Karna Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

परोक्षभूतं तव तत् तु शल्य

English

adorned and equipped with a golden staff. Catching it as it coursed towards him, the high-souled king Citra, O Bharata, hurled the very weapon at Prativindhya. Striking the brave Prativindhya in that battle, that blazing dart, piercing through his right arm, fell down on the Earth, and falling illumined the whole region like a blast of lightning. Then Prativindhya, O king, filled with rage, and desiring to compass the destruction of Citra, sped at him a lance decked with gold. That lance penetrating through his armour and chest, entered the Earth like a mighty snake in its hole. Struck with that lance, the king fell down, stretching out his large and massive arms that resembled a couple of iron clubs. Beholding Citra slain, thy warriors, those ornaments of battle, rushed impetuously at Prativindhya from all sides. Shooting diverse kinds of shafts and Sataghnis decked with rows of bells, they soon covered Prativindhya like masses of clouds covering the Sun. The mighty-armed Prativindhya, consuming with his arrowy showers those assailants of his in that battle, routed thy army like the thunder- wielding Sakra routing the Asura host. Thus slaughtered in battle by the Pandavas, thy troops, O king, suddenly dispersed in all directions like congregated masses of clouds dispersed by the wind. While thy army, slaughtered on all sides, was thus flying away, only Drona's son singly rushed with speed against the mighty Bhimasena. All at once a fierce encounter ensued between them like to what had taken place between Vritra and Vasava in the battle between the gods and the Asuras (of old).'"

हिन्दी अर्थ

अर्जुनके साथ आज मेरा अत्यन्त घोर युद्ध होगा; उसे तुम देखना बाणोंसे कुन्तीकुमार अर्जुनको मार गिराऊँगा

English

[Karna said:] "What you said to me by way of illustration, Shalya, I cannot be frightened by words in battle.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मतवाले हाथीके साथ भिड़ जाता है

English

If all the gods with Vasava were to fight me, I would still have no fear; how much less from Partha with Keshava?

हिन्दी अर्थ

इसीलिये धर्मकी रक्षाके उद्देश्यसे मैं मिथ्या भाषण नहीं कर सकता मद्वाक्यं नानृतं लोके कश्ित् कुर्यात् समाप्लुहि

English

I cannot be frightened by mere words in any way; know another whom you can frighten in battle.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मयि तच्चाहितं शल्य तेन जीवसि मे क्षणम्

English

This much is the strength of a low man: the harshness with which you speak to me; unable to attain our qualities, you babble much, ill-minded one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आचारसे शून्य हैं नगरागारवप्रेषु बहिर्माल्यानुलेपना:

English

Karna, O revered one, was not born here to be afraid; I was born for valour and likewise for fame.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गौरीभि: सह नसिभिर्बृहतीभि: स्वलंकृता:

English

Listen with attention, lord of the Madras, to what I heard being said in Dhritarashtra's presence.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कर्कोटकान् वीरकांभश्व दुर्धर्माश्न॒ विवर्जयेत् व्यवहार) दूषित हैं; अतः इनका त्याग कर देना चाहिए

English

Brahmanas used to attend Dhritarashtra, telling of the many wondrous countries and of kings of former times.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आगच्छता महाराज वाहीकेषु निशामितम् वैश्य: शूद्रश्न वाहीकस्ततो भवति नापित:

English

There an aged best of the twice-born, reviling the Bahlika country and the Madras, spoke words of past tales.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दिव्यास्त्रोंकी इस समय मैं भलीभाँति जानता हूँ। तुम स्वयं उनसे अपरिचित हो मुझे अधिक संताप दे रहा है

English

Those who are shut out by the Himalaya, scorned by the Ganga, Sarasvati, Yamuna and Kurukshetra,

हिन्दी अर्थ

हितार्थिना फाल्गुनस्यैव शल्य

English

those who live between the five rivers with the Sindhu as sixth, outside dharma and impure—the Bahlikas—should be avoided.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुप्ते गुरौ तत्र शिरो निधाय ततो विबुद्धों ददृशे स विप्र:

English

The banyan named Govardhana, the crossroad named Subhandaka—this is the gate of the royal house; I have remembered it since boyhood.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उन्होंने यह सब कुछ देखा

English

I lived among the Bahlikas on very pressing business; therefore their conduct became known to me by residence.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दाख्यातवान् सूत इत्येव शल्य न कर्मकाले प्रतिभास्यति त्वाम्

English

The city named Shakala, the river named Apaga, the Jartikas—the Bahlikas' ways are much condemned.

