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Book 13 – Chapter 115
BORI CE: 13-115-001 वैशंपायन उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-114-001 वैशम्पायन उवाच ततो युधिष्ठिरो राजा शरतल्पे पितामहम् |
M. N. Dutt: Vaishampayana said After this, king, Yudhishthira gifted with great energy, and the foremost of eloquent men, addressed his grandfather lying on his bed of arrows, in the following words. |
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BORI CE: 13-115-002 ऋषयो ब्राह्मणा देवाः प्रशंसन्ति महामते |
MN DUTT: 09-114-002 युधिष्ठिर उवाच ऋषयो ब्राह्मणा देवाः प्रशंसन्ति महामते |
M. N. Dutt: Yudhishthira said O You of great intelligence, the Rishi and Brahmanas and the celestials led by the authority of the Vedas, all speak highly of the religion of mercy. |
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BORI CE: 13-115-003 कर्मणा मनुजः कुर्वन्हिंसां पार्थिवसत्तम |
MN DUTT: 09-114-003 कर्मणा मनुजः कुर्वन् हिंसा पार्थिवसत्तम |
M. N. Dutt: But, o king, what I ask you is this how does a man who has perpetrated acts of injury to others in word, thought and deed, succeed in purifying himself from misery. |
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BORI CE: 13-115-004 भीष्म उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-114-004 भीष्म उवाच चतुर्विधेयं निर्दिष्टा ह्यहिंसा ब्रह्मवादिभिः |
M. N. Dutt: Bhishma said Brahmavadins have said that there are four kinds of mercy or abstention from injury. If even one of those four kinds be not observed. The religion of mercy, it is said, is not observed. |
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BORI CE: 13-115-005 यथा सर्वश्चतुष्पादस्त्रिभिः पादैर्न तिष्ठति |
MN DUTT: 09-114-005 यथा सर्वश्चतुष्याद् वै त्रिभिः पादै तिष्ठति |
M. N. Dutt: As all quadruped animals are incapable of standing on three legs so the religion of mercy cannot stand if any of those four divisions or parts be wanting. |
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BORI CE: 13-115-006 यथा नागपदेऽन्यानि पदानि पदगामिनाम् |
MN DUTT: 09-114-006 यथा नागपदेऽन्यानि पदानि पदगामिनाम् |
M. N. Dutt: As the footprints of all other animals are sunk in those of the elephant, so all other religions are said to be contained in that of mercy. A person becomes guilty of injury through acts, words, and thoughts. |
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BORI CE: 13-115-007 कर्मणा लिप्यते जन्तुर्वाचा च मनसैव च |
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: 13-115-008 पूर्वं तु मनसा त्यक्त्वा तथा वाचाथ कर्मणा |
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: 09-114-007 पूर्वं तु मनसा त्यक्त्वा तथा वाचाऽथ कर्मणा |
M. N. Dutt: Discarding it mentally in the beginning, one should next discard it in word and thought. He who according to this rule, abstains from eating meat is said to be purified in a three fold way. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 09-114-008 विकारणं तु निर्दिष्टं श्रूयते ब्रह्मवादिभिः |
M. N. Dutt: It is heard that Brahmavadins point out three causes (for the sin of eating meat). That sin may attach to the mind, to words, and to deeds. |
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BORI CE: 13-115-009 मनोवाचि तथास्वादे दोषा ह्येषु प्रतिष्ठिताः BORI CE: 13-115-010 दोषांस्तु भक्षणे राजन्मांसस्येह निबोध मे |
MN DUTT: 09-114-008 विकारणं तु निर्दिष्टं श्रूयते ब्रह्मवादिभिः MN DUTT: 09-114-009 न भक्षयन्त्यतो मांसं तपोयुक्ता मनीषिणः MN DUTT: 09-114-010 पुत्रमांसोपमं जानन् खादते योऽविचक्षणः |
M. N. Dutt: It is heard that Brahmavadins point out three causes (for the sin of eating meat). That sin may attach to the mind, to words, and to deeds. It is therefore, that wise men who are gifted with penances refrain from eating meat. Listen to me, O king, as tell you what the faults are which attach to the eating of meat. The meat of other animals is like the flesh of one's son. That foolish person, stupefied by folly, who eats meat is considered as the vilest of human beings. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 09-114-011 पितृमातृसमायोगे पुत्रत्वं जायते यथा |
M. N. Dutt: The union of father and mother produces children, Similarly the cruelty that a helpless and sinful wretch commits, produces its progeny of repeated rebirths fraught with great misery. |
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BORI CE: 13-115-011 मातापितृसमायोगे पुत्रत्वं जायते यथा |
MN DUTT: 09-114-012 रसं च प्रतिजिह्वाया ज्ञानं प्रज्ञायते यथा |
M. N. Dutt: As the tongue is the cause of sensation of taste, so, the scriptures declare, attachment proceeds from taste. |
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BORI CE: 13-115-012 असंस्कृताः संस्कृताश्च लवणालवणास्तथा |
MN DUTT: 09-114-013 संस्कृतासंस्कृताः पक्वा लवणालवणास्तथा |
M. N. Dutt: Well-dressed, cooked with salt or without salt, meat, in whatever form one may take it, by and by attracts the mind and enslaves it. |
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BORI CE: 13-115-013 भेरीशङ्खमृदङ्गाद्यांस्तन्त्रीशब्दांश्च पुष्कलान् |
MN DUTT: 09-114-014 भेरीमृदङ्गशब्दांश्च तन्त्रीशब्दांश्च पुष्कलान् |
M. N. Dutt: How will those foolish men who live upon meat succeed in listening to the sweet music of celestial drums and cymbals and lyres and harps? |
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BORI CE: 13-115-014 अचिन्तितमनुद्दिष्टमसंकल्पितमेव च |
MN DUTT: 09-114-015 अचिन्तितमनिर्दिष्टमसंकल्पितमेव च |
M. N. Dutt: They who eat meat highly speak of it, allowing themselves to be stupefied by its taste which they declare be something inconceivable, undesirable, and unimaginable. |
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BORI CE: 13-115-015 जीवितं हि परित्यज्य बहवः साधवो जनाः |
MN DUTT: 09-114-016 प्रशंसा ह्येव मांसस्य दोषकर्मफलान्विता |
M. N. Dutt: Such pradise even of meat is sinful. Formerly, many pious men, by giving the flesh of their own bodies, protected the flesh of other creatures and as a result of such deeds of merit, have proceeded to the celestial region. |
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BORI CE: 13-115-016 एवमेषा महाराज चतुर्भिः कारणैर्वृता |
MN DUTT: 09-114-017 एवमेषा महाराज चतुर्भिः कारणैर्वृता |
M. N. Dutt: In this way, O king, the religion of mercy is surrounded by four considerations. I have thus declared to you that religion which contains all other religions within it. to |
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