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Book 12 – Chapter 137
BORI CE: 12-137-001 युधिष्ठिर उवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-139-001 युधिष्ठिर उवाच उक्तो मन्त्रो महाबाहो विश्वासो नास्ति शत्रुषु |
M. N. Dutt: Yudhishthira said You have prescribed, O mighty one, that no confidence should be reposed in enemy. But how would the king maintain himself if he were not to confide in anybody? |
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BORI CE: 12-137-002 विश्वासाद्धि परं राज्ञो राजन्नुत्पद्यते भयम् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-002 विश्वासाद्धिं पर राजन् राज्ञामुत्पद्यते भयम् |
M. N. Dutt: O king, you have said, great danger arises to kings from confidence. But how, ) monarch, can a king, without trust on others, conquers his enemies. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-003 एतन्मे संशयं छिन्धि मनो मे संप्रमुह्यति |
MN DUTT: 07-139-003 एतन्मे संशयं छिन्धि मतिर्मे सम्प्रमुह्यति |
M. N. Dutt: Kindly dispel this doubt of mine. My mind is confused, O grandfather, at what I have heard you say on the subject of mistrust. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-004 भीष्म उवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-139-004 भीष्म उवाच शृणुष्व राजन् यद् वृत्तं ब्रह्मदत्तनिवेशने |
M. N. Dutt: Bhishma said Hear, O king, what took place at the residence of Brahmadatta, viz., the conversation between Pujani and king Brahmadatta. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-005 काम्पिल्ये ब्रह्मदत्तस्य अन्तःपुरनिवासिनी |
MN DUTT: 07-139-005 काम्पिल्ये ब्रह्मदत्तस्य त्वन्तःपुरनिवासिनी |
M. N. Dutt: There was a bird named Pujani who lived for a considerable time with king Brahmadatta in the inner apartments of his palace at Kampilya. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-006 रुतज्ञा सर्वभूतानां यथा वै जीवजीवकः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-006 रुतज्ञा सर्वभूतानां यथा वै जीवजीवकः |
M. N. Dutt: Like the bird Jivajivaka, Pujani could imitate the cries of all animals. Though a bird by birth, she had acquired great knowledge and was conversant with every truth. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-007 अभिप्रजाता सा तत्र पुत्रमेकं सुवर्चसम् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-007 अभिप्रजाता सा तत्र पुत्रमेकं सुवर्चसम् |
M. N. Dutt: While residing there, she brought forth a highly effulgent young one. simultancously the king also beget on his queen a son. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-139-008 तयोरर्थे कृतज्ञा सा खेचरी पूजनी सदा |
M. N. Dutt: Out of gratefulness for the shelter of the king's roof, Pujani used to go daily to the shores of the ocean and bring a couple of fruits for the nourishment of her own young one and the infant prince. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-008 समुद्रतीरं गत्वा सा त्वाजहार फलद्वयम् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-008 तयोरर्थे कृतज्ञा सा खेचरी पूजनी सदा MN DUTT: 07-139-009 पुष्ट्यर्थं च स्वपुत्रस्य राजपुत्रस्य चैव हा फलमेकं सुतायादाद् राजपुत्राय चापरम् |
M. N. Dutt: Out of gratefulness for the shelter of the king's roof, Pujani used to go daily to the shores of the ocean and bring a couple of fruits for the nourishment of her own young one and the infant prince. She gave one of those fruits to her own child and the other to the prince. The fruits she brought were sweet like ambrosia, and capable of increasing strength and energy. Every day she brought them and every day she distributed them in the same way. The infant prince gained great strength from the fruit which Pujani give him. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-009 फलमेकं सुतायादाद्राजपुत्राय चापरम् |
Corresponding verse not found in M. N. Dutt's version. |
Corresponding verse not found in M. N. Dutt's version. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-139-010 ततोऽगच्छत् परां वृद्धिं राजपुत्रः फलाशनात् |
M. N. Dutt: One day the infant prince, while carried by the nurse on her arms saw the little young one of Pujani. Going down from the nurse's arms, the child ran towards the bird, and out of childish impulse, began to sport with it, liking the same very much. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-010 धात्र्या हस्तगतश्चापि तेनाक्रीडत पक्षिणा |
MN DUTT: 07-139-011 शून्ये च तमुपादाय पक्षिणं समजातकम् |
M. N. Dutt: At length, raising the bird which was to the same age with himself with his hands, the prince pressed it to death and then returned to his nurse. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-011 अथ सा शकुनी राजन्नागमत्फलहारिका |
MN DUTT: 07-139-012 अथ सा पूजनी राजन्नागमत् फलहारिणी |
M. N. Dutt: The bird, O king, who had as usual been out in her search of fruits, returning to the palace, and saw her young one lying on the ground, killed by the prince. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-012 बाष्पपूर्णमुखी दीना दृष्ट्वा सा तु हतं सुतम् BORI CE: 12-137-013 क्षत्रिये संगतं नास्ति न प्रीतिर्न च सौहृदम् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-013 वाष्पपूर्णमुखी दीना दृष्ट्वा तं रुदती सुतम् |
