pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: ममेदमिति लोकेऽस्मिन् न भवेत् सम्परिग्रहः। न दारा न च पुत्रः स्यान्न धेनं न परिग्रहः।
English: Nobody then, about any of his belongings would be able to say — This is mine.-Wives, sons, food, and other kinds of property, would cease to exist.
Sanskrit: विष्वग्लोपः प्रवर्तेत यदि राजा न पालयेत्॥ ममेदमिति लोकेऽस्मिन् न भवेत् सम्परिग्रहः। यानं वस्त्रमलङ्कारान् रत्नानि विविधानि च।
English: Ruin would befall everything if the king did not observe the duty of protection. Wicked men would by force appropriate the cars, dresses, ornaments, precious stones and other kinds of property belonging to others, if the king did not protect.
Sanskrit: हरेयुः सहसा पापा यदि राजा न पालयेत्॥ पतेद् बहुविधं शस्त्रं बहुधा धर्मचारिषु।
English: In the absence of protection by the king, various kinds of weapons would fall upon righteous persons and unrighteousness would prevail everywhere.
Sanskrit: अधर्मः प्रगृहीतः स्याद् यदि राजा न पालयेत्॥ मातरं पितरं वृद्धमाचार्यमतिथिं गुरुम्।
English: In the absence of king's protection men would disobey or even injure their very parents if aged, their very preceptors, guests and elders.
Sanskrit: क्लि श्नीयुरपि हिंस्युर्वा यदि राजा न पालयेत्॥ वधबन्धपिरक्लेशो नित्यमर्थवतां भवेत्।
English: If the king did not protect, all persons possessing wealth would have to meet with death, imprisonment and persecution and the very idea of property would be lost.
Sanskrit: ममत्वं च न विन्देयुर्यदि राजा न पालयेत्॥ अन्ताश्चाकाल एव स्युर्लोकोऽयं दस्युसाद् भवेत्।
English: If the king did not protect, everything would be destroyed untimely and every part of the country would be laid waste by robbers, and everybody would fall into dreadful hell.
Sanskrit: पतेयुर्नरकं घोरं यदि राजा न पालयेत्॥ न योनिदोषो वर्तेत न कृषिर्न वणिक्पथः। मज्जेद् धर्मस्त्रयी न स्याद् यदि राजा न पालयेत्॥
English: If the king did not protect, all restrictions about marriage and intercourse would disappear; all matters of agriculture and trade would fall into confusion; morality and the three Vedas would disappear.
Sanskrit: न यज्ञाः सम्प्रवर्तेयुर्विधिवत् स्वाप्तदक्षिणाः। न विवाहाः समाजो वा यदि राजा न पालयेत्॥
English: Sacrifices, duly finished with presents according to the ordinance, would no longer be celebrated and no marriage would take place; society itself would cease to exist, if the king did not observe the duty of protection.
Sanskrit: न वृषा: सम्प्रवर्तेरन् न मध्येरंश्च गर्गराः। घोषाः प्रणाशं गच्छेयुर्यदि राजा न पालयेत्॥
English: The bulls would not know cows and milk jars would not be churned, and men living by rearing kine would be ruined, if the king did not exercise the duty of protection.
Sanskrit: त्रस्तमुद्विग्नहृदयं हाहाभूतमचेतनम्। क्षणेन विनशेत् सर्वं यदि राजा न पालयेत्॥
English: In the absence of king's protection, all things, filled with fear and anxiety and becoming senseless and uttering cries of misery would be ruined in no time.
Sanskrit: न संवत्सरसत्राणि तिष्ठेयुरकुतोभयाः। विधिवद् दक्षिणावन्ति यदि राजा न पालयेत्॥
English: No sacrifices extending for a year and finished with presents according to the ordinance would take place if the king did not observe the duty of protection.
Sanskrit: ब्राह्मणाश्चतुरो वेदान् नाधीयोरंस्तपस्विनः। विद्यास्नाता व्रतस्नाता यदि राजा न पालयेत्॥
English: In the absence of king's protection Brahmanas would never study the four Vedas or practise austerities or be purified by knowledge and rigid vows.
Sanskrit: न लभेद् धर्मसंश्लेषं हतविप्रहतो जनः। हर्ता स्वस्थेन्द्रियो गच्छेद् यदि राजा न पालयेत्॥
English: In the absence of king's protection the destroyer of a person guilty of Brahmanicide would not get any reward; rather the person. Guilty of Brahmanicide, would would not be punished. an
Sanskrit: हस्ताद्धस्तं परिमुषेद् भिद्येरन् सर्वसेतवः। भयार्त विद्रवेत् सर्वं यदि राजा न पालयेत्॥
English: In the absence of king's protection, men would take away other people's wealth from their very hands, and all healthy restrictions would be abolished, and everybody, stricken with, fear would seek safety in flight.
Sanskrit: अनयाः सम्प्रवर्तेरन् भवेद् वै वर्णसंकरः। दुर्भिक्षमाविशेद् राष्ट्रं यदि राजा न पालयेत्॥
English: In the absence of king's protection, all kinds of injustice would commence; intermixture of castes would occur; and famine would devastate the kingdom.
Sanskrit: विवृत्य हि यथाकामं गृहद्वाराणि शेरते। मनुष्या रक्षिता राज्ञा समन्तादकुतोभयाः।॥
English: Again by virtue of royal protection, men can everywhere sleep fearlessly at their ease without shutting their houses and doors with bolts and bars.
Sanskrit: नाक्रुष्टं सहते कश्चित् कुतो वा हस्तलाघवम्। यदि राजा न सम्यग् गां रक्षयत्यपि धार्मिकः॥
English: Nobody would stand the evil words of others far less assaults, if the king did not righteously protect the Earth.
Sanskrit: स्त्रियश्चपुरुषा मार्ग सर्वालङ्कारभूषिताः। निर्भयाः प्रतिपद्यन्ते यदि रक्षति भूमिपः॥
English: If the king observes the duty of protection, women adorned with ornaments may fearlessly walk about everywhere without male relatives to guard them.
Sanskrit: धर्ममेव प्रपद्यन्ते न हिंसन्ति परस्परम्। अनुगृह्णन्ति चान्योन्यं यदा रक्षति भूमिपः॥
English: Men become righteous and without injuring serve one another because the king observes the duty of protection.
Sanskrit: यजन्ते च महायज्ञैस्त्रयो वर्णाः पृथग्विधैः। युक्ताश्चाधीयते विद्यां यदा रक्षति भूमिपः॥
English: By virtue of royal protection the members of the three castes can celebrate high sacrifices and engage themselves in the acquisition of learning with attention.
Sanskrit: वार्तामूलो ह्ययं लोकस्त्रय्या वै धार्य ते सदा। तत् सर्वं वर्तते सम्यग् यदा रक्षति भूमिपः॥
English: The world depends upon agriculture and trade and is protected by the Vedas. All these again are duly protected by the king exercising his principal duty.
Sanskrit: यदा राजा धुरं श्रेष्ठामादाय वहति प्रजाः। महता बलयोगेन तदा लोकः प्रसीदति॥
English: Since the king, taking a heavy burden upon himself, protects his subjects with the help of a mighty force, it is therefore that the people are able to live in happiness.
Sanskrit: यस्याभावेन भूतानामभावः स्यात् समन्ततः। भावे च भावो नित्यं स्यात् कस्तं न प्रतिपूजयेत्॥
English: Who is there who will not worship him on whose existence depends the existence of the people and by whose destruction the people are destroyed?
Sanskrit: तस्य यो वहते भारं सर्वलोकभयावहम्। तिष्ठन् प्रियहिते राज्ञ उभौ लोकाविमौ जयेत्॥
English: That person who does what is agreeable and beneficial to the king and who participates in the burden of kingly duties which fill every caste with fear, conquers both this and the other world.
Sanskrit: यस्तस्य पुरुषः पापं मनसाप्यनुचिन्तयेत्। असंशयमिह क्लिष्टः प्रेत्यापि नरकं व्रजेत्॥
English: That man who even thinks of injuring the king, forsooth meets with grief here and goes to hell hereafter.
Sanskrit: न हि जात्ववमन्तव्यो मनुष्य इति भूमिपः। महती देवता ह्येषा नररूपेण तिष्ठति॥
English: No one should obey the king by taking him for a man, for he is in sooth a great god in human form.
Sanskrit: कुरुते पञ्चरूपाणि कालयुक्तानि यः सदा। भवत्यग्निस्तथाऽऽदित्यो मृत्युर्वैश्रवणो यमः॥
English: The king puts on five different forms according to five different occasions. He energy the becomes Agni, Aditya, Mrityu, Vaishravana, and Yama.
Sanskrit: यदा ह्यासीदत: पापान् दहत्युग्रेण तेजसा। मिथ्योपचरितो राजा तदा भवति पावकः॥
English: When the king, imposed on by falsehood, consumes with his dreadful offenders before him, he is said to put on the form of Agni.
Sanskrit: यदा पश्यति चारेण सर्वभूतानि भूमिपः। क्षेमं च कृत्वा व्रजति तदा भवति भास्करः॥
English: When he marks through his spies the acts of all persons and does what is for the general behoof, he is said to put on the form of Aditya.
Sanskrit: अशुचीश्च यदा क्रुद्धः क्षिणोति शतशो नरान्। सपुत्रपौत्रान् सामात्यांस्तदा भवति सोऽन्तकः॥
English: When he kills in anger hundreds of wicked men with their sons, grandsons, and relatives, he is then said to put on the form of the Destroyer.
Sanskrit: यदा त्वधार्मिकान् सर्वांस्तीक्ष्णैर्दण्डैनियच्छति। धार्मिकांश्चानुगृह्णाति भवत्यथ यमस्तदा॥
English: When he suppresses the the wicked by punishing them severely and favours the righteous by giving them rewards, he is then said to put on the form of Yama.
Sanskrit: यदा तु धनधाराभिस्तर्पयत्युपकारिणः। आच्छिनत्ति न रत्नानि विविधान्यपकारिणाम्॥ श्रियं ददाति कस्मैचित् कस्माच्चिदपकर्षति। तदा वैश्रवणो राजा लोके भवति भूमिपः॥
English: When he pleases with profuse gifts of riches those who have done him valuable services, and takes away the riches and precious stones of those who have offended him, indeed, when he confers wealth upon some and takes it away from others, he is then, O king, said to put on the form of Kubera on Earth.
Sanskrit: नास्यापवादे स्थातव्यं दक्षेणाक्लिश्कर्मणा। धर्म्यमाकाङ्क्षता लोकमीश्वरस्यानसूयता॥ न हि राज्ञः प्रतीपानि कुर्वन् सुखमवाप्नुयात्। पुत्रो भ्राता वयस्यो वा यद्यप्यात्मसमो भवेत्॥
English: No person which is clever, who is capable of work, who wishes to acquire virtue, and who is shorn of malice, should ever spread evil reports about the king. No person, by acting against the king, can ever make himself happy, even if he be the king's son or brother or companion or one whom the king considers as his second self. Fire, increased by the wind, blazing forth, may leave a residue.
Sanskrit: कुर्यात् कृष्णगतिः : शेषं ज्वलितोऽनिलसारथिः। न तु राजाभिपन्नस्य शेषं क्वचन विद्यते॥
English: The anger of the king, however, leaves not anything to the person who happens to incur it. Everything that belongs to the king should be avoided from a distance.
Sanskrit: तस्य सर्वाणि रक्ष्याणि दूरतः परिवर्जयेत्। मृत्योरिव जुगुप्सेत राजस्वहरणान्नरः॥
English: One should turn away from the king's property as he would from death itself. A person, by taking what belongs to the king, soon meets with destruction like a deer upon touching poison.
Sanskrit: नश्येदभिमृशन् सद्यो मृगः कूटमिव स्पृशन्। आत्मस्वमिव रक्षेत राजस्वमिह बुद्धिमान्॥
English: An intelligent man should protect as his own what belongs to the king.
Sanskrit: महान्तं नरकं घोरमप्रतिष्ठमचेतनम्। पतन्ति चिररात्राय राजवित्तापहारिणः॥
English: Those, who take wealth belonging to the king, sink senseless into a deep hell of eternal darkness and infamy.
Sanskrit: राजा भोजो विराट् सम्राट क्षत्रियो भूपतिर्नृपः। य एभिः स्तूयते शब्दैः कस्तं नार्चितुमर्हति॥
English: Who is there who will not adore the king who is described by terms,–'delighter of the people,' 'bestower of happiness, possessor of prosperity, the best of all, healer of injuries, master of Earth,' and protector of men?
