Mahabharata — Volume III (Dutt edition) — Chapter 135
MBh 3 135.1
विदुर उवाच शकुनीनामिहार्थाय पाशं भूमावयोजयत्। कश्चिच्छाकुनिकस्तात पूर्वेषामिति शुश्रुम॥
vidura uvāca śakunīnāmihārthāya pāśaṃ bhūmāvayojayat| kaścicchākunikastāta pūrveṣāmiti śuśruma||
Vidura said For the capture of birds did a certain fowler set his net in this world. O Sire, so we have heard from old men.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.2
तस्मिन् तौ शकुनौ बद्धौ युगपत् सहचारिणौ। तावुपादाय तं पाशं जग्मतुः खचरावुभौ॥
tasmin tau śakunau baddhau yugapat sahacāriṇau| tāvupādāya taṃ pāśaṃ jagmatuḥ khacarāvubhau||
There were two birds, companions to each other, captured in that net and they both went up into the air with that net.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.3
तौ विहायसमाक्रान्तौ दृष्ट्वा शाकुनिकस्तदा। अन्वधावदनिर्विष्णो येन येन स्म गच्छतः॥
tau vihāyasamākrāntau dṛṣṭvā śākunikastadā| anvadhāvadanirviṣṇo yena yena sma gacchataḥ||
The fowler seeing them fly up in the air without losing his senses followed them in the direction they took.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.4
तथा तमनुधावन्तं मृगयुं शकुनार्थिनम्। आश्रमस्थो मुनिः कश्चिद् ददर्शाथ कृताह्निकः॥
tathā tamanudhāvantaṃ mṛgayuṃ śakunārthinam| āśramastho muniḥ kaścid dadarśātha kṛtāhnikaḥ||
A certain Rishi living in a hermitage, who had finished his daily worship I saw that fowler following the birds, still in the hope of getting hold of the birds.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.5
तावन्तरिक्षगौ शीघ्रमनुयान्तं महीचरम्। श्लोकेनानेन कौरव्य पप्रच्छ स मुनिस्तदा॥
tāvantarikṣagau śīghramanuyāntaṃ mahīcaram| ślokenānena kauravya papraccha sa munistadā||
Then did the anchoring address, O Kauravya, that denizen of the earth following the wanderers of the sky in this couplet.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.6
विचित्रमिदमाश्चर्यं मृगहन् प्रतिभाति मे। प्लमानौ हि खचरौ पदातिरनुधावसि॥
vicitramidamāścaryaṃ mṛgahan pratibhāti me| plamānau hi khacarau padātiranudhāvasi||
Slayer of animals, it seems to me wonderfully strange that you who move by your feet in this earth are following wanderers of the sky.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.7
शाकुनिक उवाच पाशमेकमुभावेतौ सहितौ हरतो मम। यत्र वै विवदिष्येते तत्र मे वशमेष्यतः॥
śākunika uvāca pāśamekamubhāvetau sahitau harato mama| yatra vai vivadiṣyete tatra me vaśameṣyataḥ||
The fowler said These two united are taking that one net of mine but they will come under my control where they will quarrel.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.8
विदुर उवाच तौ विवादमनुप्राप्तौ शकुनौ मृत्युसंधितौ। विगृह्य च सुदुर्बुद्धी पृथिव्यां संनिपेततुः॥
vidura uvāca tau vivādamanuprāptau śakunau mṛtyusaṃdhitau| vigṛhya ca sudurbuddhī pṛthivyāṃ saṃnipetatuḥ||
Vidura said The two birds who were doomed to death quarreled; and having quarrelled the two fools fell to the earth.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.9
तौ युध्यमानौ संरब्धौ मृत्युपाशवशानुगौ। उपसृत्यापरिज्ञातो जग्राह मृगहा तदा॥
tau yudhyamānau saṃrabdhau mṛtyupāśavaśānugau| upasṛtyāparijñāto jagrāha mṛgahā tadā||
The slayer of animals then approaching those two fighting with each other, subject to the trap of death, without their knowledge caught hold of them.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.10