हिन्दी अर्थ

किया है। इसलिये काम पड़नेपर तेरा यह अस्त्र तुझे याद न आयेगा

English

Drinking grain-spirit and Gauda liquor, eating beef with garlic, cakes and meat, they are lacking in character.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मस्मिन् संग्रामे तुमुलेडतीव भीमे असहापराक्रमी और सत्यप्रतिज्ञ पाण्डुपुत्र अर्जुनको मौतके मुखमें भेज दूँगा

English

They laugh, sing and dance, drunk, with women, unclothed, outside the city houses and walls, garlanded and anointed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निमज्जयिष्यन् बहुला: प्रजाश्न

English

With various drunken songs like the braying of asses and camels, drunk with excess, they talk to one another.

हिन्दी अर्थ

समुद्रकल्पं सुदुरापमुग्रम् रोकूँगा और उनका वेग सहन करूँगा

English

They cry "Alas, alas!" and "He has killed her husband!" and dance, dull and unrestrained on festival days.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मन्ये मनुष्यं धनुराददानम्

English

Living in Kurujangala among those arrogant ones, one of the Bahlika chiefs, not very glad at heart, sang:

हिन्दी अर्थ

तेजस्विनं लोकमिदं दहन्तम्

English

"Surely she, tall and fair, clad in fine blanket, lies remembering me, the Bahlika living among the Kurus.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुतीक्षणदंष्टं ज्वलनप्रभावम् प्रभञ्जनं मातरिश्वानमुग्रम्

English

Having crossed the river Shatadru and that lovely Iravati, returning to my own country I shall see the fine women with big conch-bangles,

हिन्दी अर्थ

हिमालय पर्वतके समान अचल रहकर सहन करूँगा

English

with eyes bright with realgar, fair, with antimony-marked three-humped, wrapped in plain deerskins, jumping about, pleasing to see.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धुर्य नित्यं समरेषु प्रवीरम् प्रस्थेडघजयत् खाण्डवे सव्यसाची

English

With the sounds of drums, anakas, conches and mridangas, drunk, with asses, camels and mules we shall go happily.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मृत्युं पुरस्कृत्य रणे जयं वा

English

In the forests of shami, pilu and karira, on pleasant roads, eating cakes and barley-balls with buttermilk,

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्रूयां हृष्ट: समितौ क्षत्रियाणाम् क्षुद्र: क्षेप्ता क्षमिणश्वाक्षमावान्

English

becoming strong on the roads, when shall we, trampling the path, go on beating and offering the tribute of the wicked?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रधर्षयन् मां मूढवत् पापकर्मन्

English

Among such degraded, outcaste, evil-minded Bahlikas, what sensible man would live even for a moment?

हिन्दी अर्थ

तुम्हारे मनमें उस मैत्रीका उदय नहीं हुआ) शणातेर्वा श्वसते: सीदतेवा

English

Such are the Bahlikas of futile conduct, as a Brahmana described; of both their good and evil deeds you take a sixth share.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यशोडर्थमात्मार्थमपीश्वरार्थम्

English

Having said this, the good Brahmana further spoke a reply; hear what was said of the undisciplined Bahlikas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रयत्नपूर्वक युद्ध करुँगा। आज मेरे इस कर्मको तुम देखो ब्राह्माणि दिव्यान्यथ मानुषाणि

