Ganesha Purana — Kridakhanda — Chapter 1

GnP 2 1.1

अध्याय १ श्रीगणेशपुराणम्- उत्तरार्ध ( क्रीडाखंड भाग १) श्रीगणेशाय नमः। श्रीमहासिद्धि महाबुद्धि लक्ष लाभ नग्नभैरव राज चरणाभ्यां नमः । सकल गाणेशगुरूभ्यो नमः । मुनय ऊचुः । सम्यगाख्यानमाख्यातं त्वया सूत महामते । सादरं श्रुतमस्माभिर्न च तृप्तिं गता वयम् अध्याय २ प्रारंभ :- व्यास उवाच । अनुष्ठानं कथं ब्रह्मन कुत्र वा तौ प्रचक्रतुः। तत्सर्वं विस्तराद्ब्रूहि सादरं मम पृच्छतः अध्याय ३ प्रारंभ :- क उवाच । ततः प्रातः समुत्थाय गुरूं ध्यात्वा सभाज्य च । स्मृत्वा नत्वाऽखिलान्देवान् जग्मतुर्नैऋतीं दिशम् अध्याय ४ प्रारंभ – व्यास उवाच । देवांतकस्य चरितं श्रुतं भक्त्या तवाननात् । इदानीं वद मे ब्रह्मन् नरांतक विचेष्टितम् । अध्याय ५ प्रारंभ – ब्रह्मोवाच । ममैव मानसः पुत्रः कश्यपो बुद्धिमत्तरः । पुण्यवान् धर्मशीलश्च तपस्वी विजितेन्द्रियः

adhyāya 1 śrīgaṇeśapurāṇam- uttarārdha ( krīḍākhaṃḍa bhāga 1) śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ| śrīmahāsiddhi mahābuddhi lakṣa lābha nagnabhairava rāja caraṇābhyāṃ namaḥ | sakala gāṇeśagurūbhyo namaḥ | munaya ūcuḥ | samyagākhyānamākhyātaṃ tvayā sūta mahāmate | sādaraṃ śrutamasmābhirna ca tṛptiṃ gatā vayam adhyāya 2 prāraṃbha :- vyāsa uvāca | anuṣṭhānaṃ kathaṃ brahmana kutra vā tau pracakratuḥ| tatsarvaṃ vistarādbrūhi sādaraṃ mama pṛcchataḥ adhyāya 3 prāraṃbha :- ka uvāca | tataḥ prātaḥ samutthāya gurūṃ dhyātvā sabhājya ca | smṛtvā natvā'khilāndevān jagmaturnaiṛtīṃ diśam adhyāya 4 prāraṃbha – vyāsa uvāca | devāṃtakasya caritaṃ śrutaṃ bhaktyā tavānanāt | idānīṃ vada me brahman narāṃtaka viceṣṭitam | adhyāya 5 prāraṃbha – brahmovāca | mamaiva mānasaḥ putraḥ kaśyapo buddhimattaraḥ | puṇyavān dharmaśīlaśca tapasvī vijitendriyaḥ

Chapter 1. The Śrī Gaṇeśa Purāṇa — latter half (Krīḍākhaṇḍa, part 1). Homage to Śrī Gaṇeśa. Homage to the two feet of Śrī Mahāsiddhi, Mahābuddhi, Lakṣa, Lābha, Nagnabhairava, the king. Homage to all the Gāṇeśa teachers. The sages said: A narration well told has been told by you, O Sūta of great mind; it has been heard by us reverently, and we have not become sated. — Beginning of chapter 2: Vyāsa said: How, O Brahmā, and where did those two carry out (their) observance? Tell all that at length to me, who ask reverently. — Beginning of chapter 3: Ka (Brahmā) said: Then, rising at dawn, having meditated on the guru and honoured him, having called to mind and bowed to all the gods, the two went in the south-western direction. — Beginning of chapter 4: Vyāsa said: The deeds of Devāntaka have been heard with devotion from your mouth; now tell me, O brahmin, the doings of Narāntaka. — Beginning of chapter 5: Brahmā said: My own mind-born son Kaśyapa, of surpassing intelligence, meritorious, of righteous conduct, an ascetic, with his senses subdued.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

GnP 2 1.2

यथा न तृप्यते जन्तुरन्नमश्नन्दिने दिने । अन्यत्कथान्तरं ब्रूहि येन तृप्यामहे वयम् तदीयं बालचरितं लीला नानाविधा अपि । श्रुत्वा त्वद् वदनांभोजान् मनो निर्वृतिमेष्यति द्वापरे रक्तवर्णोऽसा चाखुरूढश्चतुर्भुजः। गजानन इतिख्यातः पूजितः सूरमानवेः आजानुबाहू दीर्घाक्षौ दृष्ट्वा प्रोवाच तत्पिता । अद्याहमनृणो जातो धन्यमद्य तपो मम ववृधाते ततस्तौ तु मेरुमन्दारसन्निभौ । यथा कच्छाश्रितौ तालौ यथा वंशांकुरौ बलात् उवाच पुत्रौ कामारिरनया संप्रसाद्यताम् । मस्तकेऽभय हस्तं च स्थाप्यानुष्ठानमादिशत् ब्रह्मोवाच । साधु पृष्टं त्वया व्यास सर्वं ते कथयेऽधुना । चाक्रतुस्तावनुष्ठानं देवान्तकनरान्तकौ पुपूजतुरुषःकाले शम्भुं कुसुमपल्लवैः । तस्मिंस्तपोवने तात तयोरद्भुत तेजसा अधनं यो धनाढ्यं च धनाढ्यमधनं तथा । श्रुत्वैवं स तयोर्वाणीं प्रोवाच च उमापतिः लप्स्यथो लप्स्यते चापि भवद्भ्यामन्तको भयम् । तयोः शीर्ष्णोरधाच्छम्भुरभयं करपंकजम् कृत्वा मूत्रपुरीषे तु दन्तजिह्वा विशोघ्य च । स्नात्वा सन्ध्यामुपास्यैता विष्टन्देवान्पुपूजतुः उड्डीयोड्डीय सहसा निपत्य च पुनःपुनः। तदुड्डानान् निपतिताः स्त्रीगर्भाश्च महाद्रुमाः पदानि स्वानि सर्वाणि स्थीयतां यत्र कुत्रचित् । अन्यथा सकलं हित्वा वृथा मृत्युं प्रयास्यसि संमुखो भव शक्र त्वं सर्वदेवगणैः सह । असंमुख पलायन्तं न हन्ति वीरसत्तमः ततोऽगुर्भूतलाद्दिग्भ्योऽसंख्यया दैत्यदानवाः । चक्रुर्नानाविधैर्द्रव्यैर्नानातीर्थाह्रतैर्जलैः क उवाच । शणुष्वावहितो ब्रह्मन् सम्यक् सत्यवती सुत । कथयिष्येऽधुना तत्तु दृष्ट्वा ते परमादरम् आतंकाक्रान्तमनसो न तपस्यां च चक्रिरे । ततो नरान्तको दैत्यान्नागलोक जिगीषया देवान्तकोऽथाप्रैषीत्तं दुर्लभं यच्च भूतले । एवं त्रैलोक्यराज्यं तौ चक्राते परया मुदा अतिकारुणिको लोके दुःखशोकावमर्दनः । वर्तमानं भूतभावि जानाति मीलितेक्षणः तद्ब्रवीमी समापृच्छ यत्ते मनसि वर्तते । अदितिरुवाच । इन्द्रादयो देवगणाः स्वस्य पुत्रत्वमागताः पंचाक्षरं चतुर्थ्यन्तमोंकारपल्लवान्वितम् । नमोन्तं ध्यानसहितं न्यासदैवतसंयुतम् कामातिसुंदरतनुः सिद्धिबुद्धि समायुतः । मुक्तामालां च परशुं बिभ्रद्यो मेघपुष्पजम् नानारूपधरो नित्यो योगगम्योऽखिलार्थकृत् । इदानीं सौम्यरूपेण वरं देहि विनायक

yathā na tṛpyate janturannamaśnandine dine | anyatkathāntaraṃ brūhi yena tṛpyāmahe vayam tadīyaṃ bālacaritaṃ līlā nānāvidhā api | śrutvā tvad vadanāṃbhojān mano nirvṛtimeṣyati dvāpare raktavarṇo'sā cākhurūḍhaścaturbhujaḥ| gajānana itikhyātaḥ pūjitaḥ sūramānaveḥ ājānubāhū dīrghākṣau dṛṣṭvā provāca tatpitā | adyāhamanṛṇo jāto dhanyamadya tapo mama vavṛdhāte tatastau tu merumandārasannibhau | yathā kacchāśritau tālau yathā vaṃśāṃkurau balāt uvāca putrau kāmāriranayā saṃprasādyatām | mastake'bhaya hastaṃ ca sthāpyānuṣṭhānamādiśat brahmovāca | sādhu pṛṣṭaṃ tvayā vyāsa sarvaṃ te kathaye'dhunā | cākratustāvanuṣṭhānaṃ devāntakanarāntakau pupūjaturuṣaḥkāle śambhuṃ kusumapallavaiḥ | tasmiṃstapovane tāta tayoradbhuta tejasā adhanaṃ yo dhanāḍhyaṃ ca dhanāḍhyamadhanaṃ tathā | śrutvaivaṃ sa tayorvāṇīṃ provāca ca umāpatiḥ lapsyatho lapsyate cāpi bhavadbhyāmantako bhayam | tayoḥ śīrṣṇoradhācchambhurabhayaṃ karapaṃkajam kṛtvā mūtrapurīṣe tu dantajihvā viśoghya ca | snātvā sandhyāmupāsyaitā viṣṭandevānpupūjatuḥ uḍḍīyoḍḍīya sahasā nipatya ca punaḥpunaḥ| taduḍḍānān nipatitāḥ strīgarbhāśca mahādrumāḥ padāni svāni sarvāṇi sthīyatāṃ yatra kutracit | anyathā sakalaṃ hitvā vṛthā mṛtyuṃ prayāsyasi saṃmukho bhava śakra tvaṃ sarvadevagaṇaiḥ saha | asaṃmukha palāyantaṃ na hanti vīrasattamaḥ tato'gurbhūtalāddigbhyo'saṃkhyayā daityadānavāḥ | cakrurnānāvidhairdravyairnānātīrthāhratairjalaiḥ ka uvāca | śaṇuṣvāvahito brahman samyak satyavatī suta | kathayiṣye'dhunā tattu dṛṣṭvā te paramādaram ātaṃkākrāntamanaso na tapasyāṃ ca cakrire | tato narāntako daityānnāgaloka jigīṣayā devāntako'thāpraiṣīttaṃ durlabhaṃ yacca bhūtale | evaṃ trailokyarājyaṃ tau cakrāte parayā mudā atikāruṇiko loke duḥkhaśokāvamardanaḥ | vartamānaṃ bhūtabhāvi jānāti mīlitekṣaṇaḥ tadbravīmī samāpṛccha yatte manasi vartate | aditiruvāca | indrādayo devagaṇāḥ svasya putratvamāgatāḥ paṃcākṣaraṃ caturthyantamoṃkārapallavānvitam | namontaṃ dhyānasahitaṃ nyāsadaivatasaṃyutam kāmātisuṃdaratanuḥ siddhibuddhi samāyutaḥ | muktāmālāṃ ca paraśuṃ bibhradyo meghapuṣpajam nānārūpadharo nityo yogagamyo'khilārthakṛt | idānīṃ saumyarūpeṇa varaṃ dehi vināyaka

