pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच नष्टे धने वा दारे वा पुत्रे पितरि वा मृते। यया बुद्ध्या नुदेच्छोकं तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह॥
English: Yudhishthira said Tell me, O grandfather, by what condition of mind should one kill his grief when he loses his riches, or his wife, or son, or father.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच नष्ट धने वा दारे वा पुत्रे पितरि वा मृते। अहो दुःखमिति ध्यायशोकस्यापचितिं चरेत्॥
English: Bhishma said, When one's wealth is lost, or one's wife or son or father is dead, he certainly says to oneself,-Alas, it is a great sorrow,-But then one should, by the help of meditation, try to kill that grief.
Sanskrit: अत्राप्युदाहरन्तीममितिहासं पुरातनम्। यथा सेनजितं विप्रः कश्चिदेत्याब्रवीत् सुहृत्॥
English: Regarding it is mentioned the old story of the speech that a twice-born friend of his, coming to Senajit's court, made to that king.
Sanskrit: पुत्रशोकाभिसंतप्तं राजानं शोकविह्वलम्। विषण्णमनसं दृष्ट्वा विप्रो वचनमब्रवीत्॥
English: Seeing the monarch stricken with grief and burning with sorrow on account of the death of his son, the Brahmana said to that king of very
Sanskrit: किं नु मुह्यसि मूढस्त्वं शोच्यः किमनुशोचसि। यदा त्वामपि शोचन्तः शोच्या यास्यन्ति तां गतिम्।।१०
English: Why are you stupefied? You are without any intelligence. You are yourself an object of grief, why do you grieve (for others)? A few days hence others will grieve for you, and in their turn they will be grieved for by others still.
Sanskrit: त्वं चैवाहं च ये चान्ये त्वामुपासन्ति पार्थिव। सर्वे तत्र गमिष्यामो यत एवागता वयम्॥
English: Yourself, myself, and others who wait upon you, O king, shall all repair whence all of us have come.
Sanskrit: सेनजिदुवाच का बुद्धिः किं तपो विप्र कः समाधिस्तपोधना किं ज्ञानं किं श्रुतं चैव यत् प्राप्य न विषीदसि॥
English: Senajit said What is that intelligence, what that penance, O learned Brahmana, what that concentration of mind, O you having asceticism for wealth, what that knowledge, and what that learning, by gaining which you do not give way to grief?
Sanskrit: ब्राह्मण उवाच पश्य भूतानि दुःखेन व्यतिषिक्तानि सर्वशः। उत्तमाधममध्यानि तेषु तेष्विह कर्मसु॥
English: The Brahmana said See, all creatures-the superior, the middling, and the inferiorm-on account of their respective acts, and entangled in sorrow.
Sanskrit: आत्मापि चायं न मम सर्वा वा पृथिवी मम। यथा मम तथाऽन्येषामिति चिन्त्य न मे व्यथा।।
English: I do not consider even my own self to be mine. On the other hand, I consider the whole world to be mine. I again consider all this as much mine as it belongs to others. Grief cannot attack me for this thought.
Sanskrit: एतां बुद्धिमहं प्राप्य न प्रहृष्ये न च व्यथे॥ यथा काष्ठं च काष्ठं च समेयातां महोदधौ। समेत्य च व्यपेयातां तद्वद्भूतसमागमः॥
English: Having gained such an understanding, I do not give way to joy or to grief. As two pieces of wood floating on the sea meet together at one time and are again separated, so is the union of (living) creatures in this world.
Sanskrit: एवं पुत्राश्च पौत्राश्च ज्ञातयो बान्धवास्तथा। तेषां स्नेहो न कर्तव्यो विप्रयोगो ध्रुवो हि तैः॥
English: Sons, grandsons, kinsmen relatives, are all of this nature. One should One should never feel attachment for them, for separation with them is inevitable.
Sanskrit: अदर्शनादापतितः पुनश्चादर्शनं गतः। न त्वासौ वेद न त्वं तं कः सन् किमनुशोचसि॥
English: Your son came from an invisible quarter. He has gone away and become invisible. He did not know you. You did not know him. Who are you and for whom do you grieve.
Sanskrit: तृष्णार्तिप्रभवं दुःखं दुःखार्तिप्रभवं सुखम्। सुखात् संजायते दुःखं दुःखमेवं पुनः पुनः॥
English: Grief is the child of the disease created by desire. Happiness again comes when the disease of desire is cured. From joy originates sorrow, and sorrow comes again and again.
