Mahabharata — Volume III (Dutt edition) — Chapter 195

MBh 3 195.1

वैशम्पायन उवाच ततः शान्तनवो भीष्मो दुर्योधनममर्षणम्। केशवस्य वचः श्रुत्वा प्रोवाच भरतर्षभ॥

vaiśampāyana uvāca tataḥ śāntanavo bhīṣmo duryodhanamamarṣaṇam| keśavasya vacaḥ śrutvā provāca bharatarṣabha||

Vaishampayana said Then did the son of Shantanu, Bhishma, say to the wrathful Duryodhana, hearing the words of Keshava, O you best among the Bharata.

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

MBh 3 195.2

कृष्णेन वाक्यमुक्तोऽसि सुहृदां शममिच्छता। अन्वपद्यस्व तत् तात मा मन्युवशमन्वगाः॥

kṛṣṇena vākyamukto'si suhṛdāṃ śamamicchatā| anvapadyasva tat tāta mā manyuvaśamanvagāḥ||

“By Krishna has been spoken the words of a friend wishing for peace; listen to that my dear son, and do not follow the lead if vindictiveness.

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

MBh 3 195.3

अकृत्वा वचनं तात केशवस्य महात्मनः। श्रेयो न जातु न सुखं न कल्याणमवाप्स्यसि॥

akṛtvā vacanaṃ tāta keśavasya mahātmanaḥ| śreyo na jātu na sukhaṃ na kalyāṇamavāpsyasi||

By not acting up to the words of the great souled Keshava, will you not be able to obtain prosperity nor happiness nor your good.

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

MBh 3 195.4

धर्म्यमर्थ्य महाबाहुराह त्वां तात केशवः। तदर्थमभिपद्यस्व मा राजन् नीनशः प्रजाः॥

dharmyamarthya mahābāhurāha tvāṃ tāta keśavaḥ| tadarthamabhipadyasva mā rājan nīnaśaḥ prajāḥ||

The one of long arms, Keshava, has told you, my dear son, what will lead to virtue and to the obtainment of earthly good; and may you obtain that object, О king; do not destroy these living creatures.

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

MBh 3 195.5

ज्वलितां त्वमिमां लक्ष्मी भारती सर्वराजसु। जीवतो धृतराष्ट्रस्य दौरात्म्याद् भ्रंशयिष्यसि॥

jvalitāṃ tvamimāṃ lakṣmī bhāratī sarvarājasu| jīvato dhṛtarāṣṭrasya daurātmyād bhraṃśayiṣyasi||

Do not by your wicked deeds cause to break down this blazing prosperity of the Bharatas, among all kings while Dhritarashtra is alive.

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

MBh 3 195.6

आत्मानं च सहामात्यं सपुत्रभ्रातृबान्धवम्। अहमित्यनया बुद्ध्या जीविताद् भ्रंशयिष्यसि॥

ātmānaṃ ca sahāmātyaṃ saputrabhrātṛbāndhavam| ahamityanayā buddhyā jīvitād bhraṃśayiṣyasi||

Yourself with your ministers and with your sons, brothers and friends will be deprived of lives by your way-wardness and obstinacy.

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

MBh 3 195.7

अतिक्रामन् केशवस्य तथ्यं वचनमर्थवत्। पितुश्च भरतश्रेष्ठ विदुरस्य च धीमतः॥

atikrāman keśavasya tathyaṃ vacanamarthavat| pituśca bharataśreṣṭha vidurasya ca dhīmataḥ||

By acting against the beneficial advice leading to the obtainment of earthly benefit of Keshava as also of your father and the wise Vidura, O foremost among the Bharatas,

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

MBh 3 195.8

मा कुलघ्नः कुपुरुषो दुर्मतिः कापथं गमः। मातरं पितरं चैव मा मज्जीः शोकसागरे॥

mā kulaghnaḥ kupuruṣo durmatiḥ kāpathaṃ gamaḥ| mātaraṃ pitaraṃ caiva mā majjīḥ śokasāgare||

Do not bring about the extermination of your race; do not act like a wicked man of evil intellect and do not follow a wrong course. Do not drown your father and your mother in a sea of grief."

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

MBh 3 195.9

अथ द्रोणोऽब्रवीत् तत्र दुर्योधनमिदं वचः। अमर्षवशमापन्नं निःश्वसन्तं पुनः पुनः॥

atha droṇo'bravīt tatra duryodhanamidaṃ vacaḥ| amarṣavaśamāpannaṃ niḥśvasantaṃ punaḥ punaḥ||

Then did Drona say these words to Duryodhana there who was under the influence of wrath and breathing hard again and again.

