Ganesha Purana — Kridakhanda — Chapter 16
GnP 2 16.1
अध्याय १६ प्रारंभ :- क उवाच । शृणु व्यास प्रवक्ष्यामि कथामाश्चर्यकारिणीम् । यां श्रुत्वा मानवो भक्त्या सुखमत्यन्तमश्नुते अध्याय १७ प्रारंभ :- क उवाच । आगतं राजशार्दूलं पुनः पप्रच्छ सादरम् । मेघगम्भीरया वाचा सर्वज्ञोऽपि विनायकः अध्याय १८ प्रारंभ :- व्यास उवाच । अपरेऽहनि संप्राप्ते का कथा समपद्यत । तां मे कथय लोकेश शृण्वस्तृप्यामि न क्वचित् अध्याय १९ प्रारंभ – क उवाच । बालकेन हतं श्रुत्वा ब्राह्मणं वेषधारिणम् । नरान्तको महादैत्यो कूपकं कन्दरासुरम् ०।। बहिर्याहि महाबाहो पश्य कूपं मनोहरम् । ददर्श कूपं बालैः स बहिरागत्य तत्क्षणात् १।। अत्यन्तं सुन्दरं दृष्ट्वा तं कूपं बालकैः सह । चिक्रीडे विविधैर्भावैर्नाना निलयनैरपि २।। मध्याह्ने जलमध्यस्थाः सिषिंचुस्ते परस्परम् । मज्जनोन्मज्जनं चक्रु कारयन्तः परस्परम् मायामास्थाय स गणो मज्जितुं समजायत । चरणौ हस्तकमले चिक्षेप बहुधा शिशुः ८।। लुलुपुः सर्वशो बालास्तावत्तेन धृतो बलात् । चरणे कन्दरो नीतस्तत्कूप तलमादरात् अध्याय २० प्रारंभ :- व्यास उवाच । काशिराजगृहे ब्रह्मन् विवाहः स कदाऽभवत् । तन्ममाचक्ष्व भगवन् विस्तराच्चतुरानन
adhyāya 16 prāraṃbha :- ka uvāca | śṛṇu vyāsa pravakṣyāmi kathāmāścaryakāriṇīm | yāṃ śrutvā mānavo bhaktyā sukhamatyantamaśnute adhyāya 17 prāraṃbha :- ka uvāca | āgataṃ rājaśārdūlaṃ punaḥ papraccha sādaram | meghagambhīrayā vācā sarvajño'pi vināyakaḥ adhyāya 18 prāraṃbha :- vyāsa uvāca | apare'hani saṃprāpte kā kathā samapadyata | tāṃ me kathaya lokeśa śṛṇvastṛpyāmi na kvacit adhyāya 19 prāraṃbha – ka uvāca | bālakena hataṃ śrutvā brāhmaṇaṃ veṣadhāriṇam | narāntako mahādaityo kūpakaṃ kandarāsuram 0|| bahiryāhi mahābāho paśya kūpaṃ manoharam | dadarśa kūpaṃ bālaiḥ sa bahirāgatya tatkṣaṇāt 1|| atyantaṃ sundaraṃ dṛṣṭvā taṃ kūpaṃ bālakaiḥ saha | cikrīḍe vividhairbhāvairnānā nilayanairapi 2|| madhyāhne jalamadhyasthāḥ siṣiṃcuste parasparam | majjanonmajjanaṃ cakru kārayantaḥ parasparam māyāmāsthāya sa gaṇo majjituṃ samajāyata | caraṇau hastakamale cikṣepa bahudhā śiśuḥ 8|| lulupuḥ sarvaśo bālāstāvattena dhṛto balāt | caraṇe kandaro nītastatkūpa talamādarāt adhyāya 20 prāraṃbha :- vyāsa uvāca | kāśirājagṛhe brahman vivāhaḥ sa kadā'bhavat | tanmamācakṣva bhagavan vistarāccaturānana
Beginning of chapter 16. Ka said: Listen, Vyāsa, I shall relate a story that works wonders, hearing which with devotion a man attains the utmost happiness. Beginning of chapter 17. Ka said: Vināyaka, though all-knowing, again respectfully questioned the tiger among kings who had come, with a voice deep as a cloud. Beginning of chapter 18. Vyāsa said: When the next day came, what story took place? Tell me that, O lord of the world; listening, I am never sated. Beginning of chapter 19. Ka said: Hearing that the brahmin in disguise had been slain by the boy, Narāntaka the great demon (sent) Kūpaka and Kandarāsura. (0) "Go out, mighty-armed one, look at the lovely well." Going out that very instant, he saw the well along with the boys. (1) Seeing that well exceedingly beautiful, he played with the boys in various moods and with many hidings. (2) At midday, standing in the water, they sprinkled one another; they dived and surfaced, making one another do the same. Resorting to illusion, that Gaṇa set about diving; the child repeatedly cast his feet into their lotus-hands. (8) The boys pulled at him on all sides; meanwhile he was held by force — Kandara, (caught) by the foot, was deliberately dragged to the bottom of that well. Beginning of chapter 20. Vyāsa said: O brahmin, when did that marriage in the house of the king of Kāśī take place? Tell me that at length, O lord, four-faced one.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.2
उत्थाय कल्पे राजाऽसौ नित्यं कृत्वा ययौ बहिः । विनायकालयं गत्वा नत्वा तं परिपूज्य च दंडकारण्यदेशीये पुरे नामलसंज्ञके । भ्रूशुंडनाम्ना भक्तोऽभूद्भूतभव्य भविष्यवित् एवमुक्ते त्वया राजन श्रुते च ममनामनि । भ्रूशुंडी मम भक्तः स तत्क्षणादागमिष्यति तं भोक्तुकामेन मया श्रुता कीर्तिस्तवापि च । चतुर्थ्यां पूजितः सम्यङ्नानोपहारसंचयैः अशक्तो यानि कर्तुं वै तानि तेन कृतानि च । स्वरूपं तेऽभिवक्ष्यामि येन रूपेण मे गृहे दर्शनाद्धर्षसंपन्नो नागतो दुःखसंयुतः । नागतस्तव वाक्येन मस यत्नान् मुनिस्तु सः त्वया किमुक्तं तत्राथ तेन वा भाषितं नु किम् । वद मे नृप तत्सर्वं श्रुत्वा वक्ष्यामि ते मतिम् किमर्थं पुनरायातो राजा किं वा वदिष्यति । तत ऊचे नमस्कृत्य राजा तं मुनिपुंगवम् तं प्रदर्शय नो चेत्त्वां शप्त्वा यास्ये निजाश्रमम् । नृप उवाच । क्रीडते बालभावेन बालमध्ये गजाननः लुलुंठ भूमौ प्रेम्णा स प्रतिपत्ति पराङ्मुखः । ननर्त परमानन्दो रोमांचित शरीरवान् तवोत्कटमनुष्ठानं दृष्ट्वाऽहमीदृशोऽभवम् । देवान्तकं सह भ्रात्रा हत्वा यामि निजं पदम् काशिराजोऽवदत्तत्र धन्योऽहं जगतीतले । दर्शनं प्राप्तवानस्य ब्रह्मादीनां सुदुर्लभम् क उवाच । शृणुष्वावहितो ब्रह्मन् कथयामि समासतः । विनायककृतां दिव्यां कथां पापापनोदिनीम् हेमज्ज्योतिर्विदित्येवं नाम मे नृपनन्दन । गन्धर्वलोकादायातो वस्तं तव समाश्रये अतिशूरे स्वोकटे च स्वात्मपातं प्रपश्यता । एते घ्नन्ति च राजानं राज्यकामा महाशयाः संश्रुत्य वाणीं नृपतेर्गणकोऽभूद्रुषारुणः । राजानं पुनरारेभे वक्तुं किंचिदवाड्.मुख प्रतीकारं ब्रवीम्यत्र निर्भयार्थं कुरुष्व तम् । ततोऽन्यत्र मयासार्थं याहि दिनचतुष्टयम् जना ऊचुः । कथं ज्ञातोऽनेन दुष्टो ब्राह्मणो ब्रह्मवेषभृत् । राज्ञाऽपि न कृतं दैवाद् वाक्यं तस्य दुरात्मनः प्रेषयामास बलिनं ब्रह्मलब्धवरं तदा । दत्वा बहूनि वस्त्राणि रत्नानि विविधानि च नदन्तं मंजुलाम् वाणीं पीतवर्णं भयानकम् । कन्दरो बालमध्यस्थो जगाद तं विनायकम् ९।। अमज्जयद्बलात् तं च मुंच मुंचेति सोऽब्रवीत् । विनायकोऽपि तम् प्रोचे मुंचमुंचेति मामपि ०।। उभौ समबलौ तौ तु मज्जनोन्मज्जने रतौ । हिरण्यकशिपुर्लक्ष्मी नृसिंहाविव दुर्धरौ अपशब्दं तथा श्रुत्वा ययुः स्त्रीवृद्धबालकाः । काशिराजोऽपि चुक्रोश किं कार्यमिति चाब्रवीत् दर्शयिष्ये कथं तस्य पितृभ्यां मुखमेव च । जनाय वा कथमिदं कथमस्य मृतिर्भवेत् ९।। निरस्तान्यत् अरिष्टानि महान्ति बालकेन ह । कथमस्म वशं यातो न जाने देवचेष्टितम् तत्क्षणादजिरे कूपो पिदधे स विनायकः । ददृशे पूर्ववत् क्रीडन् सर्वबालयुतो जनैः क उवाच । एकैकं नश्यतेऽरिष्टमपरं याति वै पुनः । अस्मिन्नष्टे करिष्यामीत्येवं यावद्विचार्यते आपुरं प्लावयिष्यामि समन्तान्न गतिर्भवेत् । तुंगोऽब्रवीदहं तुंगो गिरिर्भूत्वा पुरीं तु ताम् कथमस्तमितिर्जाता न पाको न च भोजनम् । व्यस्मयन्त तदा नार्यो दुदुहुर्गाश्च काश्चन पक्षिरूपेण तत्रासौ स्थितो गगनलेहिनी । पक्षौ भूमौ प्रतिष्ठाप्य स्पृशं च शिरसा नमः नाज्ञासीत् कोऽपि चरितं विनायक कृतं द्विज । दृष्ट्वा विनायकं बालं क्रीडन्तं बालयूथगम् द्रष्टुं दैत्यशरीराणि स्त्रीबालसहिता जनाः । ययुस्ते नगराभ्याशे वीक्ष्याश्चर्यं परं ययुः शान्तिहोमं विधायासौ नृपोऽदाद् गोधनं बहु । विसृज्य सर्वान् बुभुजे विनायकयुतो नृपः
utthāya kalpe rājā'sau nityaṃ kṛtvā yayau bahiḥ | vināyakālayaṃ gatvā natvā taṃ paripūjya ca daṃḍakāraṇyadeśīye pure nāmalasaṃjñake | bhrūśuṃḍanāmnā bhakto'bhūdbhūtabhavya bhaviṣyavit evamukte tvayā rājana śrute ca mamanāmani | bhrūśuṃḍī mama bhaktaḥ sa tatkṣaṇādāgamiṣyati taṃ bhoktukāmena mayā śrutā kīrtistavāpi ca | caturthyāṃ pūjitaḥ samyaṅnānopahārasaṃcayaiḥ aśakto yāni kartuṃ vai tāni tena kṛtāni ca | svarūpaṃ te'bhivakṣyāmi yena rūpeṇa me gṛhe darśanāddharṣasaṃpanno nāgato duḥkhasaṃyutaḥ | nāgatastava vākyena masa yatnān munistu saḥ tvayā kimuktaṃ tatrātha tena vā bhāṣitaṃ nu kim | vada me nṛpa tatsarvaṃ śrutvā vakṣyāmi te matim kimarthaṃ punarāyāto rājā kiṃ vā vadiṣyati | tata ūce namaskṛtya rājā taṃ munipuṃgavam taṃ pradarśaya no cettvāṃ śaptvā yāsye nijāśramam | nṛpa uvāca | krīḍate bālabhāvena bālamadhye gajānanaḥ luluṃṭha bhūmau premṇā sa pratipatti parāṅmukhaḥ | nanarta paramānando romāṃcita śarīravān tavotkaṭamanuṣṭhānaṃ dṛṣṭvā'hamīdṛśo'bhavam | devāntakaṃ saha bhrātrā hatvā yāmi nijaṃ padam kāśirājo'vadattatra dhanyo'haṃ jagatītale | darśanaṃ prāptavānasya brahmādīnāṃ sudurlabham ka uvāca | śṛṇuṣvāvahito brahman kathayāmi samāsataḥ | vināyakakṛtāṃ divyāṃ kathāṃ pāpāpanodinīm hemajjyotirvidityevaṃ nāma me nṛpanandana | gandharvalokādāyāto vastaṃ tava samāśraye atiśūre svokaṭe ca svātmapātaṃ prapaśyatā | ete ghnanti ca rājānaṃ rājyakāmā mahāśayāḥ saṃśrutya vāṇīṃ nṛpatergaṇako'bhūdruṣāruṇaḥ | rājānaṃ punarārebhe vaktuṃ kiṃcidavāḍ.mukha pratīkāraṃ bravīmyatra nirbhayārthaṃ kuruṣva tam | tato'nyatra mayāsārthaṃ yāhi dinacatuṣṭayam janā ūcuḥ | kathaṃ jñāto'nena duṣṭo brāhmaṇo brahmaveṣabhṛt | rājñā'pi na kṛtaṃ daivād vākyaṃ tasya durātmanaḥ preṣayāmāsa balinaṃ brahmalabdhavaraṃ tadā | datvā bahūni vastrāṇi ratnāni vividhāni ca nadantaṃ maṃjulām vāṇīṃ pītavarṇaṃ bhayānakam | kandaro bālamadhyastho jagāda taṃ vināyakam 9|| amajjayadbalāt taṃ ca muṃca muṃceti so'bravīt | vināyako'pi tam proce muṃcamuṃceti māmapi 0|| ubhau samabalau tau tu majjanonmajjane ratau | hiraṇyakaśipurlakṣmī nṛsiṃhāviva durdharau apaśabdaṃ tathā śrutvā yayuḥ strīvṛddhabālakāḥ | kāśirājo'pi cukrośa kiṃ kāryamiti cābravīt darśayiṣye kathaṃ tasya pitṛbhyāṃ mukhameva ca | janāya vā kathamidaṃ kathamasya mṛtirbhavet 9|| nirastānyat ariṣṭāni mahānti bālakena ha | kathamasma vaśaṃ yāto na jāne devaceṣṭitam tatkṣaṇādajire kūpo pidadhe sa vināyakaḥ | dadṛśe pūrvavat krīḍan sarvabālayuto janaiḥ ka uvāca | ekaikaṃ naśyate'riṣṭamaparaṃ yāti vai punaḥ | asminnaṣṭe kariṣyāmītyevaṃ yāvadvicāryate āpuraṃ plāvayiṣyāmi samantānna gatirbhavet | tuṃgo'bravīdahaṃ tuṃgo girirbhūtvā purīṃ tu tām kathamastamitirjātā na pāko na ca bhojanam | vyasmayanta tadā nāryo duduhurgāśca kāścana pakṣirūpeṇa tatrāsau sthito gaganalehinī | pakṣau bhūmau pratiṣṭhāpya spṛśaṃ ca śirasā namaḥ nājñāsīt ko'pi caritaṃ vināyaka kṛtaṃ dvija | dṛṣṭvā vināyakaṃ bālaṃ krīḍantaṃ bālayūthagam draṣṭuṃ daityaśarīrāṇi strībālasahitā janāḥ | yayuste nagarābhyāśe vīkṣyāścaryaṃ paraṃ yayuḥ śāntihomaṃ vidhāyāsau nṛpo'dād godhanaṃ bahu | visṛjya sarvān bubhuje vināyakayuto nṛpaḥ