Just as a creature is not sated though eating food day after day (so are we); tell some other story by which we may be satisfied. His childhood deeds and his many kinds of play too — hearing them from the lotus of your mouth, the mind will come to contentment. In the Dvāpara age he was red in colour, mounted on a mouse, four-armed, renowned as 'Elephant-faced', worshipped by gods and men. Seeing (him) with arms reaching to the knees and long eyes, his father said: Today I have become free of debt; today my austerity is blessed. Then those two grew up, resembling Meru and Mandāra, like two palm trees rooted in a thicket, like bamboo shoots, by force. The enemy of Kāma (Śiva) said to the two sons: Let (her/it) be propitiated by this; and placing his hand of protection on (their) head(s) he prescribed the observance. Brahmā said: Well have you asked, O Vyāsa; I shall now tell you everything. Those two, Devāntaka and Narāntaka, performed the observance. At dawn they worshipped Śambhu with flowers and sprouts, there in that penance-grove, my dear, by the wondrous ardour of those two. Whoever was without wealth (they made) rich in wealth, and the rich man poor. Hearing this speech of theirs, the lord of Umā said: You two shall obtain (it), and Antaka too shall have fear from you two. Śambhu placed his lotus-hand of protection upon the heads of those two. Having relieved themselves, and having cleansed teeth and tongue, having bathed and performed the twilight worship, they worshipped these deities. Leaping up again and again and suddenly falling down — from that leaping the wombs of women and great trees fell. (Set) all your own feet wherever you may stand; otherwise, abandoning everything, you will go to a needless death. Come face to face, O Śakra, together with all the hosts of gods; the best of heroes does not slay one who flees without facing him. Then countless daityas and dānavas came from the earth and from (all) the directions; they performed (worship) with various substances and with waters brought from many holy fords. Ka (Brahmā) said: Listen attentively, O brahmin, O son of Satyavatī; I shall now tell that, seeing your utmost reverence. With minds overcome by terror they did not perform austerity. Then Narāntaka (sent) the daityas out of a desire to conquer the Nāga world; and Devāntaka sent (for) that which was hard to obtain on earth. Thus the two made the sovereignty of the three worlds with the greatest delight. Exceedingly compassionate in the world, a crusher of sorrow and grief, with eyes closed he knows the present, the past and the future. Therefore I say: ask fully whatever is in your mind. Aditi said: The hosts of gods beginning with Indra have come to sonship with him. The five-syllabled (formula), ending in the dative, furnished with the sprout of the syllable Oṃ, ending in 'namaḥ', together with the meditation, joined with the nyāsa and the deity. With a body more beautiful than Kāma's, accompanied by Siddhi and Buddhi, bearing a pearl garland and an axe, born of a cloud-blossom(?); assuming many forms, eternal, attainable by yoga, accomplisher of all aims — now, in a gentle form, grant a boon, O Vināyaka.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 1.3

सूत उवाच । उक्तं चोपासनाखंडं क्रीडाखंडं वदामि वः । यथा कृतं गणेशेन नानादैत्य विहिंसनम् पित्रौराज्ञां गृहीत्वैव जग्मतुर्गहनं वनम् । गत्वारो यत्र वायोर्नानाद्रुमलताकुलम् संपूज्य बाह्मणानभक्त्या ददतुर्धनवाससी। आज्यमालोक्य कांस्यस्थं ददतुर्ब्राह्मणाय तत् नरांतको महीं गत्वा नानादैत्यगणान्वितः । चकार कदनं राज्ञां मारयामास काxश्चन मनसा सृष्टिसंहार कर्ता वेदान्त पारगः। सर्वशास्त्रार्थतत्वज्ञ समलोष्ठाश्मकांचनः

sūta uvāca | uktaṃ copāsanākhaṃḍaṃ krīḍākhaṃḍaṃ vadāmi vaḥ | yathā kṛtaṃ gaṇeśena nānādaitya vihiṃsanam pitraurājñāṃ gṛhītvaiva jagmaturgahanaṃ vanam | gatvāro yatra vāyornānādrumalatākulam saṃpūjya bāhmaṇānabhaktyā dadaturdhanavāsasī| ājyamālokya kāṃsyasthaṃ dadaturbrāhmaṇāya tat narāṃtako mahīṃ gatvā nānādaityagaṇānvitaḥ | cakāra kadanaṃ rājñāṃ mārayāmāsa kāxścana manasā sṛṣṭisaṃhāra kartā vedānta pāragaḥ| sarvaśāstrārthatatvajña samaloṣṭhāśmakāṃcanaḥ

Sūta said: The Upāsanākhaṇḍa has been told; (now) I shall tell you the Krīḍākhaṇḍa — how the slaying of the various daityas was done by Gaṇeśa. Taking the command of their father, the two went to a dense forest, having gone where it was full of many trees and creepers of the wind(?). Having worshipped the brahmins with devotion, the two gave wealth and clothing; seeing the clarified butter that stood in a bronze vessel, they gave it to a brahmin. Narāntaka, going to the earth accompanied by many hosts of daityas, made slaughter of kings and killed some. By his mind the maker of creation and destruction, gone to the far shore of the Vedānta, knowing the truth of the meaning of all scriptures, regarding clod, stone and gold as equal.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 1.4

साधुद्विजगवां चैव पालनं परमादरात् । तदहं संप्रवक्ष्यामि श्रूयतां स्थिरचेतसा वापीकासारसहितं पुष्पपल्लव शोभितम्। विशालगह्वरगिरि नानाप्रस्तरशालि च सदक्षिणं समालोक्य दर्पणं निर्मलं तथा। परिधाय च वासांसि विचारं चक्रतुस्तु तौ सर्वे तं शरणं याता दृष्ट्वा राज्ञो हतान्बहून् । यद्यत्सैन्यं पश्यति स्म तत्तद्याति दिशो दश अदितिर्यस्य ज्येष्ठाऽऽसीत्पत्नी नाम्नाऽतिवल्लभा। सर्वलक्षणसंपूर्णाऽनुपमा सा त्रिविष्टपे

sādhudvijagavāṃ caiva pālanaṃ paramādarāt | tadahaṃ saṃpravakṣyāmi śrūyatāṃ sthiracetasā vāpīkāsārasahitaṃ puṣpapallava śobhitam| viśālagahvaragiri nānāprastaraśāli ca sadakṣiṇaṃ samālokya darpaṇaṃ nirmalaṃ tathā| paridhāya ca vāsāṃsi vicāraṃ cakratustu tau sarve taṃ śaraṇaṃ yātā dṛṣṭvā rājño hatānbahūn | yadyatsainyaṃ paśyati sma tattadyāti diśo daśa aditiryasya jyeṣṭhā''sītpatnī nāmnā'tivallabhā| sarvalakṣaṇasaṃpūrṇā'nupamā sā triviṣṭape

And the protection of the good, of the twice-born and of cows, with the utmost reverence — that I shall fully declare; let it be heard with a steady mind. (A place) provided with wells and pools, adorned with flowers and sprouts, with a great cavernous mountain and abounding in many rocks. Having looked at the south, and at a spotless mirror, and having put on garments, those two took counsel. Seeing many kings slain, all went to him for refuge; whatever army it saw, that went off in the ten directions. Aditi, who was his eldest wife, most dear by name, complete in all auspicious marks, was without equal in heaven.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 1.5

मुनय ऊचुः । यावद्यावत् कथ्यते तत् पुराणं, तावत्तावद वर्धते श्रोतुमिच्छा । तस्मात् सम्यक् कथ्यतां सर्वलोकः संसाराब्धेर्येन सद्यः प्रमुच्येत् तत्र स्थिातावुभावेतौ प्रारभेतां महत्तपः । एकांगुष्ठे स्थितौ चौभौ तत्र तौ स्थिरचेतसा ज्येष्ठ उवाच । अहं विजेष्ये स्वर्लोकान् वरदानान्महेशितुः। मृत्युलोकं च पातालं जय त्वं तत्प्रसादतः यथा ज्ञानेन चाज्ञानं यथा सूर्योदये तमः । एवं भूमंडलं सर्वं वशे चक्रे नरान्तकः त्रिलोकीं भस्मसात् कर्तुं पातिव्रत्येन तेजसा । शेषो यस्या गुणान्वक्तुं नेशो वक्त्रसहस्रकैः

munaya ūcuḥ | yāvadyāvat kathyate tat purāṇaṃ, tāvattāvada vardhate śrotumicchā | tasmāt samyak kathyatāṃ sarvalokaḥ saṃsārābdheryena sadyaḥ pramucyet tatra sthiātāvubhāvetau prārabhetāṃ mahattapaḥ | ekāṃguṣṭhe sthitau caubhau tatra tau sthiracetasā jyeṣṭha uvāca | ahaṃ vijeṣye svarlokān varadānānmaheśituḥ| mṛtyulokaṃ ca pātālaṃ jaya tvaṃ tatprasādataḥ yathā jñānena cājñānaṃ yathā sūryodaye tamaḥ | evaṃ bhūmaṃḍalaṃ sarvaṃ vaśe cakre narāntakaḥ trilokīṃ bhasmasāt kartuṃ pātivratyena tejasā | śeṣo yasyā guṇānvaktuṃ neśo vaktrasahasrakaiḥ

The sages said: The more that Purāṇa is told, the more does the desire to hear increase; therefore let it be told fully, by which the whole world may at once be released from the ocean of transmigration. Standing there, both these two began a great austerity; and both stood there on a single thumb with steady mind. The elder said: By the boon-giving of the great Lord I shall conquer the heavenly worlds; you conquer the world of mortals and the netherworld by his grace. As ignorance (is dispelled) by knowledge, as darkness at sunrise, so Narāntaka brought the whole circle of the earth under his sway. To reduce the three worlds to ashes by the ardour of her wifely fidelity — she whose virtues Śeṣa is unable to tell with his thousand mouths.

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GnP 2 1.6

सूत उवाच । यदुक्तं बह्मणा पूर्वं व्यासायामिततेजसे । भृगुणा सोमकान्ताय तदेतद्वो ब्रवीम्यहम् जपन्तौ नारदप्रोक्तां विद्यां पंचाक्षरीं शुभाम् । ध्यायन्तौ शंकरं देवं सहस्रपरिवत्सरान् क उवाच । एवं तौ निश्चयं कृत्वा विलोक्य शुभवासरं । एको ययौ स्वर्गलोकं वायुवेगसमो जवे ये तु तं शरणं यातास्तदीयत्वात्पदे स्थिताः । ये हतास्तत्सुतास्तेन स्थापिताः करदाः कृताः सेवन्ते यां सदा चाष्टनायिका गुणलब्धये । शक्रादि सुरवृन्दानि जनयामास याऽनघा

sūta uvāca | yaduktaṃ bahmaṇā pūrvaṃ vyāsāyāmitatejase | bhṛguṇā somakāntāya tadetadvo bravīmyaham japantau nāradaproktāṃ vidyāṃ paṃcākṣarīṃ śubhām | dhyāyantau śaṃkaraṃ devaṃ sahasraparivatsarān ka uvāca | evaṃ tau niścayaṃ kṛtvā vilokya śubhavāsaraṃ | eko yayau svargalokaṃ vāyuvegasamo jave ye tu taṃ śaraṇaṃ yātāstadīyatvātpade sthitāḥ | ye hatāstatsutāstena sthāpitāḥ karadāḥ kṛtāḥ sevante yāṃ sadā cāṣṭanāyikā guṇalabdhaye | śakrādi suravṛndāni janayāmāsa yā'naghā

Sūta said: What was formerly spoken by Brahmā to Vyāsa of measureless splendour, and by Bhṛgu to Somakānta — that very thing I tell you. The two, muttering the auspicious five-syllabled science declared by Nārada, meditating on the god Śaṃkara for a thousand years. Ka (Brahmā) said: Having thus made their resolve and having looked for an auspicious day, one went to the world of heaven, equal in speed to the rush of the wind. But those who went to him for refuge remained in their positions by belonging to him; those who were slain — their sons were installed and made tributaries. She whom the eight Nāyikās always serve for the obtaining of virtues; she, the sinless one, gave birth to the throngs of gods beginning with Śakra.

