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Book 13 – Chapter 136
BORI CE: 13-136-001 युधिष्ठिर उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-151-001 युधिष्ठिर उवाच के पूज्याः के नमस्कार्याः कथं वर्तेते केषु च |
M. N. Dutt: Yudhishthira said Who are worthy of being adored? Who are they to whom we should bow? How, Indeed, should we behave towards whom? What course of conduct, O grandfather, towards what classes of persons is considered faultless? |
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BORI CE: 13-136-002 भीष्म उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-151-002 भीष्म उवाच ब्राह्मणानां परिभवः सादयेदपि देवताः |
M. N. Dutt: Bhishma said The humiliation of Brahmanas would humiliate the very celestials. By bowing to Brahmanas, one does not, O Yudhishthira, commit any fault. |
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BORI CE: 13-136-003 ते पूज्यास्ते नमस्कार्या वर्तेथास्तेषु पुत्रवत् |
MN DUTT: 09-151-003 ते पूज्यास्ते नमस्कार्या वर्तेथास्तेषु पुत्रवत् |
M. N. Dutt: They, indeed, deserve to be adored. They deserve to have our vows. You should bchave towards them as if they are your sons. Indeed, it is those wise men who upholds all the worlds. |
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BORI CE: 13-136-004 ब्राह्मणाः सर्वलोकानां महान्तो धर्मसेतवः |
MN DUTT: 09-151-004 ब्राह्मणा: सर्वलोकानां महान्तो धर्मसेतवः |
M. N. Dutt: The Brahmanas are the great causeways of Virtue about all the worlds. Their happiness consists in renouncing all kinds of riches. They are devoted to the vow of controlling speech. |
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BORI CE: 13-136-005 रमणीयाश्च भूतानां निधानं च धृतव्रताः |
MN DUTT: 09-151-005 रमणीयाश्च भूतानां निधानं च धृतव्रताः |
M. N. Dutt: They are agreeable to all creatures, and observe various excellent vows. They are the refuge of all creatures in the universe. They are the authors of all the regulations which govern the worlds. They are endued with great fame. |
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BORI CE: 13-136-006 तपो येषां धनं नित्यं वाक्चैव विपुलं बलम् |
MN DUTT: 09-151-006 तपो येषा धनं नित्यं वाक् चैव विपुलं बलम् |
M. N. Dutt: Penances are always their great riches. Their power consists in speech. Their energy emanates from the duties they observe. Knowing all duties, they are gifted with minute vision, so that they are cognizant of the subtlest consideration. |
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BORI CE: 13-136-007 धर्मकामाः स्थिता धर्मे सुकृतैर्धर्मसेतवः |
MN DUTT: 09-151-007 धर्मकामाः स्थिता धर्मे सुकृतैर्धर्मसेतवः |
M. N. Dutt: They are of righteous desires. They live in the observance of welldone duties. They are the causeways of Virtue. The four kinds of living creatures exist, depending upon them as their refuge. |
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BORI CE: 13-136-008 पन्थानः सर्वनेतारो यज्ञवाहाः सनातनाः |
MN DUTT: 09-151-008 पन्थानः सर्वनेतारो यशवाहाः सनातनाः |
M. N. Dutt: They are the path or road along which all should go. They are the guides of all. They are the eternal upholders of all the sacrifices. They always upholds the heavy loads of fathers and grandfathers. |
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BORI CE: 13-136-009 धुरि ये नावसीदन्ति विषमे सद्गवा इव |
MN DUTT: 09-151-009 धुरि ये नावसीदन्ति विषये सद्गवा इव |
M. N. Dutt: They never droop under heavy loads even when passing along difficult roads, like strong cattle. They are attentive to the requirements of manes and deities and guests. They are entitles to eat the first portions of Havya and Kavya. |
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BORI CE: 13-136-010 भोजनादेव ये लोकांस्त्रायन्ते महतो भयात् |
MN DUTT: 09-151-010 भोजनादेव लोकांस्त्रींस्त्रायन्ते महतो भयात् |
M. N. Dutt: By the very food they eat, they rescue the three worlds from great feat. They are, as it were, the Island for all worlds. They are the cyes of all persons gifted with sight. |
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BORI CE: 13-136-011 सर्वशिल्पादिनिधयो निपुणाः सूक्ष्मदर्शिनः |
MN DUTT: 09-151-011 सर्वशिक्षा श्रुतिधना निपुणा मोक्षदर्शिनः |
M. N. Dutt: The wealth they possess consists of all the branches of knowledge known by the name of Shiksha, and all the Shrutis. Gifted with great skill, they are conversant with the most subtile relations of things. They know the ends of all things, and their thoughts are always engaged upon the science of the soul. |
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BORI CE: 13-136-012 आदिमध्यावसानानां ज्ञातारश्छिन्नसंशयाः |
