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Book 12 – Chapter 142
BORI CE: 12-142-001 भीष्म उवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-144-001 भीष्म उवाच अथ वृक्षस्य शाखायां विहङ्गः ससुहज्जनः |
M. N. Dutt: In one of the branches of that tree, a pigeon having beautiful feather, o king, lived for many years with his family. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-002 तस्य काल्यं गता भार्या चरितुं नाभ्यवर्तत |
MN DUTT: 07-144-002 तस्य कल्पगता भार्या चरितुं नाभ्यवर्तत |
M. N. Dutt: That morning his wife had gone out in quest of food but had not yet come back. Seeing the approach of night and his wife still not returning, the bird began be bewail, saying |
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BORI CE: 12-142-003 वातवर्षं महच्चासीन्न चागच्छति मे प्रिया |
MN DUTT: 07-144-003 वातवर्ष महच्चासीन्न चागच्छति मे प्रिया |
M. N. Dutt: O, what a great storm and a terrible shower took place to-day! Alas, you have come not come back yet, O dear wife! Woe is on me, what must be the cause of her not returning yet. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-004 अपि स्वस्ति भवेत्तस्याः प्रियाया मम कानने |
MN DUTT: 07-144-004 अपि स्वस्ति भवेत् तस्याः प्रियाया मम कानने |
M. N. Dutt: In cverything right with that dear wife of mine in the forest? Separated from her, this my home appears to me void. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-144-005 पुत्रपौत्रवधूभृत्यैराकीर्णमपि सर्वतः |
M. N. Dutt: A house-holder's home, even if filled with sons, grandsons daughters-in-law and servants, is regarded empty if there is no housewife. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-144-006 न गृहं गृहमित्याहुहिणी गृहमुच्यते |
M. N. Dutt: One's house is not his home; one's wife only is his home. a house without the wife is desolate like a forest. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-005 यदि सा रक्तनेत्रान्ता चित्राङ्गी मधुरस्वरा |
MN DUTT: 07-144-007 यदि सा रक्तनेत्रान्ता चित्राङ्गी मधुरस्वरा |
M. N. Dutt: If that dear wife of mine, having red eyes, variegated plumes, and sweet voice, does not return to-day, my life itself will have no value. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-006 पतिधर्मरता साध्वी प्राणेभ्योऽपि गरीयसी |
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: 12-142-007 अनुरक्ता हिता चैव स्निग्धा चैव पतिव्रता |
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: 07-144-008 न भुक्के मय्यभुक्ते या नास्नाते स्नाति सुव्रता |
M. N. Dutt: Practising most excellent vows, she never eats before I eat, and never bathes before I bathe. She never sits before I sit down, and never lies before I lie down. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-144-009 हृष्टे भवति सा हृष्टा दुःखिते मयि दुःखिता |
M. N. Dutt: She rejoices when I rejoice, and becomes sorry when I am sorry. She is cheerless when I am away, and she is all sweetness when I am angry. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-144-010 पतिव्रता पतिगतिः पतिप्रियहिते रता |
M. N. Dutt: Always devoted to her husband and ever relying upon him, she always did what was agreeable to and beneficial for her lord. Indeed, such a person deserves praise on Earth who has such a wife. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-144-011 सा हि श्रान्तं क्षुधार्तं च जानीते मां तपस्विनी |
M. N. Dutt: That amiable creature knows that I am worn out and hungry. Devoted to me and firm in her love, my genial wife is devout in her adoration to me. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-144-012 वृक्षमूलेऽपि दयिता यस्य तिष्ठति तद् गृहम् |
M. N. Dutt: Even the food of a tree is one's home, if he lived there with his wife as a companion. Without one's wife, even a palace is a desolate forest. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-144-013 धर्मार्थकामकालेषु भार्या पुंसः सहायिनी |
M. N. Dutt: One's wife is his companion in all his acts of virtue, profit and desire. When one starts for a strange country his wife is his trusted companion. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-008 भार्या हि परमो नाथः पुरुषस्येह पठ्यते |
MN DUTT: 07-144-014 भार्या हि परमो ह्यर्थः पुरुषस्येह पठ्यते |
