Ganesha Purana — Kridakhanda — Chapter 21
GnP 2 21.1
अध्याय २१ प्रारंभ :- क उवाच । शृणु द्विज महाश्चर्यं कथ्यमानं मया तव । विनायकस्य चरितं सर्वपापहरं नृणाम् अध्याय २२ प्रारंभ :- क उवाच । अपरस्मिन् दिने राजा प्रातःस्नानकृतोद्यमः । पौराः सर्वे वितर्क्यैवं नायं देवो न मानुषः अध्याय २३ प्रारंभ – क उवाच । स बालो बालमध्ये तु चिक्रीडे कौतुकान्वितः । राजा भद्रासनगतो नृत्यं सर्वजनैः सह अध्याय २४ प्रारंभ :- क उवाच । व्यलोकयंस्तं नगरे तस्मिन् सर्वे महाजनाः । विधाय पूजासामग्रीं भोजनस्याप्यनेकधा अध्याय २५ प्रारंभ :- तावूचतुः । सर्वेषां कारणानां त्वं कारणं कारणातिगः। ब्रह्मस्वरूपो ब्रह्मांडकारणं व्यापकः परः
adhyāya 21 prāraṃbha :- ka uvāca | śṛṇu dvija mahāścaryaṃ kathyamānaṃ mayā tava | vināyakasya caritaṃ sarvapāpaharaṃ nṛṇām adhyāya 22 prāraṃbha :- ka uvāca | aparasmin dine rājā prātaḥsnānakṛtodyamaḥ | paurāḥ sarve vitarkyaivaṃ nāyaṃ devo na mānuṣaḥ adhyāya 23 prāraṃbha – ka uvāca | sa bālo bālamadhye tu cikrīḍe kautukānvitaḥ | rājā bhadrāsanagato nṛtyaṃ sarvajanaiḥ saha adhyāya 24 prāraṃbha :- ka uvāca | vyalokayaṃstaṃ nagare tasmin sarve mahājanāḥ | vidhāya pūjāsāmagrīṃ bhojanasyāpyanekadhā adhyāya 25 prāraṃbha :- tāvūcatuḥ | sarveṣāṃ kāraṇānāṃ tvaṃ kāraṇaṃ kāraṇātigaḥ| brahmasvarūpo brahmāṃḍakāraṇaṃ vyāpakaḥ paraḥ
Chapter 21 begins. Ka said: Hear, O twice-born one, the great marvel that is being told by me to you — the deeds of Vināyaka, which take away all the sins of men. Chapter 22 begins. Ka said: On another day the king set about his morning bath; all the townsmen reasoned thus: "This one is neither a god nor a man." Chapter 23 begins. Ka said: That child played among the children, full of merriment; the king, seated on his fine throne, (watched) the dancing along with all the people. Chapter 24 begins. Ka said: All the great folk in that city gazed upon him, having prepared the materials for worship and for food in many kinds. Chapter 25 begins. The two of them said: You are the cause of all causes, and beyond cause; you are of the nature of brahman, the cause of the cosmic egg, all-pervading, supreme.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 21.2
अम्भासुरस्य यो मूर्धा स गतो निजमन्दिरम् । भ्रमराया निरैक्षिष्ट सखी सा तां न्यबोधयत् यं दृष्ट्वा कम्पितः कालः स कथं निधनं गतः। एवमाक्रन्दती दीना विवत्सेव पयस्विनी वीरा मुमुहिरे दृष्ट्वा तादृशीं नृपसद्मगाम् । मनसा कामयन्ति स्म यदालिंगन चुम्बने ताम् प्रणम्य महाभक्त्या प्रोचे बद्धांजलिर्नृपः । मे राज्यं जन्म पितरौ धनं दृष्टिः श्रुतं तपः जीविताशां परित्यज्य त्वदर्थे तप आचरम् । अतिक्लेशेन लब्धोऽसि तान क्लेशान्वेत्ति चेश्वरः मा निद्राभंगमस्याशु कुरु त्वं जननी सती। उद्धर्तुं बालकं केचिच्चक्रुःकरुणया मनः ऋषयो लोकपालाश्च भक्त्या देवं विनायकम् । नाथस्त्वमसि देवानां मनुष्योरगरक्षसाम् अमेयमायान्वित विक्रमाय, मायाविने मायिक मोहनाय । अमेयमायाहरणाय मायामहाश्रयायास्तु नमो नमस्ते न देवश्चेत् कथं पंच महान्तो देवदुर्धराः । अजेयाः शक्रहरिभिर्हता दैत्या महाबलाः स एनं स्वगृहे नीत्वा पूजयेद्भोजयेदपि । जनास्तु त्रिविधाः पौरा रजःसत्वतमो गुणैः अहं बालो मुनिसुतो मत्पूजनफलं नु किम् । भविष्यति न जानेऽहं भवतां व्ययकारिणाम् तोरणान् विदधुर्भक्त्यादर्शशोभाद्भुतानि च । भाजनानि महार्हाणि सुगन्ध चन्दनानि च कदाचिद्भिक्षितुं यातो वारितस्तु गृहेगृहे । महोत्सवं प्रकुर्वद्भिर्विनायककृते जनैः ओदनश्च कृतो जीर्णं तन्दुलानां जलाधिकः । मुष्टिपिष्टं पर्णपुटे पक्त्वा भुंक्ते दिनेदिने यावत्पश्यति वेश्यानां तावदेवागतावुभौ । देवलोकात्सदो रम्यं सनकश्च सनन्दनः गृहे नानाकौतुकानि कुरुतेऽद्भुतविक्रमः । श्रुत्वाऽवदानं तस्यात्र द्रष्टुमावां समागतौ क्व गतं भवतो ज्ञानं वृथा श्रमवतोर्मुनी। स्वर्गं त्यक्त्वा कथमिह संप्राप्तौ प्राकृताविव मुहूर्ताल्लब्धसंज्ञौ तौ नेमतुर्जगदीश्वरम् । तत ऊचे मुनिर्देवं दीननाथेति यत्तव अभक्षयत्स पक्वान्नसदृशं परमादरात् । प्रतिग्रासं जलं पीत्वा जघास बलवत्तरम् अन्ते मोक्षं च मे देहि येन नावर्तते पुनः । न संसारसुखे चित्तं रमते ते विनायक गृहे गृहे राजगृहे सर्वामात्यगृहेऽपि च । गवेषयन्ति स्म जनास्तदा कश्यपनन्दनम् गतः खेदो भ्रमणजो दृष्ट्वा त्वच्चरणाम्बुजम् । याहि याहि गृहान्नस्त्वं भोक्तुं बालगणैः सह तैलमुद्वर्तनं स्नानं पूजनं भोजनं ददुः । एवं सर्वे जह्रषिरे काशिराजसमन्वितम् क्वचिन्नृत्यं प्रपश्यन्तं गणिकानां गणान्वितत् । क्रीडन्तमक्षैः कुत्रापि क्वचिद् बुद्धिबलेन च विनायकस्वरूपं च तौ पुनर्विश्वरूपिणम् । सर्वं विनायकमयं वस्तुमात्रमपश्यताम् पासीदं सृजसे विश्वं त्वमेव हरसेऽनघ । नानारूपैररूपस्त्वं नानामाया बलान्वितः आख्यां च चक्रतुस्तस्या वरदोऽयं विनायकः । गणेशकुंडमिति च कृतं ताभ्यां सरोवरम् सर्वे ते हृष्टमनसा पुरं प्रविविशुस्तदा । इति ते सर्वमाख्यातं विनायकविचेष्टितम् दम्भेन हेलया वापि लज्जयाऽपि परस्य वा । महाधनं महावित्तं रत्नानि विविधानि च
ambhāsurasya yo mūrdhā sa gato nijamandiram | bhramarāyā niraikṣiṣṭa sakhī sā tāṃ nyabodhayat yaṃ dṛṣṭvā kampitaḥ kālaḥ sa kathaṃ nidhanaṃ gataḥ| evamākrandatī dīnā vivatseva payasvinī vīrā mumuhire dṛṣṭvā tādṛśīṃ nṛpasadmagām | manasā kāmayanti sma yadāliṃgana cumbane tām praṇamya mahābhaktyā proce baddhāṃjalirnṛpaḥ | me rājyaṃ janma pitarau dhanaṃ dṛṣṭiḥ śrutaṃ tapaḥ jīvitāśāṃ parityajya tvadarthe tapa ācaram | atikleśena labdho'si tāna kleśānvetti ceśvaraḥ mā nidrābhaṃgamasyāśu kuru tvaṃ jananī satī| uddhartuṃ bālakaṃ keciccakruḥkaruṇayā manaḥ ṛṣayo lokapālāśca bhaktyā devaṃ vināyakam | nāthastvamasi devānāṃ manuṣyoragarakṣasām ameyamāyānvita vikramāya, māyāvine māyika mohanāya | ameyamāyāharaṇāya māyāmahāśrayāyāstu namo namaste na devaścet kathaṃ paṃca mahānto devadurdharāḥ | ajeyāḥ śakraharibhirhatā daityā mahābalāḥ sa enaṃ svagṛhe nītvā pūjayedbhojayedapi | janāstu trividhāḥ paurā rajaḥsatvatamo guṇaiḥ ahaṃ bālo munisuto matpūjanaphalaṃ nu kim | bhaviṣyati na jāne'haṃ bhavatāṃ vyayakāriṇām toraṇān vidadhurbhaktyādarśaśobhādbhutāni ca | bhājanāni mahārhāṇi sugandha candanāni ca kadācidbhikṣituṃ yāto vāritastu gṛhegṛhe | mahotsavaṃ prakurvadbhirvināyakakṛte janaiḥ odanaśca kṛto jīrṇaṃ tandulānāṃ jalādhikaḥ | muṣṭipiṣṭaṃ parṇapuṭe paktvā bhuṃkte dinedine yāvatpaśyati veśyānāṃ tāvadevāgatāvubhau | devalokātsado ramyaṃ sanakaśca sanandanaḥ gṛhe nānākautukāni kurute'dbhutavikramaḥ | śrutvā'vadānaṃ tasyātra draṣṭumāvāṃ samāgatau kva gataṃ bhavato jñānaṃ vṛthā śramavatormunī| svargaṃ tyaktvā kathamiha saṃprāptau prākṛtāviva muhūrtāllabdhasaṃjñau tau nematurjagadīśvaram | tata ūce munirdevaṃ dīnanātheti yattava abhakṣayatsa pakvānnasadṛśaṃ paramādarāt | pratigrāsaṃ jalaṃ pītvā jaghāsa balavattaram ante mokṣaṃ ca me dehi yena nāvartate punaḥ | na saṃsārasukhe cittaṃ ramate te vināyaka gṛhe gṛhe rājagṛhe sarvāmātyagṛhe'pi ca | gaveṣayanti sma janāstadā kaśyapanandanam gataḥ khedo bhramaṇajo dṛṣṭvā tvaccaraṇāmbujam | yāhi yāhi gṛhānnastvaṃ bhoktuṃ bālagaṇaiḥ saha tailamudvartanaṃ snānaṃ pūjanaṃ bhojanaṃ daduḥ | evaṃ sarve jahraṣire kāśirājasamanvitam kvacinnṛtyaṃ prapaśyantaṃ gaṇikānāṃ gaṇānvitat | krīḍantamakṣaiḥ kutrāpi kvacid buddhibalena ca vināyakasvarūpaṃ ca tau punarviśvarūpiṇam | sarvaṃ vināyakamayaṃ vastumātramapaśyatām pāsīdaṃ sṛjase viśvaṃ tvameva harase'nagha | nānārūpairarūpastvaṃ nānāmāyā balānvitaḥ ākhyāṃ ca cakratustasyā varado'yaṃ vināyakaḥ | gaṇeśakuṃḍamiti ca kṛtaṃ tābhyāṃ sarovaram sarve te hṛṣṭamanasā puraṃ praviviśustadā | iti te sarvamākhyātaṃ vināyakaviceṣṭitam dambhena helayā vāpi lajjayā'pi parasya vā | mahādhanaṃ mahāvittaṃ ratnāni vividhāni ca
The head of Ambhāsura — that went to its own house. Bhramarā's friend saw it and informed her. "He at the sight of whom Time itself trembled — how has he met his death?" Wailing thus, wretched, like a milch cow that has lost her calf. Warriors were bewildered when they saw her in such a state, come into the king's palace; in their minds they longed for her embrace and her kiss. Bowing to her with great devotion, the king spoke with folded hands: my kingdom, birth, parents, wealth, sight, learning, austerity. "Abandoning all hope of life, I performed austerity for your sake; with extreme hardship you were obtained, and the Lord knows those hardships." "Do not break his sleep so suddenly — you are his true mother." Some, out of compassion, set their minds on lifting up the boy. And the sages and the world-guardians (praised) with devotion the god Vināyaka: "You are the master of gods, of men, of serpents and of demons. To him endowed with immeasurable illusion, to his valour, to the wielder of illusion, O illusory one, to the bewilderer, to the remover of immeasurable illusion, to the great resort of illusion — homage, homage to you. If he is not a god, how were five great demons, unbearable to the gods, unconquerable by Indra and Viṣṇu, mighty in strength, slain?" "Let him take him to his own house and worship him and feed him too." But the townsfolk are of three kinds, by the qualities of rajas, sattva and tamas. "I am a child, a sage's son; what indeed will be the fruit of worshipping me? I do not know it, for you who are incurring expense." With devotion they made archways, and wonderful splendours of mirrors, and very costly vessels, and perfumes and sandal-paste. Once he went out to beg but was refused at house after house, by people who were holding a great festival for Vināyaka's sake. And the rice that was cooked was stale, with more water than grains; each day he eats a fistful of flour cooked in a leaf-cup. Just as he was watching the courtesans (dance), the two of them arrived at that lovely assembly from the world of the gods — Sanaka and Sanandana. "In his house he performs many wonders, he of marvellous prowess; having heard of his exploit, we two have come here to see him." "Where has your knowledge gone, you two sages who have toiled in vain? Having left heaven, how have you come here like ordinary folk?" In a moment the two regained their senses and bowed to the Lord of the world. Then the sage said to the god: since you are called the protector of the wretched. He ate it with the greatest respect as though it were well-cooked food; drinking water with every mouthful, he ate all the more heartily. "And at the end grant me liberation, by which one does not return again; my mind takes no delight in the pleasure of worldly existence, O Vināyaka." In house after house, in the king's house, and in the houses of all the ministers, the people then searched for the son of Kaśyapa. "The weariness born of wandering is gone, now that I have seen your lotus feet." "Come, come to our house to eat, together with the troops of boys." They gave him oil-rubbing, bathing, worship and food; thus all rejoiced, together with the king of Kāśī. Somewhere (they saw) him watching a dance, surrounded by troops of courtesans; somewhere playing at dice, and somewhere (playing) by force of wit. And the two saw the form of Vināyaka, and again him of universal form; they saw every single thing as consisting of Vināyaka. "You create this universe and you alone withdraw it, O sinless one; formless, you are (present) in many forms, endowed with the power of manifold illusion." And the two gave it a name: "This Vināyaka is the granter of boons"; and the lake was made by them "Gaṇeśa's pool." Then all of them entered the city with glad hearts. Thus the whole play of Vināyaka has been told to you. Whether through pride, or carelessly, or even out of shame, or for another's sake — great wealth, great riches, and jewels of many kinds.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 21.3
प्रसुप्तां कांचने तप्ते सोत्थायांगणमाययौ । पौत्रं शिरो निरीक्ष्यैव मूर्छिता पतिता भुवि देवएव भवेद् बालमध्येऽयं क्रीडते लघु । इति तर्क्य ततस्तावदागता राजदर्शनम् उद्भासितं तयोर्दीप्त्या सूर्याग्न्योरिव तत्सदः । आसनादुदतिष्ठत्स नृपतिः सहसेक्ष्य तौ अपृच्छन्त जनाः सर्वे क्वचिदृष्टो विनायकः । नेति नेति श्रुतिर्वक्ति यं स कस्याक्षिगोचरः त्वमेव पंचभूतानि यक्षगन्धर्व राक्षसाः। कस्त्वां स्तोतुं समर्थः स्याच्चराचरस्वरूपकम्
prasuptāṃ kāṃcane tapte sotthāyāṃgaṇamāyayau | pautraṃ śiro nirīkṣyaiva mūrchitā patitā bhuvi devaeva bhaved bālamadhye'yaṃ krīḍate laghu | iti tarkya tatastāvadāgatā rājadarśanam udbhāsitaṃ tayordīptyā sūryāgnyoriva tatsadaḥ | āsanādudatiṣṭhatsa nṛpatiḥ sahasekṣya tau apṛcchanta janāḥ sarve kvacidṛṣṭo vināyakaḥ | neti neti śrutirvakti yaṃ sa kasyākṣigocaraḥ tvameva paṃcabhūtāni yakṣagandharva rākṣasāḥ| kastvāṃ stotuṃ samarthaḥ syāccarācarasvarūpakam
She was asleep on heated gold; rising, she came to the courtyard, and the very moment she saw her grandson's head she fainted and fell to the ground. "He must be a god, this one who plays so lightly among the children" — reasoning thus, the two then came for an audience with the king. That hall was lit up by the radiance of those two, as if by sun and fire; the king rose at once from his seat on seeing them. All the people asked: "Has Vināyaka been seen anywhere?" "Not thus, not thus," says scripture — of whom is he an object of sight? "You alone are the five elements, the yakṣas, gandharvas and rākṣasas; who could be capable of praising you, whose very form is the moving and the unmoving?"