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GnP 2 1.7

व्यास उवाच । पद्मयोने वद विभो गणेशचरितं शुभं । यद्यद्रूपं समास्थाय यद्यच्च कृतवान् विभुः निराहारौ वायुभक्षौ शरदां द्विसहस्रकम् । सहस्रवर्षं पत्राणि पक्वानि जक्षतुश्च तौ यातोऽमरावतीं तत्र बभंजाराममंडलम् । बद्ध्वा परिकरं तस्थौ शक्रस्य पुरतो बली ये तु युद्धोद्यता भूपास्तेऽपि सेवाकृतोऽभवन् । तेषां पदेषु दैत्यान्सोऽस्थापयत्स्वस्य संमतान् मूलप्रकृतिरूपा सातादृग्रूपं समाश्रिता। सा कदाचित् स्वकं कान्तं मुदितं मुदिताऽब्रवीत्

vyāsa uvāca | padmayone vada vibho gaṇeśacaritaṃ śubhaṃ | yadyadrūpaṃ samāsthāya yadyacca kṛtavān vibhuḥ nirāhārau vāyubhakṣau śaradāṃ dvisahasrakam | sahasravarṣaṃ patrāṇi pakvāni jakṣatuśca tau yāto'marāvatīṃ tatra babhaṃjārāmamaṃḍalam | baddhvā parikaraṃ tasthau śakrasya purato balī ye tu yuddhodyatā bhūpāste'pi sevākṛto'bhavan | teṣāṃ padeṣu daityānso'sthāpayatsvasya saṃmatān mūlaprakṛtirūpā sātādṛgrūpaṃ samāśritā| sā kadācit svakaṃ kāntaṃ muditaṃ muditā'bravīt

Vyāsa said: O lotus-born, tell, O mighty one, the auspicious deeds of Gaṇeśa — what form the Lord assumed and what he did. Fasting, living on air, for two thousand autumns; for a thousand years the two chewed fallen leaves. He went to Amarāvatī and there broke up the circle of pleasure-groves; girding up his loins the mighty one stood before Śakra. Those kings who were ready for battle became doers of service; in their places he installed daityas approved by himself. She, being of the form of the root Nature, took on such a form; once, delighted, she said to her delighted husband:

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GnP 2 1.8

कृपावता त्वया ब्रह्मन् ममवाक्यादुदीर्यताम् । उपासनाखंडमिदं श्रुत्वा तृप्तिं न यामि च एवं दशसहस्राणि वर्षाणि जपतोर्ययुः । विवृद्धे भूरितपसि ततश्च तेजसा तयोः कोलाहलो महानासीद्देवानां धावतां भृशम् । कोऽयं कोऽयं कथं यातोऽकस्मादिन्द्रसमीपतः पालयामास पृथिवीं समुद्रवलयांकिताम् । आतंकभारसंतप्ता देवदानव किन्नराः स्वामिन् विज्ञप्तुमिच्छामि कृपां कृत्वा वदस्व तत्

kṛpāvatā tvayā brahman mamavākyādudīryatām | upāsanākhaṃḍamidaṃ śrutvā tṛptiṃ na yāmi ca evaṃ daśasahasrāṇi varṣāṇi japatoryayuḥ | vivṛddhe bhūritapasi tataśca tejasā tayoḥ kolāhalo mahānāsīddevānāṃ dhāvatāṃ bhṛśam | ko'yaṃ ko'yaṃ kathaṃ yāto'kasmādindrasamīpataḥ pālayāmāsa pṛthivīṃ samudravalayāṃkitām | ātaṃkabhārasaṃtaptā devadānava kinnarāḥ svāmin vijñaptumicchāmi kṛpāṃ kṛtvā vadasva tat

Let it be uttered by you, O brahmin, out of compassion, at my word; hearing this Upāsanākhaṇḍa I do not reach satiety. Thus ten thousand years passed for the two as they muttered (the formula); and when their great austerity had grown, then by their ardour a great uproar arose among the gods running about violently: 'Who is this, who is this? How has he come suddenly into Indra's presence?' He protected the earth girdled by the ocean. Gods, dānavas and kinnaras, scorched by the weight of terror. 'Master, I wish to make a request; show favour and tell me that.'

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GnP 2 1.9

येन येनावतारेण यं यं दैत्यं महाबलम् । अहनद् विकटस्तत्तत् कर्मास्य वक्तुमर्हसि सूर्योऽभून्मन्दकिरणो भस्मोद्धूलित देहयोः । व्याघ्राजिने चाक्षमाले बिभ्रतो गजचर्मणी घ्नन्तु बध्नन्तु सुदृढं दूरीकुर्वन्त्वमुं नरम् । इति ते धावमानास्ते सर्वे तेन निराकृताः मुनयोऽयुर्गिरिगुहां यज्ञ स्वाध्यायवर्जिताः । वेदत्यागस्य दोषेण मनसा चाभ्यसं श्रुतीः पतिं विना न चान्याऽस्ति गतिं सद्योषितां प्रभो । कश्यप उवाच । सम्यगुक्तं त्वया भद्रे मम प्रीतिकरेऽनघे

yena yenāvatāreṇa yaṃ yaṃ daityaṃ mahābalam | ahanad vikaṭastattat karmāsya vaktumarhasi sūryo'bhūnmandakiraṇo bhasmoddhūlita dehayoḥ | vyāghrājine cākṣamāle bibhrato gajacarmaṇī ghnantu badhnantu sudṛḍhaṃ dūrīkurvantvamuṃ naram | iti te dhāvamānāste sarve tena nirākṛtāḥ munayo'yurgiriguhāṃ yajña svādhyāyavarjitāḥ | vedatyāgasya doṣeṇa manasā cābhyasaṃ śrutīḥ patiṃ vinā na cānyā'sti gatiṃ sadyoṣitāṃ prabho | kaśyapa uvāca | samyaguktaṃ tvayā bhadre mama prītikare'naghe

By whichever incarnation he, the terrible one, slew whichever mighty daitya — each of those deeds of his you ought to tell. The sun became dim-rayed. Of the two whose bodies were dusted with ash, wearing tiger-skins, rosaries and elephant-hides. "Let them strike, let them bind him fast, let them drive this man far off!" — thus they all ran, and were repulsed by him. The sages went to mountain caves, bereft of sacrifice and of Vedic recitation; through the fault of abandoning the Veda, (they) practised the Vedic texts (only) with the mind. Apart from her husband there is no other recourse for good women, O lord. Kashyapa said: Rightly have you spoken, gracious lady, who bring me delight, O faultless one.

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GnP 2 1.11

सूत उवाच । श्रुत्वा नानाविधान् प्रश्नानुवाच कमलासनः। कथां नानाविधां दिव्यां व्यासाय परिपृच्छते जातिवैराः सुनिर्वैरा आसन्सिंह गजादयः । एवं तत्तपसा तुष्टः पंचवक्त्रस्त्रिलोचनः कम्पिता पृथिवी सर्वा सपर्वत वनाकरा । तदंगदीप्त्या श्यामास्ते जाता विबुधसत्तमाः प्रास्थापयत् सुबलिनो नानामायाविशारदान् । ते तार्क्ष्यरूपाः संयाता बभक्षुरुरगोत्तमान् परमात्मा चिदानन्द ईश्वरो यः परात्परः । यदा स्वपुत्रतामेष्ये तदा मे स्यात्स्थिरं मनः

sūta uvāca | śrutvā nānāvidhān praśnānuvāca kamalāsanaḥ| kathāṃ nānāvidhāṃ divyāṃ vyāsāya paripṛcchate jātivairāḥ sunirvairā āsansiṃha gajādayaḥ | evaṃ tattapasā tuṣṭaḥ paṃcavaktrastrilocanaḥ kampitā pṛthivī sarvā saparvata vanākarā | tadaṃgadīptyā śyāmāste jātā vibudhasattamāḥ prāsthāpayat subalino nānāmāyāviśāradān | te tārkṣyarūpāḥ saṃyātā babhakṣururagottamān paramātmā cidānanda īśvaro yaḥ parātparaḥ | yadā svaputratāmeṣye tadā me syātsthiraṃ manaḥ

Suta said: Having heard the various questions, the lotus-seated one spoke a manifold divine narrative to Vyasa, who was enquiring. Lions, elephants and the rest, natural enemies, became wholly free of enmity. Thus the five-faced, three-eyed one was pleased by that austerity. The whole earth shook, with its mountains, forests and mines. By the radiance of his body those best of gods turned dark. He dispatched very strong ones, skilled in various magic arts. They, in the form of Tarkshya (Garuda), went and devoured the foremost serpents. The Supreme Self, consciousness-and-bliss, the Lord who is higher than the highest — when I obtain him as my own son, then my mind will be steady.

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GnP 2 1.12

ब्रह्मोवाच । साधु पृष्टं त्वया व्यास हृदयानन्दकारिणा । वक्तुर्विवर्धते प्रीतिः सादरे श्रोतरि प्रभो। दशबाहूरपर्णांगो व्याघ्रेभचर्म शूलवान् । बिभ्रच्छिरसि गंगां च डमरुं दक्षिणे करे यथाऽऽमयजितो मर्त्यो याति सद्यो विवर्णताम् । तद्वत्तद्दर्शनात्सर्वे विवर्णत्वं गताः सुराः असंख्याता भक्षितास्तैस्ततः शेषो ययौ पुरः । मुक्ताफलानि रत्नानि सहनागांगनायुतः तस्य सेवां कर्तुमीहे उपायं तत्र मे वद । येन स पुत्रतामेष्येत् कृतकृत्यं मनो भवेत्

brahmovāca | sādhu pṛṣṭaṃ tvayā vyāsa hṛdayānandakāriṇā | vakturvivardhate prītiḥ sādare śrotari prabho| daśabāhūraparṇāṃgo vyāghrebhacarma śūlavān | bibhracchirasi gaṃgāṃ ca ḍamaruṃ dakṣiṇe kare yathā''mayajito martyo yāti sadyo vivarṇatām | tadvattaddarśanātsarve vivarṇatvaṃ gatāḥ surāḥ asaṃkhyātā bhakṣitāstaistataḥ śeṣo yayau puraḥ | muktāphalāni ratnāni sahanāgāṃganāyutaḥ tasya sevāṃ kartumīhe upāyaṃ tatra me vada | yena sa putratāmeṣyet kṛtakṛtyaṃ mano bhavet

Brahma said: Well have you asked, Vyasa, giver of joy to the heart; the speaker's delight increases when the hearer is attentive, O lord. Ten-armed, with limbs (clad) otherwise, bearing tiger- and elephant-hide and a trident, carrying the Ganga on his head and a drum in his right hand. As a man overcome by disease at once turns pale, so at the sight of him all the gods turned pale. Countless were devoured by them; then the remainder went forth. Pearls and jewels, together with elephants and thousands of women. I desire to render service to him; tell me the means to that, by which he would become (my) son and my mind be fulfilled.

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GnP 2 1.13

अवाच्यमपि वक्तुं मे पुण्यश्लोके भवेत् त्वयि । शक्तिर्गरीयसी यद्वद् वक्तुः श्रोतरि कथ्यताम् फणिहारसमायुक्तो रुंडमालालसद्गलः । वृषारुढो नीलकंठः प्रभया भासितांबरः इन्द्रोऽपि विह्वलो जातो विवर्णश्च तदा मुने । केचिद्दश दिशो याताः सन्नद्धा केऽपि चाभवन् अनेक दिव्यवस्त्राणि प्रगृहय रुचिराणि सः । तानि सर्वाणि दत्त्वैव साम चक्रेऽसुरैः सह मुनिरुवाच । साधु प्रोक्तं महाभागे वचनं परितोषकम् । यथा जलं तृषार्तस्य क्षुधितस्य च भोजनम्

avācyamapi vaktuṃ me puṇyaśloke bhavet tvayi | śaktirgarīyasī yadvad vaktuḥ śrotari kathyatām phaṇihārasamāyukto ruṃḍamālālasadgalaḥ | vṛṣāruḍho nīlakaṃṭhaḥ prabhayā bhāsitāṃbaraḥ indro'pi vihvalo jāto vivarṇaśca tadā mune | keciddaśa diśo yātāḥ sannaddhā ke'pi cābhavan aneka divyavastrāṇi pragṛhaya rucirāṇi saḥ | tāni sarvāṇi dattvaiva sāma cakre'suraiḥ saha muniruvāca | sādhu proktaṃ mahābhāge vacanaṃ paritoṣakam | yathā jalaṃ tṛṣārtasya kṣudhitasya ca bhojanam

Even what should not be said becomes speakable by me to you of holy fame; the power (of speech) is greater — as the speaker's is, so let it be told to the hearer. Girt with a garland of serpents, his neck bright with a garland of severed heads, mounted on the bull, the blue-throated one, the sky lit up by his radiance. Indra too became agitated and pale then, O sage; some fled to the ten directions, and some stood armed. Taking up many lovely divine garments, he, giving all of them, made peace with the demons. The sage said: Well spoken, greatly fortunate one — a wholly satisfying speech, like water to one tormented by thirst and food to one who is hungry.