M. N. Dutt: It is said that the wife is the richest treasure of her husband. In this world the wife is the only companion of her husband in all the worldly affairs. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-009 तथा रोगाभिभूतस्य नित्यं कृच्छ्रगतस्य च |
MN DUTT: 07-144-015 तथा रोगाभिभूतस्य नित्यं कृच्छ्रगतस्य च |
M. N. Dutt: One, who is suffered from disease and surrounded with many troubles, his wife is the best of panaceas and good medicine in sickness of that person. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-010 नास्ति भार्यासमो बन्धुर्नास्ति भार्यासमा गतिः |
MN DUTT: 07-144-016 नास्ति भार्यासमो बन्धुर्नास्ति भार्यासमा गतिः |
M. N. Dutt: There is no friend like wife. There is no refuge better than the wife. There is no better associate in the world than the wife in acts undertaken for the acquisition of religious merit. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-011 एवं विलपतस्तस्य द्विजस्यार्तस्य तत्र वै |
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: 12-142-012 न सा स्त्रीत्यभिभाषा स्याद्यस्या भर्ता न तुष्यति |
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: 07-144-017 यस्य भार्या गृहे नास्ति साध्वी च प्रियवादिनी |
M. N. Dutt: He who has not in his house a wife, chaste and of sweet speech, should go to the forest. For such a one there is no difference between a home and a forest. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-145-001 भीष्म उवाच एवं विलपतस्तस्य श्रुत्वा तु करुणं वचः |
M. N. Dutt: Bhishma said Hearing these piteous cries of the pigeon on the tree, the she-pigeon caught by the fowler began to say aside thus. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-145-002 अहोऽतीव सुभाग्याहं यस्या मे दयितः पतिः |
M. N. Dutt: Whether I have any inerit or not, indeed, there is no limit to my good fortune when my dear husband thus speaks of me. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-145-003 न सा स्त्री ह्यभिमन्तव्या यस्यां भर्ता न तुष्यति |
M. N. Dutt: She is no wife with whom her husband is not pleased. If their husbands are pleased with women all the gods also become pleased with them. Since the marriage union takes place in the presence of fire, the husband is the wife's greatest god. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-145-004 दावाग्निनेव निर्दग्धा सपुष्पस्तवका लता |
M. N. Dutt: That wife with whom her husband is not pleased is reduced to ashes, like a creeper adorned with flowers in a forest fire. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-013 इति संचिन्त्य दुःखार्ता भर्तारं दुःखितं तदा |
MN DUTT: 07-145-005 इति संचिन्त्य दुःखार्ता भर्तारं दुःखितं तदा |
M. N. Dutt: Having thought thus, the she-pigeon, stricken with woe, and encaged by the fowler, thus spoke to her woe-stricken husband. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-014 हन्त वक्ष्यामि ते श्रेयः श्रुत्वा च कुरु तत्तथा |
MN DUTT: 07-145-006 हन्त वक्ष्यामि ते श्रेयः श्रुत्वा तु कुरु तत् तथा |
M. N. Dutt: I shall say what is now good for you. Hearing me follow my advice, O dear husband, be you the rescuer of a suppliant. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-015 एष शाकुनिकः शेते तव वासं समाश्रितः |
MN DUTT: 07-145-007 एष शाकुनिकः शेते तव वासं समाश्रितः |
M. N. Dutt: This fowler lies here by your house stricken with cold and hunger. Treat him hospitably. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-016 यो हि कश्चिद्द्विजं हन्याद्गां वा लोकस्य मातरम् |
MN DUTT: 07-145-008 ये हि कश्चिद् द्विजं हन्याद् गां च लोकस्य मातरम् |
M. N. Dutt: The sin that a person commits by killing a Brahmana or that mother of the world, viz., a cow, is equal to what one commits by allowing suppliant to die. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-017 यास्माकं विहिता वृत्तिः कापोती जातिधर्मतः |
MN DUTT: 07-145-009 अस्माकं विहिता वृत्तिः कापोती जातिधर्मतः |
M. N. Dutt: You are endued with the knowledge of self. You should, therefore, follow that course which has been ordained for us as pigeons on account of our birth. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-018 यस्तु धर्मं यथाशक्ति गृहस्थो ह्यनुवर्तते |
MN DUTT: 07-145-010 यस्तु धर्मं यथाशक्ति गृहस्थो ह्यनुवर्तते |
M. N. Dutt: We have heard that the house-holder who practises virtue according to his abilities, acquires hereafter endless regions of bliss. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-019 स त्वं संतानवानद्य पुत्रवानपि च द्विज |