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 21.4
निघ्नती निजवक्षः सा कराभ्यां शोकनिर्भरा । निपतत् भूषणा खिन्ना नागामृष्टेव पद्मिनी राजाऽपि भद्रमगमदुवाच सकलान् प्रति। निरूपयन्तु यत्कार्यं तद्वः सिद्धिं प्रयास्यति स्थिरः स्थाप्य पादपद्मे साष्टांगं प्रणनाम तौ । बद्धांजलिरुवाचाथ अद्य धन्यं कुलं मम भवेन्नालोकितोऽस्माभिरिति तत्रावदज्जनाः । पुरप्रान्ते तु ये तत्र तेऽशृण्वज्जनवाक्यतः नेति नेति ब्रवीति स्म त्वद्रूपाज्ञानतः श्रुतिः । आवाम् विमोहितौ ज्ञातुं नेशाथे रूपमुत्तमम्
nighnatī nijavakṣaḥ sā karābhyāṃ śokanirbharā | nipatat bhūṣaṇā khinnā nāgāmṛṣṭeva padminī rājā'pi bhadramagamaduvāca sakalān prati| nirūpayantu yatkāryaṃ tadvaḥ siddhiṃ prayāsyati sthiraḥ sthāpya pādapadme sāṣṭāṃgaṃ praṇanāma tau | baddhāṃjaliruvācātha adya dhanyaṃ kulaṃ mama bhavennālokito'smābhiriti tatrāvadajjanāḥ | puraprānte tu ye tatra te'śṛṇvajjanavākyataḥ neti neti bravīti sma tvadrūpājñānataḥ śrutiḥ | āvām vimohitau jñātuṃ neśāthe rūpamuttamam
Beating her own breast with both hands, filled with sorrow, her ornaments falling, worn out, like a lotus plant crushed by an elephant. The king too went to his throne and spoke to them all: "Let them state what the business is; it shall come to fulfilment for you." Standing firm, setting (himself) at the lotus feet, he prostrated to the two with the eight limbs; then with folded hands he said, "Today my lineage is blessed." "It may be that he was not seen by us" — so the people said there; those who were at the city's edge heard it from the people's talk. "Not thus, not thus," scripture keeps saying, from ignorance of your form; we two, bewildered, are unable to know your highest form.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 21.5
विभिन्नवलया छिन्न कूर्पासा तनुमध्यमा । दृश्यादृश्य महद्गात्रा लुंठती भुवि विह्वला किमर्थं प्रातरेवेह पौरा यूयं समागताः । त ऊचुर्न रहस्यं यत् स्वाभिप्रेतमृते वचः राज्यं ज्ञानं च देहश्च पत्नीपुत्रादिकं च यत् । इत्युक्त्वा पाणिना धृत्वा स्वासने चोपवेश्य तौ स चागतः शुक्लगृहं ततस्ते तद्गृहं ययुः । नापश्यंस्तमथापृच्छंस्तेनोक्तं स इतो गतः महिमानं न जानीवोऽनेकरूपस्य ते विभो । कृतकृत्यो भवत्पाददर्शनात्स्वः प्रभोऽधुना
vibhinnavalayā chinna kūrpāsā tanumadhyamā | dṛśyādṛśya mahadgātrā luṃṭhatī bhuvi vihvalā kimarthaṃ prātareveha paurā yūyaṃ samāgatāḥ | ta ūcurna rahasyaṃ yat svābhipretamṛte vacaḥ rājyaṃ jñānaṃ ca dehaśca patnīputrādikaṃ ca yat | ityuktvā pāṇinā dhṛtvā svāsane copaveśya tau sa cāgataḥ śuklagṛhaṃ tataste tadgṛhaṃ yayuḥ | nāpaśyaṃstamathāpṛcchaṃstenoktaṃ sa ito gataḥ mahimānaṃ na jānīvo'nekarūpasya te vibho | kṛtakṛtyo bhavatpādadarśanātsvaḥ prabho'dhunā
Her bangles broken, her bodice torn, slender-waisted, her large limbs now seen now unseen, she rolled on the ground in distress, overwhelmed. "For what purpose have you townsmen come here so early in the morning?" They said: "It is no secret, apart from a word of what we ourselves desire: the kingdom, and knowledge, and the body, and wife and children and the rest." Having said this, taking the two by the hand and seating them on his own seat. And he came to Śukla's house; then they went to that house, and did not see him, and asked; and he said, "He has gone from here." "We two do not know the greatness of you of many forms, O mighty one; we have now accomplished our purpose, O Lord, by the sight of your feet."
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GnP 2 21.6
निषिध्यमाना सखिभिर्भ्रातृभिः स्वजनैरपि। त्रिमुहूर्तेः प्रबुद्धा सा किंचिद् वक्तुं प्रचक्रमे त्वयाऽयं हि समानीतो मुनिपुत्रो विनायकः । नास्य दास्यमभून्नो हि किंचित् क्वापि कदाचन उपचारैः षोडशभिरपूजयत भक्तितः । तौ च विश्रामयामास पादसंवाहनादिभिः स तु मायामयो बालो जनान्वंचितुमुत्सुकः । विसृज्य बालकान् पश्चाद् द्वारेणागत्य सुप्तवान् नानावतारैर्भूभारं हरसेऽनन्तशक्तितः । क उवाच । एवं तयोः स्तुतिं श्रुत्वा प्रीत्या प्रोवाच तावुभौ
niṣidhyamānā sakhibhirbhrātṛbhiḥ svajanairapi| trimuhūrteḥ prabuddhā sā kiṃcid vaktuṃ pracakrame tvayā'yaṃ hi samānīto muniputro vināyakaḥ | nāsya dāsyamabhūnno hi kiṃcit kvāpi kadācana upacāraiḥ ṣoḍaśabhirapūjayata bhaktitaḥ | tau ca viśrāmayāmāsa pādasaṃvāhanādibhiḥ sa tu māyāmayo bālo janānvaṃcitumutsukaḥ | visṛjya bālakān paścād dvāreṇāgatya suptavān nānāvatārairbhūbhāraṃ harase'nantaśaktitaḥ | ka uvāca | evaṃ tayoḥ stutiṃ śrutvā prītyā provāca tāvubhau
Though restrained by her friends, her brothers and her kinsfolk — she, awakening after three muhūrtas, began to say something. "This Vināyaka, the sage's son, was indeed brought here by you; he was never in servitude to us in anything, anywhere, at any time." He worshipped (them) with devotion with the sixteen services, and made the two rest with foot-massage and the like. But that boy, made of illusion, eager to deceive people, sent the children away and afterwards came in by the door and slept. "By your various descents you take away the burden of the earth, by your endless power." Ka said: Hearing the praise of those two thus, he spoke to them both with affection.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 21.7
उत्थाय च कराभ्यां तु निजघान पुनः शिरः । भ्रमर्युवाच । येनेयं पृथिवी सर्वा त्रासिता सामरावती त्वया तु पूजितोऽनेकवारं स्वशरणे स्थितः । यद्यत्तव गृहे याति तत्तन्नः प्रेषयस्यहो पुनः पुनः प्रणम्यासौ वक्तुं समुपचक्रमे । राजोवाच । मुनीनां न्यस्तदंडानां निस्पृहाणां च सर्वदा केचित्तं ददृशुः सुप्तं हर्यक्षमिव गह्वर । केचित्तं क्रोधावशगा निनिन्दुर्बालको लघुः विनायको बालरूपी कौतुकी मायिकोऽपि च । तत्वज्ञौ मत्प्रसादाच्च सर्वज्ञौ च भविष्यथः
utthāya ca karābhyāṃ tu nijaghāna punaḥ śiraḥ | bhramaryuvāca | yeneyaṃ pṛthivī sarvā trāsitā sāmarāvatī tvayā tu pūjito'nekavāraṃ svaśaraṇe sthitaḥ | yadyattava gṛhe yāti tattannaḥ preṣayasyaho punaḥ punaḥ praṇamyāsau vaktuṃ samupacakrame | rājovāca | munīnāṃ nyastadaṃḍānāṃ nispṛhāṇāṃ ca sarvadā kecittaṃ dadṛśuḥ suptaṃ haryakṣamiva gahvara | kecittaṃ krodhāvaśagā ninindurbālako laghuḥ vināyako bālarūpī kautukī māyiko'pi ca | tatvajñau matprasādācca sarvajñau ca bhaviṣyathaḥ
And she rose and struck her head again with both hands. Bhramarā said: "He by whom this whole earth together with Amarāvatī was terrified — " "But he was worshipped by you many times and stayed under your protection; whatever comes to your house, all that you send on to us — alas!" Bowing again and again, he began to speak. The king said: "Of sages, who have laid down the rod and are always free from desire — " Some saw him sleeping like a lion in a cave; and some, overcome by anger, reviled him as a mere little boy. "Vināyaka in the form of a child, full of sport and of illusion too — by my grace you two shall become knowers of the truth and all-knowing."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 21.8
मूर्ध्ना सहस्रं शेषस्य भ्रूकटाक्षेन कम्पितम् । येन राज्येऽभिषिक्तौ तौ देवान्तक नरान्तकौ अयं तु न कथं राजन प्रेषितो नु विनायकः । राजोवाच । सम्यगुक्तं यत्र जना विभज्य भुज्यते तु यत् कार्यलिप्सा न काचित्स्यादाज्ञामीहे तथाप्यहम् । तपो राज्यं कुलं शीलं सार्थकं कर्तुमुद्यतः पिशाच इव किं यातो दरिद्रस्य गृहं प्रति । ईशश्चेत् सर्वभावज्ञः सर्वेषां प्रियमाचरेत् एवं दत्वा वरं देवस्तत्रैवान्तरधीयत । ततस्तौ मूतिमतुलां कृत्वा सम्यग्विनायकीम्
mūrdhnā sahasraṃ śeṣasya bhrūkaṭākṣena kampitam | yena rājye'bhiṣiktau tau devāntaka narāntakau ayaṃ tu na kathaṃ rājana preṣito nu vināyakaḥ | rājovāca | samyaguktaṃ yatra janā vibhajya bhujyate tu yat kāryalipsā na kācitsyādājñāmīhe tathāpyaham | tapo rājyaṃ kulaṃ śīlaṃ sārthakaṃ kartumudyataḥ piśāca iva kiṃ yāto daridrasya gṛhaṃ prati | īśaścet sarvabhāvajñaḥ sarveṣāṃ priyamācaret evaṃ datvā varaṃ devastatraivāntaradhīyata | tatastau mūtimatulāṃ kṛtvā samyagvināyakīm
The thousand heads of Śeṣa were made to tremble by a sidelong glance of his brow — he by whom those two, Devāntaka and Narāntaka, were consecrated in the kingdom. "But why, O king, was this Vināyaka not sent to us?" The king said: "Well spoken. Where people share out and enjoy what there is — " "There is no craving in me for any object; nevertheless I ask permission. I am ready to make my austerity, my kingdom, my family and my conduct fruitful." "Why has he gone like a goblin to the house of a poor man? If he is the Lord, who knows all hearts, he would do what is dear to everyone." Having granted the boon thus, the god vanished on that very spot; then the two of them, having duly made an incomparable image of Vināyaka —
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GnP 2 21.9
यस्य क्ष्वेडितमात्रेण रोदसी कम्पिता भृशम्। स कथं पतितः कुत्र निहतः केन वा सुतः अमृतं याति च विषं विषमन्यद् भवेत्तु तत् । अस्मिन्यस्य भवेद् भक्तिर्देवे वा मानुषेऽपि वा तावूचतुः । अवाप्तसर्वकामोऽसौ परब्रह्मस्वरूपवान् । लीलावतारी भगवान् कश्यपस्य सुतस्तव उत्थाप्य तं करे धृत्वा याहीति शरणं शुभम् । सफलं कुरु नः सर्वं त्वदर्थमुपकल्पितम् कृत्वा प्रासादामतुलं रत्नकांचन संयुतम् । स्थापयामासतुरुभौ सनकश्च सनन्दनः
yasya kṣveḍitamātreṇa rodasī kampitā bhṛśam| sa kathaṃ patitaḥ kutra nihataḥ kena vā sutaḥ amṛtaṃ yāti ca viṣaṃ viṣamanyad bhavettu tat | asminyasya bhaved bhaktirdeve vā mānuṣe'pi vā tāvūcatuḥ | avāptasarvakāmo'sau parabrahmasvarūpavān | līlāvatārī bhagavān kaśyapasya sutastava utthāpya taṃ kare dhṛtvā yāhīti śaraṇaṃ śubham | saphalaṃ kuru naḥ sarvaṃ tvadarthamupakalpitam kṛtvā prāsādāmatulaṃ ratnakāṃcana saṃyutam | sthāpayāmāsaturubhau sanakaśca sanandanaḥ
He at whose mere roar heaven and earth shook violently — how has he fallen, and where, and by whom was my son slain? And poison turns to nectar, while nectar becomes another poison, for one who has devotion to him, whether he be a god or a man. The two of them said: "He has attained all his desires, he has the nature of the supreme brahman; the Lord who descends in play is your son, the son of Kaśyapa." Raising him up and holding him by the hand: "Go — to our auspicious shelter; make everything that we have prepared for your sake bear fruit." Having made an incomparable temple set with jewels and gold, the two of them, Sanaka and Sanandana, installed (him) there.
