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Book 14 – Chapter 009
BORI CE: 14-009-001 इन्द्र उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-177-001 इन्द्र उवाच कच्चित्सुखं स्वपिषि त्वं बृहस्पते कच्चिन्मनोज्ञाः परिचारकास्ते |
M. N. Dutt: Do you, O Brihaspati, sleep in peace, and do you like your servants, do you seek the welfare of the celestials, and do the celestials, O Brahmana, protect you. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-002 बृहस्पतिरुवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-177-002 बृहस्पति उवाच सुखं शये शयने देवराज तथा मनोज्ञाः परिचारका मे |
M. N. Dutt: Brihaspati said I do sleep in peace, in my bed, O Lord of the celestials, and my servants are to iny liking, and I always seek the well being of the celestials, and they cherish me well. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-003 इन्द्र उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-177-003 इन्द्र उवाच कुतो दुःखं मानसं देहजं वा पाण्डुर्विवर्णश्च कुतस्त्वमद्या आचक्ष्व मे ब्राह्मण यावदेतान् निहन्मि सर्वांस्तव दुःखकर्तृन् |
M. N. Dutt: Indra said Whence then is this pain, mental or physical, and why are you pale and changed in appearance at present, tell me, O Brahmana, who those people are, who have caused you pain, so that I may slay them all. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-004 बृहस्पतिरुवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-177-004 बृहस्पति उवाच मरुत्तमाहुर्मघवन् यक्ष्यमाणं महायज्ञेनोत्तमदक्षिणेन |
M. N. Dutt: O Indra, I have heard that Marutta will celebrate a great sacrifice at which rich presents will be given by him (to Brahmanas) and that at his sacrifice Samvarta will act as the officiating priest, and, therefore, do I wish that he may not officiate as priest at that sacrifice. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-005 इन्द्र उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-177-005 इन्द्र उवाच सर्वान् कामाननुयातोऽसि विप्र यस्त्वं देवानां मन्त्रवित्सुपुरोधाः |
M. N. Dutt: Indra said-You, O Brahmana, has attained all the objects of your desire when you have become the excellent priest of the celestials, versed in all the sacred hymns, and have got over the influence of death and decrepitude, what can Samvarta do to you now? |
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BORI CE: 14-009-006 बृहस्पतिरुवाच BORI CE: 14-009-007 अतोऽस्मि देवेन्द्र विवर्णरूपः; सपत्नो मे वर्धते तन्निशम्य |
MN DUTT: 09-177-006 बृहस्पति उवाच देवैः सह त्वमसुरान् प्रणुद्य जिघांससे चाप्युत सानुबन्धान् |
M. N. Dutt: Prosperity of al rival is always painful, and do you, therefore, with your attendant gods persecute the Asuras with their kith and kin, and slay the most prosperous among them; hence, O Lord of the gods, am I changed in appearance at the thought that my rival is prospering, therefore, O Indra, do you, by all means, restrain Samvarta and king Marutta. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-008 इन्द्र उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-177-007 इन्द्र उवाच एहि गच्छ प्रहितो जातवेदो बृहस्पतिं परिदातुं मरुत्ते |
M. N. Dutt: Do you, O Jataveda, following my direction, go to king Maruttato present Brihaspati to him and say to him that this Brihaspati will officiate at his sacrifice and make him immortal. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-009 अग्निरुवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-177-008 अग्नि उवाच अहं गच्छामि मघवन् दूतोऽद्य बृहस्पतिं परिदातुं मरुत्ते |
M. N. Dutt: Agni said I shall presently, O worshipful one, go there, as your messenger, to present Brihaspati to king Marutta; and to make Indra's words true, and to show respect to Brihaspati, Agni departed. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-010 व्यास उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-177-009 व्यास उवाच ततः प्रायाद् धूमकेतुर्महात्मा वनस्पतीन् वीरुधश्चाप्यमृद्नन् |
M. N. Dutt: Vyasa said Then the great Fire-God went on his errand, laying waste all the forests and trees, like the powerful wind, roaring and revolving at random at the end of the winter season. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-011 मरुत्त उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-177-010 मरुत उवाच आश्चर्यमद्य पश्यामि रूपिणं वह्निमागतम् |
M. N. Dutt: Marutta said See! I find the Fire-God come in his own embodiment, this day, therefore, do you, O Muni, offer him a seat and water, and a cow and water for washing the feet. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-012 अग्निरुवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-177-011 अग्नि उवाच आसनं सलिलं पाद्यं प्रतिनन्दामि तेऽनघ |
M. N. Dutt: Agni said I accept your offerings of water, seat, and water for washing the feet, O sinless one, do you know me as the messenger of Indra, come to you as ordered by him. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-013 मरुत्त उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-177-012 मरुत उवाच कच्चिच्छ्रीमान् देवराजः सुखी च कच्चिच्चास्मान् प्रीयते धूमकेतो |