MN DUTT: 07-145-011 स त्वं संतानवानद्य पुत्रवानसि च द्विज |
M. N. Dutt: You have sons. You have progeny. O bird, casting off all love for your own body, therefore, and for acquiring virtue and profit, adore this fowler so that he may be pleased. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-145-012 मत्कृते मा च संतापं कुर्वीथास्त्वं विहङ्गम |
M. N. Dutt: Do not, O bird, grieve for me. You may live, marrying other wives. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-020 इति सा शकुनी वाक्यं क्षारकस्था तपस्विनी |
MN DUTT: 07-145-013 इति सा शकुनी वाक्यं पञ्जरस्था तपस्विनी |
M. N. Dutt: The amiable she-pigeon, laden with sorrow, and casting her eyes upon her husband from the fowler's cage within which she had been put, said these words to him. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-021 स पत्न्या वचनं श्रुत्वा धर्मयुक्तिसमन्वितम् |
MN DUTT: 07-146-001 भीष्म उवाच स पल्या वचनं श्रुत्वा धर्मयुक्तिसमन्वितम् |
M. N. Dutt: Bhishma said Hearing these words of morality and reason spoken by his wife, the pigeon was filled with great delight and his eyes were bathed in tears of joy. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-022 तं वै शाकुनिकं दृष्ट्वा विधिदृष्टेन कर्मणा |
MN DUTT: 07-146-002 तं वै शाकुनिकं दृष्ट्वा विधिदृष्टेन कर्मणा |
M. N. Dutt: Seeing that fowler whose profession was to kill birds, the pigeon honoured him scrupulously according to scriptural rites. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-023 उवाच च स्वागतं ते ब्रूहि किं करवाण्यहम् |
MN DUTT: 07-146-003 उवाच स्वागतं तेऽद्य ब्रूहि किं करवाणि ते |
M. N. Dutt: Addressing him, he said,-You are welcome to-day. Tell me what I shall do for you. You should not repent. This is your home. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-024 तद्ब्रवीतु भवान्क्षिप्रं किं करोमि किमिच्छसि |
MN DUTT: 07-146-004 तद् ब्रवीतु भवान् क्षिप्रं किं करोमि किमिच्छसि |
M. N. Dutt: Tell me quickly what I am to do and what is your pleasure. I ask you this in good spirit, for you have sought protection of us. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-146-005 अरावप्युचितं कार्यमातिथ्यं गृहमागते |
M. N. Dutt: Hospitality should be shown to even one's enemy when the latter comes to his house. The tree does not withdraw its shade from even the person who comes for cutting it down. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-025 शरणागतस्य कर्तव्यमातिथ्यमिह यत्नतः |
MN DUTT: 07-146-006 शरणागतस्य कर्तव्यमातिथ्यं हि प्रयत्नतः |
M. N. Dutt: One should, with diligence do the duties of hospitality towards a person who seeks shelter. Indeed, one is particularly bound to do so if he leads the life of a house-holder that consists of the five sacrifices. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-026 पञ्चयज्ञांस्तु यो मोहान्न करोति गृहाश्रमी |
MN DUTT: 07-146-007 पञ्चयज्ञांस्तु यो मोहान्न करोति गृहाश्रमे |
M. N. Dutt: If one, while living like a house-holder, does, not from want of judgement, celebrate the five sacrifices, one loses, as laid down in the scriptures, both this and the next world. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-027 तद्ब्रूहि त्वं सुविस्रब्धो यत्त्वं वाचा वदिष्यसि |
MN DUTT: 07-146-008 तद् ब्रूहि मां सुविश्रब्धो यत् त्वं वाचा वदिष्यसि! तत् करिष्याम्यहं सर्वं मा त्वं शोके मनः कृथाः |
M. N. Dutt: Tell me then clearly and confidently what your wishes are. I will accomplish them all. Do not think of grieving. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-028 तस्य तद्वचनं श्रुत्वा शकुनेर्लुब्धकोऽब्रवीत् |
MN DUTT: 07-146-009 तस्य तद् वचनं श्रुत्वा शकुनेर्लुब्धकोऽब्रवीत् |
M. N. Dutt: Hearing these words of the bird, the fowler replied to him, saying,-I am benumbed with cold. Just make arrangements for warming me. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-029 एवमुक्तस्ततः पक्षी पर्णान्यास्तीर्य भूतले |
MN DUTT: 07-146-010 एवमुक्तस्तत: पक्षी पर्णान्यास्तीर्य भूतले |
M. N. Dutt: Thus addressed, the bird collected a number of dry leaves on the ground, and taking a leaf in his beaks quickly went away for fetching fire. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-030 स गत्वाङ्गारकर्मान्तं गृहीत्वाग्निमथागमत् |
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: 12-142-031 सुसंदीप्तं महत्कृत्वा तमाह शरणागतम् |
MN DUTT: 07-146-011 स गत्वाङ्गारकर्मान्तं गृहीत्वाग्निमथागतम् |
M. N. Dutt: Going where fire is kept, he got a little fire and returned. He then set fire to those dry leaves, and when they blazed up into a powerful fire, he said to his guest, Do you with confidence and fearlessness warm your limbs. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-032 स तथोक्तस्तथेत्युक्त्वा लुब्धो गात्राण्यतापयत् BORI CE: 12-142-033 दत्तमाहारमिच्छामि त्वया क्षुद्बाधते हि माम् BORI CE: 12-142-034 न मेऽस्ति विभवो येन नाशयामि तव क्षुधाम् |
MN DUTT: 07-146-012 स तथोक्त स्तथेत्युक्त्वा लुब्धो गात्राण्यतापयत् |
M. N. Dutt: Thus addressed, the fowler said-So be it:-and began to warm his stiffened limbs. Regaining as if his life, the fowler said to his host,-Hunger is distressing me. I wish you to give me some food! — Hearing his words the bird said,-I have nothing in store by which you may satisfy your hunger. We, dwellers of the forest, always live upon what we get every day. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-035 संचयो नास्ति चास्माकं मुनीनामिव कानने |
MN DUTT: 07-146-013 संचयो नास्ति चास्माकं मुनीनामिव भोजने |
M. N. Dutt: Like the ascetics of the forest we never amass for the morrow!-Having said so, the bird's face grew pale. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-036 कथं नु खलु कर्तव्यमिति चिन्तापरः सदा |
MN DUTT: 07-146-014 कथं न खलु कर्तव्यमिति चिन्तापरस्तदा |
M. N. Dutt: He began to think aside as to what he should do and mentally blamed his own mode of living. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-037 मुहूर्ताल्लब्धसंज्ञस्तु स पक्षी पक्षिघातकम् |
MN DUTT: 07-146-015 मुहूर्ताल्लब्धसंज्ञस्तु स पक्षी पक्षिघातिनम् |
M. N. Dutt: Soon, however, his mind became clear. Addressing the destroyer of birds, he said,-I shall please you!-Wait for a moment! |
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BORI CE: 12-142-038 इत्युक्त्वा शुष्कपर्णैः स संप्रज्वाल्य हुताशनम् |
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: 12-142-039 देवानां च मुनीनां च पितॄणां च महात्मनाम् |
MN DUTT: 07-146-016 इत्युक्त्वा शुष्कपर्णस्तु समुज्ज्वाल्य हुताशनम् |
M. N. Dutt: Saying these words he lighted up a fire with the help of some dry leaves, and filled with joy, said,-I heard formerly from great Rishis, gods and Pitris that there is great merit in honouring a guest. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-040 कुरुष्वानुग्रहं मेऽद्य सत्यमेतद्ब्रवीमि ते |
MN DUTT: 07-146-017 कुरुष्वानुग्रहं सौम्य सत्यमेतद् ब्रवीमि ते |
M. N. Dutt: O amiable one, be kind to me. To tell you the truth my heart is bent upon honouring you my guest. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-041 ततः सत्यप्रतिज्ञो वै स पक्षी प्रहसन्निव |
MN DUTT: 07-146-018 ततः कृतप्रतिज्ञो वै स पक्षी प्रहसनिव) तमग्निं त्रि:परिक्रम्य प्रविवेश महामतिः |
M. N. Dutt: Having thus made up his mind, the great bird, with a smiling face, thrice went round that fire and then entered its flames. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-042 अग्निमध्यं प्रविष्टं तं लुब्धो दृष्ट्वाथ पक्षिणम् |
MN DUTT: 07-146-019 अग्निमध्ये प्रविष्टं तु लुब्धो दृष्ट्वा तु पक्षिणम् |
M. N. Dutt: Seeing the bird enter that fire, the fowler began to think! and asked himself,-What have I done. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-043 अहो मम नृशंसस्य गर्हितस्य स्वकर्मणा |
MN DUTT: 07-146-020 अहो मम नृशंसस्य गर्हितस्य स्वकर्मणा |
M. N. Dutt: Alas, dreadful will be the sin, the outcome of my own acts. I am highly ruthless and blameable. |
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BORI CE: 12-142-044 एवं बहुविधं भूरि विललाप स लुब्धकः |
MN DUTT: 07-146-021 एवं बहुविधं भूरि विललाप स लुब्धकः |
M. N. Dutt: Indeed, seeing the bird lay down his life, the fowler, considering his own acts, began to bewail thus piteously. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-146-022 एवं बहुविधं भूरि विललाप स लुब्धकः |
M. N. Dutt: Indeed, seeing the bird lay down his life, the fowler, considering his own acts, began to bewail thus piteously. |
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