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GnP 2 21.11
एवं विलपतीं तां तु न्यषेधयत् सखीजनः । न दृष्ट्वा सखि केनापि मृतेन सह वै मृतिः परीक्षन्तेन्मरा दुष्टाः पुण्यवन्तो भजन्त्यपि । केचिदेनं विनिन्दन्ति प्रशंसन्ति च केचन अन्यथा शक्रभवनत्यागे किं नः प्रयोजनम् । गृहे यस्य कल्पतरुः सोऽन्यं कि याचयिष्यति स ऊचे साम्प्रतं भुक्तं पुनरूचुर्जनास्तु तम् । दरिद्रस्य गृहे किं ते भुक्तंस्याद्भैक्ष्यवर्तितः अत्र स्नात्वा पूजयेद्यो वरदं तं विनायकम् । स कामानखिलान् प्राप्य भुक्त्वा भोगाननेकशः
evaṃ vilapatīṃ tāṃ tu nyaṣedhayat sakhījanaḥ | na dṛṣṭvā sakhi kenāpi mṛtena saha vai mṛtiḥ parīkṣantenmarā duṣṭāḥ puṇyavanto bhajantyapi | kecidenaṃ vinindanti praśaṃsanti ca kecana anyathā śakrabhavanatyāge kiṃ naḥ prayojanam | gṛhe yasya kalpataruḥ so'nyaṃ ki yācayiṣyati sa ūce sāmprataṃ bhuktaṃ punarūcurjanāstu tam | daridrasya gṛhe kiṃ te bhuktaṃsyādbhaikṣyavartitaḥ atra snātvā pūjayedyo varadaṃ taṃ vināyakam | sa kāmānakhilān prāpya bhuktvā bhogānanekaśaḥ
Her women friends restrained her as she lamented thus: "It has never been seen, friend, that anyone dies along with the dead. The wicked put the gods to the test, while the meritorious worship them; some revile him and some praise him. Otherwise, what purpose have we in abandoning Indra's abode? He in whose house stands the wish-granting tree — what else will he beg for?" He said, "I have eaten just now"; but the people said to him again, "What food could you have eaten in the house of a poor man who lives by alms?" Whoever bathes here and worships that boon-granting Vināyaka, having obtained all his desires and enjoyed pleasures many times over —
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GnP 2 21.12
अतिशोकेन शोकोऽग्न्यः प्राप्यते मूढजन्तुभिः । यदि स्नेहेन पुत्र त्वम् शोचसेऽस्य हितं कुरु यस्य स्वभावो यादृक्स्यात्स तथा वर्तते नरः । न जहाति घृष्यमाणश्चन्दनः स्वसुगन्धिताम् तस्योङ्घ्रिकमलं नत्वा गच्छावः स्वस्थलं नृप । एवं तयोरागतयोः श्रुत्वा वाक्यं विनायकः नापोऽपि पिबते क्वान्नं कथं भुक्तं त्वया विभो। गणेश उवाच । उदरं परिपूर्णं मे यातुं शक्तिश्चनास्ति मे अवाप्य पुत्रान् पौत्रांश्च विद्यामायुर्यशो महत् । धनं धान्यं यशश्चापि तत्वज्ञानं च शाश्वतम्
atiśokena śoko'gnyaḥ prāpyate mūḍhajantubhiḥ | yadi snehena putra tvam śocase'sya hitaṃ kuru yasya svabhāvo yādṛksyātsa tathā vartate naraḥ | na jahāti ghṛṣyamāṇaścandanaḥ svasugandhitām tasyoṅghrikamalaṃ natvā gacchāvaḥ svasthalaṃ nṛpa | evaṃ tayorāgatayoḥ śrutvā vākyaṃ vināyakaḥ nāpo'pi pibate kvānnaṃ kathaṃ bhuktaṃ tvayā vibho| gaṇeśa uvāca | udaraṃ paripūrṇaṃ me yātuṃ śaktiścanāsti me avāpya putrān pautrāṃśca vidyāmāyuryaśo mahat | dhanaṃ dhānyaṃ yaśaścāpi tatvajñānaṃ ca śāśvatam
By excessive grief, grief (and fire?) is gained by foolish creatures. If out of affection you grieve, my son, then do what is good for him. Whatever a man's nature is, so does he behave; sandalwood, though it be ground, does not give up its own fragrance. "Having bowed to his lotus feet, let us two go to our own place, O king." Hearing the words of those two who had come thus, Vināyaka — "You do not even drink water; where was there food? How was it eaten by you, O Lord?" Gaṇeśa said: "My belly is quite full, and I have not the strength to go." Having obtained sons and grandsons, learning, long life, great fame, wealth, grain and glory, and the everlasting knowledge of truth —
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GnP 2 21.13
चारान्प्रेषय वृत्तान्तग्रहणायास्य सर्वतः । दह्यतां मस्तको मन्त्रैरेवमस्य हितं कुरू कस्तुरी कर्दमयुतः पलांडुवा निजं गुणम् । भवतां यदि भक्तिश्चेदनन्याऽस्मिन्सुते मुनेः वदतोरागतः क्रीडां त्यक्त्वा मोदक हस्तकः । पंचखाद्यमयं भक्ष्य मोदकं लीलयादधत् क उवाच । ततः सर्वे विदित्वा तं भुक्तं शुक्लगृहे जनाः। निराशा भग्नसंकल्पा रुष्टा दीना विचेतसः अन्ते वैनायकं धाम याति नास्त्यत्र संशयः । क उवाच । यत्र देवाः सगन्धर्वा यक्षाश्चाप्सरसां गणाः
cārānpreṣaya vṛttāntagrahaṇāyāsya sarvataḥ | dahyatāṃ mastako mantrairevamasya hitaṃ kurū kasturī kardamayutaḥ palāṃḍuvā nijaṃ guṇam | bhavatāṃ yadi bhaktiścedananyā'sminsute muneḥ vadatorāgataḥ krīḍāṃ tyaktvā modaka hastakaḥ | paṃcakhādyamayaṃ bhakṣya modakaṃ līlayādadhat ka uvāca | tataḥ sarve viditvā taṃ bhuktaṃ śuklagṛhe janāḥ| nirāśā bhagnasaṃkalpā ruṣṭā dīnā vicetasaḥ ante vaināyakaṃ dhāma yāti nāstyatra saṃśayaḥ | ka uvāca | yatra devāḥ sagandharvā yakṣāścāpsarasāṃ gaṇāḥ
"Send out spies in every direction to gather news of him. Let his head be burnt with mantras — do what is good for him in this way." Musk mixed with mud, or an onion, (keeps) its own quality. "If your devotion to this son of the sage is undivided — " While they were speaking he came, leaving off his play, with a sweet in his hand; playfully he took a modaka made of the five confections, a food. Ka said: Then all the people, learning that he had eaten in Śukla's house, were disappointed, their resolve broken, angry, dejected, out of their senses. In the end he goes to the abode of Vināyaka; there is no doubt of this. Ka said: Where the gods with the gandharvas, and the yakṣas, and the hosts of apsarases (dwell) —
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GnP 2 21.14
सुह्रदामश्रु पतितं प्रेतस्य तन्मुखे पतेत् । दहत्येनं न नतत्त्याज्यमित्याहुः परमर्षयः नीयतां पूजयन्स्वाशु भोजनाय प्रियाय च । परीक्षार्थं न नेयोऽसौ जनको जननी मम तयोस्तं दर्शयामास नृपो हास्यपरो मृदु । सोऽयं समागतो देवो यद्दर्शनसमुत्सुकौ सम्भारा व्यर्थतां याता नानावकेशार्थ संचिताः । बुभुजुस्तान् स्वयं दुष्टा दाम्भिका भक्तिवर्जिताः दृष्ट्वा सम्पूज्य देवेशं तत्रैवान्तर्हिताः क्षणात् । संप्राप्तविस्मयौ तौ च जग्मतुर्दिवमुत्तमम्
suhradāmaśru patitaṃ pretasya tanmukhe patet | dahatyenaṃ na natattyājyamityāhuḥ paramarṣayaḥ nīyatāṃ pūjayansvāśu bhojanāya priyāya ca | parīkṣārthaṃ na neyo'sau janako jananī mama tayostaṃ darśayāmāsa nṛpo hāsyaparo mṛdu | so'yaṃ samāgato devo yaddarśanasamutsukau sambhārā vyarthatāṃ yātā nānāvakeśārtha saṃcitāḥ | bubhujustān svayaṃ duṣṭā dāmbhikā bhaktivarjitāḥ dṛṣṭvā sampūjya deveśaṃ tatraivāntarhitāḥ kṣaṇāt | saṃprāptavismayau tau ca jagmaturdivamuttamam
A tear fallen from friends, should it fall into the mouth of the dead man, burns him; therefore it is not to be shed — so say the supreme seers. "Let him be led quickly, being honoured, for a meal and for one dear (to us)." "He is not to be led for the sake of a test — (they are) my father and my mother." The king, bent on gentle jest, showed him to those two: "This is the god who has come, for the sight of whom you two were eager." The provisions gathered for Vakeśī's sake, of many kinds, went to waste; the wicked, the hypocritical, those devoid of devotion, themselves ate them. Having seen and fully worshipped the Lord of gods, they vanished on that very spot in an instant; and those two, filled with astonishment, went to the highest heaven.
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GnP 2 21.15
एवमाकर्ण्य तद्वाक्यं सोवाच तां सखीं रुषा । अयं मूर्ध्ना महाभागे स्थाप्यतां यत्नतः सखि मया कथं नरा वाच्या नीत्वैनं पूजयन् त्विति । अस्य शक्तिं दृढां दृष्ट्वा मम भक्तिर्विशिष्यते आगतो यच्च कर्तव्यं कुरुतं तद्यथेष्टतः । तं निरीक्ष्य मुनी तौ तु परस्परमथोचतुः ये भक्तास्ते निराहारास्तस्थुर्ध्यानपरायणाः । एवं सर्वेषु लोकेषु ज्ञात्वा ध्यानस्थितेषु सः काशिराजोऽपि तत्रत्य सामात्यः सप्रजस्तु तम् । नानाद्रव्यैरलंकारैर्वस्त्रैरुच्चावचैरपि
evamākarṇya tadvākyaṃ sovāca tāṃ sakhīṃ ruṣā | ayaṃ mūrdhnā mahābhāge sthāpyatāṃ yatnataḥ sakhi mayā kathaṃ narā vācyā nītvainaṃ pūjayan tviti | asya śaktiṃ dṛḍhāṃ dṛṣṭvā mama bhaktirviśiṣyate āgato yacca kartavyaṃ kurutaṃ tadyatheṣṭataḥ | taṃ nirīkṣya munī tau tu parasparamathocatuḥ ye bhaktāste nirāhārāstasthurdhyānaparāyaṇāḥ | evaṃ sarveṣu lokeṣu jñātvā dhyānasthiteṣu saḥ kāśirājo'pi tatratya sāmātyaḥ saprajastu tam | nānādravyairalaṃkārairvastrairuccāvacairapi
Hearing that speech thus, she said angrily to her friend: "Let him be set on the head with care, O greatly blessed friend! How can I tell men, 'Lead him and worship him'? Seeing his firm power, my devotion stands out. Since he has come, do what must be done as you please." But those two sages, looking at him, then said to each other... Those who were devotees stood without food, intent on meditation. Thus, when in all the worlds (people) were known to be fixed in meditation, he — and the king of Kāśī too, with his ministers and his subjects, (worshipped) him with various goods, with ornaments, and with garments both fine and coarse.