English

There a rakshasi sings always on the fourteenth of the dark fortnight, beating a drum at night in the prosperous city of Shakala:

हिन्दी अर्थ

न चेत् पतेद् विषमे मे5द्य चक्रम् जाय तो उस अस्त्रसे अर्जुन रणभूमिमें जीवित नहीं छूट सकते

English

"When will the town-criers again sing songs in Shakala, satisfied with beef and meat, having drunk the great Gauda liquor,

हिन्दी अर्थ

सगदाद् वा धनपते: सवज़्ाद् वापि वासवात्

English

adorned, with tall fair women, eating onions, gandusha and many sheep?

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्मान्न मे भयं पार्थान्नापि चैव जनार्दनात् कदाचित् विजयस्याहमस्त्रहेतोरटन्नूप

English

Those who do not eat pork, fowl, beef, ass, camel and sheep meat—their birth is in vain."

हिन्दी अर्थ

होमधेन्वा वत्समस्य प्रमत्त इषुणाहनम्

English

Thus sing the drunken people of Shakala with liquor, with children and old people leaping; how could there be good conduct among them?

हिन्दी अर्थ

यस्मात् त्वया प्रमत्तेन होमधेन्वा हत: सुतः युध्यमानस्य संग्रामे प्राप्तस्यैकायनं भयम्

English

Know this, Shalya; and I tell you more of what another Brahmana said of us in the Kuru assembly.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एते हि सोमराजान ईश्वरा: सुखदुःखयो:

English

Where these five rivers flow, and the pilu forests too—the Shatadru, Vipasha, third the Iravati, the Chandrabhaga and the Vitasta, with the Sindhu as sixth—those outside them,

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रसाद॑ न लभे शल्य ब्राह्मुणान्मद्रकेश्वर उसका कृपाप्रसाद न प्राप्त कर सका

English

those countries called Aratta, of lost dharma, are not to be visited, of the outcaste, the Dashamiyas, the Videhas, the non-sacrificers.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उस श्रेष्ठ ब्राह्मणने मुझपर कृपा नहीं की

English

Gods, fathers and Brahmanas do not accept anything from those Bahlikas whose dharma is lost; so the tradition says.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आहरं न लभे तस्मात् प्रसादं द्विजसत्तमात् तत् सर्वमस्मै सत्कृत्य प्रयच्छामि न चेच्छति

English

A learned Brahmana rightly said in the assembly that the Bahlikas, merciless, eat in wooden and earthen bowls smeared with barley, licked by dogs and the like.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्याहृतं यनन्‍्मया सूत तत् तथा न तदन्यथा

English

The Bahlikas eat and drink sheep's, camel's and ass's milk and its products.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मिथ्या नहीं कर सकता; इसलिये मेरा शाप तुझे प्राप्त होगा ही'

English

Confusers of offspring, wretches, eaters of everything but milk, the Bahlikas called Arattas are to be avoided by the wise.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इति श्रीमहाभारते कर्णपर्वणि कर्णशल्यसंवादे द्विचत्वारिंशो5ध्याय: अभ्यभाषत राधेय: संनिवार्योत्तरं वच:

English

Know also, Shalya; and I tell you more of what another member of the assembly, a Brahmana, said in the Kuru assembly.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शल्यको रोककर पुनः उनसे इस प्रकार कहा--

English

Having drunk milk at Yugandhara and lived at Achyutasthala, and likewise bathed at Bhutilaya, how will he go to heaven?

हिन्दी अर्थ

नाहं शक्‍्यस्त्वया वाचा बिभीषयितुमाहवे कि तुम इस युद्धस्थलमें मुझे अपनी बातोंसे नहीं डरा सकते

English

Where these five rivers flow forth from the mountain, the Arattas called Bahlikas—an Aryan should not dwell among them even two days.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथापि मे भयं न स्यात् किमु पार्थात् सकेशवात्

English

Bahis and Halika are two pishachas on the Vipasha; the Bahlikas are their offspring, not a creation of the Lord of Creatures.

