Mahabharata — Volume IX (Dutt edition) — Chapter 298

MBh 9 298.1

तथा महात्मनस्तस्य तपस्युग्रे च वर्ततः। अनाथस्येव निधनं तिष्ठत्स्वास्मासु बन्धुषु॥ दुर्विज्ञेया गतिर्ब्रह्मन् पुरुषाणां मतिर्मम। यत्र वैचित्रवीर्योऽसौ दग्ध एवं वनाग्निना॥

tathā mahātmanastasya tapasyugre ca vartataḥ| anāthasyeva nidhanaṃ tiṣṭhatsvāsmāsu bandhuṣu|| durvijñeyā gatirbrahman puruṣāṇāṃ matirmama| yatra vaicitravīryo'sau dagdha evaṃ vanāgninā||

When such a fate overtook that great king who was engaged in austere penances, despite the fact of his having such kinsmen as ourselves all alive. It seems to me, O twice born one, that the end of human beings is difficult to guess. Alas, who would have thought that the son of Vichitravirya would thus be burns to death.

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

MBh 9 298.2

यस्य पुत्रशतं श्रीमदभवद् बाहुशालिनः। नागायुतबलो राजा स दग्धो हि दवाग्निना॥

yasya putraśataṃ śrīmadabhavad bāhuśālinaḥ| nāgāyutabalo rājā sa dagdho hi davāgninā||

He had a hundred sons each gifted with mighty-arms and possessed of great prosperity! The king himself had the strength of ten thousand elephants, Alas, even he has been burnt to death in a wild fire.

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

MBh 9 298.3

यं पुरा पर्यवीजन्त तालवृन्तैर्वरस्त्रियः। तं गृध्राः पर्यवीजन्त दावाग्निपरिकालितम्॥

yaṃ purā paryavījanta tālavṛntairvarastriyaḥ| taṃ gṛdhrāḥ paryavījanta dāvāgniparikālitam||

Alas, he had formerly been fanned with palm leaves by the fair hands of beautiful women, was fanned by vultures with their wings after he had been burnt to death in a wild fire.

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

MBh 9 298.4

सूतमागधसंघेश्च शयानो यः प्रबोध्यते। धरण्यां स नृपः शेते पापस्य मम कर्मभिः॥

sūtamāgadhasaṃgheśca śayāno yaḥ prabodhyate| dharaṇyāṃ sa nṛpaḥ śete pāpasya mama karmabhiḥ||

He was formerly roused from sleep every morning by bands of Sutas and Magadhas had to sleep on the naked earth through the acts of my sinful self.

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

MBh 9 298.5

न च शोचामि गान्धारी हतपुत्रां यशस्विनीम्। पतिलोकमनुप्राप्तां तथा भर्तृव्रते स्थिताम्॥

na ca śocāmi gāndhārī hataputrāṃ yaśasvinīm| patilokamanuprāptāṃ tathā bhartṛvrate sthitām||

I do not grieve for the famous Gandhari who had been deprived of all her children. Observing the same vows as her husband. she has acquired those very regions which have become his.

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

MBh 9 298.6

पृथामेव च शोचामि या पुत्रैश्वर्यमृद्धिमत्। उत्सृज्य सुमहद् दीप्तं वनवासमरोचयत्॥

pṛthāmeva ca śocāmi yā putraiśvaryamṛddhimat| utsṛjya sumahad dīptaṃ vanavāsamarocayat||

I grieve, however, for Pritha who, renouncing the blazing prosperity of her sons, became desirous of living in the forest.

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

MBh 9 298.7

धिग् राज्यमिदमस्माकं धिग् बलं धिक् पराक्रमम्। क्षत्रधर्मे च धिग् यस्मान्मृता जीवामहे वयम्॥

dhig rājyamidamasmākaṃ dhig balaṃ dhik parākramam| kṣatradharme ca dhig yasmānmṛtā jīvāmahe vayam||

Fie on this sovereignty of ours, fie on our prowess, fie on the practices of Kshatriyas! Though alive, we are really dead.

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

MBh 9 298.8

सुसूक्ष्मा किल कालस्य गतिर्द्विजवरोत्तम।

susūkṣmā kila kālasya gatirdvijavarottama|

O foremost of superior Brahmanas, the course of Time is very subtle and difficult to understand inasmuch as Kunti, casting off sovereignty, became desirous so living in the forest.

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

MBh 9 298.9

युधिष्ठिरस्य जननी भीमस्य विजयस्य च। अनाथवत् कथं दग्ध इति मुह्यामि चिन्तयन्॥

yudhiṣṭhirasya jananī bhīmasya vijayasya ca| anāthavat kathaṃ dagdha iti muhyāmi cintayan||

How is it that she who was the mother of Yudhishthira, of Bhima, of Vijaya, was brunt to death like helpless creature! Thinking of this I become stupefied.

