Ganesha Purana — Kridakhanda — Chapter 46

GnP 2 46.1

अध्याय ४६ प्रारंभ :- मुनिरुवाच । अविमुक्तवियोगेन परितप्तः शिवस्तदा । सर्वार्थवशगं ढुण्ढिं नत्वा प्रार्थयदातुरः अध्याय ४७ प्रारंभ :- राजोवाच । अवश्यं मुनिशार्दूल करिष्ये वचनं तव । करवाण्यन्यथा चेन्मे शपथोऽस्ति हरस्य ह अध्याय ४८ प्रारंभ :- मुनिरुवाच । त्यक्तं राज्यमिति ज्ञात्वा निजं रूपं समाश्रितः। अवसत्सर्वलोकानां ढुण्ढिस्तत्रार्थदायकः अध्याय ४९ प्रारंभ – क उवाच । एवं लब्धवरा कीर्तिः शेषां रात्रिं निनाय च । उषः स्नात्वा प्रपूज्याशु मूर्तिं पुत्रयुता ययौ अध्याय ५० प्रारंभ :- मुनिरुवाच । कथं च काशीराजेन प्राप्तं तत्स्थानमुत्तमम् । मुद्गलस्योपदेशेन तन्मे शंसितुमर्हसि

adhyāya 46 prāraṃbha :- muniruvāca | avimuktaviyogena paritaptaḥ śivastadā | sarvārthavaśagaṃ ḍhuṇḍhiṃ natvā prārthayadāturaḥ adhyāya 47 prāraṃbha :- rājovāca | avaśyaṃ muniśārdūla kariṣye vacanaṃ tava | karavāṇyanyathā cenme śapatho'sti harasya ha adhyāya 48 prāraṃbha :- muniruvāca | tyaktaṃ rājyamiti jñātvā nijaṃ rūpaṃ samāśritaḥ| avasatsarvalokānāṃ ḍhuṇḍhistatrārthadāyakaḥ adhyāya 49 prāraṃbha – ka uvāca | evaṃ labdhavarā kīrtiḥ śeṣāṃ rātriṃ nināya ca | uṣaḥ snātvā prapūjyāśu mūrtiṃ putrayutā yayau adhyāya 50 prāraṃbha :- muniruvāca | kathaṃ ca kāśīrājena prāptaṃ tatsthānamuttamam | mudgalasyopadeśena tanme śaṃsitumarhasi

Chapter 46 begins. The sage said: Then Śiva, tormented by his separation from Avimukta, bowing to Ḍhuṇḍhi, who has all ends under his control, prayed to him in distress. Chapter 47 begins. The king said: Assuredly, O tiger among sages, I shall carry out your word; and if I should do otherwise, may the oath (curse) of Hara be upon me. Chapter 48 begins. The sage said: Knowing that the kingdom had been abandoned, having taken on his own form, Ḍhuṇḍhi, the giver of wealth to all people, dwelt there. Chapter 49 begins. Ka said: Thus Kīrti, having obtained her boon, passed the remainder of the night; at dawn, having bathed and quickly worshipped the image, she went off together with her son. Chapter 50 begins. The sage said: And how was that highest place obtained by the king of Kāśī through Mudgala's instruction? That you should tell me.

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GnP 2 46.2

शिव उवाच । पंचानामपि भूतानां कारणानां च कारणम् । चिदानन्दघनो विश्वध्येयो वेदान्तगोचरः बहिष्कृत्य दिवोदासं जनपापविभागिनम् । मुनिरुवाच । इत्युक्त्वा शिवमानम्य पार्वतीं च षडाननम् यद्यद्येन च संभुक्त भोक्ष्यमाणं च तत्क्षणात् प्रक्षाल्य चरणद्वन्द्वं तद्दर्शनसुविह्वलाः । कस्तुरीचन्दनं तस्य शरीरे पर्यमर्दयन् ततो जगाद ढुण्ढिस्तं प्रपञ्चरहितो नृपम्। स्त्रीपुत्रकन्यागारादि त्यक्वाय वाराणसीमगाम् गृत्समद उवाच । एवं तेन सर्व जनाः काशिस्थाः स्ववशीकृताः । त्यक्त्वा सर्वाणि कर्माणि तमेव परिसेविरे ब्राह्मणानपि संत्यज्य ब्रुभुजुर्भोगमुत्तमम् । तत्पत्नी कमला नाम पूरयन्ती मनोरथान् पुण्यवद्भिरिह स्थेयं मृतौ मोक्षमभीप्सुभिः । पापात्मानो भैरवेण क्रियन्ते बहिरेव च मुनिरुवाच । इत्युक्तः परमात्माऽसौ प्रोक्तवान्नृपसत्तमम्। विश्वेश्वर प्रसादाच्च तवापि राजसत्तम ज्योतिर्विदा गणेशेन त्यक्तं राज्यं नृपेण ते । शीघ्रमायाहि विश्वेश निजां वाराणसीं पुरीम् दूतं च प्रेषयामास शीघमागम्यतामिति । शंकराय महाबुद्धिस्ततः स हर्षनिर्भरः त्वामेव नत्वा परिपूजयन्तः सन्तो यजन्ते मनसा स्मरन्तः । त्वय्येव भक्तिं परिकल्पयन्तो मुक्तिं भजन्ते परिवृत्तिहीना स्मरणात्सर्वकार्याणां सिद्धिदं च भविष्यति । मुनिरुवाच । एवमुक्त्वाऽस्थापयात्स गण्डकीयशिलाकृताम् सुवर्णरत्ननिचयैर्दक्षिणार्थ निवेदितैः । न दृश्यते देवमुखमिति चिन्तापराऽभवत् सुप्रसन्नाः प्रदास्यामि यत्ते मनसि वर्तते । मुक्ताफलैर्न रत्नैश्च द्रव्यैर्नानाविधैरहम् शमीपत्रैश्च पूजा ते कथिता तव लब्धये । मुनिप्रभावाद्दृष्टोऽसि तापत्रयनिवारण हर्षिता दुःखिता देव विरहान्नगरं स्वकम् । नानाध्वजपताकाभिः सेकैर्धूपैरलङकृतम् अभिषेचनीयसंभारान्कृत्वाहूय वरान्द्विजान् । सुहृदः सर्वैः राजन्यानभिषेकं सुते ददौ तस्मात्त्वयाऽपि पूज्योऽहं शमीमन्दारतो मुने। भक्त्या समर्पितं पुष्पं पत्रमिष्टं सुधायते महाप्रलयवेलायां तिष्ठत्येवाविनाशि यत् । तत्पीठं तस्य देवस्य निद्रास्थानं सनातनम् क उवाच । तीर्थयात्राप्रसंगेन मुद्गलस्तं नृपं ययौ । स पूजयित्वा पप्रच्छ सर्वज्ञं तं मुनिं नृपः ततो बहुतिथे कालेऽवतीर्णोऽसौ विनायकः। कश्यपस्य गृहे यो वै लीलाविग्रहवान्विभुः उपवेश्यासन पश्चात्संपूज्य च यथाविधि । बद्धांजलिरुवाचाथ धन्यो वंशोजनुर्मम गहना गतिरत्यन्तमस्य लोकस्य भूपते । दिव्यलोकेति नामास्य निजलोकेति चापरम् द्वादशारं तु वैकुण्ठं तत्र विष्णुः सदा स्थितः । कण्ठाब्जे पंचवक्त्रोऽसौ कैलासे सगणो यथा स्वानन्दभवनं भाति यत्र काञ्चनरत्नजाः । असंख्याता गृहा भान्ति भास्वरा गजमौक्तिकाः तेजोवती ज्वालिनी च शक्ती पर्यङकपार्श्वयोः । सहस्रादित्यसङकाशे तिष्ठतो नृप सर्वदा

śiva uvāca | paṃcānāmapi bhūtānāṃ kāraṇānāṃ ca kāraṇam | cidānandaghano viśvadhyeyo vedāntagocaraḥ bahiṣkṛtya divodāsaṃ janapāpavibhāginam | muniruvāca | ityuktvā śivamānamya pārvatīṃ ca ṣaḍānanam yadyadyena ca saṃbhukta bhokṣyamāṇaṃ ca tatkṣaṇāt prakṣālya caraṇadvandvaṃ taddarśanasuvihvalāḥ | kasturīcandanaṃ tasya śarīre paryamardayan tato jagāda ḍhuṇḍhistaṃ prapañcarahito nṛpam| strīputrakanyāgārādi tyakvāya vārāṇasīmagām gṛtsamada uvāca | evaṃ tena sarva janāḥ kāśisthāḥ svavaśīkṛtāḥ | tyaktvā sarvāṇi karmāṇi tameva parisevire brāhmaṇānapi saṃtyajya brubhujurbhogamuttamam | tatpatnī kamalā nāma pūrayantī manorathān puṇyavadbhiriha stheyaṃ mṛtau mokṣamabhīpsubhiḥ | pāpātmāno bhairaveṇa kriyante bahireva ca muniruvāca | ityuktaḥ paramātmā'sau proktavānnṛpasattamam| viśveśvara prasādācca tavāpi rājasattama jyotirvidā gaṇeśena tyaktaṃ rājyaṃ nṛpeṇa te | śīghramāyāhi viśveśa nijāṃ vārāṇasīṃ purīm dūtaṃ ca preṣayāmāsa śīghamāgamyatāmiti | śaṃkarāya mahābuddhistataḥ sa harṣanirbharaḥ tvāmeva natvā paripūjayantaḥ santo yajante manasā smarantaḥ | tvayyeva bhaktiṃ parikalpayanto muktiṃ bhajante parivṛttihīnā smaraṇātsarvakāryāṇāṃ siddhidaṃ ca bhaviṣyati | muniruvāca | evamuktvā'sthāpayātsa gaṇḍakīyaśilākṛtām suvarṇaratnanicayairdakṣiṇārtha niveditaiḥ | na dṛśyate devamukhamiti cintāparā'bhavat suprasannāḥ pradāsyāmi yatte manasi vartate | muktāphalairna ratnaiśca dravyairnānāvidhairaham śamīpatraiśca pūjā te kathitā tava labdhaye | muniprabhāvāddṛṣṭo'si tāpatrayanivāraṇa harṣitā duḥkhitā deva virahānnagaraṃ svakam | nānādhvajapatākābhiḥ sekairdhūpairalaṅakṛtam abhiṣecanīyasaṃbhārānkṛtvāhūya varāndvijān | suhṛdaḥ sarvaiḥ rājanyānabhiṣekaṃ sute dadau tasmāttvayā'pi pūjyo'haṃ śamīmandārato mune| bhaktyā samarpitaṃ puṣpaṃ patramiṣṭaṃ sudhāyate mahāpralayavelāyāṃ tiṣṭhatyevāvināśi yat | tatpīṭhaṃ tasya devasya nidrāsthānaṃ sanātanam ka uvāca | tīrthayātrāprasaṃgena mudgalastaṃ nṛpaṃ yayau | sa pūjayitvā papraccha sarvajñaṃ taṃ muniṃ nṛpaḥ tato bahutithe kāle'vatīrṇo'sau vināyakaḥ| kaśyapasya gṛhe yo vai līlāvigrahavānvibhuḥ upaveśyāsana paścātsaṃpūjya ca yathāvidhi | baddhāṃjaliruvācātha dhanyo vaṃśojanurmama gahanā gatiratyantamasya lokasya bhūpate | divyaloketi nāmāsya nijaloketi cāparam dvādaśāraṃ tu vaikuṇṭhaṃ tatra viṣṇuḥ sadā sthitaḥ | kaṇṭhābje paṃcavaktro'sau kailāse sagaṇo yathā svānandabhavanaṃ bhāti yatra kāñcanaratnajāḥ | asaṃkhyātā gṛhā bhānti bhāsvarā gajamauktikāḥ tejovatī jvālinī ca śaktī paryaṅakapārśvayoḥ | sahasrādityasaṅakāśe tiṣṭhato nṛpa sarvadā

Śiva said: (He is) the cause of the five elements and of the causes too, dense with consciousness and bliss, to be meditated on by all, within the range of Vedānta. Having expelled Divodāsa, who has a share in the people's sin — The sage said: Having said this and bowed to Śiva and to Pārvatī and the six-faced one; whatever was being eaten by whomever, and whatever was about to be eaten, at that instant. Having washed his two feet, quite overwhelmed at the sight of him, they rubbed musk and sandal on his body. Then Ḍhuṇḍhi, free of the manifold, spoke to that king. Abandoning wife, sons, daughter, house and the rest, he went to Vārāṇasī. Gṛtsamada said: Thus by him all the people dwelling in Kāśī were brought under his sway; abandoning all their rites, they served him alone. Forsaking even the brahmins, they enjoyed the highest enjoyment. His wife, named Kamalā, fulfilling wishes — Here the meritorious should dwell, by those who desire liberation at death; but the sinful are put outside by Bhairava. The sage said: Thus addressed, that Supreme Self spoke to the best of kings: "And by the grace of Viśveśvara, O best of kings, for you too..." "The kingdom has been abandoned by that king of yours at the word of Gaṇeśa, knower of the stars; come quickly, O Viśveśa, to your own city Vārāṇasī." And that one of great intellect sent a messenger to Śaṃkara saying "Let him come quickly"; then he, filled with joy — Bowing to you alone and worshipping you, the good offer sacrifice, remembering you with the mind; fixing devotion in you alone, they obtain liberation, free from return. And from remembrance (of him) there will be the granting of success in all undertakings. The sage said: Having spoken thus, he installed (the image) fashioned of Gaṇḍakī stone. With heaps of gold and jewels presented as the fee — "the god's face is not to be seen": so she became given over to anxiety. Well pleased, I shall grant what is in your mind. Not with pearls, nor with jewels, nor with substances of many kinds do I (worship you); with śamī leaves your worship has been declared, for the gaining of you. By the sage's power you have been seen, O remover of the three afflictions. Joyful, and grieved, O god, from separation, (she went to) her own city, adorned with many flags and banners, with sprinklings and incense. Having prepared the materials for the consecration and summoned excellent brahmins and friends, he gave the consecration to his son among all the princes. Therefore I too am to be worshipped by you with śamī and mandāra, O sage; a flower or leaf offered with devotion becomes as nectar. That which stands imperishable even at the time of the great dissolution — that is the seat of that god, his eternal place of sleep. Ka said: In the course of a pilgrimage Mudgala came to that king; the king, having worshipped him, questioned that all-knowing sage. Then, after a long time, that Vināyaka descended, the lord who bears a body for play, in the house of Kaśyapa. Having seated him on a seat and then worshipped him duly, with folded hands he said: Blessed is my birth in (my) lineage. Exceedingly deep is the course of this world, O king; one name of it is Divyaloka and the other is Nijaloka. Vaikuṇṭha has twelve spokes; there Viṣṇu always abides. In the lotus of the throat is that five-faced one, as on Kailāsa with his hosts. The Svānandabhavana shines, where countless houses made of gold and jewels shine, radiant, with elephant-pearls. Tejovatī and Jvālinī, the two śaktis, stand always at the two sides of the couch, O king, resembling a thousand suns.

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GnP 2 46.3

प्रधानं पुरुषश्चासि गुणत्रयविभागकृत् । विश्वव्यापी विश्वनिधिर्विश्वरक्षणतत्परः भूतं भव्यं विप्रकृष्टं भविष्यं च विवृण्वता । ततो विष्णुर्बौद्धरूपी पंचक्रोशाद्बहिः स्थितः आरुह्य वृषभं देवो ययौ वाराणसीं पुरीम् । दिव्यवादित्रनिर्घोषैः स्वगणैः परिवारितः ढुण्ढिनाम जपन्तौ तौ नृपपत्नीसुतावुभौ । ज्ञात्वा गतौ नृयानेन सेनया वाद्यनिस्वनैः नृप उवाच । विनायकस्य लोकः कः प्राप्यते स कथं मया। मुनिरुवाच । स्वानन्दभुवनेत्येवं निजलोकेति च द्वयम्

pradhānaṃ puruṣaścāsi guṇatrayavibhāgakṛt | viśvavyāpī viśvanidhirviśvarakṣaṇatatparaḥ bhūtaṃ bhavyaṃ viprakṛṣṭaṃ bhaviṣyaṃ ca vivṛṇvatā | tato viṣṇurbauddharūpī paṃcakrośādbahiḥ sthitaḥ āruhya vṛṣabhaṃ devo yayau vārāṇasīṃ purīm | divyavāditranirghoṣaiḥ svagaṇaiḥ parivāritaḥ ḍhuṇḍhināma japantau tau nṛpapatnīsutāvubhau | jñātvā gatau nṛyānena senayā vādyanisvanaiḥ nṛpa uvāca | vināyakasya lokaḥ kaḥ prāpyate sa kathaṃ mayā| muniruvāca | svānandabhuvanetyevaṃ nijaloketi ca dvayam

You are pradhāna and puruṣa, the maker of the division of the three guṇas, pervading the universe, the treasury of the universe, intent on protecting the universe. By (him) who reveals what has been, what is to come, what is remote, and what will be. Then Viṣṇu, in Buddhist form, stood outside the five krośas. Mounting the bull, the god went to the city of Vārāṇasī, surrounded by his own hosts with the sound of divine instruments. Those two, the king's wife and his son, both muttering the name of Ḍhuṇḍhi — knowing (this), they went by human conveyance with the army and the sounds of music. The king said: What is Vināyaka's world, and how is it to be attained by me? The sage said: "Svānandabhuvana" and likewise "Nijaloka" — these two (names).

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GnP 2 46.4

नानावतारकृच्चासि भूभारहरणोद्यतः । देवानां पालने शक्तो दैत्यानां निधने तथा आगत्य मायया मोहं जनयन्सर्वदेहिनाम् । श्रुतिस्मृतिविरुद्धं सोऽपाठीद्धर्मवृषं द्विषन् जैगीषव्यं निराहारं वल्मीकमिव संस्थितम् । अनुगृहय ययौ दुण्ढिं प्रणम्य च उवाच तम् आनिन्ये नगरं कर्णपुरं नाम्ना सुविश्रुतम् । मूर्ध्न्याघ्रायाशु तनयं सस्वजे परमादरात् वैनायकस्य लोकस्य विख्यातम् नाम वर्तते । उत्पत्स्यते यदा दैत्यौ देवान्तकनरान्तकौ

nānāvatārakṛccāsi bhūbhāraharaṇodyataḥ | devānāṃ pālane śakto daityānāṃ nidhane tathā āgatya māyayā mohaṃ janayansarvadehinām | śrutismṛtiviruddhaṃ so'pāṭhīddharmavṛṣaṃ dviṣan jaigīṣavyaṃ nirāhāraṃ valmīkamiva saṃsthitam | anugṛhaya yayau duṇḍhiṃ praṇamya ca uvāca tam āninye nagaraṃ karṇapuraṃ nāmnā suviśrutam | mūrdhnyāghrāyāśu tanayaṃ sasvaje paramādarāt vaināyakasya lokasya vikhyātam nāma vartate | utpatsyate yadā daityau devāntakanarāntakau

And you are the maker of many incarnations, intent on removing the earth's burden, able to protect the gods and likewise to slay the demons. Having come, by his māyā he produced delusion in all embodied beings; hating the bull of dharma, he taught what is contrary to śruti and smṛti. Having favoured Jaigīṣavya, who was without food and stood like an anthill, he went to Ḍhuṇḍhi and, bowing, spoke to him. He brought (him) to the city well known by the name Karṇapura; quickly kissing his son's head, he embraced him with the greatest reverence. The name of Vaināyaka's world is renowned. When the two demons Devāntaka and Narāntaka shall be born —

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GnP 2 46.5

द्विजानां चैव धर्माणामार्तानां शरणैषिणाम् । स्वेच्छया पत्यतां याते त्वयि ब्रह्मस्वरूपिणि सोऽपि स्ववचनात्सर्वान्वशं चक्रे महाजनान् । साकारभजनं सर्वं दूषयामास सादरम् शिव उवाच । त्वमेव विश्वेश्वर विश्वरूप विश्वं सृजस्यत्सि हि पासि देव । शुभाशुभं कर्म निरिक्ष्य तस्य ददासि भोगं विविधं गणेश उवाच परमप्रीतो हर्षगद्गदया गिरा । क्षिप्रप्रसादन सुत श्रान्तोऽसि बहुवासरम् विनायकोऽपि तौ हन्तुं मानुषेऽवतरिष्यति । स तु बालकरूपेण लीला अद्भुतविक्रमाः

dvijānāṃ caiva dharmāṇāmārtānāṃ śaraṇaiṣiṇām | svecchayā patyatāṃ yāte tvayi brahmasvarūpiṇi so'pi svavacanātsarvānvaśaṃ cakre mahājanān | sākārabhajanaṃ sarvaṃ dūṣayāmāsa sādaram śiva uvāca | tvameva viśveśvara viśvarūpa viśvaṃ sṛjasyatsi hi pāsi deva | śubhāśubhaṃ karma nirikṣya tasya dadāsi bhogaṃ vividhaṃ gaṇeśa uvāca paramaprīto harṣagadgadayā girā | kṣipraprasādana suta śrānto'si bahuvāsaram vināyako'pi tau hantuṃ mānuṣe'vatariṣyati | sa tu bālakarūpeṇa līlā adbhutavikramāḥ

When you, whose nature is Brahman, have gone of your own will (for the sake) of the brahmins, of the dharmas, and of the afflicted who seek refuge — he too by his own words brought all the great folk under his sway; he respectfully condemned all worship of the god with form. Śiva said: You alone, O Viśveśvara, of universal form, create, devour and protect the universe, O god; and observing his good and bad deeds, you grant him manifold experience. Gaṇeśa, greatly pleased, said with a voice choked with joy: O son, quick to be gracious, you are weary for many days. Vināyaka too will descend among men to slay those two; and he, in the form of a boy, (will perform) sports of wondrous valour.

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GnP 2 46.6

कमन्यं षं शरणं यामि काशीविरहदुःखितः । ढुण्ढिरुवाच । अन्यानेव प्रेषयसि सर्वविद्याविशारदान् किमर्थं पार्थिवीं मूर्तिरर्च्यते तैजसीरपि । सर्वो जनो मूढमनाः परात्मनि हृदि स्थिते ब्रह्मापि सृष्टिं कुरुतेंगितात्ते तद्रक्षणं चैव हरिस्थताऽहम् । संहारकारीह चराचरस्य विभागकृत्यं हि गुणत्रयस्य दृष्ट्वा त्वां परमाह्लादं प्राप्तो लब्ध्वा सुधामिव । विससर्जाखिलाँल्लोकान्दत्त्वा वस्त्राणि दक्षिणाः करिष्यति नृलोकेऽस्मिन्स्वेच्छाचारी महाबलः। शुक्लस्य भक्तियुक्तस्य दरिद्रस्य गृहे यदा

kamanyaṃ ṣaṃ śaraṇaṃ yāmi kāśīvirahaduḥkhitaḥ | ḍhuṇḍhiruvāca | anyāneva preṣayasi sarvavidyāviśāradān kimarthaṃ pārthivīṃ mūrtirarcyate taijasīrapi | sarvo jano mūḍhamanāḥ parātmani hṛdi sthite brahmāpi sṛṣṭiṃ kuruteṃgitātte tadrakṣaṇaṃ caiva haristhatā'ham | saṃhārakārīha carācarasya vibhāgakṛtyaṃ hi guṇatrayasya dṛṣṭvā tvāṃ paramāhlādaṃ prāpto labdhvā sudhāmiva | visasarjākhilā~llokāndattvā vastrāṇi dakṣiṇāḥ kariṣyati nṛloke'sminsvecchācārī mahābalaḥ| śuklasya bhaktiyuktasya daridrasya gṛhe yadā

To what other refuge shall I go, grieved by separation from Kāśī? Ḍhuṇḍhi said: You send only others, skilled in all branches of knowledge. Why is an earthen image worshipped, and fiery ones too? Every person is deluded in mind, while the supreme Self dwells in the heart. Brahmā too performs creation at your hint, and Hari its protection; and I am the one who works destruction here of the moving and the unmoving; and the work of dividing the three guṇas indeed. Seeing you he attained the highest delight, as though he had obtained nectar; he dismissed all the people, giving them garments and gifts. He of great strength, acting at his own will, will act in this world of men; when, in the house of poor Śukla, who is full of devotion —

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GnP 2 46.7

सर्वदर्शी कियर्थं त्वं मोहमेषि सदाशिव । शिव उवाच । इदानीमेव गच्छ त्वमविमुक्तं गजानन वृक्षाणां जीवतां छेदः पशूनामपि हिंसनम् । कुरुते स्वस्य वित्तानि परस्मै यः प्रयच्छति तव प्रसादाद्धरिरब्जजोऽपि शिवश्च शक्तो निजकर्मसिद्ध्यै । त्वया विना वेदविधिर्वृथा स्यात्त्वदीयशक्त्या सुरशत्रुनाशः कीर्तिश्च स नृपः पश्चात्परस्परमथोचतुः । साऽपि सर्वं नृपायास्मै वृत्तान्तं संन्यवेदयत् भुक्त्वा दत्त्वामोघलक्ष्मीं शुक्लायेन्द्रस्य दुर्लभाम् । विवाहार्थं समानीतो दर्शयिष्यति पौरुषम्

sarvadarśī kiyarthaṃ tvaṃ mohameṣi sadāśiva | śiva uvāca | idānīmeva gaccha tvamavimuktaṃ gajānana vṛkṣāṇāṃ jīvatāṃ chedaḥ paśūnāmapi hiṃsanam | kurute svasya vittāni parasmai yaḥ prayacchati tava prasādāddharirabjajo'pi śivaśca śakto nijakarmasiddhyai | tvayā vinā vedavidhirvṛthā syāttvadīyaśaktyā suraśatrunāśaḥ kīrtiśca sa nṛpaḥ paścātparasparamathocatuḥ | sā'pi sarvaṃ nṛpāyāsmai vṛttāntaṃ saṃnyavedayat bhuktvā dattvāmoghalakṣmīṃ śuklāyendrasya durlabhām | vivāhārthaṃ samānīto darśayiṣyati pauruṣam

Why, all-seeing one, do you fall into delusion, O Sadāśiva? Śiva said: Go this very moment, O elephant-faced one, to Avimukta. There is the cutting of living trees, and the killing of animals too; he who gives his own wealth away to another. By your grace Hari, and the lotus-born, and Śiva are able to accomplish their own work; without you the Vedic ordinance would be in vain; by your power comes the destruction of the gods' foes, and fame. That king afterwards — then the two spoke to each other; and she reported the whole matter to this king. Having enjoyed, and given to Śukla the unfailing Lakṣmī, hard for Indra to obtain, brought for the sake of marriage, he will display his manhood.