M. N. Dutt: Seeing her son dead, Pujani, with tears trickling down her cheeks, and heart burning with grief, wept bitterly and said,-Alas nobody should live with a Kshatriya or contract friendship with him, or take pleasure in having any connection with him! When they have any object in view, they behave with courtesy. When that object is accomplished, they abandon the instrument. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-014 क्षत्रियेषु न विश्वासः कार्यः सर्वोपघातिषु |
MN DUTT: 07-139-014 क्षत्रियेषु न विश्वासः कार्यः सर्वापकारिषु |
M. N. Dutt: The Kshatriyas do evil to all. They should never be trusted. Even after doing an injury they always try to solace and assure the injured for nothing. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-015 अहमस्य करोम्यद्य सदृशीं वैरयातनाम् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-015 अहमस्य करोम्यद्य सदृशीं वैरयातनाम् |
M. N. Dutt: I shall, forsooth, wreak vengeance, for this act of enmity upon this truthless and ungrateful betrayer of trust. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-016 सहसंजातवृद्धस्य तथैव सहभोजिनः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-016 सहसंजातवृद्धस्य तथैव सहभोजिनः |
M. N. Dutt: He has been guilty of three-fold sins taking the life of one that was born on the same day with him and that was being brought up with him in the same place, that used to eat with him, and that depended on him for protection. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-017 इत्युक्त्वा चरणाभ्यां तु नेत्रे नृपसुतस्य सा BORI CE: 12-137-018 इच्छयैव कृतं पापं सद्य एवोपसर्पति |
MN DUTT: 07-139-017 इत्युक्त्वा चरणाभ्यां नेत्रे नृपसुतस्य सा |
M. N. Dutt: Having said these words aside, Pujani, with her talons, pierced the eyes of the prince, and finding some comfort from that act of vengeance, once more said,-A sinful deed, committed with deliberation, assails the doer without any loss of time. They, however, who avenge an injury, never lose their merit. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-019 पापं कर्म कृतं किंचिन्न तस्मिन्यदि विद्यते |
MN DUTT: 07-139-018 पापं कर्म कृतं किंचिद् यदि तस्मिन् न दृश्यते |
M. N. Dutt: If the fruits of a sinful act be not seen in the perpetrator himself, they would certainly be seen. O king, in his sons; or son's sons, ci daughter's sons! |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-139-019 तु ब्रह्मदत्तः सुतं दृष्ट्वा पूजन्याहृतलोचनम् |
M. N. Dutt: Seeing his son blinded by Pujani, and considering the act to have been proper vengeance for what his son nad done, Brahmadatta said these words to Pujani. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-020 ब्रह्मदत्त उवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-139-020 ब्रह्मदत्त उवाच अस्ति वै कृतमस्माभिरस्ति प्रतिकृतं त्वया |
M. N. Dutt: An injury, was done by us to you. You have avenged it by doing an injury in return. The account is settled. Do not leave your present residence. On the other hand, continue to live here, O Pujani. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-021 पूजन्युवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-139-021 पूजन्युवाच सकृत् कृतापराधस्य तत्रैव परिलम्बतः |
M. N. Dutt: The learned never speak high of the conduct of a person, who having once injured another continues to live with that other. Under such circumstances it is always better for the injurer to quit his old place. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-022 सान्त्वे प्रयुक्ते नृपते कृतवैरे न विश्वसेत् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-022 सान्त्वे प्रयुक्ते सततं कृतवैरे न विश्वसेत् |
M. N. Dutt: One should never trust the soothing assurances received from an injured party. The fool that trusts such assurances is soon ruined. Enmity is not quickly cooled. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-023 अन्योन्यं कृतवैराणां पुत्रपौत्रं निगच्छति |
MN DUTT: 07-139-023 अन्योन्यकृतवैराणां पुत्रपौत्रं नियच्छति |
M. N. Dutt: The very sons and grandsons of persons, who have injured each other, meet with destruction. For such destruction of their children, they lose the next world also. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-024 सर्वेषां कृतवैराणामविश्वासः सुखावहः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-024 सर्वेषां कृतवैराणामविश्वासः सुखोदयः |
M. N. Dutt: Amongst imn who have injured one another, distrust would yield happiness. One who has betrayed confidence should never be trusted in the least. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-025 न विश्वसेदविश्वस्ते विश्वस्तेऽपि न विश्वसेत् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-025 न विश्वसेदविश्वस्ते विश्वस्ते नातिविश्वसेत् |
M. N. Dutt: One, who is not worthy of confidence should not be trusted; nor should too much trust be reposed in a person worthy of trust. The danger originating from blind confidence engenders absolute destruction. One should try to sccure the confidence of others. One, however, should never place confidence in others. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-026 माता पिता बान्धवानां वरिष्ठौ; भार्या जरा बीजमात्रं तु पुत्रः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-026 माता पिता बान्धवानां वरिष्ठौ भार्या जरा बीजमात्रं तु पुत्रः |