हिन्दी अर्थ

होगा। फिर श्रीकृष्णसहित अर्जुनसे क्या भय हो सकता है अन्यं जानीहि यः शकक्‍्यस्त्वया भीषयितुं रणे

English

One should avoid Kara, Karaka, Mahishaka, the Kalingas, the Kikata forest, Karkotaka, Viraka and the wicked ones.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सको, ऐसे किसी दूसरे ही पुरुषका पता लगाओ

English

Thus a rakshasi, living for one night in a shami-wood house with a great mortar for girdle, said to a pilgrim:

हिन्दी अर्थ

गुणोंका वर्णन करनेमें असमर्थ होकर बहुत-सी ऊटपटांग बातें बकते जा रहे हो विक्रमार्थमहं जातो यशोर्थ च तथा55त्मन:

English

"Those countries are called Aratta, those people Bahlikas; the Sindhu and Sauviras dwell there, mostly despised."

हिन्दी अर्थ

पराक्रम प्रकट करने और अपने यशको फैलानेके लिये ही उत्पन्न हुआ हूँ

English

Know also, Shalya; and I tell you more; hear what I say with attention.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कारणैस्त्रिभिरेतैस्त्वं शल्य जीवसि साम्प्रतम् तीन कारणोंसे तुम अबतक जीवित हो

English

A Brahmana, once a guest, went to the house of an artisan, and seeing his conduct there, pleased, said to the artisan:

हिन्दी अर्थ

गया है। शल्य! इसीलिये तुम क्षणभर भी जीवित हो मित्रद्रोहस्तु पापीयानिति जीवसि साम्प्रतम्

English

"I have long lived on a single peak of the Himalaya and seen many countries filled with various dharmas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इति श्रीमहाभारते कर्णपर्वणि कर्णशल्यसंवादे त्रिचत्वारिंशो5ध्याय:

English

These peoples are not at odds in any dharma, for all of them taught dharma as stated by the masters of the Veda.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऋते कर्णसहस्त्रेण शक्‍्या जेतुं परे युधि परुषं द्विगुणं भूय: प्रोवाचाप्रियदर्शनम्

English

But wandering always among countries full of various dharmas, I observed among the Bahlikas, O great king:

हिन्दी अर्थ

दूनी कठोरता लिये अप्रिय वचन कहना आरम्भ किया

English

There a man having been a Brahmana becomes a kshatriya, then a vaishya and a shudra, and then a Bahlika becomes a barber.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्राह्मणा: कथयन्ति सम धृतराष्ट्रनिवेशने देशों तथा पूर्ववर्ती भूपालोंके वृत्तान्त सुना रहे थे

English

Having become a barber, he again becomes a Brahmana, and having become twice-born there, he is again born a slave.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पूर्वघटित बातें कही थीं--

English

In one family there is one Brahmana, and the others act at will; the Gandharas, Madrakas and some Bahlikas are senseless.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तान् धर्मबाह्यानशुचीन् वाहीकानपि वर्जयेत् एतद् राजकुलद्वारमाकुमारात् स्मराम्यहम्

English

This I heard there, a cause of confusion of dharma; having wandered the whole earth, I found reversal among the Bahlikas."

हिन्दी अर्थ

द्वारपर स्थित हैं, जिन्हें मैं बचपनसे ही भूल नहीं पाता हूँ

English

Know also, Shalya; and I tell you more of what another said in disparagement of the Bahlikas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत एषां समाचार: संवासाद् विदितो मम जर्तिका नाम वाहीकास्तेषां वृत्तं सुनिन्दितम्

English

Long ago a chaste Aratta woman was carried off by robbers, and when she was approached unrighteously, she cursed them:

हिन्दी अर्थ

अपूपमांसवाट्यानामाशिन: शीलवर्जिता:

English

"Since you approach me, a young girl with kinsmen, unrighteously, therefore the women in your families will be unchaste, and you lowest of men will not be freed from this dreadful sin."