Sanskrit: सुखस्यानन्तरं दुःखं दुःखस्यानन्तरं सुखम्। सुखदुःखे मनुष्याणां चक्रवत् परिवर्ततः॥
English: Sorrow comes after joy, and joy after sorrow. The joys and sorrows of human beings are revolving on a wheel.
Sanskrit: सुखात् त्वं दुःखमापन्न पुनरापत्स्यसे सुखम्। न नित्यं लभते दुःखं न नित्यं लभते सुखम्॥
English: After happiness sorrow has come to you. You will again enjoy happiness for good and no one enjoys happiness for good.
Sanskrit: शरीरमेवायतनं सुखस्य दुःखस्य चाप्यायतनं शरीरम्। यद्यच्छरीरेण करोति कर्म तेनैव देही समुपाश्नुते तत्।।
English: The body is the abode of both sorrow and happiness. An embodied creature suffers the consequences of whatever acts he performs with the help of his body.
Sanskrit: जीवितं च शरीरेण जात्यैव सह जायते। उभे सह विवर्तेते उभे सह विनश्यतः॥
English: Life comes with the creation of the body. The two exist together, and the two die together.
Sanskrit: स्नेहपाशैर्बहुविधैराविष्टविषया जनाः। अकृतार्थाश्च सीदन्ते जलैः सैकतसेतवः॥
English: Men of impure souls, attached to worldly objects by various fetters, disappear like embankments of sand in water.
Sanskrit: स्नेहेन तिलवत् सर्वं सर्गचक्रे निपीड्यते। तिलपीडैरिवाक्रम्य क्लेशैरज्ञानसम्भवैः॥
English: Miseries of various sorts begotten by ignorance, act like pressers of oil-seeds, for attacking all creatures for their attachments; these press them like oil-seeds in the oilmaking machine subjecting them to the round of re-births.
Sanskrit: संचिनोत्यशुभं कर्म कलत्रापेक्षया नरः। एकः क्लेशानवाप्नोति परत्रेह च मानवः॥
English: Man, for the sake of his wife, commits numberless evil deeds, but suffers alone various kinds of misery both in this and the next world.
Sanskrit: पुत्रदारकुटुम्बेषु प्रसक्ताः सर्वमानवाः। शोकपङ्कार्णवे मग्ना जीर्णा वनगजा इव॥
English: All men, attached to children, wives kinsmen and relatives sink in the miry sea of sorrow like wild elephants, when shom of strength, sinking in a miry slough.
Sanskrit: पुत्रनाशे वित्तनाशे ज्ञातिसम्बन्धिनामपि। प्राप्यते सुमहद् दुःखंदावाग्निप्रतिमं विभो।
English: Indeed, O king, upon loss of wealth or son or kinsmen or relatives, man suffers great misery burning him like a forest fire.
Sanskrit: दैवायत्तमिदं सर्वं सुखदुः :खे भवाभवौ॥ असृहत् ससुहृच्चापि सशत्रुर्मित्रवानपि। सप्रज्ञः प्रज्ञया हीनो दैवेन लभते सुखम्॥
English: All this, viz., joy and grief, existence and non-existence depend upon destiny. One having friends as well as one having none, one having enemies as well as one having none, one having wisdom as well as one shorn of it, each and every one amongst these, enjoys happiness through destiny.
Sanskrit: नालं सुखाय सुहृदो नालं दुःखाय शत्रवः। न च प्रज्ञालमर्थानां न सुखानामलं धनम्॥
English: Friends are not the root of one's happiness. Enemies are not the root of one's misery. Wisdom cannot bring on wealth; wealth cannot give happiness.
Sanskrit: न बुद्धिर्धनलाभाय न जाड्यमसमृद्धये। लोकपर्यायवृत्तान्तं प्राज्ञो जानाति नेतरः॥
English: Intelligence cannot give wealth, nor is stupidity the cause of poverty. Only a wise man, and none else, understands the order of the world.
Sanskrit: बुद्धिमन्तं च शूरं च मूढं भीरुं जडं कविम्। दुर्बलं बलवन्तं च भागिनं भजते सुखम्॥
English: Of the intelligent, the heroic, the foolish, the cowardly, the idiotic, the earned, the weak, or the strong, happiness comes to him only for whom it is ordained.
