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Book 13 – Chapter 069
BORI CE: 13-069-001 भीष्म उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-070-001 भीष्म उवाच अत्रैव कीर्त्यते सद्भिाह्मणस्वाभिमर्शने |
M. N. Dutt: Bhishma said Regarding it, O perpetuator of Kuru race, is recited by the righteous the narrative of the great calamity that befell king Nriga on account of his taking what had belonged to a Brahmana. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-002 निविशन्त्यां पुरा पार्थ द्वारवत्यामिति श्रुतिः |
MN DUTT: 09-070-002 निविशन्त्यां पुरा पार्थ द्वारवत्यामिति श्रुतिः |
M. N. Dutt: Sometime before, certain youths of Yudu's race, while searching for water, came to a large well covered with grass and creepers. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-003 प्रयत्नं तत्र कुर्वाणास्तस्मात्कूपाज्जलार्थिनः BORI CE: 13-069-004 ददृशुस्ते महाकायं कृकलासमवस्थितम् |
MN DUTT: 09-070-003 प्रयत्नं तत्र कुर्वाणास्तस्मात् कूपाज्जलार्थिनः |
M. N. Dutt: Desirous of drawing water from it, they worked hard for removing the creepers they covered its mouth. After the mouth had been cleaned, they saw within the well a very large lizard living within it. The youths nade strong and repeated efforts for rescuing the lizard from that plight. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-005 प्रग्रहैश्चर्मपट्टैश्च तं बद्ध्वा पर्वतोपमम् |
MN DUTT: 09-070-004 प्रग्रहैश्चर्मपट्टैश्च तं बद्ध्वा पर्वतोपमम् |
M. N. Dutt: Resembling a very hill in size, the lizard was sought to be freed by cords and leather tongs. Not succeeding in their attempts, the youths then went to Janardana. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-006 खमावृत्योदपानस्य कृकलासः स्थितो महान् |
MN DUTT: 09-070-005 खमावृत्योदपानस्य कृकलासः स्थितो महान् |
M. N. Dutt: Addressing him they said— Covering the entire space of a well, there is a very large lizard to be seen. Despite our best efforts we have not succeeded in rescuing it from that plight. This was what they said to Krishna. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-007 स वासुदेवेन समुद्धृतश्च; पृष्टश्च कामान्निजगाद राजा |
MN DUTT: 09-070-006 माधव उवाच स वासुदेवेन समुद्धृतश्च पृष्टश्च कार्यं निजगाद राजा |
M. N. Dutt: Madhava spoke Vasudeva then went there and took out the lizard and questioned it as who it was. The lizard said that it was the soul of king Nriga who had flourished in days of yore and who had celebrated many sacrifices. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-008 तथा ब्रुवाणं तु तमाह माधवः; शुभं त्वया कर्म कृतं न पापकम् |
MN DUTT: 09-070-007 तथा ब्रुवाणं तु तमाह माधवः शुभं त्वया कर्म कृतं न पापकम् |
M. N. Dutt: To the lizard that said those words "You had done many pious deeds. You committed no sin. Why then, O king, have you come by such a distressful end? Do you explain what is this and why has it been caused?" |
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BORI CE: 13-069-009 शतं सहस्राणि शतं गवां पुनः; पुनः शतान्यष्ट शतायुतानि |
MN DUTT: 09-070-008 शतं सहस्राणि गवां शतं पुन: पुनः शतान्यष्टशतायुतानिा त्वया पुरा दत्तमितीह शुश्रुम नृप द्विजेभ्यः क्व तु तद् गतं तव |
M. N. Dutt: We have heared that you did repeatedly make gifts to the Brahmanas numerable kine. Why, therefore, have you come by this end. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-010 नृगस्ततोऽब्रवीत्कृष्णं ब्राह्मणस्याग्निहोत्रिणः |
MN DUTT: 09-070-009 नृगस्ततोऽब्रवीत् कृष्णं ब्राह्मणस्याग्निहोत्रिणः |
M. N. Dutt: Nriga then replied to Krishna, saying, On one occasion a cow belonging to a Brahmana who regularly adored his domestic fire, escaping from the owner's house while he was absent from home, entered my flock. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-011 गवां सहस्रे संख्याता तदा सा पशुपैर्मम |
MN DUTT: 09-070-010 गवां सहस्र संख्याता तदा सा पशुपैर्मम |
