Ganesha Purana — Upasanakhanda — Chapter 76
GnP 1 76.1
अध्याय ७६ प्रारंभ : - दूता ऊचुः । गौंडे तु विषये गौडनगरेऽभूत्पुरा द्विजः । तपस्वी ज्ञानवान् प्राज्ञो देवब्राह्मण पूजकः । तस्य पुत्रोऽयमजनि जननी चास्य शाकिनी विलोकयामास सुतं नगरे प्रतिमन्दिरम् । अलब्धदर्शनस्तस्य श्वासोच्छ्वासपरायणः त्वत्तः कंटकवृक्षोऽयं पाषाणो वा मतोऽधिकः । कथं न त्यजसे प्राणान् कि स्यात्तैर्जीवितं खल निश्चेतनां परिज्ञाय बद्ध्वा पाशेऽक्षिपद् बहिः । स्वयं वेश्यागृहं गत्वा चिक्रीड भृशहर्षितः हितं चेत्कुरु मद्वाक्यं त्यक्त्वा तां स्वविवेकतः । अज्ञानाद्वा प्रमादाद्वा कृतं कर्म त्यजेद्बुधः ततो बहुगते काले बुधोऽगात्कालभेर्गृहम् । तस्मिन् स्नातुं गते दुष्टो भार्यां तस्याग्रहीत्कचे पितृहा मातृहा स्त्रीहा मद्यपी गुरूतल्पगः । तस्य संस्पर्शनादेव सचैलं स्नानमाचरेत् गजाननेति श्रुत्वैव दिव्यदेहोऽभवच्च सः । भासयंस्तेजसा सर्वमरुणो भुवनं यथा अध्याय ७७ प्रारंभ :- व्यास उवाच । अन्येनाकारि केनेदं वद तत्कौतुकं महत् । ब्रह्मोवाच । जामदग्न्येन रामेण व्रतमेतत् पुरा कृतम् अतिसुन्दर गात्रोऽसौ साक्षान्मन्मथ मन्मथ:। मातापितृवचः कर्ता विख्यातबलपौरुषः असौ यदृच्छया यत्तश्चतुरंगबलान्वितः । नीलवस्त्रधरो नील छत्रस्तादृशसैनिकः आसने मुनिनादिष्टे चतुर्भिः परिवारितः । निषसाद तदा राजा कृतवीर्यसुतो बली अनुज्ञातो गमिष्यामि ततोऽहं नगरं प्रति । मुनिरुवाच । मयाऽश्रावि महाकीर्तिस्तत राजन्यसत्तम वाक्यमाकर्ण्य तु मुनेर्नदीतीरं सुशोभनम् । मुनिः पत्नीं समाहूय वृत्तांतं तं जगाद ताम् दीपप्रभा भासुरेषु नानाव्यंजनशालिषु । सूप पायस पक्वान्न पंचामृतयुतेषु च अध्याय ७८ प्रारंभ : - क उवाच । ततो मुनिः शिष्यगणमुवाच त्वरया व्रज । आकारयितुं नृपतिं नदीतीर निवासिनम् उपविष्टेषु सर्वेषु राजानमुपवेशयत् । बुभुजुस्ते तदा वाद्ये वादिते सर्व एव हि महान् क्षुद्रस्य वाक्यं चेत् कुरूते सोपि साधुताम् । प्राप्नोति सर्वलोकेषु कीर्तिं स्फीतां समुत्कटाम् कार्या स महते स्यात्तु महद्वस्तु महद्गतम् । अरण्यवासिने तुभ्यं महद्रत्नं च नोचितम् अध्याय ७९ प्रारंभ :- मुनिरुवाच । उपकारस्त्वयाऽरम्भि साधुवृत्तानुसारिणा । आत्मघातं पुरस्कृत्वा कामधेनुं त्वमिच्छसि सैनिकाश्च ततो भीता यान्ति सर्वे दिशो दश । केनचित्ताडिता सा गौः कशाघातेन दूरतः परस्परघातहता निपेतुः शतशो नराः । भङ्क्त्वा शस्त्रैश्च शस्त्राणि मल्लयुद्धं प्रचक्रिरे दत्त्वा भूमौ वामजानुं धनूंष्याकृष्य वेगवान् । चिक्षेप शरजालं स गव्ये सैन्ये महाभुज पश्चादुवाच नृपतिं दुष्ट चांडाल किं कृतम् । अपराधं विना कस्मादावां निहतवानसि अध्याय ८० प्रारंभ : - क उवाच । रेणुका तु गते तस्मिन् शुशोच भृशविह्वला । क्व गता मम पुत्रास्ते संहारेऽस्मिन्नुपस्थिते ततः पुनर्मांतरं स रुदन्नेव समाययौ । निष्काशयामास शरानंके कृत्वा शिरोधराम् भग्नास्तेऽप्यपलन्सर्वे राजा युद्धमथाकरोत् । स च पंचशतं बाणान् वारंवारमथासृजत्
adhyāya 76 prāraṃbha : - dūtā ūcuḥ | gauṃḍe tu viṣaye gauḍanagare'bhūtpurā dvijaḥ | tapasvī jñānavān prājño devabrāhmaṇa pūjakaḥ | tasya putro'yamajani jananī cāsya śākinī vilokayāmāsa sutaṃ nagare pratimandiram | alabdhadarśanastasya śvāsocchvāsaparāyaṇaḥ tvattaḥ kaṃṭakavṛkṣo'yaṃ pāṣāṇo vā mato'dhikaḥ | kathaṃ na tyajase prāṇān ki syāttairjīvitaṃ khala niścetanāṃ parijñāya baddhvā pāśe'kṣipad bahiḥ | svayaṃ veśyāgṛhaṃ gatvā cikrīḍa bhṛśaharṣitaḥ hitaṃ cetkuru madvākyaṃ tyaktvā tāṃ svavivekataḥ | ajñānādvā pramādādvā kṛtaṃ karma tyajedbudhaḥ tato bahugate kāle budho'gātkālabhergṛham | tasmin snātuṃ gate duṣṭo bhāryāṃ tasyāgrahītkace pitṛhā mātṛhā strīhā madyapī gurūtalpagaḥ | tasya saṃsparśanādeva sacailaṃ snānamācaret gajānaneti śrutvaiva divyadeho'bhavacca saḥ | bhāsayaṃstejasā sarvamaruṇo bhuvanaṃ yathā adhyāya 77 prāraṃbha :- vyāsa uvāca | anyenākāri kenedaṃ vada tatkautukaṃ mahat | brahmovāca | jāmadagnyena rāmeṇa vratametat purā kṛtam atisundara gātro'sau sākṣānmanmatha manmatha:| mātāpitṛvacaḥ kartā vikhyātabalapauruṣaḥ asau yadṛcchayā yattaścaturaṃgabalānvitaḥ | nīlavastradharo nīla chatrastādṛśasainikaḥ āsane muninādiṣṭe caturbhiḥ parivāritaḥ | niṣasāda tadā rājā kṛtavīryasuto balī anujñāto gamiṣyāmi tato'haṃ nagaraṃ prati | muniruvāca | mayā'śrāvi mahākīrtistata rājanyasattama vākyamākarṇya tu munernadītīraṃ suśobhanam | muniḥ patnīṃ samāhūya vṛttāṃtaṃ taṃ jagāda tām dīpaprabhā bhāsureṣu nānāvyaṃjanaśāliṣu | sūpa pāyasa pakvānna paṃcāmṛtayuteṣu ca adhyāya 78 prāraṃbha : - ka uvāca | tato muniḥ śiṣyagaṇamuvāca tvarayā vraja | ākārayituṃ nṛpatiṃ nadītīra nivāsinam upaviṣṭeṣu sarveṣu rājānamupaveśayat | bubhujuste tadā vādye vādite sarva eva hi mahān kṣudrasya vākyaṃ cet kurūte sopi sādhutām | prāpnoti sarvalokeṣu kīrtiṃ sphītāṃ samutkaṭām kāryā sa mahate syāttu mahadvastu mahadgatam | araṇyavāsine tubhyaṃ mahadratnaṃ ca nocitam adhyāya 79 prāraṃbha :- muniruvāca | upakārastvayā'rambhi sādhuvṛttānusāriṇā | ātmaghātaṃ puraskṛtvā kāmadhenuṃ tvamicchasi sainikāśca tato bhītā yānti sarve diśo daśa | kenacittāḍitā sā gauḥ kaśāghātena dūrataḥ parasparaghātahatā nipetuḥ śataśo narāḥ | bhaṅktvā śastraiśca śastrāṇi mallayuddhaṃ pracakrire dattvā bhūmau vāmajānuṃ dhanūṃṣyākṛṣya vegavān | cikṣepa śarajālaṃ sa gavye sainye mahābhuja paścāduvāca nṛpatiṃ duṣṭa cāṃḍāla kiṃ kṛtam | aparādhaṃ vinā kasmādāvāṃ nihatavānasi adhyāya 80 prāraṃbha : - ka uvāca | reṇukā tu gate tasmin śuśoca bhṛśavihvalā | kva gatā mama putrāste saṃhāre'sminnupasthite tataḥ punarmāṃtaraṃ sa rudanneva samāyayau | niṣkāśayāmāsa śarānaṃke kṛtvā śirodharām bhagnāste'pyapalansarve rājā yuddhamathākarot | sa ca paṃcaśataṃ bāṇān vāraṃvāramathāsṛjat
Beginning of chapter 76: The messengers said: In the Gauḍa country, in the city of Gauḍa, there was long ago a brahmin, an ascetic, possessed of knowledge, wise, a worshipper of gods and brahmins. This man was born as his son, and his mother was a witch. She looked for her son in the city, temple by temple; not obtaining sight of him, she was reduced to (mere) breathing in and out. "A thorn-tree or a stone is reckoned better than you! Why do you not give up your life? What use is life to such as you, wretch!" Recognising that she was unconscious, he bound her with a rope and threw her outside; he himself went to the harlot's house and sported there, exceedingly delighted. "If you would do what is good for you, follow my word: leave her, by your own discernment. Whether done through ignorance or through carelessness, a wise man should abandon the deed." Then, after much time had passed, Budha went to Kālabheri's house. When he had gone to bathe, the wicked man seized his wife by the hair. A slayer of father, of mother, of a woman, a drinker of liquor, one who violates his teacher's bed — from the mere touch of such a one, one should bathe with one's clothes on. Merely on hearing "Gajānana" he became possessed of a divine body, illuminating everything with his radiance, as the dawn (illumines) the world. Beginning of chapter 77: Vyāsa said: Tell me by whom else this was performed — that great marvel. Brahmā said: This vow was formerly performed by Rāma, son of Jamadagni. He was exceedingly beautiful of body, a very Love to Love himself, a doer of his mother's and father's word, renowned for strength and manliness. He, going as he pleased, accompanied by an army of four divisions, clad in blue garments, with a blue parasol, and his soldiers likewise. On the seat indicated by the sage, surrounded by four (attendants), the mighty king, son of Kṛtavīrya, then sat down. "With your permission I shall then go back to my city." The sage said: "I have heard of your great fame, O best of royalty." But hearing the sage's words, (he went to) the lovely river bank. The sage called his wife and told her that matter — among (dishes) gleaming with lamplight, rich in various condiments, with soups, milk-rice, baked foods and the five nectars. Beginning of chapter 78: Ka said: Then the sage said to the group of pupils: "Go quickly to summon the king who is staying on the river bank." When all were seated he seated the king; then, while music was played, they all ate. If a great man carries out the word of a lowly one, he too attains goodness and gains in all the worlds a swelling, lofty fame. "That business should be (done) for a great man; a great thing belongs to a great man — a great jewel is not fitting for you, a forest-dweller." Beginning of chapter 79: The sage said: A kindness was begun by you, who follow the conduct of the good; (yet) putting self-destruction first, you desire the wish-granting cow. And the soldiers, terrified, all fled in the ten directions; that cow was struck by someone from afar with a blow of the whip. Slain by striking one another, men fell by the hundreds; having broken weapons with weapons, they engaged in wrestling. Setting his left knee on the ground and drawing his bow, the swift, mighty-armed one loosed a net of arrows into the cow's army. Afterwards he said to the king: "Wicked outcaste, what have you done? Why have you slain us two without offence?" Beginning of chapter 80: Ka said: But Reṇukā, when he had gone, grieved, utterly overcome: "Where have those sons of mine gone, now that this destruction has come upon us?" Then again he came to his mother, weeping all the while; he drew out the arrows, placing her neck and head in his lap. They too, broken, all fled; then the king made battle, and he loosed five hundred arrows again and again.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.2
तस्य पत्नी तु सावित्री सावित्रीव पतिव्रता । एकपुत्रस्नेहवशादलंकारैरलंकृतः सोऽपि कीर्ति जयं ज्ञानमायुर्दीर्घं च लब्धवान् । व्यास उवाच । रामः कथं समुत्पन्नः कस्मात् कस्यां पितामह ते शिष्यास्तं नृपं गत्वा गृह्य तत् प्रणतिं पुरा। दत्वाऽऽशीर्वचनं तस्मै मुनेराज्ञां तथाब्रुवन् भ्रान्तोऽसि नृप सत्यं त्वमप्राप्यं योऽभिवांछसि । त्रैलोक्यनाशजं पापं तव मूर्ध्नि पतिष्यति मृते भर्तरि किं कुर्यां बाणजालसमावृता । क्व गतोऽसौ महाक्रोधी रामो मे प्रियबालकः
tasya patnī tu sāvitrī sāvitrīva pativratā | ekaputrasnehavaśādalaṃkārairalaṃkṛtaḥ so'pi kīrti jayaṃ jñānamāyurdīrghaṃ ca labdhavān | vyāsa uvāca | rāmaḥ kathaṃ samutpannaḥ kasmāt kasyāṃ pitāmaha te śiṣyāstaṃ nṛpaṃ gatvā gṛhya tat praṇatiṃ purā| datvā''śīrvacanaṃ tasmai munerājñāṃ tathābruvan bhrānto'si nṛpa satyaṃ tvamaprāpyaṃ yo'bhivāṃchasi | trailokyanāśajaṃ pāpaṃ tava mūrdhni patiṣyati mṛte bhartari kiṃ kuryāṃ bāṇajālasamāvṛtā | kva gato'sau mahākrodhī rāmo me priyabālakaḥ
His wife was Sāvitrī, devoted to her husband like Sāvitrī (of old). Out of affection for an only son he was adorned with ornaments; he too obtained fame, victory, knowledge, and long life. Vyāsa said: How was Rāma born, from whom, in whom, O grandfather? Those pupils of his, going to that king, first receiving his salutation and giving him a word of blessing, then told him the sage's command. "You are truly deluded, O king, in that you desire what cannot be obtained; the sin arising from the destruction of the three worlds will fall upon your head." "With my husband dead, what shall I do, enveloped in a net of arrows? Where has that greatly wrathful Rāma, my dear boy, gone?"
