pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: पुराहमात्मजः पार्थ प्रथितः कारणान्तरे॥ धर्मस्य कुरुशार्दूल ततोऽहं धर्मजः स्मृतः।
English: In days of yore, O Partha, I was, for some reason, born as the son of Dharma, O Kuruchief, and owing to such birth of mind I was celebrated under the name of Dharmaja.
Sanskrit: नरनारायणौ पूर्वं तपस्तेपतुरव्ययम्॥ धर्मयानं समारूढौ पर्वते गन्धमादने।
English: I took birth in two forms, viz., as Nara and Narayana. Riding on the car that helps the performance of scriptural and other duties, I practised, in those two forms, eternal austerities on the breast of Gandhamadana,
Sanskrit: तत्कालसमये चैव दक्षयज्ञो बभूव ह॥ न चैवाकल्पयद् भागं दक्षो रुद्रस्य भारत।
English: At that time the great sacrifice of Daksha took place. Daksha, however, in that sacrifice of his, refused to dedicate a share to Rudra, O Bharata, of the sacrificial offerings.
Sanskrit: ततो दधीचिवचनाद् दक्षयज्ञमपाहरत्॥ ससर्ज शूलं कोपेन प्रज्वलन्तं मुहुर्मुहुः।
English: Moved by the sage Dadhichi, Rudra destroyed that sacrifice. He hurled a flaming dart.
Sanskrit: तच्छूलं भस्मसात्कृत्वा दक्षयज्ञं सविस्तरम्॥ आवयोः सहसागच्छद् बदर्याश्रममन्तिकात्।
English: That dart, having consumed all the articles of Daksha's sacrifice, came with great force towards us at the retreat of Badari.
Sanskrit: वेगेन महता पार्थ पतन्नारायणोरसि॥ ततस्तत् तेजसाऽऽविष्टाः केशा नारायणस्य ह। बभूवुर्मुञ्जवर्णास्तु ततोऽहं मुञ्जकेशवान्॥
English: With great violence the dart then dropped upon the chest of Narayana. Attacked by the violence of that dart, the hair on the head of Narayana became green. In fact, on account of this change in the colour of my hair I came to be called by the name of Munjakesha.
Sanskrit: तच्च शूलं विनिर्धूतं हुंकारेण महात्मना। जगाम शंकरकरं नारायणसमाहतम्॥ अथ रुद्र उपाधावत् तावृषी तपसान्वितौ।
English: Driven off by an exclamation of Hun which Narayana uttered, this dart, losing its power, returned to Shankara's hands. At this, Rudra became greatly enraged and as the outcome thereof he rushed towards the Rishis Nara and Narayana gifted with the power of severe austerities.
Sanskrit: तत एनं समुद्भूतं कण्ठे जग्राह पाणिना॥ नारायणः स विश्वात्मा तेनास्य शितिकण्ठता।
English: Narayana then seized the rushing Rudra with his hand by the throat. Caught by Narayana, the lord of the universe, Rudra's throat changed colour and became dark. From that time forth Rudra came to be called by the name of Shitikantha.
Sanskrit: अथ रुद्रविघातार्थमिषीका नर उद्धरन्॥ मन्त्रैश्च संयुयोजाशु सोऽभवत् परशुर्महान्।
English: In the meantime Nara, for destroying Rudra, took up a blade of grass and inspired it with Mantras. The blade of grass, thus inspired, was converted into a powerful battle-axe.
Sanskrit: क्षिप्तश्च सहसा तेन खण्डनं प्राप्तवास्तदा॥ ततोऽहं खण्डपरशुः स्मृतः परशुखण्डनात्।
English: Nara suddenly hurled that battle-axe at Rudra but it broke into pieces. For that weapon thus breaking into pieces, I came to be called by the name of Khandaparashu.
Sanskrit: अर्जुन उवाच अस्मिन् युद्धे तु वार्ष्णेय त्रैलोक्यशमने तदा॥ को जयं प्राप्तवांस्तत्र शंसैतन्मे जनार्दन।
English: Arjuna said In the battle capable of encompassing the destruction of the three worlds, who acquired the victory, O Janarddana, do you tell me this.
Sanskrit: श्रीभगवानुवाच तयोः संलग्नयोर्युद्धे रुद्रनारायणात्मनोः॥ उद्विग्नाः सहसा कृत्स्नाः सर्वे लोकास्तदाभवन्।
English: The Blessed and Holy One said When Rudra and Narayana thus fought all the universe became suddenly stricken with anxiety.