Sanskrit: धेनुर्वत्सस्य गोपस्य स्वामिनस्तस्करस्य च। पयः पिबति यस्तस्या धेनुस्तस्येति निश्चयः॥
English: The cow belongs to the calf, to the cowherd who is her master, and to the thief. Indeed, she is his who drinks her milk.
Sanskrit: ये च मूढतमा लोके ये च बुद्धेः परं गताः। ते नराः सुखमेधन्ते क्लिश्यत्यन्तरितो जनः॥
English: They whose understandings are dormant, and they who have that state of the mind which lies beyond the range of the intellect, succeed in enjoying happiness. Only they who are between these two classes, suffer misery.
Sanskrit: अन्त्येषु रेमिरे धीरा न ते मध्येषु रेमिरे। अन्त्यप्राप्तिं सुखामाहुर्दुःखमन्तरमन्त्ययोः॥
English: The wise find pleasure in the two extremes but not in the intermediate states. The sages have said that the attainment of any of these two extremes form happiness. Misery lies in the intermediate states between the two.
Sanskrit: ये च बुद्धिसुखं प्राप्ता द्वन्द्वातीता विमत्सराः। तान् नैवार्था न चाना व्यथयन्ति कदाचन॥
English: Those who have succeeded in acquiring real happiness, and who have become freed from the pleasures and pains of this world, and who are shorn of envy, are never moved by either the accession of wealth or its loss.
Sanskrit: अथ ये बुद्धिमप्राप्ता व्यतिक्रान्ताश्च मूढताम्। तेऽतिवेलं प्रहृष्यन्ति संतापमुपयान्ति च॥
English: Those who have not gained that intelligence which brings on real happiness, but who have got over folly and ignorance yield to excessive joy and excessive misery.
Sanskrit: नित्यं प्रमुदिता मूढा दिवि देवगणा इव। अवलेपेन महता परिभूत्या विचेतसः॥
English: Men who have no ideas of right or wrong, who are beside themselves with pride and with success over others, give way to transports of delight like the celestials.
Sanskrit: सुखं दुःखान्तमालस्यं दुःखं दाक्ष्यं सुखोदयम्। भूतिस्त्वेवं श्रिया सार्धं दक्षे वसति नालसे॥
English: Happiness must terminate in misery. Idleness is misery; while cleverness (in action) is the root of felicity. Affluence and prosperity live in a clever man, but not in an idle wight.
Sanskrit: सुखं वा यदि वा दुःखं प्रियं वा यदि वाप्रियम्। प्राप्तं प्राप्तमुपासीत हृदयेनापराजितः॥
English: Be it happiness or be it misery, be it pleasant or be it otherwise, what comes to one should be enjoyed or put up with an unconquered heart.
Sanskrit: शोकस्थानसहस्त्राणि भयस्थानशतानि च। दिवसे दिवसे मूढमाविशन्ति न पण्डितम्॥
English: Every day a thousand occasions for sorrow, and a hundred occasions for fear attack an ignorant and foolish man but a wise man is never so affected.
Sanskrit: बुद्धिमन्तं कृतप्रज्ञं शुश्रूषुमनसूयकम्। दान्तं जितेन्द्रियं चापि शोको न स्पृशते नरम्॥
English: Sorrow can never touch an intelligent man, one who has acquired wisdom, one who obeys the instructions of his elders, one who has no envy, and one who has controlled his self.
Sanskrit: एतां बुद्धिं समास्थाय गुप्तचित्तश्चरेद् बुधः। उदयास्तमयज्ञं हि न शोकः स्पष्टुमर्हति॥
English: Depending upon such an understanding, and guarding his heart (against the influences of desire and the passions), the wise man should work on in this world. Indeed, sorrow cannot affect him who knows that Supreme Self from which everything emanate and to which everything disappears.
Sanskrit: यन्निमित्तं भवेच्छोकस्तापो वा दुःखमेव च। आयासो वा यतो मूलमेकाङ्गमपि तत् त्यजेत्॥
English: The very root of grief, or heart-burning, or sorrow or of action, should, even if it be a part of one's body, the cast off.
Sanskrit: किंचिदेव ममत्वेन यदा भवति कल्पितम्। तदेव परितापार्थं सर्वं सम्पद्यते तथा॥
English: That object, whatever it may be, which one considers as his own, is a source of grief and heart-burning.
Sanskrit: यद् यत् यजति कामानां तत् सुखस्याभिपूर्यते। कामानुसारी पुरुषः कामाननुविनश्यति॥
English: If objects, of desire, are renounced they become sources of happiness. The man who follows objects of desire is ruined in that pursuit.
Sanskrit: यच्च कामसुखं लोके यच्च दिव्यं महत् सुखम्। तृष्णाक्षयसुखस्यैते नार्हतः षोडशी कलाम्॥
English: Neither the happiness which is derived from a gratification of the senses nor that great happiness which one may enjoy in heaven, even comes up to a sixteenth part of the happiness which originates from the destruction of all desire.
Sanskrit: पूर्वदेहकृतं कर्म शुभं वा यदि वाशुभम्। प्राज्ञं मूढं तथा शूरं भजते यादृशं कृतम्॥
English: The consequences of pristine decds, right or wrong, affect the wise and the foolish, the brave and the mind.
Sanskrit: एवमेव किलैतानि प्रियाण्येवाप्रियाणि च। जीवेषु परिवर्तन्ते दुःखानि च सुखानि च॥
English: Thus joy and sorrow, the agreeable and the disagreeable, continually revolve among living creatures.
Sanskrit: एतां बुद्धिं समास्थाय सुखमास्ते गुणान्वितः। सर्वान् कामान् जुगुप्सेत कामान् कुर्वीत पृष्ठतः॥
English: Thus knowing an intelligent and wise man lives at ease. A person should renounce all his desires, and never give way to anger.
Sanskrit: वृत्त एष हृषि प्रौढो मृत्युरेष मनोभवः। क्रोधो नाम शरीरस्थो देहिनां प्रोच्यते बुधैः॥
English: This anger originates in the heart and becomes powerful there. This anger which lives in the bodies of men and is born in their minds, is described by the wise as Death.
Sanskrit: यदा संहरते कामान् कूर्मोऽङ्गानीव सर्वशः। तदाऽऽत्मज्योतिरात्मायमात्मन्येव प्रपश्यति॥
English: When a person withdraws all his desires like a tortoise withdrawing all its limbs, then its soul, which is self-luminous, can see itself.
Sanskrit: न बिभेति यदा चायं यदा चास्मान्न बिभ्यति। यदा नेच्छति न दृष्टि ब्रह्म सम्पद्यते तदा॥
English: When a person himself feels no fear and is feared by no one, when he has no desire and no hatred, he is then said to attain to the state of Brahima.
Sanskrit: उभे सत्यानृते त्यक्त्वा शोकानन्दौ भयाभये। प्रियाप्रिये परित्यज्य प्रशान्तात्मा भविष्यति॥
English: Renouncing both truth and falsehood, grief and joy, fear and courage, the agreeable and the disagreeable, you may acquire equanimity of soul.
Sanskrit: यदा न कुरुते धीरः सर्वभूतेषु पापकम्। कर्मणा मनसा वाचा ब्रह्म सम्पद्यते तदा॥
English: When a person does no wrong to any creature, in thought, word, or deed, he is then said to attain to a state of Brahma.
Sanskrit: या दुस्त्यजा दुर्मतिभिर्या न जीर्यति जीर्यतः। योऽसौ प्राणान्तिको रोगस्तां तृष्णां त्यजतः सुखम्।।५५
English: He alone enjoys true happiness who can renounce that thirst which cannot be cast off by the misguided, which does not decay with decrepitude, and which is considered as a fatal disease.
Sanskrit: अत्र पिङ्गलया गीता गाथाः श्रूयन्ति पार्थिव। यथा सा कृच्छ्रकालेऽपि लेभे धर्मं सनातनम्॥
English: About it, O king, are heard the verses sung by Pingala regarding the way in which she had acquired eternal inerit even at a very unfavourable time.
Sanskrit: संकेते पिङ्गला वेश्या कान्तेनासीद् विनाकृता। अथ कृच्छ्रगता शान्ता बुद्धिमास्थापयत् तदा॥
English: Having gone to the appointed place, a fallen woman of the name of Pingala could not enjoy the company of her lover through an accident. At that time of great misery, she acquired equanimity of soul.
Sanskrit: पिङ्गलोवाच उन्मत्ताहमनुन्मत्तं कान्तमन्ववसं चिरम्। अन्तिके रमणं सन्तं नैनमध्यगमं पुरा॥
English: Pingala said Alas, I have for many years lived ignorantly, by the side of tha dear Self in whom there is nothing but tranquility. Death has been at my door. Ere this, I did not, however, approach that Essence of Purity.