Sanskrit: तस्माद् बुभूषुर्नियतो जितात्मा नियतेन्द्रियः। मेधावी स्मृतिमान् दक्षः संश्रयेत महीपतिम्॥
English: That man, therefore, who seeks his own prosperity, who satisfies all healthy restraints, who has his soul under control, who has subdued his passions, who is gifted with intelligence and memory, and who is a clever (business man), should always be attached to the king.
Sanskrit: कृतज्ञं प्राज्ञमक्षुद्रं दृढभक्तिं जितेन्द्रियम्। धर्मनित्यं स्थितं नीत्यं मन्त्रिणं पूजयेन्नृपः॥
English: The king should duly honour the minister who is grateful, wise, large-hearted loyal, a master of his senses, virtuous, and observant of the dictates of policy.
Sanskrit: दृढभक्तिं कृतप्रज्ञं धर्मज्ञं संयतेन्द्रियम्। शूरमक्षुद्रकर्माणं निषिद्धजनमाश्रयेत्॥
English: The king should entertain the man who is loyal, grateful, virtuous, self-controlled, brave, noble, and competent to complete works without the help of others.
Sanskrit: राजा प्रगल्भं कुरुते मनुष्यं राजा कृशं वै कुरुते मनुष्यम्। राजाभिपन्नस्य कुतः सुखानि राजाभ्युपेतं सुखिनं करोति॥
English: Knowledge makes men proud. The king makes men humble. The man who is assailed by the king can never enjoy happiness. On the other hand, the man who gets royal favours becomes happy.
Sanskrit: राजा प्रजानां हृदयं गरीये गतिः प्रतिष्ठा सुखमुत्तमं च। समाश्रिता लोकमिमं परं च जयन्ति सम्यक् पुरुषा नरेन्द्र॥
English: The king is the heart of his people; he is their great refuge; he is their glory; and he is their greatest happiness. Those men, O king, who are attached to the king, can conquer both this and the next world.
Sanskrit: नराधिपश्चाप्यनुशिष्य मेदिनी दमेन सत्येन च सौहृदेन। महद्भिरिष्ट्वा क्रतुभिर्महायर्शा स्त्रिविष्टपे स्थानमुपैति शाश्वतम्॥
English: Having governed the Earth with the help of the qualities of self-control, truth, and friendship, and having worshipped the deities by great sacrifices, the king, acquiring great glory, acquires an eternal abode in heaven.
Sanskrit: स एवमुक्तोऽङ्गिरसा कौसल्यो राजसत्तमः। प्रयत्नात् कृतवान् वीरः प्रजानां परिपालनम्॥
English: That best of kings viz., the heroic Vasumanas, king of Koshala, thus instructed by Brihaspati the son of Angiras, began thenceforth to protect his subjects.'
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच धनिनश्चाधना ये च वर्तयन्ते स्वतन्त्रणः। सुखदुःखागमस्तेषां कः कथं वा पितामह॥
English: Yudhishthira said Tell me, O grandfather, whence and how happiness and misery approach the rich, and the poor, but who follow different practices and rites.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच अत्राप्युदाहरन्तीममितिहासं पुरातनम्। शम्पाकेनेह मुक्तेन गीतं शान्तिगतेन च॥
English: Bhishma said Regarding it is cited the old history of what was sung by Champaka who had acquired tranquility and liberation for himself.
Sanskrit: अब्रवीन्मां पुरा कश्चिद् ब्राह्मणस्त्यागमाश्रितः। क्लिश्यमानः कुदारेण कुचैलेन बुभुक्षया।॥
English: In days of yore a certain Brahmana made iniserable by a bad wife, bad dress, and hunger, and practising the vow of renunciation, sang me these verses.
Sanskrit: उत्पन्नमिह लोके वै जन्मप्रभृति मानवम्। विविधामन्युपवर्तन्ते दुःखानि च सुखानि च।॥
English: Various sorts of sorrow and happiness overtake, from the day of birth, the person who is born on the Earth.
Sanskrit: तयोरेकतरे मार्गे यदेनमभिसन्नयेत्। न सुखं प्राप्य संहष्येन्नासुखं प्राप्य संज्वरेत्॥
English: If he could ascribe either of them to the work of Destiny, he would then be indifferent w either happiness or misery as they fall to his share,
Sanskrit: न वै चरसि यच्छ्रेय आत्मनो वा यदीशिषे। अकामात्मापि हि सदा धुरमुद्यम्य चैव ह॥
English: Though your mind is freed of desire, yet you bear a heavy burden. You do not strive to accomplish your own good. Are you not successful in subduing your mind?
Sanskrit: अकिंचनः परिपतन् सुखमास्वादयिष्यसि। अकिंचनः सुखं शेते समुत्तिष्ठति चैव ह॥
English: Having renounced home and coveted wealth, if you go about, you shall then know what is real happiness. One who is shorn of everything, sleeps soundly and rises happily.
Sanskrit: आकिंचन्यं सुखं लोके पथ्यं शिवमनामयम्। अनमित्रपथो ह्येष दुर्लभः सुलभो मतः॥
English: Abject poverty, in this world, is the road to happiness. It is the safest way, it leads to the source of all blessings, and the path is not beset with any peril. Persons cherishing desire, cannot reach this goal (but those who have ridden over their desire, can easily do so.
Sanskrit: अकिंचनस्य शुद्धस्य उपपन्नस्य सर्वतः। अवेक्षमाणस्त्रील्लोकान् न तुल्यमिह लक्षये॥
English: Stretching my eyes on every part of the three worlds, I do not find the person who can be equal to a poor man of unblemished character and who is indifferent to worldly things.
Sanskrit: आकिंचन्यं च राज्यं च तुलया समतोलयम्। अत्यरिच्यत दारियं राज्यादपि गुणाधिकम्॥
English: I weighed poverty and sovereignty in the balance, and found sovereignty wanting, and poverty to all appearances possessed greater merits then sovereignty.
Sanskrit: आकिंचन्ये च राज्ये च विशेषः सुमहानयम्। नित्योद्विग्नो हि धनवान् मृत्योरास्यगतो यथा॥
English: Between poverty and sovereignty there is this great difference, viz., that the sovereign of vast possessions is always troubled with painful anxiety and seems to be an easy prey of death.
Sanskrit: नैवस्याग्निर्न चारिष्टो न मृत्युनं च दस्यवः। प्रभवन्ति धनत्यागाद् विमुक्तस्य निराशिषः॥
English: Regarding, however, the poor man who has no wealth to call his own, nor any hopes to entertain, and as such has emancipated himself, neither fire, nor foe, nor death, nor thieves, can override him.
Sanskrit: तं वै सदा कामचरमनुपस्तीर्णशायिनम्। बाहूपधानं शाम्यन्तं प्रशंसन्ति दिवौकसः॥
English: The very gods praise such a man who wnders about according to his will who lies down on the naked Earth with his arm for a pillow, and who possesses a tranquil soul.
Sanskrit: धनवान् क्रोधलोभाभ्यामाविष्टो नष्टचेतनः। तिर्यगीक्षः शुष्कमुखः पापको भृकुटीमुखः॥
English: The man of wealth, affected by anger and lust, stains himself with his sinful heart. He casts sidelong glances and makes dry specches. He becomes sinful and his countenance loses its luster with his wry face.
Sanskrit: निर्दशनधरोष्ठं च क्रुद्धो दारुणभाषिता। कस्तमिच्छेत् परिद्रष्टुं दातुमिच्छति चेन्महीम्॥
English: Biting his lips, and worked up with passion, he gives vent to harsh and cruel words. If such a man desires to make even a gift of the whole world, who is there that would like to look at him even.
Sanskrit: श्रिया ह्यभीक्ष्णं संवासो मोहयत्यविचक्षणम्। सा तस्य चित्तं हरति शारदाभ्रमिवानिलः॥ अथैनं रूपमानश्च धनमानश्च विन्दति।
English: Continuous Prosperity stupefies a person of weak intellect. Like the wind driving off the autumnal clouds, it drives off his judgement. Association with Prosperity induces him to think,-~-I am beautiful. I am wealthy.
Sanskrit: अभिजातोऽस्मि सिद्धोऽस्मि नास्मि केवलमानुषः॥ इत्येभिः कारणैस्तस्य त्रिभिश्चित्तं प्रमाद्यति।
English: I am high-born! I am successful in my undertakings! I am no ordinary individual!...For these three reasons, his heart becomes intoxicated.
Sanskrit: सम्प्रसक्तमना भोगान् विसृज्य पितृसंचितान्। परिक्षीणः परस्वानामादानं साधु मन्यते॥
English: He makes a waste of the possessions left by his ancestors by following the bent of his heart cager for worldly enjoyments. And then when reduced to want he does not regard the appropriation of other's wealth as sinful.
Sanskrit: तमतिक्रान्तमर्यादमाददानं ततस्ततः। प्रतिषेधन्ति राजानो लुब्धा मृगामिवेषुभिः॥
English: At this stage when he outstrips all barriers and becomes reckless of conduct as regards his appropriation of other's possessions from every side the rulers of men checks and afflict him like sportsmen afflicting a deer with their sharp arrows which they espied in the woods.
Sanskrit: एवमेतानि दुःखानि तानि तानीह मानवम्। विविधान्युपपद्यन्ते गात्रसंस्पर्शजान्यपि॥
English: Such a man is then overwhelmed with many other afflictions of a like nature that originate in fire and weapons.
Sanskrit: तेषां परमदुः :खानां बुद्ध्या भैषज्यमाचरेत्। लोकधर्ममवज्ञाय ध्रुणावामध्रुवैः सह॥
English: Therefore, becoming indifferent to all worldly attachments i.e., for children and wives) together with all fleeting phantons (as the physical body, etc.,) one should , helped by his intelligence, treat himself with proper medicine for the cure of those painful afflictions.
Sanskrit: नात्यक्त्वा सुखमाप्नोति नात्यक्त्वा विन्दते परम्। नात्यक्त्वा चाभयः शेते त्यक्त्वा सर्वं सुखी भव॥
English: Without Renunciation one can never be happiness. Without Renunciation one never be successful in gaining what is his highest good. Without Renunciation one can never be at his ease even in sleep. Therefore, renouncing every thing, makc happiness your can Own.
Sanskrit: इत्येद्धास्तिनपुरे ब्राह्मणेनोपवर्णितम्। शम्पाकेन पुरा मह्यं तस्मात् त्यागः परो मतः॥
English: A Brahmana, told me all this, at Hastinapur, in times gone by, about what Champaka had sung. I hold Renunciation, therefore, as the foremost of things.
Sanskrit: संजय उवाच ततः स सात्यकिर्थीमान् महात्मावृष्णिपुङ्गवः। सुदर्शनं निहत्याजौ यन्तारं पुनरब्रवीत्॥
English: Sanjaya said Thereafter that illustrious scion of the Vrishni race, the high-souled and intelligent Satyaki, having slain Sudarsana in battle, addressing charioteer thus spoke.
Sanskrit: रथाश्वनागकलिलं शरशक्त्यूमिमालिनम्। खङ्गमत्स्यं गदाग्राहं शूरायुधमहास्वनम्॥ प्राणापहारिणं रौद्रं वादिवोत्क्रुष्टनादितम्। योधानामसुखस्पर्शे दुर्धर्षमजयैषिणाम्॥ तीर्णाः स्म दुस्तरं तात द्रोणानीकमहार्णवम्। जलसंधबलेनाजौ पुरुषादैरिवावृतम्॥ अतोऽन्यत् पृतनाशेषं मन्ये कुनदिकामिव। तर्तव्यामल्पसलिलां चोदयाश्वानसम्भ्रमम्॥
English: Having crossed the almost uncrossable ocean of Drona's division abounding with chariots and steeds and elephants-ocean of which the waves are constituted by arrows and darts, fishes by swords and scimitars and alligators by the maccs; which roars with the whizz of arrows and the clash of diverse weapons, an ocean that is fierce and destructive of life and resounds with the din created by diverse musical instruments; of which the touch is disagreeable and unbearable to warriors longing to have victory and of which the banks infested by flesh-eaters represented by the forces of Jalasandha, I consider that the remaining of the array yet to be crossed, can be crossed with great ease, like a stream-let of shallow water. Therefore do you dauntlessly drive the steeds forwards.
Sanskrit: हस्तप्राप्तमहं मन्ये साम्प्रतं सव्यसाचिनम्। निर्जित्य दुर्घरं द्रोणं सपदानुगमाहवे॥
English: I think I am now within a hand's distance from Savyasachin. Having vanquished in are battle, the indomitable Drona together with his followers.
Sanskrit: हार्दिक्यं योधवर्ये च मन्ये प्राप्तं धनंजयम्। न हि मे जायते त्रासो दृष्ट्वा सैन्यान्यनेकशः॥
English: As also that best of all warriors namely, the son of Hridika, I think I have already reached Dhananjaya. Though I see these numerous divisions of troops before me, fear does not assail my heart.
Sanskrit: वढेरिव प्रदीप्तस्य वने शुष्कतृणोलपे। पश्य पाण्डवमुख्येन यातां भूमि किरीटिना॥
English: For a raging forests conflagration shrinks not at the sight of numerous heaps of dried grass. Behold the ground through which the diadem-decked Arjuna, that best of the Pandavas has passed.
Sanskrit: पत्त्यश्वरथनागौघैः पतितैर्विषमीकृताम्। द्रवते तद् यथा सैन्यं तेन भग्नं महात्मना॥
English: Rendered uneven by the slain foot-soldiers, horses, car-warriors and elephants. Yonder the Kaurava array is giving way being routed by that high-souled warrior.
Sanskrit: रथैविपरिधावद्भिर्गजैरश्चैश्च सारथे। कौशेयारुणसंकाशमेतदुद्भूयते रजः॥
English: O charioteer, behold a thick tawny cloud of dust raised by the flying cars, elephants and steeds.
Sanskrit: अभ्याशस्थमहं मन्ये श्वेताश्वं कृष्णासारथिम्। स एष श्रूयते शब्दो गाण्डीवस्यामितौजसः॥
English: I think myself to be very near to that one of white steeds whose charioteer in Krishna, inasmuch as I hear the twang of the bow Gandiva wielded by that one of infinite prowess.
Sanskrit: यादृशानि निमित्तानि मम प्रादुर्भवन्ति वै। अनस्तंगत आदित्ये हन्ता सैन्धवमर्जुनः॥
English: From the omens that are revealing themselves to me, I can judge that Arjuna will slay the ruler of the Sindhus before the sun today goes below the horizon.
Sanskrit: शनैर्विश्रम्भयन्नश्वान् याहि यत्रारिवाहिनी। यौते सतलत्राणाः सुयोधनपुरोगमाः॥
English: Without exhausting their strength, drive the steeds slowly to the spot where the hostile ranks are staying, that is, to the spot where yonder warriors headed by Duryodhana, their hands cased in leathern fences
Sanskrit: दंशिताः क्रूरकर्माणः काम्बोजा युद्धदुर्मदाः। शरबाणासनधरा यवनाश्च प्रहारिणः॥
English: And yonder Kambojas of dreadful deeds, cased in mail and difficult of defeat in battle and these Yavanas armed with bows and arrows and accomplished in smiting.
Sanskrit: शकाः किराता दरदा बर्बरास्ताम्रलिप्तकाः। अन्ये च बहवो म्लेच्छा विविधायुधपामयः॥
English: And yonder Sakas and Kiratas and Daradas and Barbaras and Tamraliptakas and numerous other Mlechchas armed with diverse weapons are staying.
Sanskrit: यौते सतलत्राणाः सुयोधनपुरोगमाः। मामेवाभिमुखाः सर्वे तिष्ठन्ति समरार्थिनः॥
English: To the spot (I repeat) where yonder warriors headed by Duryodhana, their hands defended by leathern gloves, are standing with their faces turned towards me and inspired with the resolution of encountering me.
Sanskrit: एतान् सरथनागाश्वान् निहत्याजौ सपत्तिनः। इदं दुर्गे महाघोरं तीर्णमेवोपधारय॥
English: Consider me, O charioteer as already passed through this dreadful strong-hold, having slain in battle all these warriors and cars, elephants, horses and foot-soldiers that are among them.
Sanskrit: सूत उवाच न सम्भ्रमो मे वार्ष्णेय विद्यते सत्यविक्रम। यद्यपि स्यात् तव क्रुद्धो जामदग्न्योऽग्रतः स्थितः॥
English: The Charioteer said O scion of the Vrishni race, fear I have none, O you of prowess incapable of being withstood! If you had before you the enraged son of Yamadagni.
Sanskrit: द्रोणो वा रथिनां श्रेष्ठः कृपो मद्रेश्वरोऽपि वा। तथापि सम्भ्रमो न स्यात् त्वामाश्रित्य महाभुज॥
English: Or Drona that foremost of car-warriors or Kripa or the ruler of the Madras himself, even then fear would not enter my heart, O you of mighty arms, as long as I am under the shadow of your protection.