Sanskrit: नागृह्णात् पावकः शुभं मखेषु सुहुतं हविः॥ वेदा न प्रतिभान्ति स्म ऋषीणां भावितात्मनाम्।
English: The god of fire ceased to accept duly poured in sacrifices with the help of Vedic Miantras. The Vedas no longer shone by inward light in the minds of the Rishis of purified souls.
Sanskrit: देवान् रजस्तमश्चैव समाविविशतुस्तदा॥ वसुधा संचकम्पे च नभश्च विचचाल ह।
English: The quality of Darkness and Ignorance possessed the gods. The Earth shook. The vault of the sky seemed to divide in two parts.
Sanskrit: निष्प्रभाणि च तेजांसि ब्रह्मा चैवासनच्युतः॥ अगाच्छोषं समुद्रश्च हिमवांश्च व्यशीर्यत।
English: All the luminaries became deprived of their effulgence. The Creator, Brahman, himself dropped from his seat. The Ocean himself became dry. The mountains of Himavat became riven.
Sanskrit: तस्मिन्नेवं समुत्पन्ने निमित्ते पाण्डुनन्दन॥ ब्रह्मा वृतो देवगणैर्ऋषिभिश्च महात्मभिः। आजगामाशु तं देशं यत्र युद्धमवर्तत॥ सोऽञ्जलिप्रग्रहो भूत्वा चतुर्वक्त्रो निरुक्तगः।
English: When such dreadful portents appeared everywhere, O son of Pandu, Brahman, attended by all the gods and the great Rishis, soon come to the place where the battle was going on. The four-headed Brahman, capable of being understood with the help of only the Niruktas, joined his hands and addressing Rudras, saidउवाच वचनं रुद्रं लोकानामस्तु वै शिवम्॥
Sanskrit: न्यस्यायुधानि विश्वेश जगतो हितकाम्यया।
English: Let good happen to the three worlds. Throw down your weapons, O lord of the universe, for doing good to the world.
Sanskrit: यदक्षरमथाव्यक्तमीशं लोकस्य भावनम्॥ कूटस्थं कर्तृ निर्द्वन्द्वमकर्तेति च यं विदुः। व्यक्तिभावगतस्यास्य एका मूर्तिरियं शुभा॥ नरो नारायणश्चैव जातौ ,धर्मकुलोद्वहौ।
English: That which is indestructible, immutable, supreme, the origin of the universe, uniform, and the supreme actor, that which is above all pairs of opposites, and inactive, has, chosing to be shown, been pleased to assume this one blessed form. This Nara and Narayana have taken birth in the race of Dharma.
Sanskrit: तपसा महता युक्तौ देवश्रेष्ठौ महाव्रतौ॥ अहं प्रसादजस्तस्य कुतश्चित् कारणान्तरे।
English: The foremost of all gods, these two are observers of the highest vows and gifted with the severest penances. Through some reason best known to Him. I myself have originated from the quality of His Grace.
Sanskrit: त्वं चैव क्रोधजस्तात पूर्वसर्गे सनातनः॥ मया च सार्धं वरद विबुधैश्च महर्षिभिः। प्रसादयाशु लोकानां शान्तिर्भवतु मा चिरम्॥
English: Eternal as you are, for you have ever existed since all the past creations, you too have originated from His anger. With myself then, these gods, and all the great Rishis, do you worship this displayed form of Brahma and let peace be to all the worlds forthwith!
Sanskrit: ब्रह्मणा त्वेवमुक्तस्तु रुद्रः क्रोधाग्निमुत्सृजन्। प्रसादयामास ततो देवं नारायणं प्रभुम्। शरणं च जगामाद्यं वरेण्यं वरदं प्रभुम्॥
English: Thus addressed by Brahman, Rudra iminediately renounced the fire of his anger and began to please the illustrious and powerful Narayana. Indeed, he soon placed himself at the disposal of the worshipful, boongiving, and powerful Narayana.
Sanskrit: ततोऽथ वरदो देवो जितक्रोधो जितेन्द्रियः। प्रीतिमानभवत् तत्र रुद्रेण सह संगतः॥
English: That boon-giving god who has his anger and the senses under control, became soon pleased and reconciled with Rudra.
Sanskrit: ऋषिभिर्ब्रह्मणा चैव विबुधैश्च सुपूजितः। उवाच देवमीशानमीशः स जगतो हरिः॥
English: Well-worshipped by the Rishis, by Brahmana, and by all the gods the great God, the Lord of the universe, otherwise called by the name of Hari, then addressed the illustrious
Sanskrit: यस्त्वां वेत्ति स मां वेत्ति यस्त्वामनु स मामनु। नावयोरन्तरं किंचिन्मा तेऽभूद् बुद्धिरन्यथा॥
English: He who knows you knows me. He who follows you follows me! There is no difference between you and me. Do you never think otherwise.
Sanskrit: अद्यप्रभृति श्रीवत्सः शूलाको मे भवत्वयम्। मम पाण्यङ्कितश्चापि श्रीकण्ठस्त्वं भविष्यसि॥
English: The mark made by your lance on my chest will from this day put on the form of a beautiful whirl, and the mark of my hand on your throat will also assume a beautiful shape on account of which you shall, from this day forth, be called by the name of Shreekantha.
Sanskrit: श्रीभगवानुवाच एवं लक्षणमुत्पाद्य परस्परकृतं तदा। सख्यं चैवातुलं कृत्वा रुद्रेण सहितावृषी॥ तपस्तेपतुरव्यग्रौ विसृज्य त्रिदिवौकसः। एष ते कथितः पार्थ नारायणजयो मृधे॥
English: Having mutually caused such marks on each other's body, the two Rishis Nara and Narayana thus made friends with Rudra and sending away the gods, once more began to practise penances with a tranquil souls. I have thus told you, O son of Pritha, how in that battle which occurred in days of yore between Rudra and Narayana, the latter got the victory.
Sanskrit: नामानि चैव गुह्यानि निरुक्तानि च भारत। ऋषिभिः कथितानीह यानि संकीर्तितानि ते॥
English: I have told you the many secret names by which Narayana is called, and what the meanings, O Bharata, are of those names, which, as I have told you the Rishis have bestowed upon the great God.
Sanskrit: एवं बहुविधै रूपैश्चरामीह वसुन्धराम्। ब्रह्मलोकं च कौन्तेय गोलोकं च सनातनम्॥ मया त्वं रक्षितो युद्धे महान्तं प्राप्तवाञ्जयम्।
English: In this way, O son of Kunti, assuming various forms do I rove at will, through the Earth, the region of Brahman himself, and that other high and eternal region of happiness called Goloka. Protected by me in the great battle, you have acquired a great victory.
Sanskrit: यस्तु ते सोऽग्रतो याति युद्धे सम्प्रत्युपस्थिते॥ तं विद्धि रुद्र कौन्तेय देवदेवं कपर्दिनम्।
English: That Being whom, at the time of all your battles, you saw stalking in your van, know, O son of Kunti, is no other than Rudra, that god of gods, otherwise called by the name of Kaparddin.
Sanskrit: कालः स एव कथितः क्रोधजेति मया तव॥ निहतास्तेन वै पूर्वं हतवानसि यान् रिपून्।
English: He is otherwise known by the name of Kala and should be known as one that has originated from my anger. The enemies whom you have killed were all, in the first instance, killed by him.
Sanskrit: अप्रमेयप्रभावं तं देवदेवमुमापतिम्। नमस्व देवं प्रयतो विश्वेशं हरमक्षयम्॥
English: Do you bend your head to that god of gods, the lord of Uma, gifted with immeasurable power. With concentrated soul, do you bend your head to that illustrious Lord of the universe, that indestructible god, otherwise called by the name of Hara.
Sanskrit: यश्च ते कथितः पूर्वं क्रोधजेति पुनः पुनः। तस्य प्रभाव एकाग्रे यच्छ्रुतं ते धनंजय॥
English: He is none else than that god who, I have repeatedly said to you, has originated from my anger. You have before this, heard, O Dhananjaya, of the power and energy which live in him.
Sanskrit: नारद उवाच प्रत्यभिज्ञातमात्रोऽथ सद्भिस्तैर्नरपुङ्गवः। समारोह नृपतिरस्पृशन् वसुधातलम्। ययातिर्दिव्यसंस्थानो बभूव विगतज्वरः॥
English: Narada said The moment he was recognized by those good men, those foremost among human beings, that ruler of men went up again without touching the surface of the earth, and Yayati being freed from all his troubles again got his place in heaven.