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

MBh 3 195.10

धर्मार्थयुक्तं वचनमाह त्वां तात केशवः। तथा भीष्मः शान्तनवस्तज्जुषस्व नराधिप॥

dharmārthayuktaṃ vacanamāha tvāṃ tāta keśavaḥ| tathā bhīṣmaḥ śāntanavastajjuṣasva narādhipa||

“Keshava said words to you which are pregnant with virtue and profit, my dear son,; so did Bhishma, the son of Shantanu, O ruler of men, accept them.

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

MBh 3 195.11

प्राज्ञौ मेधाविनौ दान्तावर्थकामौ बहुश्रुतौ। आहतुस्त्वां हितं वाक्यं तज्जुषस्व नराधिप।॥

prājñau medhāvinau dāntāvarthakāmau bahuśrutau| āhatustvāṃ hitaṃ vākyaṃ tajjuṣasva narādhipa|||

The two are wise, have intelligence, have their souls under control, know what leads to are, as virtue and to worldly good and they are vastly learned; they have told you beneficial words; O ruler of men, accept them.

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

MBh 3 195.12

अनुतिष्ठ महाप्राज्ञ कृष्णभीष्मौ यदूचतुः। माधवं बुद्धिमोहेन माऽवमंस्थाः परंतप॥

anutiṣṭha mahāprājña kṛṣṇabhīṣmau yadūcatuḥ| mādhavaṃ buddhimohena mā'vamaṃsthāḥ paraṃtapa||

Follow, O greatly wise man, what the two, Krishna and Bhishma have said; do not from perverted understanding insult Madhava, O chastiser of foes.

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

MBh 3 195.13

ये त्वां प्रोत्साहयन्त्येते नैते कृत्याय कर्हिचित्। वैरं परेषां ग्रीवायां प्रतिमोक्ष्यन्ति संयुगे।॥

ye tvāṃ protsāhayantyete naite kṛtyāya karhicit| vairaṃ pareṣāṃ grīvāyāṃ pratimokṣyanti saṃyuge|||

Those, who are now encouraging and supporting you, will hardly do any thing when the time comes; and they rather will throw the (act of bearing) hostilities on the shoulders of others.

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

MBh 3 195.14

मा जीधनः प्रजाः सर्वाः पुत्रान् भ्रातृस्तथैव च। वासुदेवार्जुनौ यत्र विद्ध्यजेयानलं हि तान्॥

mā jīdhanaḥ prajāḥ sarvāḥ putrān bhrātṛstathaiva ca| vāsudevārjunau yatra viddhyajeyānalaṃ hi tān||

Do not slay all these living creatures as also your sons and brothers; the side on which Vasudeva and Arjuna know unconquerable and invisible.

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

MBh 3 195.15

एतच्चैव मतं सत्यं सुहृदोः कृष्णभीष्मयोः। यदि नादास्यसे तात पश्चात् तप्स्यसि भारत॥

etaccaiva mataṃ satyaṃ suhṛdoḥ kṛṣṇabhīṣmayoḥ| yadi nādāsyase tāta paścāt tapsyasi bhārata||

This is truly the opinion of your friend Krishna, and if you do not accept that, my dear son, you will grieve for it in the end, O Bharata,

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

MBh 3 195.16

यथोक्तं जामदग्न्येन भूयानेष ततोऽर्जुनः। कृष्णो हि देवकीपुत्रो देवैरपि सुदुःसहः। किं ते सुखप्रियेणेह प्रोक्तेन भरतर्षभ॥

yathoktaṃ jāmadagnyena bhūyāneṣa tato'rjunaḥ| kṛṣṇo hi devakīputro devairapi suduḥsahaḥ| kiṃ te sukhapriyeṇeha proktena bharatarṣabha||

Arjuna is still mightier than what the son of Jamadagni has described him to be; Krishna, the son of Devaki, is hard to vanquished even by gods, O best among the Bharatas, what is the use of telling you what is conducive to your happiness and ought therefore to be desired for by you.

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

MBh 3 195.17

एतत् ते सर्वमाख्यातं यथेच्छसि तथा कुरु। न हि त्वामुत्सहे वक्तुं भूयो भरतसत्तम॥

etat te sarvamākhyātaṃ yathecchasi tathā kuru| na hi tvāmutsahe vaktuṃ bhūyo bharatasattama||

All this is described to you; do as you like; I do not wish to address you more, O best among the Bharatas.

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

MBh 3 195.18

वैशम्पायन उवाच तस्मिनं वाक्यान्तरे वाक्यं क्षत्तापि विदुरोऽब्रवीत्। दुर्योधनमभिप्रेक्ष्य धार्तराष्ट्रममर्षणम्॥

vaiśampāyana uvāca tasminaṃ vākyāntare vākyaṃ kṣattāpi viduro'bravīt| duryodhanamabhiprekṣya dhārtarāṣṭramamarṣaṇam||

Vaishampayana said At the end of that speech did Kshattri Vidura also speak words looking at the wrathful son of Dhritarashtra, Duryodhana.