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.3
अत्यंतसुंदरतरो रतिभर्तेव शोभते । तन्माता पितरौ तस्य वियोगं नेच्छतः क्षणम् एतत्सर्वं सुविस्तार्यं ब्रूहि त्वं मम पृच्छतः । ब्रह्मोवाच । श्वेतद्वीपेऽति विख्यातो जमदग्निर्महामुनिः चल राजन्नवहितो भोजनाय ससैनिकः । पात्राणि परिविष्टानि संख्यातीतानी षड्रसैः ब्रह्मोवाच । इति वाक्शरविद्धोऽसौ प्रलयानलसन्निभः । राजा बभूव रोषेण मुखादनलमुद्वमन् तस्मिन् दृष्टे मम प्राणा गमिष्यन्ति सुरालयम् । स्मृतमात्रस्तया रामो ययौ मातुस्तदाऽन्तिकम्
atyaṃtasuṃdarataro ratibharteva śobhate | tanmātā pitarau tasya viyogaṃ necchataḥ kṣaṇam etatsarvaṃ suvistāryaṃ brūhi tvaṃ mama pṛcchataḥ | brahmovāca | śvetadvīpe'ti vikhyāto jamadagnirmahāmuniḥ cala rājannavahito bhojanāya sasainikaḥ | pātrāṇi pariviṣṭāni saṃkhyātītānī ṣaḍrasaiḥ brahmovāca | iti vākśaraviddho'sau pralayānalasannibhaḥ | rājā babhūva roṣeṇa mukhādanalamudvaman tasmin dṛṣṭe mama prāṇā gamiṣyanti surālayam | smṛtamātrastayā rāmo yayau mātustadā'ntikam
He shines, exceedingly beautiful, like the husband of Rati. His mother and father do not wish separation from him even for a moment. Tell me all this at full length, since I ask you. Brahmā said: On the White Island there was the great sage Jamadagni, so renowned. "Come, O king, attentively, to the meal, with your soldiers; countless vessels have been served with the six flavours." Brahmā said: Thus pierced by the arrow of speech, that king, resembling the fire of world-dissolution, became (filled) with rage, vomiting fire from his mouth. "When he is seen, my life-breaths will go to the abode of the gods." No sooner was Rāma remembered by her than he came to his mother's side.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.4
स तु यौवनमापन्नो निजभार्यां विहाय ताम् । परदाररतो नित्यं परनिंदापरायणः मनसा सृष्टिसंहारान्निग्रहानुग्रहानपि । यः करोति त्रिकालज्ञस्ततो देवाश्चकम्पिरे क उवाच । तत उत्थाय राजाऽसौ समाहूय ससैनिकान् । सुस्नातः सर्वसैन्येन कार्तवीर्यो नृपो ययौ उवाच परमक्रुद्धो जमदग्निं मुनिं तदा। राजोवाच । न मया दुष्टवचनं कस्यापि श्रूयते शठ बाणजालचितां तां च पितरं मृतमैक्षत । कार्तवीर्येण दुष्टेन दृढबाणहतं हृदि
sa tu yauvanamāpanno nijabhāryāṃ vihāya tām | paradārarato nityaṃ paraniṃdāparāyaṇaḥ manasā sṛṣṭisaṃhārānnigrahānugrahānapi | yaḥ karoti trikālajñastato devāścakampire ka uvāca | tata utthāya rājā'sau samāhūya sasainikān | susnātaḥ sarvasainyena kārtavīryo nṛpo yayau uvāca paramakruddho jamadagniṃ muniṃ tadā| rājovāca | na mayā duṣṭavacanaṃ kasyāpi śrūyate śaṭha bāṇajālacitāṃ tāṃ ca pitaraṃ mṛtamaikṣata | kārtavīryeṇa duṣṭena dṛḍhabāṇahataṃ hṛdi
But he, having reached youth, abandoned his own wife, was constantly given to other men's wives and devoted to slandering others. He who, knowing the three times, performs by mere thought creation, destruction, restraint and favour — at that the gods trembled. Ka said: Then that king arose, summoned (his men) with their soldiers, and, well bathed, King Kārtavīrya went with all his army. Exceedingly enraged, he then spoke to the sage Jamadagni. The king said: "No abusive speech from anyone is heard by me, rogue!" And he saw her heaped with a net of arrows, and his father dead, struck hard in the heart by an arrow by the wicked Kārtavīrya.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.5
अभवत्पापनिष्ठश्च पितृवाक्यावमर्दनः । एकदा नगरे तस्मिन् वेश्या नर विमोहिनी यस्यासीत् पत्न्यपि तथा रेणुका नाम नामतः । यस्या लावण्यगुंजापि पत्न्याः कामस्य नाभवत् मुनिवेश्म ततोऽपश्यन्न दृष्टं न च वै श्रुतम् । एतादृशं त्रिलोकेषु गृहतोरण मापसा किं करोमि द्विजोऽसि त्वमिति क्षान्तं वचः कटु । क उवाच । तत उत्थाय राजाऽसौ दूतानाज्ञाप्य सत्वरम् पपात मूर्छया भूमौ वातभग्न इव द्रुमः । पितरं मातरं चैव रुरोद भृशदुःखितः
abhavatpāpaniṣṭhaśca pitṛvākyāvamardanaḥ | ekadā nagare tasmin veśyā nara vimohinī yasyāsīt patnyapi tathā reṇukā nāma nāmataḥ | yasyā lāvaṇyaguṃjāpi patnyāḥ kāmasya nābhavat muniveśma tato'paśyanna dṛṣṭaṃ na ca vai śrutam | etādṛśaṃ trilokeṣu gṛhatoraṇa māpasā kiṃ karomi dvijo'si tvamiti kṣāntaṃ vacaḥ kaṭu | ka uvāca | tata utthāya rājā'sau dūtānājñāpya satvaram papāta mūrchayā bhūmau vātabhagna iva drumaḥ | pitaraṃ mātaraṃ caiva ruroda bhṛśaduḥkhitaḥ
And he became fixed in sin, a trampler on his father's words. One day in that city there was a harlot who bewildered men. He also had a wife, Reṇukā by name, beside the loveliness of whose gunja-berry (charm?) Kāma's own was nothing. Then he saw the sage's dwelling — never seen, never even heard of: such a house with its archway... "What am I to do — you are a brahmin" — thus the harsh word was borne patiently. Ka said: Then that king arose, quickly commanded his messengers... He fell to the ground in a swoon, like a tree broken by the wind, and, exceedingly grieved, wept for his father and his mother.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.6
आगता तद्गतमना यच्चक्रेऽसौ शृणुष्व तत् । स्वालंकारान् पेटिकायां निष्कास्या स्थापयद्बलात् रतिरित्येव लोकेषु विख्याताऽभूत्ततस्तु सा । यया संमोह्यते सर्वं क्षमस्तद्वर्णने तु कः स निषिद्धो वेत्रधरैर्मुनिसंकेत कामुकैः । ते निषिद्धाः शिष्यगणैस्ततोऽगाद् भोजनालयम् मुक्त्वा कीलात् कामधेनुं शीघ्रं यान्तु ममान्तिकम् । आवेष्टयंस्तदा दूताः कामधेनुं तदाज्ञया राम उवाच । अद्यान्धकारः सर्वत्र अद्य शून्या दिशो दश । मेरुर्विना यथा पृथ्वी शक्रहीनाऽमरावती
āgatā tadgatamanā yaccakre'sau śṛṇuṣva tat | svālaṃkārān peṭikāyāṃ niṣkāsyā sthāpayadbalāt ratirityeva lokeṣu vikhyātā'bhūttatastu sā | yayā saṃmohyate sarvaṃ kṣamastadvarṇane tu kaḥ sa niṣiddho vetradharairmunisaṃketa kāmukaiḥ | te niṣiddhāḥ śiṣyagaṇaistato'gād bhojanālayam muktvā kīlāt kāmadhenuṃ śīghraṃ yāntu mamāntikam | āveṣṭayaṃstadā dūtāḥ kāmadhenuṃ tadājñayā rāma uvāca | adyāndhakāraḥ sarvatra adya śūnyā diśo daśa | merurvinā yathā pṛthvī śakrahīnā'marāvatī
She came, her mind set on him; hear what she did. Taking her own ornaments out, she forcibly placed them in a box. She then became famed in the worlds simply as "Rati," she by whom everything is bewildered — who is competent to describe her? He was stopped by the staff-bearers, who were fond of the sage's signal; they were stopped by the group of pupils, and then he went to the dining hall. "Loosing the wish-granting cow from her post, let them come quickly to me." Then the messengers, at his command, surrounded the wish-granting cow. Rāma said: Today there is darkness everywhere, today the ten directions are empty — as the earth is without Meru, as Amarāvatī without Śakra.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.7
मातापित्रोः समक्षं च पश्चाच्चौर्यं पुनश्च तान् । वेश्यायै प्रतिपाद्यैतांश्चिक्रीड सुभृशं तया यन्नेत्रशोभा संप्राप्त्यै चकोरा जलवासिनः । हरिणाश्च तपश्चेस र्वने छन्दतृणाशिनः स्थित्वा मध्ये पश्यति स्म राजाऽसौ संपदं मुनेः । अमन्यत् तदा स्वान्ते नेदृशी श्रीर्हरौ हरे फूत्कारेणैव तस्यास्ते त्यक्त्वा प्राणान्दिवं ययुः । अन्यान् क्रोधानलेनासौ राजदूतान् ददाह च नाश्रमः शोभते तद्वत् पित्रा हीनोऽयमद्य मे । त्रिलोकी गंगया हीना तद्वदाश्रम मंडली
mātāpitroḥ samakṣaṃ ca paścāccauryaṃ punaśca tān | veśyāyai pratipādyaitāṃścikrīḍa subhṛśaṃ tayā yannetraśobhā saṃprāptyai cakorā jalavāsinaḥ | hariṇāśca tapaścesa rvane chandatṛṇāśinaḥ sthitvā madhye paśyati sma rājā'sau saṃpadaṃ muneḥ | amanyat tadā svānte nedṛśī śrīrharau hare phūtkāreṇaiva tasyāste tyaktvā prāṇāndivaṃ yayuḥ | anyān krodhānalenāsau rājadūtān dadāha ca nāśramaḥ śobhate tadvat pitrā hīno'yamadya me | trilokī gaṃgayā hīnā tadvadāśrama maṃḍalī
And in the presence of his mother and father, and afterwards theft; and again, handing these over to the harlot, he sported exceedingly with her. To gain the beauty of whose eyes the cakora birds and water-dwellers, and the deer, practised austerity in the forest, eating grass at will. Standing in the midst, that king kept looking at the sage's wealth, and thought then in his heart: "Such splendour is not with Hari, nor with Hara." By his very hissing they gave up their lives and went to heaven; and with the fire of his wrath he burned the other royal messengers. "The hermitage does not shine so; today it is bereft of my father for me. As the three worlds without the Gaṅgā, so is the circle of the hermitage."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.8
हित्वेन्द्रियार्थान् सकलान् सुगंधद्रव्यसंयुतः । तदेकनिष्ठः संजातो योगी ब्रह्मपरो यथा यदास्य शोभा संप्राप्त्यै सेवते चन्द्र ईश्वरम्। अनादिनिधना देवी मूलप्रकृतिरीश्वरी पालकेऽपालके स्रष्टर्यपि ब्रह्मणि नेदृशी। ततो मुनिः पुरो भूत्वा प्रतिपात्रे न्यवेशयत् श्वासमारुतवेगेन व्योम्नि वीराः परेऽभ्रमन् । आच्छाद्य मंडलभानोर्न प्राज्ञायत किंचन न शोभते रेणुकया हीनाऽप्याश्रम मंडली। गतं भयं तु देवानां मुनयोऽद्य निरीश्वराः । यदासीत्तपसा चास्य किमयं वा गृहीष्यति
hitvendriyārthān sakalān sugaṃdhadravyasaṃyutaḥ | tadekaniṣṭhaḥ saṃjāto yogī brahmaparo yathā yadāsya śobhā saṃprāptyai sevate candra īśvaram| anādinidhanā devī mūlaprakṛtirīśvarī pālake'pālake sraṣṭaryapi brahmaṇi nedṛśī| tato muniḥ puro bhūtvā pratipātre nyaveśayat śvāsamārutavegena vyomni vīrāḥ pare'bhraman | ācchādya maṃḍalabhānorna prājñāyata kiṃcana na śobhate reṇukayā hīnā'pyāśrama maṃḍalī| gataṃ bhayaṃ tu devānāṃ munayo'dya nirīśvarāḥ | yadāsīttapasā cāsya kimayaṃ vā gṛhīṣyati
Abandoning all the objects of the senses, provided with fragrant substances, he became devoted to that one alone, like a yogin intent on brahman. She for the gaining of whose beauty the moon serves Īśvara — the goddess without beginning or end, the root nature, the sovereign lady; not in the protector, nor in the non-protector, nor even in the creator Brahmā is there such (splendour). Then the sage, coming forward, served (food) into each vessel. By the force of the wind of her breath the heroes wandered up in the sky; covering the disc of the sun, nothing at all could be discerned. "The circle of the hermitage does not shine, bereft of Reṇukā too." "The fear of the gods is gone; today the sages are without a lord." "What was (his) by austerity — will this man seize it?"
