Garuda Purana — Uttara Khanda (Pretakalpa) — Chapter 48
GaP 2 48.1
श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम्- ४८ तार्क्ष्य उवाच । ये मर्त्यलोके निवसन्ति मानवास्ते सर्वजातौ निधनं प्रयान्ति । काले स्वकीये निजपुण्यसंख्यया वदन्ति लाक कथस्व तन्मे
śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 48 tārkṣya uvāca / ye martyaloke nivasanti mānavāste sarvajātau nidhanaṃ prayānti / kāle svakīye nijapuṇyasaṃkhyayā vadanti lāka kathasva tanme
The Glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, 48. Tārkṣya said: Those men who live in the world of mortals — in every birth they go to their end, each at his own time, according to the reckoning of his own merit. (People) say ... tell me that.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.2
गच्छन्ति मार्गेण सुदुस्तरेण विधातृनिष्पादितवर्त्मनि स्थिताः । केनैव पुण्येन मुदं प्रयान्ति तिष्ठन्ति केनैव कुलं बलं वयः
gacchanti mārgeṇa sudustareṇa vidhātṛniṣpāditavartmani sthitāḥ / kenaiva puṇyena mudaṃ prayānti tiṣṭhanti kenaiva kulaṃ balaṃ vayaḥ
They travel by a road very hard to cross, set upon a path laid out by the Ordainer. By what merit do they come to joy? By what do family, strength and vigour endure?
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.3
सूत उवाच । श्रुत्वाथ देवो गरुडं त्ववोचत् स्मृत्वा वपुः कर्मभयञ्च रूपम् । सृष्टा धरा येन चराचरं जगत्स येन शस्ता विहितो यमो विभुः
sūta uvāca / śrutvātha devo garuḍaṃ tvavocat smṛtvā vapuḥ karmabhayañca rūpam / sṛṣṭā dharā yena carācaraṃ jagatsa yena śastā vihito yamo vibhuḥ
Sūta said: Then, having heard (this), the god spoke to Garuḍa, calling to mind the body, and the fear of karma, and (its) form: he by whom the earth was created and the world of moving and unmoving things, by whom the mighty Yama was appointed as chastiser.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.4
श्रीभगवानुवाच । धर्मार्थकामं चिरमोक्षसञ्चयमन्यं द्वितीयं यममार्गगामिनाम् । प्रविश्यचाङ्गुष्ठसमे स तत्र वै तं प्राप्य देहं स्वमन्दिरम्?
śrībhagavānuvāca / dharmārthakāmaṃ ciramokṣasañcayamanyaṃ dvitīyaṃ yamamārgagāminām / praviśyacāṅguṣṭhasame sa tatra vai taṃ prāpya dehaṃ svamandiram?
The Blessed Lord said: Dharma, wealth and pleasure, and the long-gathered store of liberation — another, a second (thing) for those who travel Yama's road. Having entered there into (a form) the size of a thumb, he indeed, reaching that body as his own house...
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.5
गृहीतपाशो रुदते पुनः पुनर्देशे सुपुण्ये द्विज देहसंस्थितः । देवेन्द्रपूजा पितृदेवतृप्तिदं मोहान्न चेष्टं न च पुत्त्रसन्ततिः
gṛhītapāśo rudate punaḥ punardeśe supuṇye dvija dehasaṃsthitaḥ / devendrapūjā pitṛdevatṛptidaṃ mohānna ceṣṭaṃ na ca puttrasantatiḥ
With the noose laid on him he weeps again and again, O twice-born one, lodged in a body in a very holy region: worship of the lord of the gods, the satisfying of the fathers and the gods — through delusion nothing that was to be desired (was done), nor is there a line of sons.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.6
न मे ऽस्ति बन्धुर्यममार्गगामिनो मया न कृत्यं द्विजदेहलिप्सया । सम्प्राप्य विप्रत्वमतीव दुर्लभं नाधीतवान्वेदपुराणसंहिताः । प्राप्तं सुरत्नं करसंस्थितं गतं देहन्क्वचिन्निस्तर यत्त्वया कृतम्
na me 'sti bandhuryamamārgagāmino mayā na kṛtyaṃ dvijadehalipsayā / samprāpya vipratvamatīva durlabhaṃ nādhītavānvedapurāṇasaṃhitāḥ / prāptaṃ suratnaṃ karasaṃsthitaṃ gataṃ dehankvacinnistara yattvayā kṛtam
"I have no kinsman, now that I travel Yama's road; I did nothing with a view to gaining a twice-born's body. Having obtained brahminhood, so very hard to get, I did not study the Vedas, the Purāṇas, the Saṃhitās. A fine jewel obtained and lying in the hand has gone (from it)." — Cross over the body somewhere(?), that which was done by you.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.7
