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Book 12 – Chapter 028
BORI CE: 12-028-001 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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BORI CE: 12-028-002 व्यास उवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-028-002 व्यास उवाच अत्राप्युदाहरन्तीममितिहासं पुरातनम् |
M. N. Dutt: Vyasa said 'Regarding this subject is cited the old story, O foremost of men, that is known by the name of Ashma's discourse, Listen to it, O Yudhishthira. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-003 अश्मानं ब्राह्मणं प्राज्ञं वैदेहो जनको नृपः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-003 अश्मानं ब्राह्मणं प्राज्ञं वैदेहो जनको नृपः |
M. N. Dutt: Janaka the king of the Videhas, O king, filled with sorrow and grief, asked a wise Brahmana of the name of Ashma for removing his doubts. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-004 जनक उवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-028-004 जनक उवाच आगमे यदि वापाये ज्ञातीनां द्रविणस्य च |
M. N. Dutt: Janaka said How should a man seeking his own wellbeing act upon occasions of the accession and the destruction of both kinsmen and wealth?- |
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BORI CE: 12-028-005 अश्मोवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-028-005 अश्मोवाच उत्पन्नमिममात्मानं नरस्यानन्तरं ततः |
M. N. Dutt: Ashma said Immediately after the formation of a man's body, joys and sorrows are themselves attached to it. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-006 तेषामन्यतरापत्तौ यद्यदेवोपसेवते |
MN DUTT: 07-028-006 तेषामन्यतरापत्तौ यद् यदेवोपपद्यते |
M. N. Dutt: Although either of the two may overtake the person, yet whichever actually overtakes him quickly deprives him of his understanding like the wind dissipating gathering clouds. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-007 अभिजातोऽस्मि सिद्धोऽस्मि नास्मि केवलमानुषः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-007 अभिजातोऽस्मि सिद्धोऽस्मि नास्मि केवलमानुषः |
M. N. Dutt: In prosperity one thinks,-I am of highbirth.-I can do whatever I like.-I am not an ordinary person.-His mind because soaked with these three vain thoughts. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-008 स प्रसिक्तमना भोगान्विसृज्य पितृसंचितान् |
MN DUTT: 07-028-008 सम्प्रसक्तमना भोगान् विसृज्य पितृसंचितान् |
M. N. Dutt: Addicted to all earthly pleasures, he begins to dissipate the wealth hoarded by his ancestors. Impoverished in course of time, he considers the misappropriation of others' property as even laudable. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-009 तमतिक्रान्तमर्यादमाददानमसांप्रतम् |
MN DUTT: 07-028-009 तमतिक्रान्तमर्यादमाददानमसाम्प्रतम् |
M. N. Dutt: Like a hunter striking a deer with his arrows, the king then punishes the wicked man, that robber of other people's wealth, that transgressor, of law and regulations. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-010 ये च विंशतिवर्षा वा त्रिंशद्वर्षाश्च मानवाः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-010 ये च विंशतिवषर्ज वा त्रिंशद्वर्षाश्च मानवाः |
M. N. Dutt: Without attaining to a hundred years, such man scarcely live beyond twenty or thirty years. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-011 तेषां परमदुःखानां बुद्ध्या भेषजमादिशेत् |
MN DUTT: 07-028-011 तेषां परमदुः :खानां बुद्ध्या भैषज्यमाचरेत् |
M. N. Dutt: Carefully observing the conduct of all creatures, a king should, by the exercise of his intelligence, concert measures for alleviating the great sorrows of his subjects. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-012 मानसानां पुनर्योनिर्दुःखानां चित्तविभ्रमः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-012 मानसानां पुनर्योनिर्दुःखानां चित्तविभ्रमः |
M. N. Dutt: The causes of all mental sorrow are twofold viz., delusion of the mind and distress. No third cause is there. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-013 एवमेतानि दुःखानि तानि तानीह मानवम् |
MN DUTT: 07-028-013 एवमेतानि दुःखानि तानि तानीह मानवम् |
M. N. Dutt: All these various kinds of misery as also those arising from attachment to earthly pleasures that overtake man, are even such. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-014 जरामृत्यू ह भूतानि खादितारौ वृकाविव |
MN DUTT: 07-028-014 जरामृत्यू हि भूतानां खादितारौ वृकाविव |
M. N. Dutt: Like a pair of wolves Decrepitude and Death, devour all creatures, strong or weak, short or tall. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-015 न कश्चिज्जात्वतिक्रामेज्जरामृत्यू ह मानवः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-015 न कश्चिज्जात्वतिक्रामेज्जरामृत्यू हि मानवः |
M. N. Dutt: No man can escape decrepitude and death, not even the conqueror of the whole Earth encompassed by the sea. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-016 सुखं वा यदि वा दुःखं भूतानां पर्युपस्थितम् |
MN DUTT: 07-028-016 सुखं वा यदि वा दुःखं भूतानां पर्युपस्थितम् |
M. N. Dutt: Happiness or sorrow whatever comes upon creatures, it should be enjoyed or borne without elation or depression. There is no means of escaping from them. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-017 पूर्वे वयसि मध्ये वाप्युत्तमे वा नराधिप |
MN DUTT: 07-028-017 पूर्वे वयसि मध्ये वाप्युत्तरे वा नराधिप |
M. N. Dutt: The evils of life, O king, overtake one in infancy or youth or old age. They can never be avoided, while those which one seeks most never come. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-018 सुप्रियैर्विप्रयोगश्च संप्रयोगस्तथाप्रियैः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-018 अप्रियैः सह संयोगो विप्रयोगश्च सुप्रियैः |
M. N. Dutt: The absence of what is pleasant, the presence of what is disagreeable, good and evil, happiness and misery, follow Destiny. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-019 प्रादुर्भावश्च भूतानां देहन्यासस्तथैव च |
MN DUTT: 07-028-019 प्रादुर्भावश्च भूतानां देहत्यागस्तथैव च |
M. N. Dutt: Likewise, the birth of creatures and their death, and profit and loss, are all preordained. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-020 गन्धवर्णरसस्पर्शा निवर्तन्ते स्वभावतः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-020 गन्धवर्णरसस्पर्शा निवर्तन्ते स्वभावतः |
M. N. Dutt: As smell, colour, taste, and touch originate of themselves, so happiness and misery originate from what has been preordained. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-021 आसनं शयनं यानमुत्थानं पानभोजनम् |
MN DUTT: 07-028-021 आसनं शयनं यानमुत्थानं पानभोजनम् |
M. N. Dutt: Seats, beds, cars, riches, drink and food, always come to living creatures in the due course of Time. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-022 वैद्याश्चाप्यातुराः सन्ति बलवन्तः सुदुर्बलाः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-022 वैद्याश्चाप्यातुराः सन्ति बलवन्तश्च दुर्बलाः |
M. N. Dutt: Physicians even fall ill. The strong become weak. The rich man lose all and become poor. The course of Time is highly wonderful. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-023 कुले जन्म तथा वीर्यमारोग्यं धैर्यमेव च |
MN DUTT: 07-028-023 कुले जन्म तथा वीर्यमारोग्यं रूपमेव च |
M. N. Dutt: Noble-birth, health, beauty, prosperity, and objects of pleasures, are all begotten by Destiny. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-024 सन्ति पुत्राः सुबहवो दरिद्राणामनिच्छताम् |
MN DUTT: 07-028-024 सन्ति पुत्राः सुबहवो दरिद्राणामनिच्छताम् |
M. N. Dutt: The poor, although they may not desire it, have many children. The rich again are seen to have none. Wonderful is the course of Destiny. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-025 व्याधिरग्निर्जलं शस्त्रं बुभुक्षा श्वापदं विषम् BORI CE: 12-028-026 निर्याणं यस्य यद्दिष्टं तेन गच्छति हेतुना |
MN DUTT: 07-028-025 व्याधिरग्निर्जलं शस्त्रं बुभुक्षाश्चापदो विषम् |
