Ashvamedha Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

लभते व्यसन प्राप्प सुहृद: साधुसम्मतान्

English

Marutta said, "Behold! I find the fire-god come in his own embodiment, this day, therefore do thou, O Muni, offer him a seat and water, and a cow, and water for washing the feet."

हिन्दी अर्थ

तौ वनेषु विचित्रेषु पर्वतेषु ससानुषु

English

[Kashyapa] "How does the body fall, and how is it taken up? How, wandering, is one freed from the painful cycle of rebirth?

हिन्दी अर्थ

सान्त्वयन् शलक्ष्णया वाचा हेतुयुक्तमिदं वच:

English

How, having yoked the self, does he leave the body, and how, freed from the body, does he enter another?

हिन्दी अर्थ

यत्र माद्रवतीपुत्रौ रतिस्तत्र परा मम

English

How does this man enjoy his good and bad deeds done by himself, and where does the deed abide for one without a body?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

रमणीयेषु पुण्येषु सहितस्य त्वयानघ

English

[Brahmin] "Thus urged, the perfected one answered those questions in order, Vrishni; hear my words as they are.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बलदेवं च कौरव्य तथान्यान् वृष्णिपुड्वान्

English

[Perfected one] When in taking another body the deeds that bring life and fame have all been exhausted,

हिन्दी अर्थ

रोचतां गमनं महां तवापि पुरुषर्षभ

English

his soul seized with exhaustion of life, he follows contrary things, and his intellect is turned about when destruction is at hand.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सह भीष्मेण यद् युक्तमस्माभि: शोककारिते

English

Not knowing his own goodness, strength and time, the unrestrained one indulges excessively in things opposed to them.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तेन तत् तु वचः सम्यग गृहीतं सुमहात्मना

English

When he indulges in everything very painful, or eats excessively, or never eats at all,

हिन्दी अर्थ

साधुसम्मानित हितैषी गुरुजनोंको नहीं पा सकता”

English

Agni said, "I accept thy offerings of water, seat, and water for washing the feet, O sinless one, do thou know me as the messenger of Indra, come to thee, in accordance with his directions."

हिन्दी अर्थ

अभ्यनुज्ञाप्य राजानं तथोभौ कृष्णफाल्गुनौ

English

Marutta said, "O Fire-god, is the glorious Lord of the Celestials happy, and is he pleased with us, and are the other gods loyal to him? Do thou enlighten me duly on all these points."

हिन्दी अर्थ

कुर्वतां शौचकार्याणि भीष्मस्य निधने तदा

English

Agni said, "O lord of the earth, Sakra is perfectly happy, he is pleased with thee, and wishes to make thee free from senility, and all the other gods are loyal to him. Do thou, O king, listen to the message of the Lord of the Celestials. And the object for which he has sent me to thee is to present Vrihaspati to Marutta. O prince, let this priest (of the Celestials) perform thy sacrifice, and make thee, who art only a mortal, attain immortality."

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततो दत्त्वा बहुधनं विप्रेभ्य: पाण्डवर्षभ:

English

Marutta said, "This twice-born Brahmana Samvarta will perform my sacrifice, and I pray to Vrihaspati, that he having acted as priest to Mahendra (Indra), it does not look well for him now to act as priest to

हिन्दी अर्थ

करके हस्तिनापुरमें प्रवेश किया

English

Agni said, "If this Vrihaspati officiate as thy priest, then shalt thou by the blessings of Devaraja (Indra) attain the highest region in the celestial mansion and attaining fame shalt thou certainly conquer the heavenly region. And, O lord of men, if Vrihaspati act as thy priest, thou shalt be able to conquer all the regions inhabited by men, and the heavenly regions, and all the highest regions created by Prajapati and even the entire kingdom of the gods."

हिन्दी अर्थ

अन्वशाद् वै स धर्मात्मा पृथिवीं भ्रातृभि: सह

English

Samvarta said, "Thou must never come again thus to present Vrihaspati to Marutta: for know, O Pavaka, (Agni) if thou dost, I losing my temper, will burn thee with my fierce evil eyes."

हिन्दी अर्थ

साथ पृथ्वीका राज्य करने लगे

English

Vyasa said, "Then Agni apprehending destruction by fire, and trembling like the leaves of the Aswattha tree (Ficus religiosa), returned to the gods, and the high-souled Sakra seeing that carrier of oblations (Agni) in the company of Vrihaspati said as follows:

हिन्दी अर्थ

इति श्रीमहाभारते आश्वमेधिके पर्वणि अश्वमेधपर्वणि चतुर्दशो5ध्याय:

English

Indra said, "O Jataveda (Agni), didst thou go to present Vrihaspati to Marutta according to my direction? What did that sacrificing king say unto thee and did he accept my message?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

राष्ट्र कि चक्रतुर्वीरी वासुदेवधनंजयौ

English

Agni said, "Thy message was not acceptable by Marutta and when urged by me, he clasping the hands of Vrihaspati, repeatedly said, that Samvarta would act as his priest. And he also observed that he did not desire to attain the worldly and the heavenly regions and all the highest regions of Prajapati, and that if he were so minded, he would accept the terms of Indra. "

हिन्दी अर्थ

राष्ट्र बभूवतुर्हवष्टी वासुदेवधनंजयौ

English

In entering the womb and in the crossing of vital parts, a man again gets such pain.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विचित्र वनोंमें और पर्वतोंके सुरम्य शिखरोंपर विचरने लगे

English

His joints broken, he gets wetness from the water, as he comes to rest in the five elements; by the cold the wind in the body, provoked, is driven fiercely.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चड्क्रम्यमाणौ संहृष्टावश्चिनाविव नन्दने

English

That wind, abiding in the five elements as prana and apana, goes upward and, after pain, leaves the embodied one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वनमें विहार करनेवाले अश्विनीकुमारोंके समान हर्षका अनुभव करते थे

English

He leaves the body and is seen breathless, without heat, breathless, without lustre, without consciousness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सभामें प्रवेश करके आनन्दपूर्वक मनोविनोद करने लगे

English

Abandoned by Brahman, the man is called dead. By the channels through which the embodied one knows the objects of the senses, by them he does not know the breath born of food.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कथायोगे कथायोगे कथयामासतु: सदा

English

That which acts there in the body is the eternal soul. Wherever each of them is joined at a meeting-point, know that vital part, for so it is seen in the scripture.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निश्चयज्ञ: स पार्थाय कथयामास केशव:

English

When those vital parts are pierced, it rises, enters the heart of the creature, and swiftly stops the goodness; then the creature, conscious, knows nothing.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कथाभि: शमयामास पार्थ शौरिर्जनार्दन:

English

His knowledge covered by darkness, his vital parts blocked, that soul, without a seat, is driven by the wind.

हिन्दी अर्थ

समय पार्थको शान्त किया

English

Then, breathing out that terrible great breath, going out it quickly shakes the unconscious body.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अपदहृत्यात्मनो भारं विशश्रामेव सात्वत:

English

That soul, departed from the body, surrounded by its own deeds, marked by its good merits or by sins, is born again.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उतार दिया और वे सुखपूर्वक विश्राम-सा करने लगे

English

Brahmins endowed with knowledge and rightly firm in what they have learned know by marks which is the one of merit and which the other.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रदान करते हुए उनसे यह युक्तियुक्त बात कही

English

As the sighted see a glow-worm vanishing here and there in darkness, so those with the eye of knowledge see him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्वद्वाहुबलमाश्रित्य राज्ञा धर्मसुतेन ह

English

Such perfected ones see the soul with divine eye, falling, being born, and entering the womb.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भीमसेनानुभावेन यमयोश्व नरोत्तम

English

His places are seen here in the scripture as threefold: this earth is the land of action, where creatures stand.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निष्कण्टक राज्य भोग रहे हैं

English

Having done good or evil there, all embodied beings gain; here itself they obtain high and low enjoyments by their own deeds.

हिन्दी अर्थ

राजा दुर्योधन युद्धमें मारा गया है

English

Here the doer of evil deeds goes to hell by his deeds; the sinful man is cooked sorely in hell, head downward. Therefore liberation is very hard to obtain, and the self must be guarded greatly.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धार्तराष्ट्रा दुरात्मान: सानुबन्धा निपातिता:

English

Learn truly from me, as they are told here, the stations where creatures stand after going upward; hearing them, you would know the final understanding by certainty about action.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अपने सगे-सम्बन्धियोंसहित मार गिराये गये

English

All the forms of the stars, and this orb of the moon, and the orb of the sun that shines in the world by its own light: know these as the places of men of meritorious deeds.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भुड्क्ते धर्मसुतो राजा त्वया गुप्त: कुरूद्गबह

English

When their deeds are exhausted, all of them fall again and again; even there, in heaven, there is difference of low, high and middle.

हिन्दी अर्थ

होकर सर्वथा शान्त हुई समूची पृथ्वीका राज्य भोगते हैं

English

There too there is no contentment on seeing a still more radiant fortune. So all these destinations have been told distinctly.

हिन्दी अर्थ

किमु यत्र जनोयं वै पृथा चामित्रकर्षण

English

Now I shall tell the origin of the embryo; hear it attentively as I tell it truly, brahmin.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मेरे द्वारका जानेका प्रस्ताव उपस्थित करो

English

Indra said, "Do thou go back to that king and meeting him, tell him these words of mine, full of significance, and if he obey them not, I shall strike him with my thunderbolt."

हिन्दी अर्थ

इति श्रीमहाभारते आश्वमेधिके पर्वणि अश्वमेधपर्वणि पठचदशो5ध्याय:

English

As a fruit tree when it bears gives much fruit, so merit done with a pure mind becomes vast.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धर्म स्वरूपिणं पार्थ सर्वलोकांश्व शाश्वतान्

English

Sin likewise comes from sin done with an evil mind; for the self acts in action with the mind placed first.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ज्ञान करानेके लिये मैं एक प्राचीन इतिहासका वर्णन करता हूँ

English

Hear further how a man, covered by desire and anger, as directed by his deed, enters the womb.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शृणु धर्मभृतां श्रेष्ठ गदितं सर्वमेव मे

English

Semen mixed with blood, having gone into a woman's womb, gains a field born of deeds, good or bad.

हिन्दी अर्थ

श्रेष्ठ अर्जुन! अब तुम मेरी सारी बातें ध्यान देकर सुनो

English

Because of subtlety and unmanifest nature it clings nowhere; having attained the body of Brahman, that Brahman is eternal, the seed of all beings, by which creatures live.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्रह्मलोकाच्च दुर्धर्ष: सो5स्माभि: पूजितो5भवत्

English

That soul, entering all the limbs of the embryo in parts, and abiding in the seats of life, at once supports them with consciousness; then the embryo, endowed with consciousness, moves its limbs.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दिव्येन विधिना पार्थ तच्छुणुष्वाविचारयन्

English

As molten iron poured in takes the shape of the mould, know that to be the entry of the soul into the embryo.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भूतानामनुकम्पार्थ यन्मोहच्छेदनं विभो

English

As fire enters a lump of iron, heating it all, know likewise the soul's coming into the embryo.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्रवीमि सत्यं कौरव्य न मिथ्यैतत् कथंचन

English

Agni said, "Let this king of the Gandharvas repair thither as thy messenger, O Vasava, for, I am afraid to go thither myself. Know, O Sakra, that highly incensed Samvarta, used to ascetic practices, told me these words in a rage. 'I shall burn thee with my fierce evil eyes if thou on any account come again here to present Vrihaspati to king Marutta.'"

हिन्दी अर्थ

धार्तराष्ट्रो हतो राजा सबल: सपदानुग:

English

Sakra said, "O Jataveda, it is thou who dost burn all other things and there is none else who can reduce thee to ashes. All the world is afraid to come in contact with thee. O carrier of oblations, these words of thine are worthy of no credence."

हिन्दी अर्थ

दुर्योधन अपनी सेना और सेवकोंके साथ मारा गया

English

Agni said, "Thou, O Sakra, hast encompassed the dominion of the heaven and the earth and the firmament by the might of thy own arms, but even thus how could Vritra (of old) wrest from thee the sovereignty of the celestial regions?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

धर्मेण राजा धर्मज्ञ: पातु सर्वा वसुन्धराम्

English

Indra said, "I can reduce my foes to submission and can even reduce the size of a mountain to an atom, if I will it. But, O Vahnni, as I do not accept the libation of Soma if offered by a foe, and as I do not strike the weak with my thunderbolt, Vritra seemed to triumph over me for a time. But who among mortals can live in peace by creating feud with me. I have banished the Kalakeyas to the earth, and removed the Danavas from heaven, and have terminated the existence of Prahlada in heaven. Can there be any man who can live in peace by provoking my enmity?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्तूयमानश्न सततं वन्दिभिर्भरतर्षभ

English

Agni said, "Dost thou, O Mahendra, remember that in olden times when the sage Chyavana officiated at the sacrifice of Saryati with the twin gods Aswins and himself appropriated the Soma offering alone, thou wert filled with wrath, and when bent upon preventing Saryati's sacrifice, thou didst violently strike Chyavana with thy thunderbolt? But that Brahmana, O Purandara, giving way to passion, was able by the power of his devotions to seize and hold fast by hand with thy thunder-bolt in it. And in a rage, he

हिन्दी अर्थ

आपूृच्छ कुरुशार्दूल गमन द्वारकां प्रति

English

again created a terrible looking enemy of thine, the Asura named Mada assuming all shapes, on beholding whom thou didst shut thine eyes with fear, whose one huge jaw was placed on earth, and the other extended to the celestial regions, and who looked terrible with his thousand sharp teeth extending over a hundred Yojanas, and had four prominent ones thick-set, and shining like a pillar of silver, and extending over two hundred Yojanas. And when grinding his teeth he pursued thee with his terrible and uplifted pike with the object of killing thee. Thou on beholding that terrible monster, presented a (pitiful) spectacle to all the by-standers. Then, O slayer of Danavas, overcome with fear of the monster, with thy hands clasped in supplication, thou didst seek the protection of the great sage. The might of Brahmanas, O Sakra, is greater than that of the Kshatriyas. None are more powerful than Brahmanas and knowing duly, as I do, the power of Brahmanas, I do not, O Sakra, desire to come in conflict with Samvarta."

हिन्दी अर्थ

गुरो: सुवृत्तस्य युधिष्ठिरस्य च

English

Service to mother and father, honouring gods and guests, worship of teachers, compassion, purity, constant restraint of the senses,

हिन्दी अर्थ

पूर्णतः: स्थित है

English

and doing what is good: this is called the conduct of the good. From it dharma arises, which protects creatures forever.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ज्जनार्दन॑ सम्प्रतिपूज्य पार्थिव

English

Thus one should always look to the good, for there is the fixed standing; conduct shows dharma, in which the good are established.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रस्ताव स्वीकार किया

English

That which is set down as dharma in them is eternal dharma; one who attains it does not meet a bad end.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सभाभवनमें रहने लगे, उन दिनों उन दोनोंमें क्या-क्या बातचीत हुई?

English

Therefore the bewildered world is held to the paths of dharma; but the yogi and the liberated are distinguished from these.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यदृच्छया तौ मुदितौ जग्मतु: स्वजनावृतौ

English

For a man living in dharma, in due course after a great time his crossing of rebirth comes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सभामण्डपके एक ऐसे भागमें पहुँचे, जो स्वर्गके समान सुन्दर था

English

Thus every creature enjoys its earlier deed; that is the cause by which this one has come here, cut out.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निरीक्ष्य तां सभां रम्यामिदं वचनमत्रवीत्

English

By whom was the taking of a body planned before? So is the doubt in the world, and I shall tell that next.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उस रमणीय सभाकी ओर दृष्टि डालकर भगवान् श्रीकृष्णसे कहा--

English

Having made the body for the self, Brahma, grandsire of all beings, created the whole three worlds, moving and unmoving.

हिन्दी अर्थ

माहात्म्यं देवकीमातस्तच्च ते रूपमैश्वरम्

English

Then he created Pradhana, the consciousness of embodied beings, by which all this is pervaded, which the world knows as supreme.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत् सर्व पुरुषव्याप्र नष्टं मे भ्रष्टचेतस:

English

Here it is called perishable; the supreme is the imperishable immortal; the pair of the three is all, each one separate.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ज्ञान इस समय विचलित-चित्त हो जानेके कारण नष्ट हो गया (भूल गया) है

English

The first-created Prajapati created all beings and the immovable beings; so says the ancient tradition.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भवांस्तु द्वारकां गन्‍्ता नचिरादिव माधव

English

The Grandsire fixed the measure of time for it, the turning among beings and their return.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भगवान् श्रीकृष्णने उन्हें गलेसे लगाकर इस प्रकार उत्तर दिया

English

As a wise one here, who has seen the self in a past birth, what I shall tell is all rightly fitting.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न च साद्य पुनर्भूय: स्मृतिर्मे सम्भविष्यति

English

One who always sees pleasure and pain as impermanent, and the body as a mass of filth, subject to destruction and tied to action,

हिन्दी अर्थ

न च शकक्‍्यं पुनर्वक्तुमशेषेण धनंजय

English

and remembers that whatever pleasure there is is all sorrow, will cross the terrible ocean of rebirth, so hard to cross.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धनंजय! अब मैं उस उपदेशको ज्यों-का-त्यों नहीं कह सकता

English

Entered by birth, death and disease, knowing Pradhana, he sees consciousness as the same in conscious beings and in all.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न शक्‍यं तन्‍्मया भूयस्तथा वक्तुमशेषत:

English

Then, tired of all, seeking the supreme state, I shall tell you the teaching on it truly, best of men.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इतिहासं तु वक्ष्यामि तस्मिन्नर्थे पुरातनम्

English

Hear, brahmin, entire, the supreme knowledge of the eternal, imperishable state as I declare it.