यः क्षत्त्रियो बाहुबलेन संयुगे ललाटदेशाद्रुधिरं मुखे पपौ । तत्सोमपानं हि कृतं महामखे जीवन्मृतः सो ऽपि हि याति मुक्तिक्
yaḥ kṣattriyo bāhubalena saṃyuge lalāṭadeśādrudhiraṃ mukhe papau / tatsomapānaṃ hi kṛtaṃ mahāmakhe jīvanmṛtaḥ so 'pi hi yāti muktik
That kṣatriya who in battle, by the strength of his arms, drank blood in his mouth from the forehead (of a foe) — that indeed counts as the drinking of soma at a great sacrifice; he too, dead while living, goes to release.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.8
स्थानान्यनेकानि कृतानि तानि पीतान्यनेकान्यपि गर्हितानि । शस्त्रं गृहीत्वा समरे रिपूणां यः संमुखं याति स मुक्तपापः
sthānānyanekāni kṛtāni tāni pītānyanekānyapi garhitāni / śastraṃ gṛhītvā samare ripūṇāṃ yaḥ saṃmukhaṃ yāti sa muktapāpaḥ
Many stations (of merit) have been won by those (deeds), and many blameworthy things have been drunk (as though pure): he who takes up his weapon and goes to face the enemies in battle is freed of sin.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.9
क्षत्त्रान्वयो वापि विशोन्वयो वा शूद्रान्वयो वापि हि नीचवर्णः । संग्रामदेवद्विजबालघाती स्त्रीवृद्धहा दीनतपस्विहन्ता
kṣattrānvayo vāpi viśonvayo vā śūdrānvayo vāpi hi nīcavarṇaḥ / saṃgrāmadevadvijabālaghātī strīvṛddhahā dīnatapasvihantā
Whether of kṣatriya lineage or of vaiśya lineage or of śūdra lineage, or even of a low class: (there is) the slayer in battle of gods, brahmins and children, the killer of women and the aged, the destroyer of the helpless and of ascetics —
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.10
उपद्रुतेष्वेषु पराङ्मुखो यः स्युस्तस्य देवाः सकलाः पराङ्मुखाः । तिलोदकं नैव पिबन्ति पूर्वे हुतं न गृह्णाति हुताशनोपि तत्
upadruteṣveṣu parāṅmukho yaḥ syustasya devāḥ sakalāḥ parāṅmukhāḥ / tilodakaṃ naiva pibanti pūrve hutaṃ na gṛhṇāti hutāśanopi tat
When these are being oppressed, whoever turns his face away — from him all the gods turn their faces away; the ancestors do not drink his sesame-and-water offering, nor does the fire-eater accept what he offers.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 48.11
द्वेषाद्भयाद्वा समरे समागते शस्त्रं गृहीत्वा परसैन्यसंमुखः । न याति पक्षीन्द्र मृश्च पश्चात्क्षात्त्रं बलं तस्य गतं तथैव । द्विजाय दत्त्वा कनकं महीमिमां भूयः स पश्चाद्भवतीह लोके
dveṣādbhayādvā samare samāgate śastraṃ gṛhītvā parasainyasaṃmukhaḥ / na yāti pakṣīndra mṛśca paścātkṣāttraṃ balaṃ tasya gataṃ tathaiva / dvijāya dattvā kanakaṃ mahīmimāṃ bhūyaḥ sa paścādbhavatīha loke
When battle has come on, whether out of hatred or out of fear, one who takes up a weapon and does not go forward to face the enemy army but turns back afterwards — O lord of birds, his warrior strength is gone just so; (but) having given gold and this earth to a brahmin, he becomes (whole) again afterwards in this world.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.12
दानं प्रदत्तं ग्रहणे द्विजेन्द्रे स्नानं कृतं तेन सदा सुतीर्थे । गत्वा गयायां पितृपिण्डदानं कृतं सदा यो म्रियते तु युद्धे
dānaṃ pradattaṃ grahaṇe dvijendre snānaṃ kṛtaṃ tena sadā sutīrthe / gatvā gayāyāṃ pitṛpiṇḍadānaṃ kṛtaṃ sadā yo mriyate tu yuddhe
By him a gift has been given at an eclipse into the hand of a foremost brahmin, by him a bath has always been taken at a good place of pilgrimage, by him the offering of rice-balls to the ancestors has been made by going to Gayā — (by him) who dies in battle.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 48.13
यः क्षात्त्रदेहन्तु विहाय शोचते रणाङ्गणे स्वामिवधे च गोग्रहे । स्त्रीबालघाते पथि सार्थहेतवे मया स्वकोशं न हतं न पातितम्