Rising at daybreak, that king performed his daily rites and went out; going to Vināyaka's abode, bowing to him and worshipping him fully. In a city named Nāmala in the region of the Daṇḍaka forest there was a devotee named Bhrūśuṇḍa, a knower of past, present and future. "When you have spoken thus, O king, and my name has been heard, Bhrūśuṇḍī, that devotee of mine, will come at that very moment." "By me, desirous of eating, your fame too was heard; on the fourth day he was duly worshipped with heaps of various offerings." "And those things which he was unable to do were done by him. I shall describe to you my form, in which form, in my house..." From the sight (of him) he became filled with delight; he did not come sorrowing. "That sage did not come at your word, despite my efforts." "What was said by you there, and what was spoken by him? Tell me all that, O king; having heard it, I shall tell you my judgement." "Why has the king come again, and what will he say?" Then the king, having bowed, spoke to that bull among sages: "Show him to me; if not, I shall curse you and go to my own hermitage." The king said: The elephant-faced one plays in the manner of a child among children. He rolled on the ground out of love, turned away from formal homage; he danced in supreme bliss, his body thrilled with horripilation. "Seeing your intense observance, I became such as this; having slain Devāntaka along with his brother, I shall go to my own station." The king of Kāśī said there: "I am blessed upon the face of the earth; I have obtained the sight of him which is very hard for Brahmā and the others to get." Ka said: Listen attentively, brahmin, I shall tell briefly the divine story of what Vināyaka did, which drives away sins. "Hemajjyotirvid — such is my name, O son of a king; I have come from the world of the gandharvas; I take refuge with you." "In one exceedingly brave and arrogant, seeing his own downfall... these great-minded ones, desiring the kingdom, kill the king." Hearing the king's speech, the astrologer became red with rage; with face somewhat downcast, he began to speak to the king again: "I shall state a remedy here; do it for the sake of freedom from fear. Then go elsewhere with me for four days." The people said: How did this wicked one, a brahmin (only) in brahmin's guise, know? And by fate the king did not carry out the words of that evil-souled one. Then he sent the strong one who had obtained a boon from Brahmā, giving him many garments and various jewels. Uttering a sweet sound, yellow-coloured, terrifying — Kandara, standing among the children, said to that Vināyaka: (9) He forcibly pushed him under, saying "Let go, let go"; Vināyaka too said to him, "Let me go, let me go too." (0) The two, equal in strength, were engaged in pushing under and coming up, hard to hold like Hiraṇyakaśipu and Nṛsiṃha of Lakṣmī. Hearing that outcry, the women, the old and the children went (there); the king of Kāśī too cried out and said, "What is to be done?" "How shall I show his face to his parents, or to the people? How could there be his death?" (9) "Other great calamities were driven off by the boy; how has he come into our power? I do not understand the deity's doing." At that instant Vināyaka covered over the well in the courtyard; he was seen by the people playing as before, together with all the children. Ka said: One calamity after another perishes, and yet another comes again; "when this one is destroyed I shall act" — while it was being thus considered: "I shall flood the city so that there is no way out on any side." Tuṅga said, "I, Tuṅga, becoming a mountain, (shall crush) that city." "How has nightfall come? There is no cooking and no meal." Then the women were amazed, and some milked the cows. In the form of a bird he stood there, licking the sky; setting his wings on the ground and (touching it) with his head — homage! No one knew the deed done by Vināyaka, O twice-born, seeing Vināyaka a child, playing, moving in the herd of children. The people, with their women and children, went near the city to see the demons' bodies; seeing the supreme wonder they went (back). Having performed the propitiatory oblation, that king gave much wealth in cattle; dismissing all, the king ate together with Vināyaka.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.3
संप्रार्थयद्भोजनार्थं ततो बालं विनायकम् । ततो ददौ स उद्गारं नानापक्वान्नतृप्तिजम् नृप उवाच । तस्मै ते कथितं वाक्यं मयाऽपि प्रार्थितं बहु । स उवाच मुनिः कस्त्वं कोऽसावपि विनायकः उदिते तु दिवानाथे नित्यकर्म समाप्य तौ। क्रीडार्थमगमद्बालो राजा भद्रासनं तया दैत्य उवाच । गच्छ तं सुमुहूर्तेन हन्तुं बालं तमाशुच । नानोपायैर्मारितानां कुरु तन्निष्कृतिं बलात् ०।। एवं सर्वेषु शोचत्सु स्त्रीवृद्धबालकेषु च । मंडूकरूपी कूपस्थो व्यादाय मुखमास्थितः कूपे च कन्दरे नष्टे त्रयोऽप्यन्ये उदीरिताः । अन्धकोऽम्भासुरस्तुंगो राक्षसाः क्रूरदर्शनाः
saṃprārthayadbhojanārthaṃ tato bālaṃ vināyakam | tato dadau sa udgāraṃ nānāpakvānnatṛptijam nṛpa uvāca | tasmai te kathitaṃ vākyaṃ mayā'pi prārthitaṃ bahu | sa uvāca muniḥ kastvaṃ ko'sāvapi vināyakaḥ udite tu divānāthe nityakarma samāpya tau| krīḍārthamagamadbālo rājā bhadrāsanaṃ tayā daitya uvāca | gaccha taṃ sumuhūrtena hantuṃ bālaṃ tamāśuca | nānopāyairmāritānāṃ kuru tanniṣkṛtiṃ balāt 0|| evaṃ sarveṣu śocatsu strīvṛddhabālakeṣu ca | maṃḍūkarūpī kūpastho vyādāya mukhamāsthitaḥ kūpe ca kandare naṣṭe trayo'pyanye udīritāḥ | andhako'mbhāsurastuṃgo rākṣasāḥ krūradarśanāḥ
Then he begged the boy Vināyaka for food; thereupon he gave a belch born of satiety with various cooked foods. The king said: The words you spoke were told to him, and much was requested by me too. That sage said: Who are you, and who is this Vināyaka? When the lord of day had risen, the two completed the daily rites; the boy went off to play, the king (went) to the throne with her. The demon said: Go, at an auspicious moment, and kill that boy quickly; forcibly make requital for those who were killed by various means. (0) While all — women, old people and children — were thus grieving, he took the form of a frog and stayed in the well with his mouth gaping open. When the well and Kandara had been destroyed, the other three as well were urged on: Andhaka, Ambhāsura and Tuṅga, rākṣasas cruel to look at.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.4
शेषं ददर्श तत्रासौ लड्डुकान्पायसादिकम् । अपूपान्वटकान्पुण्यमोदनम् सूप संयुतम् उपास्यरूपं बिभृयात्तदा यास्ये तमीक्षितुम् । एवं निराकृतस्तेन मार्गचिन्तापरं स माम् दैत्योऽथ ब्राह्मणो भूत्वा ज्योतिःशास्त्रविशारदः । तालीयं पुस्तकं वामे मालां दक्षे करे दधत् क उवाच । एवं तेन समाज्ञप्तावसुरौ कूपकन्दरौ । सेनया च सुरंगिण्या गव्यूतिं सम्प्रतस्थतुः जिघांसया गता बालं ततो युद्धमवर्तत । श्रुत्वा येषां तु संग्रामम् ब्रह्माद्याः प्रापलन् भयात्
śeṣaṃ dadarśa tatrāsau laḍḍukānpāyasādikam | apūpānvaṭakānpuṇyamodanam sūpa saṃyutam upāsyarūpaṃ bibhṛyāttadā yāsye tamīkṣitum | evaṃ nirākṛtastena mārgacintāparaṃ sa mām daityo'tha brāhmaṇo bhūtvā jyotiḥśāstraviśāradaḥ | tālīyaṃ pustakaṃ vāme mālāṃ dakṣe kare dadhat ka uvāca | evaṃ tena samājñaptāvasurau kūpakandarau | senayā ca suraṃgiṇyā gavyūtiṃ sampratasthatuḥ jighāṃsayā gatā bālaṃ tato yuddhamavartata | śrutvā yeṣāṃ tu saṃgrāmam brahmādyāḥ prāpalan bhayāt
There he saw what was left over: laḍḍukas, milk-rice and the like, cakes, vaṭakas, holy boiled rice with soup. "If he would then bear a form fit for worship, I would go to look at him." Thus refused by him, he (left) me absorbed in thinking about the road. Then the demon, becoming a brahmin expert in the science of the stars, holding a palm-leaf book in his left hand and a rosary in his right — Ka said: Thus commanded by him, the two asuras Kūpa and Kandara set out for a distance of a gavyūti with an army moving by tunnel. They went to the boy with intent to kill; then a battle took place, on hearing of whose combat Brahmā and the others fled in fear.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.5
दधि दुग्धं मधु घृतं कथिकापात्रसंचयम् । मणिमुक्तामयीं मालां नानालंकरणानि च प्रेषयामास स्वगृहं दत्त्वा मूर्ध्नि करं मम । निमीलितदृशं चक्रे क्षणादुन्मील्य लोचने पाटलं परिधानं च शिरोवस्त्रं महत्तरम् । गोपीचन्दन सम्भूतांस्तिलकान् द्वादशापि च निवृत्य सेनां च तत ईयतुर्भृश हर्षितौ । विचारं चक्रतुर्मार्गे कूपोऽहं कूपतामियाम् दिग्गजा मर्दिता यैस्तु विबुधानां तु का कथा। कदायं कश्यपसुतो भविता दृष्टिगोचरः
dadhi dugdhaṃ madhu ghṛtaṃ kathikāpātrasaṃcayam | maṇimuktāmayīṃ mālāṃ nānālaṃkaraṇāni ca preṣayāmāsa svagṛhaṃ dattvā mūrdhni karaṃ mama | nimīlitadṛśaṃ cakre kṣaṇādunmīlya locane pāṭalaṃ paridhānaṃ ca śirovastraṃ mahattaram | gopīcandana sambhūtāṃstilakān dvādaśāpi ca nivṛtya senāṃ ca tata īyaturbhṛśa harṣitau | vicāraṃ cakraturmārge kūpo'haṃ kūpatāmiyām diggajā marditā yaistu vibudhānāṃ tu kā kathā| kadāyaṃ kaśyapasuto bhavitā dṛṣṭigocaraḥ
Curds, milk, honey, ghee, a set of pots of gruel, a necklace made of gems and pearls, and various ornaments — he sent to my house, having laid his hand on my head. He made my eyes close, and in an instant, opening (my) eyes... a pink lower garment and a very large head-cloth, and twelve sect-marks made of gopīcandana. Turning the army back, the two then went on, greatly delighted; on the road they took counsel: "I, the well, shall become a well (again)." "Those by whom the elephants of the quarters were crushed — what then of the gods? When will this son of Kaśyapa come within our sight?"
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.6
अपश्यत्तस्य देहेऽसावनर्घ्याणि नवानि च । पुनर्नत्वा च पपृच्छ नृपतिस्तं विनायकम् तावद्ददर्श पुरतः स्थितं त्वां स्वगृहे सुर । स्मृत्वाऽऽश्रमपदं तस्य हर्षश्चेतसि जायते अतिदीर्घतमश्श्मश्रुराजगाम नृपान्तिकम् । समीपमागतं यावत्तावद्राजा ननाम तम् बालो भवं क्रीडमानं मयि तं क्षिप यत्नतः । मंडूकरूपः कूपस्थो भक्षयिष्यामि तत्क्षणात् नाशयामोऽनेकधा तमिति व्यवसिता भृशम् । यावन्तः प्रेषिता वीरास्तावन्तो निधनं गताः
apaśyattasya dehe'sāvanarghyāṇi navāni ca | punarnatvā ca papṛccha nṛpatistaṃ vināyakam tāvaddadarśa purataḥ sthitaṃ tvāṃ svagṛhe sura | smṛtvā''śramapadaṃ tasya harṣaścetasi jāyate atidīrghatamaśśmaśrurājagāma nṛpāntikam | samīpamāgataṃ yāvattāvadrājā nanāma tam bālo bhavaṃ krīḍamānaṃ mayi taṃ kṣipa yatnataḥ | maṃḍūkarūpaḥ kūpastho bhakṣayiṣyāmi tatkṣaṇāt nāśayāmo'nekadhā tamiti vyavasitā bhṛśam | yāvantaḥ preṣitā vīrāstāvanto nidhanaṃ gatāḥ
He saw on his body priceless and new things; and bowing again, the king asked that Vināyaka. Then, O god, he saw you standing before him in his own house; remembering that one's hermitage, joy arises in the mind. With an exceedingly long beard he came into the king's presence; as soon as he had come near, the king bowed to him. "The boy is playing; throw him carefully into me. In the form of a frog, staying in the well, I shall devour him at once." "Let us destroy him in many ways" — thus they were firmly resolved; as many heroes as were sent, so many met their death.
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GnP 2 16.7
केन भक्तेन पूजेयं कृता ते जगदीश्वर । तमहं ज्ञातुमिच्छामि द्रष्टुं च त्वत्प्रसादतः अहसीदिति श्रुत्वैव वाक्यं तस्य विनायकः । विनायक उवाच । श्रान्तोसि नृपशार्दूल पुनर्गच्छ तमाश्रमम् उत्थाय तं समीपे स स्वासने संन्यवेशयत् । प्रपच्छ कुशलं तस्मै कार्यं चागमनं कुतः अन्तर्धानं करिष्यावः कृत्वा कार्यं महत्तरम् । एवं तौ निश्चितमती काशिराजपुरम् महत् वयमेनं हनिष्यामोऽजित्वा यामो न वै गृहान् । वह्निरूपं समास्थाय दाहयामो मुनेः सुतम्
kena bhaktena pūjeyaṃ kṛtā te jagadīśvara | tamahaṃ jñātumicchāmi draṣṭuṃ ca tvatprasādataḥ ahasīditi śrutvaiva vākyaṃ tasya vināyakaḥ | vināyaka uvāca | śrāntosi nṛpaśārdūla punargaccha tamāśramam utthāya taṃ samīpe sa svāsane saṃnyaveśayat | prapaccha kuśalaṃ tasmai kāryaṃ cāgamanaṃ kutaḥ antardhānaṃ kariṣyāvaḥ kṛtvā kāryaṃ mahattaram | evaṃ tau niścitamatī kāśirājapuram mahat vayamenaṃ haniṣyāmo'jitvā yāmo na vai gṛhān | vahnirūpaṃ samāsthāya dāhayāmo muneḥ sutam
"By which devotee was this worship performed for you, O Lord of the world? I wish to know him and to see him, by your grace." Just at hearing that speech of his, Vināyaka laughed. Vināyaka said: "You are weary, tiger among kings; go again to that hermitage." Rising, he seated him nearby on his own seat, and asked after his welfare, his business, and whence he had come. "We two shall vanish, after doing a still greater deed" — thus the two, their minds made up, (came to) the great city of the king of Kāśī. "We shall kill him; without conquering we shall certainly not go home. Taking the form of fire, let us burn the sage's son."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.8
एवमुक्तो नृपेणाथ वदति स्म विनायकः । भक्ताय काशीराजाय निजभक्तकृतार्हणाम् गजाननेति मन्नाम श्रुत्वा यास्यत्यसौ मुनिः । एवं वदति तस्मिंस्तु सर्वरूपे विनायके किं च ते नाम विप्रेन्द्र किं ज्ञानम किं च ते तपः । वद सत्यं मुने कृत्वा कृपां मयि कृपानिधे प्रापतुरभवत् कोपो महान्नृप नृपाजिरे । कन्दरो बालरूपोऽभूद्रन्तुं तेषु मनो दधे अन्धकस्त्वब्रवीत्तत्र तमसा व्याप्य खं दिशः । अन्धकारं करिष्यामि धरायामथ सर्वतः
evamukto nṛpeṇātha vadati sma vināyakaḥ | bhaktāya kāśīrājāya nijabhaktakṛtārhaṇām gajānaneti mannāma śrutvā yāsyatyasau muniḥ | evaṃ vadati tasmiṃstu sarvarūpe vināyake kiṃ ca te nāma viprendra kiṃ jñānama kiṃ ca te tapaḥ | vada satyaṃ mune kṛtvā kṛpāṃ mayi kṛpānidhe prāpaturabhavat kopo mahānnṛpa nṛpājire | kandaro bālarūpo'bhūdrantuṃ teṣu mano dadhe andhakastvabravīttatra tamasā vyāpya khaṃ diśaḥ | andhakāraṃ kariṣyāmi dharāyāmatha sarvataḥ
Thus addressed by the king, Vināyaka then spoke: (he said) to the devotee, the king of Kāśī, of the honouring done by his own devotee — "Hearing my name, 'Gajānana,' that sage will come." But while Vināyaka, who has all forms, was speaking thus: "And what is your name, chief of brahmins, what is your knowledge, and what your austerity? Speak the truth, sage, showing mercy to me, O treasury of mercy." Great anger arose in the two, O king, in the king's courtyard. Kandara took a child's form; he set his mind on playing among them. But Andhaka said there, pervading the sky and the directions with darkness: "I shall make darkness everywhere upon the earth."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.9
देव उवाच । शृणु राजन् प्रवक्ष्यामि यत्पृष्टोऽहमिह त्वया । तदहं ते प्रवक्ष्यामि संक्षेपेण नृपात्मज तावद्ददर्श भ्रूशुंडेरात्मानमाश्रमे स्थितम् । पुनर्द्रष्ट्वा स नृपतिं ह्रदि तर्कानथाकरोत् क उवाच । एवं पृष्टः स तेनाशु दत्त्वाशीर्वचनं पुरा । अनुक्रमेण सकलं निजगाद महामुने राजाऽथ ददृशे कूपं सुजलम् तं जहर्ष च । यावत् पश्यति मध्येऽसौ मंडूकं तं ददर्श ह ततः परस्परदृशिर्न स्यात्तेषां कदाचन । अम्भासुरोऽब्रवीत्तत्र महीं सर्वां जलेन ह
deva uvāca | śṛṇu rājan pravakṣyāmi yatpṛṣṭo'hamiha tvayā | tadahaṃ te pravakṣyāmi saṃkṣepeṇa nṛpātmaja tāvaddadarśa bhrūśuṃḍerātmānamāśrame sthitam | punardraṣṭvā sa nṛpatiṃ hradi tarkānathākarot ka uvāca | evaṃ pṛṣṭaḥ sa tenāśu dattvāśīrvacanaṃ purā | anukrameṇa sakalaṃ nijagāda mahāmune rājā'tha dadṛśe kūpaṃ sujalam taṃ jaharṣa ca | yāvat paśyati madhye'sau maṃḍūkaṃ taṃ dadarśa ha tataḥ parasparadṛśirna syātteṣāṃ kadācana | ambhāsuro'bravīttatra mahīṃ sarvāṃ jalena ha
The god said: Listen, O king, I shall declare what has been asked of me here by you; that I shall tell you in brief, O son of a king. Just then he saw Bhrūśuṇḍi himself seated in the hermitage; and seeing the king again, he then made conjectures in his heart. Ka said: Thus questioned by him, he first quickly gave a word of blessing, and told the whole in order, O great sage. Then the king saw a well with good water, and rejoiced; and as he looked, he saw that frog in the middle of it. Thereafter they could never see one another; the water-demon said there, (covering) the whole earth with water.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.11
सृष्टुं पातुं च संहर्तुं शक्तस्त्रैलोक्यमाशु यः । ब्रह्मा भवश्च विष्णुश्च नित्यं यद्दर्शनार्थिनः आकारयति त्वां विप्र स्वामी तव गजाननः । नाममात्रे श्रुते तस्य जहर्ष च मुमूर्छ च आलोड्य चूर्णयिष्यामि सपक्ष इव पर्वतः । अन्धकारे जले वह्नौ पर्वते सर्वतः स्थिते
sṛṣṭuṃ pātuṃ ca saṃhartuṃ śaktastrailokyamāśu yaḥ | brahmā bhavaśca viṣṇuśca nityaṃ yaddarśanārthinaḥ ākārayati tvāṃ vipra svāmī tava gajānanaḥ | nāmamātre śrute tasya jaharṣa ca mumūrcha ca āloḍya cūrṇayiṣyāmi sapakṣa iva parvataḥ | andhakāre jale vahnau parvate sarvataḥ sthite
He who is able swiftly to create, to protect, and to destroy the three worlds, whom Brahmā, Bhava, and Viṣṇu constantly seek to behold — your master Gajānana summons you, brahmin. At the mere hearing of his name he both rejoiced and swooned. "Having churned (it), I shall grind it to powder, like a mountain with wings" — while darkness, water, fire, and mountain stood on every side.
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GnP 2 16.12
सर्वकालं ममध्यानध्वस्तपापो जितेन्द्रियः । पुरा तपस्यतस्तस्य भ्रूमध्यान्निसृतः करः रोमांचितशरीरोऽसौ आनन्दाश्रु मुमोच ह । यदि पक्षौ भवेतां मे तदोड्डीय गतोऽभवम् भूतं भवद्भविष्यं च शान्तिकानि च वेद्म्यहम् । प्रश्नांश्च कथयिष्यामि यान्यांस्त्वं पृच्छसेऽनघ अरिष्टान्यत्र जातानि ज्ञातानि तानि मे नृप । भावि ते दुष्टचिह्नं च विज्ञायाहं समागतः कोऽपि गन्तुं न शक्नोति कथं बालो गमिष्यति । एवं निश्चितसंकल्पा जगर्जुस्ते त्रयो भृशम्
sarvakālaṃ mamadhyānadhvastapāpo jitendriyaḥ | purā tapasyatastasya bhrūmadhyānnisṛtaḥ karaḥ romāṃcitaśarīro'sau ānandāśru mumoca ha | yadi pakṣau bhavetāṃ me tadoḍḍīya gato'bhavam bhūtaṃ bhavadbhaviṣyaṃ ca śāntikāni ca vedmyaham | praśnāṃśca kathayiṣyāmi yānyāṃstvaṃ pṛcchase'nagha ariṣṭānyatra jātāni jñātāni tāni me nṛpa | bhāvi te duṣṭacihnaṃ ca vijñāyāhaṃ samāgataḥ ko'pi gantuṃ na śaknoti kathaṃ bālo gamiṣyati | evaṃ niścitasaṃkalpā jagarjuste trayo bhṛśam
At all times, his sins destroyed by meditation on me, his senses conquered — formerly, as he was practising austerity, a hand issued from between his brows. His body thrilled with bristling hair, he shed tears of joy. "If I had two wings, then I would have flown away and gone." "I know past, present, and future, and the rites of appeasement; and I shall declare the answers to whatever questions you ask, sinless one. The evil omens that have arisen there are known to me, O king; knowing that an evil sign is in store for you, I have come." "No one is able to go; how will a boy go?" With their resolve thus fixed, those three roared mightily.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.13
भ्रूशुंडीति ततः ख्यातस्त्रिषुलोकेषु सर्वदा । अतिभक्त्या मृत्युलोके सादृशं प्रापितो मम इत्युत्कंठतया विप्रः प्रतस्थे भूभुजा सह । भ्रूशंडौ चलिते पृथ्वी कदाऽप्यचलिते मुनौ त्वदाश्रयेण वस्तुं मे वांच्छाऽस्ति नृपसत्तम । नृप उवाच । किंनिमित्तमरिष्टानि जायन्तेऽत्र महामुने तेषां गर्जितशब्देन कम्पितं भुवनत्रयम् । तत्यजुर्निजवेलान्तं सागराः क्षुभितोदकाः
bhrūśuṃḍīti tataḥ khyātastriṣulokeṣu sarvadā | atibhaktyā mṛtyuloke sādṛśaṃ prāpito mama ityutkaṃṭhatayā vipraḥ pratasthe bhūbhujā saha | bhrūśaṃḍau calite pṛthvī kadā'pyacalite munau tvadāśrayeṇa vastuṃ me vāṃcchā'sti nṛpasattama | nṛpa uvāca | kiṃnimittamariṣṭāni jāyante'tra mahāmune teṣāṃ garjitaśabdena kampitaṃ bhuvanatrayam | tatyajurnijavelāntaṃ sāgarāḥ kṣubhitodakāḥ
Thereafter he was famed always in the three worlds as "Bhrūśuṇḍi"; by his extreme devotion in the world of mortals he was brought to a likeness with me. With such eagerness the brahmin set out together with the king. When Bhrūśuṇḍi moved, the earth (moved); the sage never moved. "I have a wish to dwell under your protection, best of kings." The king said: "From what cause do these evil omens arise here, great sage?" By the sound of their roaring the three worlds were shaken; the oceans, their waters churned up, abandoned the limits of their shores.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.14
अद्य शुक्लचतुर्थ्यां तु पूजयामास मां मुदा । घृतं दुग्धं दधि मधु पश्य मेऽङ्गात् स्रवन्नृप चचाल संमुखी भूत्वा कम्पन्ती तमथाब्रवीत् । रक्ष मां मुनिशार्दूल न भीर्मत्तो धरे तव अग्रेऽपि कानि भावीनि सत्यमेव वदस्व मे। तव प्रतीतौ जातायां स्थापयिष्ये निजे गृहे ३।। उड्डानम् जलमध्ये ते दूरादागत्य चक्रिरे । एवं रमित्वा ते तत्र गृहान् गन्तुम् समुद्यताः ततो रविं समाच्छाद्य तस्थौ तत्रान्धकासुरः । अन्धकारे महाघोरे न प्राज्ञायत किंचन
adya śuklacaturthyāṃ tu pūjayāmāsa māṃ mudā | ghṛtaṃ dugdhaṃ dadhi madhu paśya me'ṅgāt sravannṛpa cacāla saṃmukhī bhūtvā kampantī tamathābravīt | rakṣa māṃ muniśārdūla na bhīrmatto dhare tava agre'pi kāni bhāvīni satyameva vadasva me| tava pratītau jātāyāṃ sthāpayiṣye nije gṛhe 3|| uḍḍānam jalamadhye te dūrādāgatya cakrire | evaṃ ramitvā te tatra gṛhān gantum samudyatāḥ tato raviṃ samācchādya tasthau tatrāndhakāsuraḥ | andhakāre mahāghore na prājñāyata kiṃcana
"Today, on the bright fourth, he worshipped me with joy: ghee, milk, curd, honey — see them flowing from my body, O king!" She (the earth) stirred, and coming face to face, trembling, she then said to him: "Protect me, tiger among sages!" — "There is no fear for you from me, O Earth." "Tell me truly what things are to come hereafter as well; when trust in you has arisen, I shall install (you) in my own house." Coming from afar, they made leaps into the middle of the water. Having sported thus there, they made ready to go home. Then the demon Andhaka stood there, covering over the sun; in the great and dreadful darkness nothing could be made out.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.15
भुक्तशेषमिदं चान्नं दृष्टं ते नृपसत्तम । क उवाच । तत ऊचे काशिराजो देवदेव जगत्पते गजाननं निजं नाथं दृष्टुं यामि त्वरान्वितः । इत्युक्त्वा तां पुरो यातुं चलितोऽसौ द्विजोत्तमः वृत्तिं च कल्पयिष्यामि योगक्षेमकरीं तव । गणक उवाच । यावद्विनायकस्तेऽस्ति गृहे कश्यपनन्दनः तावद्विनायकोऽपश्यज्जलमध्ये निजं वपुः । जानंस्तर्तुं जले सर्वान् पश्यन्नासीद्बहिः पुरा अकस्माद्रजनी प्राप्ता व्यवसायपरैर्जनैः । स्नानासक्तैर्जपासक्तेर्होमासक्तैर्नृभिस्तदा
bhuktaśeṣamidaṃ cānnaṃ dṛṣṭaṃ te nṛpasattama | ka uvāca | tata ūce kāśirājo devadeva jagatpate gajānanaṃ nijaṃ nāthaṃ dṛṣṭuṃ yāmi tvarānvitaḥ | ityuktvā tāṃ puro yātuṃ calito'sau dvijottamaḥ vṛttiṃ ca kalpayiṣyāmi yogakṣemakarīṃ tava | gaṇaka uvāca | yāvadvināyakaste'sti gṛhe kaśyapanandanaḥ tāvadvināyako'paśyajjalamadhye nijaṃ vapuḥ | jānaṃstartuṃ jale sarvān paśyannāsīdbahiḥ purā akasmādrajanī prāptā vyavasāyaparairjanaiḥ | snānāsaktairjapāsakterhomāsaktairnṛbhistadā
"And this food is the remainder of what was eaten, as you have seen, best of kings." Ka said: Then the king of Kāśī said, "O God of gods, Lord of the world." "I go in haste to see Gajānana, my own lord." Saying this, that best of the twice-born set out to go to the city. "And I shall arrange a livelihood that provides for your welfare." The astrologer said: "So long as your Vināyaka, the son of Kaśyapa, is in the house..." Just then Vināyaka did not see his own body in the midst of the water; knowing how to cross, he had earlier been outside, seeing all (of them) in the water. Suddenly night came upon people intent on their occupations — upon men engaged in bathing, in muttered prayer, in oblations.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.16
तमहं द्रष्टुमिच्छामि कथं सोऽत्रागमिष्यति । विनायक उवाच । गच्छ राजंस्त्वमद्यैव तस्य चाश्रममंडलम् पदे दत्ते तृतीये तु दर्शयामास तां पुरीम् । दृष्ट्वा पुरीं नृपो हर्षादुवाच मुनिपुंगवम् तावद्विघ्नानि जायन्ते यतो विघ्नाधिपस्तु सः । असंचारे वनं चैनं त्यक्त्वा याहि नृपात्मज तावन्नुनोद तम् दुष्टो जलमध्ये स कन्दरः । अगाधं तज्जलं ज्ञात्वा लोडयामास लीलया तपःसु वेदघोषेषु विवाहोपनयादिषु । कीर्तनेषु पुराणेषु द्विजदेवार्चनादिषु
tamahaṃ draṣṭumicchāmi kathaṃ so'trāgamiṣyati | vināyaka uvāca | gaccha rājaṃstvamadyaiva tasya cāśramamaṃḍalam pade datte tṛtīye tu darśayāmāsa tāṃ purīm | dṛṣṭvā purīṃ nṛpo harṣāduvāca munipuṃgavam tāvadvighnāni jāyante yato vighnādhipastu saḥ | asaṃcāre vanaṃ cainaṃ tyaktvā yāhi nṛpātmaja tāvannunoda tam duṣṭo jalamadhye sa kandaraḥ | agādhaṃ tajjalaṃ jñātvā loḍayāmāsa līlayā tapaḥsu vedaghoṣeṣu vivāhopanayādiṣu | kīrtaneṣu purāṇeṣu dvijadevārcanādiṣu
"I wish to see him; how will he come here?" Vināyaka said: "Go, O king, this very day to the compound of his hermitage." At the third step taken, he showed that city; seeing the city, the king joyfully spoke to the bull among sages. "Obstacles arise only so long, since he is the lord of obstacles. Leave this trackless, dreadful forest and go, O prince." Just then that wicked Kandara pushed him into the midst of the water; knowing that water to be fathomless, he churned it in sport. In austerities, in Vedic recitations, in marriages and initiations and the like, in kīrtanas, in purāṇas, in the worship of brahmins and gods and the like...
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.17
संपूज्य प्रणिपत्यापि विवाहाय तमाह्वय । प्रार्थनीयः प्रयत्नेन वाच्यं च मद्वचोऽपि च त्वत्प्रसादादिदं प्राप्तं पत्तनं वेगवत्तया । तपतां जपतां दुर्ज्ञो महिमा भवतां मुने न भविष्यति विघ्नं ते नगरे वा गृहेऽपि च । अस्मिन् स्थिते जलं सर्वं नगरं प्लावयिष्यति स्वेच्छया रमणो लक्ष्म्या क्षीराब्धिमिव वाडवः । अधो याति मुहूर्तम् स उपरिष्टात्तथैव च सक्तैर्नानाविधैर्लोकेर्निशा प्राप्ता व्रतादिषु । जजल्पुः किमु विन्ध्योऽयं रुणद्धि सूर्यमंडलम्
saṃpūjya praṇipatyāpi vivāhāya tamāhvaya | prārthanīyaḥ prayatnena vācyaṃ ca madvaco'pi ca tvatprasādādidaṃ prāptaṃ pattanaṃ vegavattayā | tapatāṃ japatāṃ durjño mahimā bhavatāṃ mune na bhaviṣyati vighnaṃ te nagare vā gṛhe'pi ca | asmin sthite jalaṃ sarvaṃ nagaraṃ plāvayiṣyati svecchayā ramaṇo lakṣmyā kṣīrābdhimiva vāḍavaḥ | adho yāti muhūrtam sa upariṣṭāttathaiva ca saktairnānāvidhairlokerniśā prāptā vratādiṣu | jajalpuḥ kimu vindhyo'yaṃ ruṇaddhi sūryamaṃḍalam
Having worshipped him and bowed down, invite him for the marriage; he is to be entreated with effort, and my words too are to be told. "By your grace this city has been reached with speed. Hard to know is the greatness of you who practise austerity and recitation, O sage. There will be no obstacle for you, either in the city or in the house." "While this one remains, the water will flood the whole city at will, as the submarine fire does the milk-ocean, the beloved of Lakṣmī." For a moment he goes below, and likewise above. Night came upon people of many kinds engaged in vows and the like. They said to one another: "Is this the Vindhya, blocking the orb of the sun?"
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.18
विनायको मम गृहमागतोऽस्ति यतो मुने । स चातितृप्तस्त्वत् कृतात् पूजनाद् भक्तितो मुने । सोऽपि त्वद्दर्शनाकांक्षी तेनेह प्रेषिता वयम् इत्युक्त्वा शीघ्रमनयत् स्वगृहं तं नृपोत्तमः । उपवेश्य भ्रूशुंडिं तम् आसने कांचनोत्तरे तस्मिन्कथंचिन्नष्टे तु पर्वता वायुनोदिताः। चूर्णयिष्यन्ति नगरं नृप नास्त्यत्र संशयः अथवा प्रलयो भावी वोपरागः समागतः । सभायामूचुरासीनं राजानमिति पंडिताः
vināyako mama gṛhamāgato'sti yato mune | sa cātitṛptastvat kṛtāt pūjanād bhaktito mune | so'pi tvaddarśanākāṃkṣī teneha preṣitā vayam ityuktvā śīghramanayat svagṛhaṃ taṃ nṛpottamaḥ | upaveśya bhrūśuṃḍiṃ tam āsane kāṃcanottare tasminkathaṃcinnaṣṭe tu parvatā vāyunoditāḥ| cūrṇayiṣyanti nagaraṃ nṛpa nāstyatra saṃśayaḥ athavā pralayo bhāvī voparāgaḥ samāgataḥ | sabhāyāmūcurāsīnaṃ rājānamiti paṃḍitāḥ
"Since Vināyaka has come to my house, O sage — and he is greatly pleased by the worship you performed out of devotion, O sage — he too desires to see you; therefore we have been sent here." Having said this, the best of kings quickly led him to his own house, seating Bhrūśuṇḍi on a seat covered with gold. "But if he should somehow perish, the mountains, driven by the wind, will grind the city to powder, O king; there is no doubt of this. Or else a dissolution is to come, or an eclipse has arrived" — so the learned men said to the king seated in the assembly.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.19
ममापि दर्शने कांक्षा महती पूजने तव । गृहं च सम्पदो मे त्वमागत्य सफलीकुरु अपूजयन् महाभक्त्या पाद्यार्घं विष्टरादिभिः । ऋषिरुवाच । प्रतारितोऽहं नृपते नेक्षे तावद्गजाननम् एतत्कथं न जानीषे पूर्वं नासन्नुपद्रवाः । राज्ञा विश्वसितव्यं नो कपटे लुब्धकेऽशुचौ तर्कयन्ति यावदेव गावोऽगुः स्वगृहान्तरम् । असंभावितवेलासु चक्रुर्दीपान् गृहे गृहे
mamāpi darśane kāṃkṣā mahatī pūjane tava | gṛhaṃ ca sampado me tvamāgatya saphalīkuru apūjayan mahābhaktyā pādyārghaṃ viṣṭarādibhiḥ | ṛṣiruvāca | pratārito'haṃ nṛpate nekṣe tāvadgajānanam etatkathaṃ na jānīṣe pūrvaṃ nāsannupadravāḥ | rājñā viśvasitavyaṃ no kapaṭe lubdhake'śucau tarkayanti yāvadeva gāvo'guḥ svagṛhāntaram | asaṃbhāvitavelāsu cakrurdīpān gṛhe gṛhe
"I too have great longing to behold and to worship you. Come and make my house and my riches fruitful." They worshipped with great devotion, with water for the feet, arghya, a seat, and the rest. The sage said: "I have been deceived, O king; I do not see Gajānana. How do you not know this? Formerly there were no calamities. A king is not to be trusted — deceitful, greedy, impure." While they were still reflecting, the cows went into their own houses; at unlooked-for times they made lamps in house after house.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.21
क उवाच । एवमुक्तः स तेनाथ प्रस्थितः परिपूज्य तम् । तूणीर कार्मुकधरो हयमारुह्य शीघ्रगम् वीरो यथा धूलिलिप्तस्तथैवायं विराजते । ददर्श च मुनिस्तं तु शुंडादंडविराजितम् कोटिसूर्यप्रतीकाशं द्विभुजं द्विरदाननम् एतत् कथयितुं यातो ज्ञात्वा राज्यच्युतिं तव । हिताहितमवश्यं हि वक्तव्यं जानता नृपे दीपिकाभिः काष्ठदीपैर्व्यवहारं जनास्तदा । चक्रुर्दुःखेन कार्याणि वाणिजो ब्राह्मणादयः
ka uvāca | evamuktaḥ sa tenātha prasthitaḥ paripūjya tam | tūṇīra kārmukadharo hayamāruhya śīghragam vīro yathā dhūliliptastathaivāyaṃ virājate | dadarśa ca munistaṃ tu śuṃḍādaṃḍavirājitam koṭisūryapratīkāśaṃ dvibhujaṃ dviradānanam etat kathayituṃ yāto jñātvā rājyacyutiṃ tava | hitāhitamavaśyaṃ hi vaktavyaṃ jānatā nṛpe dīpikābhiḥ kāṣṭhadīpairvyavahāraṃ janāstadā | cakrurduḥkhena kāryāṇi vāṇijo brāhmaṇādayaḥ
Ka said: Thus addressed by him, he then set out, having worshipped him; bearing quiver and bow, mounting a swift-going horse. As a hero smeared with dust, just so does he shine. And the sage saw him, resplendent with his staff-like trunk, resembling ten million suns, two-armed, elephant-faced. "I went to tell this, having learned of the loss of your kingdom; for one who knows must certainly speak to a king of what is good and what is not." Then people carried on their business by torches and wooden lamps; merchants, brahmins, and the rest did their tasks with difficulty.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.22
नदीवनानि च गिरीनतिक्रम्य शनैर्ययौ । प्राप तस्याश्रमं राजाऽवरुरोह हयात्ततः उवाच नृपतिं क्रोधात् कथमेनं नमाम्यहम् । धिक्तं महान्तं यो राजन् नमतेऽसौलघीयसे विविच्य नृप मे वाक्यं यथेच्छसि तथा कुरु । क उवाच । एवमाकर्ण्य तद्वाक्यं राजा तं पर्यभाषत १ ।। अधस्थाद्बहुकालं तौ गतौ ज्ञात्वाऽखिलार्भकाः । चक्रुरार्तस्वरं दुष्टं मृतो बाल इति स्फुटम् सेवकानां महानन्दः कामिनां चाभवत्तदा। सालसानां प्रसुप्तानां निद्रालूनां तथैव च
nadīvanāni ca girīnatikramya śanairyayau | prāpa tasyāśramaṃ rājā'varuroha hayāttataḥ uvāca nṛpatiṃ krodhāt kathamenaṃ namāmyaham | dhiktaṃ mahāntaṃ yo rājan namate'saulaghīyase vivicya nṛpa me vākyaṃ yathecchasi tathā kuru | ka uvāca | evamākarṇya tadvākyaṃ rājā taṃ paryabhāṣata 1 || adhasthādbahukālaṃ tau gatau jñātvā'khilārbhakāḥ | cakrurārtasvaraṃ duṣṭaṃ mṛto bāla iti sphuṭam sevakānāṃ mahānandaḥ kāmināṃ cābhavattadā| sālasānāṃ prasuptānāṃ nidrālūnāṃ tathaiva ca
Crossing rivers, forests, and mountains, he went slowly; the king reached his hermitage and then dismounted from the horse. In anger he said to the king: "How am I to bow to this one? Shame upon the great man, O king, who bows to this lesser one! Weigh my words, O king, and do as you wish." Ka said: Hearing that speech of his, the king spoke to him. Knowing that the two had gone below for a long time, all the boys raised a cry of distress: "Clearly the wicked boy is dead!" Then there was great joy for the servants and for the lovers, and likewise for the languid, the sleeping, and the drowsy.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.23
दृष्ट्वा मुनिं भ्रूशुंडिं स प्रणिपातं चकार ह । तेनापि मानितः सोऽथ पुपूजे तमृषिं मुदा तृणमत्ति कथं सिंहो गजगंडविदारणः । क उवाच । श्रुतं तेन मुनेर्वाक्यं तमुवाच ततोऽर्भकः राजोवाच । अतीतानागतज्ञानादुक्तं सर्वं त्वया मुने । मिथ्यैव भासते मह्यं तत्वज्ञाने प्रपंचवत् एवं कृते चान्धकेन नाम्ना चाम्भासुरस्तदा । मेघरूपेण ववृषे धारा हस्तिकरोपमाः
dṛṣṭvā muniṃ bhrūśuṃḍiṃ sa praṇipātaṃ cakāra ha | tenāpi mānitaḥ so'tha pupūje tamṛṣiṃ mudā tṛṇamatti kathaṃ siṃho gajagaṃḍavidāraṇaḥ | ka uvāca | śrutaṃ tena munervākyaṃ tamuvāca tato'rbhakaḥ rājovāca | atītānāgatajñānāduktaṃ sarvaṃ tvayā mune | mithyaiva bhāsate mahyaṃ tatvajñāne prapaṃcavat evaṃ kṛte cāndhakena nāmnā cāmbhāsurastadā | megharūpeṇa vavṛṣe dhārā hastikaropamāḥ
Seeing the sage Bhrūśuṇḍi, he made prostration; and being honoured by him in turn, he then joyfully worshipped that sage. "How does a lion, the render of elephants' temples, eat grass?" Ka said: The sage's words were heard by him; then the boy said to him. The king said: "All that has been said by you, sage, out of your knowledge of past and future, appears to me as mere falsehood, like the manifold world in the knowledge of truth." When this had been done by Andhaka, then the demon named Ambhas rained, in the form of a cloud, streams like elephants' trunks.
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GnP 2 16.24
पश्यति स्म महारण्यमुपविष्टस्तदाज्ञया । सरोवृक्षलता पुष्पैः फलै रम्यं तदाश्रमम् कौतुकाविष्टचित्तोऽसौ लीलाविग्रहवान् विभुः । विनायक उवाच । कीदृक्ते स भवेत्स्वामी भ्रूशुंडे वद साम्प्रतम् त्वदुक्तप्रत्यये जाते दास्यामि वेतनं तव । न ज्ञातो बालकश्चायं त्वया गणकसत्तम् ३ ।। अगाधनीरे कूपेऽस्मिन् कथं जीवेत्स बालकः । कोऽप्यूचे चापरः प्राह शीघ्रं निःसारितो यदि शम्पाप्रकाशतो लोकाः क्षणमीक्षां प्रचक्रिरे । जलधारा भयात्सर्वे गृहमध्ये स्थिरास्तदा
paśyati sma mahāraṇyamupaviṣṭastadājñayā | sarovṛkṣalatā puṣpaiḥ phalai ramyaṃ tadāśramam kautukāviṣṭacitto'sau līlāvigrahavān vibhuḥ | vināyaka uvāca | kīdṛkte sa bhavetsvāmī bhrūśuṃḍe vada sāmpratam tvaduktapratyaye jāte dāsyāmi vetanaṃ tava | na jñāto bālakaścāyaṃ tvayā gaṇakasattam 3 || agādhanīre kūpe'smin kathaṃ jīvetsa bālakaḥ | ko'pyūce cāparaḥ prāha śīghraṃ niḥsārito yadi śampāprakāśato lokāḥ kṣaṇamīkṣāṃ pracakrire | jaladhārā bhayātsarve gṛhamadhye sthirāstadā
Seated by his command, he was gazing at the great forest, that hermitage delightful with its lake, trees, creepers, flowers, and fruits. He, the Lord who bears a body of sport, his mind filled with curiosity. Vināyaka said: "What sort of one might that master of yours be? Tell me now, Bhrūśuṇḍi. When trust in what you say has arisen, I shall give you your wages." "This boy has not been recognized by you, best of astrologers. In this well of fathomless water, how could that boy live?" Someone said, and another declared: "if he is quickly pulled out..." By the light of the lightning people looked for a moment; then all stayed still inside their houses out of fear of the torrents of water.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.25
कैलासो विष्णुलोकोऽथ सत्यलोको न तादृशः । वेदघोषैः शास्त्रघोषैर्गीतनृत्यैर्विराजितम् मुनिरुवाच । दिव्याम्बरो दशभुजो मुक्तामालाविभूषितः । सिद्धिबुद्धियुतः कर्णकुंडलाभ्यां विराजितः ब्रह्माणं कमलाकान्तमपरं शूलिनं हरम् । जनयिष्यति वांछा चेद् ब्रह्मांडानि बहूनि सः उपायो भविता कश्चिज्जीवमायास्य निश्चितम् । येन यत्प्रार्थ्यते दास्ये तदस्मै जीवितं स्वकम् प्रासादा न्यपतन्केचिद् गृहाणां भित्तिका अपि । अन्तः केचिद्बहिः केचिन्मृता जनचयास्तदा
kailāso viṣṇuloko'tha satyaloko na tādṛśaḥ | vedaghoṣaiḥ śāstraghoṣairgītanṛtyairvirājitam muniruvāca | divyāmbaro daśabhujo muktāmālāvibhūṣitaḥ | siddhibuddhiyutaḥ karṇakuṃḍalābhyāṃ virājitaḥ brahmāṇaṃ kamalākāntamaparaṃ śūlinaṃ haram | janayiṣyati vāṃchā ced brahmāṃḍāni bahūni saḥ upāyo bhavitā kaścijjīvamāyāsya niścitam | yena yatprārthyate dāsye tadasmai jīvitaṃ svakam prāsādā nyapatankecid gṛhāṇāṃ bhittikā api | antaḥ kecidbahiḥ kecinmṛtā janacayāstadā
Kailāsa, Viṣṇu's world, and Satyaloka are not like that, resplendent with the sounds of the Vedas, the sounds of the śāstras, with song and dance. The sage said: "Clad in divine garments, ten-armed, adorned with pearl garlands, accompanied by Siddhi and Buddhi, resplendent with his two ear-ornaments; he will beget Brahmā, the lord of Lakṣmī, and the other, trident-bearing Hara — and, if he so wishes, many universes." "There will surely be some means for this creature's life, by which whatever is asked, I shall give him my own life." Some palaces fell, and the walls of houses too; then crowds of people died, some within, some without.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.26
अग्निहोत्रैश्च कासारैः पक्षिभिर्जलजैरपि । दृष्ट्वा तमाश्रमं राजा मुमुदे ह्रष्टमानसः शुंडादंडमुखो लम्बकर्णः सिन्दूरमंडितः । अहिशोभि महानाभिः क्वणच्चरणनूपुरः यदि ते निश्चयो वाक्ये स्वकीये ब्राह्मणोत्तम । नयैनं गहनं घोरं त्यक्त्वैनं पुनरेहि च निष्काश्यतां बहिर्बालो वेगेन च बलेन च । इति राजवचः श्रुत्वा कूपमध्ये गताश्रयः झंझावात हता वक्षा पतिता धरणीतले । सौदामिनीभिर्निर्दग्धा द्रुमा गृहचया बहू
agnihotraiśca kāsāraiḥ pakṣibhirjalajairapi | dṛṣṭvā tamāśramaṃ rājā mumude hraṣṭamānasaḥ śuṃḍādaṃḍamukho lambakarṇaḥ sindūramaṃḍitaḥ | ahiśobhi mahānābhiḥ kvaṇaccaraṇanūpuraḥ yadi te niścayo vākye svakīye brāhmaṇottama | nayainaṃ gahanaṃ ghoraṃ tyaktvainaṃ punarehi ca niṣkāśyatāṃ bahirbālo vegena ca balena ca | iti rājavacaḥ śrutvā kūpamadhye gatāśrayaḥ jhaṃjhāvāta hatā vakṣā patitā dharaṇītale | saudāminībhirnirdagdhā drumā gṛhacayā bahū
With fire-oblations, with ponds, with birds and with water-creatures too — seeing that hermitage, the king rejoiced with delighted mind. "His face with its staff-like trunk, with long ears, adorned with vermilion, splendid with a serpent, great-bellied, with tinkling anklets on his feet." "If you are certain of your own words, best of brahmins, lead him to the dreadful thicket, and abandoning him there, come back again." "Let the boy be driven out, with speed and with force!" Hearing these words of the king, he took refuge in the midst of the well. Trees struck by the storm-wind fell to the earth's surface; many trees and rows of houses were burnt up by the lightning-flashes.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.27
दंडवत् प्रणिपत्यासौ तं मुनिं सर्वमब्रवीत् । विवाहकृत्यं तत्पूजामाज्ञां वैनायकीमपि महामुकुट शोभाढ्यो दशायुध लसत्करः । एकदन्तो भालचन्द्रः क्षुद्रघंटा विराजितः लोकद्वेषकृतोऽनेन निहता बलवत्तराः। स्वदेष्टारं कथमयं न जाने स्थापयिष्यति मग्नास्ते दैत्यकृतया मायया नापरो जनः । अवतर्तुं मनश्चक्रे ततो राजा शुशोच तम् उत्तीराभिर्नदीभिः सा समुद्रैरिव संप्लुता । नगरी सर्वलोकाढ्या सर्वसत्वसमाकुला
daṃḍavat praṇipatyāsau taṃ muniṃ sarvamabravīt | vivāhakṛtyaṃ tatpūjāmājñāṃ vaināyakīmapi mahāmukuṭa śobhāḍhyo daśāyudha lasatkaraḥ | ekadanto bhālacandraḥ kṣudraghaṃṭā virājitaḥ lokadveṣakṛto'nena nihatā balavattarāḥ| svadeṣṭāraṃ kathamayaṃ na jāne sthāpayiṣyati magnāste daityakṛtayā māyayā nāparo janaḥ | avatartuṃ manaścakre tato rājā śuśoca tam uttīrābhirnadībhiḥ sā samudrairiva saṃplutā | nagarī sarvalokāḍhyā sarvasatvasamākulā
Prostrating like a staff, he told the sage everything — the business of the marriage, the worship of him, and Vināyaka's command as well. "Rich in the splendour of a great crown, his hands gleaming with ten weapons, single-tusked, with the moon on his brow, resplendent with little bells." "By him were slain the mightier ones who wrought hatred against the world; how, I do not know, will he install his own instructor?" They were sunk by the illusion wrought by the demon, and no other people. Then the king resolved to go down, and grieved for him. That city, rich in all its people and crowded with all creatures, was flooded by rivers overflowing their banks, as though by oceans.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.28
तस्मादेहि मम गृहमिति च प्रार्थयन्नृपः । ऋषि उवाच । कस्त्वं वद महाराज कोऽसौ तेऽपि विनायकः मयूरवाहनो देववृन्द वन्दित पादुकः । क डवाच । इति तद्वचनं श्रुत्वा पद्मासनगतःस्वयम् अनिष्टमस्य मनसि न वयं चिन्तितुं क्षमाः । अनेन नगरी राज्यं त्रातमुत्पाततो बहुः राजोवाच । किं मयाऽकारि दुरितं येन मे दुःखमीदृशम् । कथं बालो मयाऽऽनीतः सुखार्थं दुःखदोभवत् क उवाच । प्रलयं दैत्यमायां च ज्ञात्वा स करुणाकरः । विनायकोऽकरोन्माया बलेन वटमुच्चकैः ।
tasmādehi mama gṛhamiti ca prārthayannṛpaḥ | ṛṣi uvāca | kastvaṃ vada mahārāja ko'sau te'pi vināyakaḥ mayūravāhano devavṛnda vandita pādukaḥ | ka ḍavāca | iti tadvacanaṃ śrutvā padmāsanagataḥsvayam aniṣṭamasya manasi na vayaṃ cintituṃ kṣamāḥ | anena nagarī rājyaṃ trātamutpātato bahuḥ rājovāca | kiṃ mayā'kāri duritaṃ yena me duḥkhamīdṛśam | kathaṃ bālo mayā''nītaḥ sukhārthaṃ duḥkhadobhavat ka uvāca | pralayaṃ daityamāyāṃ ca jñātvā sa karuṇākaraḥ | vināyako'karonmāyā balena vaṭamuccakaiḥ |
"Therefore come to my house" — thus the king entreated. The sage said: "Who are you? Tell me, great king; and who is that Vināyaka of yours?" "Borne on a peacock, his sandals worshipped by the host of gods." Ka said: Hearing that speech of his, he himself, seated on the lotus... "We are not competent to conceive anything unwelcome in his mind; by him the city and the kingdom have been saved from many calamities." The king said: "What evil did I do, by which such sorrow is mine? How did the boy I brought for happiness become a giver of sorrow?" Ka said: Knowing it to be the dissolution and the demons' illusion, he, the abode of compassion, Vināyaka, by the power of illusion made a banyan tree on high.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.29
नृप उवाच । काशिराज इति ख्यातं मां विद्धि रविवंशजम् । कश्यपस्य यः सुतः सोऽपि दैवतं ते विनायकः तादृग्रूपोऽभवद् बालः सृष्टिरक्षापहारकृत् । भ्रूशुंडी तं निरीक्ष्यैव स्वयोपास्यं गजाननम् करोतीन्द्रमनिन्द्रं वाऽशक्तं शक्तं लघुम् गुरुम् । उच्चं नीचं तथा नीचमुच्चमीशमनीश्वरम् निर्ममे तत्क्षणादेक लतागुल्मैः सुशोभितम् । शतयोजन विस्तीर्णं जटाशाखा समन्वितम्
nṛpa uvāca | kāśirāja iti khyātaṃ māṃ viddhi ravivaṃśajam | kaśyapasya yaḥ sutaḥ so'pi daivataṃ te vināyakaḥ tādṛgrūpo'bhavad bālaḥ sṛṣṭirakṣāpahārakṛt | bhrūśuṃḍī taṃ nirīkṣyaiva svayopāsyaṃ gajānanam karotīndramanindraṃ vā'śaktaṃ śaktaṃ laghum gurum | uccaṃ nīcaṃ tathā nīcamuccamīśamanīśvaram nirmame tatkṣaṇādeka latāgulmaiḥ suśobhitam | śatayojana vistīrṇaṃ jaṭāśākhā samanvitam
The king said: Know me as him who is famed as the king of Kāśī, born in the solar line. He who is Kaśyapa's son — that Vināyaka is your deity too. The boy became of such a form, the doer of creation, protection and withdrawal. Bhṛśuṇḍi, the moment he saw him, the elephant-faced one to be worshipped by himself — (the god) makes Indra a non-Indra, the powerless powerful, the light heavy, the heavy light, the high low and the low high, the lord no lord. In that instant he fashioned one (banyan) beautifully adorned with creepers and shrubs, spread over a hundred yojanas, furnished with matted branches.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.31
ते तत्र दर्शितास्तेन तृप्तेन नगरे मम । तेनोक्तं मम नाम्नैवायास्यति स मुनिर्नृप देहभावं प्रपद्याथ प्रणनाम यथाविधि । पूजयामास विधिवदुपचारैः पृथक्पृथक् मया तव हितं प्रोक्तमनिष्टं तव भासते । न जातु लंघयेत्कोऽपि भाविसृष्टुं तथेतरत् प्रकाशयामास पुरीं पीत्वा चंच्वा जलं महत् । करेणाशोषयद्वन्य करीव पल्वलोदकम्
te tatra darśitāstena tṛptena nagare mama | tenoktaṃ mama nāmnaivāyāsyati sa munirnṛpa dehabhāvaṃ prapadyātha praṇanāma yathāvidhi | pūjayāmāsa vidhivadupacāraiḥ pṛthakpṛthak mayā tava hitaṃ proktamaniṣṭaṃ tava bhāsate | na jātu laṃghayetko'pi bhāvisṛṣṭuṃ tathetarat prakāśayāmāsa purīṃ pītvā caṃcvā jalaṃ mahat | kareṇāśoṣayadvanya karīva palvalodakam
Those were shown there by him, when he was satisfied, in my city. By him it was said, 'By my name alone that sage will come, O king.' Then, taking on bodily form, he bowed down according to rule; he worshipped duly with attentions, one by one. 'By me what is good for you has been spoken; it appears unwelcome to you. Never can anyone overstep what is to come to be, nor anything else.' He lit up the city; and having drunk the great water with his beak, he dried it up with his trunk, like a forest elephant the water of a pool.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.32
अतोऽहमेव संयातः प्रार्थितुं त्वां महामुने । तवापि दर्शनं मत्वा दुर्लभं चर्मचक्षुषाम् ऊचे राजा महापुण्यं फलितं पूर्वजन्मजम् । देवभक्तभवं सौख्यं दृष्टमद्य मयाऽद्भुतम् नृपते दर्शयैनं मे बालकं लक्षणानि ते । कथयिष्ये ततो बालान् सर्वानाकारयन्नृपः १।। तावदेवागतो बालो नोदितः कन्दरेण सः । तेनापि नोदितो दैत्यो दैत्यास्ये न्यपतत्खलः जना हर्धाद्धि जगदुर्गतो विघ्नो गतं जलम् । गतेऽन्धकारे ददृशुर्वटं सान्द्रतरं च तम्
ato'hameva saṃyātaḥ prārthituṃ tvāṃ mahāmune | tavāpi darśanaṃ matvā durlabhaṃ carmacakṣuṣām ūce rājā mahāpuṇyaṃ phalitaṃ pūrvajanmajam | devabhaktabhavaṃ saukhyaṃ dṛṣṭamadya mayā'dbhutam nṛpate darśayainaṃ me bālakaṃ lakṣaṇāni te | kathayiṣye tato bālān sarvānākārayannṛpaḥ 1|| tāvadevāgato bālo noditaḥ kandareṇa saḥ | tenāpi nodito daityo daityāsye nyapatatkhalaḥ janā hardhāddhi jagadurgato vighno gataṃ jalam | gate'ndhakāre dadṛśurvaṭaṃ sāndrataraṃ ca tam
Therefore I myself have come to entreat you, great sage, considering that even the sight of you is hard for eyes of flesh to win. The king said: Great merit from a former birth has borne fruit; today I have seen the wondrous happiness that comes of devotion to the god. 'O king, show me this boy; I will tell his marks.' Then the king summoned all the boys. Just then the boy came, pushed by Kandara; and by him too the demon was pushed, and the rogue fell into the demon's mouth. The people out of joy declared: the obstacle is gone, the water is gone. When the darkness had gone, they saw that banyan, denser still.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.33
क उवाच । एवमुक्तो नृपतिना भ्रूशुंडिर्विस्मयान्वितः । उवाच किमिदं सत्यमुत वाऽसत्यमेव च उभाभ्यां प्रणिपत्याथ पुपूज च यथाविधि । महासनगतौ तौ तु परस्परमथोचतुः अग्रे विनायकः प्राप्तो धावमानास्ततोऽखिलाः । गणकं स नमस्कृत्य पप्रच्छ कुत आगतः भक्षयामास कूपस्तं मत्स्यो मत्स्यभिवालघुः । गिलितो बाल इति स निजरूपं समास्थितः पक्षिणं चाद्भुताकारं न दृष्टं न च वै श्रुतम् । सर्वे जना ययुस्तत्र न्यग्रोधे स्थातुमुत्सुकाः
ka uvāca | evamukto nṛpatinā bhrūśuṃḍirvismayānvitaḥ | uvāca kimidaṃ satyamuta vā'satyameva ca ubhābhyāṃ praṇipatyātha pupūja ca yathāvidhi | mahāsanagatau tau tu parasparamathocatuḥ agre vināyakaḥ prāpto dhāvamānāstato'khilāḥ | gaṇakaṃ sa namaskṛtya papraccha kuta āgataḥ bhakṣayāmāsa kūpastaṃ matsyo matsyabhivālaghuḥ | gilito bāla iti sa nijarūpaṃ samāsthitaḥ pakṣiṇaṃ cādbhutākāraṃ na dṛṣṭaṃ na ca vai śrutam | sarve janā yayustatra nyagrodhe sthātumutsukāḥ
Ka said: Thus addressed by the king, Bhṛśuṇḍi, filled with amazement, said, 'Is this true, or is it simply untrue?' Then, having bowed to both, he worshipped them duly; and the two, seated on a great seat, spoke to one another. Vināyaka arrived in front, and then all came running. Having bowed to the reckoner, he asked, 'Whence have you come?' The well devoured him, a fish smaller than a fish; 'the boy is swallowed' — and so he took up his own form. A bird of wondrous shape was neither seen nor even heard of; all the people went there, eager to stay in the banyan.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.34
योऽगोचरो वेदविदां वेदान्तानां च चेतसः । स कथं त्वद्गृहे तिष्ठेदिति संदिह्यते मनः आलिंग्य दशदोर्दंडैः परमात्मा जहर्ष च । सगद्गदौ निरीक्ष्यैतौ साश्रु राजा ततोऽध्यभूत् सामुद्रलक्षणज्ञोऽसि ज्योतिःशास्त्रविशारदः । भूतभाविभविष्यज्ञ वद मे भाग्यजं फलम् कूपोऽपि गगनस्पर्धां चक्रे श्लाघ्यां यशीर्जिताम् । सर्वेषामेव दैत्यानामानृण्यं गतवानहम् अश्वैर्गजैरथैरुष्ट्रैः शिबिकाभिर्नृभिस्तु तैः । स्त्रीभिर्दासैः काशिराजो वटस्याधः समाययौ
yo'gocaro vedavidāṃ vedāntānāṃ ca cetasaḥ | sa kathaṃ tvadgṛhe tiṣṭhediti saṃdihyate manaḥ āliṃgya daśadordaṃḍaiḥ paramātmā jaharṣa ca | sagadgadau nirīkṣyaitau sāśru rājā tato'dhyabhūt sāmudralakṣaṇajño'si jyotiḥśāstraviśāradaḥ | bhūtabhāvibhaviṣyajña vada me bhāgyajaṃ phalam kūpo'pi gaganaspardhāṃ cakre ślāghyāṃ yaśīrjitām | sarveṣāmeva daityānāmānṛṇyaṃ gatavānaham aśvairgajairathairuṣṭraiḥ śibikābhirnṛbhistu taiḥ | strībhirdāsaiḥ kāśirājo vaṭasyādhaḥ samāyayau
He who is beyond the reach of the knowers of the Veda and of the minds of the Vedāntas — how should he stay in your house? So my mind is in doubt. Embracing him with his ten arms, the Supreme Self rejoiced; and seeing these two with faltering voices, the king then became tearful. 'You know the bodily marks, you are versed in the science of the stars; O knower of past, present and future, tell me the fruit born of my fortune.' The well too made a laudable rivalry with the sky, won by fame. 'I have become free of debt to all the demons.' With horses, elephants, chariots, camels, litters and with those men, with women and servants, the king of Kāśī came beneath the banyan.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.35
त्रयस्त्रिंशत्कोटि देवा दर्शनार्थं समागताः । स कथं तव वाक्येन यामीत्युक्त्वा स्वमाश्रमम् गजानन उवाच । तव निष्ठा मयाऽज्ञायि राज्ञा चापि निवेदिता । अत एष धृतो वेषो दशदोर्दंडमंडितः क उवाच। सधैर्यं बालवाक्यं तदाकर्ण्य कपटी द्विजः । तर्कयामास मनसि कथं स्वस्ति गतिर्भवेत् इत्युज्जहर्ष मनसा मत्वा देवमविक्रमम् । कन्दरस्तु रुषाविष्टो विदार्यास्य महोदरम् पशवः सारमेयाश्च बिडाला वन गोचराः। विनायकप्रभावेण न वृष्टिस्तत्र नो तमः
trayastriṃśatkoṭi devā darśanārthaṃ samāgatāḥ | sa kathaṃ tava vākyena yāmītyuktvā svamāśramam gajānana uvāca | tava niṣṭhā mayā'jñāyi rājñā cāpi niveditā | ata eṣa dhṛto veṣo daśadordaṃḍamaṃḍitaḥ ka uvāca| sadhairyaṃ bālavākyaṃ tadākarṇya kapaṭī dvijaḥ | tarkayāmāsa manasi kathaṃ svasti gatirbhavet ityujjaharṣa manasā matvā devamavikramam | kandarastu ruṣāviṣṭo vidāryāsya mahodaram paśavaḥ sārameyāśca biḍālā vana gocarāḥ| vināyakaprabhāveṇa na vṛṣṭistatra no tamaḥ
'Thirty-three crores of gods have gathered for a sight (of him); how then, at your word, shall I go?' — saying this, (he went) to his own hermitage. Gajānana said: Your steadfastness was known by me, and was reported by the king as well; hence this guise adorned with ten arms was assumed. Ka said: Hearing that steady speech of the boy, the deceitful brahmin reflected in his mind, 'How can there be a safe way out?' Thus he rejoiced in mind, thinking the god to be without prowess. But Kandara, seized with rage, tearing open his great belly — beasts and dogs and cats that range the forest: by Vināyaka's power there was neither rain there nor darkness.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.36
यदि तिष्ठति देवोऽसौ तव गेहे नराधिप । स्वरूपं वद तस्याहं ततो यास्यामि ते गृहम् यथा यथा जनोऽन्योऽपि ध्यात्वा माम् भजते मुने । तथा तथाऽहं रूपाणि करोमि च ददामि च अनेन निहता दुष्टा बलिनोऽनेकरूपिणः । शिशोर्हस्तं गृहीत्वा स वदति स्म शुभाशुभम् निर्गम्य वेगमास्थाय स बालोऽन्तर्हितः क्षणात् । विदारितं मे जठरमिति कूपोऽपि कन्दरम् चक्रुः सर्वे पूर्ववत्ते वर्णाः कर्म यथाविधि । पौराः सद्व्यवसायेषु समसज्जन्त पूर्ववत्
yadi tiṣṭhati devo'sau tava gehe narādhipa | svarūpaṃ vada tasyāhaṃ tato yāsyāmi te gṛham yathā yathā jano'nyo'pi dhyātvā mām bhajate mune | tathā tathā'haṃ rūpāṇi karomi ca dadāmi ca anena nihatā duṣṭā balino'nekarūpiṇaḥ | śiśorhastaṃ gṛhītvā sa vadati sma śubhāśubham nirgamya vegamāsthāya sa bālo'ntarhitaḥ kṣaṇāt | vidāritaṃ me jaṭharamiti kūpo'pi kandaram cakruḥ sarve pūrvavatte varṇāḥ karma yathāvidhi | paurāḥ sadvyavasāyeṣu samasajjanta pūrvavat
'If that god dwells in your house, O king, tell his own form; then I shall go to your house.' 'In whatever way any other person meditates and worships me, O sage, in that way I make forms and grant them.' By him were slain wicked, mighty ones of many shapes. Taking the child's hand, he would tell the good and the ill. Going out, taking to speed, that boy vanished in a moment. 'My belly has been torn open' — thus the well too (said) to Kandara. All those classes did their work as before, according to rule; the townsmen busied themselves in good undertakings as before.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.37
नृप उवाच । अनन्तानि स्वरूपाणि गणितुं न क्षमो विधिः । शेषो वा तस्य कोऽन्यो हि वक्तुमीशो भवेद्द्विज वांछितं तस्य लोकस्य विश्वासेन भजत्यसौ । दुष्टभारभयाक्रान्ता धरित्री सत्यलोकगा चतुर्षु दिवसेषु त्वं कूपमध्ये पतिष्यसि । चेन्निर्गतः कथंच्चित्वं सिन्धौ मज्जनमेष्यसि अदशत् कंठदेशे स जीवग्राहं रुषा तदा । एवं परस्पर वधात् पतितौ विह्वलो भृशम् सर्वेषां रक्षणं कर्तुं पक्षिरूपमधारयत् । जगदीशो गणेशो नु न जानीमोऽत्र किंचन
nṛpa uvāca | anantāni svarūpāṇi gaṇituṃ na kṣamo vidhiḥ | śeṣo vā tasya ko'nyo hi vaktumīśo bhaveddvija vāṃchitaṃ tasya lokasya viśvāsena bhajatyasau | duṣṭabhārabhayākrāntā dharitrī satyalokagā caturṣu divaseṣu tvaṃ kūpamadhye patiṣyasi | cennirgataḥ kathaṃccitvaṃ sindhau majjanameṣyasi adaśat kaṃṭhadeśe sa jīvagrāhaṃ ruṣā tadā | evaṃ paraspara vadhāt patitau vihvalo bhṛśam sarveṣāṃ rakṣaṇaṃ kartuṃ pakṣirūpamadhārayat | jagadīśo gaṇeśo nu na jānīmo'tra kiṃcana
The king said: Endless are his own forms; the Creator is not able to count them, nor Śeṣa; who else, then, would be able to tell them, O brahmin? He grants that world's wish through faith; the earth, overcome by fear of the burden of the wicked, went to Satyaloka. 'Within four days you will fall into a well; if somehow you get out, you will meet with drowning in the sea.' Then in rage he bit him on the throat, seizing him alive; thus, from slaying each other, the two fell, sorely distressed. To protect all, he took on the form of a bird — the Lord of the world, or perhaps Gaṇeśa: we know nothing here.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.38
अवतीर्णः साम्प्रतं स कश्यपस्य गृहे मुने । विनायकेति नाम्नाऽपि विख्यातो भुवनत्रये ब्रह्माणं शरणं याता तेनाहं प्रतिबोधितः । आदित्याश्च वरेणाहं जातः कश्यपनन्दनः ततोऽपि जीवितश्चेत्तु ध्वान्तमग्नो भविष्यसि । ततोऽपिजीविते शैलस्त्वयि कोऽपि पतिष्यति पादहस्तावमर्देन चूर्णितं नगरम् कियत् । यथा सुन्दोपसुन्दौ तु परस्पर वधान् मृतौ विस्तार्य पक्षान् वृष्टिं यो न्यषेधीद्दैत्य कारिताम् । वृष्टिं सोल्कां सकरकां स्वयं सेहे सुखेन सः
avatīrṇaḥ sāmprataṃ sa kaśyapasya gṛhe mune | vināyaketi nāmnā'pi vikhyāto bhuvanatraye brahmāṇaṃ śaraṇaṃ yātā tenāhaṃ pratibodhitaḥ | ādityāśca vareṇāhaṃ jātaḥ kaśyapanandanaḥ tato'pi jīvitaścettu dhvāntamagno bhaviṣyasi | tato'pijīvite śailastvayi ko'pi patiṣyati pādahastāvamardena cūrṇitaṃ nagaram kiyat | yathā sundopasundau tu paraspara vadhān mṛtau vistārya pakṣān vṛṣṭiṃ yo nyaṣedhīddaitya kāritām | vṛṣṭiṃ solkāṃ sakarakāṃ svayaṃ sehe sukhena saḥ
He has now descended in Kaśyapa's house, O sage, and is famed in the three worlds by the name Vināyaka too. She went to Brahmā for refuge; by him I was awakened. And by a boon of the Ādityas I was born as Kaśyapa's son. 'If you survive even that, you will be sunk in darkness; if you live on even after that, some mountain will fall upon you.' By the crushing of feet and hands, how much of the city was pulverized! — just as Sunda and Upasunda died from slaying each other. Spreading his wings, he who checked the rain caused by the demon endured himself, with ease, the rain with its meteors and hail.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.39
अत्यद्भुतेन रूपेण सप्तवर्षात्मकेन च । अद्भुतानि च कर्माणि महान्ति जगदीश्वरः भुवो भारं हरिष्यामि शक्रादींश्च निजे पदे । स्थापयिष्यामि दैत्यानां नाशं कृत्वाऽप्यनेकधा महान्तौ कालपुरुषौ जीवन्तं भक्षयिष्यतः । एतान्यरिष्टानि तव भविष्यन्ति न संशयः परस्परवधात्तद्वन् मृतौ तौ कूपकन्दरौ । राजभृत्यैरपाकृष्य त्यक्तौ तौ नगराद्बहिः इति लोकास्तर्कयित्वा स्थिता निर्व्याकुलास्तदा । एकादशगता घस्रा एवं तत्र स्थितस्य च
atyadbhutena rūpeṇa saptavarṣātmakena ca | adbhutāni ca karmāṇi mahānti jagadīśvaraḥ bhuvo bhāraṃ hariṣyāmi śakrādīṃśca nije pade | sthāpayiṣyāmi daityānāṃ nāśaṃ kṛtvā'pyanekadhā mahāntau kālapuruṣau jīvantaṃ bhakṣayiṣyataḥ | etānyariṣṭāni tava bhaviṣyanti na saṃśayaḥ parasparavadhāttadvan mṛtau tau kūpakandarau | rājabhṛtyairapākṛṣya tyaktau tau nagarādbahiḥ iti lokāstarkayitvā sthitā nirvyākulāstadā | ekādaśagatā ghasrā evaṃ tatra sthitasya ca
With an exceedingly wondrous form of seven years, and (with) wondrous, great deeds, the Lord of the world (acted). 'I shall take away the earth's burden, and I shall establish Śakra and the rest in their own station, having destroyed the demons in many ways.' 'Two great men of Time will devour you alive; these calamities will befall you, no doubt.' Likewise, from slaying each other, those two, Kūpa and Kandara, died; dragged away by the king's servants, they were cast outside the city. Having reasoned thus, the people then remained free of disquiet; and eleven days passed for him as he stayed there.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.41
वसते देवदेवोऽसौ ब्रह्मचारिस्वरूपतः । अवतीर्णो यदा सोऽभूद्दिव्यकान्तिश्चतुर्भुजः ऋषिरुवाच । दृष्ट्वा तवाङ्घ्रियुगलं सर्वलोकसुखावहम् । सर्वक्लेशहरं देव वन्द्यं कांक्षितदं प्रभो पुनरत्रानयिष्यामि शपथो मे तचाङ्घ्रिजः । निशम्य वाचं बालोऽसौ जगामान्तगृहं शनैः आश्चर्यं मेनिरे तत्र बाला राजा जना अपि । ऊचुः परस्परं केचित् कापट्यं येन युज्यते ततो दैत्यो क्षीणशक्ती निश्चेष्टौ समपद्यताम् । तुंगो जगर्ज बहुधा नादयन् प्रदिशो दिशः
vasate devadevo'sau brahmacārisvarūpataḥ | avatīrṇo yadā so'bhūddivyakāntiścaturbhujaḥ ṛṣiruvāca | dṛṣṭvā tavāṅghriyugalaṃ sarvalokasukhāvaham | sarvakleśaharaṃ deva vandyaṃ kāṃkṣitadaṃ prabho punaratrānayiṣyāmi śapatho me tacāṅghrijaḥ | niśamya vācaṃ bālo'sau jagāmāntagṛhaṃ śanaiḥ āścaryaṃ menire tatra bālā rājā janā api | ūcuḥ parasparaṃ kecit kāpaṭyaṃ yena yujyate tato daityo kṣīṇaśaktī niśceṣṭau samapadyatām | tuṃgo jagarja bahudhā nādayan pradiśo diśaḥ
That god of gods dwells in the form of a celibate student; when he had descended he became four-armed, of divine radiance. The sage said: Having seen your pair of feet, which bring happiness to all the worlds, which remove every affliction, O god, worthy of homage, granting what is desired, O Lord — 'I shall bring him here again; my oath on it is by his feet.' Hearing the words, that boy went slowly into the inner house. There the boys, the king and the people too thought it a marvel; some said to one another, 'what trickery could bring this about?' Then the two demons, their strength drained, became motionless; the tall one roared again and again, making the quarters and the intermediate quarters resound.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.42
दिव्यमाल्यांबरधरो दिव्यालंकारसंयुतः । दिव्यायुधधरो धीमान् दिव्यगन्धानुलेपन: कृतकृत्यः पवित्रश्च जातोऽहं तव दर्शनात् । वरं मे देहि विश्वात्मन् तेन तृप्तो भवाम्यहम् राज्ञो हस्तात् प्रगृहयाशु मुद्रिकां रत्ननिर्मिताम् । कृत्वा तां स्वकरे बालो वदति स्म द्विजं प्रति आमूलान् नश्यते सोऽथ स्वयमेव न संशयः । पतंगो दीपनाशार्थमायाति नश्यते यथा गिरिरूपं समास्थाय हनिष्ये पक्षिणं क्षणात् । ब्रुवन्नेवं बभूवाशु पर्वतो भूत्तदैव सः
divyamālyāṃbaradharo divyālaṃkārasaṃyutaḥ | divyāyudhadharo dhīmān divyagandhānulepana: kṛtakṛtyaḥ pavitraśca jāto'haṃ tava darśanāt | varaṃ me dehi viśvātman tena tṛpto bhavāmyaham rājño hastāt pragṛhayāśu mudrikāṃ ratnanirmitām | kṛtvā tāṃ svakare bālo vadati sma dvijaṃ prati āmūlān naśyate so'tha svayameva na saṃśayaḥ | pataṃgo dīpanāśārthamāyāti naśyate yathā girirūpaṃ samāsthāya haniṣye pakṣiṇaṃ kṣaṇāt | bruvannevaṃ babhūvāśu parvato bhūttadaiva saḥ
Wearing divine garlands and garments, endowed with divine ornaments, bearing divine weapons, wise, anointed with divine fragrances. 'By the sight of you I have become one whose end is attained and purified; grant me a boon, O Self of all, that I may be satisfied by it.' Swiftly taking from the king's hand a ring made of jewels, and putting it in his own hand, the boy spoke to the brahmin. Then he perishes root and all, by his own doing, without doubt — as the moth comes to destroy the lamp and itself perishes. 'Taking the form of a mountain, I shall kill the bird in an instant' — and even as he said this he at once became a mountain.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.43
प्रार्थितः कश्यपेनासौ प्राकृतोऽभूत्तदैव सः । मुनिरुवाच । नायं देवो मम ध्यानगोचरो राजसत्तम यदा यदाऽहं ध्यायामि रूपेणानेन विघ्नप । तदा तदा मे प्रत्यक्षो भवेथाः करुणानिधे गणकाशु वद त्वं नो गतं वस्तु महत्तरम् । केन नीतं तदा प्राप्तं भूयात्ते प्रत्ययो भवेत् अस्य चालयितुं शक्तो न स्यात्कालोऽपि रोम च । दृष्टं बहुविधं चास्य सामर्थ्यमवतारिणः सरोनदी समायुक्तः पंचयोजन विस्तृतः । दिव्योषधीभिर्दीप्ताभिर्भासयन् गगनं दिशः
prārthitaḥ kaśyapenāsau prākṛto'bhūttadaiva saḥ | muniruvāca | nāyaṃ devo mama dhyānagocaro rājasattama yadā yadā'haṃ dhyāyāmi rūpeṇānena vighnapa | tadā tadā me pratyakṣo bhavethāḥ karuṇānidhe gaṇakāśu vada tvaṃ no gataṃ vastu mahattaram | kena nītaṃ tadā prāptaṃ bhūyātte pratyayo bhavet asya cālayituṃ śakto na syātkālo'pi roma ca | dṛṣṭaṃ bahuvidhaṃ cāsya sāmarthyamavatāriṇaḥ saronadī samāyuktaḥ paṃcayojana vistṛtaḥ | divyoṣadhībhirdīptābhirbhāsayan gaganaṃ diśaḥ
Entreated by Kaśyapa, he became ordinary at that very moment. The sage said: This god is not within the range of my meditation, O best of kings. 'Whenever I meditate, O lord of obstacles, in this form, then and then may you become visible to me, O treasury of compassion.' 'Reckoner, tell us quickly: a very valuable thing of ours is gone; by whom was it taken, and when will it be recovered, so that trust in you may arise?' 'Not even Time would be able to move a hair of his; the many kinds of power of him who has descended have been seen.' Joined with lakes and rivers, five yojanas broad, lighting up sky and quarters with blazing divine herbs.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.44
यस्य प्रभावान्मे शुंडा जाता देवर्षिदुर्लभा । यत्र कुत्रापि यास्येऽहं स चेदाकारयिष्यति आशापूरक इत्येवं नाम ते ख्यातिमेतु च । गजानन उवाच । यदा यदा वांछसे त्वम् तदा यास्यामि तेऽन्तिकम् इत्युक्तः स तु बालेन विचार्य जनसंसदि । बभाण हास्यवदनो मुद्रिका यदि लभ्यते जेतुमीशं गतः कामः स्वयं भस्मत्वमागतः । काशिराजस्तु तच्छ्रुत्वा सत्यंसत्यमिति ब्रुवन् नानापक्षिसमायुक्तो वाडवाश्रममंडितः । सपक्षं पर्वतं दृष्ट्वा पतमानं स पक्षिराट्
yasya prabhāvānme śuṃḍā jātā devarṣidurlabhā | yatra kutrāpi yāsye'haṃ sa cedākārayiṣyati āśāpūraka ityevaṃ nāma te khyātimetu ca | gajānana uvāca | yadā yadā vāṃchase tvam tadā yāsyāmi te'ntikam ityuktaḥ sa tu bālena vicārya janasaṃsadi | babhāṇa hāsyavadano mudrikā yadi labhyate jetumīśaṃ gataḥ kāmaḥ svayaṃ bhasmatvamāgataḥ | kāśirājastu tacchrutvā satyaṃsatyamiti bruvan nānāpakṣisamāyukto vāḍavāśramamaṃḍitaḥ | sapakṣaṃ parvataṃ dṛṣṭvā patamānaṃ sa pakṣirāṭ
'By whose power my trunk has become such as gods and sages can hardly attain; wherever I may go, if he will call me — may your name become renowned thus as "Fulfiller of Hopes".' Gajānana said: Whenever you wish, then I shall come to your side. So addressed by the boy, having considered, in the assembly of people he spoke with a laughing face: 'If the ring may be had...' Kāma, who went to conquer the Lord, himself came to be ashes. But the king of Kāśī, hearing that, said, 'True, true!' Attended by many kinds of birds, adorned by Vāḍava's hermitage — seeing the winged mountain falling, that king of birds (acted).
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.45
क उवाच । एवं श्रुत्वा मुनिवचश्चिन्ताविष्टोऽब्रवीन्नृपः । मम भाग्यमभाग्यं च महदेतदुपस्थितम् भक्तिभावादिदं नाम त्वयोक्तं ख्यातिमेष्यति । क उवाच । एवं वरौ समाकर्ण्य प्रणनाम मुदा मुनिः ममैव यदि देया सा तदेदानीं ब्रवीम्यहम् । तथेति बालकेनोक्ते तवैव करगेति सा ददौ दानानि विप्रेभ्यो विससर्ज प्रपूज्य तान् । विनायकं नमस्कृत्य गता लोका निजान् गृहान् उड्डीय परिबभ्राम वारयामास तज्जलम् । घूर्णयन् पक्षवातेन जंगमाजंगमम् जगत्
ka uvāca | evaṃ śrutvā munivacaścintāviṣṭo'bravīnnṛpaḥ | mama bhāgyamabhāgyaṃ ca mahadetadupasthitam bhaktibhāvādidaṃ nāma tvayoktaṃ khyātimeṣyati | ka uvāca | evaṃ varau samākarṇya praṇanāma mudā muniḥ mamaiva yadi deyā sā tadedānīṃ bravīmyaham | tatheti bālakenokte tavaiva karageti sā dadau dānāni viprebhyo visasarja prapūjya tān | vināyakaṃ namaskṛtya gatā lokā nijān gṛhān uḍḍīya paribabhrāma vārayāmāsa tajjalam | ghūrṇayan pakṣavātena jaṃgamājaṃgamam jagat
Ka said: Having heard the sage's words thus, the king, filled with anxiety, said: This great fortune and misfortune of mine has come upon me. This name you have uttered out of devotion will become renowned. Ka said: Hearing these two boons, the sage bowed with joy. 'If it is to be given to me alone, then I speak now.' When the boy said, 'so be it', that (ring) passed into your hand. He gave gifts to the brahmins and dismissed them after honouring them; having bowed to Vināyaka, the people went to their own homes. Flying up, he circled about and held back that water, whirling the moving and unmoving world with the wind of his wings.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.46
त्वदाशया महाघोरान्पर्वतान् गहनानि च । अतिक्रम्येहं संप्राप्तः प्राप्तं त्वद्दर्शनं महत् प्रणते तु मुनौ तस्मिन् पुनः प्रोचे गजाननः । निधाय मस्तके हस्तम् शनैस्तस्य द्विजस्य सः इत्थमुक्तो जिह्मवेषधारिणा वाडवेन सा। तया मन्त्रितया बालो न्यवधीत्तं ह्रदि क्षणात् केचिदालिंग्य तं बालं ययूराज्ञा प्रपूजितम् । देवाश्च पुष्पवर्षाणि मुमुचुस्तुष्टुवुर्जनाः प्रस्थानिपतिता भूमौ पर्वतानामितस्ततः । चंच्वा दध्रे स तुंगाद्रिं काश्यपिः फणिनं यथा
tvadāśayā mahāghorānparvatān gahanāni ca | atikramyehaṃ saṃprāptaḥ prāptaṃ tvaddarśanaṃ mahat praṇate tu munau tasmin punaḥ proce gajānanaḥ | nidhāya mastake hastam śanaistasya dvijasya saḥ itthamukto jihmaveṣadhāriṇā vāḍavena sā| tayā mantritayā bālo nyavadhīttaṃ hradi kṣaṇāt kecidāliṃgya taṃ bālaṃ yayūrājñā prapūjitam | devāśca puṣpavarṣāṇi mumucustuṣṭuvurjanāḥ prasthānipatitā bhūmau parvatānāmitastataḥ | caṃcvā dadhre sa tuṃgādriṃ kāśyapiḥ phaṇinaṃ yathā
'In hope of you I have arrived, crossing most fearsome mountains and thickets; the great sight of you has been won.' When that sage had bowed, Gajānana spoke again, slowly laying his hand on that brahmin's head. Thus addressed by the brahmin who wore a crooked guise, that (ring), when he had charmed it with spells, the boy used to kill him in the lake in an instant. Some, having embraced that boy who was honoured by the king, went away; and the gods released showers of flowers, and the people praised him. The slopes of the mountains fell to the ground here and there; with his beak Kaśyapa's son seized the lofty mountain, as (a bird seizes) a serpent.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.47
बलात्करो न मेऽत्रास्ति गन्तुं चैवालयं विभो । ततो मुनिः करुणया नृपमूर्ध्निं करं ददौ यद्यत्ते वांछितं ब्रह्मंस्तत्सर्वं सिद्धिमेष्यति । अविस्मृतिश्च भविता मम नित्यं मुने तव स तया भिन्नहृदयो वज्राहत इवाचलः । निपपात धरापृष्ठे चालयन् वसुधां भृशम् क उवाच । एवं न ज्ञायते ब्रह्मन् कार्याकार्यं मरुद्बलम् । मायारस्वरूपं पुंभाग्यं राक्षसाचरणं मुने सह तेनाभ्रमन् खेऽसौ लक्षयन् दानवावुभौ । अन्धकं चरणैकेन परेणाम्भासुरं च सः
balātkaro na me'trāsti gantuṃ caivālayaṃ vibho | tato muniḥ karuṇayā nṛpamūrdhniṃ karaṃ dadau yadyatte vāṃchitaṃ brahmaṃstatsarvaṃ siddhimeṣyati | avismṛtiśca bhavitā mama nityaṃ mune tava sa tayā bhinnahṛdayo vajrāhata ivācalaḥ | nipapāta dharāpṛṣṭhe cālayan vasudhāṃ bhṛśam ka uvāca | evaṃ na jñāyate brahman kāryākāryaṃ marudbalam | māyārasvarūpaṃ puṃbhāgyaṃ rākṣasācaraṇaṃ mune saha tenābhraman khe'sau lakṣayan dānavāvubhau | andhakaṃ caraṇaikena pareṇāmbhāsuraṃ ca saḥ
'There is no force upon me here, nor to go to my dwelling, O Lord.' Then the sage out of compassion laid his hand on the king's head. 'Whatever you desire, O brahmin, all that shall come to fulfilment.' 'And there shall be no forgetting of you by me ever, O sage.' He, his heart split by that (ring), like a mountain struck by the thunderbolt, fell to the ground, shaking the earth violently. Ka said: Thus, O brahmin, what is to be done and not to be done cannot be known, nor the power of the winds, the nature of illusion, men's fortune, the conduct of demons, O sage. With him he roamed in the sky, marking the two dānavas: Andhaka with one foot, and Ambhāsura with the other.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.48
निमील्याक्षिणी राजन्नित्युक्तः स तथाऽकरोत् । उन्मील्य नयनेऽपश्यत् क्षणमात्रादसौ नृपः क उवाच । एवमुक्ता बालरूपश्चिक्रीड स विनायकः । सोऽपि पद्मासनगतो ध्यानमेवान्वपद्यत पतता तस्य देहेन चूर्णितं नगरं कियत् । काशिराजो जनाः सर्वे आश्चर्यं मेनिरे तदा अवतारगुणा वापि न ज्ञेया परमात्मनः अतिक्रम्य भुवर्लोकमियाय स महाखगः । अतिभ्रमणखिन्नास्ते तप्ताश्च सूर्यरश्मिभिः
nimīlyākṣiṇī rājannityuktaḥ sa tathā'karot | unmīlya nayane'paśyat kṣaṇamātrādasau nṛpaḥ ka uvāca | evamuktā bālarūpaścikrīḍa sa vināyakaḥ | so'pi padmāsanagato dhyānamevānvapadyata patatā tasya dehena cūrṇitaṃ nagaraṃ kiyat | kāśirājo janāḥ sarve āścaryaṃ menire tadā avatāraguṇā vāpi na jñeyā paramātmanaḥ atikramya bhuvarlokamiyāya sa mahākhagaḥ | atibhramaṇakhinnāste taptāśca sūryaraśmibhiḥ
'Close your eyes, O king' — so told, he did so; and opening his eyes, that king saw, after but a moment. Ka said: Having spoken thus, that Vināyaka in the form of a boy played on; and he too, seated in the lotus posture, took up meditation. By his falling body a good part of the city was pulverized; the king of Kāśī and all the people then thought it a marvel. Nor can even the qualities of the descent of the Supreme Self be known. That great bird went past Bhuvarloka; and they, wearied by much roaming and scorched by the sun's rays...
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.49
गृहान्तर्गतमात्मानं पूर्ववत्तदनुग्रहात् । विनायकाय तं सर्वं वृत्तान्तं समभाषत आश्चर्यं परमं चक्रुः सर्वलोकास्तदाद्भुतम् । निरीक्ष्य बालरूपस्य चरितं परमात्मनः जहर्षुर्देवता सर्वाः पुष्पवृष्टिं सुचक्रिरे । स्वर्गभूवाद्यघोषैर्द्यौर्व्याप्ताऽभूद् भूतलं तदा निपेतुर्व्यसवो भूमौ त्रयः पर्वतसन्निभाः। पतन्तश्चूर्णयामासुर्वनान्युपवनानि च
gṛhāntargatamātmānaṃ pūrvavattadanugrahāt | vināyakāya taṃ sarvaṃ vṛttāntaṃ samabhāṣata āścaryaṃ paramaṃ cakruḥ sarvalokāstadādbhutam | nirīkṣya bālarūpasya caritaṃ paramātmanaḥ jaharṣurdevatā sarvāḥ puṣpavṛṣṭiṃ sucakrire | svargabhūvādyaghoṣairdyaurvyāptā'bhūd bhūtalaṃ tadā nipeturvyasavo bhūmau trayaḥ parvatasannibhāḥ| patantaścūrṇayāmāsurvanānyupavanāni ca
(He found) himself inside the house as before, by his grace; he told that whole affair to Vināyaka. All the people held it then the highest marvel, that wonder, on seeing the deed of the Supreme Self in the form of a boy. All the deities rejoiced and made a fine rain of flowers; the sky, and then the earth, was filled with cries of 'heaven! earth!' and the like. Lifeless, three fell to the ground, resembling mountains; and as they fell they crushed forests and pleasure groves.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.51
ब्राह्मणेषु बलात्कारो भस्म सर्वं करिष्यति तं च बालं करे धृत्वा निनायान्तर्गृहं मुदा । भोजयामास स्वाद्वन्नं शाययामास पूर्ववत् । आज्ञां गृहीत्वा सुष्वाप स्वयं च पूर्ववन्मुने अयं बालो न मन्तव्यो भूभारहरणेऽमरः। अवतीर्णः कश्यपस्य गृहे ऽसौ करूणानिधिः खंडानि तच्छरीराणां गंडशैला इवाबभुः । निरस्य मायां दैत्यानां ततो लोका विसिष्मिरे
brāhmaṇeṣu balātkāro bhasma sarvaṃ kariṣyati taṃ ca bālaṃ kare dhṛtvā nināyāntargṛhaṃ mudā | bhojayāmāsa svādvannaṃ śāyayāmāsa pūrvavat | ājñāṃ gṛhītvā suṣvāpa svayaṃ ca pūrvavanmune ayaṃ bālo na mantavyo bhūbhāraharaṇe'maraḥ| avatīrṇaḥ kaśyapasya gṛhe 'sau karūṇānidhiḥ khaṃḍāni taccharīrāṇāṃ gaṃḍaśailā ivābabhuḥ | nirasya māyāṃ daityānāṃ tato lokā visiṣmire
Violence against brahmins will reduce everything to ashes. And taking that boy by the hand, he led him joyfully into the inner house; he fed him tasty food and laid him down as before; and taking his leave, he himself slept as before, O sage. This boy is not to be thought (an ordinary one): he is an immortal, come for the removal of the earth's burden; that treasury of compassion has descended in Kaśyapa's house. The pieces of their bodies looked like great boulders; and when the demons' illusion had been driven off, the people then were amazed.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.52
मुद्रिकाघातमात्रेण कथं प्राणान् जहौ बलि। इत्युक्त्वा पुपूजुः सर्वे नेमुस्तं तुष्टुवुर्जगुः वटं तम् देवरूपेण ददृशुर्न च वै पुनः । अन्तर्हिते वटे पक्षिरूपं तत्याज सोऽर्भकः
mudrikāghātamātreṇa kathaṃ prāṇān jahau bali| ityuktvā pupūjuḥ sarve nemustaṃ tuṣṭuvurjaguḥ vaṭaṃ tam devarūpeṇa dadṛśurna ca vai punaḥ | antarhite vaṭe pakṣirūpaṃ tatyāja so'rbhakaḥ
"By the mere blow of a ring, how did Bali give up his life?" Having said this, they all worshipped him, bowed to him, praised him and sang. They saw that banyan tree in a divine form, and then no longer; when the banyan had vanished, that child gave up the bird-form.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 2 16.53
ददौ दानानि विप्रेभ्यो राजा राजीवलोचनः । द्विजचारण बन्दिभ्यो दीनेभ्यश्चाप्यनेकशः ततो विनायकं बालं काशिराजो लिलिंग ह । पृष्ट्वा कुशलसंप्रश्नं नागराश्च नृपाश्च तम्
dadau dānāni viprebhyo rājā rājīvalocanaḥ | dvijacāraṇa bandibhyo dīnebhyaścāpyanekaśaḥ tato vināyakaṃ bālaṃ kāśirājo liliṃga ha | pṛṣṭvā kuśalasaṃpraśnaṃ nāgarāśca nṛpāśca tam
The lotus-eyed king gave gifts to the brahmins, and many times over to twice-born men, bards, panegyrists and the poor. Then the king of Kāśī embraced the child Vināyaka, after asking after his welfare — and so did the townsmen and the kings.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 2 16.54
नागरान् मानयित्वा तान् विससर्ज ततः सभाम् । बालोऽपि बालकं रन्तुं ययौ पूर्ववदज्ञवत् पुपूजः परमप्रीत्या विघ्ननाशं विनायकम् । प्रशशंसुर्मुदा देवम् कश्यपस्य सुतं जना
nāgarān mānayitvā tān visasarja tataḥ sabhām | bālo'pi bālakaṃ rantuṃ yayau pūrvavadajñavat pupūjaḥ paramaprītyā vighnanāśaṃ vināyakam | praśaśaṃsurmudā devam kaśyapasya sutaṃ janā
Having honoured those townsmen, he then dismissed the assembly. The child too went off to play like a child, as before, as though he knew nothing. With the highest love they worshipped Vināyaka, the destroyer of obstacles; joyfully the people extolled the god, the son of Kaśyapa.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 2 16.55
न जानीमो वयं देवं मायां दैत्यकृतां पराम् । सामर्थ्यं ते गुणांश्चापि यत्र वेदा विकुंठिता
na jānīmo vayaṃ devaṃ māyāṃ daityakṛtāṃ parām | sāmarthyaṃ te guṇāṃścāpi yatra vedā vikuṃṭhitā
"We do not know, O God, the supreme illusion wrought by the demons, nor your power and your qualities, in which matters the Vedas are blunted."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 2 16.56
लीलया रक्षितः सर्वे मोचिता बहुसंकटात् । वातागता विनाशं च उत्पाताश्चैव वृष्टयः
līlayā rakṣitaḥ sarve mocitā bahusaṃkaṭāt | vātāgatā vināśaṃ ca utpātāścaiva vṛṣṭayaḥ
"In play all were protected, released from great peril; the winds have come to an end, and so have the portents and the (torrential) rains."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 16.57
भाति बिम्बं रवेः सम्यगन्धकारे गते लयम् । मनांसि सर्वलोकांना प्रसन्नानि मुदा तदा
bhāti bimbaṃ raveḥ samyagandhakāre gate layam | manāṃsi sarvalokāṃnā prasannāni mudā tadā
The orb of the sun shines out fully, the darkness having gone to dissolution; and then the minds of all the people were clear with joy.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 2 16.58
नद्यः प्रसन्नसलिलाः सर्वमासीद्यथा पुरा । ववर्षुः पुष्पवर्षाणि देवदेवे विनायके
nadyaḥ prasannasalilāḥ sarvamāsīdyathā purā | vavarṣuḥ puṣpavarṣāṇi devadeve vināyake
The rivers had clear water; everything was as it had been before. They rained down showers of flowers upon Vināyaka, the god of gods.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 2 16.59
नानावाद्यनिनादैस्तेऽलंकृतं पुरमाविशन् । ददुर्दानानि विप्रेभ्यो देवो नः प्रीयतामिती
nānāvādyaninādaiste'laṃkṛtaṃ puramāviśan | dadurdānāni viprebhyo devo naḥ prīyatāmitī
With the sounds of many instruments they entered the adorned city; they gave gifts to the brahmins, saying, "May the god be pleased with us."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition