Mahabharata — Volume II (Dutt edition) — Chapter 314

MBh 2 314.1

वैशम्पायन उवाच ततस्ते यक्षवचनादुदतिष्ठन्त पाण्डवाः। क्षुत्पिपासे च सर्वेषां क्षणेन व्यपगच्छताम्॥

vaiśampāyana uvāca tataste yakṣavacanādudatiṣṭhanta pāṇḍavāḥ| kṣutpipāse ca sarveṣāṃ kṣaṇena vyapagacchatām||

Vaishampayana said : Then, at the words of the Yaksha the Pandavas rose up and their hunger and thirst forsook them in a short time.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.2

युधिष्ठिर उवाच सरस्येकेन पादेन तिष्ठन्तमपराजितम्। पृच्छामि को भवान् देवो न मे यक्षो मतो भवान्॥

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca sarasyekena pādena tiṣṭhantamaparājitam| pṛcchāmi ko bhavān devo na me yakṣo mato bhavān||

Yudhishthira said: I ask you, who stand on one leg in the lake and who are unconquerable, what god you are. I can not believe that you are a Yaksha.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.3

वसूनां वा भवानेको रुद्राणामथवा भवान्। अथवा मरुतां श्रेष्ठो वलशी वा त्रिदशेश्वरः॥

vasūnāṃ vā bhavāneko rudrāṇāmathavā bhavān| athavā marutāṃ śreṣṭho valaśī vā tridaśeśvaraḥ||

Are you the best of the Marutas or the Rudras or the lord of the celestials, the wielder of the thunderbolt.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.4

मम हि भ्रातर इमे सहस्रशतयोधिनः। तं योधं न प्रपश्यामि येन सर्वे निपातिताः॥

mama hi bhrātara ime sahasraśatayodhinaḥ| taṃ yodhaṃ na prapaśyāmi yena sarve nipātitāḥ||

Each of these my brothers is able to fight a thousand warriors and I do not find any warrior capable of destroying them all.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.5

सुखं प्रतिप्रबुद्धानामिन्द्रियाण्युपलक्षये। स भवान् सुहृदोऽस्माकमथवा न: पिता भवान्॥

sukhaṃ pratiprabuddhānāmindriyāṇyupalakṣaye| sa bhavān suhṛdo'smākamathavā na: pitā bhavān||

Their organs of sense indicate as if they have awakened from an agreeable slumber. Are you a friend of ours or are you our father himself?

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.6

यक्ष उवाच अहं ते जनकस्तात् धर्मोऽमृदुपराक्रम। त्वां दिदृक्षुरनुप्राप्तो विद्धि मां भरतर्षभ॥

yakṣa uvāca ahaṃ te janakastāt dharmo'mṛduparākrama| tvāṃ didṛkṣuranuprāpto viddhi māṃ bharatarṣabha||

The Yaksha said: O child, I am your father Dharma of great strength. Know, O best of the Bharatas, that I have come with the intention on seeing you.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.7

यशः सत्यं दमः शौचमार्जवं ह्रीरचापलम्। दानं तपो ब्रह्मचर्यमित्येतास्तनवो मम॥

yaśaḥ satyaṃ damaḥ śaucamārjavaṃ hrīracāpalam| dānaṃ tapo brahmacaryamityetāstanavo mama||

Fame, truth, self-control, purity, simplicity, modesty steadiness, charity, asceticism and Brahmacharya are my limbs.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.8

अहिंसा समता शान्तिरानृशंस्यममत्सरः। द्वाराण्येतानि मे विद्धि प्रियो ह्यसि सदा मम॥

ahiṃsā samatā śāntirānṛśaṃsyamamatsaraḥ| dvārāṇyetāni me viddhi priyo hyasi sadā mama||

Know that absence of cruelty, impartiality, peacefulness, asceticism, purity and want of pride are the (so many) avenues (of attaining to me). You are always (very) dear to me.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.9

दिष्ट्या पञ्चसुरक्तोऽसि दिष्ट्या तेषट्पदी जिता। द्वे पूर्वे मध्यमे द्वे च द्वे चान्ते साम्परायिके॥

diṣṭyā pañcasurakto'si diṣṭyā teṣaṭpadī jitā| dve pūrve madhyame dve ca dve cānte sāmparāyike||

It is by good fortune that you are given to the (practice of the) five (virtues namely, equanimity of the mind, self-control, abstenance from sensual indulgence, forgiveness and Yoga). You have by good luck conquered the six (i.e. hunger and thirst, sorrow, delusion, decrepitude and death). (Of these six the first) two show themselves in the first stage of life; the second two in the middle stage and the third two in the last part in order to make creatures go to the next world.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.10

धर्मोऽहमिति भद्रं ते जिज्ञासुस्त्वामिहागतः। आनृशंस्येन तुष्टोऽस्मि वरं दास्यामि तेऽनघ॥

dharmo'hamiti bhadraṃ te jijñāsustvāmihāgataḥ| ānṛśaṃsyena tuṣṭo'smi varaṃ dāsyāmi te'nagha||