yaḥ kṣāttradehantu vihāya śocate raṇāṅgaṇe svāmivadhe ca gograhe / strībālaghāte pathi sārthahetave mayā svakośaṃ na hataṃ na pātitam
But he who, abandoning his warrior body, grieves on the field of battle — at the slaying of his master, at the seizing of cattle, at the killing of women and children, (or) on the road for the sake of a caravan: "By me my own treasure(-body) was neither struck down nor made to fall."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.14
वैश्यः स्वकर्माणि विशोचते तदा गृहीतपाशो न मयापि सञ्चितम् । सत्यं न चोक्तं क्रय विक्रयेण मोहाद्विमूढेन कुटुम्बहेतवे
vaiśyaḥ svakarmāṇi viśocate tadā gṛhītapāśo na mayāpi sañcitam / satyaṃ na coktaṃ kraya vikrayeṇa mohādvimūḍhena kuṭumbahetave
Then the vaiśya grieves over his own works, caught in the noose: "Nothing was accumulated by me (rightly); no truth was spoken in buying and selling, by one deluded through infatuation, for the sake of his household."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.15
शूद्रं वपुः प्राप्य यशस्करं सदा दानं द्विजेभ्यो न कृतं द्विजार्चनम् । च्दृदद्यत्दद्वड्ढ ढद्धदृथ्र् ददृध्ड्ढथ्र्डड्ढद्ध जलाशयो नैव कृतो धरातले असंस्कृतो विप्रवरो न संस्कृतः
śūdraṃ vapuḥ prāpya yaśaskaraṃ sadā dānaṃ dvijebhyo na kṛtaṃ dvijārcanam / cdṛdadyatdadvaḍḍha ḍhaddhadṛthr dadṛdhḍḍhathrḍaḍḍhaddha jalāśayo naiva kṛto dharātale asaṃskṛto vipravaro na saṃskṛtaḥ
"Having obtained a śūdra body, which always brings fame, no gift was made by me to brahmins, nor honouring of brahmins ... no reservoir was made by me on the face of the earth, no uninitiated eminent brahmin was given his sacraments."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.16
त्यक्त्वा स्वकर्माणि मदेन सुस्थितं मया सुतीर्थे स्ववपुर्न चोज्झितम् । धर्मोर्जितो नैव न देवपूजनं कृतं मया चैव विमुक्तिहेतवे
tyaktvā svakarmāṇi madena susthitaṃ mayā sutīrthe svavapurna cojjhitam / dharmorjito naiva na devapūjanaṃ kṛtaṃ mayā caiva vimuktihetave
"Abandoning my own duties, I remained settled in intoxication; my own body was not given up by me at a holy place of pilgrimage; no merit was amassed, nor was worship of the gods performed by me for the sake of liberation."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 48.17
देहं समासाद्य तथैव पिण्डजं वर्णांस्तथैवान्त्यजम्लेच्छसंज्ञितान् । मरुन्मयं देहमिमे विशन्ति नैवेहमानाः पथि धर्मसंकुले
dehaṃ samāsādya tathaiva piṇḍajaṃ varṇāṃstathaivāntyajamlecchasaṃjñitān / marunmayaṃ dehamime viśanti naivehamānāḥ pathi dharmasaṃkule
Having obtained a body born of the (funeral) rice-ball, and likewise the (four) classes, and likewise those called low-born and barbarian, these (souls) enter a body made of wind, not striving on the path crowded with duty.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.18
परस्परं धर्मकृन्तं स्वकीयं सम्पाद्य लक्ष्यं पथि सञ्चरन्त्स्वम् । पक्षीन्द्र वाक्यानि शृणुष्व तानि मनोरमाणि प्रवदन्ति यानि
parasparaṃ dharmakṛntaṃ svakīyaṃ sampādya lakṣyaṃ pathi sañcarantsvam / pakṣīndra vākyāni śṛṇuṣva tāni manoramāṇi pravadanti yāni
Cutting one another's duty (?), having accomplished their own aim, they wander each on his own path; O lord of birds, hear those words of theirs, the pleasing ones which they speak.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.19
सारा हि लोकेषु भवेत्त्रिलोकी द्वीपेषु सर्वेषु च जम्बुकाख्यम् । देशेषु सर्वेष्वपि देवदेशः जीवेषु सर्वेषु मनुष्य एव
sārā hi lokeṣu bhavettrilokī dvīpeṣu sarveṣu ca jambukākhyam / deśeṣu sarveṣvapi devadeśaḥ jīveṣu sarveṣu manuṣya eva
Among worlds the essential one is the triple world; among all continents, the one called Jambu; among all countries too, the land of the gods; among all living beings, man alone.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 48.20