Sanskrit: दिव्यमाल्याम्बरधरो दिव्याभरणभूषितः। दिव्यगन्धगुणोपेतो न पृथ्वीमस्पृशत् पदा॥
English: Bedecked with heavenly garlands, clothed in heaven raiment and putting on heavenly ornaments and with heavenly perfumes and endued with heavenly qualities he did not even touch the earth with his feet.
Sanskrit: ततो वसुमनाः पूर्वमुच्चैरुच्चारयन् वचः। ख्यातो दानपतिलेकि व्याजहार नृपं तदा॥
English: Then did Vasumanas, renowned in this world as the foremost among givers, first uttering these words in a loud voice said to the king.
Sanskrit: प्राप्तवानस्मि यल्लोके सर्वर्णेष्वगहया। तदप्यथ च दास्यामि तेन संयुज्यतां भवान्॥
English: "The merit that I have earned in this world by my conduct towards all the castes, which can not be found fault with, that too I give you and may you earn that.
Sanskrit: यत् फलं दानशीलस्य क्षमाशीलस्य यत् फलम्। यच्च मे फलमाधाने तेन संयुज्यतां भवान्॥
English: The merit that is earned by one who is attached to liberality and the merit that is earned by one who exercises forgiveness and the merit that I have by my sacrificial ceremonies-may you earn all that.”
Sanskrit: ततः प्रतर्दनोऽप्याह वाक्यं क्षत्रियपुङ्गवः। यथा धर्मरतिनित्यं नित्यं युद्धपरायणः॥
English: Then did that foremost among the Kshatriyas, Pratardana too, ever attached to virtue and given to war, said:
Sanskrit: प्राप्तवानस्मि यल्लोके क्षत्रवंशोद्भवं यशः। वीरशब्दफलं चैव तेन संयुज्यतां भवान्॥
English: “The farne that I have gained in this world, and which is due to my being born in the Kshatriya order, the merit earned by me for being called a hero-is all yours.”
Sanskrit: शिबिरौशीनरो धीमानुवाच मधुरां गिरम्। यथा बालेषु नारीषु वैहार्येषु तथैव च॥
English: The wise Shibi, the son of Ushinara, then said in a sweet voice Since, to children, or women, as also to those who might be cracked jokes with,
Sanskrit: संगरेषु निपातेषु तथा तद्व्यसनेषु च। अनृतं नोक्तपूर्वं मे तेन सत्येन खं व्रज॥
English: To those who are in danger, to those engaged in a game of dice, as also to those who are suffering from grief and calamities I have never before said a falsehood, by virtue of that truth, wander about in heaven.
Sanskrit: यथा प्राणांश्च राज्यं च राजन् कामसुखानि च। त्यजेयं न पुनः सत्यं तेन सत्येन खं व्रज॥
English: I can abandon my life, my kingdom as also all luxuries and objects of desire but not truth, by that do you wander about in heaven.
Sanskrit: यथा सत्येन मे धर्मो यथा सत्येन पावकः। प्रीत: शतक्रतुश्चैव तेन सत्येन खं व्रज॥
English: The truth by which Dharma, the truth by which Agni and the truth by which the performer of a hundred sacrifices has been gratified by me-by virtue of that truth wander about in heaven.
Sanskrit: अष्टकस्त्वथ राजर्षिः कौशिको माधवीसुतः। अनेकशतयज्वानं नाहुषं प्राप्य धर्मवित्॥
English: And the royal Rishi Ashtaka too, the son of Madhvi, by the son of Kushika, conversant with virtue, addressing the son of Nahusha who had performed many hundreds of sacrifices, said:
Sanskrit: शतशः पुण्डरीका मे गोसवाश्चरिताः प्रभो। क्रतवो वाजपेयाश्च तेषां फलमवाप्नुहि॥
English: "O Lord the sacrificial rites Pundarika, Gosava and Vajapeya have been performed by me by hundreds; get the merits of these.
Sanskrit: न मे रत्नानि न धनं न तथाऽन्ये परिच्छदाः। क्रतुष्वनुपयुक्तानि तेन सत्येन खं व्रज॥
English: I have not considered gems nor wealth, nor sort riches too much for the performance of my sacrifices (that is I have not spared them); by virtue of that truth, do you wander about in heaven."