I am Dharma, May you be in bliss. I came here to test you and have been pleased with your spirit of mercy. O sinless one, I will give you boons.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.11

वरं वृणीष्व राजेन्द्र दाता ह्यस्मि तवानघ। ये हि मे पुरुषा भक्ता न तेषामस्ति दुर्गतिः॥

varaṃ vṛṇīṣva rājendra dātā hyasmi tavānagha| ye hi me puruṣā bhaktā na teṣāmasti durgatiḥ||

O foremost of kings, crave boons, O sinless one, I will bestow them on you. Those persons that are devoted to me never experience misfortune.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.12

युधिष्ठिर उवाच अरणीसहितं यस्य मृगो ह्यादाय गच्छति। तस्याग्नयो न लुप्येरन् प्रथमोऽस्तु वरो मम॥

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca araṇīsahitaṃ yasya mṛgo hyādāya gacchati| tasyāgnayo na lupyeran prathamo'stu varo mama||

Yudhishthira said: May the Agni of the Brahmana whose firesticks are being carried away by that deer, be not destroyed. This the first boon that I crave.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.13

यक्ष उवाच अरणीसहितं ह्यस्य ब्राह्मणस्य हृतं मया। मृगवेषेण कौन्तेय जिज्ञासार्थं तव प्रभो॥

yakṣa uvāca araṇīsahitaṃ hyasya brāhmaṇasya hṛtaṃ mayā| mṛgaveṣeṇa kaunteya jijñāsārthaṃ tava prabho||

The Yaksha said: O effulgent son of Kunti, it was in order to test you that I, in the shape of a deer, carried off the fire sticks of that Brahmana.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.14

वैशम्पायन उवाच ददानीत्येव भगवानुत्तरं प्रत्यपद्यत। अन्यं वरय भद्रं ते वरं त्वममरोपम॥

vaiśampāyana uvāca dadānītyeva bhagavānuttaraṃ pratyapadyata| anyaṃ varaya bhadraṃ te varaṃ tvamamaropama||

Vaishampayana said : Thereupon, that exalted one replied “ I give (you this boon). Be blessed. Do you who are like an immortal ask for another boon.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.15

युधिष्ठिर उवाच वर्षाणि द्वादशारण्ये त्रयोदशमुपस्थितम्। तत्र नो नाभिजानीयुर्वसतो मनुजाः क्वचित्॥

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca varṣāṇi dvādaśāraṇye trayodaśamupasthitam| tatra no nābhijānīyurvasato manujāḥ kvacit||

Yudhishthira said: The twelve years O our forest life have passed away and the thirteenth is come. May no man recognise us in the course of this year wherever we may live.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.16

वैशम्पायन उवाच ददानीत्येव भगवानुत्तरं प्रत्यपद्यत। भूयश्चाश्वासयामास कौन्तेयं सत्यविक्रमम्॥

vaiśampāyana uvāca dadānītyeva bhagavānuttaraṃ pratyapadyata| bhūyaścāśvāsayāmāsa kaunteyaṃ satyavikramam||

Vaishampayana said : That god then replied “I give you (this boon also)” He then consoled the son of Kunti endued with the strength of truth (in these words),

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.17

यद्यपि स्वेन रूपेण चरिष्यथ महीमिमाम्। न वो विज्ञास्यते कश्चित् त्रिषु लोकेषु भारत॥

yadyapi svena rūpeṇa cariṣyatha mahīmimām| na vo vijñāsyate kaścit triṣu lokeṣu bhārata||

"O Bharata, even if you wander in the world in your own proper shapes, no one in the three worlds shall be able to recognize you.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.18

वर्षं त्रयोदशमिदं मत्प्रसादात् कुरूद्वहाः। विराटनगरे गूढा अविज्ञाताश्चरिष्यथ॥

varṣaṃ trayodaśamidaṃ matprasādāt kurūdvahāḥ| virāṭanagare gūḍhā avijñātāścariṣyatha||

Through my favour, O perpetuator of the Kuru race, you will lead a secret and incognito life in the city of Virata during this thirteenth year.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.19

यद् वः संकल्पितं रूपं मनसा यस्य यादृशम्। तादृशं तादृशं सर्वे छन्दतो धारयिष्यथ॥

yad vaḥ saṃkalpitaṃ rūpaṃ manasā yasya yādṛśam| tādṛśaṃ tādṛśaṃ sarve chandato dhārayiṣyatha||

And whatever shape every one of you desires in his mind to assume, he will be able to wear (that form) at will.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.20

अरणीसहितं चेदं ब्राह्मणाय प्रयच्छत। जिज्ञासार्थं मया ह्येतदाहृतं मृगरूपिणा॥

araṇīsahitaṃ cedaṃ brāhmaṇāya prayacchata| jijñāsārthaṃ mayā hyetadāhṛtaṃ mṛgarūpiṇā||

