pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: अग्निहि यज्ञानां होता कर्ता स चाग्निब्रह्म॥ न हते मन्त्राणां हवनमस्ति न विना पुरुषं तपः सम्भवति। हविर्मन्त्राणां सम्पूजा विद्यते देवमानुषऋषीणामनेन त्वं होतेति नियुक्तः। ये च मानुषहोत्राधिकारास्ते च ब्राह्मणस्य हि याजनं विधीयते न क्षत्रवैश्ययोईिजात्योस्तस्माद् ब्राह्मणा ह्यग्निभूता यज्ञानुद्वहन्ति। यज्ञास्ते देवांस्तपर्यन्ति पृथिवीं भावयन्ति शतपथेऽपि हि ब्राह्मणमुखे भवति॥
English: Agni is truly the Hotri and the performer of sacrifices. Agni is again the Brahma of the sacrifice. No libations can be poured into the sacrificial fire without uttering Mantras; there can be no penances without a person to perform them; the worship of the gods and men and the Rishis is done by the libations poured with Mantras. Hence, O Agni, you have been considered as the Hotri in sacrifices. You are, again, all the other Mantras that have been declared with regard to the Homa rites of men. The duty of the Brahmanas is to officiate for others in the sacrifices they perform. The two other castes viz., Kshatriyas and Vaishyas, that are included within the twice-born class, have not the same duty, laid down for them. Hence, Brahmanas are like Agni, who uphold sacrifices. The sacrifices strengthen the gods. Thus, strengthened the gods fructify the Earth. But the result that may be gained by the foremost of sacrifices may as well be done through the mouth of the Brahmanas.
Sanskrit: देवाः अग्नौ समिद्धे स जुहोति यो विद्वान् ब्राह्मणमुखेनाहुति जुहोति॥
English: That learned man who offers food into the mouth of a Brahmana is said to pour libations into the sacred fire for pleasing the gods.
Sanskrit: एवमप्यग्निभूता ब्राह्मणा विद्वांसोऽग्नि भावयन्ति। अग्निर्विष्णुः सर्वभूतान्यनुप्रविश्य प्राणान् धारयति॥
English: In this way the Brahmanas have come to be considered as Agni. They who are endued with learning worship Agni. Agni is, again, Vishnu. Entering all creatures, he upholds their vital airs.
Sanskrit: अपि चात्र सनत्कुमारगीताः श्लोका भवन्ति-ब्रह्मा विश्वं सृजत् पूर्वं सर्वादिर्निरवस्कृतम्। ब्रह्मघोषैर्दिवं गच्छन्त्यमरा ब्रह्मयोनयः॥ ब्राह्मणानां मतिर्वाक्यं कर्म श्रद्धां तपांसि च। धारयन्ति महीं द्यां च शैक्यो वागमृतं तथा॥
English: Regarding it there is a Verse sung by Sanatkumara. Brahman, in creating the universe, first created the Brahmanas. The Brahmanas become immortal by studying the Vedas, and go to heaven by virtue of such study. The intelligence, speech, acts and observances, faith, and the penances of the Brahmanas keep up both the Earth and the heaven like slings of strings upholding bovine nectar.
Sanskrit: नास्ति सत्यात् परो धर्मो नास्ति मातृसमो गुरुः। ब्राह्मणेभ्यः परं नास्ति प्रेत्य चेह च भूतये॥
English: There is no duty higher than Truth. There is no one more worthy of respect than the mother. There is none more efficient than the Brahmana for conferring happiness both in this world and the next.
Sanskrit: नैषामुक्षा वहति नोत वाहा न गर्गरो मध्यति सम्प्रदाने। अपध्वस्ता दस्युभूता भवन्ति येषां राष्ट्र ब्राह्मणा वृत्तिहीनाः॥
English: The inhabitants of those kingdoms where Brahinanas have certain means of inaintenance become very wretched. There the no oxen do not carry the people or draw the plough, nor do cars of any kind bear them. There milk kept in jars is never churned for producing butter. On the other hand, the dwellers become shorn of every prosperity, and follow the ways of robbers.
Sanskrit: अथेन्द्राणीमभ्यागतां दृष्ट्वा तामुवाच नहुषः पूर्णः स काल इति तं शच्यब्रवीच्छक्रेण यथोक्तं स महर्षियुक्तं वाहनमधिरूढः शचीसमीपमुपागच्छत्॥
English: The time you had fixed is over!-Shachi said to him, as directed by Indra. YO king a number of great Rishis to the car he rode, Nahusha started from his place for coming to where Shachi was living.
Sanskrit: अथ मैत्रावरुणिः कुम्भयोनिरगस्त्य ऋषिवरो महर्षीन् धिक्क्रियमाणांस्तान् नहुषेणापश्यत् पट्यांच तेनास्पृश्यत तत: स नहुषमब्रवीदकार्यप्रवृत्त पाप पतस्व महीं सर्पो भव यावद्भूमिर्गिरयश्च तिष्ठेयुस्तावदिति स तिष्ठेयुस्तावदिति स महर्षिवाक्यसमकालमेव तस्माद् यानादवापतत्॥
English: The foremost of Rishis, viz., Agastya born within a jar, of the semen of Maitra-varuna, saw those foremost of Rishis insulted by Nahusha in that way. Nahusha struck Him with his foot. Agastya said to him,-Wretch, as you are doing a highly improper act, do you fall down on the Earth! Be changed into a snake and do you continue to live in that form as long as the Earth and her hills continue!-As soon as these words were uttered by the great Rishi, Nahusha dropped down from that vehicle.
Sanskrit: अथानिन्द्रं पुनस्त्रैलोक्यमभवत् ततो देवा ऋषयश्च भगवन्तं विष्णुं शरणमिन्द्रार्थेऽभिजग्मुरूचुश्चैनं भगवन्निन्द्रं ब्रह्महत्याभिभूतं त्रातुमर्हसीति ततः स वरदस्तानब्रवीदश्वमेधं यज्ञं वैष्णवं शक्रोऽभियजतां ततः स्वस्थानं प्राप्स्यतीति ततो देवा ऋषयश्चेन्द्रं नापश्यन् यदा तदा शचीमूचुर्गच्छ सुभगे इन्द्रमानयस्वेति सा पुनस्तत्सरः समभ्यगच्छदिन्द्रश्च तस्मात् सरसः प्रत्युत्थाय बृहस्पतिमभिजगाम बृहस्पतिश्चाश्वमेधं महाक्रतुं शक्रायाहरत् तत्र कृष्णसारङ्गं मेध्यमश्वमुत्सृज्य वाहनं तमेव कृत्वा इन्द्र मरुत्पति बृहस्पति: स्वं स्थान प्रापयामास॥
English: The three worlds once more became kingless. The gods and the Rishis then in a body proceeded to where Vishnu was and appealed to him for encompassing the restoration of Indra. Approaching him they said,-O holy one, you should rescue Indra who is overwhelmed by the sin of Brahmanicide!-The boon-giving Vishnu replied to them, saying,-Let Shakra perform a Horse-sacrifice in honour of Vishnu. He will then be restored to his pristine position!-The gods and Rishis began to search for Indra, but when they could not find him they went to Shachi and said to her,-0 blessed lady, go to Indra and bring him here! Requested by them Shachi once more went to the lake Manasa, rising from the lake, Indra came to Brihaspati. The celestial priest Brihaspati then inade arrangements for a great Horse-sacrifice, substituting a black antelope for a good horse every way fit to be offered up in sacrifice. Causing Indra, the lord of the Maruts, to ride upon that very house Brihaspati led him to his own place.
Sanskrit: ततः स देवराड् देवैर्ऋषिभिः स्तूयमानस्त्रिविष्टपस्थो निष्कल्मषो बभूव ह ब्रह्मवध्यां चतुर्पु स्थानेषु वनिताग्निवनस्पतिगोषु व्यभजदेवमिन्द्रो ब्रह्मतेजः प्रभावोपबृंहितः शत्रुवधं कृत्वा स्वं स्थान प्रापितः॥
English: The lord of heaven was then worshipped with hymns by all the gods and the Rishis. He continued to rule in heaven, purged off of the sin of Brahmanicide which was divided into four parts and ordained to live in woman, fire, trees, and kine. It was thus that Indra, strengthened by the energy of a Brahmana, succeeded in killing his enemy it was thus that Indra once more regained his position.
