Ashramavasika Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

तपस्या करनेको ही जी चाहता है

English

" Vaisampayana said. 'That foremost one of Bharata's race, then ordered his troops, which were protected by heroes that were headed by Arjuna and that resembled the very guardians of the universe, to march out. Instantly, a loud clamour arose consisting of the words—Equip, Equip! —of horse-men, O Bharata, engaged in equipping and their steeds. Some proceeded on carriages and vehicles, some on horses of great speed, and some on cars made of gold endued with the splendour of blazing fires. Some proceeded on mighty elephants, and some on camels, O king. Some proceeded on foot, that belonged to that class of combatants which is armed with tiger-like claws. I The citizens and inhabitants of the

हिन्दी अर्थ

भीमं च बलिनां श्रेष्ठ सान्त्वयामास पार्थिव: अर्जुनं च समाश्लिष्य यमौ च पुरुषर्षभौ

English

Having honoured him, mighty-armed Yudhishthira, king of the Kurus, best of speakers, said to him as he sat at ease:

हिन्दी अर्थ

वृत्तान्त ठीक-ठीक बतला रहा हूँ। तुम स्थिरचित्त होकर सुनो

English

"After a long time I see the venerable one arrived. Is it well with you, brahmin, or has some good come to you?

हिन्दी अर्थ

न चोपायं प्रपश्यामि मोक्षणे जातवेदस: जलमग्निस्तथा वायुरथवापि विकर्षणम्

English

Which lands have you seen, and what can I do for you? Tell me, chief of brahmins; you are our dear guest."

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवं स निधन प्राप्त: कुरुराजो महामना: और कुन्ती मृत्युको प्राप्त हो गयीं

English

Narada said: "I am long seen by you, O king; I have come from the forest of austerity; I have seen holy places, and the Ganga too, O king."

हिन्दी अर्थ

यदृच्छयानुव्रजता मया राज्ञ: कलेवरम्

English

Yudhishthira said: "People dwelling on the Ganga's bank tell me that the great-souled Dhritarashtra has taken up supreme austerity.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततस्तपोवने तस्मिन् समाजग्मुस्तपोधना: मनमें संशय नहीं था

English

Did you see him there, that bull of the Kurus, in health, and Gandhari and Pritha, and Sanjaya the charioteer's son?

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत्राश्रौषमहं सर्वमेतत् पुरुषसत्तम

English

And how does my father, that king, fare today? I wish to hear, venerable one, if you have seen the king."

हिन्दी अर्थ

न शोचिततव्यं राजेन्द्र स्वतः स पृथिवीपति: सुनकर उन सभी महामना पाण्डवोंको बड़ा शोक हुआ

English

Narada said: "Be steady, great king, and hear all just as it was, as I heard and saw it in that forest of austerity.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न तेषां कुलकर्तारें कंचित् पश्याम्यहं शुभे मुझे कोई ऐसा नहीं दिखायी देता, जो उनके वंशको चलानेवाला हो

English

provinces, desirous of seeing Dhritarashtra, followed the king on diverse kinds of conveyances. The preceptor Kripa also, of Gotama's race, that great leader of forces, taking all the forces with him, proceeded, at the command of the king, towards the old monarch's retreat. The Kuru king Yudhishthira, that perpetuator of Kuru's race, surrounded by a large number of Brahmanas, his praises sung by a large band of Sutas and Magadhas and bards, and with a white umbrella held over his head and encompassed around by a large number of cars, set out on his journey. Vrikodara, the son of the Wind-god, proceeded on an elephant as gigantic as a hill, equipt with strung bow and machines and weapons of attack and defence. The twin sons of Madri proceeded on two fleet steeds, well cased in mail, well protected, and equipt with banners. Arjuna of mighty energy, with senses under control, proceeded on an excellent car endued with solar effulgence and unto which were equipt excellent steeds of white hue. The ladies of the royal household, headed by Draupadi, proceeded in closed litters protected by the superintendents of women. They scattered copious showers of wealth as they proceeded. Teeming with cars and elephants and steeds, and echoing with the blare of trumpets and the music of Vinas, the Pandava host, O monarch, blazed with great beauty. Those chiefs of Kuru's race proceeded slowly, resting by delightful banks of rivers and lakes, O monarch. Yuyutsu of mighty energy, and Dhaumya, the priest at the command of Yudhishthira, were engaged in protecting the city. By slow marches, king Yudhishthira reached Kurukshetra, and then, crossing the Yamuna, that highly sacred river, he beheld from a distance the retreat, O thou of Kuru's race, of the royal sage of great wisdom and of Dhritarashtra. Then all the men became filled with joy and quickly entered the forest, filling it with loud sounds of glee, O chief of Bharata's race.'"