M. N. Dutt: The dangers of ailment, fire, water, weapons, hunger, poison, fever, and death, and falls from elevated places, visit a man according to the Destiny under which he is born. It is generally seen in this world, that somebody, without committing any sin, suffers many miseries while another, having committed sins, is not pressed down by the weight of calamity. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-027 दृश्यते हि युवैवेह विनश्यन्वसुमान्नरः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-026 दृश्यते हि युवैवेह विनश्यन्वसुमानरः |
M. N. Dutt: It is seen that a rich man dies in youth; while a poor man lives on suffering from decrepitude, for a hundred years. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-028 अकिंचनाश्च दृश्यन्ते पुरुषाश्चिरजीविनः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-027 अकिञ्चनाश्च दृश्यन्ते पुरुषाश्चिरजीविनः |
M. N. Dutt: One born in a mean family may live very long while one descended from a noble family dies soon like an insect. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-029 प्रायेण श्रीमतां लोके भोक्तुं शक्तिर्न विद्यते |
MN DUTT: 07-028-028 प्रायेण श्रीमतां लोके भोक्तुं शक्तिर्न विद्यते |
M. N. Dutt: It is very common in this world, that rich men have no appetite, while the poor can digest pieces of wood. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-030 अहमेतत्करोमीति मन्यते कालचोदितः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-029 अहमेतत् करोमीति मन्यते कालनोदितः |
M. N. Dutt: Discontented with his position, whatever sins a wicked man commits, under the influence of destiny, saying,-I am the doer,-he considers to be all for his good. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-031 स्त्रियोऽक्षा मृगया पानं प्रसङ्गान्निन्दिता बुधैः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-030 मृगयाऽक्षाः स्त्रियः पानं प्रसङ्गा निन्दिता बुधैः |
M. N. Dutt: Hunting, dice, women, wine, quarrels, these are censured by the wise. many persons, well, and greatly, read in the scriptures, are seen to be addicted to them. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-032 इति कालेन सर्वार्थानीप्सितानीप्सितानि च |
MN DUTT: 07-028-031 इति कालेन सर्वार्थानीप्सितानीप्सितानिह |
M. N. Dutt: Objects, whether sought for or otherwise, come upon creature in course of Time. No other cause is seen. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-033 वायुमाकाशमग्निं च चन्द्रादित्यावहःक्षपे |
MN DUTT: 07-028-032 वायुमाकाशमग्निं च चन्द्रादित्यावहःक्षपे |
M. N. Dutt: Who creates and maintains air, ether, fire, moon, sun, day, night, the planets, rivers, and mountains? |
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BORI CE: 12-028-034 शीतमुष्णं तथा वर्षं कालेन परिवर्तते |
MN DUTT: 07-028-033 शीतमुष्णं तथा वर्ष कालेन परिवर्तते |
M. N. Dutt: Cold, and heat, and rain, come in turn in course of Time. Such is the case, O foremost of men, with the happiness and the misery of mankind. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-035 नौषधानि न शास्त्राणि न होमा न पुनर्जपाः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-034 नौषधानि न मन्त्राश्च न होमा न पुनर्जपाः |
M. N. Dutt: Neither medicines, nor incantations, can save the man attacked by decrepitude or overtaken by death. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-036 यथा काष्ठं च काष्ठं च समेयातां महोदधौ |
MN DUTT: 07-028-035 यथा काष्ठं च काष्ठं च समेयातां महोदधौ |
M. N. Dutt: As two pieces wood, floating on the great ocean, come together and are again separated, so creatures are united and are again separated in time. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-037 ये चापि पुरुषैः स्त्रीभिर्गीतवाद्यैरुपस्थिताः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-036 ये चैव पुरुषाः स्त्रीभिर्गीतवाद्यैरुपस्थिताः |
M. N. Dutt: Time acts impartially towards rich men who enjoy the pleasure of song and dance in the company of women and those unfortunate men who live upon another's food. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-038 मातृपितृसहस्राणि पुत्रदारशतानि च |
MN DUTT: 07-028-037 मातापितृसहस्राणि पुत्रदारशतानि च |