M. N. Dutt: Marutta said O Fire-God, is the glorious King of the Celestials happy, and is he pleased with us, and are the other celestials loyal to him? Do you enlighten me duly on all these matters. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-014 अग्निरुवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-177-013 अग्नि उवाच शक्रो भृशं सुसुखी पार्थिवेन्द्र प्रीतिं चेच्छत्यजरां वै त्वया सः |
M. N. Dutt: Agni said O king, Shakra is perfectly happy, he is pleased with you, and wishes to make you free from decrepitude, and all the other gods are loyal to him, do you, O king, listen to the message of the King of the Celestials. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-015 यदर्थं मां प्राहिणोत्त्वत्सकाशं; बृहस्पतिं परिदातुं मरुत्ते |
MN DUTT: 09-177-014 यदर्थं मां प्राहिणोत् त्वत्सकाशं बृहस्पतिं परिदातुं मरुत्ते |
M. N. Dutt: And the object for which he has sent me to you is to present Brihaspati to Marutta; O prince, let this priest perform your sacrifice, and make you who are only a mortal, attain immortality. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-016 मरुत्त उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-177-015 मरुत उवाच संवर्गोऽयं याजयिता द्विजो मां बृहस्पतेरञ्जलिरेष तस्य |
M. N. Dutt: Marutta said This twice-born Brahmana Samvarta will perform your sacrifice, and I pray to Brihaspati, that he having acted as priest to Mahendra it does not appear well for him now to act as priest to mortal men. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-017 अग्निरुवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-177-016 अग्नि उवाच ये वै लोका देवलोके महान्त सम्प्राप्स्यसे तान् देवराजप्रसादात् |
M. N. Dutt: If this Brihaspati officiate as your priest, then you will by the blessings of the King of the Celestials attain the highest place in the celestial mansion and acquiring fame you will, forsooth, conquer the heavenly region. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-018 तथा लोका मानुषा ये च दिव्याः; प्रजापतेश्चापि ये वै महान्तः |
MN DUTT: 09-177-017 तथा लोका मानुषा ये च दिव्याः प्रजापतेश्चापि ये वै महान्तः |
M. N. Dutt: And, O king, if Brihaspati act as your priest you will be able to conquer all the regions inhabited by men, and the heavenly regions and all the highest regions created by Prajapati and even the entire kingdom of the celestials. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-019 संवर्त उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-177-018 संवर्त उवाच मा स्मैव त्वं पुनरागाः कथंचित् बृहस्पतिं परिदातुं मरुत्ते |
M. N. Dutt: You must never come again thus to present Brihaspati to Marutta; for know, O Pavaka, (Agni), if you do, I losing my temper, will burn you with my fierce evil eyes. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-020 व्यास उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-177-019 व्यास उवाच र्दाहाद् भीतो व्यथितोऽश्वत्थपर्णवत् |
M. N. Dutt: Vyasa said Then fearing destruction by fire, and trembling like the leaves of the Ashvatha tree (Ficus religiosa), Agni returned to the gods, and the great Shakra seeing that carrier of oblations (Agni) in the company of Brihaspati said as follows: |
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BORI CE: 14-009-021 यत्त्वं गतः प्रहितो जातवेदो; बृहस्पतिं परिदातुं मरुत्ते |
MN DUTT: 09-177-020 इन्द्र उवाच यस्त्वं गतः प्रहितो जातवेदो बृहस्पतिं परिदातुं मरुत्ते |
M. N. Dutt: Indra said You, O Jatavada (Agni), went to present Brihaspati to Marutta according to my direction, now what did that sacrificing king say to you, and did he accept my command? |
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BORI CE: 14-009-022 अग्निरुवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-177-021 अग्नि उवाच न ते वाचं रोचयते मरुत्तो बृहस्पतेरञ्जलिं प्राहिणोत् सः |
M. N. Dutt: Agni said, Your message was not acceptable by Maruita and when urged by me, he clasping the hands of Brihaspati, said again and again, that Samvarta would act as his priest. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-023 उवाचेदं मानुषा ये च दिव्याः; प्रजापतेर्ये च लोका महान्तः |
MN DUTT: 09-177-022 उवाचेदं मानुषा ये च दिव्याः प्रजापतेर्ये च लोका महान्तः |
M. N. Dutt: And he also observed that he did not wish to attain the worldly and the heavenly regions, and all the highest regions of Prajapati, and that if he were so minded, he would accept the terms of Indra. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-024 इन्द्र उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-177-023 इन्द्र उवाच पुनर्गत्वा पार्थिवं त्वं समेत्य वाक्यं मदीयं प्रापय स्वार्थयुक्तम् |
M. N. Dutt: Do you return to that king and meeting him, tell him these words of mine, full of meaning and if he obey them not, I shall strike him with my thunderbolt. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-025 अग्निरुवाच BORI CE: 14-009-026 यद्यागच्छेः पुनरेवं कथंचि;द्बृहस्पतिं परिदातुं मरुत्ते |
