातृगुरूंश्चापि भक्तिहीनो न पालयेत् ।। वाचाऽपि ताडयेत्तांश्च स कृतघ्र इति स्मृतः ।। वाचा च ताडयेन्नित्यं स्वामिनं कुलटा च या
jaigīṣavya uvāca || pitṛmātṛgurūṃścāpi bhaktihīno na pālayet || vācā'pi tāḍayettāṃśca sa kṛtaghra iti smṛtaḥ || vācā ca tāḍayennityaṃ svāminaṃ kulaṭā ca yā
Jaigīṣavya said: He who, lacking devotion, does not support his father, mother and teachers, and even assails them with words — he is declared ungrateful. And the unchaste woman who constantly assails her husband with words,
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BvP 2 52.14
सा कृतघ्नीति विख्याता भारते पापिनी वरा ।। वह्निकुण्डं महाघोरं तौ प्रयातस्सुनिश्चितम्
sā kṛtaghnīti vikhyātā bhārate pāpinī varā || vahnikuṇḍaṃ mahāghoraṃ tau prayātassuniścitam
she is known as ungrateful, the worst sinner in Bhārata; the two of them assuredly go to the exceedingly terrible fire-pit.
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BvP 2 52.15
तत्र वह्नौ वसत्येव यावच्चन्द्रदिवाकरौ ।। ततो भवेज्जलौकाश्च सप्तजन्मस्वतः शुचिः
tatra vahnau vasatyeva yāvaccandradivākarau || tato bhavejjalaukāśca saptajanmasvataḥ śuciḥ
There in the fire (each) dwells as long as the moon and sun (endure); then he becomes a leech, and after seven births he is purified.
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BvP 2 52.16
वाल्मीकिरुवाच ।। यथा तरुषु वृक्षत्वं सर्वत्र न जहाति च ।। तथा कृतघ्नता राजन्सर्वपापेषु वर्त्तते
vālmīkiruvāca || yathā taruṣu vṛkṣatvaṃ sarvatra na jahāti ca || tathā kṛtaghnatā rājansarvapāpeṣu varttate
Vālmīki said: Just as tree-nature does not anywhere leave trees, so, O king, does ingratitude abide in all sins.
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BvP 2 52.17
मिथ्यासाक्ष्यं यो ददाति कामात्क्रोधात्तथा भयात् ।। सभायां पाक्षिकं वक्ति स कृतघ्न इति स्मृतः
mithyāsākṣyaṃ yo dadāti kāmātkrodhāttathā bhayāt || sabhāyāṃ pākṣikaṃ vakti sa kṛtaghna iti smṛtaḥ
He who gives false testimony out of desire, out of anger, or out of fear, (and) speaks partially in the assembly — he is declared ungrateful.
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BvP 2 52.18
पुण्यमात्रं चापि राजन्यो हन्ति स कृतघ्नकः ।। सर्वत्रापि च सर्वेषां पुण्यहानौ कृतघ्नता
puṇyamātraṃ cāpi rājanyo hanti sa kṛtaghnakaḥ || sarvatrāpi ca sarveṣāṃ puṇyahānau kṛtaghnatā
And, O king, he who destroys even a mere (bit of another's) merit is an ungrateful one; everywhere and for all, ingratitude lies in the destruction of merit.
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BvP 2 52.19
मिथ्यासाक्ष्यं पाक्षिकं वा भारते वक्ति यो नृप ।। यावदिन्द्रसहस्रं च सर्पकुण्डे वसेद्ध्रुवम्
mithyāsākṣyaṃ pākṣikaṃ vā bhārate vakti yo nṛpa || yāvadindrasahasraṃ ca sarpakuṇḍe vaseddhruvam
He who in Bhārata speaks false testimony or partial (testimony), O king, surely dwells in the snake-pit for a thousand Indras (i.e. Indra-reigns).
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
BvP 2 52.21
कृकलासो भवेत्तत्र भारते सप्तजन्मसु ।। सप्तजन्मसु मण्डूकः पितृभिः सप्तभिः सह
kṛkalāso bhavettatra bhārate saptajanmasu || saptajanmasu maṇḍūkaḥ pitṛbhiḥ saptabhiḥ saha
Then he becomes a chameleon there in Bhārata for seven births, and for seven births a frog, together with seven (generations of his) ancestors.
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BvP 2 52.22
ततो भवेद्वै वृक्षश्च महारण्ये तु शाल्मलिः ।। ततो भवेन्नरो मूकस्ततः शूद्रस्ततः शुचिः
tato bhavedvai vṛkṣaśca mahāraṇye tu śālmaliḥ || tato bhavennaro mūkastataḥ śūdrastataḥ śuciḥ
Then indeed he becomes a tree, a śālmali in the great forest; then he becomes a mute man, then a śūdra, then pure.