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GnP 2 46.8

दिवोदासस्य विघ्नार्थं मम कार्यार्थसिद्धये । मायया मोहय जनं पुण्यं येनास्य हीयते नष्टे देहे तु भूतानि लीयन्ते पंचपंचसु । स्वयमेव हि भोक्तव्यं पक्वान्नं सघृतं मुदा अनन्तशक्तिः प्रकृतिः पुरा त्वां समर्च्य दुष्टं महिषं जघान । यच्छ्वासनिर्धूतनगप्रपातभीतं जगत्कृत्स्नमिदं ररक्ष परस्परालिंगनचुम्बनानि हास्यं विनोदं परिचक्रतुस्तौ । ताम्बूलविच्छेदमपि प्रहर्षात्कामस्य युद्धं निरपत्रपौ च यदा ते गृहमागच्छेत्तदा तद्भक्तितो नृप । काशीराज महाबाहो निजलोकमवाप्स्यसि

divodāsasya vighnārthaṃ mama kāryārthasiddhaye | māyayā mohaya janaṃ puṇyaṃ yenāsya hīyate naṣṭe dehe tu bhūtāni līyante paṃcapaṃcasu | svayameva hi bhoktavyaṃ pakvānnaṃ saghṛtaṃ mudā anantaśaktiḥ prakṛtiḥ purā tvāṃ samarcya duṣṭaṃ mahiṣaṃ jaghāna | yacchvāsanirdhūtanagaprapātabhītaṃ jagatkṛtsnamidaṃ rarakṣa parasparāliṃganacumbanāni hāsyaṃ vinodaṃ paricakratustau | tāmbūlavicchedamapi praharṣātkāmasya yuddhaṃ nirapatrapau ca yadā te gṛhamāgacchettadā tadbhaktito nṛpa | kāśīrāja mahābāho nijalokamavāpsyasi

For the obstruction of Divodāsa and for the accomplishment of my purpose, delude the people by māyā, whereby his merit is diminished. When the body has perished, the elements dissolve into the five times five; cooked food with ghee is to be eaten by oneself with gladness. Prakṛti of infinite power, having formerly worshipped you, slew the wicked buffalo; she protected this whole world, which was terrified by the falling of mountains shaken by his breath. The two of them performed mutual embracings and kissings, laughter and amusement, and out of great joy the breaking of betel too, and the shameless battle of love. When he comes to your house, then through devotion to him, O king of Kāśī, mighty-armed one, you will attain his own world.

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GnP 2 46.9

ढुण्ढिरुवाच । यामि शीघ्रं महादेव न चिन्तां कर्तुमर्हसि । साधयिष्ये तव हितं दर्शयिष्ये निजां पुरीम् देहात्मा परिपूज्योऽसौ नानाभोगैर्यथासुखम् । ततः सर्वे जनाः स्वं स्वं मार्गं मुक्त्वा तथाऽभवन् त्वमप्रमेयोऽखिललोकसाक्षी त्वमव्ययः कारणकारणं च । वेदा विकुण्ठास्त्वयि सर्व एव शेषो धराभृत्तव भक्तितोहि ततः कतिपयाहस्सु ज्ञात्वा पुत्रं गुणाकरम् । विनीतं सर्वधर्मज्ञं नीतिशास्त्रविशारदम् क उवाच । एवमुक्त्वा गते तस्मिन्काशीराजो महामतिः । गणेशभक्तिं कुर्वाणः कालाकाङ्क्षी बभूव ह

ḍhuṇḍhiruvāca | yāmi śīghraṃ mahādeva na cintāṃ kartumarhasi | sādhayiṣye tava hitaṃ darśayiṣye nijāṃ purīm dehātmā paripūjyo'sau nānābhogairyathāsukham | tataḥ sarve janāḥ svaṃ svaṃ mārgaṃ muktvā tathā'bhavan tvamaprameyo'khilalokasākṣī tvamavyayaḥ kāraṇakāraṇaṃ ca | vedā vikuṇṭhāstvayi sarva eva śeṣo dharābhṛttava bhaktitohi tataḥ katipayāhassu jñātvā putraṃ guṇākaram | vinītaṃ sarvadharmajñaṃ nītiśāstraviśāradam ka uvāca | evamuktvā gate tasminkāśīrājo mahāmatiḥ | gaṇeśabhaktiṃ kurvāṇaḥ kālākāṅkṣī babhūva ha

Ḍhuṇḍhi said: I go at once, O Mahādeva; you need not worry. I shall bring about your welfare, I shall show you your own city. That embodied self is to be fully worshipped with various enjoyments, at ease. Then all the people, abandoning each his own path, became so. You are immeasurable, the witness of all worlds, imperishable, the cause of causes; the Vedas and the Vaikuṇṭhas are all in you; Śeṣa bears the earth through devotion to you. Then after some days, knowing his son to be a mine of virtues, modest, knowing all dharma, skilled in the science of polity — Ka said: Having spoken thus, when he had gone, the king of Kāśī of great mind, practising devotion to Gaṇeśa, waited for the time.

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GnP 2 46.11

प्रदक्षिणीकृत्य तथा नारदे गुरुमेव च । प्रस्थितोऽखिलविद्यानां कलानां च निधिर्विभुः स्थिता वाराणसीवासिर्स्त्रियः सर्वा व्यमोहयत् । बोधयामास यत्नेन दुष्टमार्गं दिनेदिने अपेकरूपांघ्रिविलोचन त्वमनेकशीर्षश्रुतिबाहुजिह्वः। अनन्तविज्ञानघनो ह्यनेकब्रह्माण्डहेतुः परमप्रकाशः शुभे मुहूर्ते संलग्ने सप्तेष्टग्रहसंयुते । कृत्वाऽभ्युदयिकं श्राद्धं स्वस्तिवाचनपूर्वकम् हता नानाविधा दैत्याः क्रीडा नानाविधाः कृताः । दारिद्र्यं हृतवान्सद्यः शुक्लस्यादन्गृहे तदा

pradakṣiṇīkṛtya tathā nārade gurumeva ca | prasthito'khilavidyānāṃ kalānāṃ ca nidhirvibhuḥ sthitā vārāṇasīvāsirstriyaḥ sarvā vyamohayat | bodhayāmāsa yatnena duṣṭamārgaṃ dinedine apekarūpāṃghrivilocana tvamanekaśīrṣaśrutibāhujihvaḥ| anantavijñānaghano hyanekabrahmāṇḍahetuḥ paramaprakāśaḥ śubhe muhūrte saṃlagne sapteṣṭagrahasaṃyute | kṛtvā'bhyudayikaṃ śrāddhaṃ svastivācanapūrvakam hatā nānāvidhā daityāḥ krīḍā nānāvidhāḥ kṛtāḥ | dāridryaṃ hṛtavānsadyaḥ śuklasyādangṛhe tadā

Having circumambulated Nārada and likewise his teacher, the lord, the treasury of all knowledge and of the arts, set out. He deluded all the women who dwelt in Vārāṇasī; day by day he diligently taught the evil path. You are of many forms, feet and eyes, of many heads, ears, arms and tongues; dense with infinite knowledge, the cause of many universes, the supreme light. At an auspicious moment, when the lagna was joined with seven favourable planets, having performed the ābhyudayika śrāddha preceded by the recitation of benedictions — demons of many kinds were slain, sports of many kinds were performed; he then at once took away poverty in Śukla's house.

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GnP 2 46.12

प्राप वाराणसीं पुण्यां पुण्यमवास्य दृष्टवान् । ज्योतिर्विदभवत्सद्यस्तस्य पापमलक्ष्य सः भिद्यन्ते बुद्धयस्तेषां पुरग्रामनिवासिनाम्। स्वदेहे भर्तृदेहे योऽन्यस्य देहे स एव तु तव प्रसादादविमुक्तमेतद्दृष्टं चिराद्यत्नवताऽखिलेश । मुनिरुवाच । एवं स्तुत्वा पूज्य प्रार्थयामास शंकरः नानाद्रव्ययुतस्तोयैरभिषेकमकारयत् । नदत्सु सर्वतुर्येषु ऋग्यजुस्साममन्त्रतः काशिराजस्य भवनं पुनरागान्महाबलः । हतौ महाबलौ दैत्यौ देवान्तकनरान्तकौ

prāpa vārāṇasīṃ puṇyāṃ puṇyamavāsya dṛṣṭavān | jyotirvidabhavatsadyastasya pāpamalakṣya saḥ bhidyante buddhayasteṣāṃ puragrāmanivāsinām| svadehe bhartṛdehe yo'nyasya dehe sa eva tu tava prasādādavimuktametaddṛṣṭaṃ cirādyatnavatā'khileśa | muniruvāca | evaṃ stutvā pūjya prārthayāmāsa śaṃkaraḥ nānādravyayutastoyairabhiṣekamakārayat | nadatsu sarvaturyeṣu ṛgyajussāmamantrataḥ kāśirājasya bhavanaṃ punarāgānmahābalaḥ | hatau mahābalau daityau devāntakanarāntakau

He reached holy Vārāṇasī, and having obtained merit he beheld (it). He at once became an astrologer, having marked his sin. The minds of those city- and village-dwellers are split apart. In one's own body, in the husband's body, in another's body, it is the very same (self). By your grace this Avimukta has been seen at last by me who strove, O lord of all. The sage said: Having thus praised and worshipped him, Śaṃkara prayed. He had the consecration performed with waters mixed with many substances, while all the drums sounded, with the mantras of the Ṛg, Yajus and Sāman. The mighty one came again to the palace of the king of Kāśī; the two mighty demons Devāntaka and Narāntaka were slain.

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GnP 2 46.13

न भिद्यते पुमान्यद्वन्मुखनासाकरादिभिः । तथात्मा नैव भिद्येत देहैरेतैश्चतुविधैः । एवं प्रलोभिताः कान्ताः पुंसोऽन्यानपि भेजिरे गतं विरहदुःख मे प्राप्य वाराणसीं पुरीम् । इदानीं सर्वदा रक्ष मद्भक्तांश्च पुरीमिमाम् पुनः संतोष्य ब्राह्मणानन्यान्दक्षिणारत्नदानतः । स्वयं च वनवासीयदीक्षां गृह्य च पृच्छ्य च स्वानन्दभवनं यातः क्षीरसागरमध्यगम् । काशीराजस्तु विरहाच्चिन्तयन्सर्वदा तु तम्

na bhidyate pumānyadvanmukhanāsākarādibhiḥ | tathātmā naiva bhidyeta dehairetaiścatuvidhaiḥ | evaṃ pralobhitāḥ kāntāḥ puṃso'nyānapi bhejire gataṃ virahaduḥkha me prāpya vārāṇasīṃ purīm | idānīṃ sarvadā rakṣa madbhaktāṃśca purīmimām punaḥ saṃtoṣya brāhmaṇānanyāndakṣiṇāratnadānataḥ | svayaṃ ca vanavāsīyadīkṣāṃ gṛhya ca pṛcchya ca svānandabhavanaṃ yātaḥ kṣīrasāgaramadhyagam | kāśīrājastu virahāccintayansarvadā tu tam

Just as a man is not divided up by his mouth, nose, hands and so on, so the self is not divided by these four kinds of bodies. Thus enticed, the wives resorted to other men as well. My grief of separation is gone, now that I have reached the city of Vārāṇasī; now protect always my devotees and this city. Having again satisfied other brahmins with gifts of fees and jewels, and having himself taken the vow of forest-dwelling, and having asked (leave), he went to Svānandabhavana, which lies in the midst of the ocean of milk; but the king of Kāśī, out of separation, thought of him constantly.

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GnP 2 46.14

रुक्मकान्तिर्दिव्यदेहो मुक्तामालाविभूषितः । कटिसूत्रं च नाभौ तु महारत्नविभूषितम् ब्राह्मणा अग्निहोत्रेषु यज्ञेषु शिथिलादराः । व्रते दाने च होमे च देवब्राह्मणपूजने विना प्रसादं ते न स्यात्काशीवासः कदाचन । दण्डपाणेर्भैरवस्य तेऽपि यस्य कृपा भवेत् विससर्जाखिलान्राजा निजसाधनसंस्थितः । ततः परशुबाहुः स प्रशशास महीमिमाम् आलिंगति नरं कंच्चिदयमेव विनायकः । इति मत्वा सभामध्ये सर्वं तादात्मकं जगत्

rukmakāntirdivyadeho muktāmālāvibhūṣitaḥ | kaṭisūtraṃ ca nābhau tu mahāratnavibhūṣitam brāhmaṇā agnihotreṣu yajñeṣu śithilādarāḥ | vrate dāne ca home ca devabrāhmaṇapūjane vinā prasādaṃ te na syātkāśīvāsaḥ kadācana | daṇḍapāṇerbhairavasya te'pi yasya kṛpā bhavet visasarjākhilānrājā nijasādhanasaṃsthitaḥ | tataḥ paraśubāhuḥ sa praśaśāsa mahīmimām āliṃgati naraṃ kaṃccidayameva vināyakaḥ | iti matvā sabhāmadhye sarvaṃ tādātmakaṃ jagat

Of golden radiance, of divine body, adorned with pearl garlands, and with a girdle at the navel set with great jewels. The brahmins became slack in reverence for the agnihotra rites and the sacrifices, for vows, giving, oblation, and the worship of gods and brahmins. Without your grace there can never be residence in Kāśī; of Daṇḍapāṇi, of Bhairava — they too, on whom his grace should come. The king dismissed them all and established himself in his own practice. Then he of the axe-arm ruled this earth. "This very Vināyaka is embracing some man": thinking thus, in the midst of the assembly (he saw) the whole world as one with him.