MN DUTT: 09-151-012 आदिमध्यावसानानां ज्ञातारश्छिन्नसंशयाः |
M. N. Dutt: They are gifted with the knowledge of the beginning, the middle, and the end of all things, and they are persons in whom doubts no longer exist on account of the certitude of their knowledge. They are fully aware of the distinctions between what is superior and what is inferior. They it is who acquire the highest end. |
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BORI CE: 13-136-013 विमुक्ता धुतपाप्मानो निर्द्वंद्वा निष्परिग्रहाः |
MN DUTT: 09-151-013 विमुक्ता धूतपाप्मानो निर्द्वन्द्वा निष्परिग्रहाः |
M. N. Dutt: Shorn of altachments, purged of all sins, getting over all pairs of opposites, they are unattached to all worldly things. Deserving of every honour, they are always esteemed by persons gifted with knowledge and high souls. |
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BORI CE: 13-136-014 चन्दने मलपङ्के च भोजनेऽभोजने समाः |
MN DUTT: 09-151-014 चन्दने मलपङ्के च भोजनेऽभोजने समाः |
M. N. Dutt: They cast impartial looks on sandal paste and filth or dirt, on what is food and what is not food. They see with an equal eye their brown dresses of coarse cloth and fabrics of silk and animal skins. |
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BORI CE: 13-136-015 तिष्ठेयुरप्यभुञ्जाना बहूनि दिवसान्यपि |
MN DUTT: 09-151-015 तिष्ठेयुरप्यभुञ्जाना बहूनि दिवसान्यपि |
M. N. Dutt: They would live for days together without partaking of any food, and dry up their limbs by such abstention. They devote themselves earnestly to the study of the Vedas, controlling their senses. |
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BORI CE: 13-136-016 अदैवं दैवतं कुर्युर्दैवतं चाप्यदैवतम् |
MN DUTT: 09-151-016 अदैवं दैवतं कुर्युर्दैवतं चाप्यदैवतम् |
M. N. Dutt: They would make gods of those who are not gods, and not gods of those who are gods. Enraged, they can create other worlds and other Regents of the worlds than those who exist. |
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BORI CE: 13-136-017 अपेयः सागरो येषामभिशापान्महात्मनाम् |
MN DUTT: 09-151-017 अपेयः सागरो येषामपि शापान्महात्मनाम् |
M. N. Dutt: Through the curse of those great ones, the ocean become so saline as to be undrinkable. The fire of their anger yet burns in the forest of Dandaka, unquenched by time. |
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BORI CE: 13-136-018 देवानामपि ये देवाः कारणं कारणस्य च |
MN DUTT: 09-151-018 देवानामपि ये देवाः कारणं कारणस्य च |
M. N. Dutt: They are the gods of the gods, and the cause of all causes. They are the authority of all authorities. What man of intelligence and wisdom is there who would seek to humiliate them. |
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BORI CE: 13-136-019 येषां वृद्धश्च बालश्च सर्वः संमानमर्हति |
MN DUTT: 09-151-019 येषां वृद्धश्च बालश्च सर्वः सम्मानमहीति |
M. N. Dutt: Amongst them the young and the old all deserve honours. They honour one another on account of distinctions in respect of penances and knowledge. |
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BORI CE: 13-136-020 अविद्वान्ब्राह्मणो देवः पात्रं वै पावनं महत् |
MN DUTT: 09-151-020 अविद्वान् ब्राह्मणो देवः पात्रं वै पावनं महत् |
M. N. Dutt: Even the Brahmana who is destitute of knowledge is a god and is a great instrument for purifying others. He amongst them, then, who is possessed of knowledge is a much higher god and like the ocean when full (to the brim). |
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BORI CE: 13-136-021 अविद्वांश्चैव विद्वांश्च ब्राह्मणो दैवतं महत् |
MN DUTT: 09-151-021 अवद्विांश्चैव विद्वांश्च ब्राह्मणो दैवतं महत् |
M. N. Dutt: Learned or unlearned, the Brahmana is always a great deity. Purified or not, Fire is ever a great god. |
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BORI CE: 13-136-022 श्मशाने ह्यपि तेजस्वी पावको नैव दुष्यति |
MN DUTT: 09-151-022 श्मशाने ह्यपि तेजस्वी पावको नैव दुष्यति |
M. N. Dutt: A blazing fire, even when it burns on a crematorium, is not considered as sullied on account of the character of the spot whereon it burns. Clarified butter looks beautiful whether kept on the sacrificial after or in a chamber. |
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BORI CE: 13-136-023 एवं यद्यप्यनिष्टेषु वर्तते सर्वकर्मसु |
MN DUTT: 09-151-023 एवं यद्यप्यनिष्टेषु वर्तते सर्वकर्मसु |
M. N. Dutt: So if the Brahmana be always engaged in evil deeds, he is still to be considered as deserving of honours. Indeed, know that the Brahmana is always a great god. |
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