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.9
कामाग्निविह्वलश्चासीत् क्षीबो मद्यबलाद्यथा । पिता तु खेदसंपन्नः क्षुतृङभ्यां परिवर्जितः स्यामजनि रामोऽसौ विष्णुर्योगेश्वरो यथा । जमदग्नेर्महाभागात् साक्षादीश्वररूपिणः राजानुमतिमाज्ञाय पंक्तौ पंक्तौ ससैनिकान् । दापयामास पात्राणि ये बहिर्भोजिनश्च तान् दिशः सतिमिरा जाता व्योमापि न च भासते । धराकम्पः समभवद् वृक्षाः पेतुः प्रकम्पिताः एवं बहुविधाकारं चक्र आक्रंदनं तु सः । अचेष्टत भृशं रामो मत्स्यो नीरं विना यथां
kāmāgnivihvalaścāsīt kṣībo madyabalādyathā | pitā tu khedasaṃpannaḥ kṣutṛṅabhyāṃ parivarjitaḥ syāmajani rāmo'sau viṣṇuryogeśvaro yathā | jamadagnermahābhāgāt sākṣādīśvararūpiṇaḥ rājānumatimājñāya paṃktau paṃktau sasainikān | dāpayāmāsa pātrāṇi ye bahirbhojinaśca tān diśaḥ satimirā jātā vyomāpi na ca bhāsate | dharākampaḥ samabhavad vṛkṣāḥ petuḥ prakampitāḥ evaṃ bahuvidhākāraṃ cakra ākraṃdanaṃ tu saḥ | aceṣṭata bhṛśaṃ rāmo matsyo nīraṃ vinā yathāṃ
And he was distraught with the fire of desire, as if drunk from the power of liquor. But his father, filled with distress, was free of hunger and thirst. That Rāma was born, like Viṣṇu, lord of yoga, from the greatly fortunate Jamadagni, who was Īśvara himself in form. Understanding the king's assent, he had vessels given to the soldiers row by row, and to those who ate outside as well. The directions became full of darkness, and the sky too did not shine; there was an earthquake, and trees, shaken, fell. Thus in many ways he made his lamentation; Rāma writhed exceedingly, like a fish without water.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.11
निशीथे स्वप्रियां प्राह बुधः पुत्रो गतः क्व नु। विना तेन वृथा गेहं विना दीपं यथा निशि देवद्विजगुरुप्राज्ञ गोबोधिपूजने रतः । वेदवेदांगशास्त्राणां स्मृतीनामपि पाठकः अदृष्टपूर्वाण्यन्नानि स्वादुमूलफलानि च । परस्परं च पप्रच्छुः किमिदं किमिदं त्विति उड्डीयोड्डीय सा धेनुरधावत् सैन्यमेव तत् । गजवृन्दं यथा सिंहो गरुत्मानुरगानिव चक्रन्द च पुना रामो मातृदुःखेन दुःखितः । त्रैलोक्यं भस्मसात् कर्तुं या क्षमा जननी मम
niśīthe svapriyāṃ prāha budhaḥ putro gataḥ kva nu| vinā tena vṛthā gehaṃ vinā dīpaṃ yathā niśi devadvijaguruprājña gobodhipūjane rataḥ | vedavedāṃgaśāstrāṇāṃ smṛtīnāmapi pāṭhakaḥ adṛṣṭapūrvāṇyannāni svādumūlaphalāni ca | parasparaṃ ca papracchuḥ kimidaṃ kimidaṃ tviti uḍḍīyoḍḍīya sā dhenuradhāvat sainyameva tat | gajavṛndaṃ yathā siṃho garutmānuragāniva cakranda ca punā rāmo mātṛduḥkhena duḥkhitaḥ | trailokyaṃ bhasmasāt kartuṃ yā kṣamā jananī mama
At midnight Budha said to his beloved: "Where has our son gone? Without him the house is in vain, like night without a lamp" — (he who was) devoted to the worship of gods, brahmins, teachers, the wise, cows and the Bodhi (tree?), a reciter of the Vedas, the Vedāṅgas, the śāstras and the Smṛtis as well. Foods never seen before, and sweet roots and fruits — and they asked one another, "What is this? What is this?" Flying up again and again, that cow ran straight at that very army, as a lion at a herd of elephants, as Garuḍa at serpents. And again Rāma cried out, grieved with his mother's grief: "My mother, who is able to reduce the three worlds to ashes..."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.12
विना जलं वृथा वापी विनापत्यं यथाऽबला । कदा नु दर्शनं तस्य भविता प्राणरक्षकम् वाक्ये बृहस्पतिसमः क्षमया पृथिविसमः । गांभीर्येऽब्धिसमो यस्तु पित्रोर्वाक्यपरायणः आश्चर्यं मेनिरे सर्वे यामेनेत्थं कथं कृतम् । यथेष्टं भुंजते सर्वे तृप्ताश्चान्नानि तत्यजुः हाहाकारो महानासीद्वीराणां तत्र धावताम् । तानुवाच न भीः कार्या कार्तवीर्यो महाबली सा कथं पतिता भूमौ दुष्टबाण प्रपीडता । न विस्मरसि मां नित्यं क्षणं क्रीडागतं पुरा
vinā jalaṃ vṛthā vāpī vināpatyaṃ yathā'balā | kadā nu darśanaṃ tasya bhavitā prāṇarakṣakam vākye bṛhaspatisamaḥ kṣamayā pṛthivisamaḥ | gāṃbhīrye'bdhisamo yastu pitrorvākyaparāyaṇaḥ āścaryaṃ menire sarve yāmenetthaṃ kathaṃ kṛtam | yatheṣṭaṃ bhuṃjate sarve tṛptāścānnāni tatyajuḥ hāhākāro mahānāsīdvīrāṇāṃ tatra dhāvatām | tānuvāca na bhīḥ kāryā kārtavīryo mahābalī sā kathaṃ patitā bhūmau duṣṭabāṇa prapīḍatā | na vismarasi māṃ nityaṃ kṣaṇaṃ krīḍāgataṃ purā
Without water a tank is useless, as a woman without offspring. When will there be the sight of him that preserves my life? — he who was equal to Bṛhaspati in speech, equal to the earth in patience, equal to the ocean in depth, and devoted to his parents' word. All thought it a marvel: how was this done in a single watch? All ate as they wished, and, satisfied, left the food. There was a great cry of woe from the heroes running there; he said to them: "No fear need be felt — Kārtavīrya is of great might." "How has she fallen to the ground, tormented by the wicked one's arrow? You never forget me — formerly (you came) in a moment when I had gone to play."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.13
शाकिन्युवाच । क्षुधातृषा परिश्रान्ता चिन्ताशोक समन्विता । तिष्ठामि नाथ नो जाने क्व गतः प्रियबालकः पित्रोराज्ञां गृहीत्वा स निमेषारण्यमाययौ । अनेकविद्याभ्यसने मतिं कृत्वा परां स्थिराम् ते प्रक्षालनपात्राणि प्रतिपात्रे न्यवेदयन् । मुनिशिष्यांजलं चापि शलाका अपि चारवः मया ध्माते मुदा शंखे भीता यास्यति मन्दिरम् । कामधेनुः कियच्चास्ति पश्यन्तु कौतुकं मम त्यक्त्वा मां कथमद्य त्वं कुत्र वा गन्तुमुद्यता। ददासि मे पयो भूरि वस्त्राण्यन्नानि शोभने
śākinyuvāca | kṣudhātṛṣā pariśrāntā cintāśoka samanvitā | tiṣṭhāmi nātha no jāne kva gataḥ priyabālakaḥ pitrorājñāṃ gṛhītvā sa nimeṣāraṇyamāyayau | anekavidyābhyasane matiṃ kṛtvā parāṃ sthirām te prakṣālanapātrāṇi pratipātre nyavedayan | muniśiṣyāṃjalaṃ cāpi śalākā api cāravaḥ mayā dhmāte mudā śaṃkhe bhītā yāsyati mandiram | kāmadhenuḥ kiyaccāsti paśyantu kautukaṃ mama tyaktvā māṃ kathamadya tvaṃ kutra vā gantumudyatā| dadāsi me payo bhūri vastrāṇyannāni śobhane
Śākinī said: Worn out with hunger and thirst, filled with worry and grief, I stand here, lord; I do not know where my dear boy has gone. — Taking his parents' leave he went to the Nimeṣa forest, having made his mind supremely steady upon the practice of many sciences. — They set out the washing-vessels, one to each vessel, and water too for the sage's pupils, and fine tooth-sticks. — "When I blow the conch in delight she will go frightened to the house; how much of a Kāmadhenu is she?—let them see my sport!" — "How is it that today, leaving me, you are set on going, and where? You give me abundant milk, garments and food, O lovely one."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.14
यदि मे दर्शनं तस्य स्याज्जीवामि न चान्यथा । पुनश्चचाल दूर्वः स यष्टिमादाय मुष्टिना तस्मिन्गते तदा राजा कार्तवीर्यो महाबलः । यस्य प्रतापादभवद्वश्यं भूमंडलं सदा गजाश्ववृषवृन्देभ्यः शिष्याः शेषान्नमर्पयन । ततोऽन्यस्मिन् गृहे सर्वे विस्तिीर्णे कृतसंस्तरे ततो दध्मौ महाशंखं त्रैलोक्यं पूरयन् रवैः । न बिभ्यत् कामधेनुस्तां ताडयामासुरोजसा फलमूलानि चारूणि यासि त्यक्त्वा कथं नु सा । मातापितृभ्यां हीनस्य धिङ्मे जीवितमद्य मे
yadi me darśanaṃ tasya syājjīvāmi na cānyathā | punaścacāla dūrvaḥ sa yaṣṭimādāya muṣṭinā tasmingate tadā rājā kārtavīryo mahābalaḥ | yasya pratāpādabhavadvaśyaṃ bhūmaṃḍalaṃ sadā gajāśvavṛṣavṛndebhyaḥ śiṣyāḥ śeṣānnamarpayana | tato'nyasmin gṛhe sarve vistiīrṇe kṛtasaṃstare tato dadhmau mahāśaṃkhaṃ trailokyaṃ pūrayan ravaiḥ | na bibhyat kāmadhenustāṃ tāḍayāmāsurojasā phalamūlāni cārūṇi yāsi tyaktvā kathaṃ nu sā | mātāpitṛbhyāṃ hīnasya dhiṅme jīvitamadya me
"If I should have sight of him I shall live, and not otherwise." — Again Dūrva set out, taking up his staff in his fist. — When he had gone, then King Kārtavīrya of great might, by whose blazing power the circle of the earth was ever subdued... — The pupils offered the leftover food to the throngs of elephants, horses and bulls. — Then all (were lodged) in another, spacious house, with bedding spread. — Then he blew the great conch, filling the three worlds with its sounds. — The Kāmadhenu was not afraid; they beat her with all their force. — "Lovely fruits and roots—how then does she go, abandoning (them)?" — "Bereft of mother and father, fie on this life of mine today!"