वर्णाश्च चत्वार इह प्रशस्ताः वर्णेषु धर्मिष्ठनराः प्रशस्ताः । धर्मेण सौख्यं समुपैति सर्वं ज्ञानं समाप्नोति महापथे स्थितः
varṇāśca catvāra iha praśastāḥ varṇeṣu dharmiṣṭhanarāḥ praśastāḥ / dharmeṇa saukhyaṃ samupaiti sarvaṃ jñānaṃ samāpnoti mahāpathe sthitaḥ
And the four classes are praised here; among the classes, men most devoted to dharma are praised. Through dharma one attains all happiness; standing on the great path, one obtains knowledge.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 48.21
देहं परित्यज्य यदा गतायुः पक्षिन् स्थितो ऽहं कृमिकीटसंस्थितः । सरीसृपो ऽहं मशको विनिर्मितश्चतुष्पदो ऽहं वनसूकरो ऽहम्
dehaṃ parityajya yadā gatāyuḥ pakṣin sthito 'haṃ kṛmikīṭasaṃsthitaḥ / sarīsṛpo 'haṃ maśako vinirmitaścatuṣpado 'haṃ vanasūkaro 'ham
"When, my life span spent, I left the body, O bird, I existed established as a worm and insect; I was a creeping thing, I was fashioned as a mosquito, I was a four-footed creature, I was a forest boar."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 48.22
सर्वं विजानाति हि गर्भसंस्थितो जातश्च सद्यस्तदिदञ्च विस्मरेत् । यच्चिन्तितं गर्भसमागतेन वै बालो युवा वृद्धवया बभूव
sarvaṃ vijānāti hi garbhasaṃsthito jātaśca sadyastadidañca vismaret / yaccintitaṃ garbhasamāgatena vai bālo yuvā vṛddhavayā babhūva
For while lodged in the womb (a being) knows everything, and once born he at once forgets this — that which was pondered by him while he was in the womb; (and so) the child became a youth and (then) of old age.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 48.23
मोहाद्विनाष्टं यदि गर्भचिन्तितं स्मृतं पुनर्मृत्युगते चदेहे । तस्मिन्प्रनष्टे हृदि चिन्तितं गतं स्मृतं पुनर्गर्भगते च देहे
mohādvināṣṭaṃ yadi garbhacintitaṃ smṛtaṃ punarmṛtyugate cadehe / tasminpranaṣṭe hṛdi cintitaṃ gataṃ smṛtaṃ punargarbhagate ca dehe
If through delusion what was pondered in the womb is lost, it is remembered again when the body has gone to death; and when that (body) has perished, what was pondered in the heart is gone, and is remembered again when the body has entered the womb.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.24
तस्मिन्प्रनष्टे हृदि चिन्तितं पुनर्मया स्वकोशे परवञ्चनं कृतम् । द्यूतैश्छलेनापि च चौर्यवृत्त्या धर्मं व्यतिक्रम्य शरीररक्षणे
tasminpranaṣṭe hṛdi cintitaṃ punarmayā svakośe paravañcanaṃ kṛtam / dyūtaiśchalenāpi ca cauryavṛttyā dharmaṃ vyatikramya śarīrarakṣaṇe
When that (memory) perished, what was pondered in the heart (was) again: "By me, for my own store, the deceiving of others was done — by gambling, by trickery, and by the practice of theft, transgressing dharma for the protection of my body."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.25
कृच्छ्रेण लक्ष्मीः समुपार्जिता स्वयं मया न भुक्तं मनसेप्सितं धनम् । ताम्बूलमन्नं मधुरं सगोरसं दत्त्वाग्निदेवातिथिबन्धुवर्गे
kṛcchreṇa lakṣmīḥ samupārjitā svayaṃ mayā na bhuktaṃ manasepsitaṃ dhanam / tāmbūlamannaṃ madhuraṃ sagorasaṃ dattvāgnidevātithibandhuvarge
"With hardship wealth was earned by me myself; the money my mind desired was not enjoyed by me — betel, food, sweets together with milk-products — having given (them) to fire, gods, guests and the circle of kinsmen."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.26
सोमग्रहे सूर्यसमागमेपि वा न सेवितं तीर्थवरिष्ठमुत्तमम् । कोशं स्वकीयं मलमूत्रपूरितं देहिन्क्वचिन्निस्तर यत्त्वया कृतम्
somagrahe sūryasamāgamepi vā na sevitaṃ tīrthavariṣṭhamuttamam / kośaṃ svakīyaṃ malamūtrapūritaṃ dehinkvacinnistara yattvayā kṛtam
"At a lunar eclipse, or at the conjunction of the sun (a solar eclipse), the best and highest place of pilgrimage was not resorted to; (only) my own body-treasury filled with filth and urine (was tended)." O embodied one, cross over somehow what has been done by you!