Sanskrit: आकाशगङ्गागतश्च पुरा भरद्वाजो महर्षिरुपास्पृशत् त्रीन् क्रमान् क्रमता विष्णुनाभ्यासादित: स भरद्वाजेन ससलिलेन पाणिनोरसि ताडितः सलक्षणोरस्कः संवृत्तः॥ भृगुणा महर्षिणा शप्तोऽग्निः सर्वभक्षत्वमुपानीतः॥
English: In days of yore, while the great Rishi Bharadvaja was saying his prayers by the side of the divine Ganga, one of the three feet of Vishnu, when he assumed his three-footed form, reached that place. Seeing that strange spectacle Bharadvaja attacked Vishnu with a handful of water, upon which Vishnu's bosom received a (mystic mark). Cursed by that foremost of Rishis, viz., Bhrigu, Agni was obliged to become a devourer of all things.
Sanskrit: अदितिर्वे देवानामन्नमपचदेद् भुक्त्वासुरान् हनिष्यन्तीति तत्र बुधो व्रतचर्यासमाप्तावागच्छददितिं चावोचद् भिक्षा देहीति तत्र देवैः पूर्वमेतत् प्राश्यं नान्येनेत्यदि तिर्भिक्षा नादादथ भिक्षाप्रत्याख्यानरुषितेन बुधेन ब्रह्मभूतेनादितिः शप्ता अदितेरुदरे भविष्यति व्यथा विवस्वतो द्वितीयजन्मन्यण्डसंज्ञितस्य अण्डं मातुरदित्या मारितं स मार्तण्डो विवस्वानभवच्छ्राद्धदेवः॥
English: Once on a time, Aditi, the mother of gods, cooked some food for her sons. She thought that, eating that food and strengthened by it, the gods would succeed in killing the Asuras. After the food had been cooked, Vudha, having finished the observance of an austere vow, came before Aditi and said her,Give me alms! Though thus solicited Aditi gave him none, thinking that no one should eat of the food she had cooked before her sons, the gods, had first taken it. Enraged at the conduct of Aditi who thus refused to give him alms, Vudha who was Brahma's self through the austere vow he had finished, cursed her, saying that as Aditi had refused him alms she would have a pain in her womb when Vivasvat, in his second birth in the womb of Aditi, would be born in the form of an egg. Aditi reminded Vivasvat at that time of the curse of Vudha, and it is, therefore, the Vivasvat, the god who is worshipped in Shraddhas, coming out of the womb of Aditi, passed by the name of Martanda.
Sanskrit: स्थूलशिरा महर्षिर्मेसेः प्रागुत्तरे दिग्विभागे तपस्तेपे ततस्तस्य तपस्तप्यमानस्य सर्वगन्धवहः शुचिर्वायुर्वायमानः शरीरमस्पृशत् स तपसा तापितशरीरः कृशो वायुनोपवीज्यमानो हृदये परितोषमगमत् तत्र किल तस्यानिलव्यजनकृतपरितोषस्य सद्यो वनस्पतयः पुष्पशोभा निदर्शितवन्त इति स एताशशाप न सर्वकालं पुष्पवन्तो भविष्यथेति॥
English: Once on a time, a Rishi name Sthulashiras was practising very severe austerities on the northern breasts of the mountains of Meru. While engaged in those austerities a pure breeze, full of all sorts of delicious perfumes, began to blow there and fan his body. Scorched as his body was by the very severe austerities he was practising, and living as he did upon air alone to the excusion of every sort of food, he became highly pleased at that delicious breeze which blew around him. While he was thus pleased with the delicious breeze that fanned him, the trees around him, showed their flowers for making a display and extorting his praise. Displeased at this conduct of the trees which has the outcome of jealousy, the Rishi cursed them, saying,-Henceforth, you shall not be able to put fourth your flowers at all times.
Sanskrit: नारायणो लोकहितार्थं वडवामुखो नाम पुरा महर्षिर्बभूव मेरी तपस्तप्यतः समुद्र आहूतो नागतस्तेनामर्षितेनात्मगात्रोष्मणा समुद्रः स्तिमितजलः कृतः स्वेदप्रस्यन्दनसदृशश्चाप्य लवणभावो जनितः॥ उक्तश्चाप्यपेयो भविष्यस्येतच्च ते तोयं वडवामुखसंज्ञितेन पेपीयमानं मधुरं भविष्यति तदेतदद्यापि वडवामुखसंज्ञितेनानुवर्तिना तोयं समुद्रात् पीयते॥
English: In days of yore, for doing good to the world, Narayana was born as the great Rishi Vadavamukha. While practising severe austerities on the breast of Meru, he called the Ocean to his presence. The Ocean, however, disobeyed his command. Engaged at this, the Rishi, with the heat of his body, solidified the waters of the Ocean and made them as saltish in taste as the hurnan sweat. The Rishi further said, your waters will henceforth be not drinkable. Only when the Equine-head, roving within you, will drink your waters, they will be as sweet as honey!-It is for this curse that the waters of the Ocean to this day are saltish and are drunk by no one else than the Equine-head.