Sanskrit: यथा यथा हि जल्पन्ति दौहित्रास्तं नराधिपम्। तथा तथा वसुमतीं त्यक्त्वा राजा दिवं ययौ।॥
English: As one by one his grandsons addressed that ruler of men, so by degrees the king went up to the heaven leaving below the earth.
Sanskrit: एवं सर्वे समस्तैस्ते राजानः सुकृतैस्तदा। ययाति स्वर्गतो भ्रष्टं तारयामासुरञ्जसा॥
English: By this means did all those kings by their good deeds easily save Yayati, who had been turned out from heaven, at that time.
Sanskrit: दोहित्राः स्वेन धर्मेण यज्ञदानकृतेन वै। चतुर्षु राजवंशेषु सम्भूताः कुलवर्धनाः। मातामहं महाप्राज्ञं दिवमारोपयन्त ते॥
English: The four grandsons, born in four royal families, and each the perpetuator of a race, sent back by their own virtue, by the sacrificial rites performed by them and gifts made by them, their wise grandfather to heaven.
Sanskrit: राजान ऊचुः राजधर्मगुणोपेताः सर्वधर्मगुणान्विताः। दोहित्रास्ते वयं राजन् दिवमारोह पार्थिव॥
English: The kings said O king, we are your grandsons endued with kingly virtues and with all virtues and accomplishments; ascend heaven, O ruler of men.
Sanskrit: च्यवन उवाच वरश्च गृह्यतां मत्तो यश्च ते संशयो हृदि। तं प्रब्रूहि नरश्रेष्ठ सर्वं सम्पादयामि ते॥
English: Chyavana said Do you accept a boon from me. Do you also, O king, tell me what the doubt is that is in your mind. I shall certainly accomplish all your purposes.
Sanskrit: कुशिक उवाच यदि प्रीतोऽसि भगवंस्ततो मे वद भार्गव। कारणं श्रोतुमिच्छामि मद्गृहे वासकारितम्॥
English: Kushika said If you have been pleased with me, O holy one, do you then, O son of Bhrigu, teil me your object in living in my palace for sometime, for I wish to hear it. What was your object in sleeping on the bed I assigned you for, one and twenty days continuously, without changing sides.
Sanskrit: शयनं चैकपाāन दिवसानेकविंशतिम्। अकिंचिदुक्त्वा गमनं बहिश्च मुनिपुङ्गवा॥
English: O foremost of ascetics, what also was your object, again in going out of the room without speaking a single word.
Sanskrit: अन्तर्धानमकस्माच्च पुनरेव च दर्शनम्। पुनश्च शयनं विप्र दिवसानेकविंशतिम्॥
English: Why did you, again, without any reason, disappear and once more become visible? Why, O learned Brahmana, did you again lay yourself down on the bed, and sleep, as before, for one and twenty days.
Sanskrit: तैलाभ्यक्तस्य गमनं भोजनं च गृहे मम। समुपानीय विविधं यद् दग्धं जातवेदसा॥
English: Why did you go out after you were rubbed by us with oil for your bath? Why, also, after having made various kinds of food in my palace to be collected, did you consume them with fire?
Sanskrit: निर्याणं च रथेनाशु सहसा यत् कृतं त्वया। धनानां च विसर्गस्य वनस्यापि च दर्शनम्॥
English: What was the cause of your sudden journey through my city on the car? What was your object in giving away so much riches? What was your motive in showing us the wonders of the forest created by your Yogapower.
Sanskrit: प्रासादानां बहूनां च काञ्चनानां महामुने। पणिविद्रुमपादानां पर्याणां च दर्शनम्॥
English: What, indeed, was your motive in showing, O great ascetic, so many palaces made of gold and so many bedsteads supported on posts of jewels and gems?
Sanskrit: पुनश्चादर्शनं तस्य श्रोतुमिच्छामि कारणम्। अतीव ह्यत्र मुह्यामि चिन्तयानो भृगूद्वह॥
English: Why also did all these wonders disappear from our sight? I wish to hear the cause of all this. Thii.king of all these acts of yours, O perpetuator of Bhrigu's race, I became stupefied.
Sanskrit: न चैवात्राधिगच्छामि सर्वस्यास्य विनिश्चयम्। एतदिच्छामि कार्येन सत्यं श्रोतुं तपोधन॥
English: I cannot comprehend your motive. ( you having penances for wealth, I wish to hear the truth about all those acts of yours in full.