Sanskrit: एकस्थूणं नवद्वारमपिधास्याम्यगारकम्। का हि कान्तमिहायान्तमयं कान्तेति मंस्यते॥
English: I shall cover this house of one column and nine doors, i.e., body, (by means of true knowledge). What woman is there who considers that dear. Supreme Soul, even when He is so near, as really dear.
Sanskrit: अकामां कामरूपेण धूर्ता नरकरूपिणः। न पुनर्वञ्चयिष्यन्ति प्रतिबुद्धास्मि जागृमि॥
English: I am now awake. I have been roused from the sleep of ignorance. I am no longer under the influence of desire. Human lovers, who are, in fact, so many embodiments of hell, shall no longer impose upon me by approaching me lustfully.
Sanskrit: अनर्थो हि भवेदर्थो दैवात् पूर्वकृतेन वा। सम्बुद्धाहं निराकारा नाहमद्याजितेन्द्रिया॥
English: Evil yields good through destiny or through pristine deeds. Roused from the sleep of ignorance, I have renounced all desire for worldly objects. I have gained a complete mastery over my senses.
Sanskrit: सुखं निराशः स्वपिति नैराश्यं परमं सुखम्। आशामनाशां कृत्वा हि सुखं स्वपिति पिङ्गला॥
English: One freed from desire and hope sleeps happily. Freedom from hope and desire is happiness. Having renounced desire and hope, Pingala sleeps happily.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच एतैश्चान्यैश्च विप्रस्य हेतुमद्भिः प्रभाषितैः। पर्यवस्थापितो राजा सेनजिन्मुमुदे सुखी॥
English: Bhishma said Consoled with these and other words of the learned Brahmana, king Senajit enjoyed delight and became very happy.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच असिद्धानुनये कृष्णे कुरुभ्यः पाण्डवान् गते। अभिगम्य पृथां क्षत्ता शनैः शोचन्निवाब्रवीत्॥
English: Vaishampayana said The object of Krishna having proved vrsuccessful and he having left the Kurus, the Kshattri having approached Pritha said to her slowly and sadly,
Sanskrit: जानासि मे जीवपुत्रि भावं नित्यमविग्रहे। क्रोशतो न च गृह्णीते वचनं मे सुयोधनः॥
English: "O you whose children are alive, you know that I am ever inclined to the reverse of war but though I am caring myself horse, Suyodhana does not act up to my words.
Sanskrit: उपपन्नो ह्यसौ राजा चेदिपाञ्चालकेकयैः। भीमार्जुनाभ्यां कृष्णेन युयुधानयमैरपि।॥
English: The king (Yudhishthira) has on his side the kings of the Chedis, the Panchalas, and the Kaikeyas and Bhima and Arjuna and Krishna and Yuyudhana and the twins.
Sanskrit: उपप्लेव्य निविष्टोऽपि धर्ममेव युधिष्ठिरः। काक्षते ज्ञातिसौहार्दाद् बलवान् दुर्बलो यथा॥
English: Yudhishthira is staying at Upaplavya like Dharma himself and desires the good will of his kinsmen as the weak desire the good will of the strong.
Sanskrit: राजा तु धृतराष्ट्रोऽयं वयोवृद्धो न शाम्यति। मत्तः पुत्रमदेनैव विधर्मं पथि वर्तते॥
English: This king Dhritarashtra too, old in years, does not make peace, and follows the wrong path being intoxicated with the pride of sons.
Sanskrit: जयद्रथस्य कर्णस्य तथा दुःशासनस्य च। सौबलस्य च दुर्बुद्ध्या मिथो भेदोः प्रपत्स्यते॥
English: The dispute in this instance has its rise in the wicked intelligence of Jayadratha, Karna, and Dushasana, as also of the son of Subala.
Sanskrit: अधर्मेण हि धर्मिष्ठं कृतं वैकार्यमीदृशम्। येषां तेषामयं धर्मः सानुबन्धो भविष्यति॥
English: These, who act with unrighteousness towards him who is righteous, have the fruit of such act of theirs.
Sanskrit: क्रियमाणे बलाद् धर्मं कुरुभिः को न संज्वरेत्। असाम्ना केशवे याते समुद्योक्ष्यन्ति पाण्डवाः॥
English: Who is there who would not grieve at the prostitution of virtue by the Kurus? When Keshava goes without having established peace the sons of Pandu will make preparation for war.
Sanskrit: ततः कुरूणामनयो भविता वीरनाशनः। चिन्तयन् न लभे निद्रामहः सु च निशासु च॥
English: Thereupon the misdeed of the Kurus will be the cause of a massacre of heroes; thinking of such things, I do not get sleep during day nor during night.”
Sanskrit: श्रुत्वा तु कुन्ती तद्वाक्यमर्थकामेन भाषितम्। सा निःश्वसन्ती दुःखार्ता मनसा विममर्श ह॥
English: Kunti too, hearing these words of his, which were spoken with the desire of benefit, began to sigh, being struck with sorrow and became depressed in mind also.
Sanskrit: धिगस्त्वर्थं यत्कृतेऽयं महान् ज्ञातिवधः कृतः। वय॑ते सुहृदां चैवं युद्धेऽस्मिन् वै पराभवः॥
English: "Fie on this interest" which is the cause of a great massacre of kinsmen-in this was those that are friends will meet with defeat.
Sanskrit: पाण्डवाश्चेदिपञ्चाला यादवाश्च समागताः। भारतैः सह योत्स्यन्ति किं नु दुःखमतः परम्॥
English: The sons of Pandu, the Chedis, the Panchalas and the Yadavas, united together will fight with the Bharatas; what can be a greater cause of sorrow than this?
Sanskrit: पश्ये दोषं ध्रुवं युद्धे तथाऽयुद्धे पराभवम्। अधनस्य मृतं श्रेयो न हि ज्ञातिक्षयो जयः॥
English: Behold, there is certainly demerit in war, as defeat in it the death of a man who is without wealth is better for him but the loss of kinsmen is no victory.
Sanskrit: इति मे चिन्तयन्त्या वै हृदि दुःखं प्रवर्तते। पितामहः शान्तनव आचार्यश्च युधां पतिः॥
English: Thinking this, sorrow comes to my heart; this grand father, Bhishma, the son of Shantanu, the preceptor who is the foremost among soldiers,
Sanskrit: कर्णश्च धार्तराष्ट्रार्थं वर्धयन्ति भयं मम। आचार्यः कामवान् शिष्यैोणो युद्धयेत जातुचित्॥
English: And Karna also being united with the party of the son of Dhritarashtra it enhances my fear. The preceptor Drona will by no means fight willingly with his disciple. son
Sanskrit: पाण्डवेषु कथं हार्द कुर्यान्न च पितामहः। अयं त्वेको वृथादृष्टिर्धार्तराष्ट्रस्य दुर्मतेः॥
English: Why should not also the grand father show sympathy to the son of Pandu. This one man only therefore (namely Karna) follows the delusion of the of the wicked-souled of Dhritarashtra of vain foresight.
Sanskrit: मोहानुवर्ती सततं पापो द्वेष्टि च पाण्डवान्। महत्यनर्थं निर्बन्धो बलवांश्च विशेषतः॥
English: The wretch also ever hates the sons of Pandu. He is obstinate in working for their injury, besides he is very powerful.
Sanskrit: कर्णः सदा पाण्डवानां तन्मे दहति सम्प्रति। आशंसे त्वद्य कर्णस्य मनोऽहं पाण्डवान् प्रति॥
English: Karna is ever against the sons of Pandu, and this fact now is burning me up; and I today expect. ((by the course I take) to incline the heart of Karna towards the sons of Pandu.
Sanskrit: प्रसादयितुमासाद्य दर्शयन्ती यथातथम्। तोषितो भगवान् यत्र दुर्वासा मे वरं ददौ॥
English: For I shall today approach him with a view to please him and tell him everything as it actually happened. The divinely holy Durvasa, being gratified by me, granted me a boon,
Sanskrit: आह्वानं मन्त्रसंयुक्तं वसन्त्याः पितृवेश्मनि। साहमन्तःपुरे राज्ञः कुन्तिभोजपुरस्कृता॥
English: Empowering me to invoke any body with the help of certain incantations ((mantras) when I was residing in my father's place, namely in the inner apartments of the king Kuntibhoja.
Sanskrit: चिन्तयन्ती बहुविधं हृदयेन विदूयता। बलाबलं च मन्त्राणां ब्राह्मणस्य च वाग्बलम्॥
English: With diverse thoughts and fearing in my heart and reflecting on the strength or weakness of the incantation as also of the efficacy of the Brahmana's boon.
Sanskrit: स्त्रीभावाद् बालभावाच्च चिन्तयन्ती पुनः पुनः। धाच्या विस्रब्धया गुप्ता सखीजनवृता तदा॥
English: And owing to my nature as a woman, especially owing to being a child I thought again and again, at the time being carefully guarded over by my nurse and surrounded by my companions.
Sanskrit: मे दोषं परिहरन्ती च पितुश्चारित्र्यरक्षिणी। कथं नु सुकृतं स्यानापराधवती कथम्॥
English: How I could avoid all blame and save the reputation of my father and how I could myself be visited with good fortune without being a sinner in any way.
Sanskrit: भवेयमिति संचिन्त्य ब्राह्मणं तं नमस्य च। कौतूहलात् तु तं लब्ध्वा बालिश्यादाचरं तदा। कन्या सती देवमर्कमासादयमहं ततः॥
English: And thinking of that Brahmana and bowing to him in my mind out of curiosity and behaving as a child at the time I came in contact with the god Surya though yet an unmarried girl.
Sanskrit: योऽसौ कानीनगर्भो मे पुत्रवत् परिरक्षितः। कस्मान्न कुर्याद् वचनं पथ्यं भ्रातृहितं तथा॥
English: Why should not he therefore, whom I bore in my womb when an unmarried girl, act according to my words leading to benefit and at the same time accomplish the good of his brothers?
Sanskrit: इति कुन्ती विनिश्चित्य कार्यनिश्चयमुत्तमम्। कार्यार्थमभिनिश्चित्य ययौ भागीरथी प्रति॥
English: Kunti, thus thinking on an excellent course of action, went towards the Bhagirathi for the attainment of her objects.
Sanskrit: आत्मजस्य ततस्तस्य घृणिनः सत्यसङ्गिनः। गङ्गातीरे पृथाऽश्रौषीद् वेदाध्ययननिःस्वनम्॥
English: Then on the banks of the Ganga did Pritha hear the sound of chanting the Vedas made by her son who had great kindness in him and who was attached to truth.
Sanskrit: प्राङ्मुखस्योर्ध्वबाहोः सा पर्यतिष्ठत पृष्ठतः। जप्यावसानं कार्यार्थं प्रतीक्षन्ती तपस्विनी॥
English: She waited behind Karna, who with arms upraised had his face turned to the east, till the end of the devotions of that devotee.
Sanskrit: अतिष्ठत् सूर्यतापार्ता कर्णस्योत्तरवाससि। कौरव्यपत्नी वार्ष्णेयी पद्ममालेव शुष्यती॥
English: She the wife of the Kauravya and the daughter of the Vrishni race waited troubled by the rays of the sun behind the clothes of Karna, becoming pale like a garland of lotuses.
Sanskrit: आपृष्ठतापाज्जप्त्वा स परिवृत्य यतव्रतः। दृष्ट्वा कुन्तीमुपातिष्ठदभिवाद्य कृताञ्जलिः॥
English: That one, who used to say his prayers regularly, having been engaged in devotion till his back became heated with the rays of the sun, then turned and seeing Kunti he did honour her by saluting her and folding his hands before her.
Sanskrit: यथान्यायं महातेजा मानी धर्मभृतां वरः। उत्समयन् प्रणतः प्राह कुन्तीं वैकर्तनो वृषः॥
English: As was custom that best among men, the son of Vikartana, endued with great energy and pride, that foremost of all virtuous persons, with surprise, said to Kunti.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच अत्रोपायं प्रवक्ष्यामि यथावच्छास्त्रचक्षुषा। तत्त्वज्ञानाच्चरन् राजन् प्राप्नुयात्परमां गतिम्॥
English: 'I shall now describe to you the means of conquering the senses as seen with the eye of the scriptures. A person, O king, will attain to the highest and by shaping his conduct accordingly.
Sanskrit: सर्वेषामेव भूतानां पुरुषः श्रेष्ठ उच्यते। पुरुषेभ्यो द्विजानाहुर्द्विजेभ्यो मन्त्रदर्शिनः॥
English: Amongst all living creatures man is said to be the foremost. Among men, the twice-born, persons well read in the Vedas are the foremost.