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.15
यं यं पश्यति मार्गेऽस्मिंस्तं तं पृच्छति चात्मजम् । यदा श्रान्तः क्षुधाक्रान्तस्तदा भ्रान्तश्च सोऽभवत् यस्मिंल्लक्ष्मी स्थिरा विष्णोरंशभूतेऽखिलार्थदे । आजौ पंचशतं बाणान् सृजते रिपुघातकान् इक्षुद्राक्षाम्रपनस दाडिमानि बभक्षिरे । एलालवंग कर्पूर चूर्णखादिर पूगकान् यष्टिभिर्लोहनिचयैः सर्वे ते राजसेवकाः । यत्र यत्र प्रहारोऽस्याः शरीरे जायते ततः ब्रह्मोवाच । इति पुत्रवचः श्रुत्वा रेणुका भृशदुःखिता। प्रमृज्याश्रूणि पुत्रस्य जगाद भृशविह्वला
yaṃ yaṃ paśyati mārge'smiṃstaṃ taṃ pṛcchati cātmajam | yadā śrāntaḥ kṣudhākrāntastadā bhrāntaśca so'bhavat yasmiṃllakṣmī sthirā viṣṇoraṃśabhūte'khilārthade | ājau paṃcaśataṃ bāṇān sṛjate ripughātakān ikṣudrākṣāmrapanasa dāḍimāni babhakṣire | elālavaṃga karpūra cūrṇakhādira pūgakān yaṣṭibhirlohanicayaiḥ sarve te rājasevakāḥ | yatra yatra prahāro'syāḥ śarīre jāyate tataḥ brahmovāca | iti putravacaḥ śrutvā reṇukā bhṛśaduḥkhitā| pramṛjyāśrūṇi putrasya jagāda bhṛśavihvalā
Whomever he sees on this road, him he asks about his son. — Then he became weary, overcome by hunger, and confused. — In whom Lakṣmī abides fixed, he being a portion of Viṣṇu, giver of all aims... — In battle he looses five hundred arrows that slay foes. — They ate sugarcane, grapes, mangoes, jackfruit, pomegranates; cardamom, clove, camphor, powder, khadira and areca nuts. — With staves and heaps of iron, all those servants of the king... — Wherever a blow falls on her body, from that spot... — Brahmā said: Hearing thus her son's words, Reṇukā, greatly pained, wiped away her son's tears and, deeply distressed, spoke.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.16
अनिवृद्धो महाभीमो नाम्ना भीमोऽन्त्यवर्णजः । स तेन पृष्टस्तनयं तेनाप्युक्तं परं स्फुटम् इन्द्रादिवृन्दसेव्योऽसौ विख्यातबलपौरुषः । असंख्याता गजा यस्य रथवाजिपदातिगः जगृहुर्मुनिदत्तांस्ते नागवल्लीदलैर्युतान् । ततो ददावलंकारान् वासांसि च मुदा मुनिः सन्नद्धाः सर्व शस्त्राढ्या नानावीराः विनिःसृताः । शकाश्च बर्बरा आसंस्तस्या केशसमुद्भवाः अहं ते निकटे स्थास्ये न शोकं कर्तुमर्हसि । शृणु वार्तां पुरा वृत्तां राजाऽसौ कृतवीर्यजः
anivṛddho mahābhīmo nāmnā bhīmo'ntyavarṇajaḥ | sa tena pṛṣṭastanayaṃ tenāpyuktaṃ paraṃ sphuṭam indrādivṛndasevyo'sau vikhyātabalapauruṣaḥ | asaṃkhyātā gajā yasya rathavājipadātigaḥ jagṛhurmunidattāṃste nāgavallīdalairyutān | tato dadāvalaṃkārān vāsāṃsi ca mudā muniḥ sannaddhāḥ sarva śastrāḍhyā nānāvīrāḥ viniḥsṛtāḥ | śakāśca barbarā āsaṃstasyā keśasamudbhavāḥ ahaṃ te nikaṭe sthāsye na śokaṃ kartumarhasi | śṛṇu vārtāṃ purā vṛttāṃ rājā'sau kṛtavīryajaḥ
Unchecked, greatly terrible, Bhīma by name, born of the lowest class — he was asked by him (about his son), and by him too it was told most plainly. — He is one served by the hosts of Indra and the rest, of famed strength and manhood; countless are his elephants, and his chariots, horses and foot-soldiers. — They took what the sage had given, together with betel leaves. — Then the sage gladly gave ornaments and garments. — Armed and furnished with every weapon, various heroes came forth; and there were Śakas and Barbaras, sprung from her hairs. — "I shall stay near you; you ought not to grieve. Hear a matter that happened long ago: that king, the son of Kṛtavīrya..."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.17
भीम उवाच । वेश्यागृहे ते तनयो बुधोऽसौ, बुधः सुखं क्रोडति कामसक्तः । कस्यात्मजो का जननी पिता वा, वृथैव खेदं कुरुषे द्विजेंद्र यस्य निर्गमने सैन्याश्च्छादयन्ति महीतलम् । वर्षाकाले यथा मेघा धाराभिर्व्योममंडलम् तेभ्यो यथार्ह सर्वेभ्यो राज्ञेऽनर्घ्यैतराणि च । मुनिरुवाच । किं मया भोजनं देयं मुनिना वन्यवृत्तिना पटच्चराः पाददेशा देवं सर्वै प्रजज्ञिरे । नानायवन जातीया नानावीरास्तथाऽपरे मध्याह्ने सह सैन्येन प्राप्तः आश्रममंडलम्। पित्रा ते मानितः सम्यग् भोजितो बलसंयुतः
bhīma uvāca | veśyāgṛhe te tanayo budho'sau, budhaḥ sukhaṃ kroḍati kāmasaktaḥ | kasyātmajo kā jananī pitā vā, vṛthaiva khedaṃ kuruṣe dvijeṃdra yasya nirgamane sainyāścchādayanti mahītalam | varṣākāle yathā meghā dhārābhirvyomamaṃḍalam tebhyo yathārha sarvebhyo rājñe'narghyaitarāṇi ca | muniruvāca | kiṃ mayā bhojanaṃ deyaṃ muninā vanyavṛttinā paṭaccarāḥ pādadeśā devaṃ sarvai prajajñire | nānāyavana jātīyā nānāvīrāstathā'pare madhyāhne saha sainyena prāptaḥ āśramamaṃḍalam| pitrā te mānitaḥ samyag bhojito balasaṃyutaḥ
Bhīma said: That son of yours, Budha, is in a harlot's house; Budha plays happily there, given over to lust. Whose son, who the mother or the father?—vainly do you grieve, O chief of the twice-born. — At whose setting forth the armies cover the face of the earth, as in the rainy season clouds cover the vault of heaven with their streams. — To all of them as was fitting, and priceless gifts for the king. — The sage said: What food is to be given by me, a sage who lives on forest fare? — Rag-clad men were born from the feet... all... — Men of various Yavana races, and likewise other various heroes. — At midday he reached the hermitage grounds with his army; he was duly honoured by your father and fed together with his forces.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.18
दूर्व उवाच । कथं मम सुतो जातो वेश्यायां निरतो बुधः । तस्या गृहं जगामाशु दृष्टवांस्तत्र तं सुतम् यस्य कंबुस्वनं श्रुत्वा द्विषो यांति दिशो दश । यथा सिंहस्वं श्रुत्वा मत्तमातंगकोटयः अवाप्तसर्वकामाय राज्ञे ते विष्णुरूपिणे । यशोऽकारि त्रिलोके मे त्वया मद्वाक्यकारिणा वाजिवारणसंघाश्च रथिनो बलवत्तराः । ते चैव युयुधुस्तत्र कार्तवीर्यस्य सैनिकैः कामधेनोः प्रसादेन भुक्त्वाऽयाचत धेनुकाम् । तूष्णींभूते मुनौ कोपात् कामधेनुं मुमोच सः
dūrva uvāca | kathaṃ mama suto jāto veśyāyāṃ nirato budhaḥ | tasyā gṛhaṃ jagāmāśu dṛṣṭavāṃstatra taṃ sutam yasya kaṃbusvanaṃ śrutvā dviṣo yāṃti diśo daśa | yathā siṃhasvaṃ śrutvā mattamātaṃgakoṭayaḥ avāptasarvakāmāya rājñe te viṣṇurūpiṇe | yaśo'kāri triloke me tvayā madvākyakāriṇā vājivāraṇasaṃghāśca rathino balavattarāḥ | te caiva yuyudhustatra kārtavīryasya sainikaiḥ kāmadhenoḥ prasādena bhuktvā'yācata dhenukām | tūṣṇīṃbhūte munau kopāt kāmadhenuṃ mumoca saḥ
Dūrva said: How has my son Budha come to be devoted to a harlot? — He went at once to her house and saw his son there. — On hearing whose conch-note the foes flee to the ten directions, as crores of maddened elephants on hearing a lion's roar. — To the king who has attained all desires, who has the form of Viṣṇu: "Fame has been made for me in the three worlds by you, who carried out my word." — Throngs of horses and elephants, and charioteers still mightier: they fought there with Kārtavīrya's soldiers. — Having eaten by the grace of the Kāmadhenu, he asked for the cow; and when the sage kept silent, in anger he let loose (his men) upon the Kāmadhenu.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.19
उन्मत्तं मदिरासक्तं नयनं मदविह्वलम् । पिता दधार तं हस्ते रुषाशिक्षापयत्सुतम् यदा ताली पंचशतं स्वेच्छया कुरुते नृपः । तदा सनादं ब्रह्माण्डं कम्पते मुनिसत्तम जमदग्नेर्गृहे राज्ञा ससैन्येन भुजिः कृता । अतिपुण्यवतो लोके साधुशब्दः प्रयुज्यते न्यपतन् कार्तवीर्यस्य सैनिकास्तैः प्रहारिताः । अपरे मिलितास्तत्र निशि वृक्षे पतंगवत् स्पृष्टमात्रा च सा धेनुः ससर्ज बलमुत्कटम् । चतुरंग ततो युद्धमभवद्राजसैनिकैः
unmattaṃ madirāsaktaṃ nayanaṃ madavihvalam | pitā dadhāra taṃ haste ruṣāśikṣāpayatsutam yadā tālī paṃcaśataṃ svecchayā kurute nṛpaḥ | tadā sanādaṃ brahmāṇḍaṃ kampate munisattama jamadagnergṛhe rājñā sasainyena bhujiḥ kṛtā | atipuṇyavato loke sādhuśabdaḥ prayujyate nyapatan kārtavīryasya sainikāstaiḥ prahāritāḥ | apare militāstatra niśi vṛkṣe pataṃgavat spṛṣṭamātrā ca sā dhenuḥ sasarja balamutkaṭam | caturaṃga tato yuddhamabhavadrājasainikaiḥ
Him, crazed, addicted to liquor, his eye reeling with drink — the father took by the hand and in anger admonished his son. — When the king makes five hundred hand-claps at will, then, best of sages, the world-egg trembles at the sound. — In Jamadagni's house a meal was made by the king together with his army. — Of one exceedingly meritorious the word "good man" is used in the world. — Kārtavīrya's soldiers fell, struck down by them; others gathered there like moths on a tree at night. — And that cow, merely touched, sent forth a fierce force; then there was a battle of the four arms with the king's soldiers.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.21
ब्रह्मोवाच । पितृवाक्यं समाकर्ण्य रोषाविष्टो बुधः सुतः । तलप्रहारं तंडेऽस्य दत्तवान् पितुरेव सः वनानि सरितो दुर्गान् पर्वतांश्च विलोडयन् । नानामृगगणान्वीक्ष्य विनिघ्नन्नापि कांश्चन मद्वाक्यकरणे तेऽपि दूरेऽरिष्टं गतं महत् । ब्रह्मोवाच । इति वाणीं समाकर्ण्य जमदग्निसमीरिताम् एवं सुतुमुले जन्ये शस्त्रेषु निपतत्सु च । स्वीयो वा परकीयो वा न प्राज्ञायत किंचन सोऽपि भग्नो गृहं यातः कामधेनुर्दिवं गता । पुनरागत्य दुष्टोऽसौ बाणेनैकेन वक्षसि
brahmovāca | pitṛvākyaṃ samākarṇya roṣāviṣṭo budhaḥ sutaḥ | talaprahāraṃ taṃḍe'sya dattavān pitureva saḥ vanāni sarito durgān parvatāṃśca viloḍayan | nānāmṛgagaṇānvīkṣya vinighnannāpi kāṃścana madvākyakaraṇe te'pi dūre'riṣṭaṃ gataṃ mahat | brahmovāca | iti vāṇīṃ samākarṇya jamadagnisamīritām evaṃ sutumule janye śastreṣu nipatatsu ca | svīyo vā parakīyo vā na prājñāyata kiṃcana so'pi bhagno gṛhaṃ yātaḥ kāmadhenurdivaṃ gatā | punarāgatya duṣṭo'sau bāṇenaikena vakṣasi
Brahmā said: Hearing his father's words, the son Budha, filled with fury, struck his own father with the flat of his hand on the cheek. — Ranging through forests, rivers, strongholds and mountains, seeing many herds of deer and even killing some. — "In your carrying out my word, a great calamity has gone far off." — Brahmā said: Hearing this speech uttered by Jamadagni... — Thus, in the tumultuous battle, with weapons falling, nothing was known, whether one's own man or another's. — He too, broken, went home; the Kāmadhenu went to heaven. — Coming back again, that wicked one, with a single arrow in the breast...