हिन्दी अर्थ

अवशिषश्वश्न निहता द्रोणपुत्रेण वै निशि

English

With Gandhari, the wise one, and with the daughter-in-law Kunti, and with Sanjaya the charioteer, with the sacred fires and priests,

हिन्दी अर्थ

केवल वृष्णिचक्रं च वासुदेवपरिग्रहात् शिवेन पश्य न: सर्वान् दुर्लभं तव दर्शनम्

English

your father, rich in austerity, took up fierce austerity; holding a pebble in his mouth, the sage lived on air.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एतच्छुत्वा महाबाहुः सहदेवो युधां पति:

English

Honoured by all the sages in the forest, that great ascetic became only skin and bone for six months.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नोत्सहे5हं परित्यक्तुं मातरं भरतर्षभ इहैव शोषयिष्यामि तपसेदं कलेवरम्

English

Gandhari lived on water, Kunti fasted for a month at a time, and Sanjaya lived on one meal in six, O Bharata.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तमुवाच ततः कुन्ती परिष्वज्य महाभुजम्

English

And the priests there offered into the fires duly, lord, the king being sometimes seen and sometimes unseen in that forest.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्वत्स्नेहपाशबद्धा च हीयेयं तपस: परात् एवं संस्तम्भितं वाक्‍्यै: कुन्त्या बहुविधैर्मन:

English

The king became homeless and a wanderer of the forest; and the two queens and Sanjaya followed him together.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मनको धीरज बँधाया

English

Sanjaya was the king's guide on level and uneven ground, and blameless Pritha, O king, was Gandhari's eye.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ते मात्रा समनुज्ञाता राज्ञा च कुरुपुड़वा: राज्यं प्रतिगमिष्याम: शिवेन प्रतिनन्दिता:

English

Then once, on the Ganga's bank, that best of kings, the wise one, bathed in the Ganga and turned toward the hermitage.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवमुक्त: स राजर्षिरधर्मराज्ञा महात्मना

English

Then a wind arose and a great forest fire began; it burned that whole forest, enclosing it on every side.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गान्धार्या चाभ्यनुज्ञाता: कृतपादाभिवादना:

English

As herds of deer burned all around, and snakes, and herds of boars crowded to the waters,

हिन्दी अर्थ

नगरं हास्तिनपुरं पुनरायात् सबान्धव: देवर्षिनरिदो राजन्नाजगाम युधिष्ठिरम्

English

in that forest thrown into turmoil, in this supreme calamity, the king, weak in breath and movement from fasting, was unable to flee, and your two mothers were very thin.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आसीन परिविश्वुस्तं प्रोवाच वदतां वर:

English

Then the king, seeing the fire coming near, said to the charioteer Sanjaya, O lord of the earth:

हिन्दी अर्थ

कच्चित् ते कुशल विप्र शुभं वा प्रत्युपस्थितम् तो है न? अथवा आपको शुभकी ही प्राप्ति होती है न?

English

'Go, Sanjaya, where fire will never burn you; we, joined with this fire, shall go to the highest goal.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

तद् ब्रूहि द्विजमुख्य त्वं त्वं हुस्माकं परा गति:

English

Troubled, Sanjaya, best of speakers, said to him: 'O king, this death by fire will be unwelcome and in vain for you.

हिन्दी अर्थ

क्या सेवा करूँ? क्योंकि आप हमलोगोंकी परम गति हैं' परिदृष्टानि तीर्थानि गड़ा चैव मया नूप

English

I see no means of saving you from the fire; whatever is to be done next, you ought to tell me.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

धृतराष्ट्र महात्मानमास्थितं परमं तप:

English

Thus told by Sanjaya, the king said again: 'This is not an unwelcome death for us, who have left our house of our own accord.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गान्धारी च पृथा चैव सूतपुत्रश्न संजय: सूतपुत्र संजय भी सकुशल हैं न?