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GnP 2 21.16
आनयिष्येऽदितेः पुत्रमस्तकं सह तेन च । दाहयिष्याम्यमुं तस्मात् स्थाप्यतां तैलमध्यतः नायं चेन्मत्पुरी क्वत्या कृतो यूयं क्व चाप्यहम् । इति राजवचः श्रुत्वा पुनरूचुश्च नागराः अनेन दूषितो नूनं कश्यपो मुनिसत्तमः । तत्पुत्रतां समासाद्य स्वाचारं त्यजता भृशम् एको नानाष्वरूपोऽभूद् घटाकाश इव स्फुटम् । जलपूर्णेषु कुम्भेषु रविर्नाना यथेक्ष्यते पक्वान्नैश्चाप्यनेकैश्च फलैर्नानाविधैरपि । रत्नैर्मुक्ताफलैः पुष्पैर्दक्षिणाभिरनेकशः
ānayiṣye'diteḥ putramastakaṃ saha tena ca | dāhayiṣyāmyamuṃ tasmāt sthāpyatāṃ tailamadhyataḥ nāyaṃ cenmatpurī kvatyā kṛto yūyaṃ kva cāpyaham | iti rājavacaḥ śrutvā punarūcuśca nāgarāḥ anena dūṣito nūnaṃ kaśyapo munisattamaḥ | tatputratāṃ samāsādya svācāraṃ tyajatā bhṛśam eko nānāṣvarūpo'bhūd ghaṭākāśa iva sphuṭam | jalapūrṇeṣu kumbheṣu ravirnānā yathekṣyate pakvānnaiścāpyanekaiśca phalairnānāvidhairapi | ratnairmuktāphalaiḥ puṣpairdakṣiṇābhiranekaśaḥ
"I shall bring the head of Aditi's son along with him, and I shall have him burnt; therefore let him be placed in oil. If he is not (dealt with), where is my city then, and where are you, and where am I?" Hearing the king's words, the townsmen spoke again: "Surely Kaśyapa, best of sages, has been corrupted by him, who, having become his son, utterly abandoned his own conduct." He, though one, became of many forms, plainly like the space (enclosed) in a pot — as the sun is seen manifold in pots filled with water — and with many cooked foods and fruits of many kinds, with jewels, pearls, flowers, and with gifts many times over.
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GnP 2 21.17
सा राक्षसी राक्षसवर्ययुक्ता समाययौ राजपुरीं निहन्तुम् । विनायकं तं निजरूपगोपिनी पतंगपत्रीव धनंजयान्तिकम् यथा वदसि कल्याण तत्तथा न तदन्यथा । अस्माकं कार्यसिद्धिर्या तां कुरुष्व जनाधिप स्पृष्टास्पृष्टविचारोऽस्य भक्ष्याभक्ष्यविधिर्न च । दर्शने स्पर्शने चास्य महान्दोषो भवेत्खलु क्वचित् पर्यंकशयनः क्वचित् जपपरायणः । क्वचिद्दानरतः क्वापि भोजनाय समुत्सुकः पुपूज परया भक्त्या ब्राह्मणैः सह मन्त्रतः । ब्राह्मणान् पूजयामास वस्त्रालंकार कांचनैः
sā rākṣasī rākṣasavaryayuktā samāyayau rājapurīṃ nihantum | vināyakaṃ taṃ nijarūpagopinī pataṃgapatrīva dhanaṃjayāntikam yathā vadasi kalyāṇa tattathā na tadanyathā | asmākaṃ kāryasiddhiryā tāṃ kuruṣva janādhipa spṛṣṭāspṛṣṭavicāro'sya bhakṣyābhakṣyavidhirna ca | darśane sparśane cāsya mahāndoṣo bhavetkhalu kvacit paryaṃkaśayanaḥ kvacit japaparāyaṇaḥ | kvaciddānarataḥ kvāpi bhojanāya samutsukaḥ pupūja parayā bhaktyā brāhmaṇaiḥ saha mantrataḥ | brāhmaṇān pūjayāmāsa vastrālaṃkāra kāṃcanaiḥ
That rākṣasī, joined with the chief of the rākṣasas, came to the king's city to kill that Vināyaka, concealing her own form, like a moth (approaching) close to fire. "As you say, good sir, so it is and not otherwise; bring about that accomplishment of our purpose, O lord of men." "For him there is no consideration of touched and untouched, nor any rule of what may and may not be eaten; in seeing him and in touching him there would surely be great fault." Somewhere lying on a couch, somewhere intent on muttered prayer, somewhere delighting in giving, somewhere eager for food. He worshipped with supreme devotion, together with brahmins, according to the mantras; and he honoured the brahmins with garments, ornaments and gold.
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GnP 2 21.18
आगताऽदितिरूपेण भासयन्ती दिशो दश । अति लावण्यनिलया सर्वालंकार शोभिनी नीत्वेमं स्वगृहे बालं पूजयामो यथार्हतः । एतस्मिन्नन्तरे बालोऽवदत्तान् सदसिस्थितान् कथं स्वनियमांस्त्यक्त्वा स्थितः क्षत्रियवेश्मनि । स्वधर्मे नः स्थितानां तु दर्शनेनास्य किं भवेत् क्वचित् पाठ्यते शिष्यान् सांगवेदंसहार्थकम् । क्वचित् व्याकुरुते शास्त्रं क्वचिच्च पठति स्वयम् आशिषः परिगृह्यैव नगरं पुनरागमत् । तथैव ताः प्रकृतयः पुपूजुस्तं विनायकम्
āgatā'ditirūpeṇa bhāsayantī diśo daśa | ati lāvaṇyanilayā sarvālaṃkāra śobhinī nītvemaṃ svagṛhe bālaṃ pūjayāmo yathārhataḥ | etasminnantare bālo'vadattān sadasisthitān kathaṃ svaniyamāṃstyaktvā sthitaḥ kṣatriyaveśmani | svadharme naḥ sthitānāṃ tu darśanenāsya kiṃ bhavet kvacit pāṭhyate śiṣyān sāṃgavedaṃsahārthakam | kvacit vyākurute śāstraṃ kvacicca paṭhati svayam āśiṣaḥ parigṛhyaiva nagaraṃ punarāgamat | tathaiva tāḥ prakṛtayaḥ pupūjustaṃ vināyakam
She came in Aditi's form, lighting up the ten directions, an abode of surpassing beauty, resplendent with every ornament. "Let us take this boy to our own house and worship him as he deserves." Meanwhile the boy said to those seated in the assembly: "How is it that, abandoning your own observances, you are staying in a kṣatriya's house?" "But for us who stand in our own duty, what harm comes from seeing him?" Somewhere he has pupils recite the Veda with its ancillaries and its meaning; somewhere he expounds a treatise, and somewhere he recites himself. Having received the blessings, he came back to the city; and just so those subjects worshipped that Vināyaka.
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GnP 2 21.19
दाडिमी बीजदशना बिम्बोष्ठी तनुमध्यमा । विलसत् पद्मनयना मुक्तादामलसत् कुचा जानन्नन्तर्गतं तेषां सर्वसाक्षी जगद्गुरुः । विनायक उवाच । किमर्थं माम् प्रार्थयन्तो भवन्तोऽति महत्तराः शुश्राव तां गिरं देवो नृपसन्निहितस्तदा । उवाच वाक्यं वाक्यज्ञो वाचस्पतिरिवापरः एवं नानास्वरूपैः स नानागृहगतो बभौ । अयमस्मद् गृहं यातः पूर्वमित्यभिमेनिरे तथैव ब्राह्मणान् पूज्य जगृहुराशिषः पराः । ततः प्रजास्तं पुपूजुर्यथाशक्ति विनायकम्
dāḍimī bījadaśanā bimboṣṭhī tanumadhyamā | vilasat padmanayanā muktādāmalasat kucā jānannantargataṃ teṣāṃ sarvasākṣī jagadguruḥ | vināyaka uvāca | kimarthaṃ mām prārthayanto bhavanto'ti mahattarāḥ śuśrāva tāṃ giraṃ devo nṛpasannihitastadā | uvāca vākyaṃ vākyajño vācaspatirivāparaḥ evaṃ nānāsvarūpaiḥ sa nānāgṛhagato babhau | ayamasmad gṛhaṃ yātaḥ pūrvamityabhimenire tathaiva brāhmaṇān pūjya jagṛhurāśiṣaḥ parāḥ | tataḥ prajāstaṃ pupūjuryathāśakti vināyakam
(She had) teeth like pomegranate seeds, lips like bimba fruit, a slender waist, gleaming lotus eyes, breasts glistening with strings of pearls. Knowing what was within them, the witness of all, the teacher of the world — Vināyaka said: "For what purpose do you, who are so very great, entreat me?" The god, then standing near the king, heard that speech, and, knower of speech, spoke words like a second Vācaspati. Thus, gone into many houses in many forms, he shone; each thought, "He came to our house first." Just so, having honoured the brahmins, they received the highest blessings. Then the subjects worshipped that Vināyaka according to their means.
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GnP 2 21.21
तर्कयामासुरपरे रम्भा किं नु तिलोत्तमा । मेनका वा घृताची वा नागी यक्षी शिवा नु किम् विवाहो व्रतबन्धो वा यज्ञो वाऽन्यो महोत्सवः । तदा भवद्गृहं यास्ये हव्यं कव्यं यदा भवेत् श्रुत्वेत्थं वचनं तस्य नृपतिं तावथोचतुः । मायामयस्य देवस्य मायया मोहितो भृशम् दृष्ट्वा देवं परमया मुदा साधुविनायकम् । पुपूजुर्भोजयामासुर्द्विजान् सुहृद्गणानपि सर्वपापपहरं पुण्यं किमन्यच्छ्रोतुमिच्छसि । मुनिरुवाच । श्रुतं चरित्रं शुक्लस्य शुक्लभिक्षारतस्य च
tarkayāmāsurapare rambhā kiṃ nu tilottamā | menakā vā ghṛtācī vā nāgī yakṣī śivā nu kim vivāho vratabandho vā yajño vā'nyo mahotsavaḥ | tadā bhavadgṛhaṃ yāsye havyaṃ kavyaṃ yadā bhavet śrutvetthaṃ vacanaṃ tasya nṛpatiṃ tāvathocatuḥ | māyāmayasya devasya māyayā mohito bhṛśam dṛṣṭvā devaṃ paramayā mudā sādhuvināyakam | pupūjurbhojayāmāsurdvijān suhṛdgaṇānapi sarvapāpapaharaṃ puṇyaṃ kimanyacchrotumicchasi | muniruvāca | śrutaṃ caritraṃ śuklasya śuklabhikṣāratasya ca
Others speculated: "Is she Rambhā, or Tilottamā, or Menakā, or Ghṛtācī, or a nāga woman, a yakṣī, or Śivā?" "A wedding, or an initiation, or a sacrifice, or some other great festival — then I shall come to your house, whenever there is offering to gods and to ancestors." Hearing his words thus, those two then said to the king... utterly deluded by the illusion of the god who is made of illusion. Seeing the god, the good Vināyaka, with the greatest joy they worshipped him and fed the brahmins and their circle of friends as well. "What else, holy and removing all sin, do you wish to hear?" The sage said: "The story of Śukla, devoted to pure alms, has been heard."
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GnP 2 21.22
उर्वशी वा रती राज्ञी कश्यपस्यादितिर्नु किम् । ज्ञात्वा तु राजपत्नीं ताम् प्रणनामादितिं मुदा असंख्याता भवन्तो हि कथमेको गृहं व्रजे । वकेशिनीं किमर्थं वा गां धोक्ष्यथ भवद्विधाः देह्यनुज्ञां गमिष्यावो निजमाश्रम मंडलम् । ततो नृपतिशार्दूलो दृढभक्ति प्रणोदितः पंचामृतं च पक्वान्नं व्यंजनं पायसौदनौ । अन्यद्रुचिकरं सर्वं बुभजुस्ते यथारुचि धातुस्पर्शविहीनस्य गृहं यातौ विनायकः । भुजैर्दशभिरादाय ह्योदनं शिथिलं जलैः
urvaśī vā ratī rājñī kaśyapasyāditirnu kim | jñātvā tu rājapatnīṃ tām praṇanāmāditiṃ mudā asaṃkhyātā bhavanto hi kathameko gṛhaṃ vraje | vakeśinīṃ kimarthaṃ vā gāṃ dhokṣyatha bhavadvidhāḥ dehyanujñāṃ gamiṣyāvo nijamāśrama maṃḍalam | tato nṛpatiśārdūlo dṛḍhabhakti praṇoditaḥ paṃcāmṛtaṃ ca pakvānnaṃ vyaṃjanaṃ pāyasaudanau | anyadrucikaraṃ sarvaṃ bubhajuste yathāruci dhātusparśavihīnasya gṛhaṃ yātau vināyakaḥ | bhujairdaśabhirādāya hyodanaṃ śithilaṃ jalaiḥ
"Or is she Urvaśī, or Ratī, or a queen — or Kaśyapa's Aditi?" Recognizing her as the king's wife, he joyfully bowed to Aditi. "You are indeed countless; how should I, being one, go to (each) house? And why would such as you milk Vakeśinī as a cow?" "Give us leave; we two shall go to the circle of our own hermitage." Then that tiger among kings, urged by firm devotion, (offered) the five nectars, cooked food, a savoury dish, milk-rice and boiled rice; and everything else that was tasty they ate as they pleased. Vināyaka went to the house of one who had no contact with metals, taking up with ten arms rice softened with water.
