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Book 13 – Chapter 055
BORI CE: 13-055-001 च्यवन उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-055-001 च्यवन उवाच वरश्च गृह्यतां मत्तो यश्च ते संशयो हृदि |
M. N. Dutt: Chyavana said Do you accept a boon from me. Do you also, O king, tell me what the doubt is that is in your mind. I shall certainly accomplish all your purposes. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-002 कुशिक उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-055-002 कुशिक उवाच यदि प्रीतोऽसि भगवंस्ततो मे वद भार्गव |
M. N. Dutt: Kushika said If you have been pleased with me, O holy one, do you then, O son of Bhrigu, teil me your object in living in my palace for sometime, for I wish to hear it. What was your object in sleeping on the bed I assigned you for, one and twenty days continuously, without changing sides. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-003 शयनं चैकपार्श्वेन दिवसानेकविंशतिम् |
MN DUTT: 09-055-003 शयनं चैकपाāन दिवसानेकविंशतिम् |
M. N. Dutt: O foremost of ascetics, what also was your object, again in going out of the room without speaking a single word. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-004 अन्तर्धानमकस्माच्च पुनरेव च दर्शनम् |
MN DUTT: 09-055-004 अन्तर्धानमकस्माच्च पुनरेव च दर्शनम् |
M. N. Dutt: Why did you, again, without any reason, disappear and once more become visible? Why, O learned Brahmana, did you again lay yourself down on the bed, and sleep, as before, for one and twenty days. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-005 तैलाभ्यक्तस्य गमनं भोजनं च गृहे मम |
MN DUTT: 09-055-005 तैलाभ्यक्तस्य गमनं भोजनं च गृहे मम |
M. N. Dutt: Why did you go out after you were rubbed by us with oil for your bath? Why, also, after having made various kinds of food in my palace to be collected, did you consume them with fire? |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 09-055-006 निर्याणं च रथेनाशु सहसा यत् कृतं त्वया |
M. N. Dutt: What was the cause of your sudden journey through my city on the car? What was your object in giving away so much riches? What was your motive in showing us the wonders of the forest created by your Yogapower. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-006 धनानां च विसर्गस्य वनस्यापि च दर्शनम् BORI CE: 13-055-007 मणिविद्रुमपादानां पर्यङ्कानां च दर्शनम् |
MN DUTT: 09-055-006 निर्याणं च रथेनाशु सहसा यत् कृतं त्वया MN DUTT: 09-055-007 प्रासादानां बहूनां च काञ्चनानां महामुने MN DUTT: 09-055-008 पुनश्चादर्शनं तस्य श्रोतुमिच्छामि कारणम् |
M. N. Dutt: What was the cause of your sudden journey through my city on the car? What was your object in giving away so much riches? What was your motive in showing us the wonders of the forest created by your Yogapower. What, indeed, was your motive in showing, O great ascetic, so many palaces made of gold and so many bedsteads supported on posts of jewels and gems? Why also did all these wonders disappear from our sight? I wish to hear the cause of all this. Thii.king of all these acts of yours, O perpetuator of Bhrigu's race, I became stupefied. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-008 अतीव ह्यत्र मुह्यामि चिन्तयानो दिवानिशम् |
MN DUTT: 09-055-009 न चैवात्राधिगच्छामि सर्वस्यास्य विनिश्चयम् |
M. N. Dutt: I cannot comprehend your motive. ( you having penances for wealth, I wish to hear the truth about all those acts of yours in full. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-009 च्यवन उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-055-010 च्यवन उवाच शृणु सर्वमशेषेण यदिदं येन हेतुना |
M. N. Dutt: Chyavana said Listen to me as I tell you fully the reasons which had moved me in all these acts of mine. Asked by you, O king, I cannot refuse to enlighten you. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-010 पितामहस्य वदतः पुरा देवसमागमे |
MN DUTT: 09-055-011 पितामहस्य वदतः पुरा देवसमागमे |
M. N. Dutt: In days of yore, on one occasion, when the deities had assembled together, the Grandfather Brahman said some words. I heard them, O king, and shall now repeat them to you. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-011 ब्रह्मक्षत्रविरोधेन भविता कुलसंकरः |
MN DUTT: 09-055-012 ब्रह्मक्षत्रविरोधेन भविता कुलसंकरः |
M. N. Dutt: On account of a quarrel between Brahmana and Kshatriya energy, there will occur an intermixture in my race. Your grandson, O king, will become endued with great energy and power. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-012 ततः स्वकुलरक्षार्थमहं त्वा समुपागमम् |
MN DUTT: 09-055-013 ततस्ते कुलनाशार्थमहं त्वां समुपागतः |
M. N. Dutt: Hearing this, I came here resolved to exterminate your race. Indeed, I came, O Kushika, seeking the utter extermination of your family, in fact, for reducing to ashes all your descendants. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-013 ततोऽहमागम्य पुरा त्वामवोचं महीपते |
MN DUTT: 09-055-014 ततोऽहमागम्य पुरे त्वामवोचं महीपते |
M. N. Dutt: Moved by this motive I came to your palace, O monarch, and said to you I shall observe some vow. Do you attend upon me and serve me dutifully. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-014 न च ते दुष्कृतं किंचिदहमासादयं गृहे |
MN DUTT: 09-055-015 न च ते दुष्कृतं किंचिदहमासादयं गृहे |
M. N. Dutt: While living, however, in your house, I could not see any shortcomings in you. It is for that reason, O royal sage, that you are still alive, for otherwise you would have by this been dead. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-015 एतां बुद्धिं समास्थाय दिवसानेकविंशतिम् |
MN DUTT: 09-055-016 एवं बुद्धिं समास्थाय दिवसानेकविंशतिम् |
M. N. Dutt: It was with this resolution that I slept for twentyone days in the hope that somebody would awake me before I arose out of my own accord. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-016 यदा त्वया सभार्येण संसुप्तो न प्रबोधितः |
MN DUTT: 09-055-017 यदा त्वया सभार्येण संसुप्तो न प्रबोधितः |
M. N. Dutt: You, however, with your wife, did not awake me. Even then, O best of kings, I became delighted with you. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-017 उत्थाय चास्मि निष्क्रान्तो यदि मां त्वं महीपते |
MN DUTT: 09-055-018 उत्थाय चास्मि निष्क्रान्तो यदि मां त्वं महीपते |
M. N. Dutt: Rising from my bed I went out of the chamber without speaking to any of you. I did this, O king, in the hope that you would ask me and thus I would have an opportunity of cursing you. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-018 अन्तर्हितश्चास्मि पुनः पुनरेव च ते गृहे |
MN DUTT: 09-055-019 अन्तर्हितः पुनश्चास्मि पुनरेव च ते गृहे |
M. N. Dutt: I then disappeared, and again showed myself in the room of your palace, and once more following Yoga slept for one and twenty days. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-019 क्षुधितो मामसूयेथाः श्रमाद्वेति नराधिप |
MN DUTT: 09-055-020 क्षुधितौ मामसूयेथां श्रमाद् वेति नराधिप |
M. N. Dutt: My motive was this. Exhausted with toil and hunger you two would be angry with me and do what would be unpleasant to me. It was from this motive that I caused yourself and your wife to be afflicted with hunger. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-020 न च तेऽभूत्सुसूक्ष्मोऽपि मन्युर्मनसि पार्थिव |
MN DUTT: 09-055-021 न च तेऽभूत् सुसूक्ष्मोऽपि मन्युर्मनसि पार्थिव |
M. N. Dutt: In your heart, however, O king, the slightest feeling of anger or vexation did not rise. For this, O king, I became highly pleased with you. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-021 भोजनं च समानाय्य यत्तदादीपितं मया |
MN DUTT: 09-055-022 भोजनं च समानाय्य यत् तदा दीपितं मया |
M. N. Dutt: When I caused various kinds of food to be brought and then set fire to them, I hoped that yourself with your wife would yield to anger at the sight. Even that act, however, of mine was tolerated by you. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-022 ततोऽहं रथमारुह्य त्वामवोचं नराधिप BORI CE: 13-055-023 अविशङ्को नरपते प्रीतोऽहं चापि तेन ते |
MN DUTT: 09-055-023 ततोऽहं रथमारुह्य त्वामवोचं नराधिप |
M. N. Dutt: I then ascended the car, o king, and addressed you, saying Do you with your wife bear me! You did what I ordered, without the least scruple, O king! I became delighted at this. The gifts of riches I made could not excite your anger. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-024 ततः प्रीतेन ते राजन्पुनरेतत्कृतं तव |
MN DUTT: 09-055-024 ततः प्रीतेन ते राजन् पुनरेतत् कृतं तव |
M. N. Dutt: Pleased with you, O king, I created with the help of my Yogapower that forest which yourself with your wife did see here. Listen, O king, to the object I had. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-025 प्रीत्यर्थं तव चैतन्मे स्वर्गसंदर्शनं कृतम् |
MN DUTT: 09-055-025 प्रीत्यर्थं तव चैतन्मे स्वर्गसंदर्शनं कृतम् |
M. N. Dutt: For pleasing you and your qucen I made you to have a glimpse of Heaven, All those things which you have seen in these woods, O king, are a foretaste of Heaven. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-026 स्वर्गोद्देशस्त्वया राजन्सशरीरेण पार्थिव |
MN DUTT: 09-055-026 स्वर्णोद्देशस्त्वया राजन् सशरीरेण पार्थिव |
M. N. Dutt: O best of kings, for a little while I made you and your wife behold, in even your, earthly bodies, some sights of Heaven. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-027 निदर्शनार्थं तपसो धर्मस्य च नराधिप |
MN DUTT: 09-055-027 निदर्शनार्थं तपसो धर्मस्य च नराधिप |
M. N. Dutt: All this was done for showing the power of penances and the reward that is in store for virtue. The desire that arose in your heart, O monarch, at sight of those delightful objects, is known to me. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-028 ब्राह्मण्यं काङ्क्षसे हि त्वं तपश्च पृथिवीपते |
MN DUTT: 09-055-028 ब्राह्मण्यं काक्षसे हि त्वं तपश्च पृथिवीपते |
M. N. Dutt: You became desirous of obtaining the dignity of a Brahmana and the merit of penances, O king, disregarding the sovereignty of the Earth, nay, the sovereignty of very Heaven. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-029 एवमेतद्यथात्थ त्वं ब्राह्मण्यं तात दुर्लभम् |
MN DUTT: 09-055-029 एवमेतद् यथाऽऽत्य त्वं ब्राह्मण्यं तात दुर्लभम् |
M. N. Dutt: You thought this, O king. The status of a Brahmana is highly difficult to get; having become a Brahmana, it is highly difficult to obtain the status of a Rishi; having become a Rishi it is difficult to become an ascetic. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-030 भविष्यत्येष ते कामः कुशिकात्कौशिको द्विजः |
MN DUTT: 09-055-030 भविष्यत्येष ते कामः कुशिकात् कौशिको द्विजः |
M. N. Dutt: I tell you that your desire will be fulfilled. From you, O Kushika, will originate a Brahmana who shall be called after your name. The person that will be the third in descent from you shall obtain the status of a Brahmana. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-031 वंशस्ते पार्थिवश्रेष्ठ भृगूणामेव तेजसा |
MN DUTT: 09-055-031 वंशस्ते पार्थिवश्रेष्ठ भृगूणामेव तेजसा |
M. N. Dutt: Through the energy of the Bhrigus, your grandson, O king, will be an ascetic gifted with the splendour of fire. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-032 यः स देवमनुष्याणां भयमुत्पादयिष्यति |
MN DUTT: 09-055-032 यः स देवमनुष्याणां भयमुत्पादयिष्यति |
M. N. Dutt: He shall always strike all men, indeed, the inhabitants of the three worlds, 'vith fear. I tell you the truth. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-033 वरं गृहाण राजर्षे यस्ते मनसि वर्तते |
MN DUTT: 09-055-033 राजर्षे यत् ते मनसि वर्तते |
M. N. Dutt: O royal sage, do you accept the boon that is now in your mind. I shall soon start for a sojourn to all the sacred water, Time is expiring. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-034 कुशिक उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-055-034 कुशिक उवाच एष एव वरो मेऽद्य यस्त्वं प्रीतो महामुने |
M. N. Dutt: Kushika said This, O great ascetic, is a high boon in my case, for you have been pleased with me! Let that take place which you have said! Let my grandson become a Brahmana, O sinless one. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 09-055-035 ब्राह्मण्यं मे कुलस्यास्तु भगवन्नेष मे वरः |
M. N. Dutt: Indeed, Let the dignity of Brahmanahood attach to my family, O holy one! This is the boon I pray for! I wish to once more ask you in full, O holy one. |
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BORI CE: 13-055-035 पुनश्चाख्यातुमिच्छामि भगवन्विस्तरेण वै |
MN DUTT: 09-055-036 कथमेष्यति विप्रत्वं कुलं मे भृगुनन्दन |
M. N. Dutt: In what way, O delighter of Bhrigu, will the dignity of Brahmanahood attach to my family? Who will be my friend? Who will have my affection and respect? |
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