Mahābhārata · Adhyāya 12.149
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12.149.1
अबुद्धिपूर्वं यत्पापं कुर्याद्भरतसत्तम ।
मुच्यते स कथं तस्मादेनसस्तद्ब्रवीहि मे ॥ १२.१४९.१ ॥
Best of the Bharatas, how is one freed from a sin committed without knowing it? Tell me that.
12.149.2
अत्र ते वर्तयिष्यामि पुराणमृषिसंस्तुतम् ।
इन्द्रोतः शौनको विप्रो यदाह जनमेजयम् ॥ १२.१४९.२ ॥
On this matter I will tell you an ancient tale praised by the sages, which the brahmin Indrota Śaunaka told to Janamejaya.
12.149.3
आसीद्राजा महावीर्यः पारिक्षिज्जनमेजयः ।
अबुद्धिजा ब्रह्महत्या तमागच्छन्महीपतिम् ॥ १२.१४९.३ ॥
There was a king of great valour, Janamejaya, son of Parikṣit; the brahmin-killing born of ignorance came upon that lord of the earth.
12.149.4
ब्राह्मणाः सर्व एवैनं तत्यजुः सपुरोहिताः ।
स जगाम वनं राजा दह्यमानो दिवानिशम् ॥ १२.१४९.४ ॥
All the brahmins, together with his household priests, abandoned him; and that king, burning day and night, went off to the forest.
12.149.5
प्रजाभिः स परित्यक्तश्चकार कुशलं महत् ।
अतिवेलं तपस्तेपे दह्यमानः स मन्युना ॥ १२.१४९.५ ॥
Abandoned by his subjects, he nevertheless performed great acts of welfare; burning with grief and remorse, he undertook austerities beyond all measure.
12.149.6
ब्रह्महत्यापनोदार्थमपृच्छद्ब्राह्मणान्बहून् ।
पर्यटन्पृथिवीं कृत्स्नां देशेदेशे नराधिपः ॥ १२.१४९.६ ॥
To remove the brahmin-killing, the king wandered the whole earth, country after country, questioning many brahmins.
12.149.7
तत्रेतिहासं वक्ष्यामि धर्मस्यास्योपवृंहणम् ।
दह्यमानः पापकृत्या जगाम जनमेजयः ॥ १२.१४९.७ ॥
There I will tell an ancient story that elaborates this dharma. Janamejaya, burning from the deed of sin, went.
12.149.8
चरिष्यमाण इन्द्रोतं शौनकं संशितव्रतम् ।
समासाद्योपजग्राह पादयोः परिपीडयन् ॥ १२.१४९.८ ॥
Wandering about, he reached Śaunaka, the sage of rigorous vows, and seized his feet, pressing them hard.
12.149.9
ततो भीतो महाप्राज्ञो जगर्हे सुभृशं तदा ।
कर्ता पापस्य महतो भ्रूणहा किमिहागतः ॥ १२.१४९.९ ॥
Then the greatly wise one, frightened, reproached him most severely: "Doer of a great sin, slayer of an embryo, why have you come here?"
12.149.10
किं तवास्मासु कर्तव्यं मा मां द्राक्षीः कथंचन ।
गच्छगच्छ न ते स्थानं प्रीणात्यस्मानिति ब्रुवन् ॥ १२.१४९.१० ॥
"What is there for you to do with us? Do not look at me in any way! Go, go — this is not your place; it does not please us," he said.
12.149.11
रुधिरस्येव ते गन्धः शवस्येव च दर्शनम् ।
अशिवः शिवसंकाशो मृतो जीवन्निवाटसि ॥ १२.१४९.११ ॥
Your smell is like blood, and your sight like a corpse. Though inauspicious, you look like the auspicious one; though dead, you wander as if alive.
12.149.12
अन्तर्भृत्युरशुद्धात्मा पापमेवानुचिन्तयन् ।
प्रबुध्यसे प्रस्वपिपि वर्तसे परमे सुखे ॥ १२.१४९.१२ ॥
Death within you, impure of soul, brooding only on sin, you wake, you sleep, and you dwell in supreme happiness.
12.149.13
मोघं ते जीवितं राजन्परिक्लिष्टं च जीवसि ।
पापायैव हि सृष्टोऽसि कर्मणेह यवीयसे ॥ १२.१४९.१३ ॥
O king, your life is in vain, and you live in wretchedness; here, by your deeds, you were created only for sin, O younger one.
12.149.14
बहुकल्याणमिच्छन्त ईहन्ते पितरः सुतान् ।
तपसा दैवतेज्याभिर्वन्दनेन तितिक्षया ॥ १२.१४९.१४ ॥
Desiring great welfare, the fathers strive for their sons by austerity, by worship of the gods, by reverence, and by forbearance.
12.149.15
पितृवंशमिमं पश्य त्वत्कृते निधनं गतम् ।
निरर्थाः सर्व एवैषामाशाबन्धास्त्वदाश्रयाः ॥ १२.१४९.१५ ॥
Behold this lineage of the fathers, brought to destruction because of you; all their bonds of hope, resting on you, have become fruitless.
12.149.16
यान्पूजयन्तो विन्दन्ति स्वर्गमायुर्यशः प्रजाः ।
तेषु ते संततं द्वेषो ब्राह्मणेषु निरर्थकः ॥ १२.१४९.१६ ॥
Those whom people honour and thereby obtain heaven, long life, fame and offspring—toward those brahmins your constant hatred is pointless.
12.149.17
इमं लोकं विमुच्य त्वमवाङ्भूर्धा पतिष्यसि ।
अशाश्वतीः शाश्वतीश्च समाः पापेन कर्मणा ॥ १२.१४९.१७ ॥
Having left this world, you will fall head-downward, for many years, both impermanent and enduring, through sinful deeds.
12.149.18
स्वाद्यमानो जन्तुशतैस्तीक्ष्णदंष्ट्रैरयोमुखैः ।
ततश्च पुनरावृत्तः पापयोनिं गमिष्यसि ॥ १२.१४९.१८ ॥
Devoured by hundreds of creatures with sharp fangs and iron mouths, and then turned back again, you will go to a sinful womb.
12.149.19
यदिदं मन्यसे राजन्नायमस्ति कुतः परः ।
प्रतिस्मारयितारस्त्वां यमदूता यमक्षये ॥ १२.१४९.१९ ॥
O king, if you think that this world is all there is, and that there is no other beyond it, the messengers of Yama will make you remember (your deeds) in Yama's abode.