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GnP 2 46.15

पीतवस्त्रपरीधानो दिव्यगन्धानुलेपनः । कामातिसुन्दरतनुः कामिनीजनमोहनः पशूनां यज्ञियानां च छेदने संशयं दधुः । परस्परं गृहे जन्तोर्बुभजुर्भोगमुत्तमम् तारकं ब्रह्म तस्यान्ते दिशामि च न चान्यथा । माघे मासि चतुर्थ्यां यो भौमवारे विधूदये धर्मशास्त्रीयनीत्या च त्यागेन यश आर्जयत् । विख्यातस्त्रिषु लोकेषु पराक्रमबलादभूत् पश्यति स्म दिवारात्रौ सोऽपि तन्मयतामियात् । निराहारः कदाचित्स तिष्ठति स्म नृपस्तदा

pītavastraparīdhāno divyagandhānulepanaḥ | kāmātisundaratanuḥ kāminījanamohanaḥ paśūnāṃ yajñiyānāṃ ca chedane saṃśayaṃ dadhuḥ | parasparaṃ gṛhe jantorbubhajurbhogamuttamam tārakaṃ brahma tasyānte diśāmi ca na cānyathā | māghe māsi caturthyāṃ yo bhaumavāre vidhūdaye dharmaśāstrīyanītyā ca tyāgena yaśa ārjayat | vikhyātastriṣu lokeṣu parākramabalādabhūt paśyati sma divārātrau so'pi tanmayatāmiyāt | nirāhāraḥ kadācitsa tiṣṭhati sma nṛpastadā

Clad in yellow garments, anointed with divine perfumes, his body more beautiful than Kāma's, bewitching to women. They came to have doubts about the slaughter of sacrificial animals; in one another's houses they enjoyed the highest enjoyment. I impart the Tāraka-brahman at his end, and not otherwise. He who, in the month of Māgha, on the fourth day, on a Tuesday at moonrise — and by the rule of dharmaśāstra he won fame through renunciation; he became renowned in the three worlds by the strength of his valour. He kept seeing (him) day and night, and he too became absorbed in him; sometimes that king would remain without food.

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GnP 2 46.16

पतिव्रताश्च या नार्यश्चकमुस्ता अपि द्विजम् । मनसा चिन्तितं प्रश्नं वदति स्माखिलं तु सः स्वयमेव बुभुजिरे श्राद्धानि च व्रतानि च । एवं च धर्मलोपोऽभूदेनसो वृद्धिरेव च अपूपैर्मोदकैरन्यैरुपचारैः प्रपूजयेत् । संहृत्य तस्य संकष्टं स्तोत्रपाठेन यो नुयात् मन्दारमूर्तिं ढुण्ढैः स कृत्वा कंठे दधार ह । शमीं दूर्वां विना पूजां न करोति कदाचन ग्रासमात्रं कदाचित्स भुनक्ति च यथामति । कदाचिद्धसते क्वापि नृत्यति स्म नृपस्तदा

pativratāśca yā nāryaścakamustā api dvijam | manasā cintitaṃ praśnaṃ vadati smākhilaṃ tu saḥ svayameva bubhujire śrāddhāni ca vratāni ca | evaṃ ca dharmalopo'bhūdenaso vṛddhireva ca apūpairmodakairanyairupacāraiḥ prapūjayet | saṃhṛtya tasya saṃkaṣṭaṃ stotrapāṭhena yo nuyāt mandāramūrtiṃ ḍhuṇḍhaiḥ sa kṛtvā kaṃṭhe dadhāra ha | śamīṃ dūrvāṃ vinā pūjāṃ na karoti kadācana grāsamātraṃ kadācitsa bhunakti ca yathāmati | kadāciddhasate kvāpi nṛtyati sma nṛpastadā

Even those women who were devoted to their husbands desired the brahmin. He would declare in full the question (merely) thought in the mind. They themselves consumed the offerings for the dead and the (fruits of) vows; thus there came about a lapse of dharma and only an increase of sin. One should worship (him) with cakes, sweetmeats and other services; and whoever, having (had) his distress removed, praises (him) with recitation of the hymn — he made an image (of Ganesha) out of mandāra wood and wore it on his neck. He never performs worship without śamī and dūrvā; sometimes he eats a mere mouthful, as he sees fit; sometimes he laughs, and sometimes then the king would dance.

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GnP 2 46.17

अतः पतिव्रता नार्यः प्रश्नं प्रष्टुं तमन्वयुः । विहाय बालकान्भर्तृन्भ्रातृनन्यान्सुहृज्जनान् । स्वप्नान्वदति लोकानां स्वमायादर्शितानसौ ततो बौद्धो जगामाशु दिवोदासस्य मन्दिरम्। पूजितः परया भक्त्या स तेन स्वासने शुभे तस्यापि सकलान्कामान्यच्छ लक्ष्मीमनेकधा । य इदं प्रातरुत्थाय त्रिसन्ध्यं वापि भक्तितः नानाभोगाननेकाः स्त्रीर्बुभुजे धर्मतस्तु सः । उत्पाद्य पुत्रान्दानानि दत्त्वा वर्षसहस्रकम् निद्राति बहुकालं तं पश्यन्स्वप्ने विनायकम् । एवं नृपे स्थितेऽमात्याश्चिन्तामापुः सुदारुणाम्

ataḥ pativratā nāryaḥ praśnaṃ praṣṭuṃ tamanvayuḥ | vihāya bālakānbhartṛnbhrātṛnanyānsuhṛjjanān | svapnānvadati lokānāṃ svamāyādarśitānasau tato bauddho jagāmāśu divodāsasya mandiram| pūjitaḥ parayā bhaktyā sa tena svāsane śubhe tasyāpi sakalānkāmānyaccha lakṣmīmanekadhā | ya idaṃ prātarutthāya trisandhyaṃ vāpi bhaktitaḥ nānābhogānanekāḥ strīrbubhuje dharmatastu saḥ | utpādya putrāndānāni dattvā varṣasahasrakam nidrāti bahukālaṃ taṃ paśyansvapne vināyakam | evaṃ nṛpe sthite'mātyāścintāmāpuḥ sudāruṇām

Therefore the husband-devoted women followed him in order to ask a question, abandoning their children, husbands, brothers and other friends. He tells people their dreams, (dreams) shown by his own magic. Then the Buddhist went quickly to Divodāsa's palace; he was worshipped by him with the highest devotion on his own fine seat. "Grant him too all his desires, and wealth in many forms." Whoever, rising at dawn, or at the three junctures of the day, (recites) this with devotion — he enjoyed manifold pleasures and many women, yet in accordance with dharma; having begotten sons and given gifts for a thousand years, he sleeps for a long time, seeing Vināyaka in his dream. With the king in this state, the ministers fell into most dreadful anxiety.

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GnP 2 46.18

सेवतां सर्वलोकानां ददाति सुबहून्वरान् । तद्वरस्य प्रभावेण दुष्टः कुष्टो विनश्यति तत ऊचे दिवोदासं वाक्यं वाक्यविशारदः । बौद्ध उवाच । शृणु राजन्हितं वच्मि श्रुत्वा तत्कुरु सादरम् पठेत्स्तोत्रं सकृद्वापि भक्तिर्मुक्तिश्च तस्य च । अन्वेषयित्वा सर्वार्थान्विदधासि नृणामिह चकार राज्यं पश्चात्तत्पुत्रे न्यस्य दिवं ययौ । कल्पाननेकान्स्वर्गे स स्थितो दुण्ढिस्वरूपवान् यदि लोका विजानीयुः परचक्रं पतेत्तदा । एवं चिन्तयतां तेषाममात्यानां नृपालये

sevatāṃ sarvalokānāṃ dadāti subahūnvarān | tadvarasya prabhāveṇa duṣṭaḥ kuṣṭo vinaśyati tata ūce divodāsaṃ vākyaṃ vākyaviśāradaḥ | bauddha uvāca | śṛṇu rājanhitaṃ vacmi śrutvā tatkuru sādaram paṭhetstotraṃ sakṛdvāpi bhaktirmuktiśca tasya ca | anveṣayitvā sarvārthānvidadhāsi nṛṇāmiha cakāra rājyaṃ paścāttatputre nyasya divaṃ yayau | kalpānanekānsvarge sa sthito duṇḍhisvarūpavān yadi lokā vijānīyuḥ paracakraṃ patettadā | evaṃ cintayatāṃ teṣāmamātyānāṃ nṛpālaye

He gives very many boons to all the people who serve (him); by the power of that boon the evil leprosy is destroyed. Then the one skilled in speech spoke this word to Divodāsa. The Buddhist said: Listen, king, I speak what is good for you; having heard it, do it respectfully. Should one recite the hymn even once, devotion and liberation are his. Having sought out all their aims, you arrange them for men here. He ruled the kingdom, and afterwards, entrusting it to his son, went to heaven; for many kalpas he remained in heaven, having the form of Dhuṇḍhi. "If the people should find out, then an enemy army would descend (on us)." While those ministers were thinking thus in the king's palace —

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GnP 2 46.19

पुत्रिण्यः सर्ववन्ध्याश्च जातास्तद्वरदानतः । हस्तं दृष्ट्वा महाभाग्यं कर्माणि कथयत्यसौ इयं वाराणसी शूलभृता निर्मायि तेजसा । प्रलयेऽपि त्रिशूलाग्ने ध्रियते सर्वजन्तुभिः अतो ढुण्ढिरिति ख्यातस्त्रिलोक्यां त्वं भविष्यसि । ढुण्ढिरित्येव तं नाम मुक्तिदं पापनाशनम् । मुनिरुवाच । एवं शम्याः प्रभावस्ते संक्षेपेण निरूपितः। तत्पूजनस्य पुण्यं च मन्दारस्य प्रसंगतः तदैव मुद्गलो ध्यानं विसृज्य नृपतिं ययौ। तद्दर्शनप्राप्तबोधः प्रणनाम नृपो मुनिम्

putriṇyaḥ sarvavandhyāśca jātāstadvaradānataḥ | hastaṃ dṛṣṭvā mahābhāgyaṃ karmāṇi kathayatyasau iyaṃ vārāṇasī śūlabhṛtā nirmāyi tejasā | pralaye'pi triśūlāgne dhriyate sarvajantubhiḥ ato ḍhuṇḍhiriti khyātastrilokyāṃ tvaṃ bhaviṣyasi | ḍhuṇḍhirityeva taṃ nāma muktidaṃ pāpanāśanam | muniruvāca | evaṃ śamyāḥ prabhāvaste saṃkṣepeṇa nirūpitaḥ| tatpūjanasya puṇyaṃ ca mandārasya prasaṃgataḥ tadaiva mudgalo dhyānaṃ visṛjya nṛpatiṃ yayau| taddarśanaprāptabodhaḥ praṇanāma nṛpo munim

Women who were altogether barren became mothers of sons through his granting of boons. Looking at the hand he declares great good fortune and (past) deeds. This Vārāṇasī was fashioned by the trident-bearer out of his own splendour; even at the dissolution it is held on the trident's point together with all creatures. Therefore you shall be renowned in the three worlds as Dhuṇḍhi; that very name Dhuṇḍhi bestows liberation and destroys sin. The sage said: Thus the power of the śamī has been set forth to you in brief, and the merit of its worship, and incidentally that of the mandāra. At that very moment Mudgala, releasing his meditation, went to the king; and the king, awakened by the sight of him, bowed to the sage.

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GnP 2 46.21

विस्मितो नगरे लोकः सर्व आसीन्मुदान्वितः । नेदृशो ब्राह्मणोऽदर्शि सर्ववेत्ता गुणाकरः रक्षणं पुण्यकर्तॄणां क्रियते तेन तेन च । तव पुण्यं स्थितं यावत्तावदत्र स्थितो भवान् मूर्तिं ढुण्ढेर्महादेवः प्रासादे चारुनिर्मिते । ततो विवेश भवनं सर्वे देवाः स्वमन्दिरम् निषिद्धपत्रपुष्पादि समर्प्य नरकं व्रजेत् । यस्य यद्दैवतं मुख्यं तदिष्टमितरेषु वा पितरौ मन्दिरं नेत्रे धन्यं त्वद्दर्शनान्मुने । यत्प्रसादात्परं स्थानं संसारतारणं नृणाम्

vismito nagare lokaḥ sarva āsīnmudānvitaḥ | nedṛśo brāhmaṇo'darśi sarvavettā guṇākaraḥ rakṣaṇaṃ puṇyakartṝṇāṃ kriyate tena tena ca | tava puṇyaṃ sthitaṃ yāvattāvadatra sthito bhavān mūrtiṃ ḍhuṇḍhermahādevaḥ prāsāde cārunirmite | tato viveśa bhavanaṃ sarve devāḥ svamandiram niṣiddhapatrapuṣpādi samarpya narakaṃ vrajet | yasya yaddaivataṃ mukhyaṃ tadiṣṭamitareṣu vā pitarau mandiraṃ netre dhanyaṃ tvaddarśanānmune | yatprasādātparaṃ sthānaṃ saṃsāratāraṇaṃ nṛṇām

All the people in the city were amazed and filled with joy: "No such brahmin, all-knowing, a mine of virtues, has ever been seen." Protection of the doers of merit is effected by him, again and again. As long as your merit lasts, so long do you remain here. Mahādeva (set up) the image of Dhuṇḍhi in a beautifully built temple; then he entered his own dwelling, and all the gods their own shrines. Offering forbidden leaves, flowers and the like, one goes to hell. Whichever deity is chief for a man, that one is his chosen one, or (he may choose) among the others. My parents, my house, my eyes are blessed by the sight of you, O sage — by whose grace (comes) the supreme station that carries men across the round of rebirth.