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

MBh 3 195.19

दुर्योधन न शोचामि त्वामहं भरतर्षभ। इमौ तु वृद्धौ शोचामि गान्धारी पितरं च ते॥

duryodhana na śocāmi tvāmahaṃ bharatarṣabha| imau tu vṛddhau śocāmi gāndhārī pitaraṃ ca te||

'Duryodhana, I do not grieve for you, O best among the Bharatas; I grieve for these two old people namely your father and Gandhari (your mother).

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

MBh 3 195.20

यावनाथौ चरिष्येते त्वया नाथेन दुर्हदा। हतमित्रौ हतामात्यौ लूनपक्षाविवाण्डजौ॥

yāvanāthau cariṣyete tvayā nāthena durhadā| hatamitrau hatāmātyau lūnapakṣāvivāṇḍajau||

Having yourself of wicked heart as their protector, they will wander about without any one (in a short time) with their friends slain and with ministers killed, like those born of eggs deprived of their wings.

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

MBh 3 195.21

भिक्षुको विचरिष्येते शोचन्तौ पृथिवीमिमाम्। कुलघ्नमीदृशं पापं जनयित्वा कुपूरुषम्॥

bhikṣuko vicariṣyete śocantau pṛthivīmimām| kulaghnamīdṛśaṃ pāpaṃ janayitvā kupūruṣam||

Grieving, they will wander about as beggars on the earth, having begotten such a wicked and vicious man, the exterminator of his race.

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

MBh 3 195.22

अथ दुर्योधनं राजा धृतराष्ट्रोऽभ्यभाषत। आसीनं भ्रातृभिः सार्धं राजभिः परिवारितम्॥

atha duryodhanaṃ rājā dhṛtarāṣṭro'bhyabhāṣata| āsīnaṃ bhrātṛbhiḥ sārdhaṃ rājabhiḥ parivāritam||

Then the king Dhritarashtra said to Duryodhana who was seated along with his brothers and surrounded by other kings,

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

MBh 3 195.23

दुर्योधन निबोधेदं शौरिणोक्तं महात्मना। आदत्स्व शिवमत्यन्तं योगक्षेमवदव्ययम्॥

duryodhana nibodhedaṃ śauriṇoktaṃ mahātmanā| ādatsva śivamatyantaṃ yogakṣemavadavyayam||

"O Duryodhana, listen to this alive given by the great-souled Shouri; accept his words which are true, most beneficial, and conducive to our salvation.

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

MBh 3 195.24

अनेन हि सहायेन कृष्णेनाक्लिष्टकर्मणा। इष्टान् सर्वानभिप्रायान् प्राप्स्याम: सर्वराजसु॥

anena hi sahāyena kṛṣṇenākliṣṭakarmaṇā| iṣṭān sarvānabhiprāyān prāpsyāma: sarvarājasu||

By the help of namely of Krishna of unblamable acts, we, of all other kings, shall obtain all desirable

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

MBh 3 195.25

सुसंहतः केशवेन तात गच्छ युधिष्ठिरम्। चर स्वस्त्ययनं कृत्स्नं भरतानामनामयम्॥

susaṃhataḥ keśavena tāta gaccha yudhiṣṭhiram| cara svastyayanaṃ kṛtsnaṃ bharatānāmanāmayam||

being well united with Keshava, my dear son, go to Yudhishthira and make arrangements for a ceremony for the good of the Bharatas (the Pandavas and Kurus united together).

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

MBh 3 195.26

वासुदेवेन तीर्थेन तात गच्छस्व संशमम्। कालप्राप्तमिदं मन्ये मा त्वं दुर्योधनातिगाः॥

vāsudevena tīrthena tāta gacchasva saṃśamam| kālaprāptamidaṃ manye mā tvaṃ duryodhanātigāḥ||

By the help if Vasudeva, make peace (with the Pandavas); I think the proper time has now arrived; O Dhritarashtra, do not disobey me.

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

MBh 3 195.27

शमं चेद् याचमानं त्वं प्रत्याख्यास्यसि केशवम्। त्वदर्थमभिजल्पन्तं न तवास्त्यपराभवः॥

śamaṃ ced yācamānaṃ tvaṃ pratyākhyāsyasi keśavam| tvadarthamabhijalpantaṃ na tavāstyaparābhavaḥ||

If you abandon peace which is begged from you for the accomplishment of your own good, then will victory never be yours."

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