English

Water, fire, wind, or even starvation are praised for ascetics; go, Sanjaya, without delay.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

श्रोतुमिच्छामि भगवन् यदि दृष्टस्त्वया नृूप:

English

Having said this to Sanjaya, the king collected his mind and sat facing east with Gandhari and Kunti.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मैं उनका समाचार सुनना चाहता हूँ यथा श्रुतं च दृष्टे च मया तस्मिंस्तपोवने

English

Seeing him so, Sanjaya circled him and said to him, "Join your self, lord."

हिन्दी अर्थ

संजयेन च सूतेन साग्निहोत्र: सयाजक: वीटां मुखे समाधाय वायुभक्षो5भवन्मुनि:

English

The wise sage's son, the king, did as he said; restraining the host of the senses, he sat then like a log of wood.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पत्थरका टुकड़ा रखकर वायुका आहार करते और मौन रहते थे

English

The greatly fortunate Gandhari and your mother Pritha, and the king your father, were joined with the forest fire.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्वगस्थिमात्रशेष: स षण्मासानभवन्नूप: संजय: षष्ठभूक्तेन वर्तयामास भारत

English

But Sanjaya, the great minister, escaped from that fire; I saw him on the Ganga's bank, surrounded by ascetics.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तीसरे दिन संध्याको आहार ग्रहण करते थे

English

The radiant Sanjaya, having taken leave of them and reported all this fully, departed to the mountain Himavat.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दृश्यतोदृश्यतश्वचैव वने तस्मिन् नृूपस्य वै ते चापि सहिते देव्यौ संजयश्न तमन्वयु:

English

Thus did the great-minded king of the Kurus meet his end, and Gandhari and Pritha, your two mothers, O lord of men.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गान्धार्याश्व पृथा चैव चक्षुरासीदनिन्दिता

English

Following by chance, I saw the king's body and the bodies of both queens, O best of the Bharatas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सती-साध्वी कुन्ती गान्धारीके लिये नेत्र बनी हुई थीं गड़ायामाप्लुतो धीमानाश्रमाभिमुखो5भवत्

English

Then in that forest of austerity the ascetics assembled; hearing of the king's end, they did not grieve for his fate.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ददाह तद् वन सर्व परिगृह् समन्‍्ततः

English

There I heard all this, best of men, how the king was burned and your two mothers, O Pandava.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निराहारतया राजन् मन्दप्राणविचेष्टित: ततः स नृपतिर्दष्टवा वह्निमायान्तमन्तिकात्

English

You should not grieve, king of kings; that lord of the earth is well, having gone through union with fire, and so are Gandhari and your mother."

हिन्दी अर्थ

गच्छ संजय यत्राग्निर्न त्वां दहति करह्िचित्

English

Vaishampayana said: Hearing this, a great grief arose in all the great-souled Pandavas at Dhritarashtra's passing.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इत्युक्त्वा संजयं राजा समाधाय मनस्तथा

English

A great cry of anguish rose from the women of the inner apartments, and from the townspeople, O great king, hearing of the king's end.

हिन्दी अर्थ

साथ वे पूर्वांभिमुख होकर बैठ गये संजयस्तं तथा दृष्टवा प्रदक्षिणमथाकरोत्

English

"Alas, shame!" cried the king, deeply grieved, and with arms upraised Yudhishthira wept, remembering his mother, and all his brothers with Bhimasena at their head.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अब अपनेको योगयुक्त कीजिये

English

And in the inner apartments a very great sound of weeping arose, O great king, on hearing that Pritha had gone so.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गान्धारी च महाभागा जननी च पृथा तव संजयस्तु महामात्रस्तस्माद् दावादमुच्यत

English

They all grieved for the old king, burned, who had lost his sons, and for the ascetic Gandhari.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स तानामन्त्रय तेजस्वी निवेद्यैतच्च सर्वश:

English

When that noise had subsided, after a short while, O Bharata, holding back his tears with fortitude, Dharmaraja spoke thus.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अन्तःपुराणां च तदा महानार्तस्वरोभवत्

English

claws made of iron and tied to their waists.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यत् समुत्सृज्य राज्यं सा वनवासमरोचयत् त्यागकर वनमें ही रहना ठीक समझा

