Mahābhārata · Adhyāya 1.259
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1.259.1
मन्दपालोऽञपि कौरव्यं चिन्तयामास पुत्रकान् ।
उक्त्वाऽपि च स तिग्मांशुं नैव शर्माधिगच्छति ॥ १.२५९.१ ॥
Mandapāla too brooded over the Kaurava and his sons; even after speaking to the sun, he found no peace.
1.259.2
स तप्यमानः पुत्रार्थे लपितामिदमब्रवीत् ।
कथं नु शक्ताः शरणे लपिते मम पुत्रकाः ॥ १.२५९.२ ॥
Tormented for his sons, lamenting, he spoke these words: "How will my little sons, in the refuge, be able to act?"
1.259.3
वर्धमाने हुतवहे वाते चाशु प्रवायति ।
असमर्था विमोक्षाय भविष्यन्ति ममात्मजाः ॥ १.२५९.३ ॥
As the fire grows and the wind blows swiftly, my sons will be unable to escape.
1.259.4
कथं त्वशक्ता त्राणाय माता तेषां तपस्विनी ।
भविष्यति हि शोकार्ता पुत्रत्राणमपश्यती ॥ १.२५९.४ ॥
How could their austere mother be unable to save them? Grief-stricken, seeing no protection for her sons, she will suffer.
1.259.5
कथमुड्डीयनेऽशक्तान्पतने च ममात्मजान् ।
सन्तप्यमाना बहुधा वाशमाना प्रधावती ॥ १.२५९.५ ॥
Tormented in many ways for my sons, unable to fly up and fallen, she will run about crying out.
1.259.6
जरितारिः कथं पुत्रः सारिसृक्कः कथं च मे ।
स्तम्बमित्रः कथं द्रोणः कथं सा च तपस्विनी ॥ १.२५९.६ ॥
How is Jaritāri's son, how is my Sārisṛkka, how is Stambamitra, how is Droṇa, and how is that austere woman?
1.259.7
लालप्यमानं तमृषइं मन्दपालं तथा वने ।
लपिता प्रत्युवाचेदं सासूयमिव भारत ॥ १.२५९.७ ॥
O Bhārata, to the sage Mandapāla lamenting in the forest, his wife replied as if with resentment.
1.259.8
न ते पुत्रेष्ववेक्षाऽस्ति यानृषीनुक्तवानसि ।
तेजस्विनो वीर्यवन्तो न तेषां ज्वलनाद्भयम् ॥ १.२५९.८ ॥
You have no concern for your sons, for the sages you spoke of. They are radiant and mighty; they have no fear of fire.
1.259.9
त्वयाऽग्नौ ते परीताश्च स्वयं हि मम सन्निधौ ।
श्रुतं तथा चेति ज्वलनेन महात्मना ॥ १.२५९.९ ॥
You, your sons surrounded by fire, and yourself in my presence — I have heard that the great-souled Fire also heard this.
1.259.10
पलो न तां वाचमुक्त्वा मिथ्या करिष्यति ।
न्धुकृत्ये न तेन ते स्वस्थ मानसम् ॥ १.२५९.१० ॥
The sage, having spoken those words, will not make them false. In the duty of a kinsman, your mind will not be at ease through him.
1.259.11
तामेव तु ममामित्रां चिन्तयन्परितप्यसे ।
ध्रुवं मयि न ते स्नेहो यथा तपयं पुराऽभवत् ॥ १.२५९.११ ॥
You are tormented, thinking of that very rival of mine. Surely your affection toward me is not as it was before.
1.259.12
नहि पक्षवता न्याय्यं निः हेन सुहृज्जने ।
पीड्यमान उपद्रष्टुं शक्तेना मा कथंचन ॥ १.२५९.१२ ॥
Surely it is not just for one who is partial to act unjustly without cause toward a friend. Though afflicted, I am in no way able to look upon him.
1.259.13
गच्छ त्वं जरितामेव यदर्थं परितप्यसे ।
चरिष्याम्यहमप्येका यथा पुरुषाश्रिता ॥ १.२५९.१३ ॥
Go, for the sake of which you grieve. I too shall wander alone, like a woman dependent on a man.
