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Book 01 – Chapter 148
BORI CE: 01-148-001 कुन्त्युवाच |
MN DUTT: 01-160-001 कुन्त्युवाच कुतोमूलमिदं दुःखं ज्ञातुमिच्छामि तत्त्वतः |
M. N. Dutt: Kunti said: I desire to learn from you what is the cause of this grief. Learning it, I shall remove it, if is capable of being removed. |
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BORI CE: 01-148-002 ब्राह्मण उवाच |
MN DUTT: 01-160-002 ब्राह्मण उवाच उपपन्नं सतामेतद् यद् ब्रवीषि तपोधने |
M. N. Dutt: The Brahmana said : O ascetic lady, what you say is no doubt worthy of virtuous men. But this grief cannot be removed by any human being. |
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BORI CE: 01-148-003 समीपे नगरस्यास्य बको वसति राक्षसः BORI CE: 01-148-004 पुष्टो मानुषमांसेन दुर्बुद्धिः पुरुषादकः BORI CE: 01-148-005 नगरं चैव देशं च रक्षोबलसमन्वितः |
MN DUTT: 01-160-003 समीपे नगरस्यास्य बको वसति राक्षसः |
M. N. Dutt: A Rakshasas, named Baka, lives not far off from this town. That greatly powerful (cannibal) is the lord of this town and of this country. That wicked-minded and powerful cannibal, that chief of the Asuras, being fattened by (eating) human flesh, rules over this country. This country and town are protected by the strength of that Rakshasas; thus being protected, we have no fear of any enemy, nay of any living soul. |
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BORI CE: 01-148-006 वेतनं तस्य विहितं शालिवाहस्य भोजनम् |
MN DUTT: 01-160-004 वेतनं तस्य विहितं शालिवाहस्य भोजनम् |
M. N. Dutt: His remuneration however is fixed to supply his food, which consists of one cart load of rice, two buffaloes and the man who takes them to him. |
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BORI CE: 01-148-007 एकैकश्चैव पुरुषस्तत्प्रयच्छति भोजनम् |
MN DUTT: 01-160-005 एकैकश्चापि पुरुषस्तत् प्रयच्छति भोजनम् |
M. N. Dutt: One after another all (men of this town) send him his food. Though it is very difficult to be kept, yet the turn comes to a particular family at intervals of many years. |
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BORI CE: 01-148-008 तद्विमोक्षाय ये चापि यतन्ते पुरुषाः क्वचित् |
MN DUTT: 01-160-006 तद्विमोक्षाय ये केचिद् यतन्ति पुरुषाः क्वचित् |
M. N. Dutt: If people try to avoid it, the Rakshasas then eats them up with their wives and children. |
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BORI CE: 01-148-009 वेत्रकीयगृहे राजा नायं नयमिहास्थितः |
MN DUTT: 01-160-007 वेत्रकीयगृहे राजा नायं नयमिहास्थितः |
M. N. Dutt: There is a king in a place called Vetrakiyagriha, but that foolish man does not know how to govern (his kingdom) and he does not take any step by which this country may be rendered safe. |
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BORI CE: 01-148-010 एतदर्हा वयं नूनं वसामो दुर्बलस्य ये |
MN DUTT: 01-160-008 एतदर्हा वयं नूनं वसामो दुर्बलस्य ये |
M. N. Dutt: We certainly deserve it all, for we live in everlasting anxiety in the kingdom of a wretched and weak king. |
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BORI CE: 01-148-011 ब्राह्मणाः कस्य वक्तव्याः कस्य वा छन्दचारिणः |
MN DUTT: 01-160-009 ब्राह्मणाः कस्य वक्तव्याः कस्य वाच्छन्दचारिणः |
M. N. Dutt: The Brahmanas can never be made to live (permanently) in the house of any one, (for) they are free men. They depend upon their own accomplishments and roam (over the world) like a bird, free to fly at pleasure. |
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BORI CE: 01-148-012 राजानं प्रथमं विन्देत्ततो भार्यां ततो धनम् |
MN DUTT: 01-160-010 राजानं प्रथमं विन्देत् ततो भार्यां ततो धनम् |
M. N. Dutt: It is said that a (good) king should be saved first, them a wife and then wealth, by the acquisition of the three, one can rescue his relatives and sons. |
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BORI CE: 01-148-013 विपरीतं मया चेदं त्रयं सर्वमुपार्जितम् |
MN DUTT: 01-160-011 विपरीतं मया चेदं त्रयं सर्वमुपार्जितम् |
M. N. Dutt: In the matter of the acquisition of these three, my course has been (quite) the reserve. Therefore falling into this danger, I am suffering great affections. |
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BORI CE: 01-148-014 सोऽयमस्माननुप्राप्तो वारः कुलविनाशनः |
MN DUTT: 01-160-012 सोऽयमस्माननुप्राप्तो वारः कुलविनाशनः |
M. N. Dutt: The race destroying turn of (supplying food to the Rakshsasa) has come round to me. I shall have to give the food and a man as the remuneration of the (Rakshasas). |
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BORI CE: 01-148-015 न च मे विद्यते वित्तं संक्रेतुं पुरुषं क्वचित् |
MN DUTT: 01-160-013 न च मे विद्यते वित्तं संक्रेतुं पुरुषं क्वचित् |
M. N. Dutt: I have no wealth to buy a man. I shall not bu able to give one who is dear to me. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 01-160-014 गतिं चैव न पश्यामि तस्मान्मोक्षाय रक्षसः |
M. N. Dutt: I do not see any means to save myself from the Rakshasas; therefore, I am plunged into a great ocean of grief, from which there is no escape. |
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BORI CE: 01-148-016 सोऽहं दुःखार्णवे मग्नो महत्यसुतरे भृशम् |
MN DUTT: 01-160-015 सहैवैतैर्गमिष्यामि बान्धवैरद्य राक्षसम् |
M. N. Dutt: I shall today with all my family, go to that Rakshasas so that, that wretch may devour us all at once. |
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