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Book 15 – Chapter 045
BORI CE: 15-045-001 वैशंपायन उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-297-001 वैशम्पायन उवाच द्विवर्षोपनिवृत्तेषु पाण्डवेषु यदृच्छया |
M. N. Dutt: After two years had passed from the date of the return of the Pandavas from the retreat of heir sire), the celestial Rishi, Narada, O king, came to Yudhishthria. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-002 तमभ्यर्च्य महाबाहुः कुरुराजो युधिष्ठिरः BORI CE: 15-045-003 चिरस्य खलु पश्यामि भगवन्तमुपस्थितम् |
MN DUTT: 09-297-002 तमभ्यर्च्य महाबाहुः कुरुराजो युधिष्ठिरः |
M. N. Dutt: the mighty-armed Kuru king, that foremost of speakers, viz., Yudhishthira, having duly adored him, made him take a seat. After the Rishi had rested a while, the king asked him saying, 'It is after a long time that I see your holy self arrived at my court. Are you in peace and happiness, O learned Bhimasena? |
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BORI CE: 15-045-004 के देशाः परिदृष्टास्ते किं च कार्यं करोमि ते |
MN DUTT: 09-297-003 के देशाः परिदृष्टास्ते किं च कार्यं करोमि ते |
M. N. Dutt: What are toe countries which you have passed through? What can I do for you? Do you tell me. You are the foremost of twiceborn ones, and you are our highest refuge. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-005 नारद उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-297-004 नारद उवाच चिरदृष्टष्येऽसि मेत्येवमागतोऽहं तपोवनात् |
M. N. Dutt: Narada said I have not seen you for a long time. Hence it is that I have come to you from my asylum. I have seen many sacred waters and the sacred rivers Ganga, also, O king. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-006 युधिष्ठिर उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-297-005 युधिष्ठिर उवाच वदन्ति पुरुषा मेऽद्य गङ्गातीरनिवासिनः |
M. N. Dutt: People living on the banks of Ganga report that the great Dhritarashtra is practicing the austerest of penances. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-007 अपि दृष्टस्त्वया तत्र कुशली स कुरूद्वहः |
MN DUTT: 09-297-006 अपि दृष्टस्त्वया तत्र कुशली स कुरूद्वहः |
M. N. Dutt: Have you seen him there? Is that perpetuator o Kuru's race in peace? Are Gandhari and Pritha and the Suta's son Sanjaya also in peace? |
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BORI CE: 15-045-008 कथं च वर्तते चाद्य पिता मम स पार्थिवः |
MN DUTT: 09-297-007 कथं च वर्तते चाद्य पिता मम स पार्थिवः |
M. N. Dutt: How, indeed, is that royal sire of mine doing? I wish to hear this, O holy one, if you have seen the king. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-009 नारद उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-297-008 नारद उवाच स्थिरीभूय महाराज शृणु वृत्तं यथातथम् |
M. N. Dutt: Narada said Listen, O king, with calmness to me as I tell you what I have heard and seen in that asylum. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-010 वनवासनिवृत्तेषु भवत्सु कुरुनन्दन |
MN DUTT: 09-297-009 वनवासनिवृत्तेषु भवत्सु कुरुनन्दन |
M. N. Dutt: After your return from Kurukshetra, O delighter of the Kurus, Your sire, O king, proceeded towards Gangadvara. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-011 गान्धार्या सहितो धीमान्वध्वा कुन्त्या समन्वितः |
MN DUTT: 09-297-010 गान्धार्या सहितो धीमान् वध्वा कुन्त्या समन्वितः |
M. N. Dutt: That intelligent king took with him his (sacred) fire, Gandhari and his daughter-in-law Kunti, as also Sanjaya of the Suta caste, and all the Yajakas. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-012 आतस्थे स तपस्तीव्रं पिता तव तपोधनः |
MN DUTT: 09-297-011 आतस्थे स तास्तीव्र पिता तव तपोधनः |
M. N. Dutt: Having penances for wealth, your sire set himself to the practice of severe austerities. He held pebbled of stone in his mouth and had air alone for his food, and abstained altogether from speech. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-013 वने स मुनिभिः सर्वैः पूज्यमानो महातपाः |
MN DUTT: 09-297-012 वने स मुनिभिः सर्वैः पूज्यमानो महातपाः |
M. N. Dutt: Engaged in severe penances, he was adored by all the ascetics in the forest. In six months the king was reduced to only a skeleton. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-014 गान्धारी तु जलाहारा कुन्ती मासोपवासिनी |
MN DUTT: 09-297-013 गान्धारी तु जलाहारी कुन्ती मासोपवासिनी |
M. N. Dutt: Gandhari lived on water alone, while Kunti took a little food a intervals of month. Sanjaya, O Bharata, lived, eating a little every sixth day. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-015 अग्नींस्तु याजकास्तत्र जुहुवुर्विधिवत्प्रभो |