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.22
उक्तवान् कृमिकीटादी साधारणमुखे कथम् । कृतवानसि मे विघ्नं क्रीडाकाले नराधम ततः सहयाद्रिशिखरेऽपश्यदाश्रममुत्तमम् । यथा कैलासशिखरे गिरिशालयमुत्तमम् पप्रच्छ राजा तं तत्र विस्मयाविष्टमानसः । राजोवाच । नादर्शि प्रथमं किंचिदिदं किं मायया कृतम् रजसाच्छादिते सूर्ये जघ्नुरेवं परस्परम् । कोलाहलो महानासीद् हन्यतां हन्यतामिति जघान पितरं कोपादेक विंशति सायकैः । अपराधं विना मां च ताडयित्वा गतः खलः
uktavān kṛmikīṭādī sādhāraṇamukhe katham | kṛtavānasi me vighnaṃ krīḍākāle narādhama tataḥ sahayādriśikhare'paśyadāśramamuttamam | yathā kailāsaśikhare giriśālayamuttamam papraccha rājā taṃ tatra vismayāviṣṭamānasaḥ | rājovāca | nādarśi prathamaṃ kiṃcididaṃ kiṃ māyayā kṛtam rajasācchādite sūrye jaghnurevaṃ parasparam | kolāhalo mahānāsīd hanyatāṃ hanyatāmiti jaghāna pitaraṃ kopādeka viṃśati sāyakaiḥ | aparādhaṃ vinā māṃ ca tāḍayitvā gataḥ khalaḥ
He said: "Worms and insects and the like—how, in a common mouth...? You have made an obstruction for me at my time of play, O basest of men." — Then on the peak of the Sahya mountain he saw an excellent hermitage, like the excellent abode of Śiva on Kailāsa's peak. — The king, his mind seized with wonder, asked him there. — The king said: Nothing of this was seen at first; has this been made by magic? — With the sun veiled by dust they kept killing one another; a great uproar arose, "Kill! Kill!" — In anger he struck his father with twenty-one arrows. — "Without any offence on my part the villain struck me too, and went away."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.23
अकस्मात्काकस्य शकृत पतितं मयि वा कथम् । पुनर्लत्ताप्रहारेण प्राणांस्तस्य गृहीतवान् अपृच्छत् सेवकान् राजा कस्येदमुत्तमं स्थलम् तपः प्रभावाद्वाऽकारि सत्यं मे वद सुव्रत । मुनिरुवाच । अनृतं नोक्तपूर्वं मे परिहासेऽपि वा नृप हेषितैर्बृंहितैः क्ष्वेडैर्निबिडो रथनेमिभिः । मृदंग ताल वेणूनां भेरीणां निनदैरपि तस्मात्त्वयाऽद्य दुष्टस्य नाशः शीघ्रं विधीयताम् । एकविंशति वारं च कुरु निःक्षत्रियां धराम्
akasmātkākasya śakṛta patitaṃ mayi vā katham | punarlattāprahāreṇa prāṇāṃstasya gṛhītavān apṛcchat sevakān rājā kasyedamuttamaṃ sthalam tapaḥ prabhāvādvā'kāri satyaṃ me vada suvrata | muniruvāca | anṛtaṃ noktapūrvaṃ me parihāse'pi vā nṛpa heṣitairbṛṃhitaiḥ kṣveḍairnibiḍo rathanemibhiḥ | mṛdaṃga tāla veṇūnāṃ bherīṇāṃ ninadairapi tasmāttvayā'dya duṣṭasya nāśaḥ śīghraṃ vidhīyatām | ekaviṃśati vāraṃ ca kuru niḥkṣatriyāṃ dharām
"How is it that all at once a crow's droppings have fallen on me?" — Again, with a kick, he took his life. — The king asked the servants: whose is this excellent place? — "Or was it made by the power of austerity? Tell me the truth, O man of good vows." — The sage said: Falsehood has never before been spoken by me, O king, not even in jest. — Thick with neighings, trumpetings and snortings, and with chariot-rims, and with the sounds of drums, cymbals, flutes and kettledrums too... — "Therefore let the destruction of that wicked one be swiftly wrought by you; and twenty-one times make the earth free of kṣatriyas."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.24
पित्रा प्राणेशु त्यक्तेषु हरेश्वरेति सोऽवदत् । ननन्द स सुतः पादे बद्ध्वा तं दूरतोऽक्षिपत् भृत्य उवाच । जमदग्निरिति ख्यातः साक्षात्सूर्य इवापरः । मुनिरास्ते महाभाग शापानुग्रहकारकः अतः सत्यं ब्रवीमि त्वां कामधेन्वाऽखिलं कृतम् । ब्रह्मोवाच । कुमतिस्तस्य भवति यस्य दैवमदक्षिणम् एवं गव्यैः कार्तवीर्यैरथ्यश्वगजपत्तिभिः । अभवत् सुमहद् युद्धं भूतराक्षसभीतिदम् एकविंशति बाणा मे देहे तेन यतोऽर्पिताः ।• अन्यदेकं वदे पुत्र तत्कुरुष्व वचो मम
pitrā prāṇeśu tyakteṣu hareśvareti so'vadat | nananda sa sutaḥ pāde baddhvā taṃ dūrato'kṣipat bhṛtya uvāca | jamadagniriti khyātaḥ sākṣātsūrya ivāparaḥ | munirāste mahābhāga śāpānugrahakārakaḥ ataḥ satyaṃ bravīmi tvāṃ kāmadhenvā'khilaṃ kṛtam | brahmovāca | kumatistasya bhavati yasya daivamadakṣiṇam evaṃ gavyaiḥ kārtavīryairathyaśvagajapattibhiḥ | abhavat sumahad yuddhaṃ bhūtarākṣasabhītidam ekaviṃśati bāṇā me dehe tena yato'rpitāḥ |• anyadekaṃ vade putra tatkuruṣva vaco mama
When his father had given up his life, he said, "Hara! Īśvara!"; that son rejoiced, bound him by the foot and flung him far away. — The servant said: He is renowned as Jamadagni, like a second sun in visible form; that sage dwells here, O greatly fortunate one, who works both curse and blessing. — "Therefore I tell you truly: all this was done by the Kāmadhenu." — Brahmā said: Bad judgement comes to him whose fate is unfavourable. — Thus, between the cow's (host) and Kārtavīrya's chariots, horses, elephants and foot, there arose a mighty battle, terrifying to spirits and demons. — "Since twenty-one arrows have been planted by him in my body... I tell you one other thing, son: do that word of mine."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.25
मधु पीत्वा पुना रेमे वेश्यया स यथेच्छकम् । प्रातर्जगाम स्वगृहं ददर्श जननी च तम् यस्य दर्शनतः पापकोटयो यान्ति संक्षयम् । इच्छा चेत्तम गन्तव्यं दर्शनं ते भविष्यति अनिष्टं बलवद्भावि दुष्टग्रहकृतं मुने। भुक्त्वा तृप्तोऽपि राजाऽसौ सम्यक् सबलवाहनः पक्षिजम्बूकसुखदं वीरपत्नी भयप्रदम् । केषाञ्चिज्जानुनी भग्ने केषांचिच्च शिरांसि च संस्कारं कुरु नौ तत्र यत्र कोऽपि न दाहिताः । दत्तात्रेयं मुनिवरमाकार्य सर्व वेदिनम्
madhu pītvā punā reme veśyayā sa yathecchakam | prātarjagāma svagṛhaṃ dadarśa jananī ca tam yasya darśanataḥ pāpakoṭayo yānti saṃkṣayam | icchā cettama gantavyaṃ darśanaṃ te bhaviṣyati aniṣṭaṃ balavadbhāvi duṣṭagrahakṛtaṃ mune| bhuktvā tṛpto'pi rājā'sau samyak sabalavāhanaḥ pakṣijambūkasukhadaṃ vīrapatnī bhayapradam | keṣāñcijjānunī bhagne keṣāṃcicca śirāṃsi ca saṃskāraṃ kuru nau tatra yatra ko'pi na dāhitāḥ | dattātreyaṃ munivaramākārya sarva vedinam
Having drunk wine he again took his pleasure with the harlot as he wished; in the morning he went to his own house, and his mother saw him. — By the sight of whom crores of sins go to destruction. — "If you wish to go, you shall have sight of him." — "A strong misfortune, wrought by evil planets, is coming, O sage." — Though that king had eaten and was satisfied, with his forces and mounts... — ...giving joy to birds and jackals, giving terror to heroes' wives; of some the knees were broken, and of some the heads. — "Perform the funeral rites for us two there, where no one has been cremated, summoning the best of sages, Dattātreya, who knows all things."
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GnP 1 76.26
आलिलिंग सुतं हर्षात् स्नेहस्नुत पयोधरा । बभाण क्व गताश्चासि क्व स्थितः किं कृतं त्वया तवप्रसादात् सर्वेषामुपकारो भविष्यति । ब्रह्मोवाच । इति तद्वचनं श्रुत्वा गमनायोद्यतो नृपः आदाने कामधेनोः स मतिं चक्रेऽब्रवीदिदम् । राजोवाच । मुनीनां शांतचित्तानां कंदमूलफलाशिनाम् खड्गखेटकभल्लांनां शराणां धनुषामपि । भग्नानां न च संख्याऽस्ति वीराणां रथिनापि कुरु कर्मान्तरं नौ त्वं त्रयोदशदिनावधि । तदैव गतिमाप्स्यावो नान्योवक्ताऽस्ति तादृशः
āliliṃga sutaṃ harṣāt snehasnuta payodharā | babhāṇa kva gatāścāsi kva sthitaḥ kiṃ kṛtaṃ tvayā tavaprasādāt sarveṣāmupakāro bhaviṣyati | brahmovāca | iti tadvacanaṃ śrutvā gamanāyodyato nṛpaḥ ādāne kāmadhenoḥ sa matiṃ cakre'bravīdidam | rājovāca | munīnāṃ śāṃtacittānāṃ kaṃdamūlaphalāśinām khaḍgakheṭakabhallāṃnāṃ śarāṇāṃ dhanuṣāmapi | bhagnānāṃ na ca saṃkhyā'sti vīrāṇāṃ rathināpi kuru karmāntaraṃ nau tvaṃ trayodaśadināvadhi | tadaiva gatimāpsyāvo nānyovaktā'sti tādṛśaḥ
She embraced her son in joy, her breasts flowing with milk out of affection, and said: Where have you gone, where did you stay, what have you done? — "By your favour there will be benefit for all." — Brahmā said: Hearing that speech of his, the king made ready to go; he set his mind on taking the Kāmadhenu, and said this. — The king said: Of sages whose minds are at peace, who eat bulbs, roots and fruits... — Of swords, shields, spears, arrows and bows shattered there was no counting, nor of the heroes and charioteers. — "Perform for us two some other rite up to the thirteenth day; only then shall we attain our course—there is no other who can speak as he can."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.27
वद मे विस्तराद्वत्स पिता ते दुःखितो भृशम् । अहं चापि निराहारा निर्जला निशि जाग्रती न्यषेधयत् सर्वबलं श्रेष्ठानादाय तत् क्षणात् । ययौ तं मुनिशार्दूलं जमदग्निं तपोनिधिम् मनसा सृष्टिसंहार कर्तृणामस्पृहावताम । जितन्द्रियाणां विज्ञानां नेक्षे धेन्वा प्रयोजनम् प्रपेतुः कार्तवीर्यस्य शेषा ये सैनिकास्तदा। पृष्ठलग्ना ययुर्गव्या हसन्तो न च जघ्निरे इत्युक्त्वा रेणुका देहं त्यक्त्वा धामाप दुर्गमम्। रामस्तत्सर्वमकरोत्तयादिष्टं महामनाः
vada me vistarādvatsa pitā te duḥkhito bhṛśam | ahaṃ cāpi nirāhārā nirjalā niśi jāgratī nyaṣedhayat sarvabalaṃ śreṣṭhānādāya tat kṣaṇāt | yayau taṃ muniśārdūlaṃ jamadagniṃ taponidhim manasā sṛṣṭisaṃhāra kartṛṇāmaspṛhāvatāma | jitandriyāṇāṃ vijñānāṃ nekṣe dhenvā prayojanam prapetuḥ kārtavīryasya śeṣā ye sainikāstadā| pṛṣṭhalagnā yayurgavyā hasanto na ca jaghnire ityuktvā reṇukā dehaṃ tyaktvā dhāmāpa durgamam| rāmastatsarvamakarottayādiṣṭaṃ mahāmanāḥ
Tell me in full, child: your father is greatly grieved, and I too have been without food and without water, lying awake through the night. — He held back the whole army, and taking only the chief men, at that very moment he went to that tiger among sages, Jamadagni, the treasury of austerity. — "Of those who by mere thought create and destroy, who are without craving, who have conquered their senses, who are wise—I see no use for a cow." — Then those soldiers of Kārtavīrya who were left fled away; the cow's (host) went clinging to their backs, laughing, and did not kill them. — Having said this, Reṇukā abandoned her body and reached the hard-won abode; and great-minded Rāma did all that she had enjoined.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.28
प्रतीक्षमाणा वत्स त्वां पिताऽन्वेष्टुं गतश्चिरात् । गच्छ त्वं पितरं द्रष्टुमित्युवाच पुनःपुनः ददर्श तं कुशासीनं ज्वलन्तमिव पावकम् । प्रणनाम स साष्टांगं ते सर्वे सहयायिनः वन्यमारुत भक्ष्याणां मोक्षसाधनकारिणाम् । वेदाभ्यसनशीलानां सम्पदा किं प्रयोजनम् निनिन्दुर्मुनिना किं वोऽनिष्टं कृतमितीह ते । पूर्वदोषप्रसंगेन राज्ञो जाता सुदुर्मतिः
pratīkṣamāṇā vatsa tvāṃ pitā'nveṣṭuṃ gataścirāt | gaccha tvaṃ pitaraṃ draṣṭumityuvāca punaḥpunaḥ dadarśa taṃ kuśāsīnaṃ jvalantamiva pāvakam | praṇanāma sa sāṣṭāṃgaṃ te sarve sahayāyinaḥ vanyamāruta bhakṣyāṇāṃ mokṣasādhanakāriṇām | vedābhyasanaśīlānāṃ sampadā kiṃ prayojanam ninindurmuninā kiṃ vo'niṣṭaṃ kṛtamitīha te | pūrvadoṣaprasaṃgena rājño jātā sudurmatiḥ
Waiting for you, child, your father went long since to search for you; "Go you to see your father"—so she said again and again. — He saw him seated on kuśa grass, blazing like fire; he made prostration with the eight limbs, and so did all those who had come with him. — "Of those whose food is forest produce and air, who work the means of liberation, who are given to the study of the Vedas—what use is wealth?" — They reproached him: "What harm has been done to you by the sage?" — Through the working of a former fault, a very evil intent arose in the king.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.29