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GnP 2 1.14

इदानीं सर्वमाख्यासे गणेशचरितं तव । नानावतारान् कृत्वा स भूभारं हृतवान् विभु: नानालंकारसंयुक्तः श्वेतांगश्चंद्रशेखरः । दृष्ट्वा तौ तादृशं देवं हर्षमापतुरुत्तमम् केचित्तं शरणं याता अत्यधीराः सुराधमः । तत इन्द्रश्चतुर्दन्तं वज्रहस्तः समारुहत् शासनं परिजग्राह नरान्तक समीरितम् । करभारं वार्षिकं स स्वीचक्रेऽनन्त शीर्षका तथा मे वचनं जातं तव देवि सुतोषकृत् । विना पुण्यं कथं यायात्परमात्मा स्वपुत्रताम्

idānīṃ sarvamākhyāse gaṇeśacaritaṃ tava | nānāvatārān kṛtvā sa bhūbhāraṃ hṛtavān vibhu: nānālaṃkārasaṃyuktaḥ śvetāṃgaścaṃdraśekharaḥ | dṛṣṭvā tau tādṛśaṃ devaṃ harṣamāpaturuttamam kecittaṃ śaraṇaṃ yātā atyadhīrāḥ surādhamaḥ | tata indraścaturdantaṃ vajrahastaḥ samāruhat śāsanaṃ parijagrāha narāntaka samīritam | karabhāraṃ vārṣikaṃ sa svīcakre'nanta śīrṣakā tathā me vacanaṃ jātaṃ tava devi sutoṣakṛt | vinā puṇyaṃ kathaṃ yāyātparamātmā svaputratām

Now I shall relate to you the whole story of Ganesha. Having made various incarnations, that all-pervading one removed the burden of the earth. Adorned with many ornaments, white-limbed, moon-crested — seeing that god in such a form, the two attained the highest joy. Some, the lowest of the gods, being utterly irresolute, went to him for refuge. Then Indra, thunderbolt in hand, mounted the four-tusked (elephant). He accepted the command uttered by Narantaka; the thousand-headed one took upon himself the yearly tribute. Thus my speech has come about, O goddess, giving you great satisfaction. Without merit, how would the Supreme Self come to be one's own son?

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GnP 2 1.15

हत्वा नानाविधान् दैत्यान् स्वस्थानेऽस्थापयन् सुरान् । साधूनां पालनरतो दुष्ट निर्मूलनं क्षमः ननर्ततुरुभौ पश्चात्साष्टांगं प्रणिपेततुः । बद्धांजलिपुटौ तौ तं देवदेवं समूचतुः जगर्ज सुमहाभीमं चकम्पे भुवनत्रयम् । किं पश्यतेत्युवाचैनान् सन्नद्धान् सुरसत्तमान् तथापि दैत्यस्तत्राप्य स्थापयद्दैत्यपुंगवम् । अनेक दैत्यसहितं सर्वाध्यक्षं रसातले तत्रोपायं वदे तं च ह्रदि कुरु स्थिरं प्रिये । योऽगोचरः श्रुतीनां च ब्रह्मादीनामगोचरः

hatvā nānāvidhān daityān svasthāne'sthāpayan surān | sādhūnāṃ pālanarato duṣṭa nirmūlanaṃ kṣamaḥ nanartaturubhau paścātsāṣṭāṃgaṃ praṇipetatuḥ | baddhāṃjalipuṭau tau taṃ devadevaṃ samūcatuḥ jagarja sumahābhīmaṃ cakampe bhuvanatrayam | kiṃ paśyatetyuvācainān sannaddhān surasattamān tathāpi daityastatrāpya sthāpayaddaityapuṃgavam | aneka daityasahitaṃ sarvādhyakṣaṃ rasātale tatropāyaṃ vade taṃ ca hradi kuru sthiraṃ priye | yo'gocaraḥ śrutīnāṃ ca brahmādīnāmagocaraḥ

Having slain daityas of many kinds, he established the gods in their own place; devoted to protecting the good, he is able to uproot the wicked. Afterwards the two danced, and then prostrated themselves with the eight limbs; with palms joined they addressed that god of gods. He roared most terribly, and the three worlds shook. "What are you looking at?" he said to those foremost gods standing armed. Even so the daitya, having come there, installed that bull among daityas, together with many daityas, as overseer of all in the netherworld. I shall tell the means for that; hold it firm in your heart, beloved. He who is beyond the range of the Vedas, beyond the range of Brahma and the rest —

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GnP 2 1.16

इतिहासं शृणु मुने गणेशाख्यानसंश्रयम् । विष्टरश्रवसा प्रोक्तं श्रवणात् सर्वकामदम् धन्यौ नौ पितरौ देवजनुषी नयने तपः । धन्यं कुलं च देहौ च यतो दृष्टो महेश्वरः पौरुषं क्व गतं तावद्यावदत्रा गतोऽसुरः । ततस्ते पुरतो जग्मुः संग्रामाय कृतोद्यमाः आज्ञापयामास च तं तत्रस्थं स नरान्तकः । यदैव विकृतिं पश्ये रुरगाणां तदैव नः निर्गुणो निरहंकारो निरीहो निर्विकल्पकः । यो मायाविषयो मायानर्तको मायिमोहनः

itihāsaṃ śṛṇu mune gaṇeśākhyānasaṃśrayam | viṣṭaraśravasā proktaṃ śravaṇāt sarvakāmadam dhanyau nau pitarau devajanuṣī nayane tapaḥ | dhanyaṃ kulaṃ ca dehau ca yato dṛṣṭo maheśvaraḥ pauruṣaṃ kva gataṃ tāvadyāvadatrā gato'suraḥ | tataste purato jagmuḥ saṃgrāmāya kṛtodyamāḥ ājñāpayāmāsa ca taṃ tatrasthaṃ sa narāntakaḥ | yadaiva vikṛtiṃ paśye ruragāṇāṃ tadaiva naḥ nirguṇo nirahaṃkāro nirīho nirvikalpakaḥ | yo māyāviṣayo māyānartako māyimohanaḥ

Hear, sage, the ancient tale that rests on the account of Ganesha, told by him whose seat-cushion is (Shesha) [Vishnu], granting all desires by the mere hearing. Blessed are we two, blessed our parents, our birth as gods, our eyes, our austerity; blessed our lineage and our bodies, since Maheshvara has been seen. Where has (his) manliness gone, now that the demon has come here? Then they went forward, exerting themselves for battle. And Narantaka commanded him who stood there: "The moment I see any change in the serpents, at that very moment for us..." He is without qualities, without ego, without striving, without alternatives — he who is the object of maya, the dancer of maya, the deluder of the magician.

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GnP 2 1.17

विष्णुरुवाच । युगे युगे भिन्ननामा गणेशो भिन्नवाहनः। भिन्नकर्मा भिन्नगुणो भिन्नदैत्यापहारकः वेदांतागोचरोऽगम्यो वाचो यस्मादुपावृत्ताः। आगमः कुंठितो यत्र षट्शास्त्राण्यथ मानसम् सद्योत्सुकान् सुरान्प्रेक्ष्य प्रोचे देवान्तको हरिम् । किमर्थं श्रमसे शक्र विचारय वरान्मम दूतमुखात् सूचयस्व हनिष्यामोऽखिलानहीन् । इत्थं शिक्षाप्य तं ते तु दैत्याः सर्वे नरान्तकम् मायातीतोऽपि मायाया आधारः कारणातिगः । मायाविस्तारकारी च कार्यकारणकारणम्

viṣṇuruvāca | yuge yuge bhinnanāmā gaṇeśo bhinnavāhanaḥ| bhinnakarmā bhinnaguṇo bhinnadaityāpahārakaḥ vedāṃtāgocaro'gamyo vāco yasmādupāvṛttāḥ| āgamaḥ kuṃṭhito yatra ṣaṭśāstrāṇyatha mānasam sadyotsukān surānprekṣya proce devāntako harim | kimarthaṃ śramase śakra vicāraya varānmama dūtamukhāt sūcayasva haniṣyāmo'khilānahīn | itthaṃ śikṣāpya taṃ te tu daityāḥ sarve narāntakam māyātīto'pi māyāyā ādhāraḥ kāraṇātigaḥ | māyāvistārakārī ca kāryakāraṇakāraṇam

Vishnu said: In age after age Ganesha has a different name, a different mount, different deeds, different qualities, and destroys different daityas. He is beyond the reach of Vedanta, unattainable, from whom words turn back; there scripture is blunted, and the six systems, and the mind. Seeing the gods eager for battle, Devantaka said to Hari: "Why do you trouble yourself, Shakra? Consider my boons. Announce it through a messenger: we shall slay all the serpents." Thus having instructed Narantaka, all those daityas... Though beyond maya, he is the support of maya, transcending causation; he spreads out maya and is the cause of effect and cause.

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GnP 2 1.18

सिंहारूढो दशभुजः कृते नाम्ना विनायकः । तेजोरूपी महाकायः सर्वेषां वरदो वशी सहस्रवदनः स्तोतुं न क्षमः सनकादयः । न शक्ताः सर्वजगतः कर्ता पाताऽपहारकः अन्तको भयसंत्रस्तः पलायनपरो गतः। तृणप्रायं तु ते वज्रं मन्येऽहं शंकराज्ञया मृत्युलोके स्थितं याता वृत्तांतं सर्वमब्रुवन् । नरान्तकः सदाऽप्रेषीन् मृत्युपाताल लोकजम् कथं साकारतां गच्छेदनुष्ठानं विना प्रिये । अदितिरुवाच । कस्य ध्यानं कथं कार्यमनुष्ठानं मयाऽधुना

siṃhārūḍho daśabhujaḥ kṛte nāmnā vināyakaḥ | tejorūpī mahākāyaḥ sarveṣāṃ varado vaśī sahasravadanaḥ stotuṃ na kṣamaḥ sanakādayaḥ | na śaktāḥ sarvajagataḥ kartā pātā'pahārakaḥ antako bhayasaṃtrastaḥ palāyanaparo gataḥ| tṛṇaprāyaṃ tu te vajraṃ manye'haṃ śaṃkarājñayā mṛtyuloke sthitaṃ yātā vṛttāṃtaṃ sarvamabruvan | narāntakaḥ sadā'preṣīn mṛtyupātāla lokajam kathaṃ sākāratāṃ gacchedanuṣṭhānaṃ vinā priye | aditiruvāca | kasya dhyānaṃ kathaṃ kāryamanuṣṭhānaṃ mayā'dhunā

Mounted on a lion, ten-armed, named Vinayaka in the Krita age, of the form of splendour, of great body, granting boons to all, self-controlled. Even one with a thousand mouths is not able to praise him; Sanaka and the rest are not able — he is maker, protector and destroyer of the whole world. Antaka, terrified with fear, took to flight and went off. I consider your thunderbolt to be like a blade of grass, by Shankara's command. Going, they told the whole matter that had happened in the world of the dead; Narantaka constantly sent (word) of what arose in the world of death and the netherworld. How would he come to have form without ritual observance, beloved? Aditi said: On whom should the meditation be, and how is the observance now to be done by me?

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GnP 2 1.19

त्रेतायुगे बर्हिरूढः षड्भूजोप्यर्जुनच्छविः । मयूरेश्वर नाम्ना च विख्यातो भुवनत्रये रंकं करोति राजानं राजानं रंकमेव च । सर्पं करोति वलयं वलयं सर्पमेव च मच्छ्वासात्सर्वतो यान्ति देवास्त्वद् दृष्टिवर्तिनः । श्रूयतां मद्वचः शक्र साम्नैव दीयतां मम देवान्तकाय वृत्तान्तं सर्वस्य यमनुष्ठितम् । उपायनानि सर्वाणि स्वर्लोके दुर्लभानि च केन मन्त्रेण वा कुर्वे तद् वदस्व महामुने । क उवाच । एवं पृष्टो मुनिस्तस्यै नाममन्त्रंसमादिशत्

tretāyuge barhirūḍhaḥ ṣaḍbhūjopyarjunacchaviḥ | mayūreśvara nāmnā ca vikhyāto bhuvanatraye raṃkaṃ karoti rājānaṃ rājānaṃ raṃkameva ca | sarpaṃ karoti valayaṃ valayaṃ sarpameva ca macchvāsātsarvato yānti devāstvad dṛṣṭivartinaḥ | śrūyatāṃ madvacaḥ śakra sāmnaiva dīyatāṃ mama devāntakāya vṛttāntaṃ sarvasya yamanuṣṭhitam | upāyanāni sarvāṇi svarloke durlabhāni ca kena mantreṇa vā kurve tad vadasva mahāmune | ka uvāca | evaṃ pṛṣṭo munistasyai nāmamantraṃsamādiśat

In the Treta age he rides a peacock, is six-armed and white in hue, and is famed in the three worlds by the name Mayureshvara. He makes a beggar a king and a king a beggar; he makes a snake a bracelet and a bracelet a snake. "At my breath the gods, who live under your gaze, flee in all directions. Let my word be heard, Shakra: let it be given to me by conciliation alone." (They told) Devantaka the whole account of what had been done. All the tributes, hard to obtain in heaven — "By what mantra should I perform it? Tell me that, great sage." Ka (Brahma) said: Thus asked, the sage instructed her in the name-mantra.

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GnP 2 1.21

कलौ तु धूम्रवर्णोऽसावश्वारूढो द्विहस्तवान् । धूम्रकेतुरिति ख्यातो म्लेच्छानीकविनाशकृत् साधु साधु श्रुतं वाक्यामृतं वां समुदा मया। तपसा परितुष्टो वां वृषारूढा सहोमया देवान्तकेति मन्नाम न जानासि कथं सुर । क उवाच । इति तद्वचनं श्रुत्वा बिभिदे हृदयं हरेः सोमकान्त उवाच । कथमेतौ हतौ केन रूपेण तद्वदस्व मे । केनास्त्रेण च शस्त्रेण अवतारेण केन च पुरश्चरणमार्गं च सर्वं तस्यै न्यवेदयत् । ततः सा मुदिता ब्रह्मन् प्रणिपातपुरःसरम्

kalau tu dhūmravarṇo'sāvaśvārūḍho dvihastavān | dhūmraketuriti khyāto mlecchānīkavināśakṛt sādhu sādhu śrutaṃ vākyāmṛtaṃ vāṃ samudā mayā| tapasā parituṣṭo vāṃ vṛṣārūḍhā sahomayā devāntaketi mannāma na jānāsi kathaṃ sura | ka uvāca | iti tadvacanaṃ śrutvā bibhide hṛdayaṃ hareḥ somakānta uvāca | kathametau hatau kena rūpeṇa tadvadasva me | kenāstreṇa ca śastreṇa avatāreṇa kena ca puraścaraṇamārgaṃ ca sarvaṃ tasyai nyavedayat | tataḥ sā muditā brahman praṇipātapuraḥsaram

But in the Kali age he is smoke-coloured, mounted on a horse, two-handed, known as Dhumraketu, destroyer of the armies of the barbarians. "Good, good! I have heard with joy the nectar of your two speeches. I am well pleased with your austerity" — (said he) mounted on the bull, together with Uma. "How is it, god, that you do not know my name, Devantaka?" Ka said: Hearing that speech of his, Hari's heart was rent. Somakanta said: Tell me, how were these two slain, and in what form? By what missile and what weapon, and by which incarnation? He communicated to her the whole method of the preparatory rite; then she, delighted, O brahman, prostrating herself first...

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GnP 2 1.22

यं यं स दैत्यं हन्ति स्म तदिदानीं ब्रुवे मुने । अंगदेशीयनगरे रौद्रकेतुरभूद्द्विजः आगतो ध्याननिष्ठाभ्यां याचेतां वांछितान् वरान् । क उवाच । अंधकारेरिदं वाक्यं श्रुत्वा तौ प्रोचतुस्तदा शक्रस्य च मुखादग्निः प्रबलो निर्गतो बहिः । अतितप्ते यथा तैले जलपाताद्यथा भवेत् भृगुरुवाच । एवमेव कृतप्रश्नो व्यासमूचे चतुर्मुखः । यां कथां परया प्रीत्या तामेव त्वां ब्रवीम्यहम् कश्यपं निजभर्तारं पूजयामास सादरम् । तदनुज्ञां समादाय जगाम तपसे वनम्

yaṃ yaṃ sa daityaṃ hanti sma tadidānīṃ bruve mune | aṃgadeśīyanagare raudraketurabhūddvijaḥ āgato dhyānaniṣṭhābhyāṃ yācetāṃ vāṃchitān varān | ka uvāca | aṃdhakāreridaṃ vākyaṃ śrutvā tau procatustadā śakrasya ca mukhādagniḥ prabalo nirgato bahiḥ | atitapte yathā taile jalapātādyathā bhavet bhṛguruvāca | evameva kṛtapraśno vyāsamūce caturmukhaḥ | yāṃ kathāṃ parayā prītyā tāmeva tvāṃ bravīmyaham kaśyapaṃ nijabhartāraṃ pūjayāmāsa sādaram | tadanujñāṃ samādāya jagāma tapase vanam

Whichever daitya he slew — that I now tell, O sage. In a city of the Anga country there was a brahman named Raudraketu. Having come, the two, fixed in meditation, asked for the boons they desired. Ka said: Hearing this speech of Andhaka, the two then said... And from Shakra's mouth a mighty fire went forth outside, as happens when water falls into very hot oil. Bhrigu said: Just so, when the question was put, the four-faced one told Vyasa the tale which, with the greatest love, I tell to you. She reverently worshipped her own husband Kashyapa, and taking his permission went to the forest for austerity.

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GnP 2 1.23

सर्वशास्त्रार्थतत्वज्ञो वेदवेदांगपारगः । समोजीवेनाग्निहोत्री सुरगोद्विजपूजकः हर्षगद्गदया वाचा देवान्तकनरान्तकौ । यदि तुष्टोऽसि देवेश सर्वेश जगदीश्वरः तत ऊचे महेन्द्रस्तं क्रोधावेशसमन्वितः । त्वादृशाः कति कति न निहता दानवा मया क उवाच । दुर्जयौ वरगर्वौ तौ येन रूपेण घातितौ । येनावतारेण मुने येन शस्त्रेण चास्त्रतः स्नाता पवित्रवसना ध्यायन्ति स्थिरचेतसा । विनायकं देवदेवं न्यासं कृत्वा यथाविधि

sarvaśāstrārthatatvajño vedavedāṃgapāragaḥ | samojīvenāgnihotrī suragodvijapūjakaḥ harṣagadgadayā vācā devāntakanarāntakau | yadi tuṣṭo'si deveśa sarveśa jagadīśvaraḥ tata ūce mahendrastaṃ krodhāveśasamanvitaḥ | tvādṛśāḥ kati kati na nihatā dānavā mayā ka uvāca | durjayau varagarvau tau yena rūpeṇa ghātitau | yenāvatāreṇa mune yena śastreṇa cāstrataḥ snātā pavitravasanā dhyāyanti sthiracetasā | vināyakaṃ devadevaṃ nyāsaṃ kṛtvā yathāvidhi

Knowing the truth of the meaning of all the scriptures, gone to the far shore of the Vedas and their limbs, maintaining the fire-offering with an equal livelihood, worshipper of gods, cows and brahmans. With a voice choked with joy, Devantaka and Narantaka (said): "If you are pleased, lord of gods, lord of all, ruler of the world..." Then great Indra, filled with rage, said to him: "How many demons like you have I not slain!" Ka said: In what form were those two hard-to-conquer ones, proud of their boon, killed? By which incarnation, sage, by which weapon and by which missile? Bathed, in pure garments, they meditate with steady mind on Vinayaka, the god of gods, having performed the nyasa according to rule.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 1.24

ईश्वरोपासको नित्यं सर्वागमविशारदः । यस्य पत्नी शारदाख्या रूपलावण्यशोभिता यदि त्वया वरा देया यद्यनुग्राहयता च नौ । तदा देवमनुष्येन्द्र यक्षरक्षः पिशाचतः त्वमिदानीं वराद् गर्वादागतोऽस्यसुराधम । वज्रपाताद्धतो नूनं धरण्यां निपतिष्यसि संप्राप्ता ब्रह्मणा लोका देवाश्च स्वपदे स्थिताः । तत्सर्वं कथयिष्यामि सादरं श्रूयतां मुने स्थाने द्रुमलताकीर्णे निर्वाते निरुपद्रवे । अदिती रुद्धकरणा शुभासनपरिग्रहा

īśvaropāsako nityaṃ sarvāgamaviśāradaḥ | yasya patnī śāradākhyā rūpalāvaṇyaśobhitā yadi tvayā varā deyā yadyanugrāhayatā ca nau | tadā devamanuṣyendra yakṣarakṣaḥ piśācataḥ tvamidānīṃ varād garvādāgato'syasurādhama | vajrapātāddhato nūnaṃ dharaṇyāṃ nipatiṣyasi saṃprāptā brahmaṇā lokā devāśca svapade sthitāḥ | tatsarvaṃ kathayiṣyāmi sādaraṃ śrūyatāṃ mune sthāne drumalatākīrṇe nirvāte nirupadrave | aditī ruddhakaraṇā śubhāsanaparigrahā

A constant worshipper of the Lord, skilled in all the scriptures, whose wife was named Sharada, adorned with beauty and loveliness. "If boons are to be granted by you, and if you would favour us two, then, O lord of gods and men, (grant us immunity) from yaksha, rakshasa and pishacha." "Now you have come, lowest of demons, out of pride in your boon; struck by the fall of the thunderbolt you will surely fall to the ground." The worlds were regained by Brahma, and the gods were established in their own station. All that I shall relate; listen attentively, sage. In a place thick with trees and creepers, windless and free from disturbance, Aditi, with her senses restrained, took a proper seat.

