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Book 03 – Chapter 196
BORI CE: 03-196-001 वैशंपायन उवाच |
MN DUTT: 02-205-001 वैशम्पायन उवाच ततो युधिष्ठिरो राजा मार्कण्डेयं महाद्युतिम् |
M. N. Dutt: Vaishampayana said : O best of the Bharata race, thereupon king Yudhishthira asked the most enlightened Markandeya a question that is too difficult to be understood. |
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BORI CE: 03-196-002 श्रोतुमिच्छामि भगवन्स्त्रीणां माहात्म्यमुत्तमम् |
MN DUTT: 02-205-002 श्रोतुमिच्छामि भगवन् स्त्रीणां माहात्म्यमुत्तमम् |
M. N. Dutt: O you that are possessed of great energy, I desire to listen to the best account of a woman's greatness, O Brahmanas, you relate to me in detail the principles of pure morality. |
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BORI CE: 03-196-003 प्रत्यक्षेण हि विप्रर्षे देवा दृश्यन्ति सत्तम |
MN DUTT: 02-205-003 प्रत्यक्षमिह विप्रर्षे देवा दृश्यन्ति सत्तम |
M. N. Dutt: O Brahmanical sages, O foremost of men, the sun, the moon, the earth and the fire look like the deities in their embodied forms. |
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BORI CE: 03-196-004 पिता माता च भगवन्गाव एव च सत्तम |
MN DUTT: 02-205-004 पिता माता च भगवन् गुरुरेव च सत्तम् |
M. N. Dutt: O holy one, O excellent one, O descendant of the Bhrigu race, the father, the mother and the preceptor-these and others, as ordained by the celestials, also appear as deities. |
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BORI CE: 03-196-005 मन्येऽहं गुरुवत्सर्वमेकपत्न्यस्तथा स्त्रियः |
MN DUTT: 02-205-005 मान्या हि गुरवः सर्वे एकपत्न्यस्तथा स्त्रियः |
M. N. Dutt: All venerable persons are to be respected, as also the women who are devoted to one husband. The service, that chaste women offer to their husbands, seems to me to be very difficult. |
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BORI CE: 03-196-006 पतिव्रतानां माहात्म्यं वक्तुमर्हसि नः प्रभो |
MN DUTT: 02-205-006 पतिव्रतानां माहात्म्यं वक्तुमर्हसि नः प्रभो |
M. N. Dutt: O lord, it behoves you to relate to us the excellency of chaste women, who, O blameless one, putting a check upon all their senses and even restraining their minds, always think their husbands as gods. O holy one, O lord, O Brahmana, the worship that sons offer to their fathers and mothers and also what wives render to their husbands, appears to me be fraught with difficulty. In fact, I do not find anything more difficult than the duties of chaste women (to their husbands). |
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BORI CE: 03-196-007 भगवन्दुष्करं ह्येतत्प्रतिभाति मम प्रभो |
Corresponding verse not found in M. N. Dutt's version. |
Corresponding verse not found in M. N. Dutt's version. |
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BORI CE: 03-196-008 स्त्रीणां धर्मात्सुघोराद्धि नान्यं पश्यामि दुष्करम् |
MN DUTT: 02-205-007 साध्वाचाराः स्त्रियो ब्रह्मन् यत् कुर्वन्ति सदाऽऽदृताः |
M. N. Dutt: O Brahmanas, what the wives of good behaviours perform carefully ſin respect to their husbands) and also what the sons do to their father and mother, are indeed, highly difficult. |
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BORI CE: 03-196-009 एकपत्न्यश्च या नार्यो याश्च सत्यं वदन्त्युत |
MN DUTT: 02-205-008 एकपल्यश्च या नार्यो याश्च सत्यं वदन्त्युत |
M. N. Dutt: To those women who are attached to one lord; and those who speak the truth; and those who conceive in their womb a child for full ten months; |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 02-205-009 नार्यः कालेन सम्भूय किमद्भुततरं ततः |
M. N. Dutt: And to those women also who in due time are subject to great troubles and suffer extraordinary pains, what is more wonderful than these? |
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BORI CE: 03-196-010 संशयं परमं प्राप्य वेदनामतुलामपि |
MN DUTT: 02-205-010 प्रजायन्ते सुतान् नार्यो दुःखेन महता विभो |
M. N. Dutt: O worshipful one, women give birth to their children with great pain to themselves; and, O foremost of the Brahmanas they bring them up with great affection. |
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BORI CE: 03-196-011 ये च क्रूरेषु सर्वेषु वर्तमाना जुगुप्सिताः |
MN DUTT: 02-205-011 याश्च क्रूरेषु सत्त्वेषु वर्तमाना जुगुप्सिताः |
M. N. Dutt: That the persons, who are desirous of doing evils to others and who are always engaged in cruel deeds, discharge their duties, is, in my opinion, highly difficult. |
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BORI CE: 03-196-012 क्षत्रधर्मसमाचारं तथ्यं चाख्याहि मे द्विज |
MN DUTT: 02-205-012 क्षत्रधर्मसमाचारतत्त्वं व्याख्याहि मे द्विज |
M. N. Dutt: O twice-born one, relate to me the detailed account of the virtue of the Kshatriya race. O Brahmana, the acquisition of virtue becomes very difficult for the lofty-minded ones, for they have to perform certain cruel deeds (in obedience to their racial duties). |
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BORI CE: 03-196-013 एतदिच्छामि भगवन्प्रश्नं प्रश्नविदां वर |
MN DUTT: 02-205-013 एतदिच्छामि भगवन् प्रश्नं प्रश्नविदां वर |
M. N. Dutt: O worshipful one, O you that do know answer to all questions, I desire to listen to the answers that you will relate; for, O foremost of the Bhrigu race, O you of excellent vows, I always worship you. |
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BORI CE: 03-196-014 मार्कण्डेय उवाच |
MN DUTT: 02-205-014 मार्कण्डेय उवाच हन्त तेऽहं समाख्यास्ये प्रश्नमेतं सुदुर्वचम् |
M. N. Dutt: Markandeya said : O the best of the Bharata race, I will relate to you in detail the whole history of your question, although it is too difficult to state; you listen to me, as I tell you. |
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BORI CE: 03-196-015 मातरं सदृशीं तात पितॄनन्ये च मन्यते |
MN DUTT: 02-205-015 मातृस्तु गौरवादन्ये पितृनन्ये तु मेनिरे |
M. N. Dutt: Some consider the mother to be superior and some again consider the father as such. The mother, however, performs the most difficult thing; for she propagates the species. |
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BORI CE: 03-196-016 तपसा देवतेज्याभिर्वन्दनेन तितिक्षया |
MN DUTT: 02-205-016 तपसा देवतेज्याभिवन्दनेन तितिक्षया |
M. N. Dutt: The fathers, too, by observing severe asceticism, by the adorations of the celestials and by chanting their praises, by undergoing the rigour of heat and cold, by repeating incantations and also by other expedients desire to possess children. |
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BORI CE: 03-196-017 एवं कृच्छ्रेण महता पुत्रं प्राप्य सुदुर्लभम् |
MN DUTT: 02-205-017 एवं कृच्छ्रेण महता पुत्र प्राप्य सुदुर्लभम् |
M. N. Dutt: O hero, thus having obtained a child after having recourse to these painful expedients, a child which is difficult of attainment, they always think what the child would do in the future. |
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BORI CE: 03-196-018 आशंसते च पुत्रेषु पिता माता च भारत |
MN DUTT: 02-205-018 आशंसते हि पुत्रेषु पिता माता च भारत |
M. N. Dutt: O descendant of the Bharata race, both the father and the mother aspire that the son is possessed of fame and celebration, wealth and subjects, as also virtue. |
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BORI CE: 03-196-019 तयोराशां तु सफलां यः करोति स धर्मवित् |
MN DUTT: 02-205-019 तयोराशां तु सफलां यः करोति स धर्मवित् |
M. N. Dutt: O best of kings, the son who satisfies these aspirations of the parents, is considered to be virtuous. The son, whose father and mother are always satisfied with him, establishes everlasting reputation and virtue both in this world and the next. |
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BORI CE: 03-196-020 नैव यज्ञः स्त्रियः कश्चिन्न श्राद्धं नोपवासकम् |
MN DUTT: 02-205-020 नैव यज्ञक्रियाः काश्चिन्न श्राद्धं नोपवासकम् |
M. N. Dutt: She needs no sacrifices, nor she is required to perform Shraddha or to observe abstinence. When the wife offers all her services to her husband. In fact, thereby he alone obtains heaven. |
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BORI CE: 03-196-021 एतत्प्रकरणं राजन्नधिकृत्य युधिष्ठिर |
MN DUTT: 02-205-021 एतत् प्रकरणं राजन्नधिकृत्य युधिष्ठिर |
M. N. Dutt: O king, O Yudhishthira, remembering this fact, listen to the virtue of chaste women with as much attention as possible. |
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