तयाज्ञप्तमिति क्रोधाच्छुष्ककाष्ठेन तां सुतः । ताडयामास शिरसि पतिता सा धरातले नानाविशालशालासु कुंजवृक्षावलीषु च। निषेदुः सैनिकास्ते तु राजा तस्थौ मुनेः परः शास्त्रपाठनशीलांना धर्मशास्त्रार्थ वेदिनाम् । योगाभ्यासरतानां च कामधेनोः प्रयोजनम् एवं प्रभग्ने सैन्ये स उत्तस्थौ कृतवीर्यजः । हस्तयोर्जगृहे पंच शतं बाणान् धनूंषि च
tayājñaptamiti krodhācchuṣkakāṣṭhena tāṃ sutaḥ | tāḍayāmāsa śirasi patitā sā dharātale nānāviśālaśālāsu kuṃjavṛkṣāvalīṣu ca| niṣeduḥ sainikāste tu rājā tasthau muneḥ paraḥ śāstrapāṭhanaśīlāṃnā dharmaśāstrārtha vedinām | yogābhyāsaratānāṃ ca kāmadhenoḥ prayojanam evaṃ prabhagne sainye sa uttasthau kṛtavīryajaḥ | hastayorjagṛhe paṃca śataṃ bāṇān dhanūṃṣi ca
Thus commanded by her, the son in anger struck her on the head with a dry stick, and she fell to the ground. — In various wide halls and in rows of bower-trees those soldiers sat down, but the king stood facing the sage. — "Of those given to reciting the scriptures, who know the meaning of the dharma-śāstras, and who are devoted to the practice of yoga—what use is the Kāmadhenu?" — When the army was thus broken, the son of Kṛtavīrya rose up, and took in his two hands five hundred arrows and bows.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.31
ददहुस्ते जनाः सन्तो दंपती स्वस्वकाष्ठतः । न शास्ति राजा दंड्यं तं ब्राह्मणत्वाद् द्विजाधमम् अपूजयत् तान्सर्वान् पाद्यार्घ्यविष्टरादिभिः । स मुनिः प्रददौ गाश्च शिष्यैः सर्वानपूजयत् तस्माद्देया कामधेनुं मम ब्रह्मन् मुदा त्वया । मयि स्थिता तवैवास्ति चेतसि त्विति धार्यताम् फलहीनमभूत्तस्य शरजालं नृपस्य तत् । अनीतेश्चरितं तद्वद् वन्ध्यायाः सुरतं यथा
dadahuste janāḥ santo daṃpatī svasvakāṣṭhataḥ | na śāsti rājā daṃḍyaṃ taṃ brāhmaṇatvād dvijādhamam apūjayat tānsarvān pādyārghyaviṣṭarādibhiḥ | sa muniḥ pradadau gāśca śiṣyaiḥ sarvānapūjayat tasmāddeyā kāmadhenuṃ mama brahman mudā tvayā | mayi sthitā tavaivāsti cetasi tviti dhāryatām phalahīnamabhūttasya śarajālaṃ nṛpasya tat | anīteścaritaṃ tadvad vandhyāyāḥ surataṃ yathā
Good people burned them, the husband and wife, each from his own wood. — The king does not punish that lowest of the twice-born, though deserving punishment, because of his brahminhood. — He honoured them all with water for the feet, with arghya, with seats and the rest; that sage gave cows, and with his pupils honoured them all. — "Therefore, brahmin, the Kāmadhenu is to be gladly given by you to me." — "She abides with me, but she is in your mind alone—let it be held so." — That net of arrows of the king's became fruitless: the conduct of an unrighteous man is like the lovemaking of a barren woman.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.32
पुनर्गृहागतं तं तु पत्नीवाक्यं शनैर्जगौ । सावित्र्युवाच । प्राणनाथ वदाम्येकं तच्छृणुष्व महामते नानासरोवरजले निर्मले चारुशीतले । अमज्जन्त तदा सर्वे सैनिका मृगयार्दिताः मर्यादा रक्ष तां ब्रह्मन्नुक्तमेवं पुरस्तव । नो चेद्राज्ञां किमग्राहयं लोकेषु बलशालिनाम् पुनःपुनर्जहौ बाणांस्तावतो राजसत्तम । कामधेनोर्न चैकोऽपि वीरो भग्नोऽभवत्तदा
punargṛhāgataṃ taṃ tu patnīvākyaṃ śanairjagau | sāvitryuvāca | prāṇanātha vadāmyekaṃ tacchṛṇuṣva mahāmate nānāsarovarajale nirmale cāruśītale | amajjanta tadā sarve sainikā mṛgayārditāḥ maryādā rakṣa tāṃ brahmannuktamevaṃ purastava | no cedrājñāṃ kimagrāhayaṃ lokeṣu balaśālinām punaḥpunarjahau bāṇāṃstāvato rājasattama | kāmadhenorna caiko'pi vīro bhagno'bhavattadā
Again, when he had come home, his wife softly spoke her words to him. — Sāvitrī said: Lord of my life, I say one thing; hear it, O great-minded one. — In the clear, lovely, cool waters of various lakes all the soldiers, distressed by the hunt, then plunged. — "Keep to that limit, brahmin; thus was it told to you before. Otherwise, what would kings, mighty among men, not seize?" — Again and again he loosed just so many arrows, O best of kings; yet not one of the Kāmadhenu's warriors was broken then.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.33
अतिख्यातेऽतिविमले वर्णे जन्म भवादृशाम् । आचारश्चान्यथा दुष्टस्त्यक्तव्यः स विवेकतः शृण्वन्वेदनिनादांश्च शास्त्रशब्दांश्च पुष्कलान् । अभितो वादशब्दांश्च तच्छिष्यैः समुदीरितान् स्वराष्ट्रे परराष्ट्रं वा चतुरंगबलैः सह । ब्रह्मोवाच । श्रुत्वैवं वचनं तस्य कार्तवीर्यस्य दुर्मतेः शरजाले वृथा याते संतप्तोऽभून्नृपस्तदा । क्व गतं मम सामर्थ्यमिति चिन्तातुरोऽभवत्
atikhyāte'tivimale varṇe janma bhavādṛśām | ācāraścānyathā duṣṭastyaktavyaḥ sa vivekataḥ śṛṇvanvedaninādāṃśca śāstraśabdāṃśca puṣkalān | abhito vādaśabdāṃśca tacchiṣyaiḥ samudīritān svarāṣṭre pararāṣṭraṃ vā caturaṃgabalaiḥ saha | brahmovāca | śrutvaivaṃ vacanaṃ tasya kārtavīryasya durmateḥ śarajāle vṛthā yāte saṃtapto'bhūnnṛpastadā | kva gataṃ mama sāmarthyamiti cintāturo'bhavat
The birth of such as you is in a most renowned, most spotless class; conduct that is otherwise is corrupt, and is to be given up through discernment. — Hearing the resounding of the Vedas and abundant recitations of the scriptures, and all around the sounds of disputation raised by his pupils... — in one's own realm or in another's, together with the four-limbed forces. — Brahmā said: Hearing this speech of that evil-minded Kārtavīrya... — When his net of arrows had gone for nothing, the king was then sore afflicted, and grew sick with the thought, "Where has my power gone?"
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.34
इहलोके तु तत्कार्यं येन सौख्यं परे भवेत। पूर्वे वयसि तत्कार्यं येन शं वार्धके भवेत् अब्रवीन्मुनिमुख्यं तं राजा राजीवलोचनः। अद्य मे पितरौ धन्यौ जन्म ज्ञानं तथा तपः प्रतिजज्वाल रोषेण जमदग्निर्महामुनिः। सर्पिषा बहुलेनैव जातवेदा यथा द्विजः व्याकुले न प्रहर्तव्यमिति सर्वं ययुर्दिवम् । कामधेनुर्मुदा युक्ता किं युद्धं लघुना सह
ihaloke tu tatkāryaṃ yena saukhyaṃ pare bhaveta| pūrve vayasi tatkāryaṃ yena śaṃ vārdhake bhavet abravīnmunimukhyaṃ taṃ rājā rājīvalocanaḥ| adya me pitarau dhanyau janma jñānaṃ tathā tapaḥ pratijajvāla roṣeṇa jamadagnirmahāmuniḥ| sarpiṣā bahulenaiva jātavedā yathā dvijaḥ vyākule na prahartavyamiti sarvaṃ yayurdivam | kāmadhenurmudā yuktā kiṃ yuddhaṃ laghunā saha
In this world one should do that by which there will be happiness in the next; in one's earlier years one should do that by which there will be welfare in old age. — The lotus-eyed king said to that foremost of sages: Today my parents are blessed, and my birth, my knowledge and my austerity. — Jamadagni the great sage flared up with rage, as the fire, the twice-born, does with abundant ghee. — "One must not strike a man in confusion"—so saying, they all went to heaven. — The Kāmadhenu was filled with joy: what battle is there with a weakling?
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.35
अष्टमासेषु तत्कुर्याद्येन वर्षासु शं भवेत् । दिवसे कर्म तत्कार्यं येन रात्रौ सुखं भवेत् पुण्यवृक्षोऽद्य फलितो यज्जातं तव दर्शनम् । अद्य मे संपदो धन्याः कुल धन्यं यशोऽपि मे उवाचारक्तनयनः शिक्षयन्निव भूमिपम् । मुनिरुवाच । साधुः शुद्धी महान् राजा प्रार्थितां भोजनाय हि गतायां कामधेनौ स कार्तवीर्यो मुनिं ययौ। रोषेणोवाच ते ब्रह्मन् कापट्यं विदितं मया
aṣṭamāseṣu tatkuryādyena varṣāsu śaṃ bhavet | divase karma tatkāryaṃ yena rātrau sukhaṃ bhavet puṇyavṛkṣo'dya phalito yajjātaṃ tava darśanam | adya me saṃpado dhanyāḥ kula dhanyaṃ yaśo'pi me uvācāraktanayanaḥ śikṣayanniva bhūmipam | muniruvāca | sādhuḥ śuddhī mahān rājā prārthitāṃ bhojanāya hi gatāyāṃ kāmadhenau sa kārtavīryo muniṃ yayau| roṣeṇovāca te brahman kāpaṭyaṃ viditaṃ mayā
During the eight (dry) months one should do that by which there will be well-being in the rainy season; by day one should do that work by which there will be comfort at night. — Today the tree of merit has borne fruit, in that the sight of you has come about; today my possessions are blessed, my family blessed, and my renown too. — With reddened eyes he spoke, as if instructing the king. The sage said: (He is) a good man, pure, a great king... for she had been asked (to provide) for the meal. When Kāmadhenu had gone, that Kārtavīrya went to the sage and said in anger: "Brahmin, your fraud is known to me."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.36
पितुः प्रितत्वाद्राजाऽपि ब्राह्मणत्वात् क्षमत्यसौ । सर्वावयवसंपूर्णां सुन्दरामनुसारिणीम् परब्रह्मेति यत् प्रोक्तं तदेव त्वं न संशयः । आतिथ्यं तव दृष्ट्वैवं परितुष्टं मनो मम कौटिल्यं तव न ज्ञातं बकस्येव हृदि स्थितम् । यथा वा कोकिला काक बालं पुष्णाति मायया न स विप्रोऽभि मन्तव्यो यस्य स्यात्कपटं हृदि । इत्येकं बाणमादाय विव्याध द्विजपुंगवम्
pituḥ pritatvādrājā'pi brāhmaṇatvāt kṣamatyasau | sarvāvayavasaṃpūrṇāṃ sundarāmanusāriṇīm parabrahmeti yat proktaṃ tadeva tvaṃ na saṃśayaḥ | ātithyaṃ tava dṛṣṭvaivaṃ parituṣṭaṃ mano mama kauṭilyaṃ tava na jñātaṃ bakasyeva hṛdi sthitam | yathā vā kokilā kāka bālaṃ puṣṇāti māyayā na sa vipro'bhi mantavyo yasya syātkapaṭaṃ hṛdi | ityekaṃ bāṇamādāya vivyādha dvijapuṃgavam
Out of affection for (his) father, and because of (the other's) brahmin-hood, the king too forgives him. — her, complete in every limb, beautiful, compliant. — What is declared to be the supreme Brahman, that very thing you are, without doubt; seeing your hospitality thus, my mind is wholly satisfied. — Your crookedness was not recognized, lodged in the heart like the crane's; or as a cuckoo rears the crow's young by deceit. He in whose heart there is deceit is not to be regarded as a brahmin — saying this, he took a single arrow and pierced that bull among the twice-born.
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GnP 1 76.37
त्यक्वा माम् धर्मपत्नीं त्वं वेश्यायां निरतः कथम् । लोको निन्दति सर्वत्र भयात्त्वां न वदत्यसौ इति श्रुत्वा तु तद्ब्राह्मीं स्मयन्निव प्रसन्नधीः । कोऽसि कस्यासि किं नाम किं कार्यं तव वर्तते अन्ते तत् काकभावेन भक्ष्याभक्ष्यरतिं व्रजेत् । अहमेवाभवं भ्रान्तो य इमां राजमित्रताम् लग्ने हृदि महाबाणे प्राणत्यागं चकार सः। रेणुका तं नृपं प्राह ब्रह्महत्या वृथा कृता।
tyakvā mām dharmapatnīṃ tvaṃ veśyāyāṃ nirataḥ katham | loko nindati sarvatra bhayāttvāṃ na vadatyasau iti śrutvā tu tadbrāhmīṃ smayanniva prasannadhīḥ | ko'si kasyāsi kiṃ nāma kiṃ kāryaṃ tava vartate ante tat kākabhāvena bhakṣyābhakṣyaratiṃ vrajet | ahamevābhavaṃ bhrānto ya imāṃ rājamitratām lagne hṛdi mahābāṇe prāṇatyāgaṃ cakāra saḥ| reṇukā taṃ nṛpaṃ prāha brahmahatyā vṛthā kṛtā|
Abandoning me, your lawful wife, how is it that you are attached to a harlot? Everywhere people censure (you); out of fear they do not say it to you. — Hearing that brahmin woman's speech, as if smiling, with a serene mind: Who are you, whose are you, what is your name, what business have you? — In the end, with the nature of a crow, he would take pleasure in what may and may not be eaten alike. It is I myself who was deluded, I who (made) this friendship with the king. — When the great arrow had lodged in his heart, he gave up his life. Reṇukā said to that king: "You have committed the murder of a brahmin to no purpose."