M. N. Dutt: The keepers of my cattle included that cow in their list of a thousand. In time that cow was given away by me to a Brahmana, wishing for liappiness in heaven. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-012 अपश्यत्परिमार्गंश्च तां यां परगृहे द्विजः |
MN DUTT: 09-070-011 मे अपश्यत् परिमार्गश्च तां गां परगृहे द्विजः |
M. N. Dutt: The true owner, returning home, sought for his lost cow and at last found it in the house of another. Finding her, the owner said, “This cow is mine." |
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BORI CE: 13-069-013 तावुभौ समनुप्राप्तौ विवदन्तौ भृशज्वरौ |
MN DUTT: 09-070-012 तावुभौ समनुप्राप्तौ विवदन्तो भृशज्वरौ |
M. N. Dutt: The other person contested his claim, till both, growing wroth came to me. Addressing me, one of them said, You gave this cow. The other one said You have robbed me of this cow because she is inine. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-014 शतेन शतसंख्येन गवां विनिमयेन वै BORI CE: 13-069-015 देशकालोपसंपन्ना दोग्ध्री क्षान्तातिवत्सला BORI CE: 13-069-016 कृशं च भरते या गौर्मम पुत्रमपस्तनम् |
MN DUTT: 09-070-013 शतेन शतसंख्येन गवां विनिमयेन वै |
M. N. Dutt: I then begged the Brahmana to whom I had given that cow, to return the gift in exchange for hundreds and hundreds of other kine. Without yielding to my earnest solicitation, he addressed me saying, The cow I have got is well suited to time and place. She gives profuse inilk, besides being very quiet and very fond of us. The milk she gives is very sweet. She is lauded in my house. She is nourishing, besides, a weak child of mine that has just been born. I cannot, therefore, part with her. Having said these words, the Brahmana went away. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-017 ततस्तमपरं विप्रं याचे विनिमयेन वै |
MN DUTT: 09-070-014 ततस्तमपरं विप्रं याचे विनिमयेन वै |
M. N. Dutt: I then begged the other Brahmana offering him an exchange, and saying-Do you take a hundred thousand kine for this one cow. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-018 ब्राह्मण उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-070-015 न राज्ञां प्रतिगृह्णामि शक्तोऽहं स्वस्य मार्गणे |
M. N. Dutt: The Brahmana, however, replied to me saying I do not accept gifts from Kshatriyas. I am able to support myself without aid. Do you then forthwith, give me that very cow which was mine. Thus, O slayer of Madhu, did that Brahmana speak to me. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-019 रुक्ममश्वांश्च ददतो रजतं स्यन्दनांस्तथा |
MN DUTT: 09-070-016 रुक्ममश्वांश्च ददतो रजतस्यन्दनांस्तथा |
M. N. Dutt: I then offered to make gifts to him of gold and silver and horses and cars. That foremost of Brahmanas refused to accept any of these gifts and departed. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-020 एतस्मिन्नेव काले तु चोदितः कालधर्मणा |
MN DUTT: 09-070-017 एतस्मिन्नेव काले तु चोदितः कालधर्मणा |
M. N. Dutt: Meanwhile, urged by Time's irresistible power, I had to depart from this world. Going to the region of the departed manes I was taken before Yama the king of the dead. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-021 यमस्तु पूजयित्वा मां ततो वचनमब्रवीत् |
MN DUTT: 09-070-018 यमस्तु पूजयित्वा मां ततो वचनमब्रवीत् |
M. N. Dutt: Adoring me duly, Yama addressed me saying-The end cannot be determined, O king, of your righteous deeds. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-022 अस्ति चैव कृतं पापमज्ञानात्तदपि त्वया |
MN DUTT: 09-070-019 अस्ति चैव कृतं पापमज्ञानात् तदपि त्वया |
M. N. Dutt: There is, however, a little sin which was unconsciously committed by you. Do you suffer the punishment for that sin now or afterwards as you like. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-023 रक्षितास्मीति चोक्तं ते प्रतिज्ञा चानृता तव |
MN DUTT: 09-070-020 रक्षितास्मीति चोक्तं ते प्रतिज्ञा चानृता तव |
M. N. Dutt: You had sworn that you would protect (all persons in the enjoyment of their own). This oath of yours was not rigidly kept by you. You took also what belonged to a Brahmana. This has been the twofold sin, you have perpetrated. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-024 पूर्वं कृच्छ्रं चरिष्येऽहं पश्चाच्छुभमिति प्रभो |
MN DUTT: 09-070-021 पूर्वं कृच्छ्रे चरिष्येऽहं पश्चाच्छुभमिति प्रभो |
M. N. Dutt: I answered, saying-I shall first suffer the distress of punishment, and when that is over, I shall enjoy the happiness that is in store for me, O lord! After I had said these words to the king of the dead, I dropped down on the Earth. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-025 अश्रौषं प्रच्युतश्चाहं यमस्योच्चैः प्रभाषतः |
MN DUTT: 09-070-022 अश्रौषं पतितश्चाहं यमस्योच्चैः प्रभाषतः |
M. N. Dutt: Though fallen down I still could hear the words that Yama said to me very loudly. Those words were-Janardana the son of Vasudeva, will save you. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-026 पूर्णे वर्षसहस्रान्ते क्षीणे कर्मणि दुष्कृते |
MN DUTT: 09-070-023 पूर्णे वर्षसहस्रान्ते क्षीणे कर्मणि दुष्कृते |
M. N. Dutt: Upon the completion of a full thousand years, when your sin will be dissipated you shall then attain to many regions of unending happiness that have been acquired by you through your own pious deeds. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-027 कूपेऽऽत्मानमधःशीर्षमपश्यं पतितं च ह |
MN DUTT: 09-070-024 कूपेऽऽत्मानमधःशीर्षमपश्यं पतितश्च ह |
M. N. Dutt: Falling down I found myself, with head downwards, within this well changed into a creature of the intermediate order, Memory, however, did not leave me. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-028 त्वया तु तारितोऽस्म्यद्य किमन्यत्र तपोबलात् |
MN DUTT: 09-070-025 त्वया तु तारितोऽस्म्यद्य किमन्यत्र तपोबलात् |
M. N. Dutt: By you I have been saved today. What else can it testify than the power of your penances? Let me have your permission, O Krishna. I wish to ascend to the celestial region. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-029 अनुज्ञातः स कृष्णेन नमस्कृत्य जनार्दनम् |
MN DUTT: 09-070-026 अनुज्ञात: स कृष्णेन नमस्कृत्य जनार्दनम् |
M. N. Dutt: Permitted then by Krishna, king Nriga bowed his head to him and then mounted a celestial car and went to Heaven. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-030 ततस्तस्मिन्दिवं प्राप्ते नृगे भरतसत्तम |
MN DUTT: 09-070-027 ततस्तस्मिन् दिवं याते नृगे भरतसत्तम |
M. N. Dutt: After Nriga had thus proceeded to the celestial region, O best of the Bharatas, Vasudeva recited this Verse, O delighter, of the Kurus. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-031 ब्राह्मणस्वं न हर्तव्यं पुरुषेण विजानता |
MN DUTT: 09-070-028 ब्राह्मणस्वं न हर्तव्यं पुरुषेण विजानता |
M. N. Dutt: No one should knowingly misappropriate anything belonging to a a Brahmana. The property of Brahmana, if take, destroys the taker even as the Brahmana's cow destroyed king Nriga! |
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BORI CE: 13-069-032 सतां समागमः सद्भिर्नाफलः पार्थ विद्यते |
MN DUTT: 09-070-029 सतां समागमः सद्भिर्नाफलः पार्थ विद्यते |
M. N. Dutt: I tell you, again O Partha, that a meeting with the good never proves furtile. See king Nriga was rescued from Hell through a meeting of his with one that is good. |
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BORI CE: 13-069-033 प्रदानं फलवत्तत्र द्रोहस्तत्र तथाफलः |
MN DUTT: 09-070-030 प्रदानफलवत् तत्र द्रोहस्तत्र तथाफलः |
M. N. Dutt: As a gift yields merit, so an act of spoliation brings on to demerit. Hence also, O Yudhishthira one should avoid doing any injury to kine. |
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