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Book 11 – Chapter 009
BORI CE: 11-009-001 जनमेजय उवाच |
MN DUTT: 06-188-001 जनमेजय उवाच गते भगवति व्यासे धृतराष्ट्रो महीपतिः |
M. N. Dutt: Janamejaya said After the holy Vyasa had gone away, what, O Rishi, did king Dhritarashtra do? You should tell me this. |
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BORI CE: 11-009-002 वैशंपायन उवाच |
Corresponding verse not found in M. N. Dutt's version. |
Corresponding verse not found in M. N. Dutt's version. |
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MN DUTT: 06-188-002 तथैव कौरवो राजा धर्मपुत्रो महामनाः |
M. N. Dutt: What also did the Kuru king, the great son of Dharma, do? And what did those three, viz., Kripa and others do? |
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MN DUTT: 06-188-003 अश्वत्थाम्नः श्रुतं कर्म शापश्चान्योन्यकारितः |
M. N. Dutt: I have heard of the wonderful deeds of Ashvatthaman and the exchange of curses. Tell me what took place next, and what Sanjaya next said to the old king." |
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MN DUTT: 06-188-004 वैशम्पायन उवाच हते दुर्योधने चैव हते सैन्ये च सर्वशः |
M. N. Dutt: Vaishampayana said "After Duryodhana and all his soldiers had been killed, Sanjaya, deprived of spiritual sight, returned to Dhritarashtra. |
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MN DUTT: 06-188-005 संजय उवाच आगम्य नानादेशेभ्यो नानाजनपदेश्वराः |
M. N. Dutt: Sanjaya said The kings of various races, that came from various kingdoms, have all, O king, gone to the abode of Death along with your sons. |
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MN DUTT: 06-188-006 याच्यमानेन सततं तव पुत्रेण भारत |
M. N. Dutt: Your son, O king, who had constantly been requested (for peace) but who always desired to terminate his hostility after killing the Pandavas has caused the Earth exterminated. |
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MN DUTT: 06-188-007 पुत्राणामथ पौत्राणां पितॄणां च महीपते |
M. N. Dutt: Do you, O king, cause the obsequia rites of your sons and grandsons and fathers to be duly performed. |
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MN DUTT: 06-188-008 वैशम्पायन उवाच तच्छ्रुत्वा वचनं घोरं संजयस्य महीपतिः |
M. N. Dutt: Vaishampayana said Hearing these dreadful words of Sanjaya, the king dropped down on the Earth and lay unconscious like one deprived of life. |
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MN DUTT: 06-188-009 तं शयानमुपागम्य पृथिव्यां पृथिवीपतिम् |
M. N. Dutt: Approaching the king, who was lying prostrate on the Earth, Vidura, conversant with all forms of duty, said: 'Rise, O king, why do you lie down thus? Do not grieve, O foremost of Bharata's! This O king, is the final end of all creatures. |
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MN DUTT: 06-188-010 अभावादीनि भूतानि भावमध्यानि भारत |
M. N. Dutt: In the beginning creatures are non-existent. In the middle, O Bharata, they become existent. At the end, they once more become non-existent. What is there to be sorry for in all this. |
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MN DUTT: 06-188-011 न शोचन् मृतमन्वेति न शोचन म्रियते नरः |
M. N. Dutt: By grieving one cannot get back the dead. By indulging in grief, one cannot die himself. When such is the course of the world, why do you grieve? |
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MN DUTT: 06-188-012 अयुध्यमानो म्रियते युद्धयमानस्तु जीवति |
M. N. Dutt: One may die without fighting in battle. One also escapes alive after having engaged in battle. When one's appointed Time comes, O king, he cannot escape. |
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MN DUTT: 06-188-013 कालः कर्षति भूतानि सर्वाणि विविधानि च |
M. N. Dutt: Time drags all creatures. There is none dear or loathsome to Time, O Kuru's chief. |
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MN DUTT: 06-188-014 यथा वायुस्तृणाग्राणि संवर्तयति सर्वतः |
M. N. Dutt: As the wind tears off the ends of all blades of grass, so all creatures, O Bharata chief, are subjected by Time under its influence. |
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MN DUTT: 06-188-015 एकसार्थप्रयातानां सर्वेषां तत्र गामिनाम् |
M. N. Dutt: All creatures are like members of the same caravan bound for one destination. What is there to be sorry for if Time meets with one a little earlier than with another. |