Now give to that Brahmana these fire-sticks which I carried away in the shape of a deer in order to test you.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.21

प्रवृणीष्वापरं सौम्य वरमिष्टं ददानि ते। न तृष्यामि नरश्रेष्ठ प्रयच्छन् वै वरांस्तथा।॥

pravṛṇīṣvāparaṃ saumya varamiṣṭaṃ dadāni te| na tṛṣyāmi naraśreṣṭha prayacchan vai varāṃstathā|||

O amiable one, crave another boon that you desire. I will give it. O best of men, I am not satisfied with conferring boons on you.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.22

तृतीयं गृह्यतां पुत्र वरमप्रतिमं महत्। त्वं हि मत्प्रभवो राजन् विदुरश्च ममांशजः॥

tṛtīyaṃ gṛhyatāṃ putra varamapratimaṃ mahat| tvaṃ hi matprabhavo rājan viduraśca mamāṃśajaḥ||

O son, accept a third great and unparalleled boon. O king, you have been begotten by me and Vidura is born of a portion of mine.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.23

युधिष्ठिर उवाच देवदेवो मया दृष्टो भवान् साक्षात् सनातनः। यं ददासि वरं तुष्टस्तं ग्रहीष्याम्यहं पितः॥

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca devadevo mayā dṛṣṭo bhavān sākṣāt sanātanaḥ| yaṃ dadāsi varaṃ tuṣṭastaṃ grahīṣyāmyahaṃ pitaḥ||

Yudhishthira said : You are the god of gods. It is enough that I have seen you in our own shape. I will, O father, accept whatsoever boon you may be pleased to grant me.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.24

जयेयं लोभमोहौ च क्रोधं चाहं सदा विभो। दाने तपसि सत्ये च मनो मे सततं भवेत्॥

jayeyaṃ lobhamohau ca krodhaṃ cāhaṃ sadā vibho| dāne tapasi satye ca mano me satataṃ bhavet||

O adorable one, may I always get the better of avarice, folly and anger and may my mind be always inclined towards charity, asceticism and truth.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.25

धर्म उवाच उपपन्नो गुणैरेतैः स्वभावेनासि पाण्डव। भवान् धर्मः पुनश्चैव यथोक्तं ते भविष्यति॥

dharma uvāca upapanno guṇairetaiḥ svabhāvenāsi pāṇḍava| bhavān dharmaḥ punaścaiva yathoktaṃ te bhaviṣyati||

Dharma said: You are by nature gifted with all those virtues, O Pandava. You are (the very embodiment of) Virtue (itself) However, may you again have what you desire.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.26

वैशम्पायन उवाच इत्युक्त्वान्तर्दधे धर्मो भगवाँल्लोकभावनः। समेताः पाण्डवाश्चैव सुखसुप्ता मनस्विनः॥

vaiśampāyana uvāca ityuktvāntardadhe dharmo bhagavā~llokabhāvanaḥ| sametāḥ pāṇḍavāścaiva sukhasuptā manasvinaḥ||

Vaishampayana said: Saying this, the adorable Dharma, whom all the worlds pay homage to, disappeared. And the magnanimous sons of Pandu were joined together after they had enjoyed and agreeable sleep.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.27

उपेत्य चाश्रमं वीराः सर्व एव गतक्लमाः। आरणेयं ददुस्तस्मै ब्राह्मणाय तपस्विने॥

upetya cāśramaṃ vīrāḥ sarva eva gataklamāḥ| āraṇeyaṃ dadustasmai brāhmaṇāya tapasvine||

All those heroes, free from fatigue, arriving. at the hermitage gave to that ascetic Brahmana his fire-sticks.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.28

इदं समुत्थानसमागतं महत्। पितुश्च पुत्रस्य च कीर्तिवर्धनम्। पठन् नरः स्याद् विजितेन्द्रियो वशी सपुत्रपौत्रः शतवर्षभाग् भवेत्॥

idaṃ samutthānasamāgataṃ mahat| pituśca putrasya ca kīrtivardhanam| paṭhan naraḥ syād vijitendriyo vaśī saputrapautraḥ śatavarṣabhāg bhavet||

The man who reads this great and fameenhancing story of the restoration to life (of the Pandavas) and the meeting of the father and the son (i.e. Dharma and Yudhishthira) becomes self controlled, obtains masters over the passions, is blessed with sons and grandsons and lives to a hundred years.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)

MBh 2 314.29

न चाप्यधर्मे न सुहृद्विभेदने परस्वहारे परदारमर्शने। कदर्यभावे न रमेन्मनः सदा नृणां सदाख्यानमिदं विजानताम्॥

na cāpyadharme na suhṛdvibhedane parasvahāre paradāramarśane| kadaryabhāve na ramenmanaḥ sadā nṛṇāṃ sadākhyānamidaṃ vijānatām||

Those men that thoroughly apprehend this story are never inclined towards unrighteousness, breaking friendships, misappropriating other peoples property or violating other peoples wives and they never indulge in vile thoughts.

— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)