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथा नंगी होकर नगर एवं घरोंकी चहारदिवारियोंके पास गाती और नाचती हैं

English

The Kurus with the Panchalas, Shalvas, Matsyas and Naimishas, Kosalas, Kashis, Angas, Kalingas and Magadhas,

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनावृता मैथुने ता: कामचाराश्न सर्वश: हे हते है हतेत्येवं स्वामिभर्तृहतेति च

English

and the Chedis, of great fortune, know eternal dharma; and good people in many countries are mostly of that kind (the line is obscure in this text).

हिन्दी अर्थ

तासां किलावलिप्तानां निवसन् कुरुजाड़्ले

English

From the Matsyas up, the Kuru-Panchala people, and the distinguished Chedis, up to Naimisha, the good live by ancient dharma—except the Madras and the crooked five-river people.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सा नूनं बृहती गौरी सूक्ष्मकम्बलवासिनी शतद्रुकामहं तीर्त्वा तां च रम्यामिरावतीम्

English

Knowing so, O king, of the tales of dharma, Shalya, you stay silent like a dullard. You are that people's protector and king, taker of a sixth of their good and bad deeds.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मन:शिलोज्ज्वलापाड् ग्यो गौर्यस्त्रिककुदाउ्जना:

English

Or rather you are the taker of their evil, not protecting them; the king who protects partakes of merit, you of the demerit.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मृदज्रानकशड्खानां मर्दलानां च नि:स्वनै: पथि सुप्रबला भूत्वा कदा सम्पततो5ध्वगान्

English

When dharma was formerly honoured in all countries, eternal, seeing the dharma of the five rivers the Grandsire said "Fie!"

हिन्दी अर्थ

दो घड़ी भी निवास करेगा?”

English

Even in the Krita age, of the outcast Dashamiyas of inauspicious deeds, the Grandsire despised the dharma of the five rivers; he would not honour it among varnas established in their own dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ईदृशा ब्राह्मणेनोक्ता वाहीका मोघचारिण: पाप दोनोंका छठा भाग तुम लिया करते हो

English

Know also, Shalya; and I tell you more: Kalmashapada, sinking in a lake, a rakshasa, said:

हिन्दी अर्थ

इत्युक्त्वा ब्राह्मण: साधुरुत्तरं पुनरुक्तवान्

English

"Begging is the stain of a kshatriya, untruth the stain of a Brahmana, the Bahlikas the stain of the earth, the Madra women the stain of women."

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत्र सम राक्षसी गाति सदा कृष्णचतुर्दशीम् कदा वाहेयिका गाथा: पुनर्गास्थामि शाकले

English

A king, raising the sinking night-ranger, asked him, and he explained, saying what you should hear.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वाराहं कौक्कुटं मांसं गव्यं गार्दभमौष्टिकम् इति गायन्ति ये मत्ता: सीधुना शाकलाश्च ये

English

"The stain of men is the Mlecchas, the stain of Mlecchas the Maushtikas, of Maushtikas the eunuchs, of eunuchs the priests of kings;

हिन्दी अर्थ

गाथाएँ गाया करते हैं, उनमें धर्म कैसे रह सकता है?”

English

and whatever is the stain of those for whom royal priests sacrifice, and of the Madrakas, that would be your stain if you do not release us."

हिन्दी अर्थ

इति शल्य विजानीहि हन्त भूयो ब्रवीमि ते पज्च नद्यो वहन्त्येता यत्र पीलुवनान्युत

English

So it is said that this was an effective remedy against rakshasa-afflicted and poison-struck, a spoken reply once accomplished.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्रात्यानां दासमीयानां वाहीकानामयज्वनाम्

English

Brahman among the Panchalas, own-dharma among the Kauravas, truth among the Matsyas and Shurasenas, sacrifice among the easterners, serfs among the southerners, thieves among the Bahlikas, mixture among the Surashtras.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तेषां प्रणष्टरर्माणां वाहीकानामिति श्रुति: आविकं चौष्टिकं चैव क्षीरं गार्दभमेव च

