Mahabharata — Volume II (Dutt edition) — Chapter 138
MBh 2 138.1
लोमश उवाच एतस्मिन्नेव काले तु बृहद्युम्नो महीपतिः। सत्रं तेने महाभागो रैभ्ययाज्य: प्रतापवान्॥
lomaśa uvāca etasminneva kāle tu bṛhadyumno mahīpatiḥ| satraṃ tene mahābhāgo raibhyayājya: pratāpavān||
Lomasha said: About this time, the highly blessed ruler of earth, the greatly powerful Brihadyumna, the Yajamana of Raivya performed a sacrifice.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.2
तेन रैभ्यस्य वै पुत्रावर्वावसुपरावसू। वृतौ संहायौ सत्रार्थं बृहद्द्युम्नेनधीमता॥
tena raibhyasya vai putrāvarvāvasuparāvasū| vṛtau saṃhāyau satrārthaṃ bṛhaddyumnenadhīmatā||
The two sons of Raivya, named Arvavasu and Paravasu, were employed by the intelligent Brihadyumna to assist him in the sacrifice.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.3
तत्र तौ समनुज्ञातौ पित्रा कौन्तेय जग्मतुः। आश्रमे त्वभवद् रैभ्यो भार्या चैव परावसोः॥
tatra tau samanujñātau pitrā kaunteya jagmatuḥ| āśrame tvabhavad raibhyo bhāryā caiva parāvasoḥ||
O son of Kunti, thercupon those two, taking the permission of their father, went away. Raivya remained in the hermitage with Paravasu's wife.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.4
अथावलोककोऽगच्छद् गृहानेकः परावसुः। कृष्णाजिनेन संवीतं ददर्श पितरं वने।॥
athāvalokako'gacchad gṛhānekaḥ parāvasuḥ| kṛṣṇājinena saṃvītaṃ dadarśa pitaraṃ vane|||
One day in order to see his wife, Paravasu alone went to the hermitage and he saw his father in the forest, covered with black dcerskin.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.5
जघन्यरात्रे निद्रान्धः सावशेषे तमस्यपि। चरन्तं गहनेऽरण्ये मेने स पितरं मृगम्॥
jaghanyarātre nidrāndhaḥ sāvaśeṣe tamasyapi| carantaṃ gahane'raṇye mene sa pitaraṃ mṛgam||
The night was far advanced and dark and he was drowsy with sleep. When roaming in the forest, he took his father for a deer.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.6
मृगं तु मन्यमानेन पिता वै तेन हिंसितः। अकामयानेन तदा शरीरत्राणमिच्छता॥
mṛgaṃ tu manyamānena pitā vai tena hiṃsitaḥ| akāmayānena tadā śarīratrāṇamicchatā||
Mistaking his father for a dcer, he unintentionally killed him with the desire of protecting his own body.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.7
करोतु वै भवान् सत्रं तस्य स प्रेतकार्याणि कृत्वा सर्वाणि भारत। पुनरागम्य तत् सत्रमब्रवीद् भ्रातरं वचः॥
karotu vai bhavān satraṃ tasya sa pretakāryāṇi kṛtvā sarvāṇi bhārata| punarāgamya tat satramabravīd bhrātaraṃ vacaḥ||
O descendant of Bharata, after performing all his funeral rites, he came again to the sacrifice and spoke these words to his brother.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.8
इदं कर्म न शक्तस्त्वं वोढुमेकः कथंचन। मया तु हिंसितस्तातो मन्यमानेन तं मृगम्॥
idaṃ karma na śaktastvaṃ voḍhumekaḥ kathaṃcana| mayā tu hiṃsitastāto manyamānena taṃ mṛgam||
Paravasu said: You will never be able to perform this act alone. I have killed our father, mistaking him for a deer.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.9
सोऽस्मदर्थे व्रतं तात चर त्वं ब्रह्महिंसनम्। समर्थोऽप्यहमेकाकी कर्म कर्तुमिदं मुने॥
so'smadarthe vrataṃ tāta cara tvaṃ brahmahiṃsanam| samartho'pyahamekākī karma kartumidaṃ mune||
O brother, on my behalf, observe a vow prescribed in the case of killing a Brahmana. O Rishi, I shall alone be able to perform this act.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.10
अर्वावसुरुवाच बृहद्युम्नस्यधीमतः। ब्रह्मवध्यां चरिष्येऽहं त्वदर्थं नियतेन्द्रियः॥
arvāvasuruvāca bṛhadyumnasyadhīmataḥ| brahmavadhyāṃ cariṣye'haṃ tvadarthaṃ niyatendriyaḥ||