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GnP 2 46.22

न भूतो न भविष्यो वा इति लोका वदन्त्यमुम् । पूजयन्ति धनै रत्नैर्ज्ञात्वा प्रत्ययमस्य ते काश्यां राज्यं प्रकुर्वाण इदानीं न तथा भवान् । पापं च संप्रवृत्तं ते राज्ये नरककृन्नृप दिवोदासस्य मुक्तिं स ददौ भक्तस्य शंकरः । गृत्समद उवाच । एवं विमोहितस्तेन दिवोदासः स्वमायया समर्पयन्नभेदेन भक्तो दोषं न चाप्नुयात् । एवं पञ्चापि संपूज्य देवांस्तत्परतामियात्

na bhūto na bhaviṣyo vā iti lokā vadantyamum | pūjayanti dhanai ratnairjñātvā pratyayamasya te kāśyāṃ rājyaṃ prakurvāṇa idānīṃ na tathā bhavān | pāpaṃ ca saṃpravṛttaṃ te rājye narakakṛnnṛpa divodāsasya muktiṃ sa dadau bhaktasya śaṃkaraḥ | gṛtsamada uvāca | evaṃ vimohitastena divodāsaḥ svamāyayā samarpayannabhedena bhakto doṣaṃ na cāpnuyāt | evaṃ pañcāpi saṃpūjya devāṃstatparatāmiyāt

"There has been none like him, nor will there be" — so the people speak of him; having gained confidence in him they worship him with wealth and jewels. Ruling in Kāśī, you are now not as (you were); and sin that makes for hell has spread in your kingdom, O king. Śaṅkara granted liberation to his devotee Divodāsa. Gṛtsamada said: Thus was Divodāsa deluded by him through his own māyā. Offering without making distinctions, a devotee incurs no fault; thus, having duly worshipped all five gods, one should become devoted to them.

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GnP 2 46.23

हस्ते धृतानि वस्तूनि कथयत्येव तत्क्षणात् । दरिद्रस्याप्रयत्नस्य प्रष्टुं यातस्य वेत्त्यसौ नृप उवाच । सम्यगुक्ते त्वया मह्यं करिष्ये वचनं तव । ज्योतिर्विदा ढुण्ढिना च प्रोक्तं तत्सत्यमेव तत् विष्णुना बौद्धरूपेण तस्यास्य हितं कृतम् । सर्वं ते कथितं देव सामर्थ्यं ढुण्ढिना कृतम् सात्विको लीयते देवे राजसस्तु सरूपताम् । उभाभ्यां चैव सान्निध्यं तामसस्तु सलोकताम् अवमानान्महद्दुःखं तं त्वा पुण्येन दृष्टवान् । तमुवाच ततो विप्रो वाचा तस्य सुतोषितः मुनिरुवाच । त्वादृशस्तु विनीतात्मा नैव दृष्टो न च श्रुतः। पूजनात्परितुष्टोऽहं वांछितं ते ददाम्यहम्

haste dhṛtāni vastūni kathayatyeva tatkṣaṇāt | daridrasyāprayatnasya praṣṭuṃ yātasya vettyasau nṛpa uvāca | samyagukte tvayā mahyaṃ kariṣye vacanaṃ tava | jyotirvidā ḍhuṇḍhinā ca proktaṃ tatsatyameva tat viṣṇunā bauddharūpeṇa tasyāsya hitaṃ kṛtam | sarvaṃ te kathitaṃ deva sāmarthyaṃ ḍhuṇḍhinā kṛtam sātviko līyate deve rājasastu sarūpatām | ubhābhyāṃ caiva sānnidhyaṃ tāmasastu salokatām avamānānmahadduḥkhaṃ taṃ tvā puṇyena dṛṣṭavān | tamuvāca tato vipro vācā tasya sutoṣitaḥ muniruvāca | tvādṛśastu vinītātmā naiva dṛṣṭo na ca śrutaḥ| pūjanātparituṣṭo'haṃ vāṃchitaṃ te dadāmyaham

He tells at once the objects held in (one's) hand; he knows (the question) of a poor man who has come to ask without any effort (on his part). The king said: You have spoken rightly to me; I shall do as you say. What was declared by the astrologer and by Dhuṇḍhi — that is indeed true. By Viṣṇu in the form of a Buddhist his welfare was accomplished. Everything has been told you, O god: the power exercised by Dhuṇḍhi. The sattvic man merges into the god, the rajasic attains a form like his, by both (qualities together one attains) nearness (to him), and the tamasic, residence in his world. From disrespect comes great suffering; through merit I have seen you. Then the brahmin, well pleased by his words, said to him — the sage said: One so humbly disposed as you has neither been seen nor heard of; I am well pleased by your worship, and I grant you what you wish.

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GnP 2 46.24

अभिप्रायं स्वयं तस्य ब्रूते त्रिदिनमन्तरा । भविष्यसि धनाढयस्त्वं तथैवासौ भवत्यपि वद मे त्वं च कश्चासि मद्धितार्थमिहागतः । यदि वेत्तुं मया शक्यं तत्त्वं ते पुरुषोत्तम एवं प्रभावो देवोऽसौ यद्वरादुत्थितः सुतः । क उवाच । एवं गृत्समदः प्रोक्त्वा तस्ये दुण्ढिविचेष्टितम् प्राप्नुयाद्भजमानस्तु त्रेधा भक्तिर्न वै वृथा। व्यास उवाच । विनायकस्य लोको वै कस्मिंल्लोके च तिष्ठति क उवाच । तद्वाक्यपरितुष्टोऽसौ काशीराजो जगाद तम् । अनेनैव च देहेन स्वानन्दभुवनं मुने

abhiprāyaṃ svayaṃ tasya brūte tridinamantarā | bhaviṣyasi dhanāḍhayastvaṃ tathaivāsau bhavatyapi vada me tvaṃ ca kaścāsi maddhitārthamihāgataḥ | yadi vettuṃ mayā śakyaṃ tattvaṃ te puruṣottama evaṃ prabhāvo devo'sau yadvarādutthitaḥ sutaḥ | ka uvāca | evaṃ gṛtsamadaḥ proktvā tasye duṇḍhiviceṣṭitam prāpnuyādbhajamānastu tredhā bhaktirna vai vṛthā| vyāsa uvāca | vināyakasya loko vai kasmiṃlloke ca tiṣṭhati ka uvāca | tadvākyaparituṣṭo'sau kāśīrājo jagāda tam | anenaiva ca dehena svānandabhuvanaṃ mune

He himself declares (a man's) intention: "Within three days you will become rich in wealth" — and so it comes about for him. "Tell me, who are you, come here for my benefit? — if it is possible for me to know your true nature, O best of persons." Such is the power of that god, by whose boon the son came into being. Ka said: Having thus recounted the doings of Dhuṇḍhi to him, (Gṛtsamada said:) one who worships attains (it); devotion is of three kinds and is surely not in vain. Vyāsa said: In what region does Vināyaka's world stand? Ka said: Well pleased by his words, the king of Kāśī said to him: (may I reach) the abode of Self-bliss, O sage, with this very body.

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GnP 2 46.25

गतं नष्टं कथयति यथा यत्तत्तथा भवेत् । एवमाचक्षतस्तस्य ढुण्ढेर्विप्रस्वरूपिणः क उवाच । ततः स करुणाविष्टो दर्शयामास तं नृपम् । निजं चतुर्भुजं रूपं शंखचक्रगदाधरम् गृहीत्वाज्ञां ययौ शीघ्रं निजमाश्रममण्डलम् । तदानीमेव सा पत्रमादाय प्रस्थिता ततः एतं मे संशयं ब्रह्मंश्छेत्तुमर्हसि सांप्रतम् । कमन्यं परिपृच्छामि सर्वज्ञं त्वां विहाय भोः इच्छेयं च चिरं तत्र स्थातुं नैव च संपदः । तत ऊचे मुद्गलोऽसौ परितुष्टस्तया गिरा

gataṃ naṣṭaṃ kathayati yathā yattattathā bhavet | evamācakṣatastasya ḍhuṇḍherviprasvarūpiṇaḥ ka uvāca | tataḥ sa karuṇāviṣṭo darśayāmāsa taṃ nṛpam | nijaṃ caturbhujaṃ rūpaṃ śaṃkhacakragadādharam gṛhītvājñāṃ yayau śīghraṃ nijamāśramamaṇḍalam | tadānīmeva sā patramādāya prasthitā tataḥ etaṃ me saṃśayaṃ brahmaṃśchettumarhasi sāṃpratam | kamanyaṃ paripṛcchāmi sarvajñaṃ tvāṃ vihāya bhoḥ iccheyaṃ ca ciraṃ tatra sthātuṃ naiva ca saṃpadaḥ | tata ūce mudgalo'sau parituṣṭastayā girā

He tells what has gone and what is lost, and as he says it, so it turns out. As Dhuṇḍhi, in the form of a brahmin, was speaking thus — Ka said: Then, filled with compassion, he showed that king his own four-armed form, bearing conch, discus and mace. Taking leave, he went quickly to his own hermitage grounds. At that very moment she set out, taking the leaf. "You must now cut through this doubt of mine, O brahman; whom else should I ask, passing over you who know all? And I would wish to remain there long, and not for riches." Then that Mudgala, well pleased by her words, spoke.

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GnP 2 46.26

द्वित्रिमासैर्गता वार्ता राजकर्णे जनेरिता। जना ऊचुः ॥ राजपत्न्योऽपि याश्चान्याः पातिव्रत्यपरायणाः समष्टिव्यष्टिरूपेण चिद्रूपं च प्रदर्शितम्। ततो नृपो नमस्कृत्य पुपूज परया मुदा ढुण्ढेरायतनं याता नानानारीनरैर्युतम् । महोत्सवं प्रकुर्वद्भिर्दृष्ट्वा कीर्तिर्ननाम तम् ब्रह्मोवाच । मयाऽपि नारदायोक्तो मुद्गलाय च तेन च । काशीराजाय चाख्यातो लोको वैनायकः शुभः अनेन जडदेहेन स्वानन्दभुवनं नृप । प्राप्स्यसे त्वं गणेशस्य पुनरावृत्तिवर्जितः

dvitrimāsairgatā vārtā rājakarṇe janeritā| janā ūcuḥ || rājapatnyo'pi yāścānyāḥ pātivratyaparāyaṇāḥ samaṣṭivyaṣṭirūpeṇa cidrūpaṃ ca pradarśitam| tato nṛpo namaskṛtya pupūja parayā mudā ḍhuṇḍherāyatanaṃ yātā nānānārīnarairyutam | mahotsavaṃ prakurvadbhirdṛṣṭvā kīrtirnanāma tam brahmovāca | mayā'pi nāradāyokto mudgalāya ca tena ca | kāśīrājāya cākhyāto loko vaināyakaḥ śubhaḥ anena jaḍadehena svānandabhuvanaṃ nṛpa | prāpsyase tvaṃ gaṇeśasya punarāvṛttivarjitaḥ

In two or three months the report, spread abroad by the people, reached the king's ear. The people said: The king's wives too, and other women intent on fidelity to their husbands — and the form of pure consciousness was displayed in both its collective and its individual aspect. Then the king made obeisance and worshipped with the greatest joy. She went to Dhuṇḍhi's shrine, thronged with many women and men; seeing (him) amid those who were holding a great festival, Kīrti bowed to him. Brahmā said: By me too it was told to Nārada, and by him to Mudgala, and to the king of Kāśī the auspicious world of Vināyaka was declared. With this very insentient body, O king, you shall attain Gaṇeśa's abode of Self-bliss, free from returning again.

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GnP 2 46.27

एतावत्कालपर्यन्तं नो भजन्नन्यदेवताः । विना पतिं गतास्तास्तु विनाज्ञां तं निरीक्षितुम् ननर्त परया भक्त्या तद्दर्शनमहोत्सवः। धन्योऽहमिति त प्राह पितृभ्यां सहितोऽनघ ययौ वाराणसीं पुण्यां मरणा-न्मुक्तिदायिनीम् । माघमासे चतुर्थ्यां सा भौमवारे मुदान्विता स कामदायिनीशक्त्या तेनैव निर्मितः पुरा। निजलोकेतिनामास्य स्वयं चक्रे विनायकः भुक्त्वाऽन्नसंपदः पंचसहस्रपरिवत्सरान् । ब्रह्मकल्पमयं कालं ततः स्वानन्दमाप्स्यसि

etāvatkālaparyantaṃ no bhajannanyadevatāḥ | vinā patiṃ gatāstāstu vinājñāṃ taṃ nirīkṣitum nanarta parayā bhaktyā taddarśanamahotsavaḥ| dhanyo'hamiti ta prāha pitṛbhyāṃ sahito'nagha yayau vārāṇasīṃ puṇyāṃ maraṇā-nmuktidāyinīm | māghamāse caturthyāṃ sā bhaumavāre mudānvitā sa kāmadāyinīśaktyā tenaiva nirmitaḥ purā| nijaloketināmāsya svayaṃ cakre vināyakaḥ bhuktvā'nnasaṃpadaḥ paṃcasahasraparivatsarān | brahmakalpamayaṃ kālaṃ tataḥ svānandamāpsyasi

Up to that time they had not worshipped other deities; but they went, without their husband and without permission, to look upon him. He danced with the highest devotion, the sight of him being a great festival. "Blessed am I," he said, together with his parents, O sinless one. He went to holy Vārāṇasī, which grants liberation through dying (there). She, filled with joy, in the month of Māgha, on the fourth day, on a Tuesday — that (abode) was formerly fashioned by him himself by the power Kāmadāyinī; Vināyaka himself gave it the name "his own world." Having enjoyed food and riches for five thousand years, and (then) for a span equal to a brahma-kalpa, you will thereafter attain Svānanda.