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.27
मया न दृष्टा न नता न पूजिता त्रैविक्रमी मूर्तिरिह स्थिता भुवि । प्रभासनाथो न च भक्तिसंस्तुतो देहिन्क्वचिन्निस्तर यत्त्वया कृतम्
mayā na dṛṣṭā na natā na pūjitā traivikramī mūrtiriha sthitā bhuvi / prabhāsanātho na ca bhaktisaṃstuto dehinkvacinnistara yattvayā kṛtam
"By me the image of the thrice-striding one (Viṣṇu), standing here on earth, was neither seen nor bowed to nor worshipped; nor was the lord of Prabhāsa praised with devotion." O embodied one, cross over somehow what has been done by you!
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 48.28
गत्वा वरिष्ठे भुवि तीर्थसन्निधौ धनं न दत्तं विदुषां करे मया । आप्लुत्य देहं विधिना द्विजे गुरौ दिहिन्क्वचिन्निस्तर यत्त्वया कृतम्
gatvā variṣṭhe bhuvi tīrthasannidhau dhanaṃ na dattaṃ viduṣāṃ kare mayā / āplutya dehaṃ vidhinā dvije gurau dihinkvacinnistara yattvayā kṛtam
"Having gone to the best place on earth, in the presence of the sacred ford, wealth was not given by me into the hand of the learned; nor, after bathing the body according to rule, (was it given) to a brahmin teacher." O embodied one, cross over somehow what has been done by you!
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.29
न मातृपूजा न च विष्णुशङ्करौ गणेशचणड्यौ न च भास्करो ऽपि वा । यञ्चोपचारैर्बलियुक्तचन्दनैर्देहिन्क्वचिन्निस्तर यत्त्वया कृतम्
na mātṛpūjā na ca viṣṇuśaṅkarau gaṇeśacaṇaḍyau na ca bhāskaro 'pi vā / yañcopacārairbaliyuktacandanairdehinkvacinnistara yattvayā kṛtam
"No worship of the Mothers, nor of Viṣṇu and Śaṅkara, nor of Gaṇeśa and Caṇḍī, nor even of the sun, (was made) by me with services and with sandal-paste along with offerings." O embodied one, cross over somehow what has been done by you!
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 48.30
लब्धा मया मानवदेवतोपमा मोहाद्गता सर्वमिदञ्च पार्थिव । गतिं न वीक्षेत स वै विमूढधीर्देहिन्क्वचिन्निस्तर यत्त्वया कृतम्
labdhā mayā mānavadevatopamā mohādgatā sarvamidañca pārthiva / gatiṃ na vīkṣeta sa vai vimūḍhadhīrdehinkvacinnistara yattvayā kṛtam
"A human (birth) comparable to a god's was obtained by me, and through delusion all this is gone, O king." Such a one of utterly bewildered mind does not see his (future) course. O embodied one, cross over somehow what has been done by you!
