Mahabharata — Volume VI (Dutt edition) — Chapter 161
MBh 6 161.1
संजय उवाच वार्तिकाणां सकाशात् तु श्रुत्वा दुर्योधनं हतम्। हतशिष्टास्ततो राजन् कौरवाणां महारथाः॥ विनिर्भिन्नाः शितैर्बाणैर्गदातोमरशक्तिभिः। अश्वत्थामा कृपश्चैव कृतवर्मा च सात्वतः॥ त्वरिता जवनैरश्वैरायोधनमुपागमन्। तत्रापश्यन् महात्मानं धार्तराष्ट्र निपातितम्॥ प्रभग्नं वायुवेगेन महाशालं यथा वने। भूमौ विचेष्टमानं तं रुधिरेण समुक्षितम्॥ महागजमिवारण्ये व्याधेन विनिपातितम्। विवर्तमानं वहुशो रुधिरौधपरिप्लुतम्॥
saṃjaya uvāca vārtikāṇāṃ sakāśāt tu śrutvā duryodhanaṃ hatam| hataśiṣṭāstato rājan kauravāṇāṃ mahārathāḥ|| vinirbhinnāḥ śitairbāṇairgadātomaraśaktibhiḥ| aśvatthāmā kṛpaścaiva kṛtavarmā ca sātvataḥ|| tvaritā javanairaśvairāyodhanamupāgaman| tatrāpaśyan mahātmānaṃ dhārtarāṣṭra nipātitam|| prabhagnaṃ vāyuvegena mahāśālaṃ yathā vane| bhūmau viceṣṭamānaṃ taṃ rudhireṇa samukṣitam|| mahāgajamivāraṇye vyādhena vinipātitam| vivartamānaṃ vahuśo rudhiraudhapariplutam||
Sanjaya said “Having heard of Duryodhana's fall from the messengers, those powerful car-warriors, the remnant of the Kaurava arıny greatly wounded with keen arrows and maces and lances and darts-those three, viz.. Ashvathaman and Kripa and Kritavarman of the Satwata race, riding at breakneck pace on their swift chargers came to the field of battle. They saw there the high-souled son of Dhritarashtra lying low on the ground, like a gigantic Shala tree laid low in the forest by a storm. They saw him suffering on the mother Earth and covered with blood like a powerful elephant in the forest laid low by a hunter. They saw him suffering and bleeding profusely.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.2
यदृच्छया निपतितं चक्रमादित्यगोचरम्। महावातसमुत्थेन संशुष्कमिव सागरम्॥ पूर्णचन्द्रमिव व्योम्नि तुषारावृतमण्डलम्। रेणु ध्वस्तं दीर्घभुजं मातङ्गमिव विक्रमे॥
yadṛcchayā nipatitaṃ cakramādityagocaram| mahāvātasamutthena saṃśuṣkamiva sāgaram|| pūrṇacandramiva vyomni tuṣārāvṛtamaṇḍalam| reṇu dhvastaṃ dīrghabhujaṃ mātaṅgamiva vikrame||
Indeed, they saw him lying on the ground like the Sun dropped on the Earth or like the Occan dried by a mighty wind, or like the Full Moon in the sky with his disc covered with fog. Like an elephant in prowess and possessing long arms, the king lay on the Earth, covered with dust.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.3
वृतं भूतगणैोरैः क्रव्यादैश्च समन्ततः। यथा धनं लिप्समानैर्भूत्यैर्नृपतिसत्तमम्॥
vṛtaṃ bhūtagaṇaioraiḥ kravyādaiśca samantataḥ| yathā dhanaṃ lipsamānairbhūtyairnṛpatisattamam||
Around hiin were many terrible creatures and carnivorous animals, like satellites sceking wealth around a king in state.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.4
भृकुटीकृतवक्त्रान्तं क्रोधादुवृत्तचक्षुषम्। सामर्षं तं नरव्याघ्रं व्याघ्रं निपतितं यथा।॥
bhṛkuṭīkṛtavaktrāntaṃ krodhāduvṛttacakṣuṣam| sāmarṣaṃ taṃ naravyāghraṃ vyāghraṃ nipatitaṃ yathā|||
His forehead was contracted into furrows of rage and his eyes were rolling in anger. They saw the king, that foremost of men, full of rage, like a tiger struck down (by hunters).
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.5
ते तं दृष्ट्वा महेष्वासं भूतले पतितं नृपम्। मोहमभ्यागमन् सर्वे कृपप्रभृतयो रथाः।। १० ।
te taṃ dṛṣṭvā maheṣvāsaṃ bhūtale patitaṃ nṛpam| mohamabhyāgaman sarve kṛpaprabhṛtayo rathāḥ|| 10 |
Seeing the king laid low on the Earth, those great bow-inen, viz., Kripa and others became stupefied.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.6
अवतीर्य रथेभ्यश्च प्राद्रवन् राजसंनिधौ। दुर्योधनं च सम्प्रेक्ष्य सर्वे भीमावुपाविशन्॥
avatīrya rathebhyaśca prādravan rājasaṃnidhau| duryodhanaṃ ca samprekṣya sarve bhīmāvupāviśan||
Getting down from their cars, they ran towards the king. Seeing Duryodhana, all of them sat on the Earth around him.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.7
ततो द्रौणिर्महाराज बाष्पपूर्णेक्षणः श्वसन्। उवाच भरतश्रेष्ठं सर्वलोकेश्वरेश्वरम्॥
tato drauṇirmahārāja bāṣpapūrṇekṣaṇaḥ śvasan| uvāca bharataśreṣṭhaṃ sarvalokeśvareśvaram||
Then Drona's son, O king, with eyes full of tears and sighting like a snake, said these words to that chief of Bharata's race, that foremost of all the kings on Earth.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.8
न नूनं विद्यते सत्यं मानुषे किंचिदेव हि। यत्र त्वं पुरुषव्याघ्र शेषे पांसुषु रूषितः॥
na nūnaṃ vidyate satyaṃ mānuṣe kiṃcideva hi| yatra tvaṃ puruṣavyāghra śeṣe pāṃsuṣu rūṣitaḥ||
Forsooth, there is nothing permanent in the world of men, since you, O foremost of men, lic on the mother Earth covered with dust.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.9
भूत्वा हि नृपतिः पूर्वं समाज्ञाप्य च मेदिनीम्। कथमेकोऽद्य राजेन्द्र तिष्ठसे निर्जने वने।॥
bhūtvā hi nṛpatiḥ pūrvaṃ samājñāpya ca medinīm| kathameko'dya rājendra tiṣṭhase nirjane vane|||
You were a king who had issued your commands to all the world! Why then, O foremost of kings, do you lie alone on the bare ground?
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.10
दुःशासनं न पश्यामि नापि कर्णं महारथम्। नापि तान् सुहृदः सर्वान् किमिदं भरतर्षभ॥
duḥśāsanaṃ na paśyāmi nāpi karṇaṃ mahāratham| nāpi tān suhṛdaḥ sarvān kimidaṃ bharatarṣabha||
I do not see Dussasana by you, nor the great car-warrior Karna, nor those hundreds of your friends. What is this, O foremost of men?
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.11
दुःखं नूनं कृतान्तस्य गतिं ज्ञातुं कथंचन। लोकानां च भवान् यत्र शेषे पांसुषु रूषितः॥
duḥkhaṃ nūnaṃ kṛtāntasya gatiṃ jñātuṃ kathaṃcana| lokānāṃ ca bhavān yatra śeṣe pāṃsuṣu rūṣitaḥ||
Forsooth, it is difficult to learn the ways of Yama, since you, O lord of all the world, thus lie on the bare ground covered with dust.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.12
एष मूर्धाभिषिक्तानामग्रे गत्वा परंतपः। सतृणं ग्रसते पांसुं पश्य कालस्य पर्ययम्॥
eṣa mūrdhābhiṣiktānāmagre gatvā paraṃtapaḥ| satṛṇaṃ grasate pāṃsuṃ paśya kālasya paryayam||
Alas, this destroyer of foes used to trample at the head of all Kshatriyas that had their locks sprinkled with holy water at the time of coronation. Alas, he now eats the dust. Witness the reverses of fortune that time brings.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.13
क्व ते तदमलं छत्रं व्यजनं क्व च पार्थिव। सा च ते महतीं सेनां क्व गता पार्थिवोत्तमा॥
kva te tadamalaṃ chatraṃ vyajanaṃ kva ca pārthiva| sā ca te mahatīṃ senāṃ kva gatā pārthivottamā||
Where is that pure white umbrella of yours? Where is that fanning yak-tail also, O king? Where is that vast army of yours now gone, O best of kings?
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.14
दुर्विज्ञेया गतिर्नूनं कार्याणां कारणान्तरे। यद् वै लोकगुरुर्भूत्वा भवानेतां दशां गतः॥
durvijñeyā gatirnūnaṃ kāryāṇāṃ kāraṇāntare| yad vai lokagururbhūtvā bhavānetāṃ daśāṃ gataḥ||
The course of events is, forsooth, a mystery, since you, who were the master of the world, have been reduced to this state.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.15
अध्रुवा सर्वमत्र्येषु श्रीरूपालक्ष्यते भृशम्। भवतो व्यसनं दृष्ट्वा शक्रविस्पर्धिनो भृशम्॥
adhruvā sarvamatryeṣu śrīrūpālakṣyate bhṛśam| bhavato vyasanaṃ dṛṣṭvā śakravispardhino bhṛśam||
Forsooth, the prosperity of all mortals is very unstable, since you, who were equal unto Shakra himself, have now been reduced to such a miserable condition.'
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.16
तस्य तद् वचनं श्रुत्वा दुःखितस्य विशेषतः। उवाच राजन् पुत्रस्ते प्राप्तकालमिदं वचः॥
tasya tad vacanaṃ śrutvā duḥkhitasya viśeṣataḥ| uvāca rājan putraste prāptakālamidaṃ vacaḥ||
Hearing these words of Ashvatthaman your son answered himn in words that were suited to the occasion.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.17
विमृज्य नेत्रे पाणिभ्यां शोकजं वाष्पमुत्सृजन्। कृपादीन् स तदा वीरान् सर्वानेव नराधिपः॥ ईदृशो लोकधर्मोऽयं धात्रा निर्दिष्ट उच्यते। विनाशः सर्वभूतानां कालपर्यायमागतः॥
vimṛjya netre pāṇibhyāṃ śokajaṃ vāṣpamutsṛjan| kṛpādīn sa tadā vīrān sarvāneva narādhipaḥ|| īdṛśo lokadharmo'yaṃ dhātrā nirdiṣṭa ucyate| vināśaḥ sarvabhūtānāṃ kālaparyāyamāgataḥ||
He wiped his eyes with his hands and shed tears of grief again. The king then addressed all those heroes headed by Kripa and said *Subjection to death has been ordained by the Creator himself. Death comes to all in course of Time.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.18
सोऽयं मां समनुप्राप्तः प्रत्यक्षं भवतां हि यः। पृथिवीं पालयित्वाऽहमेतां निष्ठामुपागतः॥
so'yaṃ māṃ samanuprāptaḥ pratyakṣaṃ bhavatāṃ hi yaḥ| pṛthivīṃ pālayitvā'hametāṃ niṣṭhāmupāgataḥ||
That death has now come to me, before you all. I, who governed the whole Earth, I have now been reduced to this miserable state.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.19
दिष्ट्या नाहं परावृत्तो युद्धे कस्यांचिदापदि। दिष्ट्याहं निहतः पापैश्छलनैव विशेषतः॥
diṣṭyā nāhaṃ parāvṛtto yuddhe kasyāṃcidāpadi| diṣṭyāhaṃ nihataḥ pāpaiśchalanaiva viśeṣataḥ||
By good luck, I never turned back from battle, whatever misfortunes over-took me. By good luck, I have been killed by those sinful men, by the help of deceptive means.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.20
उत्साहश्च कृतो नित्यं मया दिष्ट्या युयुत्सता। दिष्ट्या चास्मिन् हतो युद्धे निहतज्ञातिबान्धवः॥
utsāhaśca kṛto nityaṃ mayā diṣṭyā yuyutsatā| diṣṭyā cāsmin hato yuddhe nihatajñātibāndhavaḥ||
By good luck, while engaged in hostilities, I always showed courage and perseverance. By good luck, I am killed in battle, along with all my relatives and friends.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.21
दिष्ट्या च वोऽहं पश्यामि मुक्तानस्माजनक्षयात्। स्वस्तियुक्तांश्च कल्यांश्च तन्मे प्रियमनुत्तमम्॥
diṣṭyā ca vo'haṃ paśyāmi muktānasmājanakṣayāt| svastiyuktāṃśca kalyāṃśca tanme priyamanuttamam||
By good luck, I see you escaped alive from this great destruction, and are safe and sound! This is highly pleasing to me!