Sanskrit: च्यवन उवाच शृणु सर्वमशेषेण यदिदं येन हेतुना। न हि शक्यमनाख्यातुमेवं पृष्टेन पार्थिव॥
English: Chyavana said Listen to me as I tell you fully the reasons which had moved me in all these acts of mine. Asked by you, O king, I cannot refuse to enlighten you.
Sanskrit: पितामहस्य वदतः पुरा देवसमागमे। श्रुतवानस्मि यद् राजस्तन्मे निगदतः शृणु॥
English: In days of yore, on one occasion, when the deities had assembled together, the Grandfather Brahman said some words. I heard them, O king, and shall now repeat them to you.
Sanskrit: ब्रह्मक्षत्रविरोधेन भविता कुलसंकरः। पौत्रस्ते भविता राजंस्तेजोवीर्यसमन्वितः॥
English: On account of a quarrel between Brahmana and Kshatriya energy, there will occur an intermixture in my race. Your grandson, O king, will become endued with great energy and power.
Sanskrit: ततस्ते कुलनाशार्थमहं त्वां समुपागतः। चिकीर्षन् कुशिकोच्छेदं संदिधक्षुः कुलं तव॥
English: Hearing this, I came here resolved to exterminate your race. Indeed, I came, O Kushika, seeking the utter extermination of your family, in fact, for reducing to ashes all your descendants.
Sanskrit: ततोऽहमागम्य पुरे त्वामवोचं महीपते। नियम कंचिदारप्स्ये शुश्रूषा क्रियतामिति॥
English: Moved by this motive I came to your palace, O monarch, and said to you I shall observe some vow. Do you attend upon me and serve me dutifully.
Sanskrit: न च ते दुष्कृतं किंचिदहमासादयं गृहे। तेन जीवसि राजर्षे न भवेथास्त्वमन्यथा॥
English: While living, however, in your house, I could not see any shortcomings in you. It is for that reason, O royal sage, that you are still alive, for otherwise you would have by this been dead.
Sanskrit: एवं बुद्धिं समास्थाय दिवसानेकविंशतिम्। सुप्तोऽस्मि यदि मां कश्चिद् बोधयेदिति पार्थिव॥
English: It was with this resolution that I slept for twentyone days in the hope that somebody would awake me before I arose out of my own accord.
Sanskrit: यदा त्वया सभार्येण संसुप्तो न प्रबोधितः। अहं तदैव ते प्रीतो मनसा राजसत्तम॥
English: You, however, with your wife, did not awake me. Even then, O best of kings, I became delighted with you.
Sanskrit: उत्थाय चास्मि निष्क्रान्तो यदि मां त्वं महीपते। पृच्छेः क्व यास्यसीत्येवं शपेयं त्वामिति प्रभो॥
English: Rising from my bed I went out of the chamber without speaking to any of you. I did this, O king, in the hope that you would ask me and thus I would have an opportunity of cursing you.
Sanskrit: अन्तर्हितः पुनश्चास्मि पुनरेव च ते गृहे। योगमास्थाय संसुप्तो दिवसानेकविंशतिम्॥
English: I then disappeared, and again showed myself in the room of your palace, and once more following Yoga slept for one and twenty days.
Sanskrit: क्षुधितौ मामसूयेथां श्रमाद् वेति नराधिप। एवं बुद्धिं समास्थाय कर्शितौ वां क्षुधा मया।॥
English: My motive was this. Exhausted with toil and hunger you two would be angry with me and do what would be unpleasant to me. It was from this motive that I caused yourself and your wife to be afflicted with hunger.
Sanskrit: न च तेऽभूत् सुसूक्ष्मोऽपि मन्युर्मनसि पार्थिव। सभार्यस्य नरश्रेष्ठ तेन ते प्रीतिमानहम्॥
English: In your heart, however, O king, the slightest feeling of anger or vexation did not rise. For this, O king, I became highly pleased with you.
Sanskrit: भोजनं च समानाय्य यत् तदा दीपितं मया। क्रुद्ध्येथा यदि मात्सर्यादिति तन्मर्षितं च मे॥
English: When I caused various kinds of food to be brought and then set fire to them, I hoped that yourself with your wife would yield to anger at the sight. Even that act, however, of mine was tolerated by you.