एवं ये ज्ञातयोऽर्थेषु मिथो गच्छन्ति विग्रहम्। तेऽमित्रवशमायान्ति शकुनाविव विग्रहात्॥
evaṃ ye jñātayo'rtheṣu mitho gacchanti vigraham| te'mitravaśamāyānti śakunāviva vigrahāt||
In the same way those cousins who quarrel in matters of wealth are brought under the control of enemies like the birds owing to their quarrel.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.11
सम्भोजनं संकथनं सम्प्रश्नोऽथ समागमः। एतानि ज्ञातिकार्याणि न विरोधः कदाचन॥
sambhojanaṃ saṃkathanaṃ sampraśno'tha samāgamaḥ| etāni jñātikāryāṇi na virodhaḥ kadācana||
Dining in one another's company and conversing among, one another, inquiring about one another's health and living together, these are the duties of cousins and quarrel is never.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.12
ये स्म काले सुमनसः सर्वे वृद्धानुपासते। सिंहगुप्तमिवारण्यमप्रधृष्या भवन्ति ते॥
ye sma kāle sumanasaḥ sarve vṛddhānupāsate| siṃhaguptamivāraṇyamapradhṛṣyā bhavanti te||
Those who in proper season serve the old men out of pure motives, become invincible like a forest protected by lions.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.13
येऽर्थं संततमासाद्य दीना इव समासते। श्रियं ते समप्रयच्छन्ति द्विषद्भ्यो भरतर्षभ॥
ye'rthaṃ saṃtatamāsādya dīnā iva samāsate| śriyaṃ te samaprayacchanti dviṣadbhyo bharatarṣabha||
Those, who attaining to prosperity behave like the mean-minded contribute to the prosperity of their despisers, O you bull among the race of Bharata.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.14
धूमायन्ते व्यपेतानि ज्वलन्ति सहितानि च। धृतराष्ट्रोल्मुकानीव ज्ञातयो भरतर्षभ।॥
dhūmāyante vyapetāni jvalanti sahitāni ca| dhṛtarāṣṭrolmukānīva jñātayo bharatarṣabha|||
Cousins, O you bull among the race of Bharata, smoke when quarrelling and blaze up when like charcoals.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.15
इदमन्यत् प्रवक्ष्यामि यथा दृष्टं गिरौ मया। श्रुत्वा तदपि कौरव्य यथा श्रेयस्तथा कुरु॥
idamanyat pravakṣyāmi yathā dṛṣṭaṃ girau mayā| śrutvā tadapi kauravya yathā śreyastathā kuru||
or I shall speak of something else, which was seen by me in a mountain and hearing that too, O son of Kuru, do whatever is good.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.16
वयं किरातैः सहिता गच्छामो गिरिमुत्तरम्। ब्राह्मणैर्देवकल्पैश्च विद्याजम्भकवार्तिकैः॥
vayaṃ kirātaiḥ sahitā gacchāmo girimuttaram| brāhmaṇairdevakalpaiśca vidyājambhakavārtikaiḥ||
We want to the Northern mountains accompanied by hunters and godlike Brahmanas fond of conversations incantations and medicines.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.17
कुञ्जभूतं गिरिं सर्वमभितो गन्धमादनम्। दीप्यमानौषधिगणं सिद्धगन्धर्वसेवितम्॥
kuñjabhūtaṃ giriṃ sarvamabhito gandhamādanam| dīpyamānauṣadhigaṇaṃ siddhagandharvasevitam||
The Gandhamadana mountain was like a grove (owing to tress growing on it) in every way. It was shining, as it were, with cluster of medicinal plants and inhabited by ascetics and the Gandharvas,
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.18
तत्रापश्याम वै सर्वे मधु पीतकमाक्षिकम्। मरुप्रपाते विषमे निविष्टं कुम्भसम्मितम्॥
tatrāpaśyāma vai sarve madhu pītakamākṣikam| maruprapāte viṣame niviṣṭaṃ kumbhasammitam||
There we all saw some honey of a yellow colour inside a pot placed at a very high point of the mountain.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.19