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

MBh 9 298.10

वृथा संतर्पितो वह्निः खाण्डवे सव्यसाचिना। उपकारमजानन् स कृतघ्न इति मे मतिः॥

vṛthā saṃtarpito vahniḥ khāṇḍave savyasācinā| upakāramajānan sa kṛtaghna iti me matiḥ||

In vain was the god of fire pleased at Khandava by Arjuna! Ingrate that he is, forgetting that service, he has burnt to death the mother of his benefactor.

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

MBh 9 298.11

यत्रादहत् स भगवान् मातरं सव्यसाचिनः। कृत्वा यो ब्राह्मणच्छद्मा भिक्षार्थी समुपागतः॥ धिगग्नि धिक् च पार्थस्य विश्रुतां सत्यसंधताम्।

yatrādahat sa bhagavān mātaraṃ savyasācinaḥ| kṛtvā yo brāhmaṇacchadmā bhikṣārthī samupāgataḥ|| dhigagni dhik ca pārthasya viśrutāṃ satyasaṃdhatām|

Alas, how could that deity burn the mother of Arjuna! Putting, on the guise of Brahmana, he had formerly come to Arjuna, for begging a favour! Fie on the deity of fire! Fie on the celebrated success of Partha's arrows.

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

MBh 9 298.12

इदं कष्टतरं चान्यद् भगवन् प्रतिभाति मे॥ वृथाग्निना समायोगो यदभूत् पृथिवीपतेः। तथा तपस्विनस्तस्य राजर्षेः कौरवस्य ह॥ कथमेवंविधो मृत्युः प्रशास्य पृथिवीमिमाम्। तिष्ठत्सु मन्त्रपूतेषू तस्याग्निषु महावने॥ वृथाग्निना समायुक्तो निष्ठां प्राप्तः पिता मम।

idaṃ kaṣṭataraṃ cānyad bhagavan pratibhāti me|| vṛthāgninā samāyogo yadabhūt pṛthivīpateḥ| tathā tapasvinastasya rājarṣeḥ kauravasya ha|| kathamevaṃvidho mṛtyuḥ praśāsya pṛthivīmimām| tiṣṭhatsu mantrapūteṣū tasyāgniṣu mahāvane|| vṛthāgninā samāyukto niṣṭhāṃ prāptaḥ pitā mama|

This is another incident, O holy one, which appears to me to be productive of greater misery, for that king, met with death by union with a fire that was not sacred! How could such a death overtake thai royal sage of Kuru's family who, after having governed the whole Earth, was engaged in the practice of penances! In that great forest there were fires that had been sanctified with Mantras. Alas, my father has made his departure from has world, coming

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

MBh 9 298.13

मन्ये पृथा वेपमाना कृशा धमनिसंतता॥ हा तात! धर्मराजेति समाक्रन्दन्महाभये।

manye pṛthā vepamānā kṛśā dhamanisaṃtatā|| hā tāta! dharmarājeti samākrandanmahābhaye|

I suppose that Pritha, emaciated and reduced to a from in which all her nerves became visible, must have trembled in fear and cried aloud, saying, O son Yudhishthira! and awaited the terrible approach of the fire.

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

MBh 9 298.14

भीम! पर्याप्नुहि भयादिति चैवाभिवाशती॥ समन्ततः परिक्षिप्ता माताभन्मे दवाग्निना।

bhīma! paryāpnuhi bhayāditi caivābhivāśatī|| samantataḥ parikṣiptā mātābhanme davāgninā|

She must have also said, O Bhima, save me from this danger! when she, my mother, was surrounded on all sides y that dreadful fire.

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

MBh 9 298.15

सहदेवः प्रियस्तस्याः पुत्रेभ्योऽधिक एव तु॥ न चैनां मोक्षयामास वीरो माद्रवतीसुतः।

sahadevaḥ priyastasyāḥ putrebhyo'dhika eva tu|| na caināṃ mokṣayāmāsa vīro mādravatīsutaḥ|

Among all her sons, Sahadeva was her darling. Alas, that heroic son of Madravati did not rescue her!'

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

MBh 9 298.16

तच्छुत्वा रुरुदुः सर्वे समालिङ्य परस्परम्॥ पाण्डवाः पञ्च दुःखार्ता भूतानीव युगक्षये।

tacchutvā ruruduḥ sarve samāliṅya parasparam|| pāṇḍavāḥ pañca duḥkhārtā bhūtānīva yugakṣaye|

Hearing these bewailings of the king. all those person who were present there began to weep, embracing each other. In fact, the five sons of Pandu were so stricken with grief that they resembled living creatures at the time of the dissolution of the universe.

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

MBh 9 298.17

तेषां तु पुरुषेन्द्राणां रुदतां रुदितस्वनः॥ प्रासादाभोगसंरुद्ध अन्वरौत्सीत् स रोदसी॥

teṣāṃ tu puruṣendrāṇāṃ rudatāṃ ruditasvanaḥ|| prāsādābhogasaṃruddha anvarautsīt sa rodasī||

The sound of lamentations uttered by those weeping heroes, filling the spacious chambers of the palace, escaped therefrom and penetrated the very sky.

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