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MBh 6 161.22
मा भवन्तो तप्यन्तां सौहृदानिधनेन मे। यदि वेदाः प्रमाणं वो जिता लोका मयाक्षयाः॥
mā bhavanto tapyantāṃ sauhṛdānidhanena me| yadi vedāḥ pramāṇaṃ vo jitā lokā mayākṣayāḥ||
Do not, from love grieve for me death! If the Vedas are in any way authoritative, I have certainly acquired many eternal regions!
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.23
मन्यमानः प्रभावं च कृष्णस्यामिततेजसः। तेन न च्यावितश्चाहं क्षत्रधर्मात् स्वनुष्ठितात्॥
manyamānaḥ prabhāvaṃ ca kṛṣṇasyāmitatejasaḥ| tena na cyāvitaścāhaṃ kṣatradharmāt svanuṣṭhitāt||
I am not ignorant of the glory of Krishna. He had not made me disregard the Kshatriya duties!
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.24
स मया समनुप्राप्तो नास्मि शोच्यः कथंचन। कृतं भवद्भिः सदृशमनुरूपमिवात्मनः॥ यतितं विजये नित्यं दैवं तु दुरतिक्रमम्। एतावदुक्त्वा वचनं वाष्पव्याकुललोचनः॥
sa mayā samanuprāpto nāsmi śocyaḥ kathaṃcana| kṛtaṃ bhavadbhiḥ sadṛśamanurūpamivātmanaḥ|| yatitaṃ vijaye nityaṃ daivaṃ tu duratikramam| etāvaduktvā vacanaṃ vāṣpavyākulalocanaḥ||
I have obtained him! No one should grieve for me. You have done what persons like you should do. You have always tried for my success. Destiny, however, is incapable of being defeated.'-Having said all this the king, with eyes bathed in tears, became silent, O king, agitated as he was with pain.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.25
तूष्णीं बभूव राजेन्द्र रुजासौ विह्वलो भृशम्। तथा दृष्ट्वा तु राजानं बाष्पशोकसमन्वितम्॥ द्रौणिः क्रोधेन जज्वाल यथा वह्निर्जगत्क्षये।
tūṣṇīṃ babhūva rājendra rujāsau vihvalo bhṛśam| tathā dṛṣṭvā tu rājānaṃ bāṣpaśokasamanvitam|| drauṇiḥ krodhena jajvāla yathā vahnirjagatkṣaye|
Seeing the king in tear and grief, Drona's son burned in anger like the fire at the universal dissolution.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.26
सच क्रोधसमाविष्टः पाणौ पाणिं निपीड्य च॥ बाष्पविह्वलया वाचा राजानमिदमब्रवीत्। पिता मे निहतः क्षुद्रैः सुनृशंसेन कर्मणा॥ न तथा तेन तप्यामि यथा राजंस्त्वयाऽद्य वै। शृणु चेदं वचो मह्यं सत्येन वदतः प्रभो॥ इष्टापूर्तेन दानेन धर्मेण सुकृतेन च।
saca krodhasamāviṣṭaḥ pāṇau pāṇiṃ nipīḍya ca|| bāṣpavihvalayā vācā rājānamidamabravīt| pitā me nihataḥ kṣudraiḥ sunṛśaṃsena karmaṇā|| na tathā tena tapyāmi yathā rājaṃstvayā'dya vai| śṛṇu cedaṃ vaco mahyaṃ satyena vadataḥ prabho|| iṣṭāpūrtena dānena dharmeṇa sukṛtena ca|
Beside himself with anger he squeezed his hands, and addressing the king in a voice choked with tears, he said-'My father was killed by those wretches with a cruel contrivance. That act, however, do not pain me so keenly as this condition to which you have been reduced, O king, Listen to these words of mine which I swear by truth itself, O lord, and by all my acts of piety all my gifts, my religion and the religious merits I have won.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.27
अद्याहं सर्वपञ्चालान् वासुदेवस्य. पश्यतः॥ सर्वोपायैर्हि नेष्यामि प्रेतराजनिवेशनम्। अनुज्ञां तु महाराज भवान् मे दातुमर्हति॥ इति श्रुत्वा तु वचनं द्रोणपुत्रस्य कौरवः। मनसः प्रीतिजननं कृपं वचनमब्रवीत्॥ आचार्य शीघ्रं कलशं जलपूर्ण समानय। स तद् वचनमाज्ञाय राज्ञो ब्राह्मणसत्तमः॥ कलशं पूर्णमादाय राज्ञोऽन्तिकमुपागमत्।