M. N. Dutt: The parents only are the best of friends. The wife is merely a soil for sowing seeds. The son is only one's seed. The brother is an enemy. The friend or companion wants to have his palms oiled if he is to continue so. One's own self enjoys or suffers one's happiness or misery. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-027 अन्योन्यकृतवैराणां न संधिरुपपद्यते |
MN DUTT: 07-139-027 अन्योन्यकृतवैराणां न संधिरुपपद्यते |
M. N. Dutt: Real peace cannot live amongst persons who have injured one another. No such necessity exists any longer for which I livea here. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-028 पूजितस्यार्थमानाभ्यां जन्तोः पूर्वापकारिणः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-028 पूजितस्यार्थमानाभ्यां जन्तोः पूर्वापकारिणः |
M. N. Dutt: The mind of a person who has once injured another, becomes naturally filled with want of confidence, if he sees the injured person adoring him with gifts and honours. Such conduct especially when shorn by the strong, always strikes the weak with fear. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-029 पूर्वं संमानना यत्र पश्चाच्चैव विमानना |
MN DUTT: 07-139-029 पूर्वं सम्मानन, यत्र पश्चाच्चैव विमानना |
M. N. Dutt: An intelligent person should leave that place where he first meets with honour in order to meet next with dishonour and injury. Despite any subsequent honour that he might get from his enemy, he should act thus. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-030 उषितास्मि तवागारे दीर्घकालमहिंसिता |
MN DUTT: 07-139-030 उषितास्मि तवागारे दीर्घकालं समर्चिता |
M. N. Dutt: I have lived in your house for a long time, respected all along by you. a cause of eninity, however, has at last taken place. I should, therefore, quit this place without any hesitation. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-031 ब्रह्मदत्त उवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-139-031 ब्रह्मदत्त उवाच यः कृते प्रतिकुर्याद् वै न स तत्रापरानुयात् |
M. N. Dutt: Brahmadatta said One, who does return injury for an injury, is never considered as offending. Indeed, the avenger closes his account by such behaviour. Therefore, O Pujani, continue to live here without quitting this place! |
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BORI CE: 12-137-032 पूजन्युवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-139-032 पूजन्युवाच न कृतस्य तु कर्तुश्च सख्यं संधीयते पुनः हृदयं तत्र जानाति कर्तुश्चैव कृतस्य च |
M. N. Dutt: Pujani said No friendship can again be formed between a person who has injured and him who has inflicted an injury in return. The hearts cannot forget what has taken place. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-033 ब्रह्मदत्त उवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-139-033 ब्रह्मदत उवाच कृतस्य चैव कर्तुश्च सख्यं संधीयते पुनः |
M. N. Dutt: It is necessary that an injurer and the avenger of the injury should be united. Mutual enmity upon such a union has been seen to cool down. Usually, no fresh injury occurs. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-034 पूजन्युवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-139-034 पूजन्युवाच नास्ति वैरमतिक्रान्तं सान्त्वितोऽस्मीति नाश्वसेत् |
M. N. Dutt: Enmity originating from mutual injuries can never die. The person injured should never trust his enemies, drinking-O I have been comforted with assurances of good will!-In this world, men frequently suffer destruction for (misplaced) confidence. Therefore, it is necessary that we should no longer meet each other. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-035 तरसा ये न शक्यन्ते शस्त्रैः सुनिशितैरपि |
MN DUTT: 07-139-035 तरसा ये न शक्यन्ते शस्त्रैः गुनिशितैरपि |
M. N. Dutt: Those, who cannot be subdued by force and Sharp weapons, can be conquered by insincere professions of love like (wild) elephants through a (tame) she-elephant. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-036 ब्रह्मदत्त उवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-139-036 ब्रह्मदत्त उवाच संवासाज्जायते स्नेहो जीवितान्तकरेष्वपि |
M. N. Dutt: For two persons living together, even if one indlicts upon the other deadly injury, fraternal love and mutual trist naturally raise between them, as in the case of the Chandala and the dog. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-037 अन्योन्यकृतवैराणां संवासान्मृदुतां गतम् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-037 अन्योन्कृतवैराणां संवासान्मृदुतां गतम् |
M. N. Dutt: Amongst persons who have ir jured one another, living together blunts the sharpness of enmily. Indeed, that enmity does not last long, but disappears quickly like water poured upon the leaf of a louts. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-038 पूजन्युवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-139-038 पूजन्युवाच वैरं पञ्चसमुत्थानं तच्च बुध्यन्ति पण्डिताः |
M. N. Dutt: Pujani said Emmity originates from five causes. Learned persons know it. Those five catises are woman, land, harsh words, natural disagreement, and injury. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-039 तत्र दाता निहन्तव्यः क्षत्रियेण विशेषतः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-039 तत्र दाता न हन्तव्यः क्षत्रियेणशेषतः |
M. N. Dutt: When the person, with whom enmity takes place, happens to be a liberal man, he should never be killed, particularly by a Kshatriya, openly or by hidden means. In such a case, the man's fault should be duly considered. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-040 कृतवैरे न विश्वासः कार्यस्त्विह सुहृद्यपि |
MN DUTT: 07-139-040 कृतवैरे न विश्वासः कार्यस्विह सुहृद्यपि |
M. N. Dutt: When enmity has arisen with even a friend, no further trust should be placed in him. Feelings of enmity lie hidden like fire in forest. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-041 न वित्तेन न पारुष्यैर्न सान्त्वेन न च श्रुतैः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-041 न वित्तेन न पारुष्यैर्न सान्त्वेन न च श्रुतैः |
M. N. Dutt: Like the Aurvya fire within the waters of the ocean, the fire of enmity can never be put out by presents of riches, by display of prowess, by conciliation or by scriptural learning. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-042 न हि वैराग्निरुद्भूतः कर्म वाप्यपराधजम् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-042 न हि पैधानिसस्त: कर्न चाप्यपराधजम् |
M. N. Dutt: The fire of eninity, once lighted.-the result of an injury once inflicted,-is never extinguished, O king, without destroying the right one of the parties. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-043 सत्कृतस्यार्थमानाभ्यां स्यात्तु पूर्वापकारिणः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-043 सत्कृतस्यार्थमानाभ्यां तत्र पूर्वापकारिणः |
M. N. Dutt: One, having injured a person, should never trust him again as his friend, even inough he might have (after the infliction of the injury) adored him with wealth and honours. Injury thus inflicted fills the injurer with fear, |
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BORI CE: 12-137-044 नैवापकारे कस्मिंश्चिदहं त्वयि तथा भवान् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-044 नैवापकारे कस्मिंश्चिदहं त्वयि तथा भवान् |
M. N. Dutt: I never injured you, You also did never do me an injury. Therefore. I lived in your house. All that is changed, ind at present I cannot trust you. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-045 ब्रह्मदत्त उवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-139-045 ब्रह्मदत्त उवाच कालेन क्रियते कार्य तथैव विविधाः क्रियाः |
M. N. Dutt: Brahmadatta said It is Time that does every work. There are various sorts all of which proceed form Time. Who, therefore, injures whom? |
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BORI CE: 12-137-046 तुल्यं चोभे प्रवर्तेते मरणं जन्म चैव ह |
MN DUTT: 07-139-046 तुल्यं चोभे प्रवर्तेते मरणं जन्म चैव ह |
M. N. Dutt: Birth and Death take place in the same way. Creatures act under the influence of Time, and it is in consequence also of Time that they cease to live. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-047 बध्यन्ते युगपत्केचिदेकैकस्य न चापरे |
MN DUTT: 07-139-047 वध्यन्ते युगपत् केचिदेकैकस्य न चापरे |
M. N. Dutt: Some are seen to die at once. Some die one at a time. Some are seen to live for a long time. Like fire consuming the fuel it gets, Time destroys all creatures. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-048 नाहं प्रमाणं नैव त्वमन्योन्यकरणे शुभे |
MN DUTT: 07-139-048 नाहं प्रमाणं नैव त्वमन्योन्यं कारणं शुभे |
M. N. Dutt: O blessed lady, I am, therefore, not the cause of your sorrow, nor are you the cause of inine. It is time which always ordains the happiness and misery of embodied creatures. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-049 एवं वसेह सस्नेहा यथाकालमहिंसिता |
MN DUTT: 07-139-049 एवं वसेह सस्नेहा यथाकाममर्हिसिता |
M. N. Dutt: Do you then continue to live here at your pleasure, with love for me and without fear of any injury from me. What you have done has been forgiven by me. Do you also forgive me, O Pujani. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-050 पूजन्युवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-139-050 पूजन्युवाच यदि कालः प्रमाणं ते न वैरं कस्यचिद् भवेत् |
M. N. Dutt: If Time, as you say, be the cause of all acts, then, of course, nobody can entertain fevlings of enmity towards anybody on earth. I ask, however, why do friends and kinsmen, when friends and kinsmen are killed, try to avenge the latter. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-051 कस्माद्देवासुराः पूर्वमन्योन्यमभिजघ्निरे BORI CE: 12-137-052 भिषजो भेषजं कर्तुं कस्मादिच्छन्ति रोगिणे |
MN DUTT: 07-139-051 कस्माद् देवासुराः पूर्वमन्योन्यमभिजन्निरे |
M. N. Dutt: Why also did the gods and the Asuras in days of old kill each other in battle? If it is Time that begets happiness and misery and birth and death, why do physicians then seek to administer medicines to the sick? If it is Time that is shaping the course of everything, what need is thereof medicines, |
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BORI CE: 12-137-053 प्रलापः क्रियते कस्मात्सुमहाञ्शोकमूर्छितैः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-052 प्रलापः सुमहान् कस्मात् क्रियते शोकमूच्छितैः |
M. N. Dutt: Why do people, deprived of their senses by grief, indulge in such lamentations? If Time, as you say, be the cause of all works, how can religious merit be acquired by persons performing religious acts? |
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BORI CE: 12-137-054 तव पुत्रो ममापत्यं हतवान्हिंसितो मया |
MN DUTT: 07-139-053 तव पुत्रो ममापत्यं हतवान् स हतो मया |
M. N. Dutt: Your son killed my child. I have injured him for that. I have by inat act, o king, become liable to be killed by you. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-055 अहं हि पुत्रशोकेन कृतपापा तवात्मजे |
MN DUTT: 07-139-054 अहं हि पुत्रशोकेन कृतपापा तवात्मजे |
M. N. Dutt: Moved by grief for my son, I have thus injured your son. Listen now to the reason why I should be killed by you. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-056 भक्षार्थं क्रीडनार्थं वा नरा वाञ्छन्ति पक्षिणः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-055 भक्ष्यार्थं क्रीडनार्थं च नरा वाञ्छन्ति पक्षिणः |
M. N. Dutt: Men wish either to kill birds for food or to keep them in cages for sport. There is no third reason except killing or caging for which men would seek birds. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-057 वधबन्धभयादेके मोक्षतन्त्रमुपागताः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-056 वधबन्धभयादेते मोक्षतन्त्रमुपाश्रिताः |
M. N. Dutt: Birds again, from fear of being either killed or put into cage by rnen, seek safety in flight.। Persons conversant with the Vedas have said। that death and imprisonment both painful. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-058 सर्वस्य दयिताः प्राणाः सर्वस्य दयिताः सुताः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-057 सर्वस्य दयिताः प्राणाः सर्वस्य दक्षिाः सुता |
M. N. Dutt: Life is dear to all. All creatures are made miserable by grief and pain. All creatures wish for happiness. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-059 दुःखं जरा ब्रह्मदत्त दुःखमर्थविपर्ययः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-058 दुःखं जरा ब्रह्मदत्त दुःखमर्थविपर्ययः |
M. N. Dutt: Misery originates from various sources. Decrepitude, O Brahmadatta, is misery. The loss of wealth is misery. The nearness of anything disagreeable or evil is misery. Separation or dissociation from friends and beloved objects is misery. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-060 वैरबन्धकृतं दुःखं हिंसाजं स्त्रीकृतं तथा |
MN DUTT: 07-139-059 वधबन्धकृतं दुःखं स्त्रीकृतं सहजं तथा |
M. N. Dutt: Misery originates from death and imprisonment. Misery arises from women and from other natural causes. The misery that originates from the death of children changes and afflicts all creatures very greatly. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-061 न दुःखं परदुःखे वै केचिदाहुरबुद्धयः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-060 न दुःखं परदुःखे वै केचिदाहुरबुद्धयः |
M. N. Dutt: Some foolish persons say that there is no misery in seeing other's misery. Only he wno has not felt any misery himself can say so before men. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-062 यस्तु शोचति दुःखार्तः स कथं वक्तुमुत्सहेत् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-061 यस्तु शोचति दुःखार्तः स कथं वक्तुमुत्सहेत् |
M. N. Dutt: He, however, who has felt sorrow and misery, would never venture to say so. One, who has felt the pangs of all sorts of misery, sympathises with the misery of others. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-063 यत्कृतं ते मया राजंस्त्वया च मम यत्कृतम् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-062 यत् कृतं ते मया राजंस्त्वया च मम यत् कृतम् |
M. N. Dutt: What I have done to you, O king, and what you have done to me, cannot be washed away by even a century. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-064 आवयोः कृतमन्योन्यं तत्र संधिर्न विद्यते |
MN DUTT: 07-139-063 आवयोः कृतमन्योन्यं पुनः संधिर्न विद्यते |
M. N. Dutt: There cannot be a reconciliation after what we have done to each other. Whenever you will thirt of your son, .'our enmity towards me will become fresh. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-065 वैरमन्तिकमासज्य यः प्रीतिं कर्तुमिच्छति |
MN DUTT: 07-139-064 वैरपन्तिकमासाद्य यः प्रीति कर्तुमिच्छति |
M. N. Dutt: If a person after avenging an injury, wishes to make peace with the injured, the parties cannot be properly reunited even like the pieces of an earthen vessel. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-066 निश्चितश्चार्थशास्त्रज्ञैरविश्वासः सुखोदयः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-065 निश्चयः स्वार्थशास्त्रेषु विश्वासश्चासुखोदयः |
M. N. Dutt: Men well read in scriptures have laid it down that trust never yields happiness. Ushanas himself sang two verses to Prahlada in days of yore. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-067 ये वैरिणः श्रद्दधते सत्ये सत्येतरेऽपि वा |
MN DUTT: 07-139-066 ये वैरिणः श्रद्दधते सत्ये सत्येतरेऽपि वा |
M. N. Dutt: He, who trust the words, true or false, of an enemy, meets with destruction like a seeker of honey, in a pit covered with dry grass. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-068 न हि वैराणि शाम्यन्ति कुलेष्वा दशमाद्युगात् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-067 न हि वैराणि शाम्यन्ति कुले दुःखगतानि च |
M. N. Dutt: Enmities outlive the enemies, for there is no want of persons who speak of the quarrels of deceased fathers before their surviving children. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-069 उपगुह्य हि वैराणि सान्त्वयन्ति नराधिपाः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-068 उपगृह्य तु वैराणि सान्त्वयन्ति नराधिप |
M. N. Dutt: Kings kill animosities by means of conciliation but, when the opportunity presents itself, they break their enemies tu pieces like earthen jars full of water dashed against stone. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-070 सदा न विश्वसेद्राजन्पापं कृत्वेह कस्यचित् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-069 सदा न विश्वसेद् राजन् पापं कृत्वेह कस्यचित् |
M. N. Dutt: If the king injures any one, he should never trust him again. By trusting a person who has been injured, one suffers great misery. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-071 ब्रह्मदत्त उवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-139-070 ब्रह्मदत्त उवाच नाविश्वासाद् विन्दतेऽर्थानीहते चापि किंचन |
M. N. Dutt: No man can secure the fruitfulness of any object by distrusting others. By cherishing fear one always is compelleu to live as a dead person. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-072 पूजन्युवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-139-071 पूजन्नुवाच यस्येह व्रणिनी पादौ पद्भ्यां च परिसर्पति |
M. N. Dutt: He whose feet have become sore, certainly meets with a fall if he seeks to move, however cautiously he may do it. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-073 नेत्राभ्यां सरुजाभ्यां यः प्रतिवातमुदीक्षते |
MN DUTT: 07-139-072 नेत्राभ्यां सरुजाभ्यां यः प्रतिवातमुदीक्षते |
M. N. Dutt: By opening his eyes against the wind, a man, who has got sore ejus, finds them greatly pained by the wind. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-074 दुष्टं पन्थानमाश्रित्य यो मोहादभिपद्यते |
MN DUTT: 07-139-073 दुष्टं पन्थानमासाद्य यो मोहादुपपद्यते |
M. N. Dutt: He, who, without knowing his own । strength, treads a wicked path and persists in wa'king along it, soon loses his very life as the result of it. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-075 यस्तु वर्षमविज्ञाय क्षेत्रं कृषति मानवः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-074 यस्तु वर्षमविज्ञाय क्षेत्रं कर्षति कर्षकः |
M. N. Dutt: The man, who, shorn of exertion, tills his land, without taking care of the season of rain, never reaps a harvest. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-076 यश्च तिक्तं कषायं वाप्यास्वादविधुरं हितम् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-075 यस्तु तिक्तं कषायं वा स्वादु वा मधुरं हितम् |
M. N. Dutt: He, who takes daily nutritive food, be it bitter or astringent or palatable or sweet, lives long. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-077 पथ्यं भुक्त्वा नरो लोभाद्योऽन्यदश्नाति भोजनम् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-076 पथ्यं मुक्त्वा तु यो मोहाद् दुष्टमश्नाति भोजनम् |
M. N. Dutt: He, on the other hand, who neglects wholesome food and takes injurious ones regardless of consequences, soon meets with death. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-078 दैवं पुरुषकारश्च स्थितावन्योन्यसंश्रयात् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-077 दैवं पुरुषकारश्च स्थितावन्योन्यसंश्रयात् |
M. N. Dutt: Destiny and Exertion depend upon each other. The high-minded perform good and grcat feats, while eunuchs only flatters Destiny. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-079 कर्म चात्महितं कार्यं तीक्ष्णं वा यदि वा मृदु |
MN DUTT: 07-139-078 कर्म चात्महितं कार्य तीक्ष्णं वा यदि वा मृदु |
M. N. Dutt: Whether it is harsh or mild, a beneficial act should be done. The unfortunate man of inaction, however, is always assailed with all sorts of calamity. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-080 तस्मात्संशयितेऽप्यर्थे कार्य एव पराक्रमः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-079 तस्मात् सर्वं व्यपोह्यार्थं कार्य एव पराक्रमः |
M. N. Dutt: Therefore casting of everything else, one should display his energy. Indeed, disregarding everything, men should do what does good to themselves. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-081 विद्या शौर्यं च दाक्ष्यं च बलं धैर्यं च पञ्चमम् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-080 विद्या शौर्यं च दाक्ष्यं च बलं धैर्यं च पञ्चमम् |
M. N. Dutt: Knowledge, courage, cleverness, strength and patience, are one's natural friends. The wise live in this world with the help of those five. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-082 निवेशनं च कुप्यं च क्षेत्रं भार्या सुहृज्जनः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-081 निवेशनं च कुप्यं व क्षेत्रं भार्या सुहज्जनः |
M. N. Dutt: Houses, precious metals, land, wife, ar.J friends,-these are spoken by the learned as the secondary sources of good. A man may obtain them everywhere. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-083 सर्वत्र रमते प्राज्ञः सर्वत्र च विरोचते |
MN DUTT: 07-139-082 सर्वत्र रमते प्राज्ञः सर्वत्र च विराजते |
M. N. Dutt: A wise man may be delighted everywhere. Such a mari shines everywhere. He never strikes anybody with fear. If tried to be frightened, he never yields to fear himself. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-084 नित्यं बुद्धिमतो ह्यर्थः स्वल्पकोऽपि विवर्धते |
MN DUTT: 07-139-083 नित्यं बुद्धिमतोऽप्यर्थः स्वल्पकोऽपि विवर्धते |
M. N. Dutt: The wealth, however little, of an intelligent man is certain to increase. Such a man does every act cleverly. By self-restraint he acquires great fame. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-085 गृहस्नेहावबद्धानां नराणामल्पमेधसाम् BORI CE: 12-137-086 गृहं क्षेत्राणि मित्राणि स्वदेश इति चापरे |
MN DUTT: 07-139-084 गृहस्नेहावबद्धानां नराणामल्पमेधसाम् |
M. N. Dutt: Home-sick foolish wights have to put ur with shrew wives who eat up their flesh like the young ones of a crab eating up their mothers. There are men v ho through loss of understanding become very disspirited at the prospect of leaving home. They say,-These are our friends! This is our country! Alas, how shall we leave thesc? |
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BORI CE: 12-137-087 उत्पतेत्सरुजाद्देशाद्व्याधिदुर्भिक्षपीडितात् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-085 उत्पतेत् सहजाद् देशाद् व्याधिदुर्भिक्षपीडितात् |
M. N. Dutt: One should, forsooth, leave his mothercountry if it be affected by plague or famine. One should live in one's own country, re.ipected of all, or go to a foreign country for living there. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-088 तस्मादन्यत्र यास्यामि वस्तुं नाहमिहोत्सहे |
MN DUTT: 07-139-086 तस्मादन्यत्र यास्यामि वस्तुं नाहमिहोत्सहे |
M. N. Dutt: I shall, therefore, repair to some other region. I do not venture to live any longer in this place, for I have greatly injured your child, O king. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-089 कुभार्यां च कुपुत्रं च कुराजानं कुसौहृदम् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-087 कुभार्यां च कुपुत्रं च कुराजानं कुसौहृदम् |
M. N. Dutt: One should from a distance renounce a bad wife, a bad son, a bad king, a bad friend, a bad allie and a bad country. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-090 कुमित्रे नास्ति विश्वासः कुभार्यायां कुतो रतिः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-088 कुपुत्रे नास्ति विश्वासः कुभार्यायां कुतो रतिः |
M. N. Dutt: One should not confide in a bad son. One cannot find delight in a bad wife. There can be no happiness in a had kingdom. One cannot obtain a livelihood in a bad country. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-091 कुमित्रे संगतं नास्ति नित्यमस्थिरसौहृदे |
MN DUTT: 07-139-089 कुमित्रे संगतिर्नास्ति नित्यमस्थिरसौहदे |
M. N. Dutt: There can be no permanent friendship with a bad friend whose attachinent is very uncertain. There is disgrace in a bad connection, when there is no necessity for it. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-092 सा भार्या या प्रियं ब्रूते स पुत्रो यत्र निर्वृतिः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-090 सा भार्या प्रियं ब्रूते स पुत्रो यत्र निर्वृतिः |
M. N. Dutt: She, indeed, is a wife who speaks only what is pleasant. He is a son who makes the father happy. He is a friend whoin one can trust. That, indeed, is one's country where one acquires his living. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-093 यत्र नास्ति बलात्कारः स राजा तीव्रशासनः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-091 यत्र नास्ति बलात्कारः स राजा तीव्रशासनः |
M. N. Dutt: He is a strict king who does not oppress, who supports the indigent and in whose kingdom there is no fear. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-094 भार्या देशोऽथ मित्राणि पुत्रसंबन्धिबान्धवाः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-092 भार्या देशोऽथ मित्राणि पुत्रसम्बन्धिबान्धवाः |
M. N. Dutt: One can have wife, country, friends, son, kinsmen, and relatives, if the king be accomplished and virtuous. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-095 अधर्मज्ञस्य विलयं प्रजा गच्छन्त्यनिग्रहात् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-093 अधर्मज्ञस्य विलयं प्रजा गच्छन्ति निग्रहात् |
M. N. Dutt: If the king happens to be sinful, his subjects, for his oppressions, meet with destruction. The king is the root of threefold objects, i.e., Virtue, Wealth, and Pleasure. He should protect his subject carefully. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-096 बलिषड्भागमुद्धृत्य बलिं तमुपयोजयेत् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-094 बलिषड्भागमुद्धृत्य बलिं समुपयोजयेत् |
M. N. Dutt: Taking from his subjects a sixth part of their riches, he should protect them all. That king, who does not protect his subjects, is indeed, a thief. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-097 दत्त्वाभयं यः स्वयमेव राजा; न तत्प्रमाणं कुरुते यथावत् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-095 दत्त्वाभयं यः स्वयमेव राजा न तत् प्रमाणं कुरुतेऽर्थलोभात् |
M. N. Dutt: That king, who, after holding out hopes of protection, does not, from rapacity satisfy them, that sinful king is visited by the sins of all his subjects and ultimately goes into hell. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-098 दत्त्वाभयं यः स्म राजा प्रमाणं कुरुते सदा |
MN DUTT: 07-139-096 दत्त्वाभयं स्वयं राजा प्रमाणं कुरुते यदि |
M. N. Dutt: On the other hand, that king, who, having given hopes of protection, fulfils them, is honoured as a universal benefactor in consequence of his protecting all his subjects. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-099 पिता माता गुरुर्गोप्ता वह्निर्वैश्रवणो यमः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-097 माता पिता गुरुर्गोप्ता वह्निर्वैश्रवणो यमः |
M. N. Dutt: The lord of all creatures, viz., Manu, has declared that the king has seven attributes : he is mother, father, preceptor, protector, fire, Vaishravana, and Yama. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-100 पिता हि राजा राष्ट्रस्य प्रजानां योऽनुकम्पकः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-098 पिता हि राजा राष्ट्रस्य प्रजाना योऽनुकम्पनः |
M. N. Dutt: The king by treating his people mercifully is called their father. The subject who plays him false, is born in his next life as an animal or a bird. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-101 संभावयति मातेव दीनमभ्यवपद्यते |
MN DUTT: 07-139-099 सम्भावयति मातेव दीनमप्युपपद्यते |
M. N. Dutt: By doing good to them and by supporting the poor, the king becomes a mother to his people. By consuming the wicked he is regarded as fire, and by restraining the sinful he is called Yama. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-102 इष्टेषु विसृजत्यर्थान्कुबेर इव कामदः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-100 इष्टेषु विसृजन्नर्थान् कुबेर इव कामदः |
M. N. Dutt: By making presents of riches to his dear ones, the king is regarded as Kubera, the grantor of wishes. By delivering instructions of morality and virtue, he becomes a preceptor, and by exercising the duty of protection he becomes the preceptor. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-103 यस्तु रञ्जयते राजा पौरजानपदान्गुणैः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-101 यस्तु रञ्जयते राजा पौरजानपदान् गुणैः |
M. N. Dutt: That king who pleases the inhabitants of his cities and provinces by means of his virtues, is never divested of his kingdom for observing such a duty. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-104 स्वयं समुपजानन्हि पौरजानपदक्रियाः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-102 स्वयं समुपजानन् हि पौरजानपदार्चनम् |
M. N. Dutt: That king who knows how to honour his subjects, never suffers misery either in this world or in the next. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-105 नित्योद्विग्नाः प्रजा यस्य करभारप्रपीडिताः |
MN DUTT: 07-139-103 नित्योद्विग्नाः प्रजा यस्य करभारप्रपीडिताः |
M. N. Dutt: That king whose subjects are always stricken with anxiety or laden with taxes, and overwhelmed with all sorts of evils is defeated by his enemies. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-106 प्रजा यस्य विवर्धन्ते सरसीव महोत्पलम् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-104 प्रजा यस्य विवर्धन्ते सरसीव महोत्पलम् |
M. N. Dutt: That king, on the other hand, whose subjects grow like a large lotus in a lake, acquires every reward here and at last meets with łonour in the celestial region. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-107 बलिना विग्रहो राजन्न कथंचित्प्रशस्यते |
MN DUTT: 07-139-105 बलिना विग्रहो राजन् न कदाचित् प्रशस्यते |
M. N. Dutt: Enmity with a powerful person, O king, is never spoken highly of. That king who has incurred the hostility of one more powerful than himself, loses both kingdom and happiness. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-108 भीष्म उवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-139-106 भीष्म उवाच सैवमुक्त्वा शकुनिका ब्रह्मदत्तं नराधिप |
M. N. Dutt: O monarch, having said so to Brahmadatta, the bird, took the king's leave and went away of her pleasure. |
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BORI CE: 12-137-109 एतत्ते ब्रह्मदत्तस्य पूजन्या सह भाषितम् |
MN DUTT: 07-139-107 एतत् ते ब्रह्मदत्तस्य पूजन्या सह भाषितम् |
M. N. Dutt: I have thus recited to you, O foremost of kings, the conversation between Brahmadatta and Pujani. What else do you wish to hear.' |
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