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GnP 2 46.28

नो भविष्यति पुत्रो वा कन्या वेति विचारितुम् । सखीभिस्तु निषिद्धास्ता ढुण्ढिरत्रागमिष्यति पूर्वं राज्यं परित्यज्य तपस्तप्तं मया बहु । ब्रह्मणेदं बलान्मह्यं दत्तं राज्यमनुत्तमम् अनेकस्वर्णपात्रस्थैः पक्वान्नैः पायसादिभिः । पूजितं भक्तनिवहैर्नृत्यगीतविशारदैः काशीराजो विमानस्थो दृष्टवांश्चर्मचक्षुषा । यं प्राप्य दुःखं न द्वन्द्वं प्राप्नुते स्त्री पुमानपि नृप उवाच । कीदृक्स लोकः किन्नामा वद सत्यं मुने मम । केन पुण्येन गम्योऽसौ श्रुता लोका मयाऽखिलाः

no bhaviṣyati putro vā kanyā veti vicāritum | sakhībhistu niṣiddhāstā ḍhuṇḍhiratrāgamiṣyati pūrvaṃ rājyaṃ parityajya tapastaptaṃ mayā bahu | brahmaṇedaṃ balānmahyaṃ dattaṃ rājyamanuttamam anekasvarṇapātrasthaiḥ pakvānnaiḥ pāyasādibhiḥ | pūjitaṃ bhaktanivahairnṛtyagītaviśāradaiḥ kāśīrājo vimānastho dṛṣṭavāṃścarmacakṣuṣā | yaṃ prāpya duḥkhaṃ na dvandvaṃ prāpnute strī pumānapi nṛpa uvāca | kīdṛksa lokaḥ kinnāmā vada satyaṃ mune mama | kena puṇyena gamyo'sau śrutā lokā mayā'khilāḥ

"— to inquire whether a son or a daughter will be born to us." But they were forbidden by their friends: "Dhuṇḍhi will come here." Formerly, abandoning the kingdom, I performed much austerity; this unsurpassed kingdom was given to me by Brahmā by force. He was worshipped with cooked foods, milk-rice and the rest set in many golden vessels, by throngs of devotees skilled in dance and song. The king of Kāśī, seated in a celestial car, saw with his fleshly eyes (that) on attaining which neither woman nor man meets with sorrow or the pairs of opposites. The king said: What is that world like, what is its name? Tell me truly, O sage; by what merit is it reached? I have heard of all the worlds.

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GnP 2 46.29

आकार्यं तु ततस्तास्तु रहस्येतमुपानयन् । उपवेश्यासने रम्ये राजपत्न्यः प्रपूजिरे त्वद्दर्शनाज्जन्ममृती गते मे नात्र संशयः । इदमेव परं याचे त्वमहं शरणं गतः नानालंकारसंयुक्तं दिव्यमाल्याम्बरावृतम् । नानामणिगणोपेतं नानामुक्ताविभूषितम् ब्राह्मं कल्पं च वसति ज्योतिरूपं समाप्य च । इक्षुसागरसंभोगं लभते तत्र यः स्थितः मुद्गल उवाच । श्रृणु राजन्मयाऽश्रावि महिमा कपिलान्मुनेः । सामान्यतः सर्वलोकाः प्रसिद्धा ये श्रुतास्त्वया

ākāryaṃ tu tatastāstu rahasyetamupānayan | upaveśyāsane ramye rājapatnyaḥ prapūjire tvaddarśanājjanmamṛtī gate me nātra saṃśayaḥ | idameva paraṃ yāce tvamahaṃ śaraṇaṃ gataḥ nānālaṃkārasaṃyuktaṃ divyamālyāmbarāvṛtam | nānāmaṇigaṇopetaṃ nānāmuktāvibhūṣitam brāhmaṃ kalpaṃ ca vasati jyotirūpaṃ samāpya ca | ikṣusāgarasaṃbhogaṃ labhate tatra yaḥ sthitaḥ mudgala uvāca | śrṛṇu rājanmayā'śrāvi mahimā kapilānmuneḥ | sāmānyataḥ sarvalokāḥ prasiddhā ye śrutāstvayā

Then they summoned him and brought him in privately, and the king's wives, seating him on a lovely seat, worshipped him. "By the sight of you my birth and death are gone — of this there is no doubt. This alone I beg above all; I have come to you for refuge" — (him) fitted with many ornaments, wrapped in divine garlands and garments, set with many clusters of gems, adorned with many pearls. And he dwells for a brahma-kalpa, having attained the form of light; whoever remains there obtains the enjoyment of the ocean of sugarcane juice. Mudgala said: Listen, king; I heard of this greatness from the sage Kapila. Generally speaking, all the worlds that are well known are those you have heard of.

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GnP 2 46.31

निकटे तस्य काचित्तु भूत्वाऽदाद्वीटिकाः स्वयम् । पप्रच्छुर्बहुप्रश्नास्तं सर्वां एवाब्रवीच्च सः भविता परमा मुक्तिस्त्यक्त्वा राज्यं सुखी भव। भैरवो दण्डपाणिश्च बहिः कुर्यादतोऽन्यथा मयाऽकिंच्चमयाऽस्मै किं निवेद्यमिति साऽनघ । सा दूर्वाशमिमन्दारकुसुमैर्मार्गसंचितैः सेवेते सिद्धिबुद्धी तं सामवेदस्तु गायति । कल्पवृक्षो यच्छति तत्कल्पितं मनुजेन यत् स कामदायिनीपीठे संतिष्ठति विनायकः । विस्तीर्णं पंचसाहस्रयोजनानि महामते

nikaṭe tasya kācittu bhūtvā'dādvīṭikāḥ svayam | papracchurbahupraśnāstaṃ sarvāṃ evābravīcca saḥ bhavitā paramā muktistyaktvā rājyaṃ sukhī bhava| bhairavo daṇḍapāṇiśca bahiḥ kuryādato'nyathā mayā'kiṃccamayā'smai kiṃ nivedyamiti sā'nagha | sā dūrvāśamimandārakusumairmārgasaṃcitaiḥ sevete siddhibuddhī taṃ sāmavedastu gāyati | kalpavṛkṣo yacchati tatkalpitaṃ manujena yat sa kāmadāyinīpīṭhe saṃtiṣṭhati vināyakaḥ | vistīrṇaṃ paṃcasāhasrayojanāni mahāmate

One woman, coming close to him, herself gave him rolls of betel. They asked him many questions, and he answered them all. "Supreme liberation will be yours; abandon the kingdom and be happy; otherwise Bhairava and Daṇḍapāṇi will put (you) out." "What shall I, who have nothing, present to him?" — so (thought) she, O sinless one. She, with dūrvā, śamī and mandāra blossoms gathered along the road (worshipped him). Siddhi and Buddhi attend him, and the Sāmaveda sings (his praise); the wish-granting tree yields whatever a man conceives. That Vināyaka abides on the seat named Kāmadāyinī, extending five thousand yojanas, O great-minded one.

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GnP 2 46.32

प्रत्यये तु समुत्पन्ने सर्वास्तास्तु विसिस्मिरे । एवं ताः प्रत्यहं तस्य दर्शनं पूजनं स्वयम् एवमाकर्ण्य तद्वाक्यं चिन्तां परमिकां ययौ । ध्यात्वा विचार्य तद्धेतुं बुबोध सर्वमेव सः पुपूज परया भक्त्या पुत्रोदयमयाचत । शमीमन्दारदूर्वाभिर्यथा तुष्टोऽभवत्तयोः अकल्पिताः संपदोऽत्र जायन्ते तत्प्रभावतः । मयैव वर्णिताः सर्वे देवलोका अनेकशः रत्नकांचनभूमौ स राजते भासयन्दिशः । स्वानन्दनामा दिव्योऽयमिक्षुसागरमध्यगः

pratyaye tu samutpanne sarvāstāstu visismire | evaṃ tāḥ pratyahaṃ tasya darśanaṃ pūjanaṃ svayam evamākarṇya tadvākyaṃ cintāṃ paramikāṃ yayau | dhyātvā vicārya taddhetuṃ bubodha sarvameva saḥ pupūja parayā bhaktyā putrodayamayācata | śamīmandāradūrvābhiryathā tuṣṭo'bhavattayoḥ akalpitāḥ saṃpado'tra jāyante tatprabhāvataḥ | mayaiva varṇitāḥ sarve devalokā anekaśaḥ ratnakāṃcanabhūmau sa rājate bhāsayandiśaḥ | svānandanāmā divyo'yamikṣusāgaramadhyagaḥ

When confidence had arisen, all those women were amazed; and thus each day they themselves had sight of him and worshipped him. Hearing that speech, he fell into the deepest anxiety; and having meditated and considered its cause, he understood the whole of it. He worshipped with the highest devotion and asked for the birth of a son, since (the god) had been pleased with those two by (their) śamī, mandāra and dūrvā. Riches unimagined arise here by his power. By me indeed have all the worlds of the gods been described repeatedly. He shines on a ground of jewels and gold, illumining the quarters; this divine (world) named Svānanda lies in the midst of the ocean of sugarcane juice.

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GnP 2 46.33

त्यक्त्वा ता गृहकार्याणि चक्रुत्सर्वास्तु तत्पराः । नैतादृशो दृष्टपूर्वो भूतभव्यभविष्यवित् ज्योतिर्विदं गणेशं च बौद्धं मायाविनं हरिम् । प्रणम्य शिरसा भक्त्या कोऽसीति निजगाद तम् न तथा द्रव्यनिचयैर्ढुण्ढिराजस्तुतोष ह । ततो भक्ता गताः सर्वे स्वस्वमन्दिरमादृताः गणेशनिजलोकस्य शक्तिर्नो मम वर्णने। संक्षेपेण ततोऽख्यायि किमन्यच्छ्रोतुमिच्छसि न वेदैर्न च दानैश्च व्रतयज्ञैर्जपेरपि । तपोभिर्विविधैश्चा प्राप्यते नैव कर्हिचित

tyaktvā tā gṛhakāryāṇi cakrutsarvāstu tatparāḥ | naitādṛśo dṛṣṭapūrvo bhūtabhavyabhaviṣyavit jyotirvidaṃ gaṇeśaṃ ca bauddhaṃ māyāvinaṃ harim | praṇamya śirasā bhaktyā ko'sīti nijagāda tam na tathā dravyanicayairḍhuṇḍhirājastutoṣa ha | tato bhaktā gatāḥ sarve svasvamandiramādṛtāḥ gaṇeśanijalokasya śaktirno mama varṇane| saṃkṣepeṇa tato'khyāyi kimanyacchrotumicchasi na vedairna ca dānaiśca vratayajñairjaperapi | tapobhirvividhaiścā prāpyate naiva karhicita

Abandoning their household tasks, they all became intent upon that. "Never before has such a one been seen, a knower of past, present and future." Bowing his head with devotion to the astrologer — Gaṇeśa, the Buddhist, the deceiver Hari — he said to him, "Who are you?" King Dhuṇḍhi was not so pleased by heaps of goods. Then all the devotees, honoured, went each to his own house. I have no power to describe Gaṇeśa's own world; it has therefore been told in brief. What else do you wish to hear? Not by the Vedas, nor by gifts, nor by vows and sacrifices, nor even by muttered prayer, nor by austerities of many kinds is it ever attained.

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GnP 2 46.34

इत्यब्रुवन्स्तुवन्त्यस्तं सर्वज्योतिर्विदुत्तमम् । उत्थिते राज्ञि ताः शीघ्रं विससर्जुः क्षणादमुम् सोऽपि बुद्ध्वा महाविष्णुर्निजं रूपं समास्थितः । चतुर्भुजं शंकचक्रगदापद्मधरं विभुम् उभौ तौ जननीपुत्रौ सन्निधौ तत्र तस्थतुः । तयोर्निराहारतया भक्तिभावेन तोषितः विनायकस्य कृपया प्राप्यते नित्यभक्तितः। समष्टिव्यष्टिरूपोऽत्र सदा तिष्ठति विघ्नराट्

ityabruvanstuvantyastaṃ sarvajyotirviduttamam | utthite rājñi tāḥ śīghraṃ visasarjuḥ kṣaṇādamum so'pi buddhvā mahāviṣṇurnijaṃ rūpaṃ samāsthitaḥ | caturbhujaṃ śaṃkacakragadāpadmadharaṃ vibhum ubhau tau jananīputrau sannidhau tatra tasthatuḥ | tayornirāhāratayā bhaktibhāvena toṣitaḥ vināyakasya kṛpayā prāpyate nityabhaktitaḥ| samaṣṭivyaṣṭirūpo'tra sadā tiṣṭhati vighnarāṭ

Speaking thus, they praised him, the best of all astrologers. When the king rose, they quickly dismissed him in an instant. He too, the great Viṣṇu, knowing (their minds), took up his own form: four-armed, bearing conch, discus, mace and lotus, the Lord. Both of them, mother and son, stood there in his presence; pleased by their fasting and by their devotional feeling — it is obtained by Vināyaka's grace, through constant devotion. Here the king of obstacles ever abides in both collective and individual form.

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GnP 2 46.35

पतिभावं परित्यज्य तमेवाचिन्तयन्सदा । दिवोदासोऽपि तं ज्ञात्वा समाकार्य ननाम च पीताम्बरसमायुक्तं सर्वलोकाश्रयं परम् । उवाच तं नृपः पूज्य धन्योऽहं मम पूर्वजाः आविरासीन्मूर्तिमध्याद् ढुण्ढिराजो महोत्कटः । ऊचतुर्मुनिना प्रोक्तं यत्स्वरूपं महेशितुः पादैः स सप्तपातालं व्याप्य शेषशिरांसि च । कूर्मं च कमठं चैव श्रोत्राभ्यां च दिशोऽखिलाः

patibhāvaṃ parityajya tamevācintayansadā | divodāso'pi taṃ jñātvā samākārya nanāma ca pītāmbarasamāyuktaṃ sarvalokāśrayaṃ param | uvāca taṃ nṛpaḥ pūjya dhanyo'haṃ mama pūrvajāḥ āvirāsīnmūrtimadhyād ḍhuṇḍhirājo mahotkaṭaḥ | ūcaturmuninā proktaṃ yatsvarūpaṃ maheśituḥ pādaiḥ sa saptapātālaṃ vyāpya śeṣaśirāṃsi ca | kūrmaṃ ca kamaṭhaṃ caiva śrotrābhyāṃ ca diśo'khilāḥ

Abandoning the sense of a husband, they thought constantly of him alone. Divodāsa too, recognising him, summoned him and bowed — (to him) clad in yellow, the supreme refuge of all worlds. Doing him worship, the king said to him: Blessed am I, and blessed my forefathers. From the midst of the image the mighty Dhuṇḍhirāja appeared. The two of them declared the form of the great Lord as it had been described by the sage: with his feet he pervades the seven nether worlds and the heads of Śeṣa, and the tortoise and the turtle, and with his two ears all the directions.