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.31
एतानि पक्षिन्मनसा विचिन्त्य वाक्यानि धर्मार्थयशस्कराणि । मुक्तिं समायान्ति मनुष्यलोके वसन्ति ये धर्मरताः सुदेशे
etāni pakṣinmanasā vicintya vākyāni dharmārthayaśaskarāṇi / muktiṃ samāyānti manuṣyaloke vasanti ye dharmaratāḥ sudeśe
Having pondered in mind these words, O bird, which produce dharma, wealth and fame, those who dwell in a good land in the world of men, devoted to dharma, attain liberation.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 48.32
इति ब्रुवाणैर्यमधूतवर्गैर्विहन्यते कालमयैश्च मुद्गरैः । हा दैव हा दैव इति स्मरन् वै धनं न दत्तं स्वयमर्जितं यत्
iti bruvāṇairyamadhūtavargairvihanyate kālamayaiśca mudgaraiḥ / hā daiva hā daiva iti smaran vai dhanaṃ na dattaṃ svayamarjitaṃ yat
So speaking, the bands of Yama's messengers beat (him) with cudgels made of Time; and he, remembering, (cries) "Alas, fate! Alas, fate!" — for the wealth he had himself earned was never given away.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 48.33
न भूमिदानं न च गोप्रदानं न वारिदानं न च वस्त्रदानम् । फलं सताम्बूलविलेपनं वा त्वया न दत्तं भुवि शोचसे कथम्
na bhūmidānaṃ na ca gopradānaṃ na vāridānaṃ na ca vastradānam / phalaṃ satāmbūlavilepanaṃ vā tvayā na dattaṃ bhuvi śocase katham
No gift of land, no gift of a cow, no gift of water, no gift of clothing, no fruit, no betel with unguent — nothing was given by you on earth: why then do you grieve?
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 48.34
पिता मृतस्ते च पितामहः सा यया धृतो वाप्युदरे स्वकीये । मृतो ऽप्यसौ बन्धुजनः समस्तो दृष्टं त्वया सर्वमिदं गतायः
pitā mṛtaste ca pitāmahaḥ sā yayā dhṛto vāpyudare svakīye / mṛto 'pyasau bandhujanaḥ samasto dṛṣṭaṃ tvayā sarvamidaṃ gatāyaḥ
Your father died, and your grandfather too, and she who bore you in her own womb; and all that circle of kinsmen is dead as well — you have seen all this, (you) who are (now) departed.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 48.35
कोशं त्वदीयं ज्वलितञ्च वह्निना पुत्त्रैर्गृहीतो धनधान्य सञ्चयः । सुभाषितं धर्मचयं कृतञ्च यत्तदेव गच्छेत्तव पृष्ठसंस्थम्
kośaṃ tvadīyaṃ jvalitañca vahninā puttrairgṛhīto dhanadhānya sañcayaḥ / subhāṣitaṃ dharmacayaṃ kṛtañca yattadeva gacchettava pṛṣṭhasaṃstham
Your treasury was burnt up by fire, and your hoard of wealth and grain was seized by your sons; only the good words and the heap of dharma that you did will go, staying at your back.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 48.36
न दृश्यते को ऽपि मृतः समागतो राजा यतिर्वा द्विजपुङ्गवो ऽपि वा । यो वै मृतः साहसिकः स मर्त्यको नाशं यो ऽपि धरातले स्थितः
na dṛśyate ko 'pi mṛtaḥ samāgato rājā yatirvā dvijapuṅgavo 'pi vā / yo vai mṛtaḥ sāhasikaḥ sa martyako nāśaṃ yo 'pi dharātale sthitaḥ
No one who has died is seen to have come back — no king, no ascetic, not even the foremost of the twice-born; whoever has died, that mortal, however bold, (has gone to) destruction, even he who stood (firm) on the face of the earth.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.37
एवं गणास्ते ब्रुवते सकिन्नरा धैर्यं समालम्ब्य विपादपूरितः । श्रुत्वा गणानां वचनं महाद्भुतं ब्रवीति पक्षीन्द्र मनुष्यतां गतः
evaṃ gaṇāste bruvate sakinnarā dhairyaṃ samālambya vipādapūritaḥ / śrutvā gaṇānāṃ vacanaṃ mahādbhutaṃ bravīti pakṣīndra manuṣyatāṃ gataḥ
Thus those attendants, together with the kinnaras, speak; and he, filled with distress, gathering up his courage, having heard the most astonishing speech of the attendants, speaks, O lord of birds — he who had (once) attained human birth.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.38