Arvavasu said: Then perform the sacrifice of the intelligent Brihadyumna. On your behalf, I shall observe the vow prescribed in the case of killing a Brahmana by subduing my senses.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.11
लोमश उवाच स तस्य ब्रह्मवध्यायाः पारं गत्वा युधिष्ठिर। अर्वावसुस्तदा सत्रमाजगाम पुनर्मुनिः॥
lomaśa uvāca sa tasya brahmavadhyāyāḥ pāraṃ gatvā yudhiṣṭhira| arvāvasustadā satramājagāma punarmuniḥ||
Lomasha said : ( Yudhishthira, having observed the vow prescribed in the case of killing a Brahmana, Arvavasu, the Rishi, again came back to the sacrifice.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.12
ततः परावसुर्दृष्ट्वा भ्रातरं समुपस्थितम्। बृहद्युम्नमुवाचेदं वचनं हषगद्गदम्॥
tataḥ parāvasurdṛṣṭvā bhrātaraṃ samupasthitam| bṛhadyumnamuvācedaṃ vacanaṃ haṣagadgadam||
Thereupon having seen his brother come back again, Paravasu spoke these words, his voice choked with delight.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.13
एष ते ब्रह्महा यज्ञं मा द्रष्टुं प्रविशेदिति। ब्रह्महा प्रेक्षितेनापि पीडयेत् त्वामसंशयम्॥
eṣa te brahmahā yajñaṃ mā draṣṭuṃ praviśediti| brahmahā prekṣitenāpi pīḍayet tvāmasaṃśayam||
"See that this killer of a Brahmana may not enter your sacrifice. Do not also look at him, for even a glance at a killer of a Brahmana can certainly do you harm."
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.14
लोमश उवाच तच्छ्रुत्वैव तदा राजा प्रेष्यानाह स विट्यते। प्रेष्यैरुत्सार्यमाणस्तु राजन्नर्वावसुस्तदा॥ न मया ब्रह्महत्येयं कृतेत्याह पुनः पुनः। उच्यमानोऽसकृत्प्रेष्यैर्ब्रह्महन्निति भारत॥
lomaśa uvāca tacchrutvaiva tadā rājā preṣyānāha sa viṭyate| preṣyairutsāryamāṇastu rājannarvāvasustadā|| na mayā brahmahatyeyaṃ kṛtetyāha punaḥ punaḥ| ucyamāno'sakṛtpreṣyairbrahmahanniti bhārata||
ruler of earth, O descendant of Bharata, as soon as the king heard this, he ordered his men (to turn him out). Being driven out by the king's men and being repeatedly called by thein as the slayer of Brahmana, Arvavasu again and again cried, “It is not I that killed a Brahmana.'
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.15
नैव स्म प्रतिजानाति ब्रह्मवध्यां स्वयंकृताम्। मम भ्रात्रा कृतमिदं मया स परिमोक्षितः॥
naiva sma pratijānāti brahmavadhyāṃ svayaṃkṛtām| mama bhrātrā kṛtamidaṃ mayā sa parimokṣitaḥ||
He did not also admit, that he had observed the vow for his own sake. (He said), “My brother did it and I have freed him from that sin."
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.16
स तथा प्रवदन् क्रोधात् तैश्च प्रेष्यैः प्रभाषितः। तूष्णीं जगाम ब्रह्मर्षिर्वनमेव महातपाः॥
sa tathā pravadan krodhāt taiśca preṣyaiḥ prabhāṣitaḥ| tūṣṇīṃ jagāma brahmarṣirvanameva mahātapāḥ||
Having said this in anger and having been reprimanded by the king's men, that Brahmana Rishi, that great ascetic, became silent; and he then went away to the forest.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.17
उग्रं तप: समास्थाय दिवाकरमथाश्रितः। रहस्यवेदं कृतवान् सूर्यस्य द्विजसत्तमः॥ मूर्तिमांस्तं ददर्शाथ स्वयमग्रभुगव्ययः। लोमश उवाच प्रीतास्तस्याभवन् देवाः कर्मणार्वावसोनूप॥
ugraṃ tapa: samāsthāya divākaramathāśritaḥ| rahasyavedaṃ kṛtavān sūryasya dvijasattamaḥ|| mūrtimāṃstaṃ dadarśātha svayamagrabhugavyayaḥ| lomaśa uvāca prītāstasyābhavan devāḥ karmaṇārvāvasonūpa||
Performing severe austerities, he took protection in the sun. Thereupon the mystery of the sun revealed in him and that eternal deity appeared before him in an embodied form. O king, the celestials were exceedingly pleased with that act of Arvavasu.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.18