English

"The destinies of men are hard to understand, I think, when the son of Vichitravirya was burned thus by a forest fire.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मैं मोहित हो जाता हूँ उपकारमजानन् स कृतघ्न इति मे मति:

English

He who had a hundred splendid sons, the strong-armed king with the strength of ten thousand elephants, was burned by a forest fire.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कृत्वा यो ब्राह्मणच्छ्म भिक्षार्थी समुपागत:

English

He whom fine women once fanned with palm-leaf fans, vultures fanned, driven by the forest fire.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जो सुप्रसिद्ध सत्यप्रतिज्ञता है, उसको भी धिक्कार है! इदं कष्टतरं चान्यद् भगवन् प्रतिभाति मे

English

He who lay and was awakened by throngs of bards and heralds now lies on the ground, king, through the deeds of my sin.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दूसरी अत्यन्त कष्ट देनेवाली बात जान पड़ती है

English

But I do not grieve for Gandhari, renowned, her sons slain, who has gone to her husband's world, standing firm in the vow of a wife.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथा तपस्विनस्तस्य राजर्षे: कौरवस्य ह था, उन कुरुवंशी राजर्षिको ऐसी मृत्यु क्‍यों प्राप्त हुई?

English

I grieve only for Pritha, who gave up the great blazing prosperity of her sons' kingdom and chose the forest life.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तिष्ठत्सु मन्त्रपूतेषु तस्याग्निषु महावने

English

Shame on this kingdom of ours, shame on strength, shame on valour, and on the dharma of kshatriyas, since we live though dead.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अग्निसे दग्ध होकर क्‍यों मृत्युको प्राप्त हुए? मन्ये पृथा वेपमाना कृशा धमनिसंतता

English

Very subtle indeed is the course of Time, best of brahmins, that she gave up the kingdom and chose to live in the forest.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अहो धिगिति राजा तु विक्रुश्य भृशदु:खित: भीमसेनपुरोगाश्च भ्रातर: सर्व एव ते

English

The mother of Yudhishthira, of Bhima and of Vijaya, burned like one without a protector; I am bewildered thinking of it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रादुरासीन्महाराज पृथां श्रुत्वा तथागताम्

English

In vain was Agni satisfied by Savyasachin at Khandava, not knowing the favour done; he was ungrateful, I think.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अन्वशोचन्त ते सर्वे गान्धारीं च तपस्विनीम् सब लोग बारंबार शोक करने लगे

English

That blessed one who burned the mother of Savyasachin, he who once came disguised as a brahmin begging alms; shame on Agni, and shame on Partha's famed truthfulness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धैर्यपूर्वक अपने आँसू पोंछकर नारदजीसे इस प्रकार कहने लगे

English

And this seems to me still more painful, venerable one, that the lord of the earth met a fire in vain.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धृतराष्ट्रादिदाहे सप्तत्रिंशो5ध्याय: हुए महामना धृतराष्ट्रकी अनाथके समान मृत्यु हुई, यह कितने दुःखकी बात है?

English

And how could such a death befall that ascetic royal sage of the Kurus, after he had ruled this earth?

हिन्दी अर्थ

त॑ गृध्रा: पर्यवीजन्त दावाग्निपरिकालितम्

English

While his fires, purified with mantras, stood in the great forest, my father came to his end joined with a fire in vain."

हिन्दी अर्थ

दावानलसे दग्ध हो जानेपर गीधोंने अपनी पाँखोंसे हवा की है धरण्यां स नृपः शेते पापस्य मम कर्मभि:

English

I think Pritha, trembling, thin, her veins showing, cried out in great terror, "Ah, dear Dharmaraja!"

हिन्दी अर्थ

पतिलोकमनुप्राप्तां तथा भर्तृव्रते स्थिताम्

English

"Bhima, save me from this fear!" she cried, and my mother was surrounded on every side by the forest fire.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उत्सृज्य सुमहद् दीप्तं वनवासमरोचयत् एवं परम समुज्ज्वल ऐश्वर्यको ठुकराकर वनमें रहना पसंद किया था

English

Sahadeva was dearer to her than her own sons, yet the hero, son of Madri, did not rescue her.