दानप्रभावेण विमानसंस्थितो धर्मः पिता मातृदयानुरूपिणी । वाणी कलत्रं मधुरार्थभाषिणी स्नानं सुतीर्थे च सुबन्धवर्गः
dānaprabhāveṇa vimānasaṃsthito dharmaḥ pitā mātṛdayānurūpiṇī / vāṇī kalatraṃ madhurārthabhāṣiṇī snānaṃ sutīrthe ca subandhavargaḥ
By the power of giving one is seated in a celestial car; dharma is (one's) father, compassion resembling a mother, speech that utters sweet meanings is (one's) wife, bathing at a good sacred ford (is one's) good circle of kinsmen.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.39
करार्पितं यत्सुकृतं समस्तं स्वर्गस्तदा स्यात्तव किङ्करोपमः । यो धर्मवान् प्राप्स्यति सो ऽतिसौख्यं पापी समस्तं विविधञ्च दुःखम्
karārpitaṃ yatsukṛtaṃ samastaṃ svargastadā syāttava kiṅkaropamaḥ / yo dharmavān prāpsyati so 'tisaukhyaṃ pāpī samastaṃ vividhañca duḥkham
When all the merit is placed in your hand, then heaven becomes like your servant; he who has dharma will obtain the highest bliss, the sinner every kind of manifold suffering.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 48.40
यो धर्मशीलो जितमानरोषो विद्याविनीतो न परोपतापी । स्वदारतुष्टः परदारदूरःस वै नरो नो भुवि वन्दनीयः
yo dharmaśīlo jitamānaroṣo vidyāvinīto na paropatāpī / svadāratuṣṭaḥ paradāradūraḥsa vai naro no bhuvi vandanīyaḥ
He whose conduct is dharma, who has conquered pride and anger, who is disciplined by learning, who does not torment others, who is content with his own wife and keeps far from others' wives — such a man indeed is to be honoured by us on earth.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 48.41
मिष्टान्नदाता चरिताग्निहोत्रो वेदान्तविच्चन्द्रसहस्रजीवी । मासोपवासी च पतिव्रता चषड् जीवलोके मम वन्दनीयाः
miṣṭānnadātā caritāgnihotro vedāntaviccandrasahasrajīvī / māsopavāsī ca pativratā caṣaḍ jīvaloke mama vandanīyāḥ
A giver of sweet food, one who has performed the agnihotra, a knower of Vedānta, one who lives a thousand moons (i.e. long), one who fasts for a month, and a wife devoted to her husband — these six in the world of the living are to be honoured by me.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 48.42
एवं समाचारयुतो नरो ऽपि वापीं सकूपां सजलं तडागम् । प्रपाशुभं हृद्गृहदेवमन्दिरं कृतं नरेणैव स धर्मौत्तमः
evaṃ samācārayuto naro 'pi vāpīṃ sakūpāṃ sajalaṃ taḍāgam / prapāśubhaṃ hṛdgṛhadevamandiraṃ kṛtaṃ nareṇaiva sa dharmauttamaḥ
A man endowed with such conduct, and a step-well with a well, a tank with water, a fine water-booth, a lake, a house, a temple of the god — when made by a man, he is highest in dharma.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.43
वर्षाशनं वेदविदे च दत्तं कन्याविवाहस्त्वृणमोचनं द्विजे । भूमिः सुकृष्टापि तृषार्तिहेतोस्तदेवमेतं सुकृतत् समस्तम्
varṣāśanaṃ vedavide ca dattaṃ kanyāvivāhastvṛṇamocanaṃ dvije / bhūmiḥ sukṛṣṭāpi tṛṣārtihetostadevametaṃ sukṛtat samastam
A year's food given to a knower of the Veda, the marriage of a girl, the release of a twice-born from debt, land well ploughed, (a well) for the sake of those afflicted by thirst — all this indeed is merit.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 48.44
अध्यायमेनं सुकृतस्य सारं शृणोति गायत्यपि भावशुद्ध्या । स वै कुलीनः स च धर्मयुक्तो विश्वालयं याति परं स नूनम्
adhyāyamenaṃ sukṛtasya sāraṃ śṛṇoti gāyatyapi bhāvaśuddhyā / sa vai kulīnaḥ sa ca dharmayukto viśvālayaṃ yāti paraṃ sa nūnam
Whoever hears or even recites, with purity of heart, this chapter, the essence of merit — he indeed is well-born and endowed with dharma, and he surely goes to the supreme abode of the All.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition