Mahābhārata · Adhyāya 5.64
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5.64.1
शकुनीनामिहार्थाय पाशं भूमावयोजयत् ।
कश्चिच्छाकुनिकस्तात पूर्वेषामिति शुश्रुम् ॥ ५.६४.१ ॥
Here, to catch birds, he laid a snare upon the ground. Dear one, we have heard from the ancients that there was a certain fowler.
5.64.2
तस्मिंस्तौ शकुनौ बद्धौ युगपत्सहचारिणौ ।
तावुपादाय तं पाशं जग्मतुः खचरावुभौ ॥ ५.६४.२ ॥
In that snare those two birds were caught at once, companions who moved together. Taking up that very snare, both sky-wanderers flew away.
5.64.3
तौ विहायसमाक्रान्तौ दृष्ट्वा शाकुनिकस्तदा ।
अन्वधावदनिर्विण्णो येन येन स्म गच्छतः ॥ ५.६४.३ ॥
Seeing the two rise into the sky, the fowler, undaunted, ran after them wherever they went.
5.64.4
तथा तमनुधावन्तमृगयुं शकुनार्थिनम् ।
आश्रमस्थो मुनिः कश्चिद्ददर्शाथ कृताह्निकः ॥ ५.६४.४ ॥
Thus a certain sage, dwelling in a hermitage, who had completed his daily rites, saw the hunter running after him in pursuit of birds.
5.64.5
तावन्तरिक्षगौ शीघ्रमनुयान्तं महीचरम् ।
श्लोकेनानेन कौरव्य पप्च्छ स मुनिस्तदा ॥ ५.६४.५ ॥
O descendant of Kuru, to the hunter who walked the earth and swiftly pursued those two wanderers of the air, that sage then put a question in this verse.
5.64.6
विचित्रमिदमाश्चर्यं मृगहन्प्रतिभाति मे ।
प्लवमानौ हि खचरौ पदातिरनुधावसि ॥ ५.६४.६ ॥
O slayer of deer, this seems to me strange and wonderful: that you run on foot after the two of them, who leap through the sky.
5.64.7
पाशमेकमुभावेतौ सहितौ हरतो मम ।
यत्र वै विवदिष्येते तत्र मे वशमेष्यतः ॥ ५.६४.७ ॥
I will catch these two together in a single snare; wherever they quarrel, there they will come under my power.
5.64.8
तौ विवादमनुप्राप्तौ शकुनौ मृत्युसन्धितौ ।
विगृह्य च स्रुदुर्बुद्धी पृथिव्यां संनिपेततुः ॥ ५.६४.८ ॥
Those two birds, foolish of mind, fell into quarrel and bound to death, and locked in combat they tumbled to the ground.
5.64.9
तौ युध्यमानौ संरब्धौ मृत्युपाशवशानुगौ ।
उपसृत्य प्रमत्तौ तौ जग्राह मृगहा तदा ॥ ५.६४.९ ॥
Those two, fighting in rage and following the control of death's snare, heedless, were approached and seized then by the deer-slayer.
5.64.10
एवं ये ज्ञातयोऽर्थेषु मिथो गच्छन्ति विग्रहम् ।
ते मृत्युवशमायान्ति शकुनाविव विग्रहात् ॥ ५.६४.१० ॥
Thus, those kinsmen who fall into mutual conflict over wealth come under the power of death through that conflict, like these two birds.
5.64.11
संभोजनं संकथनं संप्रश्नोऽथ समागमः ।
एतानि ज्ञातिकार्याणि न विरोधः कदाचन ॥ ५.६४.११ ॥
Eating together, conversing together, mutual inquiry, and meeting—these are the duties of kinsmen; opposition, never.
5.64.12
ये स्म काले सुमनसः सर्वे वृद्धानुपासते ।
सिंहगुप्तमिवारण्यमप्रधृष्या भवन्ति ते ॥ ५.६४.१२ ॥
Those who, in due time and with cheerful minds, wait upon all the elders become unassailable, like a forest guarded by a lion.
5.64.13
येऽर्थं सन्ततमासाद्य दीना इव समासते ।
श्रियं ते संप्रयच्छन्ति द्विषद्भ्यो भरतर्षभ ॥ ५.६४.१३ ॥
Those who, having obtained wealth, sit continually like wretched men, hand over their prosperity to enemies, O bull of the Bharatas.
5.64.14
धूमायन्ते व्यपेतानि ज्वलन्ति सहितानि च ।
धृतराष्ट्रोल्मुकानीव ज्ञातयो भरतर्षभ ॥ ५.६४.१४ ॥
Kinsmen who have been cast off smolder like smoke, and those who remain together blaze like torches, O bull of the Bharatas—like the torches of Dhṛtarāṣṭra.
5.64.15
इदमन्यत्प्रवक्ष्यामि यथा दृष्टं गिरौ मया ।
श्रुत्वा तदपि कौरव्य यथा श्रेयस्तथा कुरु ॥ ५.६४.१५ ॥
I shall tell you another thing, as I saw it on the mountain. O descendant of the Kurus, having heard that too, do what is good.
5.64.16
वयं किरातैः सहिता गच्छामो गिरिमुत्तरम् ।
ब्राह्मणैर्देवकल्पैश्च विद्याजम्भकवार्तिकैः ॥ ५.६४.१६ ॥
We were going together with the Kirātas toward the northern mountain, along with godlike brahmins and conjurors of knowledge and jugglers.
5.64.17
कुञ्चभूतं गिरिं सर्वमभितो गन्धमादनम् ।
दीप्यमानौषधिगणं सिद्धगन्धर्वसेवितम् ॥ ५.६४.१७ ॥
The Gandhamādana mountain, all around, rose like the hump of a crane, full of shining herbs, and frequented by siddhas and gandharvas.
5.64.18
तत्रापश्याम वै सर्वे मधु पीतकमाक्षिकम् ।
मरुप्रपाते विषमे निविष्टं कुम्भसंमितम् ॥ ५.६४.१८ ॥
There we all saw honey with yellow honeycomb-wax, placed in an uneven place at a precipice of wind, the size of a jar.
5.64.19
आशीविषै रक्ष्यमाणं कुबेरदयितं भृशम् ।
यत्प्राप्य पुरुषो मर्त्योऽप्यमरत्वं नियच्छति ॥ ५.६४.१९ ॥
Guarded well by venomous snakes, dear to Kubera, the thing which, having reached it, even a mortal man attains immortality.
5.64.20
अचक्षुर्लभते चक्षुर्वृद्धो भवति वै युवा ।
इति ते कथयन्तिस्म ब्राह्मणा जम्भसाधकाः ॥ ५.६४.२० ॥
The blind man obtains sight, the old man becomes young — thus the brahmins who practise the arts of Jambha used to tell them.
5.64.21
ततः किरातास्तद्दृष्ट्वा प्रार्थयन्तो महीपते ।
विनेशुर्विषमे तस्मिन्ससर्पे गिरिगह्वरे ॥ ५.६४.२१ ॥
Then the Kirātas, seeing it, O lord of the earth, desiring it, perished in that treacherous mountain cleft full of serpents.
5.64.22
तथैव तव पुत्रोऽयं पृथिवीमेक इच्छति ।
मधु पश्यति संमोहात्प्रपातं नानुपश्यति ॥ ५.६४.२२ ॥
Just so, this son of yours alone desires the earth; out of delusion he sees the honey, but does not see the precipice.
5.64.23
दुर्योधनो योद्धुमनाः समरे सव्यसाचिना ।
न च पश्यामि तेजोस्य विक्रमं वा तथाविधम् ॥ ५.६४.२३ ॥
Duryodhana, intent on fighting with Savyasācin in battle, yet I see in him no such splendour or prowess.
5.64.24
एकेन रथमास्थाय पृथिवी येन निर्जिता ।
भीष्मद्रोणप्रभृतयः सन्त्रस्ताः साधुयायिनः ॥ ५.६४.२४ ॥
He by whom the earth was conquered riding alone in a chariot; Bhīṣma, Droṇa and the others who fight righteously are terrified.
5.64.25
विराटनगरे भग्नाः किं तत्र तव दृश्यताम् ।
प्रतीक्षमाणो यो वीरः क्षमते वीक्षितं तव ॥ ५.६४.२५ ॥
Defeated in the city of Virāṭa — what of yours is to be seen there? The hero who waits bears your gaze.
5.64.26
द्रुपदो मत्स्यराजश्च सङ्कुद्धश्च धनञ्जयः ।
न शेषयेयुः समरे वायुयुक्ता इवाग्नयः ॥ ५.६४.२६ ॥
Drupada and the king of the Matsyas, and the enraged Dhanañjaya — in battle they would leave nothing behind, like fires driven by the wind.
5.64.27
अङ्के कुरुष्व राजानं धृतराष्ट्र युधिष्ठिरम् ।
युध्यतोर्हि द्वयोर्युद्धे नैकान्तेन भवेञ्जयः ॥ ५.६४.२७ ॥
O Dhṛtarāṣṭra, place King Yudhiṣṭhira in your lap; for of two who fight in war, victory is never absolutely certain.