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GnP 2 1.25

ईदृशी नाप्सरेःमध्ये नाष्टासुनायिकास्वपि । यद्वस्त्रनिर्जितश्चन्द्रश्चिन्तया क्षयमीयिवान् मानवोरगगन्धर्वाप्सरः किन्नरतोऽपि च । सर्व शस्त्रास्त्रतो वन्यग्राम्यपश्वादितोऽपि च अन्यपदप्रधानो हि समासोन्नाम्नि ते बली । ततः शक्रोऽहनत्तं तु वज्रेण दृढमुष्टिना जजाप परमं मन्त्रं स्मरन्ती सा विनायकम् । अनन्यवृत्ति मनसा साक्षात्कारमभीप्सती

īdṛśī nāpsareḥmadhye nāṣṭāsunāyikāsvapi | yadvastranirjitaścandraścintayā kṣayamīyivān mānavoragagandharvāpsaraḥ kinnarato'pi ca | sarva śastrāstrato vanyagrāmyapaśvādito'pi ca anyapadapradhāno hi samāsonnāmni te balī | tataḥ śakro'hanattaṃ tu vajreṇa dṛḍhamuṣṭinā jajāpa paramaṃ mantraṃ smarantī sā vināyakam | ananyavṛtti manasā sākṣātkāramabhīpsatī

There was no such woman among the apsarases, nor even among the eight chief heroines — she by whose garment the moon was outdone, and out of anxiety went to waning. And from men, serpents, gandharvas, apsarases and kinnaras, and from every weapon and missile, and from wild and village beasts too — (grant immunity). In a compound where another word is principal, you are strong in name... Then Shakra struck him with the thunderbolt with a firm fist. She murmured the supreme mantra, remembering Vinayaka, with a mind fixed on nothing else, longing for direct vision.

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GnP 2 1.26

अनेकदिव्याभरणैर्भासयन्ती धरातलम् । यथा नक्षत्रमालाभिर्भासते व्योममंडलम् ग्रहनक्षत्र भूतेभ्यो दानवा सुरतोऽपि च । न दिवा न च रात्रौ वा कृमिकीटादितोऽपि वा वज्रं तच्छतधा भिन्नमामभांडं च्युतं यथा । देवान्तकोऽच्छिन्नरो-- माऽतिष्ठदाजौ निराकुलः निराहारा वायुभक्ष्या जपध्यानपरायणा । तस्यास्तपः प्रभावेन निर्वैरा प्राणिनोऽभवन्

anekadivyābharaṇairbhāsayantī dharātalam | yathā nakṣatramālābhirbhāsate vyomamaṃḍalam grahanakṣatra bhūtebhyo dānavā surato'pi ca | na divā na ca rātrau vā kṛmikīṭādito'pi vā vajraṃ tacchatadhā bhinnamāmabhāṃḍaṃ cyutaṃ yathā | devāntako'cchinnaro-- mā'tiṣṭhadājau nirākulaḥ nirāhārā vāyubhakṣyā japadhyānaparāyaṇā | tasyāstapaḥ prabhāvena nirvairā prāṇino'bhavan

Lighting up the surface of the earth with many divine ornaments, as the vault of the sky shines with strings of stars. And from planets, stars and spirits, from demons and from gods; neither by day nor by night; nor even from worms and insects. That thunderbolt was split a hundredfold, like an unbaked pot falling. Devantaka, with his body-hair unruffled, stood undisturbed in battle. Without food, living on air, intent on muttering and meditation — by the power of her austerity living beings became free of enmity.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 1.27

कदाचित्सा गर्भवती शारदोत्पललोचना । शारदा शारदे मासि शरच्चन्द्रसुशोभिते मृत्युः कदापि नौ स्याच्च प्रसादाज्जगदीश्वर । त्रैलोक्यराज्यं नौ यच्छ भक्तिं ते चरणेऽपि च ततोऽसौ मुष्टिना पृष्ठे जघान सुरसत्तमम् । तेनासौ पतितो भूमौ वाताहत इव द्रुमः धर्षिता देवताः सर्वा किमियं साधयिष्यति । एवं वर्षशतं तेपेऽदितिः सा परमं तपः

kadācitsā garbhavatī śāradotpalalocanā | śāradā śārade māsi śaraccandrasuśobhite mṛtyuḥ kadāpi nau syācca prasādājjagadīśvara | trailokyarājyaṃ nau yaccha bhaktiṃ te caraṇe'pi ca tato'sau muṣṭinā pṛṣṭhe jaghāna surasattamam | tenāsau patito bhūmau vātāhata iva drumaḥ dharṣitā devatāḥ sarvā kimiyaṃ sādhayiṣyati | evaṃ varṣaśataṃ tepe'ditiḥ sā paramaṃ tapaḥ

Once she became pregnant, Sharada, with eyes like autumn lotuses, in the autumn month, beautiful with the autumn moon. "And may there never be death for us two, by your grace, lord of the world; grant us sovereignty over the three worlds, and devotion at your feet." Then he struck that best of gods on the back with his fist, and by that he fell to the ground like a tree struck by the wind. All the deities were assailed. "What is she going to accomplish?" — thus for a hundred years that Aditi performed supreme austerity.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 1.28

शरीरतेजसा यस्या न प्राज्ञायत किंचन । दोहदान्पूरयत्येष यं यं सा कामयत्सती क उवाच । तौ जगाद ततः शूली प्रसन्नस्तपसा तयोः । समाकर्ण्य वरान् सर्वान् भक्तयोर्वृषभध्वजः पौरुषं तस्य बुद्ध्वैव पपाल बलसूदनः । अधावद्वेगतः पृष्ठे सिंहो मृगगणानिव क्लेशान् बहुविधांस्तस्या दृष्ट्वा देवो विनायकः । स्त्रीभावे च तथा धैर्यमाविरासीद्विनायकः

śarīratejasā yasyā na prājñāyata kiṃcana | dohadānpūrayatyeṣa yaṃ yaṃ sā kāmayatsatī ka uvāca | tau jagāda tataḥ śūlī prasannastapasā tayoḥ | samākarṇya varān sarvān bhaktayorvṛṣabhadhvajaḥ pauruṣaṃ tasya buddhvaiva papāla balasūdanaḥ | adhāvadvegataḥ pṛṣṭhe siṃho mṛgagaṇāniva kleśān bahuvidhāṃstasyā dṛṣṭvā devo vināyakaḥ | strībhāve ca tathā dhairyamāvirāsīdvināyakaḥ

By the radiance of her body nothing at all could be discerned. He fulfils the pregnancy-longings, whatever that good woman desires. Ka said: Then the trident-bearer, the bull-bannered one, pleased with the austerity of those two devotees, having heard all their boon-requests, spoke to them. Realizing his prowess, the slayer of Bala fell; he ran swiftly behind, as a lion after herds of deer. Seeing her manifold hardships, the god Vinayaka — and such steadfastness in a woman's condition — Vinayaka appeared.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 1.29

एवं सा नवमे मासि यमलौ सुषुवे सुतौ । अतिकान्ततरौस्वान्तनन्दननावुभयोरुभौ शिव उवाच । यदिष्टं वांछितं सर्वं तत्तथा न तदन्यथा। अभयं सर्वतोऽमृत्यु त्रैलोक्ये राज्यमेव च व्यादाय भीषणं वक्त्रं पलन्तं तमुवाच सः । पलायसे किमधुना वल्गना क्व गता तव तेजोराशिः पुरस्तस्याः सूर्यकोटिसमप्रभः । गजाननो दशभुजो कुंडलाभ्यां विराजितः

evaṃ sā navame māsi yamalau suṣuve sutau | atikāntatarausvāntanandananāvubhayorubhau śiva uvāca | yadiṣṭaṃ vāṃchitaṃ sarvaṃ tattathā na tadanyathā| abhayaṃ sarvato'mṛtyu trailokye rājyameva ca vyādāya bhīṣaṇaṃ vaktraṃ palantaṃ tamuvāca saḥ | palāyase kimadhunā valganā kva gatā tava tejorāśiḥ purastasyāḥ sūryakoṭisamaprabhaḥ | gajānano daśabhujo kuṃḍalābhyāṃ virājitaḥ

Thus in the ninth month she bore twin sons, both exceedingly lovely, delighting the hearts of both (parents). Shiva said: All that is wished and desired shall be so, not otherwise: fearlessness from every quarter, deathlessness, and sovereignty in the three worlds. Opening his terrible mouth he said to him as he fled: "Why do you run away now? Where has your bragging gone?" Before her was a mass of splendour with the brilliance of ten million suns: elephant-faced, ten-armed, resplendent with two earrings.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 1.31

वंशो धन्यो जनुर्धन्यं यत्पुत्रौ वीक्षितौ मया । अर्घ्याद्यैर्द्विजवर्यान्स संपूज्य च गणाधिपम् एवं प्राप्येप्सितान् कामानन्तर्धानं ययो शवः । तावनुज्ञा ततो गृह्य तस्मिन्नन्तर्हिते गृहम् स्वयं तत्पुरतो भूत्वा मारयामास तान्सुरान् । मुखे चपेटिकां दत्त्वा गतासूंस्तानपातयत् कांचनं कटिसूत्रं च तिलकं मृगनाभिजम् । उरगं नाभिदेशे तु दिव्यांबर विराजितम्

vaṃśo dhanyo janurdhanyaṃ yatputrau vīkṣitau mayā | arghyādyairdvijavaryānsa saṃpūjya ca gaṇādhipam evaṃ prāpyepsitān kāmānantardhānaṃ yayo śavaḥ | tāvanujñā tato gṛhya tasminnantarhite gṛham svayaṃ tatpurato bhūtvā mārayāmāsa tānsurān | mukhe capeṭikāṃ dattvā gatāsūṃstānapātayat kāṃcanaṃ kaṭisūtraṃ ca tilakaṃ mṛganābhijam | uragaṃ nābhideśe tu divyāṃbara virājitam

"Blessed is my lineage, blessed my birth, in that I have beheld these two sons." Having duly honoured the best of brahmans with guest-offerings and the rest, and the lord of the ganas — Thus, having obtained the desired boons, Shiva vanished. Taking leave of the two, when he had vanished, (they went) home. Himself becoming (present) before them, he killed those gods; giving a slap on the face, he felled them lifeless. A golden girdle-cord, and a forehead mark of musk, and a serpent at the region of the navel, resplendent with divine garments.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 1.32

स्वस्तिवाच्यं चकराशु मातृपूजनपूर्वकम् । भक्त्याऽभ्युदयिकं श्राद्धं जातकर्मा करोद्द्विजैः ईयतुस्तं परिक्रम्य प्रणम्य च प्रपूज्य च । हर्षेण पितरौ दृष्ट्वा नेमतुर्भृश हर्षितौ भ्रामयित्वा ततश्चैकं पोथयामास भूतले । लत्तया मुष्टिना कांश्चित्कुर्पराघाततोऽपरान् महोराशिं पुरो दृष्ट्वा चकम्पे त्वदितिर्भृशम् । निमील्य नयने मूर्छामियाय न्यपतद्भुवि

svastivācyaṃ cakarāśu mātṛpūjanapūrvakam | bhaktyā'bhyudayikaṃ śrāddhaṃ jātakarmā karoddvijaiḥ īyatustaṃ parikramya praṇamya ca prapūjya ca | harṣeṇa pitarau dṛṣṭvā nematurbhṛśa harṣitau bhrāmayitvā tataścaikaṃ pothayāmāsa bhūtale | lattayā muṣṭinā kāṃścitkurparāghātato'parān mahorāśiṃ puro dṛṣṭvā cakampe tvaditirbhṛśam | nimīlya nayane mūrchāmiyāya nyapatadbhuvi

He quickly had the benediction of "svasti" recited, preceded by the worship of the Mothers; with devotion he had the abhyudayika śrāddha and the birth-rite performed by brahmins. The two went to him, circumambulated him, bowed, and worshipped him; seeing their parents with joy, and greatly delighted, they made obeisance. Then, whirling one about, he dashed him on the ground; some (he struck) with a kick, some with a fist, others with blows of the elbow. Seeing the great heap before her, Aditi trembled violently; closing her eyes she fell into a faint and dropped to the ground.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 1.33