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GnP 2 21.23
पूजयामास सौभाग्यद्रव्यैर्भूषां शुकादिभिः । उवाच च सुचार्वंगी प्रेमगद्गदया गिरा वांछितार्थी कथं याचेत्त्यक्त्वा कल्पद्रुमं द्रुमम् । अन्यत् क्षुद्रं वांछितं वा तद्वद्यूयं समुत्सुकाः स्थीयतां श्रूयतां वाक्यं मदीयमित्युवाच तौ। भक्त्या च प्रार्थयामास स्नात्वा भुक्त्वाऽनुगम्यताम् एवं द्विजेषु देवेषु काशिराजे सुहृत्स्वपि । आशीर्वत्सु सभाविष्टः काशिराजो न्वपृच्छत जग्ध्वा त्यक्त्वा श्रमं तृप्तो दारिद्र्यं च व्यनाशयत्। दत्तं गृहं तु शुक्लस्य शक्रस्य नगराद्वरम्
pūjayāmāsa saubhāgyadravyairbhūṣāṃ śukādibhiḥ | uvāca ca sucārvaṃgī premagadgadayā girā vāṃchitārthī kathaṃ yācettyaktvā kalpadrumaṃ drumam | anyat kṣudraṃ vāṃchitaṃ vā tadvadyūyaṃ samutsukāḥ sthīyatāṃ śrūyatāṃ vākyaṃ madīyamityuvāca tau| bhaktyā ca prārthayāmāsa snātvā bhuktvā'nugamyatām evaṃ dvijeṣu deveṣu kāśirāje suhṛtsvapi | āśīrvatsu sabhāviṣṭaḥ kāśirājo nvapṛcchata jagdhvā tyaktvā śramaṃ tṛpto dāridryaṃ ca vyanāśayat| dattaṃ gṛhaṃ tu śuklasya śakrasya nagarādvaram
She worshipped (him) with auspicious substances and with adornment, with parrot(-feathers?) and the like; and the fair-limbed woman spoke with a voice choked with love. "How would one who wants something beg from an (ordinary) tree, leaving aside the wish-granting tree? Speak that other, lesser wish, you who are so eager." "Stay; let my word be heard," he said to those two; and with devotion he entreated: "Having bathed and eaten, let (me) be followed." Thus, while the brahmins, the gods, the king of Kāśī and the friends were pronouncing blessings, the king of Kāśī, seated in the assembly, asked. Having eaten, having shed his weariness, satisfied, he destroyed poverty too; and a house better than Indra's city was given to Śukla.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 21.24
महाभाग्येन दृष्टासि त्वं देवजननी मया । विनायकप्रसादेन क्वान्यथा दर्शनं तव क उवाच । विनायकवचः श्रुत्वा श्रेणीमुख्या जगुः पुनः । अस्मिन्विवाहे सम्पन्ने न स्थास्यति क्षणं भवान् निशम्य प्रार्थनां तस्य मोचतुर्मुनिपुंगवौ । न भुज्येते राजकीयमन्नम् तस्माद् व्रजावहे मायया मुनिपुत्रस्य मोहितोऽनेकधाकृतेः । राजोवाच । विनायको गतो भोक्तुं नानागृह इतिस्फुटम् सम्पदोऽपि तथा दत्ता याः सन्ति ह्यलकाधिपे । स्वरूपं च तथा दत्तं यन्नास्ति मकरध्वजे
mahābhāgyena dṛṣṭāsi tvaṃ devajananī mayā | vināyakaprasādena kvānyathā darśanaṃ tava ka uvāca | vināyakavacaḥ śrutvā śreṇīmukhyā jaguḥ punaḥ | asminvivāhe sampanne na sthāsyati kṣaṇaṃ bhavān niśamya prārthanāṃ tasya mocaturmunipuṃgavau | na bhujyete rājakīyamannam tasmād vrajāvahe māyayā muniputrasya mohito'nekadhākṛteḥ | rājovāca | vināyako gato bhoktuṃ nānāgṛha itisphuṭam sampado'pi tathā dattā yāḥ santi hyalakādhipe | svarūpaṃ ca tathā dattaṃ yannāsti makaradhvaje
"By great good fortune have you, mother of the gods, been seen by me; by Vināyaka's grace — how else could there be a sight of you?" Ka said: Hearing Vināyaka's words, the guild-chiefs sang out again: "When this wedding is accomplished you will not stay a moment." Hearing his request, the two bulls among sages said: "We do not eat royal food; therefore let us go." (The king was) deluded by the illusion of the sage's son, who had many forms. The king said: "Plainly Vināyaka has gone to eat in many houses." And such riches were given as exist with the lord of Alakā; and such a form was given as is not (even) in Makaradhvaja.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 21.25
राज्ञीमेवं ब्रुवन्तीं तु साश्रुकंठाऽवदद्वचः । अदितिरुवाच । मम बालो बहुदिनं स्थापितः कुत्र वर्तते राज्ञः प्रसादाद्दृष्टोऽसि भक्तिं न सफलीकुरू । अवाप्तकामस्य च ते सृष्टि स्थित्यन्तकारिणः तदनुज्ञां समासाद्य मणिकर्णी ततो गतौ । विनायकः सर्वबालैरनुयातो मुदा रमन् अयं मे निकटेऽप्यस्ति को नु भुंक्ते गृहे गृहे । क्वचिच्च शिबिकारूढो याति भोक्तुं विनायकः। ज्ञानं तस्मै तथा दत्तं यन्नास्ति चतुरानने । अत्र किं कारणं ब्रह्मँस्तन्मे व्याख्यातुमर्हसि
rājñīmevaṃ bruvantīṃ tu sāśrukaṃṭhā'vadadvacaḥ | aditiruvāca | mama bālo bahudinaṃ sthāpitaḥ kutra vartate rājñaḥ prasādāddṛṣṭo'si bhaktiṃ na saphalīkurū | avāptakāmasya ca te sṛṣṭi sthityantakāriṇaḥ tadanujñāṃ samāsādya maṇikarṇī tato gatau | vināyakaḥ sarvabālairanuyāto mudā raman ayaṃ me nikaṭe'pyasti ko nu bhuṃkte gṛhe gṛhe | kvacicca śibikārūḍho yāti bhoktuṃ vināyakaḥ| jñānaṃ tasmai tathā dattaṃ yannāsti caturānane | atra kiṃ kāraṇaṃ brahma~stanme vyākhyātumarhasi
But to the queen speaking thus, she, her throat full of tears, spoke these words. Aditi said: "Where is my boy, who was placed (here) for many days?" "By the king's favour you have been seen; do not make (my) devotion fruitless — you whose desires are already fulfilled, who bring about creation, maintenance and end." Having obtained his leave, the two then went to Maṇikarṇī. Vināyaka, followed by all the boys, taking joyful delight. "He is here beside me too — then who is it that eats in house after house?" And somewhere Vināyaka goes mounted on a palanquin to eat. "And such knowledge was given to him as is not in the four-faced one. What is the reason here, O brahmin? That you ought to explain to me."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 21.26
अत्युत्कंठतया सुभ्रु दर्शनार्थमिहागता । स्त्रीणां स्वभावं जानासि माया व्याकुल चेतसाम् सर्वान्तर्यामिणः सर्वं चित्तवृत्ती विजानतः । कर्तुं वाप्यन्यथा कर्तुमकर्तुं वा क्षमस्य ह स्नात्वा गतः शुक्लगृहं ज्ञात्वा तद्भक्तिमादृतः । यथा धावति गौर्वत्सं यथा माता रुदच्छिशुम् गजारूढः क्वचिद्याति हयारुढश्च कुत्रचित् । एवं सर्वेषु लोकेषु पूजाव्यग्रेषु बालके क उवाच । सम्यक्पृष्टं त्वया व्यास परमेशकथा यतः । पुनाति प्राश्निकं श्रोतॄन्वक्तारं भक्तितः श्रुता
atyutkaṃṭhatayā subhru darśanārthamihāgatā | strīṇāṃ svabhāvaṃ jānāsi māyā vyākula cetasām sarvāntaryāmiṇaḥ sarvaṃ cittavṛttī vijānataḥ | kartuṃ vāpyanyathā kartumakartuṃ vā kṣamasya ha snātvā gataḥ śuklagṛhaṃ jñātvā tadbhaktimādṛtaḥ | yathā dhāvati gaurvatsaṃ yathā mātā rudacchiśum gajārūḍhaḥ kvacidyāti hayāruḍhaśca kutracit | evaṃ sarveṣu lokeṣu pūjāvyagreṣu bālake ka uvāca | samyakpṛṣṭaṃ tvayā vyāsa parameśakathā yataḥ | punāti prāśnikaṃ śrotṝnvaktāraṃ bhaktitaḥ śrutā
"Out of extreme longing, fair-browed one, I came here to see (him). You know the nature of women, whose minds are confused by illusion — of you who dwell within all, who fully know all the movements of the mind, who are able to act, or to act otherwise, or not to act at all." Having bathed, he went, honoured, to Śukla's house, knowing his devotion — as a cow runs to her calf, as a mother to a crying child. Somewhere he goes mounted on an elephant, and somewhere mounted on a horse; so, while all the worlds were busy with worship of the boy — Ka said: "Rightly have you asked, Vyāsa, since the tale of the Supreme Lord, heard with devotion, purifies the questioner, the hearers and the speaker."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 21.27
शोकसंतप्तगात्राऽहं तमालिंगामि चार्भकम् । तत्संसर्गसुशीतांगी प्राप्स्ये संतोषमुत्तमम् चिदानन्दस्य नैवास्ति पूजाभिर्नः प्रयोजनम् । भक्तिप्रियो देव इति निगमं न वृथा कुरू यथा कृष्णः सभानीतां द्रौपदीं शरणागताम् । दृष्ट्वा तौ दम्पती देवं पादयोर्विनिपेततु ततस्तौ नगरीं यातौ तत्र तत्र विनायकम्। अपश्यतां भुक्तवन्तं परावृत्य समीयतुः मनो मे हि स्थितं वक्तुं तत्पृष्टं हि त्वया विभो । सम्यक्तेऽहं वदिष्यामि भक्तिगम्यस्य चेष्टितम्
śokasaṃtaptagātrā'haṃ tamāliṃgāmi cārbhakam | tatsaṃsargasuśītāṃgī prāpsye saṃtoṣamuttamam cidānandasya naivāsti pūjābhirnaḥ prayojanam | bhaktipriyo deva iti nigamaṃ na vṛthā kurū yathā kṛṣṇaḥ sabhānītāṃ draupadīṃ śaraṇāgatām | dṛṣṭvā tau dampatī devaṃ pādayorvinipetatu tatastau nagarīṃ yātau tatra tatra vināyakam| apaśyatāṃ bhuktavantaṃ parāvṛtya samīyatuḥ mano me hi sthitaṃ vaktuṃ tatpṛṣṭaṃ hi tvayā vibho | samyakte'haṃ vadiṣyāmi bhaktigamyasya ceṣṭitam
"My limbs burning with grief, I embrace that child; my limbs made cool by contact with him, I shall gain the highest contentment." "For him who is consciousness and bliss there is no need at all of our worship; do not make vain the scripture (which says), 'the god loves devotion'." As Kṛṣṇa (protected) Draupadī, brought into the hall, who had come for refuge — seeing (this), the two, husband and wife, fell at the god's feet. Then those two went to the city; there and there they saw Vināyaka having eaten; turning back, they came together. "My mind was set on telling it, and that very thing you have asked, O lord; I shall tell you rightly the doings of him who is reached by devotion."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 21.28
इति तद्वचनं श्रुत्वा सादरा सा ससम्भ्रमा। गवेषितुं तु तं बालं राज्ञी दूतानचोदयत् निशम्येति वचस्तेषां तानूचेऽथ विनायकः । एवं चेद्भवतां भक्तिस्तदा यास्ये नृपाज्ञया आनन्दाश्रूणि मुंच्चन्तौ वाचा गद्गदया गिरा। लिलिंगतुर्मुदा देवं ननृतुर्हर्षनिर्भरौ यत्र यत्र गृहे यत्तौ तत्र तत्र विनायकम् । निर्वृत्य सकलं नित्यं भिक्षार्थं पर्यगच्छताम् सर्वज्ञः सर्वदर्शी च सर्वगः सर्वचित्तवित् । भक्त्यैव तुष्यते देवो भावाहि तोषकारणम्
iti tadvacanaṃ śrutvā sādarā sā sasambhramā| gaveṣituṃ tu taṃ bālaṃ rājñī dūtānacodayat niśamyeti vacasteṣāṃ tānūce'tha vināyakaḥ | evaṃ cedbhavatāṃ bhaktistadā yāsye nṛpājñayā ānandāśrūṇi muṃccantau vācā gadgadayā girā| liliṃgaturmudā devaṃ nanṛturharṣanirbharau yatra yatra gṛhe yattau tatra tatra vināyakam | nirvṛtya sakalaṃ nityaṃ bhikṣārthaṃ paryagacchatām sarvajñaḥ sarvadarśī ca sarvagaḥ sarvacittavit | bhaktyaiva tuṣyate devo bhāvāhi toṣakāraṇam
Hearing his word thus, she, respectful and agitated, the queen, urged messengers on to search for that boy. Hearing their speech thus, Vināyaka then said to them: "If your devotion is such, then I shall go at the king's command." Shedding tears of joy, with a voice choked in speech, they joyfully embraced the god and danced, overwhelmed with delight. In whatever house those two went, there was Vināyaka. Having completed all their daily duties, they went about for alms. He is all-knowing, all-seeing, all-pervading, knower of every mind; the god is pleased by devotion alone, for the inner feeling is the cause of his pleasure.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 21.29
अन्ये चख्युः काशिराजं कश्यपस्त्रियमागताम्। स स्नात्वा गृहमागत्य तां दृष्ट्वा हर्षमाप ह एवमाकर्ण्य तद्वाक्यं सर्वेऽपि स्वगृहान् ययुः । मंडपान् विदधुः केचित् केचिद्वस्त्रगृहाणि च न विन्दतुः प्रकर्तव्यं देहातीता विवासतुः । रोमांच्चांच्चितगात्रौ तौ बाष्पधाराममुंच्चताम् शयानं शयने दिव्ये भक्षयन्तं फलानि च । चर्वयन्तं च ताम्बूलं क्वचित्गन्धादिचर्चितम् भक्त्याह्रतं पलाशं च जलं पुष्पं मनोहरम् । तेनैव परितुष्टोऽसावात्मानं च प्रयच्छति
anye cakhyuḥ kāśirājaṃ kaśyapastriyamāgatām| sa snātvā gṛhamāgatya tāṃ dṛṣṭvā harṣamāpa ha evamākarṇya tadvākyaṃ sarve'pi svagṛhān yayuḥ | maṃḍapān vidadhuḥ kecit kecidvastragṛhāṇi ca na vindatuḥ prakartavyaṃ dehātītā vivāsatuḥ | romāṃccāṃccitagātrau tau bāṣpadhārāmamuṃccatām śayānaṃ śayane divye bhakṣayantaṃ phalāni ca | carvayantaṃ ca tāmbūlaṃ kvacitgandhādicarcitam bhaktyāhrataṃ palāśaṃ ca jalaṃ puṣpaṃ manoharam | tenaiva parituṣṭo'sāvātmānaṃ ca prayacchati
Others told the king of Kāśī that Kaśyapa's wife had come. He, having bathed and come home, was delighted at seeing her. Hearing that speech thus, all of them went to their own houses; some made pavilions, and some cloth-houses. Those two did not find what should be done; they dwelt as though beyond the body. Their limbs bristling with horripilation, the two let flow a stream of tears. (They saw him) lying on a divine bed and eating fruits, and chewing betel, somewhere smeared with perfumes and the like. A palāśa leaf brought with devotion, and water, and a lovely flower — with just that he is well pleased, and he gives his very self.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 21.31
दृष्ट्वा शक्तिर्देवमाता जगज्जननकारिणी । न शक्तिर्वर्तते सम्यग् वर्णितुं ते गुणान्मम द्रव्याणि च सुगन्धीनि मृगनाभिभवानि च । फलानि च विचित्राणि वासांस्याभरणानि च विख्यातं त्रिषु लोकेषु नाम पापहरं शुभम् । सार्थकं कृतमद्यैव जन्म नः पाददर्शनात् नानालंकारसंयुक्तं दिव्यवस्त्रान्वितं क्वचित् । पठन्तं च जपन्तं च ध्यानेन तमपश्यताम् कांचनं राजतं मुक्ता दत्तं सर्वं वृथा भवेत् । शमीपत्रेण तुष्टोऽसौ व्याधायादात् सलोकताम्
dṛṣṭvā śaktirdevamātā jagajjananakāriṇī | na śaktirvartate samyag varṇituṃ te guṇānmama dravyāṇi ca sugandhīni mṛganābhibhavāni ca | phalāni ca vicitrāṇi vāsāṃsyābharaṇāni ca vikhyātaṃ triṣu lokeṣu nāma pāpaharaṃ śubham | sārthakaṃ kṛtamadyaiva janma naḥ pādadarśanāt nānālaṃkārasaṃyuktaṃ divyavastrānvitaṃ kvacit | paṭhantaṃ ca japantaṃ ca dhyānena tamapaśyatām kāṃcanaṃ rājataṃ muktā dattaṃ sarvaṃ vṛthā bhavet | śamīpatreṇa tuṣṭo'sau vyādhāyādāt salokatām
Seeing (him), Śakti, mother of the gods, who brings forth the world: "There is no power (in me) to describe your qualities properly." And fragrant substances, and those made of musk, and various fruits, and garments and ornaments. "Your name, auspicious and sin-removing, is renowned in the three worlds; this very day our birth has been made meaningful by the sight of your feet." Somewhere joined with many ornaments, clothed in divine garments; they saw him reciting, and muttering prayer, and in meditation. Gold, silver, pearls — all given would be in vain; (yet) he, pleased with a śamī leaf, granted the hunter a place in his own world.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 21.32
बालो विनायकस्तेऽयं शक्रादधिक विक्रमः । अवदानान्यनेकानि कृतानि बहुधा सुरैः पक्वान्नानि विचित्राणि पंचामृतयुतानि च । स्थापिता मूर्तयो नानामुक्तामाला विभूषिताः प्रासादनिचयांस्त्यक्त्वा गतः पर्णकुटीमिमाम् । धन्यो वंशो मदीयोऽद्य जन्म ज्ञानं तपो वयः स्तूयमानं क्वचिद् भक्तै स्तुवन्तं जगदीश्वरम् । दर्शयन्तं विभूतिं स्वां भक्त्यानेकशः क्वचित् प्रसंगतोऽपि दत्तेन भावं कृत्वा दृढं हृदि। अनायासेन लब्धेन तस्माद्भक्तिर्गरीयसी
bālo vināyakaste'yaṃ śakrādadhika vikramaḥ | avadānānyanekāni kṛtāni bahudhā suraiḥ pakvānnāni vicitrāṇi paṃcāmṛtayutāni ca | sthāpitā mūrtayo nānāmuktāmālā vibhūṣitāḥ prāsādanicayāṃstyaktvā gataḥ parṇakuṭīmimām | dhanyo vaṃśo madīyo'dya janma jñānaṃ tapo vayaḥ stūyamānaṃ kvacid bhaktai stuvantaṃ jagadīśvaram | darśayantaṃ vibhūtiṃ svāṃ bhaktyānekaśaḥ kvacit prasaṃgato'pi dattena bhāvaṃ kṛtvā dṛḍhaṃ hṛdi| anāyāsena labdhena tasmādbhaktirgarīyasī
"This boy is your Vināyaka, of prowess greater than Indra's; many heroic deeds have been done by the gods in many ways." Various cooked foods together with the five nectars; images were set up, adorned with many pearl garlands. "Leaving heaps of palaces he has come to this leaf hut; blessed today is my lineage, my birth, knowledge, austerity and age." Somewhere praised by devotees, somewhere praising the Lord of the world; somewhere showing his own majesty many times over out of devotion. Even by what is given in passing, once firm feeling is made in the heart — (he is pleased) rather than by what is got without effort; therefore devotion is the weightier thing.
