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Book 12 – Chapter 145
BORI CE: 12-145-001 भीष्म उवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-149-001 भीष्म उवाच विमानस्थौ तु तौ राजंल्लुब्धकः खे ददर्श ह |
M. N. Dutt: Bhishma said lt so chanced that the fowler, O king, saw that pair while seated on their celestial car. Seeing the couple he became filled with sorrow and began to think of the means of acquiring the same end. |
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BORI CE: 12-145-002 कीदृशेनेह तपसा गच्छेयं परमां गतिम् |
MN DUTT: 07-149-002 ईदृशेनैव तपसा गच्छेयं परमां गतिम् |
M. N. Dutt: And he said to himself,-I must, by austerities like those of the pigeon, acquire such a high end!—Having made this resolution, the fowler, who had lived by the destruction of birds, started on an unreturning journey. |
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BORI CE: 12-145-003 महाप्रस्थानमाश्रित्य लुब्धकः पक्षिजीवनः |
MN DUTT: 07-149-003 महाप्रस्थानमाश्रित्य लुब्धकः पक्षिजीवकः |
M. N. Dutt: Without any attempt (for getting food) and living upon air alone, he renounced all other desires for acquiring heaven. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-149-004 ततोऽपश्यत् सुविस्तीर्णं हृद्यं पद्माभिभूषितम् |
M. N. Dutt: After he had gone for some distance, he saw an extensive and charming lake full of cool and pure water, adorned with lotuses and abounding with various sorts of water-fowi. |
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BORI CE: 12-145-004 ततोऽपश्यत्सुविस्तीर्णं हृद्यं पद्मविभूषितम् BORI CE: 12-145-005 उपवासकृशोऽत्यर्थं स तु पार्थिव लुब्धकः BORI CE: 12-145-006 महान्तं निश्चयं कृत्वा लुब्धकः प्रविवेश ह |
MN DUTT: 07-149-004 ततोऽपश्यत् सुविस्तीर्णं हृद्यं पद्माभिभूषितम् MN DUTT: 07-149-005 पिपासार्तोऽपि तद् दृष्ट्वा तृप्त: स्यान्नात्र संशयः |
M. N. Dutt: After he had gone for some distance, he saw an extensive and charming lake full of cool and pure water, adorned with lotuses and abounding with various sorts of water-fowi. Forsooth, the very sight of such a lake is capable of satisfying the thirst of a person. Physically reduced with fasts, the fowler, however, O king, without casting his eyes upon it, gladly entered into a forest inhabited by beasts of prey, having previously learnt its wide extent. After he had entered the forest, he was painfully cut by sharp-pointed thorns. |
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BORI CE: 12-145-007 स कण्टकविभुग्नाङ्गो लोहितार्द्रीकृतच्छविः |
MN DUTT: 07-149-006 स कण्टकैर्विभिन्नाङ्गो लोहितार्दीकृतच्छविः |
M. N. Dutt: Cut and torn by prickles, and bathed in blood, he began to wander in that forest, shorn of men but abounding with animals of various species. |
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BORI CE: 12-145-008 ततो द्रुमाणां महतां पवनेन वने तदा |
MN DUTT: 07-149-007 ततो दुमाणां महता पवनेन वने तदा |
M. N. Dutt: Sometime after, on account of the friction of some huge trees caused by a strong wind, a wide spread forest-fire arose. |
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BORI CE: 12-145-009 तद्वनं वृक्षसंकीर्णं लताविटपसंकुलम् |
MN DUTT: 07-149-008 तद् वनं वृक्षसम्पूर्ण लताविटपसंकुलम् |
M. N. Dutt: The raging element, appearing like the fire at the end of the Cycle, the powerful fire began to consume that large forest abounding with tall trees and thick bushes and creepers. |
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BORI CE: 12-145-010 सज्वालैः पवनोद्धूतैर्विस्फुलिङ्गैः समन्वितः |
MN DUTT: 07-149-009 स ज्वालैः पवनोदतैर्विस्फुलिङ्गैःसमन्ततः |
M. N. Dutt: Indeed, with flames fanned by the wind and numberless sparks flying about in all directions, the all-consuming god began to consume that dense forest teeming with birds and beasts. |
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BORI CE: 12-145-011 ततः स देहमोक्षार्थं संप्रहृष्टेन चेतसा |
MN DUTT: 07-149-010 ततः स देहमोक्षार्थं सम्प्रहृष्टेन चेतसा |
M. N. Dutt: The fowler, desirous of renouncing his body, ran with a delighted heart towards that spreading fire. |
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BORI CE: 12-145-012 ततस्तेनाग्निना दग्धो लुब्धको नष्टकिल्बिषः |
MN DUTT: 07-149-011 ततस्तेनाग्निना दग्धो लुब्धको नष्टकल्मषः |
M. N. Dutt: Consumed by that fire the fowler became purged of all his sins and acquired, O best of the Bharatas, high success. |
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BORI CE: 12-145-013 ततः स्वर्गस्थमात्मानं सोऽपश्यद्विगतज्वरः |
MN DUTT: 07-149-012 ततः स्वर्गस्थमात्मानमपश्यद् विगतज्वरः |
M. N. Dutt: The anxiety of his mind gone, he at last saw himself in heaven, shining like Indra in midst of Yakshas and Gandharvas and persons endued with ascetic success. |
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BORI CE: 12-145-014 एवं खलु कपोतश्च कपोती च पतिव्रता |
MN DUTT: 07-149-013 एवं खलु कपोतश्च कपोती च पतिव्रता |
M. N. Dutt: Thus the pigeon and his devoted wife, with the fowler, went to heaven for their meritorious acts. |
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BORI CE: 12-145-015 यापि चैवंविधा नारी भर्तारमनुवर्तते |
MN DUTT: 07-149-014 यापि चैवंविधा नारी भर्तारमनुवर्तते |
M. N. Dutt: The woman who thus follows her husband speedily ascends to heaven and shines there like the she-pigeon of whom I have spoken. |
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BORI CE: 12-145-016 एवमेतत्पुरा वृत्तं लुब्धकस्य महात्मनः |
MN DUTT: 07-149-015 एवमेतत् पुरावृत्तं लुब्धकस्य महात्मनः |
M. N. Dutt: This is the ancient history of the great fowler and the pigeon. Thus did they acquire highly meritorious end by their righteous acts. |
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BORI CE: 12-145-017 यश्चेदं शृणुयान्नित्यं यश्चेदं परिकीर्तयेत् |
MN DUTT: 07-149-016 यश्चेदं शृणुयान्नित्यं यश्चेदं परिकीर्तयेत् |
M. N. Dutt: No evil overtakes the person who listens every day to this story or who recites it every day, even if error possesses his mind. |
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BORI CE: 12-145-018 युधिष्ठिर महानेष धर्मो धर्मभृतां वर |
MN DUTT: 07-149-017 युधिष्ठिर महानेष धर्मो धर्मभृतां वर |
M. N. Dutt: O Yudhishthira, O foremost of all righteous persons, the protection of a suppliant is, indeed, a great act of merit. By following this duty, even the killer of a cow may be cleansed of sin. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 07-149-018 न निष्कृतिर्भवेत् तस्य यो हन्याच्छरणागतम् |
M. N. Dutt: That man, however, will never be cleansed who kills a suppliant. By listening to this sacred and sin-destroying story one becomes freed from distress and goes to heaven at last.' |
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