हिन्दी अर्थ

क्षत्रधर्म च धिग् यस्मान्मृता जीवामहे वयम्

English

Hearing that, they all wept, embracing one another, the five Pandavas, tormented with grief, like beings at the end of an age.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनाथवत् कथं दग्धा इति मुह्यामि चिन्तयन्

English

The sound of those weeping lords of men, shut in by the vast palace, filled heaven and earth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

होनेपर “हा तात! हा धर्मराज!” कहकर कातर पुकार मचाने लगी होंगी

English

"Vaisampayana said, 'The Pandavas alighted, at a distance, from their cars and proceeded on foot to the retreat of the king, bending themselves in humility. All the combatants also, and all the denizens of the kingdom, and the spouses of the Kuru chiefs, followed them on foot. The Pandavas then reached the sacred retreat of Dhritarashtra which abounded with herds of deer and which was adorned with plantain plants. Many ascetics of rigid vows, filled with curiosity, came there for beholding the Pandavas who had arrived at the retreat. The king, with tears in his eyes, asked them, saying,— 'Where has my eldest sire, the perpetuator of Kuru's race, gone?' They answered, O monarch, telling him that he had gone to the Yamuna for his ablutions, as also for fetching flowers and waters. Proceeding quickly on foot along the path pointed out by them, the Pandavas beheld all of them from a distance. Desirous of meeting with their sire they walked with a rapid pace. Then

हिन्दी अर्थ

चाहिए। इस समय यहाँ इसी कर्तव्यका पालन करना चाहिए निर्ययाौ सहसोदर्य: सदारकश्न नरर्षभ:

English

"We have heard that when that wise one, living on air, entered the forest, the fires were abandoned after he had made a sacrifice.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शयनं भोजन यानं मणिरत्नमथो धनम्

English

The priests then left those fires in the lonely forest and went where they wished, best of the Bharatas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ददौ राजा समुद्दिश्य तयोमत्रोर्महीपति: प्रविवेश पुरं राजा नगरं वारणाह्नयम्

English

It is said that fire grew great in that forest then; the ascetics told me that by it the forest was set ablaze.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कुल्यानि तेषां संयोज्य तदाचख्युर्महीपते:

English

That king, on the Jahnavi's bank, as I have told you, was joined with his own fire, best of the Bharatas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नारदो5प्यगमद् राजन् परमर्षियथेप्सितम् वनवासे तथा त्रीणि नगरे दश पठच च

English

So the sages told me, sinless one, those whom I saw on the bank of the Bhagirathi, Yudhishthira.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ज्ञातिसम्बन्धिमित्राणां भ्रातृणां स्‍्वजनस्यथ च

English

Thus the king was joined with his own fire, lord of the earth; do not grieve, for he has gone to the highest goal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धारयामास तदू राज्यं निहतज्ञातिबान्धव: किसी प्रकार राज्यका भार सँभालने लगे

English

Your mother, Pandava, by serving her elders has attained great perfection; I have no doubt of it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एकोनचत्वारिंशो5ध्याय:

English

You ought to perform the water-offering for them, descendant of Kuru; let this be done here by you with all your brothers."

हिन्दी अर्थ

भीम पर्याप्रुहि भयादिति चैवाभिवाशती माताको दावानलने जलाकर भस्म कर दिया होगा

English

Sahadeva ran with speed towards the spot where Pritha was. Touching the feet of his mother, he began to weep aloud. With tears gushing down her cheeks, she saw her darling child. Raising her son up and embracing him with her arms, she informed Gandhari of Sahadeva's arrival. Then seeing the king and Bhimasena and Arjuna, and Nakula, Pritha endeavoured to advance quickly towards them. She was walking in advance of the childless old couple, and was dragging them forward. The Pandavas, beholding her, fell down on the earth. The puissant and high-souled monarch, endued with great intelligence, recognising them by their voices and also by touch, comforted them one after another. Shedding tears, those high-souled princes, with due formalities, approached the old king and Gandhari, as also their own mother. Indeed, regaining their senses, and once more comforted by their mother, the Pandavas took away from the king and their aunt and mother the jars full of water which they had been carrying, forbearing them themselves. The ladies of those lions among men, and all the women of the royal household, as also all the inhabitants of the city and provinces, then beheld the old king. King Yudhishthira presented all those individuals one after another to the old king, repeating their names and races, and then himself worshipped his eldest sire with reverence. Surrounded by them all, the old monarch, with eyes bathed in tears of joy, regarded himself as once more staying in the midst of the city called after the elephant. Saluted with reverence by all his daughters-in-law headed by Krishna, king Dhritarashtra, endued with great intelligence, with Gandhari and Kunti, became filled with joy. He then reached his forest-retreat that was applauded by Siddhas and Charanas, and that then teemed with vast crowds of men all desirous of beholding him, like the firmament teeming with innumerable stars."