M. N. Dutt: In this world a thousand sorts of relationship are made such as mother and father and son and wife. In truth, however, whose are they are whose are we? |
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BORI CE: 12-028-039 नैवास्य कश्चिद्भविता नायं भवति कस्यचित् |
MN DUTT: 07-028-038 नैवास्य कश्चिद् भविता नायं भवति कस्यचित् |
M. N. Dutt: No one can become any one's own, nor can any one become anybody else's own. Our union here with wives and kinsmen and wellwishers is like that of travellers at an inn in the road. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-040 क्वासं क्वास्मि गमिष्यामि को न्वहं किमिहास्थितः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-039 क्वासे क्व च गमिष्यामि को न्वहं किमिहास्थितः |
M. N. Dutt: Where am I? Where shall I go?-Who am I?—How came I here?-Why and for whom should I grieve?-Thinking of all these questions one gets tranquillity. |
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MN DUTT: 07-028-040 अनित्ये प्रियसंवासे संसारे चक्रवद्गतौ |
M. N. Dutt: Life and its surroundings are always revolving like a wheel, and the companionship of those who are dear in only for the time being. The union with brother, mother, father, and friend is like that of travellers in an inn. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-041 न दृष्टपूर्वं प्रत्यक्षं परलोकं विदुर्बुधाः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-041 न दृष्टपूर्वं प्रत्यक्षं परलोकं विदुर्बुधाः |
M. N. Dutt: The wise men behold, as if with corporeal eyes, the next world which is unseen. Without setting at naught the scriptures, one desirous of knowledge should cherish faith. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-042 कुर्वीत पितृदैवत्यं धर्माणि च समाचरेत् |
MN DUTT: 07-028-042 कुर्वीत पितृदैवत्यं धर्माणि च समाचरेत् |
M. N. Dutt: One possessed of knowledge should perform the rites laid down for the Pitris and the gods, perforin all religious duties, celebrate sacrifices, judiciously pursue religion, profit and pleasure. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-043 संनिमज्जज्जगदिदं गम्भीरे कालसागरे |
MN DUTT: 07-028-043 संनिमज्जेज्जगदिदं गम्भीरे कालसागरे |
M. N. Dutt: Alas, no one perceives that the world is sinking in the deep ocean of Time which is infested with those huge crocodiles called decrepitude and death. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-044 आयुर्वेदमधीयानाः केवलं सपरिग्रहम् |
MN DUTT: 07-028-044 आयुर्वेदमधीयानाः केवलं सपरिग्रहाः |
M. N. Dutt: Many physicians are seen suffering from a disease along with all the members of their families, although they have carefully read the science of Life. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-045 ते पिबन्तः कषायांश्च सर्पींषि विविधानि च |
MN DUTT: 07-028-045 ते पिबन्तः कषायांश्च सीषि विविधानि च |
M. N. Dutt: Taking bitters and various sorts of oily drugs, they cannot go beyond death as the ocean cannot transcend its continents. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-046 रसायनविदश्चैव सुप्रयुक्तरसायनाः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-046 रसायनविदश्चैव सुप्रयुक्तरसायनाः |
M. N. Dutt: Despite the wise application of chemical compounds, men well-versed in chemistry, are seen to be broken down by decrepitude like trees broken down by elephants. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-047 तथैव तपसोपेताः स्वाध्यायाभ्यसने रताः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-047 तथैव तपसोपेताः स्वाध्यायाभ्यसने रताः |
M. N. Dutt: Likewise, persons endued with ascetic merit, devoted to study of the Vedas, practising charity and frequently celebrating sacrifices. cannot escape the hands of decrepitude and death. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-048 न ह्यहानि निवर्तन्ते न मासा न पुनः समाः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-048 न शहानि निवर्तन्ते न मासा न पुनः समाः |
M. N. Dutt: as Neither years, nor months, nor fortnights, nor days, nor nights that have once gone away do ever return to creatures who are born. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-049 सोऽयं विपुलमध्वानं कालेन ध्रुवमध्रुवः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-049 सोऽयं विपुलमध्वानं कालेन ध्रुवमध्रुवः |
M. N. Dutt: Man, whose existence is so transitory is compelled, in course of Time, whether he will or no, to come upon this inevitable and broad path of all creatures. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-050 देहो वा जीवतोऽभ्येति जीवो वाभ्येति देहतः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-050 देहो वा जीवतोऽभ्येति जीवो वाभ्येति देहतः |
M. N. Dutt: Whether the body originates from the creature, or the creature originates from the body, one's union, however, with wives and other friends is like that of travellers in an inn. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-051 नायमत्यन्तसंवासो लभ्यते जातु केनचित् |
MN DUTT: 07-028-051 नायमत्यन्तसंवासो लभ्यते जातु अपि स्वेन शरीरेण किमुतान्येन केनचित् |
M. N. Dutt: One cannot obtain another his companion for ever. One cannot obtain such union even with his own body. How then can it be secured with any one else? |
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BORI CE: 12-028-052 क्व नु तेऽद्य पिता राजन्क्व नु तेऽद्य पितामहः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-052 क्व नु तेऽद्य पिता राजन् क्व नु तेऽद्य पितामहाः |
M. N. Dutt: Where, O king, is your father, to-day and where your grandfathers? You do not see them to-day and they do not see you. O sinless one. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-053 न ह्येव पुरुषो द्रष्टा स्वर्गस्य नरकस्य वा |
MN DUTT: 07-028-053 न चैव पुरुषो द्रष्टा स्वर्गस्य नरकस्य च |
M. N. Dutt: No person can see either heaven or hell. The sacred books, however, are the eyes of the virtuous. O king, regulate your conduct according to the scriptures. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-054 चरितब्रह्मचर्यो हि प्रजायेत यजेत च |
MN DUTT: 07-028-054 चरितब्रह्मचर्यो हि प्रजायेत यजेत च |
M. N. Dutt: With a pure heart, one should lead the life of Brahmacharya and then procreate children and then celebrate sacrifices for satisfying the debt one owes of the Pitris, the gods and men. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-055 स यज्ञशीलः प्रजने निविष्टः; प्राग्ब्रह्मचारी प्रविभक्तपक्षः |
MN DUTT: 07-028-055 स यज्ञशीलः प्रजने निविष्टः प्रारब्रह्मचारी प्रविविक्तचक्षुः |
M. N. Dutt: Celebrating sacrifices and engaged in begetting (children),. after having first observed the vow of Brahmacharya, one who has eyes of wisdom shaking off all anxiety of heart, should seek heaven, this world, and his own soul. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-056 सम्यग्घि धर्मं चरतो नृपस्य; द्रव्याणि चाप्याहरतो यथावत् |
MN DUTT: 07-028-056 समं हि धर्मं चरतो नृपस्य द्रव्याणि चाभ्याहरतो यथावत् |
M. N. Dutt: That virtuous king who tries judiciously for acquiring Heaven and Earth and who takes his own share of earthly goods as sanctioned in the scriptures, acquires a reputation that spreads over all the worlds and among all creatures mobile and immobile. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-057 व्यास उवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-028-057 इत्येवमाज्ञाय विदेहराजो वाक्यं समग्रं परिपूर्णहेतुः |
M. N. Dutt: Having heard these words pregnant with reason, the king of the Videhas of clear understanding became freed from grief, and taking Ashma's leave proceeded towards his house. |
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BORI CE: 12-028-058 तथा त्वमप्यच्युत मुञ्च शोक;मुत्तिष्ठ शक्रोपम हर्षमेहि |
MN DUTT: 07-028-058 तथा त्वमप्यच्युत मुञ्च शोर्क मुत्तिष्ठ शक्रोपम हर्षमेहि |
M. N. Dutt: O you of unfading glory, cast off your sorrow and rise up. You are equal to Shakra himself. Cheer up your heart. The Earth has been conquered by you by means of Kshatriya duties. Enjoy here, O son of Kunti, and do not disobey my words?" |
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