MN DUTT: 09-297-014 अग्नींस्तु याजकास्तत्र जुहुवुर्विधिवत् प्रभो |
M. N. Dutt: The sacred fire, O monarch, (bclonging to the Kuru king) was duly adored by the sacrificing assistants who were with him, with libations of clarified butter poured on it. They did this whether the king saw the rite or not. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-016 अनिकेतोऽथ राजा स बभूव वनगोचरः |
MN DUTT: 09-297-015 अनिकेतोऽथ राजा स बभूव वनगोचरः |
M. N. Dutt: The king had no fixed dwelling. He became a wanderer through those forests. The two queens, as also Sanjaya, followed him. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-017 संजयो नृपतेर्नेता समेषु विषमेषु च |
MN DUTT: 09-297-016 संजयो नृपतेर्नेता समेषु विषमेषु च |
M. N. Dutt: Sanjaya acted as the guide on even and uneven land. The faultless Pritha, O king, became the eye of Gandhari. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-018 ततः कदाचिद्गङ्गायाः कच्छे स नृपसत्तमः |
MN DUTT: 09-297-017 ततः कदाचिद् गङ्गायाः कच्छे स नृपसत्तमः |
M. N. Dutt: One day, that best of kings went to a spot on the margin of Ganga. He then bathed in the sacred river and finishing his ablutions turned his face toward his hermitage. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-019 अथ वायुः समुद्भूतो दावाग्निरभवन्महान् |
MN DUTT: 09-297-018 अथ वायुः समुद्भूतो दावाग्निरभवन्महान् |
M. N. Dutt: The wind rose high. A fierce wild fire set in. It began to burn that forest all around. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-020 दह्यत्सु मृगयूथेषु द्विजिह्वेषु समन्ततः |
MN DUTT: 09-297-019 दह्यत्सु मृगयूथेषु द्विजिह्वेषु समन्ततः |
M. N. Dutt: When the herds of animals were being burnt all around, as also the snakes which inhabited. that region, herds of wild board began to take themselves to the nearest marshes and waters. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-021 समाविद्धे वने तस्मिन्प्राप्ते व्यसन उत्तमे |
MN DUTT: 09-297-020 समाविद्धे वने तस्मिन् प्राप्ते व्यसन उत्तमे |
M. N. Dutt: When that forest was thus afflicted on all sides and such distress came upon all the living creature living there, the king, who had taken no food, was incapable of moving or exerting himself at all. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-022 ततः स नृपतिर्दृष्ट्वा वह्निमायान्तमन्तिकात् BORI CE: 15-045-023 गच्छ संजय यत्राग्निर्न त्वां दहति कर्हिचित् BORI CE: 15-045-024 तमुवाच किलोद्विग्नः संजयो वदतां वरः BORI CE: 15-045-025 न चोपायं प्रपश्यामि मोक्षणे जातवेदसः BORI CE: 15-045-026 इत्युक्तः संजयेनेदं पुनराह स पार्थिवः BORI CE: 15-045-027 जलमग्निस्तथा वायुरथ वापि विकर्शनम् BORI CE: 15-045-028 इत्युक्त्वा संजयं राजा समाधाय मनस्तदा BORI CE: 15-045-029 संजयस्तं तथा दृष्ट्वा प्रदक्षिणमथाकरोत् BORI CE: 15-045-030 ऋषिपुत्रो मनीषी स राजा चक्रेऽस्य तद्वचः BORI CE: 15-045-031 गान्धारी च महाभागा जननी च पृथा तव |
MN DUTT: 09-297-021 असमर्योऽपसरणे सुकृशे मातरौ च ते MN DUTT: 09-297-022 वयमत्राग्निना युक्ता गमिष्यामः परां गतिम् MN DUTT: 09-297-023 यदत्रानन्तरं कार्य तद् भवान् वक्तुमर्हति MN DUTT: 09-297-024 प्राङ्मुखः सह गान्धार्या कुन्त्या चोपाविशत् तदा MN DUTT: 09-297-025 उवाच चैनं मेधावी युड्क्ष्वात्मानमिति प्रभो MN DUTT: 09-297-026 सन्निमध्येन्द्रियग्राममासीत् काष्ठोपमस्तदा MN DUTT: 09-297-027 दावाग्निना समायुक्ते स च राजा पिता तव |
M. N. Dutt: Your two mothers also, exceedingly emaciated, could not move. The king, seeing the fire approach him from all sides, addressed the Suta Sanjaya, that foremost of skillful charioteers, saying, 'Go, O Sanjaya, to such a place where the fire may not burn you. As regards ourselves, we shall allow our bodies to be destroyed by this fire and attain to the greatest end. To him, Sanjaya, that foremost of speakers, said-'O king, this death, brought on by a fire that is not sacred, will prove calamitous to you. I do not, however, see any means by which you can escape from this fire. our That which should next be done should be marked by you. Thus addressed by Sanjaya the king once more said, “This death cannot be calamitous to us, for we have left our home of own accord. Water, fire, wind, and abstention from food, are laudable for ascetics. Do you, therefore, leave us, O Sanjaya, forthwith.' Having said these words to Sanjaya the king concentrated his mind. Facing the east, he sat down, with Gandhari and Kunti. Seeing him in that attitude Sanjaya walked round him. Gifted with intelligence, Sanjaya said, 'Do you concentrate your mind. O powerful one!' The son of a Rishi, and himself endued with great wisdom, the king acted as he was told. Governing all the senses, he remained like a post of wood. The highly blessed Gandhari, and your mother Pritha top, remained in the same attitude. Then your royal sire was overtaken by the wild-fire, Sanjaya, his minister succeeded in escaping from that fire. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-032 संजयस्तु महामात्रस्तस्माद्दावादमुच्यत |
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: 15-045-033 स तानामन्त्र्य तेजस्वी निवेद्यैतच्च सर्वशः |
MN DUTT: 09-297-028 गङ्गाकूले मया दृष्टस्तापसैः परिवारितः |
M. N. Dutt: I saw him on the banks of Ganga in the midst of ascetics. Gifted with great, energy and great intelligence's he bade them farewell and then started for the mountains of Himavat. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-034 एवं स निधनं प्राप्तः कुरुराजो महामनाः |
MN DUTT: 09-297-029 एवं स निधनं प्राप्तः कुरुराजो महामनाः |
M. N. Dutt: Thus the great Kuru king met with his death, and it was thus that Gandhari and Kunti, your two others, also met with death, O monarch. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-035 यदृच्छयानुव्रजता मया राज्ञः कलेवरम् |
MN DUTT: 09-297-030 यदृच्छयानुव्रजता मया राज्ञः कलेवरम् |
M. N. Dutt: In course of my wanderings at will, I saw the bodies of that king and those two queens, O Bharata. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-036 ततस्तपोवने तस्मिन्समाजग्मुस्तपोधनाः |
MN DUTT: 09-297-031 ततस्तपोवने तस्मिन् समाजग्मुस्तपोधनाः |
M. N. Dutt: Many ascetics came to that asylum, having heard of the end of king Dhritarashtra. They did not at all grieve for that end of theirs. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-037 तत्राश्रौषमहं सर्वमेतत्पुरुषसत्तम |
MN DUTT: 09-297-032 तत्राश्रौषमहं सर्वमेतत् पुरुषसत्तम |
M. N. Dutt: There, O best of men, I heard all the details of how the king and the two qucens, O son of Pandu, had been burnt. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-038 न शोचितव्यं राजेन्द्र स्वन्तः स पृथिवीपतिः |
MN DUTT: 09-297-033 न शोचितव्यं राजेन्द्र स्वत: स पृथिवीपतिः |
M. N. Dutt: O king of kings, you should not grieve for him. The monarch, of his own will, as also Gandhari and your mother, got that contact with fire, |
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BORI CE: 15-045-039 वैशंपायन उवाच |
MN DUTT: 09-297-034 वैशम्पायन उवाच एतच्छ्रुत्वा च सर्वेषां पाण्डवानां महात्मनाम् |
M. N. Dutt: Vaishampayana said, Hearing of the departure of Dhritarashtra from his world, the great Pandavas all bewailed. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-040 अन्तःपुराणां च तदा महानार्तस्वरोऽभवत् |
Corresponding verse not found in M. N. Dutt's version. |
Corresponding verse not found in M. N. Dutt's version. |
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MN DUTT: 09-297-035 अन्तःपुराणां च तदा महानार्तस्वरोऽभवत् |
M. N. Dutt: Lord sounds of wailing were heard within the inner apartments of the palace. The citizens also, hearing of the end of the old king, bewailed aloud. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-041 अहो धिगिति राजा तु विक्रुश्य भृशदुःखितः |
MN DUTT: 09-297-036 अहो धिगिति राजा तु विक्रुश्य भृशदुःखितः |
M. N. Dutt: 'O Fie', cried king Yudhishthira in great agony, raising his arms a loft. Thinking of his mother, he wept like a child. All is brothers too, headed by Bhimasena, old the same. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-042 अन्तःपुरेषु च तदा सुमहान्रुदितस्वनः |
MN DUTT: 09-297-037 अन्तःपुरेषु च तदा सुमहान् रुदितस्वनः |
M. N. Dutt: Hearing that Pritha had met with such a face, the royal ladies bewailed aloud in grief. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-043 तं च वृद्धं तथा दग्धं हतपुत्रं नराधिपम् |
MN DUTT: 09-297-038 तं च वृद्धं तथा दग्धं हतपुत्रं नराधिपम् |
M. N. Dutt: All the people grieved upon hearing that the old king, who had become childless, had been burnt to death and that the helpless Gandhari too had shared his fate. |
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BORI CE: 15-045-044 तस्मिन्नुपरते शब्दे मुहूर्तादिव भारत |
MN DUTT: 09-297-039 तस्मिन्नुपरते शब्दे मुहूर्तादिव भारत |
M. N. Dutt: When those sounds of wailing ceased for a while, king Yudhishthira the just, shopping his tears by summoning all his patience, said these words. |
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