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GnP 2 46.36

स्वासने तं परिस्थाप्य पुपूजे विष्टरादिभिः । गामर्घ्यं च धनं वस्त्रमर्पयामास सादरम् यन्मोक्षदं पदयुगं दृष्टं पुण्यप्रभावतः । देहि मे परमां मुक्तिं मुद्रामेतां गृहाण च तदेतत्पुण्यनिचर्यैर्दृष्टं साक्षात्सुभास्वरम् । सर्वांलंकारसंयुक्तं मुकुटेन विराजितम् केशैर्व्योमापि संरोध्य स्थित आधारपंकजे । भ्रूमध्येऽप्यग्निचक्रे तं द्विपत्रे ध्याति पुण्यकृत्

svāsane taṃ paristhāpya pupūje viṣṭarādibhiḥ | gāmarghyaṃ ca dhanaṃ vastramarpayāmāsa sādaram yanmokṣadaṃ padayugaṃ dṛṣṭaṃ puṇyaprabhāvataḥ | dehi me paramāṃ muktiṃ mudrāmetāṃ gṛhāṇa ca tadetatpuṇyanicaryairdṛṣṭaṃ sākṣātsubhāsvaram | sarvāṃlaṃkārasaṃyuktaṃ mukuṭena virājitam keśairvyomāpi saṃrodhya sthita ādhārapaṃkaje | bhrūmadhye'pyagnicakre taṃ dvipatre dhyāti puṇyakṛt

Placing him upon his own seat, he worshipped him with a seat-cushion and the rest, and reverently presented a cow, water for welcome, wealth and a garment. "The pair of feet that bestows release has been seen by the power of merit: grant me supreme liberation, and accept this token. This very (form), directly manifest and brightly shining, has been seen through accumulations of merit" — fitted with every ornament, resplendent with a crown, blocking even the sky with his hair, seated in the foundation lotus. The doer of merit meditates on him also in the fire-wheel between the brows, in the two-petalled (lotus).

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GnP 2 46.37

यद्यत्तं परिपप्रच्छ तत्सर्वं स मुदाऽब्रवीत् । विस्मृत्य निजदेवं स तमेवाचिन्तयन्नृपः बलाद्दत्तं ब्रह्मणा मे शास्तु राज्यं शिवो निजम् । ततो जगाद तं विष्णुः शिवो मुक्तिं प्रदास्यति दशबाहुधरं चारु नेत्रपंकजशोभितम् । अनर्घ्यरत्नमुक्तानां बिभ्रद्दाम महत्तरम् खेचरीमुद्रया युक्तो नान्यो ध्यातुं न च क्षमः । सहस्रपत्रं ब्रह्मांण्डसरोजं विलसत्प्रभम्

yadyattaṃ paripapraccha tatsarvaṃ sa mudā'bravīt | vismṛtya nijadevaṃ sa tamevācintayannṛpaḥ balāddattaṃ brahmaṇā me śāstu rājyaṃ śivo nijam | tato jagāda taṃ viṣṇuḥ śivo muktiṃ pradāsyati daśabāhudharaṃ cāru netrapaṃkajaśobhitam | anarghyaratnamuktānāṃ bibhraddāma mahattaram khecarīmudrayā yukto nānyo dhyātuṃ na ca kṣamaḥ | sahasrapatraṃ brahmāṃṇḍasarojaṃ vilasatprabham

Whatever he asked him, all of that he gladly told. Forgetting his own god, the king thought of him alone. "The kingdom given to me by Brahmā by force — let Śiva rule what is his own." Then Viṣṇu said to him: Śiva will grant liberation. (He is) ten-armed, lovely, graced with lotus eyes, wearing a very great garland of priceless gems and pearls, joined with the khecarī posture; no other is capable of meditating (on him). The thousand-petalled lotus of the cosmic egg, of gleaming radiance —

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GnP 2 46.38

रहस्ये परिपप्रच्छ प्रश्नान्नानाविधान्बहून् । प्रत्यये तु समुत्पन्ने प्रार्थयामास सादरम् क उवाच । एवमुक्त्वा दिवोदासं महायोगेश्वरो हरिः । अन्तर्हितः पुनर्यायाद्बौद्धरूपी निजाश्रमम् पीताम्बरयुतं दन्ताविराजितमनुत्तमम् । दृष्ट्वैवं परमं रूपं मग्नावानन्दसागरे

rahasye paripapraccha praśnānnānāvidhānbahūn | pratyaye tu samutpanne prārthayāmāsa sādaram ka uvāca | evamuktvā divodāsaṃ mahāyogeśvaro hariḥ | antarhitaḥ punaryāyādbauddharūpī nijāśramam pītāmbarayutaṃ dantāvirājitamanuttamam | dṛṣṭvaivaṃ paramaṃ rūpaṃ magnāvānandasāgare

In private he asked (him) many questions of various kinds; and when confidence had arisen, he made his request respectfully. Ka said: Having spoken thus to Divodāsa, Hari, the great lord of yoga, became invisible and went again, in Buddhist form, to his own hermitage. — Clad in yellow cloth, resplendent with tusks, unsurpassed: seeing such a supreme form, the two were plunged into an ocean of bliss.

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GnP 2 46.39

ग्रामान्धान्यं धनं दास्ये तिष्ठात्र निकटे मम । चमत्कारा बहुविधा दृष्टा यस्मान्मया त्वयि प्रेषयामास दूतं स शिवागमनहेतवे । दिवोदासस्य राज्ये मे धर्मवृद्धिः कृता बहु विस्मृतौ पूजनं कर्तुं नमस्कारं च तावुभौ । उवाच भगवान्देवो वरं वरय सुव्रते षोडशारं कण्ठदेशे तत्र सर्वत्र विघ्नराट् । तेजोरूपी दीप्यमानः सत्यलोके यथा विधिः

grāmāndhānyaṃ dhanaṃ dāsye tiṣṭhātra nikaṭe mama | camatkārā bahuvidhā dṛṣṭā yasmānmayā tvayi preṣayāmāsa dūtaṃ sa śivāgamanahetave | divodāsasya rājye me dharmavṛddhiḥ kṛtā bahu vismṛtau pūjanaṃ kartuṃ namaskāraṃ ca tāvubhau | uvāca bhagavāndevo varaṃ varaya suvrate ṣoḍaśāraṃ kaṇṭhadeśe tatra sarvatra vighnarāṭ | tejorūpī dīpyamānaḥ satyaloke yathā vidhiḥ

"I shall give (you) villages, grain and wealth; stay here near me, since many kinds of wonders have been seen by me in you." He sent a messenger to bring about Śiva's coming. "In Divodāsa's kingdom much increase of dharma has been effected by me." The two of them, having forgotten to perform the worship and the salutation — the Lord God said: "Choose a boon, O you of good vows." Sixteen-spoked, at the region of the throat, there and everywhere the king of obstacles, of the form of radiance, blazing, in Satyaloka according to rule.

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GnP 2 46.41

न ग्रामा न धनं धान्यं रोचते मेऽस्पृहस्य ते । एकं वदामि ते वाक्यं हृदि तत्कर्तुमर्हसि ततो राजा राजचिह्नं त्यक्त्वा तेपे परन्तपः । प्रासादे परमे स्थाप्य शिवलिगं सुविश्रुतम् प्रीतो यथा शमीपत्रैर्मन्दारैरपि शोभने । क उवाच । एवमाकर्ण्य तद्वाक्यं कीर्तिस्तोषमियात्परम् सोमसूर्याग्निनेत्रोऽसौ भूमण्डलमहोदरः । एकविंशतिस्वर्गात्स व्याप्य चौषधिरोमवान्

na grāmā na dhanaṃ dhānyaṃ rocate me'spṛhasya te | ekaṃ vadāmi te vākyaṃ hṛdi tatkartumarhasi tato rājā rājacihnaṃ tyaktvā tepe parantapaḥ | prāsāde parame sthāpya śivaligaṃ suviśrutam prīto yathā śamīpatrairmandārairapi śobhane | ka uvāca | evamākarṇya tadvākyaṃ kīrtistoṣamiyātparam somasūryāgninetro'sau bhūmaṇḍalamahodaraḥ | ekaviṃśatisvargātsa vyāpya cauṣadhiromavān

"Neither villages nor wealth nor grain please me, since I have no craving for them. I speak to you one word; that you ought to carry out in your heart." Then the king, the scorcher of foes, gave up the royal insignia and practised austerity, having installed a most renowned Śivaliṅga in the highest palace — pleased even with śamī leaves and mandāra blossoms, O lovely one. Ka said: Hearing that speech thus, Kīrti reached the utmost joy. He has moon, sun and fire for eyes, the disc of the earth for his great belly; pervading (all) from the twenty-one heavens, having the plants for his body-hair.

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GnP 2 46.42

इतः सप्तदशे राजन्दिने कोऽपि परः पुमान् । आगत्य स वदेद्यत्तत्कर्तव्यमविचारतः स्वनाम्ना मोक्षदं पुंसां सकामानां तु कामदम् । प्रतीक्षन्दर्शनं तस्य शंकरस्यार्थदायिनः देहभावं समासाद्य जगाद द्विरदाननम् । किं स्त्रिया वचनं कार्यं सर्वज्ञे सर्वरूपिणि सरितः सागरा यस्य घनेबिन्दुर्विभात्यसौ । ब्रह्मांडे भान्ति यस्यैव ब्रह्माण्डानि तु रेणुवत्

itaḥ saptadaśe rājandine ko'pi paraḥ pumān | āgatya sa vadedyattatkartavyamavicārataḥ svanāmnā mokṣadaṃ puṃsāṃ sakāmānāṃ tu kāmadam | pratīkṣandarśanaṃ tasya śaṃkarasyārthadāyinaḥ dehabhāvaṃ samāsādya jagāda dviradānanam | kiṃ striyā vacanaṃ kāryaṃ sarvajñe sarvarūpiṇi saritaḥ sāgarā yasya ghanebindurvibhātyasau | brahmāṃḍe bhānti yasyaiva brahmāṇḍāni tu reṇuvat

"From today, O king, on the seventeenth day some supreme man (will come); whatever he says on arriving must be done without deliberation." — By his own name he gives release to men, and to those with desires the granting of desires. Awaiting the sight of that Śaṃkara, the giver of what is sought — having taken on bodily form, she said to the elephant-faced one: "What worth has a woman's word, O all-knowing one, you who are of every form?" He in whom rivers and oceans shine as a drop in a cloud; in whose cosmic egg the (other) cosmic eggs shine like specks of dust.

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GnP 2 46.43

हितं ते परमं राजन्भविष्यति न संशयः । एतावता मया लब्धा ग्रामा धान्यं धनानि च आज्ञयाऽथ तथाऽप्यूचे सान्निध्याल्लब्धबोधया । कीर्तिरुवाच । निष्कलो निरहंकारो निर्गुणोऽसि जगत्प्रभुः त्रयस्त्रिंशत्कोटिदेवा जीवा ये च सहस्रशः। औदुम्बरगता भान्ति मशका इव तद्गता

hitaṃ te paramaṃ rājanbhaviṣyati na saṃśayaḥ | etāvatā mayā labdhā grāmā dhānyaṃ dhanāni ca ājñayā'tha tathā'pyūce sānnidhyāllabdhabodhayā | kīrtiruvāca | niṣkalo nirahaṃkāro nirguṇo'si jagatprabhuḥ trayastriṃśatkoṭidevā jīvā ye ca sahasraśaḥ| audumbaragatā bhānti maśakā iva tadgatā

"It will be the highest benefit for you, O king, no doubt; by just this much I have obtained villages, grain and riches." Then by (his) command she nevertheless spoke, having gained understanding from his nearness. Kīrti said: You are partless, free of ego, free of qualities, the lord of the world. The three hundred and thirty million gods, and the living beings in their thousands, contained in him, appear like gnats sitting in an udumbara fig.

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GnP 2 46.44

पूर्णानन्दः परानन्दः पुराणश्च परात्परः । दिक्पालरूपी सोमार्कसरित्सागररूपवान् रचनां तस्य लोकस्य संक्षेपेण ब्रुवे नृप । तुंगं यन्मेरुशिखरं तत्कैलासशिरस्पृहम्

pūrṇānandaḥ parānandaḥ purāṇaśca parātparaḥ | dikpālarūpī somārkasaritsāgararūpavān racanāṃ tasya lokasya saṃkṣepeṇa bruve nṛpa | tuṃgaṃ yanmeruśikharaṃ tatkailāsaśiraspṛham

Full bliss, supreme bliss, ancient, higher than the highest, taking the form of the guardians of the quarters, possessing the forms of moon, sun, rivers and oceans. I shall describe the arrangement of that world in brief, O king: that lofty peak of Meru which rivals the summit of Kailāsa.

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GnP 2 46.45

त्वमेव पृथिवी वायुराकाशस्तेज एव च । जलं तथाऽन्तरिक्षं च गन्धर्वोरगराक्षसाः सहस्रयोजनं शून्यमगम्यं मुनिपुङ्गवैः। तत्र एका शक्तिरुच्चैर्भ्रामिका नाम नामतः

tvameva pṛthivī vāyurākāśasteja eva ca | jalaṃ tathā'ntarikṣaṃ ca gandharvoragarākṣasāḥ sahasrayojanaṃ śūnyamagamyaṃ munipuṅgavaiḥ| tatra ekā śaktiruccairbhrāmikā nāma nāmataḥ

You alone are earth, wind, ether and fire, water and likewise the mid-region, the gandharvas, serpents and rākṣasas. A thousand yojanas of empty space, unreachable by the foremost of sages; there, high up, is a single Śakti, Bhrāmikā by name.