तं ते प्रवरयामासुर्निरासुश्च परावसुम्। ततो देवा वरं तस्मै ददुरग्निपुरोगमाः॥
taṃ te pravarayāmāsurnirāsuśca parāvasum| tato devā varaṃ tasmai daduragnipurogamāḥ||
They appointed him as the chief priest of the sacrifice and caused Paravasu to be dismissed. Then the celestials with Agni at the head, bestowed upon him boons.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.19
स चापि वरयामास पितुरुत्थानमात्मनः। अनागस्त्वं ततो भ्रातुः पितुश्चास्मरणं वधे॥
sa cāpi varayāmāsa piturutthānamātmanaḥ| anāgastvaṃ tato bhrātuḥ pituścāsmaraṇaṃ vadhe||
He too asked the boons that his father might be restored to life. He also prayed that his brother might be freed from the sin of killing his father;
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.20
भरद्वाजस्य चोत्थानं यवक्रीतस्य चोभयोः। प्रतिष्ठां चापि वेदस्य सौरस्य द्विजसत्तमः। एवमस्त्विति तं देवाः प्रोचुश्चापि वरान् ददुः॥
bharadvājasya cotthānaṃ yavakrītasya cobhayoḥ| pratiṣṭhāṃ cāpi vedasya saurasya dvijasattamaḥ| evamastviti taṃ devāḥ procuścāpi varān daduḥ||
(And also) that Bharadvaja and Yavakrit, both might be restored to life and that the Solar revelation might be famous.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.21
ततः प्रादुर्बभूवुस्ते सर्व एव युधिष्ठिर। अथाब्रवीद् यवक्रीतो देवाग्निपुरोगमान्॥
tataḥ prādurbabhūvuste sarva eva yudhiṣṭhira| athābravīd yavakrīto devāgnipurogamān||
O Yudhishthira, the celestials said, “Be it so"; and they bestowed on him the boons. Thereupon all of them were restored to life. Then Yavakrit spoke thus to the celestials with Agni at their head.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.22
समधीतं मया ब्रह्म व्रतानि चरितानि च। कथं च रैभ्यः शक्तो मामधीयानं तपस्विनम्॥
samadhītaṃ mayā brahma vratāni caritāni ca| kathaṃ ca raibhyaḥ śakto māmadhīyānaṃ tapasvinam||
“I have obtained the knowledge of all the Vedas, I have also observed vows. How came it then that Raivya killed me who am an ascetic!
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.23
तथायुक्तेन विधिना निहन्तुममरोत्तमाः। देवा ऊचुः मैवं कृथा यवक्रीत यथा वदसि वै मुने। ऋते गुरुमधीता हि सुखं वेदास्त्वया पुरा॥ अनेन तु गुरून् दुःखात् तोषयित्वाऽऽत्मकर्मणा। कालेन महता क्लेशाद् ब्रह्माधिगतमुत्तमम्॥
tathāyuktena vidhinā nihantumamarottamāḥ| devā ūcuḥ maivaṃ kṛthā yavakrīta yathā vadasi vai mune| ṛte gurumadhītā hi sukhaṃ vedāstvayā purā|| anena tu gurūn duḥkhāt toṣayitvā''tmakarmaṇā| kālena mahatā kleśād brahmādhigatamuttamam||
O foremost of the celestials, how could he then kill me in that way?" "O Yavakrit, O Rishi, do not think in the way you speak, thinking that you easily learnt the Vedas without the help of a preceptor and Raivya obtained the excellent Vedas after great exertions and long time.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.24
लोमश उवाच यवक्रीतमथोक्त्वैवं देवाः साग्निपुरोगमाः। संजीवयित्वा तान् सर्वान् पुनर्जग्मुस्त्रिविष्टपम्॥
lomaśa uvāca yavakrītamathoktvaivaṃ devāḥ sāgnipurogamāḥ| saṃjīvayitvā tān sarvān punarjagmustriviṣṭapam||
Having said this to Yavakrit, the celestials with Indra at their head restored them all to life and went away to heaven.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 2 138.25
आश्रमस्तस्य पुण्योऽयं सदापुष्पफलद्रुमः। अत्रोष्य राजशादूल सर्वं पापं प्रमोक्ष्यसि॥
āśramastasya puṇyo'yaṃ sadāpuṣpaphaladrumaḥ| atroṣya rājaśādūla sarvaṃ pāpaṃ pramokṣyasi||
O foremost of kings, here is the sacred hermitage of that Rishi) adorned with trees full of flowers and fruits (that grow) at all seasons. It cleanses all sins.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)