MN DUTT: 09-177-024 अग्नि उवाच गन्धर्वराड् यात्वयं तत्र दूतो बिभेम्यहं वासव तत्र गन्तुम् |
M. N. Dutt: Agni said Let this king of the Gandharvas go there as your messenger, O Vasava, for I am afraid to go there myself, Know, O Shakra, that highly enraged Samvarta, addicted to ascetic practices, told me these words in anger, 'I shall burn you with my fierce evil eyes if you on any account come again here to present Brihaspati to king Marutta.' |
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BORI CE: 14-009-027 इन्द्र उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-177-025 शक्र उवाच त्वमेवान्यान् दहसे जातवेदो न हि त्वदन्यो विद्यते भस्मकर्ता |
M. N. Dutt: Shakra said Jataveda, it is you who burns all other things and there is none else who can reduce you to ashes; all the world is afraid to come in contact with you, O carrier of oblation, these words of yours are worthy of no credence. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-028 अग्निरुवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-177-026 अग्नि उवाच दिवं राजन् पृथिवीं च सर्वा संवेष्टयेस्त्वं स्वबलेनैव शक्र |
M. N. Dutt: You, O Shakra, have encompassed the dominion of the heaven and the earth and the sky by the strength of your own arms, but even thus how could Vritra (of old) wrest from you the sovereignty of the celestial regions? |
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BORI CE: 14-009-029 इन्द्र उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-177-027 इन्द्र उवाच न गण्डिकाकारयोगं करेऽj न चारिसोमं प्रपिवामि वह्ने |
M. N. Dutt: Indra said I can reduce my enemies to submission and can even reduce the size of a mountain to an atom, if I will it. But, O Vahni, as I do not accept the libation of Soma drink if offered by an enemy, and as I do not strike the weak with my thunderbolt (Vritra got the better of me for a time) But who among mortals can live in peace by creating enmity with me. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-030 प्रव्राजयेयं कालकेयान्पृथिव्या;मपाकर्षं दानवानन्तरिक्षात् |
MN DUTT: 09-177-028 प्रव्राजयेयं कालकेयान् पृथिव्या मपाकर्षन् दानवानन्तरिक्षात् |
M. N. Dutt: I have banished the Kalakeyas to the earth, and removed the Danavas from the celestial region, and have terminated the existence of Prahlada in heaven, can there be any man who can leave in peace by exciting my enmity. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-031 अग्निरुवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-177-029 अग्नि उवाच यत्र शर्यातिं च्यवनो याजियिष्यन् सहाश्विभ्यां सोममगृह्णदेकः |
M. N. Dutt: Agni said Do you, O Mahendra, remember that formerly when the sage Chyavana officiated at the sacrifice of Sharyati with the twin gods Ashvins, and himself appropriated the Soma offering alone, you were filled with anger, and when bent upon preventing preventing Sharyati's sacrifice, you did violently strike Chyavana with your thunderbolt, that Brahmana, O Purandara, yielding to anger, was able by the power of his devotions to seize and hold fast your hand with your thunderbolt in it. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-032 वज्रं गृहीत्वा च पुरंदर त्वं; संप्राहार्षीश्च्यवनस्यातिघोरम् |
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: 14-009-033 ततो रोषात्सर्वतो घोररूपं; सपत्नं ते जनयामास भूयः BORI CE: 14-009-034 हनुरेका जगतीस्था तथैका; दिवं गता महतो दानवस्य BORI CE: 14-009-035 वृत्ताः स्थूला रजतस्तम्भवर्णा; दंष्ट्राश्चतस्रो द्वे शते योजनानाम् BORI CE: 14-009-036 अपश्यस्त्वं तं तदा घोररूपं; सर्वे त्वन्ये ददृशुर्दर्शनीयम् |
MN DUTT: 09-177-030 ततो रोषात् सर्वतो घोररूपं सपत्नं ते जनयामास भूयः |
M. N. Dutt: And in anger, he again created a terrible loO king enemy of yours, the Asura named Mada assuming all shapes, on seeing whom you did shut your eyes with fear, whose one huge jaw was placed on earth, and the other extended to the celestial regions, and who looked terrible with his thousand sharp teeth extending over a hundred Yojanas, and had four prominent ones thick a set, and shining like a pillar of silver, and extending over two hundred Yojanas. And when grinding his teeth he followed you with his terrible and uplifted pike with the object of slaying you, you on seeing that terrible monster, presented a (pitiful) sight to all the bystanders. Then, O destroyer of Danavas, overcome with fear of the monster, with your hands clasped in prayer, you did seek the protection of the great sage. |
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BORI CE: 14-009-037 क्षत्रादेवं ब्रह्मबलं गरीयो; न ब्रह्मतः किंचिदन्यद्गरीयः |
MN DUTT: 09-177-031 क्षात्राद् बलाद् ब्रह्मवलं गरीयो न ब्रह्मतः किंचिदन्यद् गरीयः |
M. N. Dutt: The power of Brahmana,s O Shakra, is greater than that of the Kshatriyas, none are more powerful than Brahmanas and knowing duly, as I do, the power of Brahmanas I do not, O Shakra, wish to quarrel with Samvarta. |
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