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MN DUTT: 06-188-016 यांश्चापि निहतान् युद्धे राजंस्त्वमनुशोचसि |
M. N. Dutt: Those again, O king, that have fallen in battle and for whom you bewail, are not really objects of your grief, since all those illustrious persons to heaven. |
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MN DUTT: 06-188-017 न यज्ञैर्दक्षिणावद्भिर्न तपोभिर्न विद्यया |
M. N. Dutt: By celebrating sacrifices with enough presents, by practising ascetic austerities, and by knowledge, people cannot so easily go to heaven as heroes by displaying courage in battle. |
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MN DUTT: 06-188-018 सर्वे वेदविदः शूराः सर्वे सुचरितव्रताः |
M. N. Dutt: All those heroes were conversant with the Vedas; all of them were observant of vows: all of them have died, fighting the foe in battle. What is there to be sorry for then. |
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MN DUTT: 06-188-019 शरीराग्निषु शूराणां जुहुवुस्ते शराहुतीः |
M. N. Dutt: have gone They poured their libations of arrows upon the bodies of their brave enemies as upon a fire. Great as they were, they bore in return the libations of arrows poured upon themselves. |
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MN DUTT: 06-188-020 एवं राजंस्तवाचक्षे स्वयं पन्थानमुत्तमम् |
M. N. Dutt: I tell you. O king, that these is no superior way to heaven for a Kshatriya to one thought battle. |
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MN DUTT: 06-188-021 क्षत्रियास्ते महात्मानः शूराः समितिशोभनाः |
M. N. Dutt: All of them were great Kshatriya, all of them were heroes and ornaments of assemblies. They have attained to a highly blessed state. One should not grieve for them. |
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MN DUTT: 06-188-022 आत्मनाऽऽत्मानमाश्वास्य मा शुचः पुरुषर्षभ |
M. N. Dutt: Do you comfort your oneself. Do not grieve, O foremost of men. You should not allow yourself to be overwhelmed with so row and give up all work. |
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BORI CE: 11-009-003 क्षिप्रमानय गान्धारीं सर्वाश्च भरतस्त्रियः |
MN DUTT: 06-189-001 वैशम्पायन उवाच विदुरस्य तु तद् वाक्यं श्रुत्वा तु पुरुषर्षभः |
M. N. Dutt: Vaishampayana said "Hearing these words of Vidura, that foremost of Bharata's race, viz., Dhritarashtra, ordered for his car. The king once more said,—'Bring Gandhari here forthwith, and all the Bharata ladies. Bring here Kunti also, as well as all the other ladies with her. |
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BORI CE: 11-009-004 एवमुक्त्वा स धर्मात्मा विदुरं धर्मवित्तमम् |
MN DUTT: 06-189-002 एवमुक्त्वा स धर्मात्मा विदुरं धर्मवित्तमम् |
M. N. Dutt: Having said these words to Vidura conversant with every duty, the pious on Dhritarashtra, deprived of his senses by sorrow got on his car. |
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BORI CE: 11-009-005 गान्धारी चैव शोकार्ता भर्तुर्वचनचोदिता |
MN DUTT: 06-189-003 गान्धारी पुत्रशोकार्ता भर्तुर्वचननोदिता |
M. N. Dutt: Then Gandhari, stricken stricken with grief consequent the death of his sons, accompanied by Kunti and the other ladies of the royal household, came, as ordered by her lord, where the latter was waiting for her. |
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BORI CE: 11-009-006 ताः समासाद्य राजानं भृशं शोकसमन्विताः |
MN DUTT: 06-189-004 ताः समासाद्य राजानं भृशं शोकसमन्विताः |
M. N. Dutt: Stricken with great grief, they came together to the king. As they met, they addressed each other and cried aloud. |
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BORI CE: 11-009-007 ताः समाश्वासयत्क्षत्ता ताभ्यश्चार्ततरः स्वयम् |
MN DUTT: 06-189-005 ताः समाश्वासयत् क्षत्ता ताभ्यश्चार्ततरः स्वयम् |
M. N. Dutt: Then Vidura, who had become more afflicted than those ladies, began to solace them. Placing those weeping ladies on the cars that stood ready for them, he left the city. |
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BORI CE: 11-009-008 ततः प्रणादः संजज्ञे सर्वेषु कुरुवेश्मसु |
MN DUTT: 06-189-006 ततः प्रणादः संजज्ञे सर्वेषु कुरुवेश्मसु |
M. N. Dutt: At that time a loud cry of sorrow arose from every Kuru house. The whole city, including the very children, were stricken with grief. |
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BORI CE: 11-009-009 अदृष्टपूर्वा या नार्यः पुरा देवगणैरपि |
MN DUTT: 06-189-007 अदृष्टपूर्वा या नार्यः पुरा देवगणैरपि |
M. N. Dutt: Those ladies who had not before this been seen by the very celestials were now helpless as they were in the absence of their lords, seen by the common people. |
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BORI CE: 11-009-010 प्रकीर्य केशान्सुशुभान्भूषणान्यवमुच्य च |
MN DUTT: 06-189-008 प्रकीर्य केशान् सुशुभान् भूषणान्यवमुच्य च |
M. N. Dutt: With their beautiful dishevelled hairs, and their ornaments thrown off, those ladies, each clad in a single piece of cloth, proceeded most sorrowfully. |
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BORI CE: 11-009-011 श्वेतपर्वतरूपेभ्यो गृहेभ्यस्तास्त्वपाक्रमन् |
MN DUTT: 06-189-009 श्वेतपर्वतरूपेभ्यो गृहेभ्यस्तास्त्वपाक्रमन् |
M. N. Dutt: Indeed, they came out of their houses looking like white mountains, like a herd of deer from their mountain caves after the fall of their leader. |
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BORI CE: 11-009-012 तान्युदीर्णानि नारीणां तदा वृन्दान्यनेकशः |
MN DUTT: 06-189-010 तान्युदीर्णानि नारीणां तदा वृन्दान्यनेकशः |
M. N. Dutt: Those bevies of fair damsels, O king, came out filled with sorrow, and ran here and here like a herd of fillies on a circus yard. |
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BORI CE: 11-009-013 प्रगृह्य बाहून्क्रोशन्त्यः पुत्रान्भ्रातॄन्पितॄनपि |
MN DUTT: 06-189-011 प्रगृह्य बाहून् क्रोशन्त्यः पुत्रान् भ्रातॄन् पितॄनपि |
M. N. Dutt: Seizing each other's hands, they began to bewail aloud after their sons, brothers, and fathers. The presented a spectacle that takes place on the occasion of the universal destruction at the end of a cycle. |
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BORI CE: 11-009-014 विलपन्त्यो रुदन्त्यश्च धावमानास्ततस्ततः |
MN DUTT: 06-189-012 विलपन्त्यो रुदत्यश्च धावमानास्ततस्ततः |
M. N. Dutt: Weeping and crying and running here and there, deprived of their senses by sorrow, they knew not what to do. |
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BORI CE: 11-009-015 व्रीडां जग्मुः पुरा याः स्म सखीनामपि योषितः |
MN DUTT: 06-189-013 व्रीडां जग्मुः पुरा याः स्म सखीनामपि योषितः |
M. N. Dutt: Those ladies who formerly felt abashed even in the presence of companions of their own sex, now felt no shame, though scantily clad, in coming out before their mothers-in-law. |
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BORI CE: 11-009-016 परस्परं सुसूक्ष्मेषु शोकेष्वाश्वासयन्स्म याः |
MN DUTT: 06-189-014 परस्परं सुसूक्ष्मेषु शोकेष्वाश्वासयंस्तदा |
M. N. Dutt: Formerly they used to console each other while stricken with even slightest grief, Stupefied by grief, they, O king, could not look upon each other. |
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BORI CE: 11-009-017 ताभिः परिवृतो राजा रुदतीभिः सहस्रशः |
MN DUTT: 06-189-015 ताभिः परिवृतो राजा रुदतीभिः सहस्रशः |
M. N. Dutt: Surrounded by those thousands of wailing ladies, the king issued out of the city in great depression and proceeded quickly towards the battle-field. |
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BORI CE: 11-009-018 शिल्पिनो वणिजो वैश्याः सर्वकर्मोपजीविनः |
MN DUTT: 06-189-016 शिल्पिनो वणिजो वैश्याः सर्वकर्मोपजीविनः |
M. N. Dutt: Issuing out of the city, artisans and traders and Vaishyas and all kinds of mechanics, followed the king. |
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BORI CE: 11-009-019 तासां विक्रोशमानानामार्तानां कुरुसंक्षये |
MN DUTT: 06-189-017 तासां विक्रोशमानानामार्तानां कुरुसंक्षये |
M. N. Dutt: As those ladies, afflicted by the entire destruction of Kurus, cried in sorrow, a loud wail arose from among them that pierced all the words. |
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BORI CE: 11-009-020 युगान्तकाले संप्राप्ते भूतानां दह्यतामिव |
MN DUTT: 06-189-018 युगान्तकाले सम्प्राप्ते भूतानां दह्यतामिव |
M. N. Dutt: All creatures that heard that cry thought that the hour of universal destruction was near at hand when all things would be devoured by the fire that arises at the end of the cycle. |
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BORI CE: 11-009-021 भृशमुद्विग्नमनसस्ते पौराः कुरुसंक्षये |
MN DUTT: 06-189-019 भृशमुद्विग्नमनसस्ते पौराः कुरुसंक्षये |
M. N. Dutt: The citizens also of Hastinapura devoted to the Kurus, whit hearts filled with anxiety at the destruction of their rulers, O king, cried aloud like those ladies. |
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