Mahabharata — Volume I (Dutt edition) — Chapter 12
MBh 1 12.1
रुरुरुवाच कथं हिंसितवान्सन्स राजा जनमेजयः। सर्पा वा हिंसितास्तत्र किमर्थं द्विजसत्तम॥
rururuvāca kathaṃ hiṃsitavānsansa rājā janamejayaḥ| sarpā vā hiṃsitāstatra kimarthaṃ dvijasattama||
Ruru said: O best of the twice-born, why did king Janamejaya become the destroyer of the snakes and how did he destroy them?
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 1 12.2
किमर्थं मोक्षिताश्चैव पन्नगास्तेन धीमता। आस्तीकेन द्विजश्रेष्ठ श्रोतुमिच्छाम्यशेषतः॥
kimarthaṃ mokṣitāścaiva pannagāstena dhīmatā| āstīkena dvijaśreṣṭha śrotumicchāmyaśeṣataḥ||
Why were they saved by wise Astika, the best of Brahmanas? I am desirous of hearing all this.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 1 12.3
ऋषिरुवाच श्रोष्यसि त्वं रुरो सर्वमास्तीकचरितं महत्। ब्राह्मणानां कथयतामित्युक्त्वान्तरधीयत॥
ṛṣiruvāca śroṣyasi tvaṃ ruro sarvamāstīkacaritaṃ mahat| brāhmaṇānāṃ kathayatāmityuktvāntaradhīyata||
Rishi said: O Ruru, you will hear the important history of Astika from the Brahmanas. Saying this he disappeared.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 1 12.4
सौतिरुवाच रुस्श्चापि वनं सर्वं पर्यधावत्समन्ततः। तमृषि नष्टमन्विच्छन्संश्रान्तो न्यपत वि॥
sautiruvāca rusścāpi vanaṃ sarvaṃ paryadhāvatsamantataḥ| tamṛṣi naṣṭamanvicchansaṃśrānto nyapata vi||
Sauti said: Ruru rushed in search of the Rishi, but he did not find him in all the forest. Finding him not, he sat down on the ground, much fatigued.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 1 12.5
स मोहं परमं गत्वा नष्टसंज्ञ इवाभवत्। तदृषेर्वचनं तथ्यं चिन्तयानं पुनः पुनः॥
sa mohaṃ paramaṃ gatvā naṣṭasaṃjña ivābhavat| tadṛṣervacanaṃ tathyaṃ cintayānaṃ punaḥ punaḥ||
He felt himself confounded and seemed to lose his senses. He repeatedly pondered over the Rishi's words.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 1 12.6
लब्धसंज्ञो रुस्चायात्तदाचख्यौ पितुस्तदा। पिता चास्य तदाख्यानं पृष्टः सर्वं न्यवेदयत्॥
labdhasaṃjño ruscāyāttadācakhyau pitustadā| pitā cāsya tadākhyānaṃ pṛṣṭaḥ sarvaṃ nyavedayat||
Regaining his senses, he came home and asked his father (to relate the history) and his father related to him the story. End of Pau loma Parva
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)