हिन्दी अर्थ

सहदेव: प्रियस्तस्या: पुत्रेभ्योषधिक एव तु

English

The townspeople and country folk, led by devotion to the king, went to the Ganga on all sides, each wrapped in a single cloth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

माँको उस संकटसे बचा न सका तच्छुत्वा रुरुदु: सर्वे समालिड्ग्य परस्परम्

English

Then all those bulls of the Kurus, entering the water, with Yuyutsu in front, gave water to the great-souled ones.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तेषां तु पुरुषेन्द्राणां रुवतां रुदितस्वन:

English

They made the water-offerings for Gandhari and for Pritha rightly, by name and lineage, and finished the purification, staying there outside the city.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वैचित्रवीर्यो नृपतिस्तत् ते वक्ष्यामि सुव्रत वह सब तुम्हें बाताऊँगा

English

The best of the Kurus sent men who knew the rites and were trustworthy to Gangadvara, where the king had been burned.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अग्नय: कारयित्वेष्टिमुत्सृष्टा इति न: श्रुतम्

English

There at Gangadvara the king commanded the men to perform the due rites for them, giving what had to be given.

हिन्दी अर्थ

याजकगण इच्छानुसार अपने-अपने स्थानको चले गये तेन तद् वनमादीप्तमिति ते तापसाब्रुवन्

English

On the twelfth day, his purification done, the Pandava king duly gave the funeral offerings with fees.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तेनाग्निना समायुक्तः स्वेनैव भरतर्षभ

English

In Dhritarashtra's name the lord of the earth gave gold, silver, cows and costly beds.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मा शोचिथास्त्वं नृपतिं गत: स परमां गतिम् नरेशके लिये शोक न करो। वे परम उत्तम गतिको प्राप्त हुए हैं

English

And the radiant king gave unsurpassed gifts separately for Gandhari and for Pritha, declaring their names.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्राप्ता सुमहतीं सिद्धिमिति मे नात्र संशय:

English

Whatever each brahmin wished, and as much as he wished, he received: a bed, food, a vehicle, jewels and wealth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अपने भाइयों और स्त्रियोंके साथ नगरसे बाहर निकले

English

The king gave vehicles, clothing, comforts, and maidservants as attendants, in the name of those two mothers.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गड़ां प्रजग्मुरभितो वाससैकेन संवृता: एक वस्त्र धारण करके गंगाजीके समीप गये

English

Then the lord of the earth, the wise one, having given funeral offerings many times, entered again the city called Varanavata's rival, Hastinapura.

हिन्दी अर्थ

युयुत्सुमग्रत: कुत्वा ददुस्तोयं महात्मने

English

And the men who had gone at the king's word, having arranged the rites for them, came back again.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धृतराष्ट्रके लिये जलांजलि दी शौच निर्वर्तयन्तस्ते तत्रोषुर्नगराद् बहि:

English

Having honoured them duly with garlands and various perfumes, they arranged their rites and reported to the king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वे सब लोग नगरसे बाहर ही ठहर गये

English

Having comforted the righteous King Yudhishthira, Narada, the great sage, went away as he wished, O king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गड्द्वारं नरश्रेष्ठो यत्र दग्धो5भवन्नूप: कर्तव्यानीति पुरुषान् दत्तदेयान्महीपति:

English

Thus passed three years of the wise Dhritarashtra in the forest, after ten and five in the city.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ददौ श्राद्धानि विधिवद् दक्षिणावन्ति पाण्डव:

English

He had lost his sons in the war, and always gave gifts to kinsmen, relatives, friends, brothers and his own people.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुवर्ण रजतं गाश्न शय्याश्व सुमहाधना: संकीर्त्य नामनी राजा ददौ दानमनुत्तमम्

English

But King Yudhishthira, not very glad at heart then, bore that kingdom, his kinsmen and relatives slain.