Mahabharata — Volume III (Dutt edition) — Chapter 172
MBh 3 172.1
नारद उवाच इदं रसातलं नाम सप्तमं पृथिवीतलम्। यत्रास्ते सुरभिर्माता गवाममृतसम्भवा॥
nārada uvāca idaṃ rasātalaṃ nāma saptamaṃ pṛthivītalam| yatrāste surabhirmātā gavāmamṛtasambhavā||
Narada said The name of this (region) is Rasatala which is the seventh region in the nether regions of the earth, where lives Surabhi, the mother of cows, who was born out of nectar.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 172.2
क्षरन्ती सततं क्षीरं पृथिवीसारसंभवम्। षण्णां रसानां सारेण रसमेकमनुत्तमम्॥
kṣarantī satataṃ kṣīraṃ pṛthivīsārasaṃbhavam| ṣaṇṇāṃ rasānāṃ sāreṇa rasamekamanuttamam||
She always distills milk which is produced from the essence of earthly things-which is of the one taste, having nothing superior to it, constituted of the essence of the six different tastes.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 172.3
अमृतेनाभितृप्तस्य सारमुद्रितः पुरा। पितामहस्य वदनादुदतिष्ठदनिन्दिता॥
amṛtenābhitṛptasya sāramudritaḥ purā| pitāmahasya vadanādudatiṣṭhadaninditā||
Surabhi, having no defect, herself rose from the mouth of the Grandfather, who satiated with nectar, was in days of old, vomiting the essence of all things.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 172.4
यस्याः क्षीरस्य धाराया निपतन्त्या महीतले। ह्रदः कृतः क्षीरनिधिः पवित्रं परमुच्यते॥
yasyāḥ kṣīrasya dhārāyā nipatantyā mahītale| hradaḥ kṛtaḥ kṣīranidhiḥ pavitraṃ paramucyate||
One stream, even of whose milk, having fallen on the face of the earth made a lake which is called the excellent and holy sea-milk.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 172.5
पुष्पितस्येव फेनेन पर्यन्तमनुवेष्टितम्। पिबन्तो निवसन्त्यत्र फेनपा मुनिसत्तमाः॥
puṣpitasyeva phenena paryantamanuveṣṭitam| pibanto nivasantyatra phenapā munisattamāḥ||
The limit of the sea is surrounded by foam which looks like flowers and here live those best among Munis-the drinkers of foam, drinking it.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 172.6
फेनपा नाम ते ख्याताः फेनाहाराश्च मातले। उचे तपसि वर्तन्ते येषां बिभ्यति देवताः॥
phenapā nāma te khyātāḥ phenāhārāśca mātale| uce tapasi vartante yeṣāṃ bibhyati devatāḥ||
They are known as drinkers of foam, O Matali, who practice austere asceticism and of whom the gods are afraid.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 172.7
अस्याश्चतस्रो धेन्वोऽन्या दिक्षु सर्वासु मातले। निवसन्ति दिशां पाल्यो धारयन्त्यो दिशः स्म ताः॥
asyāścatasro dhenvo'nyā dikṣu sarvāsu mātale| nivasanti diśāṃ pālyo dhārayantyo diśaḥ sma tāḥ||
She has got four calves, O Matali which are in the several cardinal points for they bear the load of these points.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 172.8
पूर्वां दिशं धारयते सुरूपा नाम सौरभी। दक्षिणां हंसिका नाम धारयत्यपरां दिशम्॥
pūrvāṃ diśaṃ dhārayate surūpā nāma saurabhī| dakṣiṇāṃ haṃsikā nāma dhārayatyaparāṃ diśam||
The child of Surabhi, named Surupa supports the eastern point and the one named Hansika supports another point-the south.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 172.9
पश्चिमा वारुणी दिक् च धार्यते व सुभद्रया। महानुभावया नित्यं मातले विश्वरूपया।॥
paścimā vāruṇī dik ca dhāryate va subhadrayā| mahānubhāvayā nityaṃ mātale viśvarūpayā|||
The western point, under the protection of Varuna, is supported by Subhadra who is ever of a great nature and of a universal foam.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 172.10
सर्वकामदुधा नाम धेनुर्धारयते दिशम्। उत्तरां मातले धा तथैलविसंज्ञिताम्॥
sarvakāmadudhā nāma dhenurdhārayate diśam| uttarāṃ mātale dhā tathailavisaṃjñitām||
The cow, named Sarvakamadugha, supports another point, O Matali, which is the direction in which virtue rules and so named after Kubera the God of wealth.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 172.11
आसां तु पयसा मिश्रं पयो निर्मथ्य सागरे। मन्थानं मन्दरं कृत्वा देवैरसुरसंहितैः॥ उद्धृता वारुणी लक्ष्मीरमृतं चापि मातले। उच्चैःश्रवाश्चाश्वराजो मणिरत्नं च कौस्तुभम्॥
āsāṃ tu payasā miśraṃ payo nirmathya sāgare| manthānaṃ mandaraṃ kṛtvā devairasurasaṃhitaiḥ|| uddhṛtā vāruṇī lakṣmīramṛtaṃ cāpi mātale| uccaiḥśravāścāśvarājo maṇiratnaṃ ca kaustubham||
The gods united with the Asuras, having churned the water of the ocean, mixed with milk, making the Mandara (mountain) their churning rod, extracted the Varuni wine, Lakshmi (the goddess of beauty and wealth) and nectar, O Matali and also the best of horses, Uchchaishrava and that gem Kaustubha.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 172.12
सुधारहारेषु च सुधां स्वधाभोजिषु च स्वधाम्। अमृतं चामृताशेषु सुरभी क्षरते पयः॥
sudhārahāreṣu ca sudhāṃ svadhābhojiṣu ca svadhām| amṛtaṃ cāmṛtāśeṣu surabhī kṣarate payaḥ||
Surabhi yields milk that is Sudha to those that live on Sudha and Svadha to those who subsist on Svadha and Amrita to those who feed on Amrita.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 172.13
अत्र गाथा पुरा गीता रसातलनिवासिभिः। पौराणी श्रूयते लोके गीयते या मनीषिभिः॥
atra gāthā purā gītā rasātalanivāsibhiḥ| paurāṇī śrūyate loke gīyate yā manīṣibhiḥ||
The song, that was sung here in days of old by the inhabitants of Rasatala, is still heard to be sung in this world by wise men.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 3 172.14
न नागलोके स्वर्गे न विमाने त्रिविष्टपे। परिवासः सुखस्तादृक् रसातलतले यथा॥
na nāgaloke svarge na vimāne triviṣṭape| parivāsaḥ sukhastādṛk rasātalatale yathā||
"Neither in the region of the Nagas, nor in Svarga, nor in Vimana, nor in Trivistapa (all names for heaven) is residence so happy as in the nether regions."
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)