Mahābhārata · Adhyāya 13.57
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13.57.1
श्रुता भार्याश्च पुत्राश्च विस्तरेण महामुने ।
आश्रमस्थाः कथं नार्यो न दुष्यन्तीति ब्रूहि भो ॥ १३.५७.१ ॥
Great sage, I have heard in detail about wives and sons. Tell me how the women who dwell in the hermitage do not become defiled.
13.57.2
आश्रमस्थासु नारीषु बान्धवत्वं प्रणश्यति ।
नष्टवंश्या भवन्त्येता बन्धूनामथ भर्तृणाम् ॥ १३.५७.२ ॥
Among women who dwell in the hermitage, kinship is destroyed. These women lose the lineage of their kinsmen and husbands.
13.57.3
परदारा मुक्तदोषास्ता नार्योऽऽश्रमसंस्थिताः ।
स्वयमीशाः स्वदेहानां काम्यास्तद्गतमानसाः ॥ १३.५७.३ ॥
Those women dwelling in the hermitage, though others' wives, are free from fault. They are themselves masters of their own bodies, desirable, with their minds set on that.
13.57.4
एवं नार्यो न दुष्यन्ति नराणां तत्प्रसूतिषु ।
धर्मपत्न्यो भवन्त्येताः सपुत्रा हव्यकव्यदाः ॥ १३.५७.४ ॥
Thus women are not defiled in matters of their offspring with men. These lawful wives, with sons, become givers of oblations and offerings to the ancestors.
13.57.5
परस्य भार्या या पूर्वं मृते भर्तरि या पुनः ।
अन्यं भजति भर्तारं ससुता असुता कथम् ॥ १३.५७.५ ॥
How is she — who was formerly another's wife, and who, when her husband dies, again takes another husband — pure, whether with children or without children?
13.57.6
असुता वा प्रसूता वा गृहस्थानां परस्त्रियः ।
परामृष्टेति ता वर्ज्या धर्माचारेषु दूषिताः ॥ १३.५७.६ ॥
Whether childless or having borne children, the other men's wives of householders who have been touched by another are to be shunned; they are defiled in matters of righteous conduct.
13.57.7
न चासां हव्यकव्यानि प्रतिगृह्णन्ति देवताः ।
यस्तासु जनयेत्पुत्रान्न तैः पुत्रमवाप्नुयात् ॥ १३.५७.७ ॥
The gods do not accept oblations and offerings from these women. A man who begets sons through them does not obtain a son through those sons.
13.57.8
परक्षेत्रेषु यो बीजं चापलाद्विसृजेन्नरः ।
कथं पुत्रफलं तस्य भवेत्तदृषिसत्तम ॥ १३.५७.८ ॥
How could the fruit of a son come to a man who, out of fickleness, casts his seed into another's field, O best of sages?
13.57.9
अस्वामिके परक्षेत्रे यो नरो बीजमुत्सृजेत् ।
स्वयंवृतोऽऽश्रमस्थायां तद्बीजं न विनश्यति ॥ १३.५७.९ ॥
The man who casts seed into an ownerless field of another, or into a self-chosen woman dwelling in the hermitage, his seed is not lost.
13.57.10
परक्षेत्रेषु यो बीजं नरो दर्पात्समुत्सृजेत् ।
क्षेत्रिकस्यैव तद्बीजं न बीजी लभते फलम् ॥ १३.५७.१० ॥
The man who out of pride casts seed into the fields of others: that seed belongs to the owner of the field; the sower does not obtain the fruit.
13.57.11
नातः परमधर्म्यं चाप्ययशस्यं तथोत्तरम् ।
गर्भादीनां च बहुभिस्ताश्च त्याज्याः समेष्वपि ॥ १३.५७.११ ॥
There is no greater unrighteousness or disgrace than this, and likewise what follows. In matters of pregnancy and the like, by many they are to be abandoned, even in equal cases.
13.57.12
अथ ये परदारेषु पुत्रा जायन्ति नारद ।
कस्य ते बन्धुदायादा भवन्ति परमद्युते ॥ १३.५७.१२ ॥
Now, O Nārada, the sons born of other men's wives: whose kinsmen and heirs do they become, O most radiant one?
13.57.13
परदारेषु जायेते द्वौ पुत्रौ कुण्डगोलकौ ।
जीवत्यथ पतौ कुण्डो मृते भर्तरि गोलकः ॥ १३.५७.१३ ॥
Of the wives of others two sons are born, the kuṇḍa and the golaka. The son born while the husband is alive is the kuṇḍa; the son born when the husband is dead is the golaka.
13.57.14
ते च जाताः परक्षेत्रे देहिनां प्रेत्य चेह च ।
दत्तानि हव्यकव्यानि नाशयन्त्यथ दातृणाम् ॥ १३.५७.१४ ॥
Those born in another's field destroy, both here and after death, the oblations of havya and kavya given by the donors to embodied beings.
13.57.15
पितुहि नरकायैते गोलकस्तु विशेषतः ।
चण्डालतुल्यौ तज्जौ हि परत्रेह च नश्यतः ॥ १३.५७.१५ ॥
These two are indeed for the father's hell, and the golaka especially so. Born like outcastes, both of them perish in the next world and in this one.
13.57.16
कस्य ते गर्हिताः पुत्राः पितॄणां हव्यकव्यदाः ।
यस्य क्षेत्रे प्रसूयन्ते यो वा ताञ्जनयेत्सुतान् ॥ १३.५७.१६ ॥
Whose are those reproached sons, who are to be the givers of havya and kavya to the ancestors? Is it the one in whose field they are born, or the one who begets those sons?
13.57.17
क्षेत्रिकश्चैव बीजी च द्वावेतौ निरयं गतौ ।
न रक्षति च यो दारान्परदाराश्च गच्छति ॥ १३.५७.१७ ॥
The owner of the field and the sower of the seed — these two have gone to hell. And he who does not guard his wives and goes to the wives of others (also goes to hell).
13.57.18
गर्हितास्ते नरा नित्यं धर्माचारबहिष्कृताः ।
कुण्डो भोक्ता च भोगी च कुत्सिताः पितृदैवतैः ॥ १३.५७.१८ ॥
Those men are always reproached and cast out from the conduct of dharma. The kuṇḍa is an eater and an enjoyer; despised by the ancestors and the gods.
13.57.19
तथैते गर्हिताः पुत्रा हव्यकव्यानि नारद ।
कस्य नित्यं प्रयच्छन्ति धर्मो वा तेषु किं फलं ॥ १३.५७.१९ ॥
Likewise, these reproached sons, O Nārada, to whom do they constantly offer havya and kavya? Or what is the fruit of dharma in them?
13.57.20
यातुधानाः पिशाचाश्च प्रतिगृह्णन्ति तैर्हुतम् ।
हव्यं कव्यं च तैर्दत्तं ये च भूता निशाचराः ॥ १३.५७.२० ॥
Yātudhānas and piśācas accept the oblation offered by them; and the night-wandering spirits accept the havya and kavya given by them.
13.57.21
अथ ते राक्षसाः प्रीताः किं प्रयच्छन्ति दातृणाम् ।
किं वा धर्मफलं तेषां भवेत्तदृषिसत्तम ॥ १३.५७.२१ ॥
Then, pleased, what do those rākṣasas give to the givers? Or what would be the fruit of dharma for them, O best of sages?
13.57.22
न दत्तं नश्यते किञ्चित्सर्वभूतेषु दातृणाम् ।
प्रेत्य चेह च तां पुष्टिमुपाश्नन्ति प्रदायिनः ॥ १३.५७.२२ ॥
Nothing given by givers to all beings is lost; after death and here too, the givers enjoy that nourishment.
13.57.23
अथ गोलककुण्डाभ्यां सन्ततिर्या भविष्यति ।
तयोर्ये बान्धवाः केचित्प्रदास्यन्ति कथं नु तं ॥ १३.५७.२३ ॥
Now, the offspring that will be born of the gola and the kuṇḍa — how will some of their kinsmen give to them?
13.57.24
साध्वीजाताः सुतास्तेषां तां वृत्तिमनुतिष्ठताम् ।
प्रीणन्ति पितृदैवत्यं हव्यकव्यसमाहिताः ॥ १३.५७.२४ ॥
Their sons, born of virtuous women and following that conduct, intent on havya and kavya, please the ancestors and the gods.
13.57.25
एवं गोलककुण्डाभ्यां ये च वर्णापदेशिनः ।
हव्यं कव्यं च शुद्धानां प्रतिगृह्णन्ति देवताः ॥ १३.५७.२५ ॥
Thus, those born of golaka and kuṇḍa who claim a varṇa — the gods accept the havya and kavya of the pure alone.