संपूज्य ब्राह्मणान्भक्त्या ददौ दानान्यनेकशः । सुह्रदो मानयामास वासोरत्नधनादिभिः आलिंग्य पितरौ तौ तु निजवृत्तान्तमूचतुः। आघ्राय मस्तकं प्राह पिता तौ तनयौ मुदा कंठेऽगृहीत्प्राणघातं चकर्ष चापरान्सुरान् । केषांच्चिज्जानुनी भीत्त्वा केषांच्चिच्च भुजावपि । उरुयुग्मं च केषांच्चिच्चिक्षेप दूरतोऽपि तान् जपं ध्यानं विसस्मार चिन्तयामास चेतसा । किमागतं मम पुरो भाव्यं किमिदमद्भुतम्

saṃpūjya brāhmaṇānbhaktyā dadau dānānyanekaśaḥ | suhrado mānayāmāsa vāsoratnadhanādibhiḥ āliṃgya pitarau tau tu nijavṛttāntamūcatuḥ| āghrāya mastakaṃ prāha pitā tau tanayau mudā kaṃṭhe'gṛhītprāṇaghātaṃ cakarṣa cāparānsurān | keṣāṃccijjānunī bhīttvā keṣāṃccicca bhujāvapi | uruyugmaṃ ca keṣāṃcciccikṣepa dūrato'pi tān japaṃ dhyānaṃ visasmāra cintayāmāsa cetasā | kimāgataṃ mama puro bhāvyaṃ kimidamadbhutam

— tr. refused: cyber

GnP 2 1.34

नानावादित्रनिर्घोषैः शर्करां च गृहे गृहे । दापयामास तांबूलं पुत्रजन्मसुनिर्वृतः युवयोः सुवरप्राप्त्या दर्शनाच्छंकरस्य च । पावितं जन्म च कुलमर्जितं सुमहद्यशः उत्तानाः पतिताः केचित्केचिन् न्युब्जास्तथा सुराः । केचिन्मुखप्रहारं च चक्रुर्गन्तुं मनीश्वराः विस्मृताहं जपं ध्यानं किं वाऽयं परमेश्वरः । वरं दातुं समायातो महसा भासयन्दिशः

nānāvāditranirghoṣaiḥ śarkarāṃ ca gṛhe gṛhe | dāpayāmāsa tāṃbūlaṃ putrajanmasunirvṛtaḥ yuvayoḥ suvaraprāptyā darśanācchaṃkarasya ca | pāvitaṃ janma ca kulamarjitaṃ sumahadyaśaḥ uttānāḥ patitāḥ kecitkecin nyubjāstathā surāḥ | kecinmukhaprahāraṃ ca cakrurgantuṃ manīśvarāḥ vismṛtāhaṃ japaṃ dhyānaṃ kiṃ vā'yaṃ parameśvaraḥ | varaṃ dātuṃ samāyāto mahasā bhāsayandiśaḥ

With the noise of many kinds of musical instruments he had sugar and betel distributed in house after house, being greatly delighted at the birth of his sons. "By your two obtaining an excellent boon, and by the sight of Śaṃkara, my birth and my family have been purified, and very great fame has been earned." Some of the gods fell flat on their backs, and some face down; and some, struck in the face, were not able to go (on). "I have forgotten my muttered prayer and my meditation — or is this the Supreme Lord, come to grant a boon, lighting up the quarters with his radiance?"

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 1.35

यथा धान्यपरो योगी प्राप्य सद्वस्त्वनुत्तमम् । ततो दशाहेऽतीतेऽसावाकार्य द्विजपुंगवान् श्रुत्वोदन्तं शीतलानि जातान्यंगानि मे सुतौ । जाता चामृतपानस्य परा तृप्तिर्न संशयः केचित्तु तर्कयामासुर्मनसा दुःखितेन च । अकस्मात्प्रलयं किं नु प्रारभज्जगदीश्वरः एवं सा विह्वला यावत् तावद्देवो जगाद ताम् । विनायक उवाच । सोऽहं देवि दिवारात्रौ यं ध्यायसि च चेतसा

yathā dhānyaparo yogī prāpya sadvastvanuttamam | tato daśāhe'tīte'sāvākārya dvijapuṃgavān śrutvodantaṃ śītalāni jātānyaṃgāni me sutau | jātā cāmṛtapānasya parā tṛptirna saṃśayaḥ kecittu tarkayāmāsurmanasā duḥkhitena ca | akasmātpralayaṃ kiṃ nu prārabhajjagadīśvaraḥ evaṃ sā vihvalā yāvat tāvaddevo jagāda tām | vināyaka uvāca | so'haṃ devi divārātrau yaṃ dhyāyasi ca cetasā

As a yogin intent on (his) grain (obtains) the unsurpassed true substance— | then, when ten days had passed, he, having summoned the foremost of the twice-born; | "On hearing the news my limbs became cool, O my two sons, | and there arose the highest satisfaction of drinking nectar—there is no doubt." | But some pondered, with a mind made sorrowful: | "Has the Lord of the world for no reason begun the dissolution?" | While she was thus distraught, just then the god spoke to her. | Vināyaka said: I, O goddess, am he whom you meditate upon day and night in your mind.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 1.36

समर्च्य परया भक्त्या ज्योतिःशास्त्रविशारादान् । पप्रच्छ चैतयोर्नाम किं कार्यं द्विजसत्तमाः मात्राभ्यक्तौ बुभुजतुस्ततोऽन्नं विविधं शुभम् । पित्रासमं ब्राह्मणैश्च वेदशास्त्रविशारदैः सुविशीर्णाः सुराः सर्वे गजा सिंहार्दिता यथा । ततः स्वयं जगर्जाशु जयशाली सुरान्तकः दृष्टवा निष्ठां तपो घोरं वरं दातुमुपस्थितः। वरयस्व वरान्मत्तो यान्यान्कामयसे ह्रदा

samarcya parayā bhaktyā jyotiḥśāstraviśārādān | papraccha caitayornāma kiṃ kāryaṃ dvijasattamāḥ mātrābhyaktau bubhujatustato'nnaṃ vividhaṃ śubham | pitrāsamaṃ brāhmaṇaiśca vedaśāstraviśāradaiḥ suviśīrṇāḥ surāḥ sarve gajā siṃhārditā yathā | tataḥ svayaṃ jagarjāśu jayaśālī surāntakaḥ dṛṣṭavā niṣṭhāṃ tapo ghoraṃ varaṃ dātumupasthitaḥ| varayasva varānmatto yānyānkāmayase hradā

Having worshipped with the highest devotion those learned in the science of the stars, she asked: "What is to be the name of these two, O best of the twice-born?" Anointed by their mother, the two then ate various kinds of good food together with their father and with brahmins learned in the Vedas and the treatises. All the gods were utterly shattered, like elephants tormented by a lion; then the victorious slayer of the gods himself roared out at once. Seeing (his) fierce austerity brought to its completion, (the god) presented himself to grant a boon: "Choose from me whatever boons you desire in your heart."

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 1.37

अतीतानागतज्ञानाद्विचार्य कथयन्तु मे। ते चोचुः प्रणिधानेन देवान्तकनरान्तकौ ततः सा पूजयामास नानालंकारभूषणैः । तौ पुत्रौ ब्राह्मणांश्चैव तेभ्यो गृहयाशिषो बहु । विससर्ज प्रणम्यैतान्व्यतीयतुरुभौ निशाम् यथा मेघेषु गर्जत्सु गर्जते बर्हिमंडली। भास्करीं भास्करस्त्यक्त्वा यातो दूरतरं ततः तांस्तान्दास्यामि संतुष्टस्तपसाऽनेन सुवते । क उवाच । तदीयवाक्यमाकर्ण्य स्वस्था जाताऽदितिस्तदा

atītānāgatajñānādvicārya kathayantu me| te cocuḥ praṇidhānena devāntakanarāntakau tataḥ sā pūjayāmāsa nānālaṃkārabhūṣaṇaiḥ | tau putrau brāhmaṇāṃścaiva tebhyo gṛhayāśiṣo bahu | visasarja praṇamyaitānvyatīyaturubhau niśām yathā megheṣu garjatsu garjate barhimaṃḍalī| bhāskarīṃ bhāskarastyaktvā yāto dūrataraṃ tataḥ tāṃstāndāsyāmi saṃtuṣṭastapasā'nena suvate | ka uvāca | tadīyavākyamākarṇya svasthā jātā'ditistadā

"From your knowledge of past and future, consider and tell me." And they, after concentrating, said: "Devāntaka and Narāntaka." Then she honoured those two sons, and the brahmins as well, with various ornaments and adornments; receiving many blessings from them, she bowed and dismissed them, and the two of them passed the night — as, when the clouds thunder, the flock of peacocks cries out. The sun, leaving Bhāskarī, went further off from there. "Pleased with this austerity, O you of good vows, I shall grant these and those (boons)." Ka said: Hearing his words, Aditi then became composed.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 1.38

नामनी अनयोब्रह्मन्नन्वर्थे कुरू नोमते । इति तद्वचनं श्रुत्वा द्विजभक्तिरतो द्विजः सर्वेऽपि पपलुर्देवास्त्यक्त्वा स्वस्वपदानि च । ततः स्वयं शक्रपदे तस्थौ निर्भयचेतसा बद्धांजलिपुटा दीना प्रणनाम विनायकम् । अवदच्च तदा देवमतर्क्यं मनसा सदा

nāmanī anayobrahmannanvarthe kurū nomate | iti tadvacanaṃ śrutvā dvijabhaktirato dvijaḥ sarve'pi papalurdevāstyaktvā svasvapadāni ca | tataḥ svayaṃ śakrapade tasthau nirbhayacetasā baddhāṃjalipuṭā dīnā praṇanāma vināyakam | avadacca tadā devamatarkyaṃ manasā sadā

"O brahmin, give these two (children) names that fit their meaning, according to our wish." Hearing that speech of hers, the twice-born, devoted to devotion toward the twice-born, (did so). All the gods too fled, abandoning each his own station; then he himself stood in Indra's place with a fearless mind. With her cupped palms joined, wretched, she bowed to Vināyaka, and then addressed the god who is forever beyond the mind's reasoning.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 1.39

स्वशाखोक्तेन विधिना नामनी विदधे तथा। ब्राह्मणान्भोजयामास सर्वांश्च नागरांस्तथा सर्वे सुरा गता हैमगिरिगह्वरमुत्तमम् । कन्दमूलफलान्यादन्निन्युर्दुःखेन वासरान् अदितिरुवाच । त्वमेव सृजसे विश्वं प्रासि हंस्यखिलेश्वरः । नित्यो निरंजनो देवो निर्गुणो निरहंकृतिः

svaśākhoktena vidhinā nāmanī vidadhe tathā| brāhmaṇānbhojayāmāsa sarvāṃśca nāgarāṃstathā sarve surā gatā haimagirigahvaramuttamam | kandamūlaphalānyādanninyurduḥkhena vāsarān aditiruvāca | tvameva sṛjase viśvaṃ prāsi haṃsyakhileśvaraḥ | nityo niraṃjano devo nirguṇo nirahaṃkṛtiḥ

By the rite prescribed in his own (Vedic) branch he accordingly performed the (giving of) the two names; and he fed the brahmins and all the townspeople. All the gods went to an excellent cavern of the golden mountain; eating bulbs, roots and fruits, they passed their days in misery. Aditi said: You alone create the universe, you protect (it), you destroy (it), Lord of all; the god (who is) eternal, unstained, without qualities, without egoism.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

GnP 2 1.41

यत्र यत्र पदन्यासं कुर्वाते तौ यदृच्छया । रसातलगतस्यात्र शेषस्य नमते शिरः नानर्षि मन्त्रनिचयैरभिषेकं सुरान्तके । शंख भेरि मृदंगादि दुन्दुभीनां च निस्वनैः यदि तुष्टोऽसि देवेश यदि देयो वरो मम । तदा मे पुत्रतां याहि ततो मे कृतकृत्यता

yatra yatra padanyāsaṃ kurvāte tau yadṛcchayā | rasātalagatasyātra śeṣasya namate śiraḥ nānarṣi mantranicayairabhiṣekaṃ surāntake | śaṃkha bheri mṛdaṃgādi dundubhīnāṃ ca nisvanaiḥ yadi tuṣṭo'si deveśa yadi deyo varo mama | tadā me putratāṃ yāhi tato me kṛtakṛtyatā

Wherever those two chanced to set their feet, there the head of Śeṣa, who dwells in Rasātala, bowed down. — ... the consecration, with hosts of mantras (of the sages), O slayer of the gods' foes(?), and with the sounds of conch, kettledrum, mṛdaṅga and other drums, and of dundubhis. — "If you are pleased, lord of the gods, if a boon is to be granted me, then become my son; thereby my purpose will be accomplished."

