Mahābhārata · Adhyāya 12.47
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12.47.1
ततः स च हृषीकेशः स च राजा युधिष्ठिरः ।
कृपादयश्च ते सर्वे चत्वारः पाण्डवाश्च ते ॥ १२.४७.१ ॥
Then he, Hṛṣīkeśa, King Yudhiṣṭhira, Kṛpa and all the others, and those four Pāṇḍavas —
12.47.2
रथैस्तैर्नगरप्रख्यैः पताकाध्वजशोभितैः ।
ययुराशु कुरुक्षेत्रं वाजिभिः शीघ्रगामिभिः ॥ १२.४७.२ ॥
In those chariots like cities, adorned with banners and pennants, with swift-going horses, they quickly went to Kurukṣetra.
12.47.3
तेऽवतीर्य कुरुक्षेत्रे केशमढज्जास्थिसंकुले ।
देहन्यासः कृंतो यत्र क्षत्रियैस्तैर्महारथैः ॥ १२.४७.३ ॥
They descended at Kurukṣetra, strewn with hair, marrow and bones, where those great chariot-warriors, the kṣatriyas, had laid down bodies.
12.47.4
गजाश्वदेहास्थिचयैः पर्वतैरिव संचितम् ।
नरशीर्षकपालैश्च हंसैरिव च सर्वशः ॥ १२.४७.४ ॥
Heaped with piles of elephant and horse bodies and bones, like mountains, and everywhere strewn with human heads and skulls like swans.
12.47.5
चितासहस्रैर्निचितं वर्मशस्त्रसमाकुलम् ।
आपानभूमिं कालस्य तदा भुक्तोज्झितामिव ॥ १२.४७.५ ॥
Covered with thousands of funeral pyres, crowded with armour and weapons, then it was like a drinking-ground of Time, eaten and cast away.
12.47.6
भूतसङ्घानुचरितं रक्षोगणनिषेवितम् ।
पश्यन्तस्ते कुरुक्षेत्रं ययुराशु महारथाः ॥ १२.४७.६ ॥
Looking at Kurukṣetra, frequented by hosts of spirits and resorted to by troops of demons, those great chariot-warriors went swiftly on.
12.47.7
गच्छन्नेव महाबाहुः सर्वं यादवनन्दनः ।
युधिष्ठिराय प्रोवाच जामदग्न्यस्य विक्रमम् ॥ १२.४७.७ ॥
Even as he walked, the mighty-armed delight of the Yādavas told Yudhiṣṭhira the full prowess of Jāmadagnya (Paraśurāma).
12.47.8
अमी रामह्रदाः पञ्च दृश्यन्ते पार्थ दूरतः ।
येषु संतर्पयामास पितॄन्क्षत्रियशोणितैः ॥ १२.४७.८ ॥
Arjuna, these five lakes of Rāma can be seen from afar; in them he satisfied the ancestors with the blood of kṣatriyas.
12.47.9
त्रिःसप्तकृत्वो वसुधां कृत्वा निःक्षत्रियां प्रभुः ।
इहेदानीं ततो रामः कर्मणो विरराम ह ॥ १२.४७.९ ॥
Having made the earth free of kṣatriyas twenty-one times, the lord Rāma then ceased from that deed right here.
12.47.10
त्रिःसप्तकृत्वः पृथिवी कृता निःक्षत्रिया पुरा ।
रामेणेति यदात्थ त्वमत्र मे संशयो महान् ॥ १२.४७.१० ॥
What you have said here, that the earth was made free of kṣatriyas twenty-one times long ago by Rāma, leaves me with a great doubt.
12.47.11
क्षत्रबीजं यथा दग्धं रामेण यदुपुङ्गव ।
कथं भूयः समुत्यत्तिः क्षत्रस्यामितविक्रम ॥ १२.४७.११ ॥
O best of the Yadus, if the seed of the kṣatriya was burned by Rāma, how then did the kṣatriyas arise again, O you of boundless prowess?
12.47.12
महात्मना भगवता रामेण यदुपुङ्गव ।
कथमुत्सादित्तं क्षत्रं कथमृद्धिगतं पुनः ॥ १२.४७.१२ ॥
O best of the Yadus, how was the kṣatriya class uprooted by the great-souled blessed lord Rāma, and how did it again prosper?
12.47.13
महता रथयुद्धेन कोटिशः क्षत्रिया हताः ।
तथाऽभूच्च मही कीर्णा क्षत्रियैर्वदतां वर ॥ १२.४७.१३ ॥
In the great chariot-battle tens of millions of kṣatriyas were slain, and thus the earth was strewn with kṣatriyas, O best of speakers.
12.47.14
किमर्थं भार्गवेणेदं क्षत्रमुत्सादितं पुरा ।
रामेण यदुशार्दूल कुरुक्षेत्रे महात्मना ॥ १२.४७.१४ ॥
For what reason, O tiger of the Yadus, did the great-souled Bhārgava Rāma exterminate the kṣatriya order in the past at Kurukṣetra?
12.47.15
एतन्मे छिन्धि वार्ष्णेय संशयं तार्क्ष्यकेतन ।
आगमो हि परः कृष्ण त्वत्तो नो वासवानुज ॥ १२.४७.१५ ॥
Cut through this doubt of mine, O descendant of Vṛṣṇi, O Kṛṣṇa whose banner is Garuḍa; for for us there is no higher authority than you, O younger brother of Vāsava.
12.47.16
ततो व्रजन्नेव गदाग्रजः प्रभुः ।
शशंस तस्मै निखिलेन तत्त्वतः।
युधिष्ठिरायाप्रतिमौजसे तदा ।
यथाऽभवत्क्षत्रियसंकुला मही ॥ १२.४७.१६ ॥
Then the lord, the elder brother of Gada, even as he was going, related to Yudhiṣṭhira of incomparable might the whole matter exactly as it was, how the earth had become full of kṣatriyas.