Sanskrit: ततोऽहं रथमारुह्य त्वामवोचं नराधिप। सभार्यो मां बहस्वेति तच्च त्वं कृतवांस्तथा॥ अविशङ्को नरपते प्रीतोऽहं चापि तेन ह। धनोत्सर्गेऽपि च कृते न त्वां क्रोधः प्रधर्षयत्॥
English: I then ascended the car, o king, and addressed you, saying Do you with your wife bear me! You did what I ordered, without the least scruple, O king! I became delighted at this. The gifts of riches I made could not excite your anger.
Sanskrit: ततः प्रीतेन ते राजन् पुनरेतत् कृतं तव। सभार्यस्य वनं भूयस्तद् विद्धि मनुजाधिप॥
English: Pleased with you, O king, I created with the help of my Yogapower that forest which yourself with your wife did see here. Listen, O king, to the object I had.
Sanskrit: प्रीत्यर्थं तव चैतन्मे स्वर्गसंदर्शनं कृतम्। यत् वे वनेऽस्मिन् नृपते दृष्टं दिव्यं निदर्शनम्॥
English: For pleasing you and your qucen I made you to have a glimpse of Heaven, All those things which you have seen in these woods, O king, are a foretaste of Heaven.
Sanskrit: स्वर्णोद्देशस्त्वया राजन् सशरीरेण पार्थिव। मुहूर्तमनुभूतोऽसौ सभार्येण नृपोत्तम॥
English: O best of kings, for a little while I made you and your wife behold, in even your, earthly bodies, some sights of Heaven.
Sanskrit: निदर्शनार्थं तपसो धर्मस्य च नराधिप। तत्र याऽऽसीत् स्पृहा राजंस्तच्चापि विदितं मया॥२८
English: All this was done for showing the power of penances and the reward that is in store for virtue. The desire that arose in your heart, O monarch, at sight of those delightful objects, is known to me.
Sanskrit: ब्राह्मण्यं काक्षसे हि त्वं तपश्च पृथिवीपते। अवमन्य नरेन्द्रत्वं देवेन्द्रत्वं च पार्थिव॥
English: You became desirous of obtaining the dignity of a Brahmana and the merit of penances, O king, disregarding the sovereignty of the Earth, nay, the sovereignty of very Heaven.
Sanskrit: एवमेतद् यथाऽऽत्य त्वं ब्राह्मण्यं तात दुर्लभम्। ब्राह्मणे सति चर्षित्वमृषित्वे च तपस्विता।॥
English: You thought this, O king. The status of a Brahmana is highly difficult to get; having become a Brahmana, it is highly difficult to obtain the status of a Rishi; having become a Rishi it is difficult to become an ascetic.
Sanskrit: भविष्यत्येष ते कामः कुशिकात् कौशिको द्विजः। तृतीयं पुरुषं तुभ्यं ब्राह्मणत्वं गमिष्यति॥
English: I tell you that your desire will be fulfilled. From you, O Kushika, will originate a Brahmana who shall be called after your name. The person that will be the third in descent from you shall obtain the status of a Brahmana.
Sanskrit: वंशस्ते पार्थिवश्रेष्ठ भृगूणामेव तेजसा। पौत्रस्ते भविता विप्रस्तपस्वी पावकद्युतिः॥
English: Through the energy of the Bhrigus, your grandson, O king, will be an ascetic gifted with the splendour of fire.
Sanskrit: यः स देवमनुष्याणां भयमुत्पादयिष्यति। त्रयाणामेव लोकानां सत्यमेतद् ब्रवीमि ते॥
English: He shall always strike all men, indeed, the inhabitants of the three worlds, 'vith fear. I tell you the truth.
Sanskrit: राजर्षे यत् ते मनसि वर्तते। तीर्थयात्रां गमिष्यामि पुरा कालोऽभिवर्तते।॥
English: O royal sage, do you accept the boon that is now in your mind. I shall soon start for a sojourn to all the sacred water, Time is expiring.
Sanskrit: कुशिक उवाच एष एव वरो मेऽद्य यस्त्वं प्रीतो महामुने। भवत्वेतद् यथाऽऽत्य त्वं भवेत् पौत्रो ममानघ॥ वरं गृहाण
English: Kushika said This, O great ascetic, is a high boon in my case, for you have been pleased with me! Let that take place which you have said! Let my grandson become a Brahmana, O sinless one.