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BvP 2 52.23
आस्तीक उवाच ।। गुर्वङ्गनानां गमने मातृगामी भवेन्नरः ।। नराणां मातृगमने प्रायश्चित्तं न विद्यते
āstīka uvāca || gurvaṅganānāṃ gamane mātṛgāmī bhavennaraḥ || narāṇāṃ mātṛgamane prāyaścittaṃ na vidyate
Āstīka said: By going in to the wives of teachers a man becomes one who has gone in to his mother; and for men who go in to their mother there is no expiation.
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BvP 2 52.24
भारते च नृपश्रेष्ट यो दोषो मातृगामिनाम् ।। ब्राह्मणीगमने चैव शूद्राणां तावदेव हि
bhārate ca nṛpaśreṣṭa yo doṣo mātṛgāminām || brāhmaṇīgamane caiva śūdrāṇāṃ tāvadeva hi
And in Bhārata, O best of kings, whatever fault belongs to those who go in to their mother, just that much (belongs) to śūdras in going in to a brahmin woman.
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BvP 2 52.25
ब्राह्मण्यास्तावदेव स्याद्दोषः शूद्रेण मैथुने ।। कन्यानां पुत्रपत्नीनां श्वश्रूणां गमने तथा
brāhmaṇyāstāvadeva syāddoṣaḥ śūdreṇa maithune || kanyānāṃ putrapatnīnāṃ śvaśrūṇāṃ gamane tathā
For a brahmin woman the fault is just that much in intercourse with a śūdra; likewise in going in to maidens, sons' wives, and mothers-in-law,
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BvP 2 52.26
सगर्भभ्रातृपत्नीना भगिनीनां तथैव च ।। दोषं वक्ष्यामि राजेन्द्र यदाह कमलोद्भवः
sagarbhabhrātṛpatnīnā bhaginīnāṃ tathaiva ca || doṣaṃ vakṣyāmi rājendra yadāha kamalodbhavaḥ
and to the wives of brothers of the same womb, and likewise to sisters — I shall state the fault, O lord of kings, as the lotus-born declared it.
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BvP 2 52.27
यः करोति महापापी चैताभिः सह मैथुनम् ।। जीवन्मृतो भवेत्सोऽपि चण्डालोऽस्पृश्य एव च
yaḥ karoti mahāpāpī caitābhiḥ saha maithunam || jīvanmṛto bhavetso'pi caṇḍālo'spṛśya eva ca
The great sinner who has intercourse with these — he becomes dead while living, a caṇḍāla, and untouchable indeed.
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BvP 2 52.28
नाधिकारो भवेत्तस्य सूर्य्यमण्डलदर्शने ।। शालग्रामं तज्जलं च तुलस्याश्च दलं जलम्
nādhikāro bhavettasya sūryyamaṇḍaladarśane || śālagrāmaṃ tajjalaṃ ca tulasyāśca dalaṃ jalam
He has no right to look upon the orb of the sun, (nor to touch) the śālagrāma and its water, and the leaf and water of the tulasī,
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BvP 2 52.29
सर्वतीर्थजलं चैव विप्रपादोदकं तथा ।। स्प्रष्टुं च नैव शक्नोति विट्तुल्यः पातकी नरः
sarvatīrthajalaṃ caiva viprapādodakaṃ tathā || spraṣṭuṃ ca naiva śaknoti viṭtulyaḥ pātakī naraḥ
and the water of all sacred fords, and likewise the water from a brahmin's feet: the sinful man, equal to excrement, is not able to touch (them).
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BvP 2 52.31
देवताः पितरो विप्रा नैव गृह्णन्ति भारते ।। भवेत्तदङ्गवातेन तीर्थमङ्गारवाहनम्
devatāḥ pitaro viprā naiva gṛhṇanti bhārate || bhavettadaṅgavātena tīrthamaṅgāravāhanam
The gods, the ancestors and the brahmins do not accept (anything from him) in Bhārata; by the wind from his body a sacred ford becomes a conveyor of coals.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
BvP 2 52.32
सप्तरात्रं ह्युपवसेद्दैवस्पर्शात्तथा द्विजः ।। भारक्रान्ता च पृथिवी तद्भारं वोढुमक्षमा
saptarātraṃ hyupavaseddaivasparśāttathā dvijaḥ || bhārakrāntā ca pṛthivī tadbhāraṃ voḍhumakṣamā
And a twice-born should fast for seven nights on account of touching him, as also (on account of touching) a god; and the earth, oppressed by the burden, is unable to bear his weight.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
BvP 2 52.33
तत्पापात्पतितो देशः कन्याविक्रयिणो यथा ।। तत्स्पर्शाच्च तदालापाच्छयनाश्रयभोजनात्
tatpāpātpatito deśaḥ kanyāvikrayiṇo yathā || tatsparśācca tadālāpācchayanāśrayabhojanāt
By his sin the region is fallen, as with one who sells his daughter; and from touching him, from conversing with him, from lying, dwelling and eating (with him),
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BvP 2 52.34
नृणां च तत्समं पापं भवत्येव न संशयः ।। कुम्भीपाके वसेत्सोऽपि यावद्वै ब्रह्मणः शतम्
nṛṇāṃ ca tatsamaṃ pāpaṃ bhavatyeva na saṃśayaḥ || kumbhīpāke vasetso'pi yāvadvai brahmaṇaḥ śatam
men incur a sin equal to that — of this there is no doubt. He too dwells in Kumbhīpāka for a hundred (lifetimes) of Brahmā.