1.259.14
नाहमेवं चरे लोके यथा त्वमभिमन्यसे ।
अपत्यहेतोर्विचरे तच्च कृच्छ्रगतं मम ॥ १.२५९.१४ ॥
I do not wander in the world in the way you suppose. I wander for the sake of offspring, and that has become a distress to me.
1.259.15
भूतं हित्वा च भाव्यर्थे योऽवलम्बेत्स मन्दधीः ।
अवमन्येत तं लोको यथेच्छसि तथा कुरु ॥ १.२५९.१५ ॥
He who, abandoning the past, relies on a future purpose is dull-witted; the world will despise him. Do as you wish.
1.259.16
एष हि प्रज्वलन्नग्निर्लेलिहानी महीरुहान् ।
आविग्ने हृदि सन्तापं जनयत्यशिवं मम ॥ १.२५९.१६ ॥
This blazing fire, licking the trees, produces in my agitated heart an inauspicious torment.
1.259.17
भर्तुर्हि वाक्यं सा श्रुत्वा लपिता दुःखिताऽभवत् ।
सान्त्वयामास च पुनः पति पतिपरायणा ॥ १.२५९.१७ ॥
Hearing her husband's words, she lamented and became grieved; and she, devoted to her husband, again tried to console him.
1.259.18
तस्माद्देशादतिक्रान्ते ज्वलने जरिता पुनः ।
जगाम पुत्रकानेन जरिता पुत्रगृद्धिनी ॥ १.२५९.१८ ॥
When the fire had passed beyond that place, Jaritā again went off with her young ones, Jaritā, eager for her sons.
1.259.19
सा तान्कुशलिनः सर्वान्विमुक्ताञ्जातवेदसः ।
रोरूयमाणान्ददृशे वने पुत्रान्निरामयान् ॥ १.२५९.१९ ॥
In the forest she saw them all safe, freed from the fire, weeping, sons without sickness.
1.259.20
अश्रूणि मुमुचे तेषां दर्शनात्सा पुनःपुनः ।
न श्रद्धेयं ततस्तेषांर्शनं वै पुनःपुनः ॥ १.२५९.२० ॥
Seeing them, she shed tears again and again. Then that sight of them was not to be trusted again and again.
1.259.21
इति मत्वाऽब्रवीद्वाकजरिता पुत्रगृद्धिनी ।
एकाकशश्च पुत्रांस्तन्त्र्शमानान्वपद्यत ॥ १.२५९.२१ ॥
Thinking thus, Jaritā, eager for her sons, spoke; and one by one she embraced the sons who were longing for her.
1.259.22
जरिता तु परिष्वज्युत्रस्नेहाच्चुचुम्ब ह ॥ १.२५९.२२ ॥
Jaritā, out of love for her sons, embraced them and kissed them.
1.259.23
ततोऽभ्यगच्छत्सहसमन्दपालोऽपि भारत ।
अथ ते सर्व एवैनं भ्यनन्दंस्तदा सुताः ॥ १.२५९.२३ ॥
Then, O Bhārata, Mandapāla too came up with them; and all the sons welcomed him then.
1.259.24
गुरुत्वान्मन्दपालस्तपसश्च विशेषतः ।
अभिवादामहे सर्वे तपक्षाः प्रसादतः ॥ १.२५९.२४ ॥
Because of his seniority, and above all because of his austerity, we all, who are ascetics, salute Mandapāla by his grace.
1.259.25
एवमुक्तवतां तेषां तनन्द्य महातपाः ।
परिष्वज्य ततो मू उपाघ्राय च बलकान्।
पुत्रान्स्वयं समाहूयतः प्रोवाच गौतमः ॥ १.२५९.२५ ॥
When they had spoken thus, the great ascetic Gautama, rejoicing, embraced them, kissed their heads and the children, and then, calling his sons himself, spoke.
1.259.26
लालप्यमानमेकैकंरितां च पुनःपुनः ।
न चैवोचुस्तदा किंतमृषिं साध्वसाधु वा ॥ १.२५९.२६ ॥
Though he called out to each of them again and again, lamenting, they said nothing then, neither good nor ill, of that sage.
1.259.27
ज्येष्ठः सुतस्ते कत कतमस्तस्य चानुजः ।
मध्यमः कतमश्चैव यान्कतमश्च ते ॥ १.२५९.२७ ॥
Which is your eldest son? Which is his younger brother? Which is the middle one? And which of them is which, and who are they?
1.259.28
एवं ब्रुवन्तं दुःखाकं मा न प्रतिभाषसे ।
कृतवानस्मि हव्यानैव शान्तिमितो लभे।
एवमुक्त्वा तु तां मन्दपालस्तदाऽस्पृशत् ॥ १.२५९.२८ ॥
Why do you not answer me, speaking thus in sorrow? I have made the oblations; from here alone I obtain peace. Having said this, Mandapāla then touched her.
1.259.29
किं नु ज्येष्ठेन ते किमनन्तरजेन ते ।
किं वा मध्यमजातेन किं कनिष्ठेन वा पुनः ॥ १.२५९.२९ ॥
What have you to do with the eldest, or with the next-born? What with the middle-born, or again with the youngest?
1.259.30
यां त्वं मां सर्वतो हीनामुत्सृज्यासि गतः पुरा ।
तामेव लपितां गच्छ तरुणीं चारुहासिनीम् ॥ १.२५९.३० ॥
Whom you formerly abandoned and went away, wholly forsaken, go to her—that lamenting one—go to the young, sweet-smiling woman.
1.259.31
न स्त्रीणां विद्यते किंचिदमुत्र पुरुषान्तरात् ।
सापत्नकमृते लोके नान्यदर्थविनाशनम् ॥ १.२५९.३१ ॥
For women there is nothing in the next world apart from a husband; in the world nothing but rivalry with co-wives ruins one's purpose.
1.259.32
वैराग्निदीपनं चैव भृशुद्वेगकारि च ।
सुव्रता चापि कल्याणी सर्वभूतेषु विश्रुता ॥ १.२५९.३२ ॥
She kindles the fire of enmity and causes great agitation; yet she is of good vows, auspicious, and renowned among all beings.
1.259.33
अरुन्धती महात्मानं वसिष्ठं पर्यशङ्कत ।
विशुद्धभावमत्यन्तं सदा प्रियहिते रतम् ॥ १.२५९.३३ ॥
Arundhatī suspected the great-souled Vasiṣṭha, though he was of utterly pure nature and always devoted to what is dear and beneficial.
1.259.34
सप्तर्षिमध्यगं वीरमवमेने च तं मुनिम् ।
अपध्यानेन सा तेन धूमारुणसमप्रभा।
लक्ष्याऽलक्ष्या नाभिरूपा निमित्तमिव पश्यति ॥ १.२५९.३४ ॥
She scorned that heroic sage standing among the seven sages; through a malevolent thought about him she became one of smoke-reddened lustre, visible and invisible, of uncommon form, as if she were looking at an omen.
1.259.35
अपत्यहेतोः संप्राप्तं तथा त्वमपि मामिह ।
इष्टमेवं गते हि त्वं सा तथैवाद्य वर्तते ॥ १.२५९.३५ ॥
Just as you too obtained me here for the sake of offspring, and so your wish was fulfilled, so she too remains the same today.
1.259.36
न हि भार्येति विश्वासः कार्यः पुंसा कथंचन ।
न हि कार्यमनुध्याति नारी पुत्रवती सती ॥ १.२५९.३६ ॥
A man should never place trust in the thought 'she is my wife'; for a virtuous woman who has a son does not reflect on her duty.
1.259.37
ततस्ते सर्व एवैनं पुत्राः सम्यगुपासते ।
स च तानात्मजान्सर्वानाश्वासयितुमुद्यतः ॥ १.२५९.३७ ॥
Then all his sons attended upon him well, and he too was ready to comfort all those sons of his own.