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GnP 1 76.38
स मां जनः प्रतिब्रूते पतिस्ते कीदृशः शुभे । लज्जयाऽधोमुखी प्राणांस्त्यक्तुमीहे तदैव च इति तं परिपप्रच्छ जानन्नपि मुनिस्तदा । राजोवाच । राज्ञां स्वकार्यं कर्तृणां भवादृश निरीक्षणात् न दृष्टां न श्रुतां लोके नानुभूतां च केनचित् स ऊचे रक्तनयनः क्रोधाविष्टो नृपस्तु ताम् । तूष्णीं तिष्ठ न चेद् हन्मि त्वामपीह मुनिप्रिये
sa māṃ janaḥ pratibrūte patiste kīdṛśaḥ śubhe | lajjayā'dhomukhī prāṇāṃstyaktumīhe tadaiva ca iti taṃ paripapraccha jānannapi munistadā | rājovāca | rājñāṃ svakāryaṃ kartṛṇāṃ bhavādṛśa nirīkṣaṇāt na dṛṣṭāṃ na śrutāṃ loke nānubhūtāṃ ca kenacit sa ūce raktanayanaḥ krodhāviṣṭo nṛpastu tām | tūṣṇīṃ tiṣṭha na ced hanmi tvāmapīha munipriye
People say back to me, "What sort of a husband is yours, good lady?" — with my face downcast from shame, and at that very moment I wish to give up my life. — Thus the sage then questioned him, though he knew (already). The king said: For kings who attend to their own affairs, from beholding one such as you... — (a woman) neither seen nor heard of in the world, nor experienced by anyone. — Red-eyed, seized by anger, the king said to her: Keep silent; if not, I shall kill you too here, O beloved of the sage.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.39
यथेष्टं चेन्मया सार्धं रमतेऽहर्निशं पते । न कोऽपि किंचिद् ब्रूयात्त्वां दोषो वा न भवेन्महान् नान्यत् प्रयोजनमुरू श्रेयसाऽजनि तत्स्फुटम् । कृतवीर्यसुतोऽहं च कार्तवीर्य इति श्रुतः एकविंशति बाणैस्तां दुष्टो राजाऽहनद्रुषा । सस्मार मनसा साऽपि जमदग्नि मुनिं तदा
yatheṣṭaṃ cenmayā sārdhaṃ ramate'harniśaṃ pate | na ko'pi kiṃcid brūyāttvāṃ doṣo vā na bhavenmahān nānyat prayojanamurū śreyasā'jani tatsphuṭam | kṛtavīryasuto'haṃ ca kārtavīrya iti śrutaḥ ekaviṃśati bāṇaistāṃ duṣṭo rājā'hanadruṣā | sasmāra manasā sā'pi jamadagni muniṃ tadā
If she takes her pleasure with me as she wishes, day and night, O husband, no one will say anything to you, nor will there be any great fault. — There was no other purpose; that plainly came about for (my) great good; I am the son of Kṛtavīrya, and I am known as Kārtavīrya. — With twenty-one arrows the wicked king struck her down in fury; and she then called to mind the sage Jamadagni.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.41
इदं कृतं ममैव स्यादिष्टं नैव कृतं यदि । अनिष्टं सर्वथा मे स्यात्तन्न कार्यं विनिश्चयात् आसीत्वद्दर्शनाकांक्षा जाता पुण्यैर्न सत्फला । देह आत्मा तपो ज्ञानमाश्रमो मम सांप्रतम् तवापि भविता नाशो मूजानां नात्र संशयः । श्रुत्वेत्थं वचनं तस्यास्ततो यातो नृपस्तदा
idaṃ kṛtaṃ mamaiva syādiṣṭaṃ naiva kṛtaṃ yadi | aniṣṭaṃ sarvathā me syāttanna kāryaṃ viniścayāt āsītvaddarśanākāṃkṣā jātā puṇyairna satphalā | deha ātmā tapo jñānamāśramo mama sāṃpratam tavāpi bhavitā nāśo mūjānāṃ nātra saṃśayaḥ | śrutvetthaṃ vacanaṃ tasyāstato yāto nṛpastadā
This deed would be mine alone; it would be what is desired, if it were not done — (rather:) if it is not done, it would be in every way undesirable for me, therefore, by (my) firm judgment, it is not to be done. — There arose a longing to see you, born of (my) merits, but it bore no good fruit; body, self, austerity, knowledge and hermitage are mine at present. — For you too there will be destruction, and for (your) ... — no doubt of it here. Hearing her speech thus, the king then departed.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.42
अन्यथा कुर्वतः पुंस इहलोको न वा परः । इति स्त्रिया वाक्यबाणैर्बुधो विद्धो हि मर्मसु अभूत्त्वदागमाद्राजन् सार्थकाः सर्वसम्पदः । अकृत्वा भोजनं किंचित्कथं त्वं गंतुमर्हसि अल्पावशिष्ट सैन्येन चिन्ताक्रान्तो ययौ पुरीम् । विनिन्दन् हृदि चात्मानं शोचंश्च मृतसैनिकान्
anyathā kurvataḥ puṃsa ihaloko na vā paraḥ | iti striyā vākyabāṇairbudho viddho hi marmasu abhūttvadāgamādrājan sārthakāḥ sarvasampadaḥ | akṛtvā bhojanaṃ kiṃcitkathaṃ tvaṃ gaṃtumarhasi alpāvaśiṣṭa sainyena cintākrānto yayau purīm | vinindan hṛdi cātmānaṃ śocaṃśca mṛtasainikān
For a man who acts otherwise there is neither this world nor the next. Thus the wise man was pierced in his vital parts by the arrows of the woman's words. — By your arrival, O king, all my wealth has become worthwhile; how can it be right for you to go without taking any food? — With the little army that remained, overcome with anxiety, he went to the city, reproaching himself in his heart and grieving for the slain soldiers.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.43
रोषाविष्टो महाक्रूरो जगाद प्रज्वलन्निव । बुध उवाच । निर्लज्जे निष्ठुरे प्रौढे दुष्टे रुष्टे मयि स्फुटम् मम श्लाघा भवेल्लोके न्यूनं कि तव विद्यते । किंचिद् भुक्त्वा व्रज विभो सनाथं कुरु मां प्रभो निरुत्साहो निरुद्योगो विवेश निजमन्दिरम्
roṣāviṣṭo mahākrūro jagāda prajvalanniva | budha uvāca | nirlajje niṣṭhure prauḍhe duṣṭe ruṣṭe mayi sphuṭam mama ślāghā bhavelloke nyūnaṃ ki tava vidyate | kiṃcid bhuktvā vraja vibho sanāthaṃ kuru māṃ prabho nirutsāho nirudyogo viveśa nijamandiram
Seized with rage, exceedingly cruel, he spoke as though ablaze. Budha said: O shameless, harsh, insolent, wicked woman, when I am plainly angered — would there be praise of me in the world? What is lacking in you? — Eat something and then go, O lord; make me one who has a protector, O master. — Without spirit, without energy, he entered his own palace.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.44
गमिष्यासि गतिं तां त्वं यथा तौ पितरौ गतौ । सावित्र्युवाच । येन पित्रोर्न मर्यादा शिक्षित्रोश्च स्वतंत्रयोः राजोवाच । सत्यं भोजनकालोऽस्ति भोक्तव्यं च तवाज्ञया। अन्नाभावे श्रोत्रियाणां जलं याच्च पिबेदपि
gamiṣyāsi gatiṃ tāṃ tvaṃ yathā tau pitarau gatau | sāvitryuvāca | yena pitrorna maryādā śikṣitrośca svataṃtrayoḥ rājovāca | satyaṃ bhojanakālo'sti bhoktavyaṃ ca tavājñayā| annābhāve śrotriyāṇāṃ jalaṃ yācca pibedapi
You will go to that state to which those two parents (of yours) went. Sāvitrī said: (he) by whom no bounds (were kept) toward his parents and teachers, who were their own masters... The king said: True, it is the hour for eating, and I must eat at your command. — When there is no food, one may even drink the water begged of śrotriya brahmins.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.45
रक्षिता तद् विपरीतां स मां त्राता कथं भवेत् । भर्तृहस्तान्मृतिः श्रेयः परत्रेह च सातूस्त्रियाः तथाऽप्येतान् विहायाहं सैनिकान् गणनातिगान् । जलं पातुं न शक्नोमि कथं भोक्तुं समुत्सहे
rakṣitā tad viparītāṃ sa māṃ trātā kathaṃ bhavet | bhartṛhastānmṛtiḥ śreyaḥ paratreha ca sātūstriyāḥ tathā'pyetān vihāyāhaṃ sainikān gaṇanātigān | jalaṃ pātuṃ na śaknomi kathaṃ bhoktuṃ samutsahe
(He who should be my) protector is the very opposite of that — how could he become my saviour? For a chaste woman, death at her husband's hand is better, here and in the next world. — Nevertheless, having abandoned these soldiers beyond counting, I cannot (even) drink water; how could I bring myself to eat?
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GnP 1 76.46
ब्रह्मोवाच । एवं ब्रुवन्त्यां पत्न्यां स धम्मिल्लं सहसाऽग्रहीत् । काष्ठैर्लोष्टैर्मुष्टिभिश्च पाषाणैस्तामताडयत् जानेऽहं मनसा ब्रह्मन्न शक्तिः सर्वभोजने। भवद्दर्शनमात्रेण कृतकृत्यो व्रजेऽधुना
brahmovāca | evaṃ bruvantyāṃ patnyāṃ sa dhammillaṃ sahasā'grahīt | kāṣṭhairloṣṭairmuṣṭibhiśca pāṣāṇaistāmatāḍayat jāne'haṃ manasā brahmanna śaktiḥ sarvabhojane| bhavaddarśanamātreṇa kṛtakṛtyo vraje'dhunā
Brahmā said: As his wife was speaking thus, he suddenly seized her by the hair and beat her with sticks, clods, fists and stones. — I know in my mind, O brahmin, that there is not the power (in me) to eat everything; by the mere sight of you my purpose is accomplished, and now I shall go.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.47
सा रामं भर्तृरूपेण सस्मार पूर्वपुण्यतः । प्राणांस्तत्याज सहसा भिन्ना मर्मसु तेन ह मुनिरुवाच । चिन्तां मा कुरु राजर्षे भोजयिष्ये ससैनिकम् । चतुर्विधेन चान्नेन किमसाध्यं तपस्विनाम्
sā rāmaṃ bhartṛrūpeṇa sasmāra pūrvapuṇyataḥ | prāṇāṃstatyāja sahasā bhinnā marmasu tena ha muniruvāca | cintāṃ mā kuru rājarṣe bhojayiṣye sasainikam | caturvidhena cānnena kimasādhyaṃ tapasvinām
By her former merit she called Rāma to mind in the form of her husband; pierced by him in her vital parts, she at once gave up her life. — The sage said: Do not be anxious, O royal seer; I shall feed you together with your army on food of the four kinds. What is unattainable for ascetics?
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GnP 1 76.48
स्वर्गं गत्वा दिव्यदेहा बुभुजे परमं सुखम् । आकृष्य चरणे तां स चिक्षेप दूरतो निशि गृहे ते वाहिनी या स्यात्तामप्याकारय प्रभो। क्षणं विश्राम्यतां तीरे नद्याश्चारुतरे शुभे
svargaṃ gatvā divyadehā bubhuje paramaṃ sukham | ākṛṣya caraṇe tāṃ sa cikṣepa dūrato niśi gṛhe te vāhinī yā syāttāmapyākāraya prabho| kṣaṇaṃ viśrāmyatāṃ tīre nadyāścārutare śubhe
Having gone to heaven, with a divine body she enjoyed the highest happiness. — He dragged her by the foot and flung her far away in the night. — Whatever army you have at home, summon that too, O lord; let it rest a while on the lovely, fair bank of the river.
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GnP 1 76.49
निरंकुशो हर्षयुतो रेमे वेश्या समन्वितः । त्वदर्थं नाशिता सर्वे बुधस्तामिति सोऽब्रवीत् यावत्सिद्धं भवेदन्नं पश्चाद्द्रक्ष्यसि कौतुकम् । क उवाच । अन्तः स विस्मयाविष्टो जगाम कृतवीर्यजः
niraṃkuśo harṣayuto reme veśyā samanvitaḥ | tvadarthaṃ nāśitā sarve budhastāmiti so'bravīt yāvatsiddhaṃ bhavedannaṃ paścāddrakṣyasi kautukam | ka uvāca | antaḥ sa vismayāviṣṭo jagāma kṛtavīryajaḥ
Unchecked and full of delight, he took his pleasure in the harlot's company. "For your sake they have all been destroyed" — thus did Budha say to her. — Until the food is ready; afterwards you will see a wonder. — (He) said: Filled inwardly with amazement, the son of Kṛtavīrya went (away).
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GnP 1 76.51
अत्यंतं सुंदरतरामालिलिंग चुचुम्ब च । निःशंकं शयने नीत्वा ममर्द कुचमंडलीम् आहूय कामधेनुं तौ पुपूजतुः क्षणेन ताम् । प्रार्थयामासतुरुभौ लज्जां नौ रक्ष धेनुके
atyaṃtaṃ suṃdaratarāmāliliṃga cucumba ca | niḥśaṃkaṃ śayane nītvā mamarda kucamaṃḍalīm āhūya kāmadhenuṃ tau pupūjatuḥ kṣaṇena tām | prārthayāmāsaturubhau lajjāṃ nau rakṣa dhenuke
He embraced and kissed the exceedingly beautiful woman; taking her without hesitation to the bed, he pressed her breasts. — Having summoned Kāmadhenu, the two worshipped her in a moment, and both entreated (her): "Guard our honour, O cow."
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GnP 1 76.52
रेमे तया यथेष्टं स ततः सा तं शशाप ह। सुलभोवाच । कथं नाम कृतं दुष्टं पितृभ्यां सुलभेति मे असंख्यातबलो राजा भोजनाय निमंत्रितः । यथारुचि भवेत्तस्य स सैन्यस्य भुजिः शुभे
reme tayā yatheṣṭaṃ sa tataḥ sā taṃ śaśāpa ha| sulabhovāca | kathaṃ nāma kṛtaṃ duṣṭaṃ pitṛbhyāṃ sulabheti me asaṃkhyātabalo rājā bhojanāya nimaṃtritaḥ | yathāruci bhavettasya sa sainyasya bhujiḥ śubhe
He took his pleasure with her as he wished; then she cursed him. Sulabhā said: How could such a wicked thing have been done by my parents, (in giving) me the name Sulabhā ("Easy to get")? — A king with countless forces has been invited to a meal; let there be eating to their taste for him and for his army, O fair one.
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GnP 1 76.53
अहं ते सुलभा जाता दुष्टबुद्धे नराधम । स्नातुं गते भर्तरि मे कालभौ मुनिपुंगवे तथा कुरु क्षणेन त्वं नो चेत् सत्यं लयं व्रजेत । अकीर्तिश्च भवेल्लोके यथेच्छसि तथा कुरु
ahaṃ te sulabhā jātā duṣṭabuddhe narādhama | snātuṃ gate bhartari me kālabhau munipuṃgave tathā kuru kṣaṇena tvaṃ no cet satyaṃ layaṃ vrajeta | akīrtiśca bhavelloke yathecchasi tathā kuru
I have become "easy to get" for you, O evil-minded, basest of men, my husband, that bull among sages, having gone to bathe... — Do it in a moment; if not, truly (all) will go to ruin, and there will be ill fame in the world; do as you please.
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GnP 1 76.54
बलात्कारो मयि कृतो दुष्टः कुष्ठी भविष्यसि । जन्मान्तरे ते नामापि न गृह्णीयाज्जनः क्वचित् एवं संप्रार्थिता ताभ्यां कामधेनुर्महापुरम् । निर्माय स्वप्रभावेन नानामंदिरसुंदरम्
balātkāro mayi kṛto duṣṭaḥ kuṣṭhī bhaviṣyasi | janmāntare te nāmāpi na gṛhṇīyājjanaḥ kvacit evaṃ saṃprārthitā tābhyāṃ kāmadhenurmahāpuram | nirmāya svaprabhāvena nānāmaṃdirasuṃdaram
Violence has been done to me by (you), wicked man — you shall become a leper; in another birth people will nowhere so much as utter your name. — Thus entreated by those two, Kāmadhenu, creating by her own power a great city, beautiful with many mansions...
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GnP 1 76.55
ब्रह्मोवाच । ततो भीतो ययौ वेश्यागृहमेव बुधः पुनः । रेमे तया सुरां पीत्वा न किंचिदपि चिन्तयन् नानारत्नमयं स्तम्भं शोभिनाना सभागृहम् । नानापुष्पलताचारू वाटिकाराममंडितम्
brahmovāca | tato bhīto yayau veśyāgṛhameva budhaḥ punaḥ | reme tayā surāṃ pītvā na kiṃcidapi cintayan nānāratnamayaṃ stambhaṃ śobhinānā sabhāgṛham | nānāpuṣpalatācārū vāṭikārāmamaṃḍitam
Brahmā said: Then Budha, afraid, went once more to the harlot's very house; drinking liquor he took his pleasure with her, thinking of nothing at all. — (a city) with pillars made of many jewels, with a splendid assembly hall, lovely with many flowering creepers, adorned with gardens and pleasure-groves.
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GnP 1 76.56
एवं दुष्टानि कर्माणि वक्तव्यानि कथं मया। पुण्यक्षयो भवेत्तस्य परदोषं य ईरयेत् नानाध्वजपताकाढ्यं नानावादित्रनिःस्वनम् । अष्टापदानां भांडानां नाना पंक्तिविराजितम्
evaṃ duṣṭāni karmāṇi vaktavyāni kathaṃ mayā| puṇyakṣayo bhavettasya paradoṣaṃ ya īrayet nānādhvajapatākāḍhyaṃ nānāvāditraniḥsvanam | aṣṭāpadānāṃ bhāṃḍānāṃ nānā paṃktivirājitam
How should such wicked deeds be told by me? He who proclaims another's faults suffers the loss of his merit. — (a city) rich with many flags and banners, resounding with many musical instruments, resplendent with many rows of golden vessels.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.57
स कालान्निधनं प्राप्तो दूतैर्नीतो यमालयम् । यमेनोक्तं किमानीतो नीयतां नरकेष्ययम् चतुर्विधान्नसंपन्नं नानाभोजनपंक्तिमत् । महातोरणशोभाढ्यं परिखावलयांकितम्
sa kālānnidhanaṃ prāpto dūtairnīto yamālayam | yamenoktaṃ kimānīto nīyatāṃ narakeṣyayam caturvidhānnasaṃpannaṃ nānābhojanapaṃktimat | mahātoraṇaśobhāḍhyaṃ parikhāvalayāṃkitam
In time he met his death and was carried by the messengers to Yama's abode. Yama said: "Why has he been brought? Let him be taken to the hells." — furnished with the four kinds of food, having rows of various dishes; rich with the splendour of great archways, marked by an encircling moat.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.58
यमवाक्यं समाकर्ण्य दूता निन्युस्तदैव तम्। चिक्षिपुर्नरके तावद्यावदाभूतसंप्लवम् अनेकदासदासीभिर्विलसच्चारु वेदिकम् । निवारयन्ति लोकाश्च यत्र तत्र स्थिता नराः
yamavākyaṃ samākarṇya dūtā ninyustadaiva tam| cikṣipurnarake tāvadyāvadābhūtasaṃplavam anekadāsadāsībhirvilasaccāru vedikam | nivārayanti lokāśca yatra tatra sthitā narāḥ
Hearing Yama's word, the messengers led him away that very moment; they flung (him) into hell, (to remain) until the dissolution of all beings — (a place) with many menservants and maidservants, with a lovely shining dais; and people restrain (them), men standing here and there.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.59
ऋषिपत्न्या: स शापेन कुष्ठी जातो भृशं तदा पुरो गंतुं न चाज्ञाऽस्ति जमदग्निमुनेरिति । परिविष्टेषु पात्रेषु संख्यातीतेषु सर्वतः
ṛṣipatnyā: sa śāpena kuṣṭhī jāto bhṛśaṃ tadā puro gaṃtuṃ na cājñā'sti jamadagnimuneriti | pariviṣṭeṣu pātreṣu saṃkhyātīteṣu sarvataḥ
By the curse of the sage's wife he then became severely leprous, and there is no permission from the sage Jamadagni to go to the city — while the vessels were served, countless, on every side.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.61
नामाप्येतस्य न ग्राह्यं महादोषकरं यतः । एतादृशोऽयं दुष्टात्मा यदा त्यक्तं इतस्तदा सखाद्य लेह्यचोष्यादि पेय पंक्तिविराजिषु । सामुद्रपक्व निम्बाभ्रामृत बिल्वादिशालिषु
nāmāpyetasya na grāhyaṃ mahādoṣakaraṃ yataḥ | etādṛśo'yaṃ duṣṭātmā yadā tyaktaṃ itastadā sakhādya lehyacoṣyādi peya paṃktivirājiṣu | sāmudrapakva nimbābhrāmṛta bilvādiśāliṣu
Not even his name should be taken, since it brings great harm. Such is this evil-souled man — when he was cast out from here, then... among the rows shining with things to chew, to lick, to suck, and to drink; among (dishes of) sea-cooked (foods?), neem, mango, amṛta, bilva, rice and the like.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 76.62
विमानं यास्यते चोर्ध्वं नूनं नास्त्यत्र संशयः सिद्धेषु पात्रेषु मुनिस्तदाऽसावाकारयच्छिष्यगणं तदानीम् । श्रीकामधेनोः परिपूर्ण तोषाद , भोक्तुं ससैन्यं कृतवीर्यपुत्रम्
vimānaṃ yāsyate cordhvaṃ nūnaṃ nāstyatra saṃśayaḥ siddheṣu pātreṣu munistadā'sāvākārayacchiṣyagaṇaṃ tadānīm | śrīkāmadhenoḥ paripūrṇa toṣāda , bhoktuṃ sasainyaṃ kṛtavīryaputram
And the celestial car will go upward — surely there is no doubt in this. When the vessels were made ready, that sage then summoned the company of disciples, and, out of the complete abundance of the blessed wish-cow, (invited) the son of Kṛtavīrya with his army to eat.
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GnP 1 76.63
ब्रह्मोवाच । श्रुत्वेत्थं वचनं तेषां दूतानां भृशकंपितः
brahmovāca | śrutvetthaṃ vacanaṃ teṣāṃ dūtānāṃ bhṛśakaṃpitaḥ
Brahmā said: Having heard in this way the speech of those messengers, he trembled violently.
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GnP 1 76.64
शूरसेन उवाचैतान्न मयाऽज्ञायि दुष्कृतम् । पुनरुत्थाय राजाऽसौ प्रणनाम भृशातुरः
śūrasena uvācaitānna mayā'jñāyi duṣkṛtam | punarutthāya rājā'sau praṇanāma bhṛśāturaḥ
Śūrasena said to them: "The evil deed was not known to me." And rising again, that king, deeply afflicted, bowed down.
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GnP 1 76.65
प्राह तान्देवदूतान्स कृपां कृत्वा वदन्तु मे। उपायमस्य दुष्टस्य सर्वदोषापनुत्तये
prāha tāndevadūtānsa kṛpāṃ kṛtvā vadantu me| upāyamasya duṣṭasya sarvadoṣāpanuttaye
He said to those divine messengers: "Showing mercy, let them tell me the means for the removal of all this wicked man's faults."
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GnP 1 76.66
दूता ऊचुः । उत्तिष्ठोत्तिष्ठ नृपते ब्रूमो दोषापनुत्तये । उपायं राजशार्दूल शृणुश्वैकमना भव
dūtā ūcuḥ | uttiṣṭhottiṣṭha nṛpate brūmo doṣāpanuttaye | upāyaṃ rājaśārdūla śṛṇuśvaikamanā bhava
The messengers said: Rise, rise, O king; we shall tell the means for the removal of the faults. O tiger among kings, listen, be single-minded.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 1 76.67
गणेशस्य भवेन्नाम यत् ख्यातं चतुरक्षरम् । जप तत् कर्णरन्ध्रेऽस्य सर्वदोषक्षयो भवेत्
gaṇeśasya bhavennāma yat khyātaṃ caturakṣaram | japa tat karṇarandhre'sya sarvadoṣakṣayo bhavet
There is Gaṇeśa's four-syllabled name which is renowned; recite it into the opening of his ear, and the destruction of all his faults will come about.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 1 76.68
उदये दिननाथस्य यथा सर्वतमः क्षयः । नान्योपायेऽधिकारोऽस्य यतो नामैव जप्यताम्
udaye dinanāthasya yathā sarvatamaḥ kṣayaḥ | nānyopāye'dhikāro'sya yato nāmaiva japyatām
Just as, at the rising of the lord of day, all darkness is destroyed. He has no fitness for any other means, therefore let the name alone be recited.
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GnP 1 76.69
ब्रह्मोवाच । शूरसेनो दूतवाक्याज्जयपूर्वं जजाप ह । त्रिवारं वैश्यकर्णे तु नाम यच्चतुरक्षरम्
brahmovāca | śūraseno dūtavākyājjayapūrvaṃ jajāpa ha | trivāraṃ vaiśyakarṇe tu nāma yaccaturakṣaram
Brahmā said: Śūrasena, at the messengers' word, recited — preceded by "jaya" — three times into the merchant's ear that four-syllabled name.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 1 76.71
सर्वपापक्षये जाते नामश्रवणमात्रतः । दीपयन् सर्वदिग्देशान् विमानं चाध्यरोहत
sarvapāpakṣaye jāte nāmaśravaṇamātrataḥ | dīpayan sarvadigdeśān vimānaṃ cādhyarohata
When all his sin had been destroyed merely by hearing the name, illuminating the regions of all directions, he mounted the celestial car.
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GnP 1 76.72
तद्विमानं क्षणाद् दूतैः सर्वलोकसमन्वितम् । नीतं वैनायकं धाम विघ्नराज्यस्य शासनात्
tadvimānaṃ kṣaṇād dūtaiḥ sarvalokasamanvitam | nītaṃ vaināyakaṃ dhāma vighnarājyasya śāsanāt
In an instant that celestial car, together with all the people, was carried by the messengers to Vināyaka's abode, by the command of the king of obstacles.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 1 76.73
इति सर्वं समाख्यातं यद्यत्पृष्टं त्वयाऽनघ
iti sarvaṃ samākhyātaṃ yadyatpṛṣṭaṃ tvayā'nagha
Thus all has been fully recounted, whatever you asked, O sinless one.
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GnP 1 76.74
महापुण्यं च संकष्टचतुर्थीव्रतमुत्तमम् । धर्म्यं यशस्यमायुष्यं श्रवणात् सर्वसिद्धिदम्
mahāpuṇyaṃ ca saṃkaṣṭacaturthīvratamuttamam | dharmyaṃ yaśasyamāyuṣyaṃ śravaṇāt sarvasiddhidam
And (so too) the excellent Saṃkaṣṭa-caturthī observance, of great merit, righteous, bringing fame and long life, granting every success merely by being heard.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 1 76.75
सर्वपीडाप्रशमनं सर्वं विघ्न विनाशनम् । दूर्वानाम प्रभावश्च किमन्यच्छ्रोतुमिच्छसि
sarvapīḍāpraśamanaṃ sarvaṃ vighna vināśanam | dūrvānāma prabhāvaśca kimanyacchrotumicchasi
It quells every affliction, destroys every obstacle — and (so does) the power of the name of the dūrvā grass. What else do you wish to hear?
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition