Narada Purana — Uttara Bhaga — Chapter 34
NarP 2 34.1
वसिष्ठ उवाच तत्पुत्रवचनं श्रुत्वा राजा रुक्माङ्गदस्तदा । संध्यावलीमुखं प्रेक्ष्य प्रहृष्टकमलोपमम्
vasiṣṭha uvāca tatputravacanaṃ śrutvā rājā rukmāṅgadastadā / saṃdhyāvalīmukhaṃ prekṣya prahṛṣṭakamalopamam
Vasiṣṭha said: Then, having heard that speech of his son, king Rukmāṅgada, looking at Sandhyāvalī's face, which resembled a lotus in full delight,
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NarP 2 34.2
मोहिनीवचनं शृण्वन्भुङ्क्ष्व मा हन देहजम् । मा भुङ्क्ष्व तनयं हिंस चेत्याग्रहसमन्वितम्
mohinīvacanaṃ śṛṇvanbhuṅkṣva mā hana dehajam / mā bhuṅkṣva tanayaṃ hiṃsa cetyāgrahasamanvitam
and hearing Mohinī's words — "Eat, do not kill your own offspring"; "Do not eat, kill the son" — thus (spoken) with insistence,
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NarP 2 34.3
एतस्मिन्नेव काले तु भगवान्कमलेक्षणः । अन्तर्द्धानगतस्तस्थौ व्योम्नि धैर्यावलोककः
etasminneva kāle tu bhagavānkamalekṣaṇaḥ / antarddhānagatastasthau vyomni dhairyāvalokakaḥ
At just that time the lotus-eyed Lord, having become invisible, stood in the sky, watching the steadfastness
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NarP 2 34.4
त्रयाणां नृपशार्दूल मेघश्यामो निरञ्जनः । धर्माङ्गदस्य वीरस्य तस्य रुक्माङ्गदस्य तु
trayāṇāṃ nṛpaśārdūla meghaśyāmo nirañjanaḥ / dharmāṅgadasya vīrasya tasya rukmāṅgadasya tu
Of the three, O tiger among kings — he who is dark as a cloud and stainless — of the heroic Dharmāṅgada, and of that Rukmāṅgada,
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NarP 2 34.5
संध्यावल्या समेतस्य वीशसंस्थो जनार्दनः । वचने भुङ्क्ष्व भुङ्क्ष्वेति मोहिन्या व्याहृते तदा
saṃdhyāvalyā sametasya vīśasaṃstho janārdanaḥ / vacane bhuṅkṣva bhuṅkṣveti mohinyā vyāhṛte tadā
and of (the king) together with Saṃdhyāvalī — Janārdana stood before them, when Mohinī spoke the words, "Eat, eat!"
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NarP 2 34.6
जग्राह विमलं खङ्गं हन्तुं धर्माङ्गदं सुतम् । सुप्रहर्षेण मनसा प्रणम्य गरुडध्वजम् । तं दृष्ट्वा खङ्गहस्तं तु पितरं धर्म्मंभूषणः
jagrāha vimalaṃ khaṅgaṃ hantuṃ dharmāṅgadaṃ sutam / supraharṣeṇa manasā praṇamya garuḍadhvajam / taṃ dṛṣṭvā khaṅgahastaṃ tu pitaraṃ dharmmaṃbhūṣaṇaḥ
He took up the bright sword to slay his son Dharmāṅgada, with a mind full of great joy, having bowed to him whose banner is Garuḍa. But seeing his father with sword in hand, he whose adornment is dharma (Dharmāṅgada) —
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NarP 2 34.7
प्रणम्य मातापितरौ देवं चक्रधरं तथा । वदनं प्रेक्ष्य चादीनं जनन्या नृपपुङ्गवः
praṇamya mātāpitarau devaṃ cakradharaṃ tathā / vadanaṃ prekṣya cādīnaṃ jananyā nṛpapuṅgavaḥ
having bowed to his mother and father and to the god who bears the discus, and having looked at his mother's face, which was not dejected, that bull among kings —
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NarP 2 34.8
वृषाङ्गदेन तु तदा स्वग्रीवोर्वीतले कृता । कंबुग्रीवां समानां तु सुवर्णा सुकोमलाम्
vṛṣāṅgadena tu tadā svagrīvorvītale kṛtā / kaṃbugrīvāṃ samānāṃ tu suvarṇā sukomalām
then his own neck was laid upon the surface of the ground by (the son of) Vṛṣāṅgada — a neck like a conch, even, golden and very soft,
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NarP 2 34.9
बहुरेखमथ स्थूलां खङ्गमार्गे ज्यदर्शयत् । पितृभक्त्या युतेनैव मातृभक्त्याधिकेन वै
bahurekhamatha sthūlāṃ khaṅgamārge jyadarśayat / pitṛbhaktyā yutenaiva mātṛbhaktyādhikena vai
marked with many lines and thick — he displayed it in the path of the sword, out of devotion to his father joined with even greater devotion to his mother.
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NarP 2 34.10
ग्रीवाप्रदाने तनयस्य भूप हर्षाकुले चारुसुधांशुवक्त्रे । गृहीतखङ्गे जगदीशनाथे चचाल पृथ्वीं सनगा समग्रा
grīvāpradāne tanayasya bhūpa harṣākule cārusudhāṃśuvaktre / gṛhītakhaṅge jagadīśanāthe cacāla pṛthvīṃ sanagā samagrā
O king, when the son was offering his neck, his lovely moonlike face brimming with joy, and when the Lord of the lord of the world had taken up the sword, the whole earth with its mountains shook.
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NarP 2 34.11
सिंधुः प्रवृद्धश्च बभूव सद्यो निमज्ज नार्थं भुवनत्रयस्य । निपेतुरुल्काः शतशो धरायां निर्घातयुक्ताः सतडित्खमध्यात्
siṃdhuḥ pravṛddhaśca babhūva sadyo nimajja nārthaṃ bhuvanatrayasya / nipeturulkāḥ śataśo dharāyāṃ nirghātayuktāḥ sataḍitkhamadhyāt
And the ocean at once swelled up, as if to submerge the three worlds; meteors fell by the hundreds on the earth from mid-sky, accompanied by thunderbolts and lightning.
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NarP 2 34.12
विवर्णरूपा च बभूव मोहिनी न देवकार्यं हि कृतं मयेति । निरर्थकं जन्म ममाधुनाभूत्कृतं तु दैवेन दजगद्विधायिना
vivarṇarūpā ca babhūva mohinī na devakāryaṃ hi kṛtaṃ mayeti / nirarthakaṃ janma mamādhunābhūtkṛtaṃ tu daivena dajagadvidhāyinā
And Mohinī became pale of form, (thinking) "Indeed I have not accomplished the gods' task; my birth has now become fruitless, made so by fate, the ordainer of the world."
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NarP 2 34.15
विमोहनं रूपमिदं विडंबनं यद्भूमिपालेन न भुक्तमन्नम् । हरेर्दिने पापभयापहे तु तृणैः समाहं भविता त्रिविष्टपे ॥ नर्प्_२,३४।१३ ॥ सत्वाधिको यास्यति मोक्षमार्गं गन्तास्मि पाप नरकं सुदारुणम् ॥ नर्प्_२,३४।१४ ॥ समुद्यते तदा खङ्गे नृपेण नृपपुङ्गव । मोहिनी मोहसंयुक्ता पपात धरणीतले
vimohanaṃ rūpamidaṃ viḍaṃbanaṃ yadbhūmipālena na bhuktamannam / harerdine pāpabhayāpahe tu tṛṇaiḥ samāhaṃ bhavitā triviṣṭape // narp_2,34.13 // satvādhiko yāsyati mokṣamārgaṃ gantāsmi pāpa narakaṃ sudāruṇam // narp_2,34.14 // samudyate tadā khaṅge nṛpeṇa nṛpapuṅgava / mohinī mohasaṃyuktā papāta dharaṇītale
"This deluding form (of mine) is a mockery, since food was not eaten by the king on Hari's day, which takes away the fear of sin. In heaven I shall be worth no more than straw. (13) He, greater in goodness, will go the path of liberation; I, sinful, shall go to a most dreadful hell." (14) Then, when the sword was raised by the king, O bull among kings, Mohinī, overcome by faintness, fell to the ground. (15)
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NarP 2 34.16
राजापि तेन खङ्गेन भ्राजमानः समुद्यतः । ग्रीवायाश्छेदनार्थाय वृषाङ्गदसुतस्य तु
rājāpi tena khaṅgena bhrājamānaḥ samudyataḥ / grīvāyāśchedanārthāya vṛṣāṅgadasutasya tu
And the king too, shining with that sword, raised it up to sever the neck of Vṛṣāṅgada's son.
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NarP 2 34.17
सकुण्डलं चारु शशिप्रकाशं भ्राजिष्णु वक्त्रं तनयस्य भूपः । प्रचिच्छिदे यावदतीव हर्षाद्धैर्यान्वितो रुक्मविभूषणो ऽसौ
sakuṇḍalaṃ cāru śaśiprakāśaṃ bhrājiṣṇu vaktraṃ tanayasya bhūpaḥ / pracicchide yāvadatīva harṣāddhairyānvito rukmavibhūṣaṇo 'sau
But just as that king, adorned with gold, firm of resolve, was cutting through his son's face — lovely with its earrings, bright as the moon and radiant — out of the greatest joy,
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NarP 2 34.18
तावद्गृहीतः स्वकरेण भूपः क्षीराब्धिकन्यापतिना महीपः । तुष्टो ऽस्मि तुष्टो ऽस्मि न संशयो ऽत्र गच्छस्व लोकं मम लोकनाथ
tāvadgṛhītaḥ svakareṇa bhūpaḥ kṣīrābdhikanyāpatinā mahīpaḥ / tuṣṭo 'smi tuṣṭo 'smi na saṃśayo 'tra gacchasva lokaṃ mama lokanātha
at that moment the king, the ruler of the earth, was seized by his own hand by the husband of the daughter of the milk-ocean: "I am pleased, I am pleased, there is no doubt of it. Go to my world, O lord of the world (i.e. king),"
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NarP 2 34.19
प्रियान्वितश्चात्मजसंयुतश्च कीर्तिं समाधाय महीतले तु । त्रैलोक्यपूज्यां विमलां च शुक्लां कृत्वा पदं मूर्ध्नि यमस्य भूप
priyānvitaścātmajasaṃyutaśca kīrtiṃ samādhāya mahītale tu / trailokyapūjyāṃ vimalāṃ ca śuklāṃ kṛtvā padaṃ mūrdhni yamasya bhūpa
"together with your wife and with your son, having established on the surface of the earth a fame that is honoured in the three worlds, spotless and pure, and having set your foot on Yama's head, O king,
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NarP 2 34.20
प्रयाहि वासं मम देहसंज्ञं स चक्रिणो भूमिपतिः करेण । संस्पृष्टमात्रो विरजा बभूव प्रियासमेतस्तनयेन युक्तः
prayāhi vāsaṃ mama dehasaṃjñaṃ sa cakriṇo bhūmipatiḥ kareṇa / saṃspṛṣṭamātro virajā babhūva priyāsametastanayena yuktaḥ
go to that abode which is named my own body." As soon as he was touched by the hand of the discus-bearer, that lord of the earth became free of impurity, together with his wife and joined by his son.
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NarP 2 34.21
उपेत्य वेगेन जगाम देहं देवस्य दिव्यं स नृपो महात्मा । विहाय लक्ष्मीमवनीप्रसूतां विहाय दासीःसुधनं स कोशम्
upetya vegena jagāma dehaṃ devasya divyaṃ sa nṛpo mahātmā / vihāya lakṣmīmavanīprasūtāṃ vihāya dāsīḥsudhanaṃ sa kośam
Approaching swiftly, that great-souled king entered the divine body of the god, abandoning the fortune born of the earth, abandoning his serving-women, his great wealth and his treasury,
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NarP 2 34.22
विहाय नागांस्तुरगान्रथांश्च स्वदारवर्गं स्वजनादिकांश्च । जगाम देहं मधुसूदनस्य तत्ॐऽबरात्पुष्पचयः पपात
vihāya nāgāṃsturagānrathāṃśca svadāravargaṃ svajanādikāṃśca / jagāma dehaṃ madhusūdanasya tatoṃ'barātpuṣpacayaḥ papāta
abandoning elephants, horses and chariots, the company of his wives and his kinsmen and the rest — he entered the body of the slayer of Madhu; and thereupon a mass of flowers fell from the sky.
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NarP 2 34.23
संहृष्टसिद्धैः सुरलोकपालैः संताडिता दुन्दुभयो विनेदुः । राजन् जगुर्गीतमतीव रम्यं देवाङ्गनाः संननृतुर्मुदान्विताः
saṃhṛṣṭasiddhaiḥ suralokapālaiḥ saṃtāḍitā dundubhayo vineduḥ / rājan jagurgītamatīva ramyaṃ devāṅganāḥ saṃnanṛturmudānvitāḥ
Struck by the delighted Siddhas and the guardians of the world of the gods, kettledrums resounded; O king, they sang a song exceedingly lovely, and the women of the gods danced together, filled with joy —
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NarP 2 34.24
गन्धर्वकन्या नृपकर्मतुष्टास्तदद्भुतं प्रेक्ष्य दिनेशसूनुः । हरेस्तनौ भूमिपतिं प्रविष्टं सदारपुत्रं स्वलिपिं प्रमार्ज्य
gandharvakanyā nṛpakarmatuṣṭāstadadbhutaṃ prekṣya dineśasūnuḥ / harestanau bhūmipatiṃ praviṣṭaṃ sadāraputraṃ svalipiṃ pramārjya
the Gandharva maidens, pleased at the king's deed. Seeing that marvel — the lord of the earth entered with his wife and son into Hari's body — the son of the Sun (Yama) wiped out his own record,
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NarP 2 34.25
लोकांश्च सर्वान्नृपदिष्टमार्गे कृत्वा कृतज्ञान्हरिलोकमार्गान् । भीतः पुनः प्राप्य पितामहान्तिकं प्रोवाच देवं चतुराननं रुदन्
lokāṃśca sarvānnṛpadiṣṭamārge kṛtvā kṛtajñānharilokamārgān / bhītaḥ punaḥ prāpya pitāmahāntikaṃ provāca devaṃ caturānanaṃ rudan
and having set all the worlds upon the path shown by the king, (making them) knowers of the paths to Hari's world, frightened, he came again into the presence of the Grandfather and spoke weeping to the four-faced god:
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NarP 2 34.26
नाहं नियोगी भविता हि देव आज्ञाविहीनः सुरलोकनाथ । विधेहि चान्यत्प्रकरोमि तात निदेशनं मास्तु मदीय दण्डम्
nāhaṃ niyogī bhavitā hi deva ājñāvihīnaḥ suralokanātha / vidhehi cānyatprakaromi tāta nideśanaṃ māstu madīya daṇḍam
"I will not be an executor of commands, O god, being deprived of authority, O lord of the world of the gods; ordain something else — I will do it, sir — let there be no directive, no rod of punishment for me."
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