English

Ingratitude, seizing others' property, drinking liquor, and approaching a teacher's wife—for those whose dharma it is, there is no unrighteousness; fie on the Arattakas and five-river people.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हन्त शल्य विजानीहि हन्त भूयो ब्रवीमि ते

English

From the Panchalas up, the Kurus, Naimishas and Matsyas know dharma; the Kalingas, Angas and Magadhas, the elders, live by the remaining dharmas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दूसरे ब्राह्मणने कौरवसभामें स्वयं मुझसे कहा था-- युगन्धरे पय: पीत्वा प्रोष्य चाप्यच्युतस्थले

English

The eastern quarter is resorted to by the gods led by Agni; the southern is guarded by the fathers and Yama of good deeds.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्नान करके मनुष्य कैसे स्वर्गमें जायगा?”

English

The western is protected by Varuna, guarding the asuras, the mighty; the northern by the Lord Soma, devoted to Brahmanas, with Brahmanas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पज्च नद्यो वहन्त्येता यत्र नि:सृत्य पर्वतात् बहिश्न नाम हीकश्न विपाशायां पिशाचकौ

English

Himavat guards rakshasas and pishachas, Gandhamadana the guhyakas; Dhruva all beings; Vishnu, Janardana, the worlds.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ते कथं विविधान् धर्मान् ज्ञास्यन्ते हीनयोनय:

English

The Magadhas understand hints, the Kosalas what is seen, the Kuru-Panchalas half-spoken words, the Shalvas full commands; the mountaineers are rough like their mountains.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एकरात्रशयी गेहे महोलूखलमेखला

English

The Yavanas, O king, know everything and are especially brave; Mlecchas are regulated by their own signs; no other people speak unprompted.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तीर्थयात्रीके घरमें एक रात रहकर उससे इस प्रकार कहा था-- निवास करते हैं, वे आरट्ट नामक देश हैं और वहाँके जलका नाम बाहीक है

English

But the Bahlikas are stubborn, and none of the Madrakas are otherwise. Such as you, Shalya, ought not to answer.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्रात्यानां दासमीयानामन्नं देवा न भुज्जते

English

Knowing this, be silent and do not oppose me; I will first slay you and then slay Keshava and Arjuna."

हिन्दी अर्थ

हैं; अत: देवता उनका अन्न नहीं ग्रहण करते हैं इति श्रीमहाभारते कर्णपर्वणि कर्णशल्यसंवादे चतुश्नत्वारिंशो5ध्याय:

English

[Shalya said:] "The abandonment of the afflicted and the sale of one's wife and sons occur among the Angas, of whom you are the lord.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उच्यमानं मया सम्यक् त्वमेकाग्रमना: शृणु

English

Knowing the faults in yourself, which Bhishma stated when you were counted among chariot-warriors and maharathas, be free of anger and do not be wrathful.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कुछ कहता हूँ। मेरी कही हुई इस बातको तुम एकाग्रचित्त होकर सुनो-- आचार तत्र सम्प्रेक्ष्य प्रीतो वचनमत्रवीत्

English

Brahmanas exist everywhere, kshatriyas exist everywhere, vaishyas and shudras too, Karna, and chaste women of good vows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आचार-विचार देखकर प्रसन्नता प्रकट करते हुए यह बात कही--

English

Men delight in jesting with men, ridiculing one another, country by country, in union with their wives.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दृष्टाश्न बहवो देशा नानाधर्मसमावृता: धर्मोसे सम्पन्न बहुत-से देश देखे हैं

English

Everyone is always skilled in speaking of others' faults; he does not know what is to be said of himself, or, knowing, is bewildered."

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्व हि तेडब्रुवन् धर्म यदुक्त वेदपारगै:

English

[Sanjaya said:] Karna made no reply, and Shalya too faced the enemy; Radheya, laughing again, urged him: "Go on."