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GnP 2 46.46

चराचरस्वरूपस्त्वं दीननाथकृपानिधिः । विनायकादिरूपेण व्यक्तिं प्राप्तोऽसि सांप्रतम् यत्संमताद्द्रुवन्त्येव भ्रमराः शुभ्र एव च । पद्मासनगताधारशक्तिस्तन्मस्तके स्थिता

carācarasvarūpastvaṃ dīnanāthakṛpānidhiḥ | vināyakādirūpeṇa vyaktiṃ prāpto'si sāṃpratam yatsaṃmatāddruvantyeva bhramarāḥ śubhra eva ca | padmāsanagatādhāraśaktistanmastake sthitā

You are the form of the moving and the unmoving, the treasury of compassion, protector of the helpless; now you have taken visible shape in the form of Vināyaka and the rest. By whose assent the bees hum and (all) is bright; the supporting Śakti, seated on the lotus-seat, stands upon his head.

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GnP 2 46.47

अद्य मे नयने धन्ये जन्म भर्ता सुतोऽप्ययम् । पितरौ च कुलं शीलं रूपं ज्ञानं तपोऽपि च चामीकरनिभा यास्तन्मस्तके कामदायिनी । कोटिसूर्यनिभा तस्या मूर्ध्नि पीठं महत्तरम्

adya me nayane dhanye janma bhartā suto'pyayam | pitarau ca kulaṃ śīlaṃ rūpaṃ jñānaṃ tapo'pi ca cāmīkaranibhā yāstanmastake kāmadāyinī | koṭisūryanibhā tasyā mūrdhni pīṭhaṃ mahattaram

Today my eyes are blessed, and my birth, my husband, and this son too, and my parents, my lineage, my character, beauty, knowledge and austerity as well. She who is like gold, upon his head, the giver of desires; on her crown is a still greater seat, like ten million suns.

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GnP 2 46.48

जन्मान्तरीयपुण्येन दृष्टः क्षिप्रप्रसादनः । तवैव चाज्ञया देव स्थापिताऽस्य तवाभिधा विकरालं जटाभारं बिभ्रती वदनं तथा । सहस्रसूर्यसङ्काशा भासयन्ती दिशो दश

janmāntarīyapuṇyena dṛṣṭaḥ kṣipraprasādanaḥ | tavaiva cājñayā deva sthāpitā'sya tavābhidhā vikarālaṃ jaṭābhāraṃ bibhratī vadanaṃ tathā | sahasrasūryasaṅkāśā bhāsayantī diśo daśa

Through merit of a former birth he has been seen, he who is swiftly gracious; and by your own command, O god, your name has been given to him. Bearing a fearsome mass of matted hair and a face to match, resembling a thousand suns, lighting up the ten directions.

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GnP 2 46.49

सपत्न्याऽस्य विषं दत्तं मृत उत्थापितः पुनः । गृत्समदेन मुनिना तव भक्त्यैव विश्वराट् विस्तीर्णं दशसाहस्रयोजनं तावदायतम् । असंख्यसूर्यसङ्काशं तन्मध्ये योजनायतम्

sapatnyā'sya viṣaṃ dattaṃ mṛta utthāpitaḥ punaḥ | gṛtsamadena muninā tava bhaktyaiva viśvarāṭ vistīrṇaṃ daśasāhasrayojanaṃ tāvadāyatam | asaṃkhyasūryasaṅkāśaṃ tanmadhye yojanāyatam

Poison was given to him by a co-wife; though dead he was raised up again by the sage Gṛtsamada, solely by devotion to you, O ruler of all. Ten thousand yojanas broad and as much in length, resembling countless suns; in its midst, a yojana in extent.

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GnP 2 46.51

प्रसन्नश्चेद्देहि नाथ भक्तिं मम सुतस्य ते । त्रैलोक्येऽपि यशश्चाग्र्यं राज्ये निःसंगवृत्तिताम् तस्यैव कृपया प्राप्यो दुःखमोहविवर्जितः । तदुत्तरे भाति परं इक्षुसागर एव तु

prasannaśceddehi nātha bhaktiṃ mama sutasya te | trailokye'pi yaśaścāgryaṃ rājye niḥsaṃgavṛttitām tasyaiva kṛpayā prāpyo duḥkhamohavivarjitaḥ | taduttare bhāti paraṃ ikṣusāgara eva tu

If you are pleased, O lord, grant devotion to you for this my son, and foremost renown in the three worlds, and conduct free of attachment while in the kingship. By his grace alone is he to be reached, free from sorrow and delusion; to the north of that shines the supreme ocean of sugarcane juice.

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GnP 2 46.52

दीर्घायुः सद्गुणग्रामं बलं कीर्तिं सुखं क्षमाम् । विजयं सर्वसंग्रामे द्विजे देवे रतिं पराम् सहस्रपत्रसंयुक्ता तन्मध्ये पद्मिनी शुभा । सहस्रपत्रं कमलं तस्यां भाति यथा शशी

dīrghāyuḥ sadguṇagrāmaṃ balaṃ kīrtiṃ sukhaṃ kṣamām | vijayaṃ sarvasaṃgrāme dvije deve ratiṃ parām sahasrapatrasaṃyuktā tanmadhye padminī śubhā | sahasrapatraṃ kamalaṃ tasyāṃ bhāti yathā śaśī

(Grant him) long life, a host of good qualities, strength, fame, happiness, forbearance, victory in every battle, and the highest delight in brahmins and gods. Furnished with a thousand petals, in its midst an auspicious lotus-pool; the thousand-petalled lotus shines in it like the moon.

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GnP 2 46.53

ढुण्ढिरुवाच । ये ये वरास्त्वया प्रोक्तास्ते ते दत्ता मयाऽनघे । सहस्रयज्ञकर्ताऽसौ जीवन्वर्षसहस्रकम् तत्कर्णिकागतस्तल्पो रत्नकांचननिर्मिताः। दिव्याम्बरयुतः शेते नृप तत्र विनायकः

ḍhuṇḍhiruvāca | ye ye varāstvayā proktāste te dattā mayā'naghe | sahasrayajñakartā'sau jīvanvarṣasahasrakam tatkarṇikāgatastalpo ratnakāṃcananirmitāḥ| divyāmbarayutaḥ śete nṛpa tatra vināyakaḥ

Ḍhuṇḍhi said: Whatever boons you have named, all of them are granted by me, O faultless one. He will be the performer of a thousand sacrifices, living for a thousand years. On its pericarp is a couch made of jewels and gold; clad in divine garments, Vināyaka lies there, O king.

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GnP 2 46.54

शान्तो दान्तो हि मद्भक्तो राज्यं कर्ता सुतस्तव । चतुर्भिरप्युपायैः स वशे सर्वं करिष्यति सिद्धिबुद्धी सदा तस्य पादसंवाहनं मुदा । कुर्वाते परया भक्त्या सामवेदस्त्रिमूर्तिमान्

śānto dānto hi madbhakto rājyaṃ kartā sutastava | caturbhirapyupāyaiḥ sa vaśe sarvaṃ kariṣyati siddhibuddhī sadā tasya pādasaṃvāhanaṃ mudā | kurvāte parayā bhaktyā sāmavedastrimūrtimān

Calm, self-restrained, and my devotee, your son will rule the kingdom; by all four expedients he will bring everything under his control. Siddhi and Buddhi always gladly massage his feet with the highest devotion; the Sāmaveda, having three embodied forms,

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GnP 2 46.55

मम ध्यानं नामजपः सर्वदाऽस्य भविष्यति । अन्ते मम स्मृतिं कृत्वा मत्स्वरूपं प्रपत्स्यते गानं करोति शास्त्राणि मूर्तिमन्ति स्तुवन्ति तम् । पुराणानि च सर्वाणि वर्णयन्त्यस्य सद्गुणान्

mama dhyānaṃ nāmajapaḥ sarvadā'sya bhaviṣyati | ante mama smṛtiṃ kṛtvā matsvarūpaṃ prapatsyate gānaṃ karoti śāstrāṇi mūrtimanti stuvanti tam | purāṇāni ca sarvāṇi varṇayantyasya sadguṇān

Meditation on me and the muttering of my name will be his at all times; at the end, holding me in remembrance, he will attain my own nature. (The Sāmaveda) sings; the śāstras in embodied form praise him, and all the purāṇas describe his good qualities.

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GnP 2 46.56

क उवाच । एवं तस्यै वरान्दत्त्वा परितुष्टो विनायकः । ददौ स्वपरशुं तस्य पर्शुबाहुरिति स्फुटम् बालरूपधरस्तत्र शुण्डादण्डविराजितः । कोमलांगोऽरुणनिभो विशालाक्षो विषाणवान्

ka uvāca | evaṃ tasyai varāndattvā parituṣṭo vināyakaḥ | dadau svaparaśuṃ tasya parśubāhuriti sphuṭam bālarūpadharastatra śuṇḍādaṇḍavirājitaḥ | komalāṃgo'ruṇanibho viśālākṣo viṣāṇavān

Ka said: Having thus given her the boons, Vināyaka, well satisfied, gave him his own axe — hence plainly (the name) "Axe-armed." There, bearing the form of a child, resplendent with the staff of his trunk, tender-limbed, ruddy as the dawn, wide-eyed, tusked.

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GnP 2 46.57

चक्रे नाम स्वयं देवस्ततश्चान्तर्हितोऽभवत् मुकुटी कुण्डली राजत्कस्तूरीतिलकः स्वराट् । दिव्यमाल्याम्बरधरो दिव्यगन्धानुलेपनः

cakre nāma svayaṃ devastataścāntarhito'bhavat mukuṭī kuṇḍalī rājatkastūrītilakaḥ svarāṭ | divyamālyāmbaradharo divyagandhānulepanaḥ

The god himself made the name, and thereupon vanished. Wearing a diadem and earrings, with a gleaming musk mark, self-sovereign, wearing divine garlands and garments, smeared with divine fragrances.

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GnP 2 46.58

मुक्तामणिगणोपेतं सरत्नं दाम संदधत्

muktāmaṇigaṇopetaṃ saratnaṃ dāma saṃdadhat

wearing a jewelled garland strung with a mass of pearls and gems.

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GnP 2 46.59

अनन्तकोटिसूर्योजाश्चन्द्रार्धकृतशेखरः । स्मरणात्पापहा सद्यः स्मृता गङ्गा यधा नृणाम्

anantakoṭisūryojāścandrārdhakṛtaśekharaḥ | smaraṇātpāpahā sadyaḥ smṛtā gaṅgā yadhā nṛṇām

Arising from endless millions of suns, with the half-moon made his crest, destroying sins at once when remembered, as the Gaṅgā does for men when called to mind.

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GnP 2 46.61

न शीतं न जरा तत्र क्लमः स्वेदोऽथ तन्द्र्यपि । क्षुधा तृषा वा दुखं वा न कदाचन जायते

na śītaṃ na jarā tatra klamaḥ svedo'tha tandryapi | kṣudhā tṛṣā vā dukhaṃ vā na kadācana jāyate

There is no cold there, no old age, no weariness, no sweat, nor drowsiness; neither hunger nor thirst nor sorrow ever arises (there).

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GnP 2 46.62

आनन्दहृदमग्नास्ते तत्रासन्ये सुपुण्यतः । विश्वव्यापी बालरूपी यत्र तिष्ठति विश्ववित्

ānandahṛdamagnāste tatrāsanye supuṇyataḥ | viśvavyāpī bālarūpī yatra tiṣṭhati viśvavit

Immersed in the lake(?) of bliss they dwell there through great merit, where the all-pervading, child-formed knower of all abides.

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GnP 2 46.63

मुद्गल उवाच । एवं ते कथितो लोको गणेशस्य यथामति । तस्मादनन्यभक्त्या त्वं तमेवाराधय प्रभो

mudgala uvāca | evaṃ te kathito loko gaṇeśasya yathāmati | tasmādananyabhaktyā tvaṃ tamevārādhaya prabho

Mudgala said: Thus the world of Gaṇeśa has been told to you as far as my understanding goes; therefore, O lord, worship him alone with undivided devotion.

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GnP 2 46.64

क उवाच । एवमुक्त्वा गतः स्थानं स्वकीयं मुद्गलो मुनिः । काशीराजो गणेशस्य भजने तत्परोऽभवत्

ka uvāca | evamuktvā gataḥ sthānaṃ svakīyaṃ mudgalo muniḥ | kāśīrājo gaṇeśasya bhajane tatparo'bhavat

Ka said: Having spoken thus, the sage Mudgala went to his own place; and the king of Kāśī became wholly intent upon the worship of Gaṇeśa.

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GnP 2 46.65

सहस्रपञ्चवर्षाणि कृत्वा राज्यमनेन ह । देहेन यानमारुह्य गतः स्वानन्दधाम तत्

sahasrapañcavarṣāṇi kṛtvā rājyamanena ha | dehena yānamāruhya gataḥ svānandadhāma tat

Having exercised kingship for five thousand years, he mounted the (celestial) vehicle with his (very) body and went to that abode of Svānanda.

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GnP 2 46.83

तत्र तेजःस्वरूपोऽस्ति हृदि द्वादशपत्रकम् । दशपत्रं नाभिचक्रं लिंगे षटपत्रकं शुभम्

tatra tejaḥsvarūpo'sti hṛdi dvādaśapatrakam | daśapatraṃ nābhicakraṃ liṃge ṣaṭapatrakaṃ śubham

There (he) exists in the form of radiance: in the heart a twelve-petalled (lotus), the navel-wheel ten-petalled, and in the liṅga an auspicious six-petalled one.

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