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GnP 2 21.33
अशक्यानि मया वक्तुं रक्षसां निधनानि च । तस्यापि वर्णितुं नास्ति गुणानां शक्तिरल्पिका एवं गृहे गृहे सर्वे सामग्रीं चक्रुरुत्सुकाः । एकोऽभून्नगरप्रान्ते ब्राह्मणो वेदशास्त्रवित् अपूजयत्ततस्तं स कुशासनगतं मुनिः । प्रक्षाल्य चरणद्वन्द्वं जलं तच्छिरसाऽदधत् युवानं रमयन्तं स्वाःस्त्रियोऽत्यन्त मनोरमाः । चिकित्सयन्तं वृद्धं च सेवन्तं रसमुत्तमम्
aśakyāni mayā vaktuṃ rakṣasāṃ nidhanāni ca | tasyāpi varṇituṃ nāsti guṇānāṃ śaktiralpikā evaṃ gṛhe gṛhe sarve sāmagrīṃ cakrurutsukāḥ | eko'bhūnnagaraprānte brāhmaṇo vedaśāstravit apūjayattatastaṃ sa kuśāsanagataṃ muniḥ | prakṣālya caraṇadvandvaṃ jalaṃ tacchirasā'dadhat yuvānaṃ ramayantaṃ svāḥstriyo'tyanta manoramāḥ | cikitsayantaṃ vṛddhaṃ ca sevantaṃ rasamuttamam
"The slayings of the rākṣasas cannot be told by me; nor is there even a little power to describe his qualities." Thus in house after house all of them eagerly made ready the materials. At the edge of the city there was a certain brahmin who knew the Veda and the treatises. Then that sage worshipped him as he sat on a kuśa seat; having washed both his feet, he placed that water on his head. (They saw him) as a youth delighting his own exceedingly lovely women; and treating an old man, and taking an excellent elixir.
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GnP 2 21.34
विश्राम्यतां क्षणं मातर्मम भाग्यं महत्तरम् । पदनेन हता मायाबलमाश्रित्य दानवाः शुक्ल नाम्ना शुक्लवृत्तिः शान्तो दान्तः क्षमान्वितः । श्रौतस्मार्त कर्मनिधिर्ब्रह्मनिष्ठोतिथिप्रियः गन्धाक्षतं पुष्पमालां धूपं दीपं ददावथ । दूर्वांकुरान् शमीपत्रं सुतैलं केतकं शुभम् रिंगंतं भक्षयन्तं च मृदं कुत्रचिदंगणे । परिश्रान्तं पिबन्तं कं क्रीडाभिः कन्दुकादिभिः
viśrāmyatāṃ kṣaṇaṃ mātarmama bhāgyaṃ mahattaram | padanena hatā māyābalamāśritya dānavāḥ śukla nāmnā śuklavṛttiḥ śānto dāntaḥ kṣamānvitaḥ | śrautasmārta karmanidhirbrahmaniṣṭhotithipriyaḥ gandhākṣataṃ puṣpamālāṃ dhūpaṃ dīpaṃ dadāvatha | dūrvāṃkurān śamīpatraṃ sutailaṃ ketakaṃ śubham riṃgaṃtaṃ bhakṣayantaṃ ca mṛdaṃ kutracidaṃgaṇe | pariśrāntaṃ pibantaṃ kaṃ krīḍābhiḥ kandukādibhiḥ
"Rest a moment, mother; my fortune is very great: by this foot the dānavas who relied on the strength of illusion were struck down." Śukla by name, of pure conduct, calm, self-controlled, endowed with patience, a treasury of śrauta and smārta rites, devoted to brahman, fond of guests. Then he offered sandal-paste and rice grains, a flower garland, incense, a lamp, dūrvā shoots, a śamī leaf, fine oil, and the auspicious ketaka. (They saw him) crawling and eating dirt somewhere in a courtyard, and exhausted and drinking water, and with games of ball and the like.
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GnP 2 21.35
अपरिक्षितेन वपुषा बालस्ते वसते सुखम् । त्वं किमर्थमिहायाता याता चेत् स्थीयतां क्षणम् यस्य पत्नी महाभागा विद्रुमा नाम नामतः । निस्पृहा ज्ञानसम्पन्ना सर्वावयवसुन्दरा खाद्यं स्वल्पं पुरः स्थाप्य फलमारण्यकं तथा। पुष्पांजलिं मन्त्रपूतां दत्त्वा नत्त्वा स लज्जितः एवं तौ क्षुधितौ श्रान्तौ पर्यटन्तौ गृहे गृहे । सर्वत्र दृष्ट्वा तं देवं परस्परमथोचतुः
aparikṣitena vapuṣā bālaste vasate sukham | tvaṃ kimarthamihāyātā yātā cet sthīyatāṃ kṣaṇam yasya patnī mahābhāgā vidrumā nāma nāmataḥ | nispṛhā jñānasampannā sarvāvayavasundarā khādyaṃ svalpaṃ puraḥ sthāpya phalamāraṇyakaṃ tathā| puṣpāṃjaliṃ mantrapūtāṃ dattvā nattvā sa lajjitaḥ evaṃ tau kṣudhitau śrāntau paryaṭantau gṛhe gṛhe | sarvatra dṛṣṭvā taṃ devaṃ parasparamathocatuḥ
"With a body untried, your boy dwells happily. Why have you come here? Since you have come, stay a while." Whose wife, greatly blessed, was Vidrumā by name, free of craving, endowed with knowledge, beautiful in every limb. Setting before (him) a little food and a wild fruit, and offering a handful of flowers purified with mantras, he bowed, ashamed. Thus those two, hungry and weary, wandering from house to house, seeing that god everywhere, then said to each other:
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GnP 2 21.36
निवृत्तेऽस्मिन्विवाहे तु प्रापयिष्ये उभावपि। सोवाच । किमिदं भाषसे राजन्वियोगादस्य मेऽभवत् दरिद्रा ज्ञाननिष्ठा सा पतिप्राणा पतिव्रता । तस्या गृहगतं दृश्यं नभस्तारांकितं स्फुटम् कदन्नं कथमस्मै तद्देयमित्येव चिन्तयन् । अभिप्रायं विदित्वा तं देवदेवो विनायकः अत्रास्ति निर्मलः शुक्लो ब्राह्मणो नगरे शुचिः । यावो भोक्तुं तस्य गृहे इत्युक्त्वा तत्र जग्मतुः
nivṛtte'sminvivāhe tu prāpayiṣye ubhāvapi| sovāca | kimidaṃ bhāṣase rājanviyogādasya me'bhavat daridrā jñānaniṣṭhā sā patiprāṇā pativratā | tasyā gṛhagataṃ dṛśyaṃ nabhastārāṃkitaṃ sphuṭam kadannaṃ kathamasmai taddeyamityeva cintayan | abhiprāyaṃ viditvā taṃ devadevo vināyakaḥ atrāsti nirmalaḥ śuklo brāhmaṇo nagare śuciḥ | yāvo bhoktuṃ tasya gṛhe ityuktvā tatra jagmatuḥ
"When this wedding is over I shall bring them both here." He said: "What is this you say, king? Through separation from him this has befallen me. She is poor, devoted to knowledge, her husband her very life, faithful to her husband. In her house what is to be seen is plainly (the sky) marked with stars. 'How can such bad food be given to him?'—thinking just this. Knowing that intention of his, Vināyaka, god of gods, (said): 'Here in the city there is a pure, spotless brahmin named Śukla; let us two go to eat in his house.' Having said this, they went there.
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GnP 2 21.37
महान्खेदो न च सुखं लेभे क्वापीह किंचन । क उवाच । एवं वदत्यां तस्यां स आगतोऽसौ विनायकः न स्वर्णं राजतं ताम्रं भाजनं रीतिजं न च । गौरा वल्कलसंवीता तेजोज्वाला सुशोभना याचे मातः किमन्नं ते गृहे तद्दीयतां मम । भक्त्या दत्तं कदन्नं मेऽधिकं स्यादमृतादपि तत्रापि सोंऽगणगतो दृष्टस्ताभ्यां विनायकः । नगरे नात्र भोक्तव्यं न तु शेषं विनायकात्
mahānkhedo na ca sukhaṃ lebhe kvāpīha kiṃcana | ka uvāca | evaṃ vadatyāṃ tasyāṃ sa āgato'sau vināyakaḥ na svarṇaṃ rājataṃ tāmraṃ bhājanaṃ rītijaṃ na ca | gaurā valkalasaṃvītā tejojvālā suśobhanā yāce mātaḥ kimannaṃ te gṛhe taddīyatāṃ mama | bhaktyā dattaṃ kadannaṃ me'dhikaṃ syādamṛtādapi tatrāpi soṃ'gaṇagato dṛṣṭastābhyāṃ vināyakaḥ | nagare nātra bhoktavyaṃ na tu śeṣaṃ vināyakāt
Great was the distress, and he obtained no comfort, nothing at all here. Ka said: While she was speaking thus, that Vināyaka came. There was no vessel of gold, of silver, of copper, nor of brass. Fair-skinned, clad in bark, blazing with radiance, most beautiful (was she). "I beg, mother, whatever food is in your house—let it be given to me; bad food given with devotion would be more to me than even nectar." There too, in the courtyard, Vināyaka was seen by those two. "In this city nothing is to be eaten, and nothing is left over apart from Vināyaka."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 21.38
प्रेषितो बालकैः सर्वैरागता जननी तव । सा लिलिंग ततो बालमश्रुपूर्णा मुदा जगौ यदंगतेजसा व्याप्तं दृश्यमानं न दृश्यते । तेन वृत्तेन तुष्टा सा गहशोभाविधायिनी विषं भवति यदत्तं दम्भेनाश्रद्धयान्वितम् । विस्तीर्णमोदनं शुष्कं भास्करीं बहुधान्यजाम् इत्युक्त्वा बहिरायातौ पुरो दृष्ट्वा विनायकम् । तिर्यग् गतिधरौ भूत्वा ततोऽपि समपश्यताम्
preṣito bālakaiḥ sarvairāgatā jananī tava | sā liliṃga tato bālamaśrupūrṇā mudā jagau yadaṃgatejasā vyāptaṃ dṛśyamānaṃ na dṛśyate | tena vṛttena tuṣṭā sā gahaśobhāvidhāyinī viṣaṃ bhavati yadattaṃ dambhenāśraddhayānvitam | vistīrṇamodanaṃ śuṣkaṃ bhāskarīṃ bahudhānyajām ityuktvā bahirāyātau puro dṛṣṭvā vināyakam | tiryag gatidharau bhūtvā tato'pi samapaśyatām
"Sent by all the boys, your mother has come." Then she embraced the boy, and, filled with tears, spoke with joy: "What is pervaded by the radiance of his body, though it is being seen, is not seen." Pleased by that event, she who makes the beauty of the house (said): "What is given with hypocrisy and without faith becomes poison." (She offered) a large quantity of dry boiled rice, sun-dried, made of many grains. Having said this, the two came out and, seeing Vināyaka before them, they took on the movement of animals, and even from there they beheld him.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 21.39
चिरकालं स्थितोऽस्यत्र मां विहायाति निष्ठुर । त्वद्वियोगेन संतप्ताऽऽगता सर्वं विहाय च तस्यास्तोषेण तुष्टोऽभूद्विनयेन च सेवया। स्वस्थःस्थितो ज्ञाननिष्ठस्तिष्ठत्यकृतभोजनः आस्थापयत् पुरस्तस्य मुनिपत्नी ह्रियान्विता । तैलं च सकलं दृष्ट्वा प्राहसंस्तं च बालकाः प्राच्यां प्रतीच्यां च दिशि तमेवेतौ समन्वतः । अधश्चोर्ध्वं सर्वगतं विनायकमपश्यताम्
cirakālaṃ sthito'syatra māṃ vihāyāti niṣṭhura | tvadviyogena saṃtaptā''gatā sarvaṃ vihāya ca tasyāstoṣeṇa tuṣṭo'bhūdvinayena ca sevayā| svasthaḥsthito jñānaniṣṭhastiṣṭhatyakṛtabhojanaḥ āsthāpayat purastasya munipatnī hriyānvitā | tailaṃ ca sakalaṃ dṛṣṭvā prāhasaṃstaṃ ca bālakāḥ prācyāṃ pratīcyāṃ ca diśi tamevetau samanvataḥ | adhaścordhvaṃ sarvagataṃ vināyakamapaśyatām
"You have stayed here a long time, abandoning me, cruel one! Burning with separation from you I have come, leaving everything." He became pleased with her contentment, and with her modesty and service. Firm in himself, devoted to knowledge, he remains without taking food. The sage's wife, filled with shyness, set (it) before him; and seeing all the oil, the boys laughed at him. In the eastern and in the western direction these two (looked for) him alone all around; below and above they saw Vināyaka, present everywhere.