adyāhaṃ sarvapañcālān vāsudevasya. paśyataḥ|| sarvopāyairhi neṣyāmi pretarājaniveśanam| anujñāṃ tu mahārāja bhavān me dātumarhati|| iti śrutvā tu vacanaṃ droṇaputrasya kauravaḥ| manasaḥ prītijananaṃ kṛpaṃ vacanamabravīt|| ācārya śīghraṃ kalaśaṃ jalapūrṇa samānaya| sa tad vacanamājñāya rājño brāhmaṇasattamaḥ|| kalaśaṃ pūrṇamādāya rājño'ntikamupāgamat|
I shall to-day, in the very presence of Vasudeva, dispatch all the Panchalas, by all means in my power, to the abode of Yama. You should O king, grant me permission.'-Hearing these words of Drona's son, that were highly pleasant, the Kuru king addressed Kripa, saying-'O preceptor, bring me soon a pot full of water.' — At these words of the king, that foremost of Brahmanas, soon brought a vessel full of water.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.28
तमब्रवीन्महाराज पुत्रस्तव विशाम्पते॥ ममाज्ञया द्विजश्रेष्ठ द्रोणपुत्रोऽभिषिच्यताम्। सैनापत्येन भद्रं ते मम चेदिच्छसि प्रियम्॥
tamabravīnmahārāja putrastava viśāmpate|| mamājñayā dvijaśreṣṭha droṇaputro'bhiṣicyatām| saināpatyena bhadraṃ te mama cedicchasi priyam||
Your son then, O king, said to Kripa-'Let the son of Drona, O foremost of Brahmanas, blessed by you, if you wish to do me good, be, at my command, appointed as generalissimo.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.29
राज्ञो नियोगाद् योद्धव्यं ब्राह्मणेन विशेषतः। वर्तता क्षत्रधर्मेण ह्येवं धर्मविदो विदुः॥
rājño niyogād yoddhavyaṃ brāhmaṇena viśeṣataḥ| vartatā kṣatradharmeṇa hyevaṃ dharmavido viduḥ||
At the command of the king, even the Brahmana may fight, especially one who leads the life of Kshatriya. Those learned in the scriptures say this.'
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.30
राज्ञस्तु वचनं श्रुत्वा कृपः शारद्वतस्तथा। द्रौणि राज्ञो नियोगेन सैनापत्येऽभ्यषेचयत्॥
rājñastu vacanaṃ śrutvā kṛpaḥ śāradvatastathā| drauṇi rājño niyogena saināpatye'bhyaṣecayat||
Hearing these words of the king Kripa, the son of Sharadvat, installed Drona's son as generalissimo, at the mandate of the king.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.31
सोऽभिषिक्तो महाराज परिष्वज्य नृपोत्तमम्। प्रययौ सिंहनादेन दिशः सर्वा विनादयन्॥
so'bhiṣikto mahārāja pariṣvajya nṛpottamam| prayayau siṃhanādena diśaḥ sarvā vinādayan||
After the ceremony, O King, Ashvathaman embraced that best of kings and left the place, having resounded the ten cardinal points with his war-cry.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.32
दुर्योधनोऽपि राजेन्द्र शोणितेन परिप्लुतः। तां निशां प्रतिपेदेऽथ सर्वभूतभयावहाम्॥
duryodhano'pi rājendra śoṇitena pariplutaḥ| tāṃ niśāṃ pratipede'tha sarvabhūtabhayāvahām||
That best of kings, viz., Duryodhana, bathed in blood, began to pass there that night so dreadful to all creatures.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)
MBh 6 161.33
अपक्रम्य तु ते तूर्णं तस्मादायोधनानृप। शोकसंविग्नमनसश्चिन्ताध्यानपराऽभवन्॥
apakramya tu te tūrṇaṃ tasmādāyodhanānṛpa| śokasaṃvignamanasaścintādhyānaparā'bhavan||
Leaving quickly the field of battle, O king, those horses, with hearts shaken by grief, began to think anxiously and earnestly.
— tr. M.N. Dutt (1891–96) (public domain)