Sanskrit: हिमवतो गिरेर्दुहितरमुमां कन्यां रुद्रश्चकमे भृगुरपि च महर्षिर्हिमवन्तमागत्याब्रवीत् कन्यामिमां मे देहीति तमब्रवीद्धिमवानभिलक्षितो वरो रुद्र इति तमब्रवीद् भृगुर्यस्मात् त्वयाहं कन्यावरणकृतभावः प्रत्याख्यातस्तस्मान्न रत्नानां भवान् भाजनं भविष्यतीति॥ अद्यप्रभृत्येतदवस्थितमृषिवचनं तदेवंविधं माहात्म्यं ब्राह्मणानाम्॥
English: The daughter, named Uma, of the Himavat mountains, was sought by Rudra in marriage. (Ater Himavat) had promised the hand of Uma to Mahadeva the great Rishi Bhrigu, approaching Himvat, said to him-Give this daughter of yours to in marriage!-Himavat replied to him-Rudra is the bridegroom already selected by me for my daughter!-Enraged at this reply, Bhrigu said-Since you refuse my suit for the hand of your daughter and insult me thus, you will no longer contain jewels and gems!—To this day, on account of the Rishi's words, the mountains of Himavat have not any jewels and gems. Such is the glory of the Brahmanas.
Sanskrit: क्षत्रमपि च ब्राह्मणप्रसादादेव शाश्वतीमव्ययां च पृथिवीं पत्नीमभिगम्य बुभुजे॥ यदेतद् ब्रह्माग्नीषोमीयं तेन जगद् धार्यते॥
English: It is through the favour of the Brahmanas that the Kshatriyas are able to possess the eternal and undecaying Earth as their wife and me enjoy her. The power of the Brahmanas, again, is made up of Agni and Soma. The universe is kept up by that power and, therefore, is upheld by Agni and Soma united together.
Sanskrit: सूर्याचन्द्रमसौ चक्षुः केशाश्चैवांशवः स्मृताः। बोधयंस्तापयंश्चैव जगदुत्तिष्ठते पृथक्॥
English: It is said that the Sun and the Moon are the eyes of Narayana. The rays of the Sun form the eyes. Each of them, viz., the Sun and the Moon, give strength and heat to the universe respectively.
Sanskrit: बोधनात् तापनाच्चैव जगतो हर्षणं भवेत्। अग्नीषोमकृतैरेभिः कर्मभिः पाण्डुनन्दन। हृषीकेशोऽहमीशानो वरदो लोकभावनः॥
English: And because of the Sun and the Moon thus warming and strengthening the universe, they are considered as the Harsha (joy) of the universe. It is on account of these acts of Agni and Soma that keeps up the universe that I pass by the name of Hrishikesha, O son of Pandu! Indeed, I am the boon-giving Ishana the Creator of the universe.
Sanskrit: इलोपहूतयोगेन हरे भागं क्रतुष्वहम्। वर्णश्च मे हरिः श्रेष्ठस्तस्माद्धरिरहं स्मृतः॥
English: Through potency of the Mantras with which libations of clarified butter are poured on the sacred fire, I take and appropriate the share of offerings made in sacrifices. My complexion also is of that in sacrifices. My complexion also is of that foremost of gems called Harit. It is for these reasons that I pass by the name of Hari.
Sanskrit: धाम सारो हि भूतानामृतं चैव विचारितम्। ऋतधामा ततो विप्रैः सद्यश्चाहं प्रकीर्तितः॥
English: I am the substantial residence of all creatures and am considered by persons wellversed in the scriptures to be at one with Truth or Necta. I am, therefore, called by learned Brahmanas by the name of Ritadhama.
Sanskrit: नष्टां च धरणी पूर्वमविन्दं वै गुहागताम्। गोविन्द इति तेनाहं देवैर्वाग्भिरभिष्टुतः॥
English: When in days of old the Earth became submerged in the waters and was not seen, I the discovered her and raised her from the Ocean. Therefore the gods worshipped me by the name of Govinda.