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GnP 2 21.41
विना त्वया क्षणो मेऽतो युगकल्पसमोऽभवत् । एवं लाघव वाक्याऽसौ दुष्टभावेन भामिनी यल्लब्धं तेन तुष्टोऽसौ भार्यामेत्याऽब्रवीदिदम् । श्रूयतां पत्नि नगरे वारितोऽहं गृहेगृहे ततस्तेनोदनः पात्रं निक्षिप्तो मुनिनाऽखिलः । तज्जलं चलितं दिक्षु बालो रोद्धुं न चाशकत् अथाभावयतां शम्भुं विष्णुं तौ भृशविस्मितौ । अपश्यतां ह्रदि तदा तं च तं च विनायकम्
vinā tvayā kṣaṇo me'to yugakalpasamo'bhavat | evaṃ lāghava vākyā'sau duṣṭabhāvena bhāminī yallabdhaṃ tena tuṣṭo'sau bhāryāmetyā'bravīdidam | śrūyatāṃ patni nagare vārito'haṃ gṛhegṛhe tatastenodanaḥ pātraṃ nikṣipto muninā'khilaḥ | tajjalaṃ calitaṃ dikṣu bālo roddhuṃ na cāśakat athābhāvayatāṃ śambhuṃ viṣṇuṃ tau bhṛśavismitau | apaśyatāṃ hradi tadā taṃ ca taṃ ca vināyakam
"Without you a moment became for me like an age and an aeon." With such light words that woman (spoke) with wicked intent. Pleased with what he had obtained, he came to his wife and said this: "Listen, wife: in the city I was turned away at house after house." Then the whole dish of boiled rice was thrown down by that sage; its water flowed in all directions and the boy could not stop it. Then those two, greatly amazed, meditated on Śambhu and on Viṣṇu; and they saw in the pool both that one and that one, and Vināyaka.
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GnP 2 21.42
अतिप्रेमबलात्सा तं कटिदेशे दधार ह । सोऽपि तच्चेष्टितं ज्ञात्वाऽऽगस्तस्याःपरिचिन्तयन् आयास्यति प्रतिग्रहं पूजार्थं स विनायकः । योऽवतीर्णो मुनिगृहं भूभार हरणोद्यतः ततोऽभवद्दशभुजो बुभुजे चौदनं च तैः । आश्चर्यं ददृशुर्लोका हसन्तो हस्ततालतः निमील्य नयने चान्तस्तमेव मुनिसत्तमौ । उद्घाटय नयने चापि स्वान्त एनमपश्यताम्
atipremabalātsā taṃ kaṭideśe dadhāra ha | so'pi tacceṣṭitaṃ jñātvā''gastasyāḥparicintayan āyāsyati pratigrahaṃ pūjārthaṃ sa vināyakaḥ | yo'vatīrṇo munigṛhaṃ bhūbhāra haraṇodyataḥ tato'bhavaddaśabhujo bubhuje caudanaṃ ca taiḥ | āścaryaṃ dadṛśurlokā hasanto hastatālataḥ nimīlya nayane cāntastameva munisattamau | udghāṭaya nayane cāpi svānta enamapaśyatām
Out of the force of her excessive love she held him at her hip. He too, knowing that behaviour of hers, reflecting on her offence (thought): "That Vināyaka will come to receive the offering, for the worship—he who has descended to the sage's house, intent on removing the burden of the earth." Then he became ten-armed and ate the boiled rice with them. The people saw the marvel and laughed, clapping their hands. Closing their eyes, the two best of sages (saw) him alone within; and opening their eyes too, they saw him in their own hearts.
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GnP 2 21.43
गूढाभिसन्धिस्तां प्रोचे पूर्वं किं मे त्वयाह्रतम् । एवं तस्मिन्ब्रुवत्येव लड्डुकं सा ततो ददौ आयास्यति गृहं चेत्स पूजार्थे यत्नमाचर । साऽब्रवीन्महतीं पूजां त्यक्त्वाऽन्नं त्वद्गृहे कथम् अपूर्वः पाचितोऽयं नु जानुदघ्नजलेन यः । इत्यूचुर्बुभुजुर्बाला रुच्या पायसकल्पया किरीटिनं कुंडलिनं मुक्तामालाम्बरांगदम् । कटिसूत्रेण हैमेन मुद्रिकाभिश्च भूषितम्
gūḍhābhisandhistāṃ proce pūrvaṃ kiṃ me tvayāhratam | evaṃ tasminbruvatyeva laḍḍukaṃ sā tato dadau āyāsyati gṛhaṃ cetsa pūjārthe yatnamācara | sā'bravīnmahatīṃ pūjāṃ tyaktvā'nnaṃ tvadgṛhe katham apūrvaḥ pācito'yaṃ nu jānudaghnajalena yaḥ | ityūcurbubhujurbālā rucyā pāyasakalpayā kirīṭinaṃ kuṃḍalinaṃ muktāmālāmbarāṃgadam | kaṭisūtreṇa haimena mudrikābhiśca bhūṣitam
With a hidden purpose he said to her: "What did you take from me before?" While he was speaking thus, she then gave him a laḍḍuka. "If he will come to the house, make an effort for the worship." She said: "Setting aside a great worship—how is there even food in your house?" "Is this not cooked in an unprecedented way, with water knee-deep?"—so the boys said, and ate it as tasty, like milk-rice. (They saw him) crowned, wearing earrings, with pearl necklace, garment and armlets, adorned with a golden girdle and with rings.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 21.44
अत्तेऽस्मिन्पुनरन्यं सा महाविषयुतम् ददौ । अत्तेऽस्मिन्पुनरन्यं स ययाचे लड्डुकं बलात् भवतां सोऽकिंचनानां कथं वा गृहमेष्यति । गन्धपुष्पं पर्युषितं पक्वं कन्दफलं मुने साकं तेन च वैर्भुक्तं गतास्ते देवतुल्यताम् । अशोचन्नितरे पश्चाद्येऽहसन्विवृतै रदैः सिंहारूढं दशभुजं सिद्धिबुद्धियुतं शुभम् । भालचन्द्रं मृगमदतिलकं नागभूषणम्
atte'sminpunaranyaṃ sā mahāviṣayutam dadau | atte'sminpunaranyaṃ sa yayāce laḍḍukaṃ balāt bhavatāṃ so'kiṃcanānāṃ kathaṃ vā gṛhameṣyati | gandhapuṣpaṃ paryuṣitaṃ pakvaṃ kandaphalaṃ mune sākaṃ tena ca vairbhuktaṃ gatāste devatulyatām | aśocannitare paścādye'hasanvivṛtai radaiḥ siṃhārūḍhaṃ daśabhujaṃ siddhibuddhiyutaṃ śubham | bhālacandraṃ mṛgamadatilakaṃ nāgabhūṣaṇam
When this one had been eaten, she gave another mixed with strong poison. When this one had been eaten, he forcibly begged for yet another laḍḍuka. "How would he come to the house of you who own nothing?" "Perfume and flowers, stale, cooked bulbs and fruit, O sage." And those who ate together with him attained equality with the gods; the others, who had laughed with bared teeth, grieved afterwards. (They saw him) mounted on a lion, ten-armed, auspicious, accompanied by Siddhi and Buddhi, with the moon on his brow, a musk tilaka, adorned with serpents.
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GnP 2 21.45
काशिराजश्च पत्नी च प्रार्थयामासतुस्तदा । उत्तिष्ठोत्तिष्ठ मातस्त्वं सबाला भोजनं कुरु भविष्यति कृतं सम्यगसम्यक् स्वल्पमप्यहो। किं वा प्रयोजनं तस्य गृहेण भवतां प्रभो कोलाहलो महानासीन्नगरे क्व विनायकः । केचिदूचुः शुक्लगृहे भुनक्ति शीर्णमोदनम् सूर्यकोटिप्रभं सृष्टिस्थितिसंहारकारिणम्। त्यक्त्वा भेदं तत्त्वविदौ नेमतुश्चरणाम्बुजम्
kāśirājaśca patnī ca prārthayāmāsatustadā | uttiṣṭhottiṣṭha mātastvaṃ sabālā bhojanaṃ kuru bhaviṣyati kṛtaṃ samyagasamyak svalpamapyaho| kiṃ vā prayojanaṃ tasya gṛheṇa bhavatāṃ prabho kolāhalo mahānāsīnnagare kva vināyakaḥ | kecidūcuḥ śuklagṛhe bhunakti śīrṇamodanam sūryakoṭiprabhaṃ sṛṣṭisthitisaṃhārakāriṇam| tyaktvā bhedaṃ tattvavidau nematuścaraṇāmbujam
Then the king of Kāśī and his wife made their entreaty: "Rise, rise, mother, and take food together with the boy. Whatever is done will turn out well, ill-done though it be, and little though it be—ah! Or what need has he of your house, lord?" There was a great uproar in the city: "Where is Vināyaka?" Some said: "In Śukla's house he is eating broken-up boiled rice." (Beholding) him bright as ten million suns, the doer of creation, maintenance and destruction, the two knowers of truth, abandoning (all sense of) difference, bowed to his lotus feet.
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GnP 2 21.46
यावदुत्तिष्ठते सा तु तावद्रुद्धाऽर्भकेण सा। गिरीन्द्रसारवपुषा सा ततो विह्वलाभवत् इति प्रियावचः श्रुत्वा पुनरूचे मुनिः प्रियाम् । स माम् भक्तं विजानाति दीनानाथ प्रभुः प्रभुः रोद्धुं कृता दशभुजो ओदनं च भुनक्ति तैः । भुक्ते तस्मिन्विशुद्धे स शुष्कमामलकं ददौ नुतःस्म परया भक्त्या देवदेवं विनायकम् । तस्यैव करुणाप्राप्त प्रबोधौ तौ मुनीश्वरौ
yāvaduttiṣṭhate sā tu tāvadruddhā'rbhakeṇa sā| girīndrasāravapuṣā sā tato vihvalābhavat iti priyāvacaḥ śrutvā punarūce muniḥ priyām | sa mām bhaktaṃ vijānāti dīnānātha prabhuḥ prabhuḥ roddhuṃ kṛtā daśabhujo odanaṃ ca bhunakti taiḥ | bhukte tasminviśuddhe sa śuṣkamāmalakaṃ dadau nutaḥsma parayā bhaktyā devadevaṃ vināyakam | tasyaiva karuṇāprāpta prabodhau tau munīśvarau
But just as she was rising, she was held back by the child; and then, his body having the weight of the lord of mountains, she became overwhelmed. Hearing his wife's words thus, the sage spoke again to his beloved: "He knows me as his devotee—the Lord, the lord of the wretched, the lord." He became ten-armed to hold (her?) back, and ate the boiled rice with them. When that pure one had eaten, he gave him a dried āmalaka. With supreme devotion they praised Vināyaka, god of gods; by his grace alone those two great sages attained awakening.
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GnP 2 21.47
मुंच मुंचेति तं प्राह माताऽहं तव बालक । बहुकालेन दृष्टुं त्वामागता स्नेहपाशतः भक्तिप्रियोऽस्ति देवोऽयं न लोभवशगो विभुः। अर्णसा च पलाशेन पुष्पेण प्रीयते हि सः मुखशुद्धिं तेन चक्रे जगदात्मा विनायकः । प्रसन्नः शुक्लमवदत् प्रीतो भावेन तेऽनघ
muṃca muṃceti taṃ prāha mātā'haṃ tava bālaka | bahukālena dṛṣṭuṃ tvāmāgatā snehapāśataḥ bhaktipriyo'sti devo'yaṃ na lobhavaśago vibhuḥ| arṇasā ca palāśena puṣpeṇa prīyate hi saḥ mukhaśuddhiṃ tena cakre jagadātmā vināyakaḥ | prasannaḥ śuklamavadat prīto bhāvena te'nagha
"Let go, let go!"—she said to him—"I am your mother, child; after a long time I have come, by the bond of affection, to see you." "This god loves devotion; the mighty one is not subject to greed; indeed he is pleased with water and with a palāśa flower." With that Vināyaka, the self of the world, cleansed his mouth. Well-pleased, he said to Śukla: "I am delighted with your disposition, O sinless one."
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GnP 2 21.48
कथं चूर्णयितुं माम् त्वमुद्यतोऽसि गिरिर्यथा । कराभ्यां नुनुदे सा तं तावन्निद्रां ययो च सः सुवर्णानिचयार्वापि न हि दम्भाति समर्पितैः । इत्याकर्ण्य वचस्तस्य विद्रुमा पुनरब्रवीत् वरान्वृणु महाभाग मत्तो यानभिकांक्षसे । शुक्ल उवाच । सर्वान्नागरिकांस्त्यक्त्वा भोक्तुं रूक्षान्नमागतः
kathaṃ cūrṇayituṃ mām tvamudyato'si giriryathā | karābhyāṃ nunude sā taṃ tāvannidrāṃ yayo ca saḥ suvarṇānicayārvāpi na hi dambhāti samarpitaiḥ | ityākarṇya vacastasya vidrumā punarabravīt varānvṛṇu mahābhāga matto yānabhikāṃkṣase | śukla uvāca | sarvānnāgarikāṃstyaktvā bhoktuṃ rūkṣānnamāgataḥ
"Why are you set on crushing me like a mountain?" With both hands she pushed him, and meanwhile he fell asleep. "Not even by heaps of gold, nor by things offered with hypocrisy (is he pleased)." Hearing his words thus, Vidrumā spoke again: "Choose boons, O greatly fortunate one, whatever you desire from me." Śukla said: "Passing over all the townspeople, you came to eat coarse food."
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GnP 2 21.49
प्रसार्य चरणौ हस्तौ श्वासोच्छ्वासपरायणः । इति राजा न्यषेधत्तां विह्वलां भारपीडिताम् एवं चेत्तर्हि यत् सिद्धं तदेतस्मै निवेद्यताम् । ततोऽष्टादश धान्यानाम् कृत्वा पिष्टं पपाच सा । अयमेव वरो महयं यज्जातं तव दर्शनम् । प्रभुवाक्यानुरोधेन याचे भक्तिं त्वयि स्थिराम्
prasārya caraṇau hastau śvāsocchvāsaparāyaṇaḥ | iti rājā nyaṣedhattāṃ vihvalāṃ bhārapīḍitām evaṃ cettarhi yat siddhaṃ tadetasmai nivedyatām | tato'ṣṭādaśa dhānyānām kṛtvā piṣṭaṃ papāca sā | ayameva varo mahayaṃ yajjātaṃ tava darśanam | prabhuvākyānurodhena yāce bhaktiṃ tvayi sthirām
Stretching out his feet and hands, given over to breathing in and out—thus the king restrained her, who was overwhelmed and crushed by the weight. "If it is so, then let whatever is ready be offered to him." Then she made flour of eighteen kinds of grain and cooked it. "This very thing is my boon, that the sight of you has come about; in compliance with the Lord's word I ask for firm devotion to you."
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GnP 2 21.51
उत्थापितुं चालितुं वा सर्वे नाशक्नुवंस्तदा । प्रार्थयामासुरपरे बालं राजीवलोचनम् तत्तेन दिनमानेन द्रव्येण चैलमानयत् । गन्धाक्षतं च पुष्पाणि धूपं दीपं महार्तिके क उवाच । एवमस्त्विति तं प्रोच्य पूर्ववद् द्विभुजः शिशुः । गृहं तस्मै शक्रगृहाद्वरं सद्रत्नकांचनम्
utthāpituṃ cālituṃ vā sarve nāśaknuvaṃstadā | prārthayāmāsurapare bālaṃ rājīvalocanam tattena dinamānena dravyeṇa cailamānayat | gandhākṣataṃ ca puṣpāṇi dhūpaṃ dīpaṃ mahārtike ka uvāca | evamastviti taṃ procya pūrvavad dvibhujaḥ śiśuḥ | gṛhaṃ tasmai śakragṛhādvaraṃ sadratnakāṃcanam
None of them was then able to lift him or to move him. Others entreated the lotus-eyed boy. With the goods (obtained) by that day's measure he brought cloth, and perfume and unhusked grain and flowers, incense and a lamp for the great ārati. Ka said: Saying to him "So be it," the child, two-armed as before, (gave) him a house better than Indra's, with fine jewels and gold.
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GnP 2 21.52
अनुक्रोशं कुरु शिशो जननी ते मरिष्यति । चालयामास चरणौ हस्ते साऽथशिरोधराम् वन्यं फलं वल्कलं च स्थापयामास चैकतः । शुष्कामलक खंडानि मुखवासार्थमेव च अत्युत्तमं स्वरूपं च ज्ञानं सम्पदमर्पयत् । अनुज्ञातो ययौ ताभ्यामन्यत्र बालकैर्वृतः
anukrośaṃ kuru śiśo jananī te mariṣyati | cālayāmāsa caraṇau haste sā'thaśirodharām vanyaṃ phalaṃ valkalaṃ ca sthāpayāmāsa caikataḥ | śuṣkāmalaka khaṃḍāni mukhavāsārthameva ca atyuttamaṃ svarūpaṃ ca jñānaṃ sampadamarpayat | anujñāto yayau tābhyāmanyatra bālakairvṛtaḥ
"Have pity, child—your mother will die!" She moved her feet, and then her hands and her neck. She set aside in one place forest fruit and bark garments, and pieces of dried āmalaka for freshening the mouth. He bestowed a most excellent form, and knowledge, and prosperity; taking leave of those two he went elsewhere, surrounded by the boys.
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GnP 2 21.53
किमिदं क्रियते बाल पितरं किं वदिष्यसि । एवं वदत्सु लोकेषु सा मृताऽथ निशाचरी प्रसार्य दर्भनिचयं सुसिक्ते स्वांगणे ध्वजम् । चकार कशिपू नासौ ध्याननिष्ठोभवन् मुनिः
kimidaṃ kriyate bāla pitaraṃ kiṃ vadiṣyasi | evaṃ vadatsu lokeṣu sā mṛtā'tha niśācarī prasārya darbhanicayaṃ susikte svāṃgaṇe dhvajam | cakāra kaśipū nāsau dhyānaniṣṭhobhavan muniḥ
"What is this you are doing, boy? What will you say to your father?" While the people were speaking thus, that night-roaming demoness died. Spreading out a heap of darbha grass in his well-sprinkled courtyard, he did not make (?) a mat—that sage became absorbed in meditation.
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GnP 2 21.54
दशयोजन देहेन व्यापितं भूतलं तया । पलायनपराः केचित्तां दृष्ट्वाऽतिभयानकाम् नैवेद्यं वैश्वदेवं च कृत्वा पूर्वं प्रयत्नतः
daśayojana dehena vyāpitaṃ bhūtalaṃ tayā | palāyanaparāḥ kecittāṃ dṛṣṭvā'tibhayānakām naivedyaṃ vaiśvadevaṃ ca kṛtvā pūrvaṃ prayatnataḥ
The surface of the earth was covered by her ten-yojana-long body. Some took to flight on seeing her, most terrifying. Having first carefully made the food-offering and the vaiśvadeva rite,
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 2 21.55
ययुः केचिच्च तां दृष्टुं विचित्रजनवृत्तयः । राजा च विस्मितस्तत्र जनः सर्वे विलोक्यताम्
yayuḥ kecicca tāṃ dṛṣṭuṃ vicitrajanavṛttayaḥ | rājā ca vismitastatra janaḥ sarve vilokyatām
and some went to see her, people whose ways were of many kinds. And the king was astonished there: "Let all the people be looked at!"
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GnP 2 21.56
कथं कपटरूपेयमागता बालघातिनी। ऋषिपत्नीस्वरूपेण ज्ञाता न राक्षसीति च
kathaṃ kapaṭarūpeyamāgatā bālaghātinī| ṛṣipatnīsvarūpeṇa jñātā na rākṣasīti ca
"How did this child-killer come in a false form? In the shape of a sage's wife she was not recognized as a demoness."
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GnP 2 21.57
अत्यद्भूतमं ज्ञानमस्य सामर्थ्यं च विलोकितम् । इति ब्रुवाणास्तु नरास्तत्समीपं मुदा ययुः
atyadbhūtamaṃ jñānamasya sāmarthyaṃ ca vilokitam | iti bruvāṇāstu narāstatsamīpaṃ mudā yayuḥ
"Most wondrous is his knowledge, and his power has been seen." Speaking thus, the men went joyfully into his presence.
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GnP 2 21.58
बालमुत्थाप्य तस्यास्तु पुष्पभारसमं जगुः । अपनेयेति तेऽप्याहुर्दुष्टा दुष्टस्वरूपिणी
bālamutthāpya tasyāstu puṣpabhārasamaṃ jaguḥ | apaneyeti te'pyāhurduṣṭā duṣṭasvarūpiṇī
Having lifted the child, they declared that for her it was (light) as a load of flowers; and they said, "She must be removed — the wicked one, wicked in her very nature."
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GnP 2 21.59
परस्यानिष्टमिच्छेद्यः स एव निधनं व्रजेत् । तुष्टुवः परिपूज्यैनं काशिराजो जना अपि
parasyāniṣṭamicchedyaḥ sa eva nidhanaṃ vrajet | tuṣṭuvaḥ paripūjyainaṃ kāśirājo janā api
Whoever should wish another harm, he himself goes to destruction. The king of Kāśī and the people too, having fully worshipped him, praised (him):
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GnP 2 21.61
यक्षगन्धर्वविप्राणां गजाश्वरथ पक्षिणाम् । भूतभव्यभविष्यस्य बुद्धीन्द्रियगणस्य च
yakṣagandharvaviprāṇāṃ gajāśvaratha pakṣiṇām | bhūtabhavyabhaviṣyasya buddhīndriyagaṇasya ca
"Of yakṣas, gandharvas and brahmins, of elephants, horses, chariots and birds; of what has been, what is, and what will be, and of the host of the intellect and the senses;
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GnP 2 21.62
हर्षस्य शोकदुःखस्य सुखस्य ज्ञानमोहवोः । अर्थस्य कार्यजातस्य लाभहान्योस्तथैव च
harṣasya śokaduḥkhasya sukhasya jñānamohavoḥ | arthasya kāryajātasya lābhahānyostathaiva ca
of joy, of grief and pain, of pleasure, of knowledge and delusion, of wealth, of the whole mass of actions, and likewise of gain and loss;
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GnP 2 21.63
स्वर्गपाताललोकानां पृथिव्या जलधेरपि। नक्षत्राणां ग्रहाणां च पिशाचानां च वीरुधाम्
svargapātālalokānāṃ pṛthivyā jaladherapi| nakṣatrāṇāṃ grahāṇāṃ ca piśācānāṃ ca vīrudhām
of the worlds of heaven and the nether region, of the earth and also of the ocean, of the lunar mansions and the planets, of piśācas and of creeping plants;
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 2 21.64
वृक्षाणां सरितां पुंसां स्त्रीणां बालजनस्य च । उत्पत्तिस्थिति संहारकारिणे ते नमो नमः
vṛkṣāṇāṃ saritāṃ puṃsāṃ strīṇāṃ bālajanasya ca | utpattisthiti saṃhārakāriṇe te namo namaḥ
of trees, of rivers, of men, of women, and of children — to you, the maker of origination, maintenance and dissolution, homage, homage!
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 2 21.65
पशूनां पतये तुभ्यं तत्वज्ञानप्रदायिने । नमो विष्णुस्वरूपाय नमस्ते रुद्ररूपिणे
paśūnāṃ pataye tubhyaṃ tatvajñānapradāyine | namo viṣṇusvarūpāya namaste rudrarūpiṇe
To you, the lord of creatures, the giver of knowledge of the truth; homage to you whose form is Viṣṇu, homage to you in the form of Rudra;
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 2 21.66
नमस्ते ब्रह्मरूपाय नमोऽनन्तस्वरूपिणे । मोक्षहेतो नमस्तुभ्यं नमो विघ्नहराय ते
namaste brahmarūpāya namo'nantasvarūpiṇe | mokṣaheto namastubhyaṃ namo vighnaharāya te
homage to you in the form of Brahmā, homage to you whose nature is endless; homage to you, the cause of liberation, homage to you, the remover of obstacles;
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 2 21.67
नमोऽभक्तविनाशाय नमो भक्तप्रियाय च । अधिदैवाधिभूतात्मंस्तापत्रय हराय ते
namo'bhaktavināśāya namo bhaktapriyāya ca | adhidaivādhibhūtātmaṃstāpatraya harāya te
homage to (you who are) the destruction of the undevoted, and homage to (you who are) dear to the devoted; O Self that is the presiding deity and the elemental basis, homage to you, remover of the three torments;
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 2 21.68
सर्वोत्पातविघाताय नमो लीलास्वरूपिणे । सर्वांन्तर्यामिणे तुभ्यं सर्वाध्यक्षाय ते नमः
sarvotpātavighātāya namo līlāsvarūpiṇe | sarvāṃntaryāmiṇe tubhyaṃ sarvādhyakṣāya te namaḥ
homage to (you who are) the thwarting of all portents, homage to you whose form is play; to you, the inner controller of all, homage to you, the overseer of all;
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 2 21.69
अदित्या जठरोत्पन्न विनायक नमोऽस्तु ते। परब्रह्मस्वरूपाय नमः कश्यपसूनवे
adityā jaṭharotpanna vināyaka namo'stu te| parabrahmasvarūpāya namaḥ kaśyapasūnave
O Vināyaka arisen from the womb of Aditi, homage be to you; homage to the son of Kaśyapa, whose form is the supreme Brahman."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 2 21.71
एवं स्तुत्वा तु ते सर्वे ययुः स्वं स्वं गृहं मुदा। त्यक्त्वा ताम् राक्षसीं छित्त्वा खंडशो दूरतः पुरात्
evaṃ stutvā tu te sarve yayuḥ svaṃ svaṃ gṛhaṃ mudā| tyaktvā tām rākṣasīṃ chittvā khaṃḍaśo dūrataḥ purāt
Having praised (him) thus, they all went joyfully each to his own house, having abandoned that rākṣasī, cut to pieces, far from the city.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 2 21.72
य इदं पठते स्तोत्रं त्रिसन्ध्योत्पातनाशनम्। न भवन्ति महोत्पाता विघ्ना भूतभयानि च
ya idaṃ paṭhate stotraṃ trisandhyotpātanāśanam| na bhavanti mahotpātā vighnā bhūtabhayāni ca
For him who recites this hymn, destructive of portents, at the three junctures of the day, no great portents, obstacles or terrors from spirits occur.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 2 21.73
त्रिसन्ध्यं यः पठेत्स्तोत्रं सर्वान् कामानवाप्नुयात् । विनायकः सदा तस्य रक्षणं कुरतेऽनघ
trisandhyaṃ yaḥ paṭhetstotraṃ sarvān kāmānavāpnuyāt | vināyakaḥ sadā tasya rakṣaṇaṃ kurate'nagha
He who recites the hymn at the three junctures of the day obtains all his desires; Vināyaka always affords him protection, O sinless one.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition