Sauptika Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

नत्वां वारयितुं शक्तो वज़पाणिरपि स्वयम्

English

These men are the infallible root of means, and success is dependent on means. He who applies his efforts after listening to the words of the old, soon reaps abundant fruits from those efforts. That man who, without reverence and respect for others (capable of giving him good counsel), seeks the accomplishment of his purposes, moved by passion, anger, fear, and avarice, soon loses his prosperity.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रसह समरे हत्वा प्रीति प्राप्स्याम पुष्कललाम्

English

[Kripa said:] "Likewise a clever man who does not learn humility, and who knows nothing, is also ignorant of the settled truth of dharma and wealth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निवर्तिष्यामहे सर्वे हता वा स्वर्गगा वयम्

English

But a clever man who is obedient and has controlled senses can learn all the scriptures and does not oppose what is to be accepted.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यक्षायं मित्रपक्षो मे मयि जीवति निर्जित:

English

But a man who is unrestrained and scornful, wicked and sinful, abandoning what is auspicious and fated, does much evil.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एकाग्रमनसो मेड5द्य कुतो निद्रा कुत: सुखम्

English

Friends hold back a man who has a protector from sin; the fortunate turns back, but the unfortunate does not turn back.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त॑ं न पश्यामि लोके5स्मिन् यो मां कोपान्निवर्तयेत्

English

As a man of distracted mind is restrained by various words, so can he be restrained by a friend; but he who is not restrainable sinks.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वार्तिकै: कथ्यमानस्तु मित्राणां मे पराभव:

English

Likewise the wise prevent a wise friend who is doing a sinful deed, again and again as best they can.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततो विश्रमिता चैव स्वप्ता च विगतज्वर:

English

Set your mind on what is good, restrain yourself by yourself, and do my word, dear one, so that you will not grieve afterward.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इति श्रीमहाभारते सौप्तिकपर्वणि द्रौणिमन्त्रणायां चतुर्थोडध्याय:

English

The slaying of the sleeping is not honoured in the world by dharma, nor of those who have laid down their weapons, or whose chariots and horses are unyoked.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कार्यसे रोक नहीं सकते

English

This Duryodhana, stained by covetousness and bereft of foresight, had without taking counsel, foolishly commenced to seek the accomplishment of an undigested project. Disregarding all his well-wishers and taking counsel with only the wicked, he had, though dissuaded, waged hostilities with the Pandavas who are his superiors in all good qualities. He had, from the beginning, been very wicked. He could not restrain himself. He did not do the bidding of friends. For all that, he is now burning in grief and amid calamity. As regards ourselves since we have followed that sinful wretch, this great calamity hath, therefore, overtaken us! This great calamity has scorched my understanding. Plunged in reflection, I fail to see what is for our good!

हिन्दी अर्थ

परानभिमुखं यान्‍्तं रथावास्थाय दंशितौ

English

A man that is stupefied himself should ask counsel of his friends. In such friends he hath his understanding, his humility, and his prosperity. One's actions should have their root in them. That should be done which intelligent friends, having settled by their understanding, should counsel. Let us, therefore, repair to Dhritarashtra and Gandhari and the high-souled Vidura and ask them as what we should do. Asked by us, they will say what, after all this, is for our good. We should do what they say. Even this is my certain resolution. Those men whose acts do not succeed even after the application of exertion, should, without doubt, be regarded as afflicted by destiny."

हिन्दी अर्थ

विक्रम्य रथिनां श्रेष्ठ पजचालान् सपदानुगान्

English

One who, being dishonest, would do harm to such persons in that condition would plainly sink in a vast, deep, boatless hell.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पांचालों और उनके सेवकोंको बलपूर्वक मार डालना

English

You are renowned in the world as the best among those who know all weapons, and never in this world was there in you the least fault.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चिरं ते जाग्रतस्तात स्वप तावन्निशामिमाम्

English

And tomorrow, at sunrise, shining like the sun, you will conquer your foes in battle in the sight of all beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कर लो। तुम्हें जागते हुए बहुत देर हो गयी है, अब इस रातमें सो लो

English

This deed, which is blameworthy, is unthinkable in you; to me it would be like a red stain placed on a white cloth."

हिन्दी अर्थ

जेतुमुत्सहते शश्वदपि देवेषु वासव:

English

[Ashvatthaman said:] "It is so as you say, uncle, I accept your counsel; but that bridge was first shattered into a hundred pieces by them.

हिन्दी अर्थ

राजा इन्द्र भी कभी जीतनेका साहस नहीं कर सकते हैं

English

In the sight of the kings and in your presence, my father, who had laid down his weapons, was felled by Dhrishtadyumna.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सामना कर सकता है?

English

And Karna, best of chariot-warriors, whose chariot-wheel had sunk, in the utmost calamity, was slain by the wielder of Gandiva.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शत्रुओंका संहार करेंगे

English

And Bhishma son of Shantanu, having laid down his weapons, weaponless, was slain by the wielder of Gandiva, putting Shikhandin in front.

हिन्दी अर्थ

संहार करके अत्यन्त हर्षका अनुभव करेंगे

English

The great archer Bhurishravas, sitting fasting in the battle, was felled by Yuyudhana while the kings cried out.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अहं च कृतवर्मा च त्वां प्रयान्तं नरोत्तमम्

English

And Duryodhana, meeting Bhima in a mace-fight, was felled unrighteously in the sight of the kings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

रथिन त्वरया यान्तं रथमास्थाय दंशितौ

English

That tiger among men, alone, surrounded by many great chariot-warriors, was felled unrighteously by Bhimasena.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततः कर्तासि शत्रूणां युध्यतां कदनं महत्

English

The lament of the king with broken thighs, which I heard, told by the news-bearers, cuts my vitals.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सामने आकर जूझते हुए उन शत्रुओंका बड़ा भारी संहार मचा देना

English

Thus unrighteous and sinful are the Panchalas, breakers of the bridge; why do you not condemn those who have broken all bounds?

हिन्दी अर्थ

विहरस्व यथा शक्र: सूदयित्वा महासुरान्

English

Having slain in the Sauptika night the Panchalas, slayers of my father, I would gladly be born a worm or a moth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हैत्यसेनामिव क्रुद्ध: सर्वदानवसूदन:

English

I am in haste today for what I wish to do; for me in haste, where is sleep, where is comfort?

हिन्दी अर्थ

न सहेत विभु: साक्षाद् वज़पाणिरपि स्वयम्

English

No man has been born in the world, nor will be, who could turn me from this resolve made for their slaying."

हिन्दी अर्थ

समय हाथमें वज्र लिये हुए साक्षात् देवसम्राट् इन्द्र भी तुम्हारा वेग नहीं सह सकेंगे

English

[Sanjaya said:] Having said this, great king, mighty Drona's son yoked his horses in a secluded place and set out against the enemy.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनिर्जित्य रणे पाण्डून् न च यास्यामि कहिचित्

English

The two great souls, Bhoja and Sharadvata, said to him: "Why is the chariot yoked, and what do you intend to do?

हिन्दी अर्थ

सत्यमेतन्महाबाहो प्रब्रवीमि तवानघ

English

We two have set out in your company, bull among men; sharing grief and joy alike, you ought not to doubt us."

हिन्दी अर्थ

अब्रवीन्मातुलं राजन् क्रोधसंरक्तलोचन:

English

But Ashvatthaman, enraged, remembering his father's slaying, told them truly what he intended.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लाल आँखें करके उनसे कहा--

English

"Having slain hundreds of thousands of warriors with sharp arrows, my father, with weapons laid down, was felled by Dhrishtadyumna.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तदिदं समनुप्राप्तं पश्य मेउद्य चतुष्टयम्

English

Today I shall slay him in the same way, armour laid aside, that son of the Panchala king, sinner, by a sinful deed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कि नाम दु:खं लोके5स्मिन् पितुर्वधमनुस्मरन्

English

And how, having been slain by me like a beast, the sinful Panchala may gain the worlds won by weapon-fighting—so I think.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथा च निहत: पापै: पिता मम विशेषत:

English

Quickly, armoured, with swords and bows in hand, mount your best chariots and wait, scorchers of foes."

हिन्दी अर्थ

कथं हि मादृशो लोके मुहूर्तमपि जीवति

English

Having said this, he mounted his chariot and set out against the enemy, and Kripa followed him, O king, and Kritavarman the Satvata.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धृष्टद्युम्नमहत्वा तु नाहं जीवितुमुत्सहे

English

As they set out, those three, facing the enemy, shone like kindled sacrificial fires being invoked at a sacrifice.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कस्य हाकरुणस्यापि नेत्राभ्यामश्रु नाव्रजेत्

English

They went to the enemy's camp, lord, where the people lay fast asleep, and reaching the gate Drona's son stood on his excellent chariot.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नालं॑ वेदयितुं कृत्स्नौ धर्मार्थाविति मे मति:

English

Sanjaya said, "Hearing these words of Kripa that were auspicious and fraught with morality and profit, Ashvatthama, O monarch, became overwhelmed with sorrow and grief. Burning with grief as if with a blazing fire, he formed a wicked resolution and then addressed them both saying, "The faculty of understanding is different in different men. Each man, however, is pleased with own understanding. Every man regards himself more intelligent than others. Everyone respects his own understanding and accords it great praise. Everyone's own wisdom is with every one a subject of praise. Everyone speaks ill of the wisdom of others, and well of his own, in all instances. Men whose judgements agree with respect to any unattained object, even though there be a variety of considerations, become gratified with and applaud one another. The judgements, again, of the same men, overwhelmed with reverses through the influence of time, become opposed to one another. More particularly, in consequence of the diversity of human intellects, judgements necessarily differ when intellects are clouded.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भाग्यहीन है, वह उस दुष्कर्मसे नहीं निवृत्त होता है

English

[Sanjaya said:] Having taken leave of Kritavarman and the great chariot-warrior Kripa, Drona's son, filled with anger, reached the camp gate.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पाण्डवोंने ही पहले इस धर्म-मर्यादाके सैकड़ों टुकड़े कर डाले हैं

English

There he saw a huge being of hair-raising aspect, of splendour like the moon and sun, standing blocking the gate.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दशामें भीमसेनने उसको धराशायी किया है

English

Clad in a tiger skin dripping with blood, with a black antelope skin as upper garment, with a serpent as sacred thread,

हिन्दी अर्थ

वार्तिकाणां कथयतां स मे मर्माणि कृन्तति

English

with long, plump arms raised with many weapons, great serpents as armlets, his face wreathed in garlands of flame,

हिन्दी अर्थ

काम॑ कीट: पतड़्गो वा जन्म प्राप्प भवामि वै

English

his mouth fearful with tusks, gaping, terrifying, adorned with thousands of wondrous eyes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्य मे त्वरमाणस्य कुतो निद्रा कुत: सुखम्

English

His body and his dress could not be described; seeing it in every way, even mountains would burst.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यो मे व्यावर्तयेदेतां वधे तेषां कृतां मतिम्

English

From his mouth, nostrils and ears everywhere, and from those thousands of eyes, great flames appeared.

हिन्दी अर्थ

घोड़ोंको जोतकर शत्रुओंकी ओर चल दिया

English

From the rays of that splendour appeared hundreds and thousands of Hrishikeshas bearing conch, discus and mace.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुननेकी इच्छा रखनेपर भी उन्हें पूर्णरूपसे समझ नहीं सकता

English

As a skilful physician, having duly diagnosed a disease, prescribes a medicine by the application of his intelligence for effecting a cure, even so men, for the accomplishment of their acts, use their intelligence, aided by their own wisdom. What they do is again disapproved by others. A man, in youth, is affected by one kind of understanding. In middle age, the same does not prevail with him, and in the period of decay, a different kind of understanding becomes agreeable to him. When fallen into terrible distress or when visited by great prosperity, the understanding of a person, O chief of the Bhojas, is seen to be much afflicted. In one and the same person, through want of wisdom, the understanding becomes different at different times. That understanding which at one time is acceptable becomes the reverse of that at another time.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निर्णयको थोड़ा भी नहीं समझ पाता है

English

Having resolved, however, according to one's wisdom, that resolution which is excellent should be endeavoured to be accomplished. Such resolution, therefore, should force him to put forth exertion. All persons, O chief of the Bhojas, joyfully begin to act, even in respect of enterprises that lead to death, in the belief that those enterprises are achievable by them. All men, relying on their own judgements and wisdom, endeavour to accomplish diverse purposes, knowing them to be beneficial. The resolution that has possessed my mind today in consequence of our great calamity, as something that is capable of dispelling my grief, I will now disclose unto both of you.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न स धर्मान् विजानाति दर्वी सूपरसानिव

English

The Creator, having formed his creatures, assigned unto each his occupation. As regards the different orders, he gave unto each a portion of excellence. Unto brahmanas he assigned that foremost of all things, the Veda. Unto the kshatriya he assigned superior energy. Unto the vaishya he gave skill, and unto the shudra he gave the duty of serving the three other classes. Hence, a brahmana without self- restraint is censurable. A kshatriya without energy is base. A vaishya without skill is worthy of dispraise, as also a shudra who is bereft of humility (to the other orders).

हिन्दी अर्थ

रहनेपर भी उसके स्वादको नहीं जानती है

English

That chariot-spear, striking him with its blazing tip, shattered, like a great meteor falling from the sky striking the sun at the end of an age.

हिन्दी अर्थ

क्षिप्रं धर्मान् विजानाति जिह्नला सूपरसानिव

English

Then he swiftly drew from its sheath a divine sword with a golden hilt, bright as the sky, like a blazing serpent from its hole.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विवेकशीलकी सेवामें रहे तो वह शीघ्र ही धर्मोका रहस्य जान लेता है

English

Then the wise one hurled that excellent sword at the being, which on reaching the being vanished like cotton.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जानीयादागमान् सर्वान् ग्राह्मूं च न विरोधयेत्

English

Then the enraged Drona's son hurled at it a blazing mace like Indra's standard, and the being swallowed that too.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वस्तुका विरोध नहीं करता

English

Then, with no weapons left, looking here and there, he saw the sky made starless, filled with Janardanas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दिष्टमुत्सूज्य कल्याणं करोति बहुपापकम्

English

Seeing that most wondrous sight, Drona's son, weaponless and tormented, spoke, remembering Kripa's words:

हिन्दी अर्थ

छोड़कर बहुत-से पापकर्म करने लगता है

English

"One who does not heed the unpleasant but beneficial words of friends grieves on meeting calamity, as I do, having gone against those two.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथैव सुहृदा शक्‍यो न शक्यस्त्ववसीदति

English

He who, transgressing, seeks to slay those declared in the scriptures not to be slain, falls from the path of dharma and takes a wrong road.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथाशक्ति बारंबार मना करते हैं

English

Against cows, Brahmanas, kings and women, a friend, a mother, a teacher, the aged, children, the dull and the blind, those asleep, afraid or just risen,

हिन्दी अर्थ

कुरु मे वचन तात येन पश्चान्न तप्यसे

English

and the intoxicated, mad or careless, one should not take up weapons—so the elders taught men of old.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विमुक्तमूर्थजा ये च ये चापि हतवाहना:

English

Having left the eternal road seen in the scriptures and begun by a wrong way, I have come to dreadful calamity.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विश्वस्ता रजनीं सर्वे प्रेता इव विचेतस:

English

The wise say that calamity is most dreadful when one, having raised up a great undertaking, turns back from it out of fear.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नच ते जातु लोके5स्मिन् सुसूक्ष्ममपि किल्बिषम्

English

And who can do the impossible by the power of his strength? Human action is not said to be greater than fate.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रकाशे सर्वभूतानां विजेता युधि शात्रवान्

English

If one performing a human act does not succeed through fate, he has fallen from the path of dharma and meets with calamity.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शुक्ले रक्तमिव न्यस्तं भवेदिति मतिर्मम

English

The wise call it an unknown obstruction when, having begun some act, one turns back from it here out of fear.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सम्भावनासे परेकी बात है, ऐसा मेरा विश्वास है

English

This fear that has come to me is from ill-conducted action; but Drona's son would never in any way turn back in battle.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तैस्तु पूर्वमयं सेतु: शतधा विदलीकृत:

English

And this very great being, raised like the rod of fate—though I think, I do not in any way recognise it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न्यस्तशस्त्रो मम पिता धृष्टद्युम्नेन पातित:

English

Surely this stained purpose of mine, which turned to unrighteousness, shows this dreadful fruit as an obstruction.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिखण्डिनं पुरस्कृत्य हतो गाण्डीवधन्चना

English

This turning back of mine in battle was ordained by fate; there is no way to rise against fate here.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिखण्डीको आगे करके गाण्डीवधारी धनंजयने उनका वध किया था

English

So today I take refuge in Mahadeva, the lord; he will destroy this dreadful rod of fate for me.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पश्यतां भूमिपालानामधर्मेण निपातित:

English

I take refuge in the matted-haired god of gods, lord of Uma, garlanded with skulls, Rudra, Hara, destroyer of Bhaga's eyes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अधर्मेण नरव्याप्रो भीमसेनेन पातित:

English

That god surpassed the gods by austerity and prowess; therefore I shall go for refuge to Girisha, trident in hand."