Sanskrit: शिपिविष्टेति चाख्यायां हीनरोमा च यो भवेत्। तेनाविष्टं तु यत्किचिच्छिपिविष्टेति च स्मृतः॥
English: Shipivishta is a name. The word Shipi means a person who has no hair on his body. He who pervades all things in the form of Shipi passes by the name of Shipivishta.
Sanskrit: यास्को मामृषिरव्यग्रो नैकयज्ञेषु गीतवान्। शिपिविष्ट इति ह्यस्माद् गुह्यनामधरो ह्यहम्॥
English: The Rishi Yashka, with quiet soul, in many a sacrifice invoked me by the name Shipvishta. It is therefore that I came to bear this secret name.
Sanskrit: स्तुत्वा मां शिपिविष्टेति यास्क ऋषिरुदारधीः। मत्प्रसादादधो नष्टं निरुक्तमभिजग्मिवान्॥
English: Having adored me by the me by the name of Shipivishta, the highly intelligent Yashka, succeeded in restoring the Niruktas which were lost on the Earth and sunk into the nether regions.
Sanskrit: न हि जातो न जायेयं न जनिष्ये कदाचन। क्षेत्रज्ञः सर्वभूतानां तस्मादहमजः स्मृतः॥
English: I was never born. I never take birth. Nor shall I ever be born. I am the Soul of all creatures. Hence I pass by the name of Aja (unborn).
Sanskrit: नोक्तपूर्वं मया क्षुद्रम श्लीलं वा कदाचन। ऋता ब्रह्मसुता सा मे सत्या देवी सरस्वती॥
English: I have never uttered anything mean or obscene. The divine Sarasvati who is Truth, who is the daughter of Brahman and is named Rita, represents my speech and always lives in my tongue.
Sanskrit: सच्चासच्चैव कौन्तेय मयाऽऽवेशितमात्मनि। पौष्करे ब्रह्मसदने सत्यं मामृषयो विदुः॥
English: The existent and the non-existent have been merged by me in my Soul. The Rishis living in Pushkara which is considered as the residence of Brahmana called me by the name of Truth. even
Sanskrit: सत्त्वान्न च्युतपूर्वोऽहं सत्त्वं वै विद्धि मत्कृतम्। जन्मनीहा भवेत् सत्त्वं पौर्विकं मे धनंजय॥ निराशी:कर्मसंयुक्तः सत्त्वतश्चाप्यकल्मषः। सात्वतज्ञानदृष्टोऽहं सत्त्वतामिति सात्त्वतः॥
English: I have never swerved from the quality of Goodness, and know that the quality of Goodness has emanated from me. In this birth also of mine, O Dhananjaya, my ancient quality of Goodness has not left me so that in this life, establishing myself on Goodness, I began to perform acts without ever wishing for their fruits. Purged off of all sins as I am by virtue of the quality of Goodness which is my nature, I can be seen by the help of that knowledge only which flows from adoption of the quality of Goodness. I am reckoned also among those who follow that quality. For these reasons am I known by the name of Satvata.
Sanskrit: कृषामि मेदिनी पार्थ भूत्वा कार्णायसो महान्। कृष्णो वर्णश्च मे यस्मात् तस्मात् कृष्णोऽहमर्जुन॥
English: I till the Earth, taking the form of a large plough-share of black iron. And because my complexion is dark, therefore, am I called Vaikuntha.
Sanskrit: मया सं श्लषिता भूमिरद्भिर्योम च वायुना। वायुश्च तेजसा सार्धं वैकुण्ठत्वं ततो मम॥
English: I have united the Earth with Water, Ether with Mind, and Wind with Fire. Therefore am I called Vaikuntha.
Sanskrit: निर्वाणं परमं ब्रह्म धर्मोऽसौ पर उच्यते। तस्मान्न च्युतपूर्वोऽहमच्युतस्तेन कर्मणा॥
English: The cessation of separate conscious existence by identification with Supreme Brahma is the highest stage for a living agent to acquire. And since I have never swered from that condition, I am, therefore, called by the name of Achyuta.
Sanskrit: पृथिवीनभसी चोभे विश्रुते विश्वतोमुखे तयोः संधारणार्थं हि मामधोक्षजमञ्जसा॥
English: The Earth and the sky are known to extend on all sides. And because I uphold them both, therefore, am I called by the name of Adhokshaja.
Sanskrit: निरुक्तं वेदविदुषो वेदशब्दार्थचिन्तकाः। ते मां गायन्ति प्राग्वंशे अधोक्षज इति स्थितिः॥
English: Persons well-versed in the Vedas and engaged in interpreting the words used in those scriptures worship me in sacrifices by calling upon me by the same name.
Sanskrit: शब्द एकपदैरेष व्याहृतः परमर्षिभिः। नान्यो ह्यधाक्षजो लोके ऋते नारायणं प्रभुम्॥
English: In days of yore, the great Rishis, while practising severe austerities, said,-No one else in the universe, save the powerful Narayana, is capable of being called by the name of Adhokshaja.
Sanskrit: घृतं ममार्चिषो लोके जन्तूनां प्राणधारणम्। घृतार्चिरहमव्यग्रैर्वेदज्ञैः परिकीर्तितः॥
English: Clarified butter which keeps up the lives of all creatures in the universe forms my effulgence. It is, therefore, that Brahmanas well-versed in the Vedas and possessed of concentrated souls call me by the name of Ghritarchis.
Sanskrit: त्रयो हि धातवः ख्याताः कर्मजा इति मे स्मृताः। पित्तं श्लेष्मा च वायुश्च एष संघात उच्यते॥ एतैश्च धार्यते जन्तुरेतैः क्षीणैश्च क्षीयते। आयुर्वेदविदस्तस्मात् त्रिधातुं मां प्रचक्षते॥
English: There are three well-known ingredients of the body. They have their origin in action, and are called Bile, Phlegm, and Wind. The body is called a union of these three. All living creatures are kept up by these three, and when these three become weakened, living creatures also become weakened. It is, therefore, that all persons well-versed in the scriptures of the science of Life call me by the name of Tridhatu.
Sanskrit: वृषो हि भगवान् धर्मः ख्यातो लोकेषु भारत। नैघण्टुकपदाख्याने विद्धि मां वृषमुत्तमम्॥
English: The holy Dharma is known among all creatures by the name of Vrisha, O Bharata! Hence it is that I am called the excellent Vrisha in the Vedic lexicon called Nighantuka.
Sanskrit: कपिर्वराहः श्रेष्ठश्च धर्मश्च वृष उच्यते। तस्माद् वृषाकपि प्राह कश्यपो मां प्रजापतिः॥
English: The word ‘Kapi' signifies the foremost of boars, and Dharma is otherwise known by the name of Vrisha. It is, therefore, that that lord of all creature, viz., Kashyapa, the common father of the gods and the Asuras, called me by the name Vrishakapi.
Sanskrit: न चाद्यं न मध्यं तथा चैव नान्तं कदाचिद् विदन्ते सुराश्चासुराश्च। अनाद्यो ह्यमध्यस्तथा चाप्यनन्तः प्रगीतोऽहमीशो विभुलॊकसाक्षी॥
English: The gods and the Asuras have never been able to know my beginning, my middle, or my end. It is, therefore, that I am sung as Anadi, Amadhya, Ananta. I am the Supreme Lord, gifted with power, and I am the eternal witness of the universe.
Sanskrit: शुचानि श्रवणीयानि शृणोमीह धनंजय। न च पापानि गृह्णामि ततोऽहं वै शुचिश्रवाः॥
English: I always hear words that are pure and holy, O Dhananjaya, and never catch anything that is sinful. Hence am I called by the name of Shuchishravas.
Sanskrit: एक शृङ्गः पुरा भूत्वा वराहो नन्दिवर्धनः। इमां चवोद्धृतवान् भूमिमेक शृङ्गस्ततो ह्यहम्॥
English: Putting on, in days of yore, the form of a boar with a single tusk, O increaser of the joys of others, I raised the sub-merged Earth from the bottom of the ocean. Therefore am I called by the name of Ekashringa.
Sanskrit: तथैवासं त्रिककुदो वाराहं रूपमास्थितः। त्रिककुत् तेन विख्यातः शरीरस्य तु मापनात्॥
English: While I put on the form of a powerful boar for this purpose, I had three humps on my back. Indeed on account of this peculiarity of my form at that time that I have come to be called by the name of Trikakud (threehumped).
Sanskrit: विरिञ्च इति यत् प्रोक्तं कापिलज्ञानचिन्तकैः। स प्रजापतिरेवाहं चेतनात् सर्वलोककृत्॥
English: Those who are well-versed in the science of Kapila call the Supreme Soul by the name Virincha. That Virincha is otherwise called the great Prajapati (or Brahman). Verily, I am at one with Him called Virincha on account of my imparting animation to all living creatures, for I am the Creator of the universe.
Sanskrit: विद्यासहायवन्तं मामादित्यस्थं सनातनम्। कपिलं प्राहुराचार्याः सांख्या निश्चितनिश्चयाः॥
English: The preceptors of Sankhya philosophy, who have settled conclusions, call me the eternal Kapila living in the midst of the solar disc with but Knowledge for my companion.
Sanskrit: हिरण्यगर्भो द्युतिमान् य एष च्छन्दसि स्तुतः। योगैः सम्पूज्यतं नित्यं स एवाहं भुवि स्मृतः॥
English: On Earth I am known to be at one with Him who has been sung in the Vedic hymns as the effulgent Hiranyagarbha and who is always adored by Yogins.
Sanskrit: एकविंशतिसाहस्रं ऋग्वेदं मां प्रचक्षते। सहस्रशाखं यत् साम ये वै वेदविदो जनाः॥ गायत्त्यारण्यके विप्रा मद्भक्तास्ते हि दुर्लभाः।
English: I am considered as the embodied form of the Rich Veda consisting of twenty-one thousand verses. Persons well-versed in the Vedas also call me the embodiment of the Samans of a thousand branches. Thus do learned Brahmanas who are my devoted worshippers and who are few in number sing me in the Aranyakas.
Sanskrit: षट्पञ्चाशतमष्टौ च सप्तत्रिंशतमित्युत॥ यस्मिशाखा यजुर्वेदे सोऽहमाध्वर्यवे स्मृतः।
English: In the Adhyaryus I am sung as the YajurVeda of fifty-six and fifteen and thirty branches.
Sanskrit: पञ्चकल्पमथर्वाणं कृत्याभिः परिर्वृहितम्॥ कल्पयन्ति हि मां विप्रा अथर्वाणविदस्तथा।
English: Learned Brahmanas well-versed in the Atharvans consider me as identical with the Atharvanas consisting of five Kalpas and all the Krityas.
Sanskrit: शाखाभेदाश्च ये केचिद् याश्च शाखासु गीतयः।।१००। स्वरवर्णसमुच्चाराः सर्वांस्तान् विद्धि मत्कृतान्।
English: All the sub-divisions of the different Vedas with their branches, and all the verses that compose these branches, and all the vowels that occur in those verses, and all the rules of pronunciation, know, O Dhanajaya, are my work.
Sanskrit: यत् तद्धयशिरः पार्थ समुदेति वरप्रदम्॥ सोऽहमेवोत्तरे भागे क्रमाक्षरविभागवित्।
English: O Partha, He who rises and who gives various gods, is none else then myself. I am He who is the repository of the science of syllables and pronunciation that is treated of in the supplemental parts of the Vedas.
Sanskrit: वामादेशितमार्गेण मत्प्रसादान्महात्मना॥ पाञ्चालेन क्रमः प्राप्तस्तस्माद् भूतात् सनातनात्। बाभ्रव्यगोत्र: स बभौ प्रथम क्रमपारगः॥ नारायणाद् वरं लब्ध्वा प्राप्य योगमनुत्तमम्। क्रमं प्रणीय शिक्षां च प्रणयित्वा स गालवः॥ कण्डरीकोऽथ राजा च ब्रह्मदत्तः प्रतापवान्। जातीमरणजं दुःखं स्मृत्वा स्मृत्वा पुनः पुनः॥ सप्तजातिषु मुख्यत्वाद् योगानां सम्पदं गतः।
English: Following the path pointed out by Vamadeva, the great Rishi Panchala, through my favour obtained from that eternal Being the rules of the division of syllables and words, Indeed, Galava, born in the Vabhravya race, having acquired high ascetic success and obtained a boon from Narayana, compiled the rules about the division of syllables and words and those about emphasis and accent in utterance, and appeared as the first scholar who became conversant with those two subjects. Repeatedly thinking of the sorrow of birth and death, Kundarika and king Brahmadatta attained to that property which is acquired by persons devoted to Yoga, in course of seven births, through my favour.