Mahābhārata · Adhyāya 14.95
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14.95.1
कोसौ नकुलरूपेण शिरसा काञ्चनेन वै ।
प्राह मानुषवद्वाचमेतत्पृष्टो वदस्व मे ॥ १४.९५.१ ॥
Who was that one, in the form of a mongoose, with a golden head, who spoke human speech? Asked as I am, tell me.
14.95.2
एतत्पूर्वं न पृष्टोऽहं न चास्माभिः प्रभाषितम् ।
श्रूयतां नकुलो योसौ यथा वाक्तस्य मानुषी ॥ १४.९५.२ ॥
No one had asked me this before, nor had we spoken of it. Hear, then, how that mongoose came to have human speech.
14.95.3
श्राद्धं संकल्पयामास जमदग्निः पुरा किल ।
होमधेनुस्तमागाच्च स्वयमेव दुदोह ताम् ॥ १४.९५.३ ॥
Long ago Jamadagni resolved to perform a śrāddha. The sacrificial cow Homadhenu came to him and of her own accord gave her milk.
14.95.4
तत्पयः स्थपयामास नवे भाण्डे दृढे शुचौ ।
क्रोधो नकुलरूपेण पिठरं पर्यकर्षयत् ॥ १४.९५.४ ॥
He set that milk in a new, firm, clean vessel. Then Anger, in the form of a mongoose, dragged the jar about.
14.95.5
जिज्ञासुस्तमृषिश्रेष्टं किं कुर्याद्विप्रिये कृते ।
इति सञ्चिन्त्य दुर्मेधा धर्षयामास तत्पयः ॥ १४.९५.५ ॥
Wishing to learn what the best of sages would do if displeased, the foolish one pondered this and defiled the milk.
14.95.6
तमाज्ञाय मुनिः क्रोधं नैवास्य स चुकोप ह ।
स तु क्रोधस्ततो राजन्ब्राह्मणीं मूर्तिमास्थितः ॥ १४.९५.६ ॥
Knowing this, the sage was not angry with him; yet, O king, that Anger then took on the form of a brahmin woman.
14.95.7
जितोस्मीति भृगुश्रेष्ठ भृगवो ह्यतिरोषणाः ।
लोके मिथ्याप्रवादोयं यत्त्वयाऽस्मि विनिर्जितः ॥ १४.९५.७ ॥
"I am defeated," he said, "O best of the Bhṛgus. The Bhṛgus are indeed very quick to anger. In the world this is a false saying, that I have been defeated by you."
14.95.8
वशे स्थितोऽहं त्वय्यह्य क्षमावति महात्मनि ।
बिभेमि तपसः साधो प्रसादं कुरु मे प्रभो ॥ १४.९५.८ ॥
"I am in your power, O forbearing great-souled one. I fear your asceticism. O virtuous one, O lord, show me your favor."
14.95.9
साक्षाद्दृष्टोसि मे क्रध गच्छ त्वं विगतज्वरः ।
न त्वयापकृतं मेऽद्य न च मे मन्युरस्ति वै ॥ १४.९५.९ ॥
"I have seen you face to face, O angry one. Go now, free from your fever. Today you have done me no wrong, and indeed there is no resentment in me."
14.95.10
यान्समुद्दिश्य संकल्पः पयसोस्य कृतो मया ।
पितरस्ते महाभागास्तेभ्यो बुद्ध्यस्व गम्यताम् ॥ १४.९५.१० ॥
"Those ancestors for whom I made this resolve over the water offering are your greatly blessed forefathers. Recognize them, and now go."
14.95.11
इत्युक्तो जातसंत्रासस्तत्रैवान्तरधीयत ।
पितॄणामभिषङ्गाच्च नकुलत्वमुपागतः ॥ १४.९५.११ ॥
Thus addressed, seized with terror, he vanished right there, and through contact with the ancestors he attained the state of a mongoose.
14.95.12
स तान्प्रसादयामास शापस्यान्तो भवेदिति ।
तैश्चाप्युक्तः क्षिपन्धर्मं सापस्यान्तमवाप्स्यति ॥ १४.९५.१२ ॥
He propitiated those ancestors that the curse might have an end. And they too told him, "Because you revile dharma, you will obtain the end of your progeny."
14.95.13
तैश्चोक्तो यज्ञियान्देशान्धर्मारण्यं तथैव च ।
जुगुप्समानो धावन्स तं यज्ञं समुपासदत् ॥ १४.९५.१३ ॥
When they told him to go to the regions fit for sacrifice and to the Dharma-forest as well, he, shrinking in disgust, ran and came to that sacrifice.
14.95.14
धर्मपुत्रमथाक्षिप्य सक्तुप्रस्थेन तेन सः ।
मुक्तः सापात्ततः क्रोधो धर्मो ह्यासीद्युधिष्ठिरः ॥ १४.९५.१४ ॥
Then, having reproached the son of Dharma, he was freed from the curse by that prastha of barley-meal; and that anger was in truth Dharma, Yudhiṣṭhira.
14.95.15
एवमेतत्तदा वृत्तं यज्ञे तस्य महात्मनः ।
पश्यतां चापि नस्तत्र नकुलोऽन्तर्हितस्तदा। ॥ १४.९५.१५ ॥
Thus did this happen then at the sacrifice of that great-souled one; and while we were watching, Nakula vanished from there at that time.