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 1.42

दृश्यते मंडलं भानोस्तिष्ठतोः शिरसि स्थितम् । पित्रोः प्रदर्शयन्तौ तौ कौतुकानि भृशं तयोः ऊचुस्तं स्वामिनं दैत्या स्त्वादृग्दैत्यकुले न च । जातो वा भविता वापि भवानाज्ञां करोतु नः ततस्ते सेवनं यास्ये साधूनां पालनं भवेत् । दुष्टानां निधनं देव लोकानां कृतकृत्यता

dṛśyate maṃḍalaṃ bhānostiṣṭhatoḥ śirasi sthitam | pitroḥ pradarśayantau tau kautukāni bhṛśaṃ tayoḥ ūcustaṃ svāminaṃ daityā stvādṛgdaityakule na ca | jāto vā bhavitā vāpi bhavānājñāṃ karotu naḥ tataste sevanaṃ yāsye sādhūnāṃ pālanaṃ bhavet | duṣṭānāṃ nidhanaṃ deva lokānāṃ kṛtakṛtyatā

The disc of the sun is seen resting upon the head of the two as they stand; and the two display to their parents many marvels of theirs. The Daityas said to that lord of theirs: "One like you has not been born in the Daitya race, nor will be; let you give us your command. Then I shall enter your service — let there be protection of the good, destruction of the wicked, O god, and fulfilment for the worlds."

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 1.43

कदाचिन्नारदोऽकस्माद्रौद्रकेतुगृहं ययौ । श्रुत्वा कीर्तिं बालकयोः कौतुकादग्रहीत्तु तौ क उवाच । एवमेकाकिना तेन जिताः शक्र पुरोगमाः । राज्यं चकार देवानामरक्षच्चामरावतीम् विनायक उवाच । अहं ते पुत्रतां यास्य पास्ये साधूंश्च कंटकान् । हनिष्ये सकलां वांछां पूरयिष्ये तवापि च

kadācinnārado'kasmādraudraketugṛhaṃ yayau | śrutvā kīrtiṃ bālakayoḥ kautukādagrahīttu tau ka uvāca | evamekākinā tena jitāḥ śakra purogamāḥ | rājyaṃ cakāra devānāmarakṣaccāmarāvatīm vināyaka uvāca | ahaṃ te putratāṃ yāsya pāsye sādhūṃśca kaṃṭakān | haniṣye sakalāṃ vāṃchāṃ pūrayiṣye tavāpi ca

Once Nārada suddenly went to Raudraketu's house; having heard the fame of the two boys, out of curiosity he took them up (in his arms). — Ka said: Thus by him alone were Śakra and the rest conquered; he exercised the kingship of the gods and guarded Amarāvatī. — Vināyaka said: I shall become your son; I shall protect the good and slay the thorns (the wicked), and I shall also fulfil your every wish.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 1.44

मूर्ध्न्याघ्रायांकमारोप्य पितराववदत्तयोः । नारद उवाच । श्रुत्वा कीर्तिं समायातः पुत्रयोरद्भुतां शुभाम् ततोऽयात्सत्यलोकं स दैत्यकोटिसमन्वितः । ब्रह्माऽपि प्रययौ तत्र यत्र देवाः पुरागताः क उवाच । एवमुक्त्वाऽन्तर्दधेऽसो देवदेवो विनायकः । सादितिः कश्यपं गत्वा सर्व वृतान्तमब्रवीत्

mūrdhnyāghrāyāṃkamāropya pitarāvavadattayoḥ | nārada uvāca | śrutvā kīrtiṃ samāyātaḥ putrayoradbhutāṃ śubhām tato'yātsatyalokaṃ sa daityakoṭisamanvitaḥ | brahmā'pi prayayau tatra yatra devāḥ purāgatāḥ ka uvāca | evamuktvā'ntardadhe'so devadevo vināyakaḥ | sāditiḥ kaśyapaṃ gatvā sarva vṛtāntamabravīt

— tr. refused: cyber

GnP 2 1.45

अग्रेऽद्भुततरा चापि भविष्यत्यनयोर्मुने । महद्भाग्यं तव मुने यल्लब्धावीदृशौ सुतौ तत्रैकं नायकं स्थाप्य वैकुंठमगमच्च सः । ब्रह्मणो यानमारुह्य कदाचिच्छाक्रमेव च अदितिरुवाच । तवाज्ञया गताऽरण्यं तपस्तप्तं महत्तरम् । वरं दातुं महोरूप आगतोऽसौ गजाननः

agre'dbhutatarā cāpi bhaviṣyatyanayormune | mahadbhāgyaṃ tava mune yallabdhāvīdṛśau sutau tatraikaṃ nāyakaṃ sthāpya vaikuṃṭhamagamacca saḥ | brahmaṇo yānamāruhya kadācicchākrameva ca aditiruvāca | tavājñayā gatā'raṇyaṃ tapastaptaṃ mahattaram | varaṃ dātuṃ mahorūpa āgato'sau gajānanaḥ

"And in time to come, O sage, things still more wondrous will come about for these two. Great is your good fortune, O sage, that you have obtained such sons as these." And having installed one of them there as leader, he went to Vaikuṇṭha, having mounted Brahmā's vehicle, and at times Śakra's very own. Aditi said: "At your command I went to the forest and performed very great austerity; to grant a boon, O great-formed one, that elephant-faced one came."

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 1.46

दृष्ट्वाऽन्यो हर्षमायाति का वार्ता स्वजनस्य ह । इत्याकर्ण्य शुभं वाक्यं नारदेन समीरितम् लक्ष्म्या सह ततः पूर्वं क्षीराब्धिमगमद्धरिः । अत्याप्तं परमं दैत्यं तत्र स्थाप्य व्यचारयत् दृष्ट्वा स्वरूपं भीताऽस्मि ततो प्रार्थि विनायकः । तेन नानाविधा दत्ता वरा मे मुनिसत्तम

dṛṣṭvā'nyo harṣamāyāti kā vārtā svajanasya ha | ityākarṇya śubhaṃ vākyaṃ nāradena samīritam lakṣmyā saha tataḥ pūrvaṃ kṣīrābdhimagamaddhariḥ | atyāptaṃ paramaṃ daityaṃ tatra sthāpya vyacārayat dṛṣṭvā svarūpaṃ bhītā'smi tato prārthi vināyakaḥ | tena nānāvidhā dattā varā me munisattama

"Seeing (them), even a stranger comes to joy — what then to say of one's own kin!" Having heard this auspicious speech spoken by Nārada, Hari then went first, together with Lakṣmī, to the ocean of milk; having installed there a most trusted foremost demon, he considered (the matter). "Seeing (his) form I became afraid; then Vināyaka was entreated, and by him boons of many kinds were granted to me, O best of sages."

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GnP 2 1.47

तावाहतुर्मुनिं नत्वा पितरौ नारदं तदा । तव प्रसादाद् बह्वायुः पुत्रयोरस्तु सांप्रतम् किं मया न जितं दैत्या ब्रुवन्तु यामि तत्र वै । तेऽब्रुवन्नैव शेषोऽस्ति देवानां विषयः क्वचित् यास्ये पुत्रत्वमित्युक्त्वाऽन्तर्दधेऽसौ विनायकः । सिद्धकार्या तव बलादागता स्वाश्रमं मुने

tāvāhaturmuniṃ natvā pitarau nāradaṃ tadā | tava prasādād bahvāyuḥ putrayorastu sāṃpratam kiṃ mayā na jitaṃ daityā bruvantu yāmi tatra vai | te'bruvannaiva śeṣo'sti devānāṃ viṣayaḥ kvacit yāsye putratvamityuktvā'ntardadhe'sau vināyakaḥ | siddhakāryā tava balādāgatā svāśramaṃ mune

Then the two parents, having bowed to the sage Nārada, said to him: "By your grace, let there now be long life for our two sons." "What has not been conquered by me? Let the demons speak; there indeed I shall go." They said: "There is no remnant left at all, nowhere is there any domain of the gods." "I shall enter into sonship" — having said this, that Vināyaka vanished. "With my task accomplished by your power, I came to my own hermitage, O sage."

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GnP 2 1.48

अनुग्रहं कुरु तथा यथैतौ वीर्यवत्तरौ । भवेतां लोकविख्यातौ सर्वज्ञौ रिपुदंडिनौ लोकपालपदे स्थाप्य नानादैत्यान्जनस्य च । निरातंको निरुद्योगः संरक्षस्वामरावतीम् क उवाच । इति तस्या वचः श्रुत्वा वरदानं सुधोपमम् । जहर्ष मुनिमुख्योऽसौ तया सह मुनीश्वर

anugrahaṃ kuru tathā yathaitau vīryavattarau | bhavetāṃ lokavikhyātau sarvajñau ripudaṃḍinau lokapālapade sthāpya nānādaityānjanasya ca | nirātaṃko nirudyogaḥ saṃrakṣasvāmarāvatīm ka uvāca | iti tasyā vacaḥ śrutvā varadānaṃ sudhopamam | jaharṣa munimukhyo'sau tayā saha munīśvara

"Grant (them) your favour, so that these two may become mightier, renowned in the world, all-knowing, and punishers of enemies." — "Having installed the various demons, and (those) of the people, in the office of world-guardians, free from fear and without further exertion, guard Amarāvatī." Ka said: Hearing her words, that granting of a boon like nectar, that foremost of sages rejoiced together with her, O lord of sages.

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GnP 2 1.49

क उवाच । रुद्रकेतोः शारदायाः पुत्रयोर्भक्तिमीक्ष्य सः । पंचाक्षरीं महाविद्यामुभयोरुपदिष्टवान् इत्यमात्यवचः श्रुत्वा मुदा परमया युतः । देवान्तकश्चकारासौ तद्वाक्यं सम्यगीरितम् रेमाते परयप्रीत्या अमृतादिव निवृतौ

ka uvāca | rudraketoḥ śāradāyāḥ putrayorbhaktimīkṣya saḥ | paṃcākṣarīṃ mahāvidyāmubhayorupadiṣṭavān ityamātyavacaḥ śrutvā mudā paramayā yutaḥ | devāntakaścakārāsau tadvākyaṃ samyagīritam remāte parayaprītyā amṛtādiva nivṛtau

Ka said: Seeing the devotion of the two sons of Rudraketu and Śāradā, he imparted to them both the great science of the five syllables. — Hearing thus the minister's speech, filled with the highest joy, that Devāntaka carried out the words he had well spoken. — The two took delight with the utmost gladness, contented as if by (a draught of) nectar.

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GnP 2 1.51

एवमुक्त्वा तमामन्त्र्य रौद्रकेतुं महामुनिः। ततस्त्वन्तर्दधे ब्रह्मन्नारदो दिव्यदर्शनः

evamuktvā tamāmantrya raudraketuṃ mahāmuniḥ| tatastvantardadhe brahmannārado divyadarśanaḥ

Having spoken thus and taken leave of Raudraketu, the great sage — Nārada of divine sight — then vanished, O Brahman.

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GnP 2 1.52

अंतर्हिते मुनौ तौ चावदतां पितरौ मुदा। अनुष्ठानाय नावज्ञां भवद्भ्यां संप्रदीयताम्

aṃtarhite munau tau cāvadatāṃ pitarau mudā| anuṣṭhānāya nāvajñāṃ bhavadbhyāṃ saṃpradīyatām

When the sage had vanished, the two parents joyfully said to those two: "Let no neglect be shown by you two in carrying out (his instruction)."

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