आशीविषै रक्ष्यमाणं कुबैरदयितं भृशम्। यत् प्राप्य पुरुषो मर्योऽप्यमरत्वं नियच्छति॥
āśīviṣai rakṣyamāṇaṃ kubairadayitaṃ bhṛśam| yat prāpya puruṣo maryo'pyamaratvaṃ niyacchati||
This was guarded by snakes, the favourite drink of Kubera, as it was drinking which even an earthy man gets immortality.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.20
अचक्षुर्लभते चक्षुर्वृद्धो भवति वै युवा। इति ते कथयन्ति स्म ब्राह्मणा जम्भसाधकाः॥
acakṣurlabhate cakṣurvṛddho bhavati vai yuvā| iti te kathayanti sma brāhmaṇā jambhasādhakāḥ||
Those without eyes get eyes, and the old become young. There was the honey described by the Brahmanas conversant with incantations.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.21
ततः किरातास्तद् दृष्ट्वा प्रार्थयन्तो महीपते। विनेशुर्विषमे तस्मिन् ससर्प गिरिगह्वरे॥
tataḥ kirātāstad dṛṣṭvā prārthayanto mahīpate| vineśurviṣame tasmin sasarpa girigahvare||
Then did the hunters, seeing that strive to obtain it, О king and were destroyed in thai frightful mountain cavern full of snakes.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.22
तथैव तव पुत्रोऽयं पृथिवीमेक इच्छति। मधु पश्यति सम्मोहात् प्रपातं नानुपश्यति॥
tathaiva tava putro'yaṃ pṛthivīmeka icchati| madhu paśyati sammohāt prapātaṃ nānupaśyati||
Thus does this son of yours desire to be the one supreme individual in this world; out of loss of his senses, does he see only the honey and not the fall.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.23
दुर्योधनो यो मनाः समरे सव्यसाचिना। न च पश्यामि तेजोऽस्य विक्रमं वा तथाविधम्॥
duryodhano yo manāḥ samare savyasācinā| na ca paśyāmi tejo'sya vikramaṃ vā tathāvidham||
Duryodhana is desirous of a fight with Savyasachin; but I do not see in him the strength or energy necessary for that purpose.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.24
एकेन रथमास्थाय पृथिवी येन निर्जिता। भीष्मद्रोणप्रभृतयः संत्रस्ताः साधुयायिनः॥
ekena rathamāsthāya pṛthivī yena nirjitā| bhīṣmadroṇaprabhṛtayaḥ saṃtrastāḥ sādhuyāyinaḥ||
That Savyasachin, who alone in his car has brought the earth under his control and who inspired dared into Bhishma, Drona and others accompanied by their hosts.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.25
विराटनगरे भग्नाः किं तत्र तव दृश्यताम्। प्रतीक्षमाणो यो वीरः क्षमते वीक्षितं तव॥
virāṭanagare bhagnāḥ kiṃ tatra tava dṛśyatām| pratīkṣamāṇo yo vīraḥ kṣamate vīkṣitaṃ tava||
They were routed at the city of Virata-sce what occurred there. That hero looking at your face and waiting to see your movements will forgive you still.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.26
दुपदो मत्स्यराजश्च संक्रुद्धश्च धनंजयः। न शेषयेयुः समरे वायुयुक्ता इवाग्नयः॥
dupado matsyarājaśca saṃkruddhaśca dhanaṃjayaḥ| na śeṣayeyuḥ samare vāyuyuktā ivāgnayaḥ||
Drupada, the king of the Matsyas and Dhananjaya, fired with wrath, will leave no trace (of your army) like a conflagration urged on by the wind.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 135.27
अङ्के कुरुष्व राजानं धृतराष्ट्र युधिष्ठिरम्। युध्यतोर्हि द्वयोर्युद्धे नैकान्तेन भवेज्जयः॥
aṅke kuruṣva rājānaṃ dhṛtarāṣṭra yudhiṣṭhiram| yudhyatorhi dvayoryuddhe naikāntena bhavejjayaḥ||
0 Dhritarashtra, take the king Yudhishthira on your lap; for by a struggle between you two none can get an absolute victory.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)