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BvP 2 52.35
दिवानिशं भ्रमेत्तत्र चक्रावर्त्तं निरन्तरम् ।। दग्धो वाऽग्निशिखाभिश्च यमदूतैश्च ताडितः
divāniśaṃ bhramettatra cakrāvarttaṃ nirantaram || dagdho vā'gniśikhābhiśca yamadūtaiśca tāḍitaḥ
Day and night he wanders there, whirled round ceaselessly in an eddy; he is burned by the tongues of fire and beaten by Yama's messengers.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
BvP 2 52.36
एवं नित्यं महापापी भुङ्क्ते निरययातनाम् ।। विष्ठाहारश्च सर्वत्र कुम्भीपाकेऽथ पातितः
evaṃ nityaṃ mahāpāpī bhuṅkte nirayayātanām || viṣṭhāhāraśca sarvatra kumbhīpāke'tha pātitaḥ
Thus the great sinner constantly undergoes the torment of hell; everywhere he feeds on excrement, and then he is flung into Kumbhīpāka.
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BvP 2 52.37
गते प्राकृतिके घोरे महति प्रलये तथा ।। पुनः सृष्टेः समारम्भे तद्विधो वा भवेत्पुनः
gate prākṛtike ghore mahati pralaye tathā || punaḥ sṛṣṭeḥ samārambhe tadvidho vā bhavetpunaḥ
And when the terrible great dissolution of primal matter has passed, at the fresh beginning of creation again, he becomes such a one once more.
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BvP 2 52.38
षष्टिवर्षसहस्राणि विष्ठायां च कृमिर्भवेत् ।। ततो भवति चण्डालो भार्य्याहीनो नपुंसकः
ṣaṣṭivarṣasahasrāṇi viṣṭhāyāṃ ca kṛmirbhavet || tato bhavati caṇḍālo bhāryyāhīno napuṃsakaḥ
For sixty thousand years he becomes a worm in excrement; then he becomes an outcaste, wifeless, impotent.
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BvP 2 52.39
सप्तजन्मसु शुद्धश्च गलत्कुष्ठी नपुंसकः ।। ततो भवेद्ब्राह्मणश्चाप्यन्धः कुष्ठी नपुंसकः
saptajanmasu śuddhaśca galatkuṣṭhī napuṃsakaḥ || tato bhavedbrāhmaṇaścāpyandhaḥ kuṣṭhī napuṃsakaḥ
Purified through seven births, (he is) a man with dripping leprosy and impotent; then he becomes a brahmin, yet blind, leprous, and impotent.
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BvP 2 52.41
मुनय ऊचुः।। इत्येवं कथितं सर्वमस्माभिर्वो यथागमम् ।। एभिस्तुल्यो भवेद्दोषोऽप्यतिथीनां पराभवे
munaya ūcuḥ|| ityevaṃ kathitaṃ sarvamasmābhirvo yathāgamam || ebhistulyo bhaveddoṣo'pyatithīnāṃ parābhave
The sages said: Thus we have declared all this to you, according to tradition; and equal to these (sins) is the fault (incurred) in the slighting of guests.
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BvP 2 52.42
प्रणामं कुरु विप्रेन्द्रं गृहं प्रापय निश्चितम् ।। संपूज्य ब्राह्मणं यत्नाद्गृहीत्वा ब्राह्मणाशिषम्
praṇāmaṃ kuru viprendraṃ gṛhaṃ prāpaya niścitam || saṃpūjya brāhmaṇaṃ yatnādgṛhītvā brāhmaṇāśiṣam
Make obeisance, bring the best of brahmins into your house, resolved (upon it); having worshipped the brahmin with effort and received the brahmin's blessing,
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BvP 2 52.43
वनं गच्छ महाराज तपस्यां कुरु सत्वरम्।। ब्रह्मशापैर्विनिर्मुक्तः पुनरेवागमिष्यसि
vanaṃ gaccha mahārāja tapasyāṃ kuru satvaram|| brahmaśāpairvinirmuktaḥ punarevāgamiṣyasi
go to the forest, great king, and quickly perform austerity; freed from the curses of the brahmins you will come back again.
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BvP 2 52.44
इत्युक्त्वा मुनयः सर्वे ययुस्तूर्णं स्वमन्दिरम्।। सुराश्चापि च राजानो बन्धुवर्गाश्च पार्वति
ityuktvā munayaḥ sarve yayustūrṇaṃ svamandiram|| surāścāpi ca rājāno bandhuvargāśca pārvati
Having said this, all the sages went swiftly to their own dwellings, and so too the gods, the kings, and the company of kinsmen, O Pārvatī.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition