pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: तं तथा सुकृतं दृष्ट्वा पूज्यमान स्वकर्मसु। प्राद्विषन् कृतसंघाताः पूर्वभृत्या मुहुर्मुहुः॥ धनेन महता
English: Seeing the jackal treated with respect and supported in all his deeds, the old servants of the king, uniting together, began continually to show their hatred towards him.
Sanskrit: मित्रबुद्ध्या च गोमायुं सान्त्वयित्वा प्रसाद्य च। दोषैस्तु समतां नेतुमैच्छन्नशुभबुद्धयः॥
English: Those wicked persons at first tried to please and win him over with friendly conduct and make him put up with the various abuses which existed in the state.
Sanskrit: अन्यथा झुषिताः पूर्वं परद्रव्याभिहारिणः। अशक्ताः किञ्चिदादातुं द्रव्यं गोमायुयन्त्रिताः॥
English: Robbing other people's property, they had long enjoyed their sports. Now, however, being governed by the jackal, they were unable to take anything belonging to others.
Sanskrit: व्युत्थानं च विकाङ्क्षद्भिः कथाभिः प्रतिलोभ्यते। चैव बुद्धिरस्य विलोभ्यते॥ न चापि स महाप्राज्ञस्तस्माद् धैर्याच्चचाल ह।
English: Seeking aggrandisement and prosperity, they began to tempt him with sweet words. Indeed, large bribes even were offered to tempt his heart. Highly wise, the jackal showed no signs of yielding to those temptations.
Sanskrit: अथास्य समयं कृत्वा विनाशाय तथा परे॥ ईप्सितं तु मृगेन्द्रस्य मांसं यत् यत्र संस्कृतम्। अपनीय स्वयं तद्धि तैय॑स्तं तस्य वेश्मनि॥
English: Then some amongst them making an agreement amongst themselves for bringing about his destruction, snatched away the welldressed meat that was intended for, and much desired by the king of beasts, and kept it secretly in the house of the jackal.
Sanskrit: यदर्थं चाप्यपहृतं येन तच्चैव मन्त्रितम्। तस्य तद् विदितं सर्वं कारणार्थं च मर्षितम्॥
English: The jackal knew who had taken away the meat and the party who were connected with the act. But though he knew everything, he bore it for a particular object.
Sanskrit: समयोऽयं कृतस्तेन साचिव्यमुपगच्छता। नोपघातस्त्वया कार्यों राजन् मैत्रीमिहेच्छता॥
English: He had made an agreement with the king at the time of his becoming the minister, saying,-You seek my friendship, but you will not, O king, mistrust me without cause.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच क्षुधितस्य मृगेन्द्रस्य भोक्तुमभ्युत्थितस्य च। भोजनायोपहर्तव्यं तन्मांसं नोपदृश्यते॥ मृगराजेन चाज्ञप्तं दृश्यतां चोर इत्युत।
English: Bhishma said Feeling hungry, when the king of beasts came to eat, he did not found the meat which should have been kept ready for his dinner. The king then ordered,-Let the thief be detected!
Sanskrit: कृतकैश्चापि तन्मांसं मृगेन्द्रायोपवर्णितम्॥ सचिवेनापनीतं ते विदुषा प्राज्ञमानिना।
English: His deceitful ministers represented to him that the meat kept for him had been taken away by his learned minister, the jackal, that was so proud of his own wisdom.
Sanskrit: सरोषस्त्वथ शार्दूलः श्रुत्वा गोमायुचापलम्॥ बभूवामर्षितो राजा वधं चास्य व्यरोचयत्।
English: Hearing of this unwise act of the jackal, the tiger was insensate with rage. Indeed, the king, yielding to wrath, ordered his minister to be killed.
Sanskrit: छिद्रं तु तस्य तद् दृष्ट्वा प्रोचुस्ते पूर्वमन्त्रिणः॥ सर्वेषामेव सोऽस्माकं वृत्तिभङ्गे प्रवर्तते।
English: Finding the opportunity, the former ministers said to the king,-The jackal is always ready to take away from all of us the means of sustenance.
Sanskrit: निश्चित्यैव पुनस्तस्य ते कर्माण्यपि वर्णयन्।॥ इदं तस्येदृशं कर्म किं तेन न कृतं भवेत्।
English: Having said so, they once more spoke of the jackal's act of robbing the king of his food. And they said,-Such then is his conduct! What is there which he would not venture to do?
Sanskrit: श्रुतश्च स्वामिना पूर्वं यादृशो नैव तादृशः॥ वाङ्मात्रेणैव धर्मिष्ठः स्वभावेन तु दारुणः।
English: He is not as you had heard. He is righteous in words, but he is really sinful by nature.
Sanskrit: धर्मच्छद्या ह्ययं पापो वृथाचारपरिग्रहः॥ कार्यार्थ भोजनार्थेषु व्रतेषु कृतवाश्रमम्।
English: At heart a wretch, he has disguised himself by assuming the grab of virtue. His conduct is really vicious. For serving his own purpose he had practised austerities in matters of diet and vows.
Sanskrit: यदि विप्रत्ययो ह्येष तदिदं दर्शयाम ते॥ तन्मांसं चैव गोमायोस्तैः क्षणादाशु ढौकितम्।
English: If you disbelieve this, we will give you proof!-Having said so, they immediately caused that meat to be found out by entering the jackal's house.
Sanskrit: मांसापनयनं ज्ञात्वा व्याघ्रः श्रुत्वा च तद्वचः॥ आज्ञापयामास तदा गोमायुर्वध्यतामिति।
English: Determining that the meat was brought back from the jackal's house and hearing all those representations of his old servants, the king ordered, saying,-Let the jackal be killed.
Sanskrit: शार्दूलस्य वचः श्रुत्वा शार्दूलजननी ततः॥ मृगराजं हितैर्वाक्यैः सम्बोधयितुमागमत्।
English: Hearing these words of the tiger, his mother came there for awakening her son's good sense with wholesome advice.
Sanskrit: पुत्र नैतत् त्वया ग्राह्यं कपटारम्भसंयुतम्॥ कर्मसंघर्षजैर्दोषैर्दुष्येताशुचिभिः शुचिः।
English: The venerabie dame said,-O son, you should not believe this deceitful charge. Actuated by envy and rivalry, wicked men impute faults to even an honest person.
Sanskrit: नोच्छ्रितं सहते कश्चित् प्रक्रिया वैरकारिका॥ शुचेरपि हि युक्तस्य दोष एव निपात्यते।
English: Enemies desirous of a quarrel cannot bear the elevation of an enemy engendered by his great deeds. Faults are attributed to even a person soul performing penances. of pure
Sanskrit: मुनेरपि वनस्थस्य स्वानि कर्माणि कुर्वतः॥ उत्पाद्यन्ते त्रयः पक्षा मित्रोदासीनशत्रवः।
English: Even for an ascetic living in the forest and engaged in his own acts, there are three parties, viz., friends, neutrals, and foes.
Sanskrit: लुब्धानां शुचयो द्वेष्याः कातराणां तरस्विनः॥ मूर्खाणां पण्डिता द्वेष्या दरिद्राणां महाधनाः।
English: The rapacious hate the pure. The idle hate the active. The ignorant hate the learned. The poor hate the rich. The unrighteous hate the righteous. The ugly hate the beautiful.
Sanskrit: अधार्मिकाणां धर्मिष्ठा विरूपाणां सुरूपिणः॥ बहवः पण्डिता मूर्खा लुब्धा मायो जीविनः। कुर्युर्दोषमदोषस्य बृहस्पतिमतेरपि॥
English: Many of the learned, the ignorant, the rapacious, and the deceitful, would falsely accuse an innocent person even if the latter is endued with the virtues and intelligence of Brihaspati himself.
Sanskrit: शून्यात् तच्च गृहान्मांसं यद्यप्यपहृतं तव। नेच्छते दीयमानं च साधु तावद् विमृश्यताम्॥
English: If meat had really been stolen from your house in your absence, remember the jackal refuses to take any meat that is even given to him. Let sufficient attention be paid to his fact.
Sanskrit: असभ्या: सभ्यसंकाशा: सभ्याश्चासभ्यदर्शनाः। दृश्यन्ते विविधा भावास्तेषु युक्तं परीक्षणम्॥
English: Wicked persons sometimes pass for the virtues, and the virtues are sometimes taken for the wicked. There are various aspects in creatures. It is, therefore, necessary to examine which is which.
Sanskrit: तलवद् दृश्यते व्योम खद्योतो हव्यवाडिव। न चैवास्ति तलं व्योम्नि खद्योते न हुताशनः॥
English: The sky seems to be like the solid base of a vessel. The fire-fly appears like the actual spark of fire. In sooth, however, the sky has no base and there is no fire in the fire-fly.
Sanskrit: तस्मात् प्रत्यक्षदृष्टोऽपि युक्तो ह्यर्थः परीक्षितुम्। परीक्ष्य ज्ञापयत्रर्थान पश्चात् परितप्यते॥
English: You should there scrutinise even things which you see with your own eyes. If a person determines everything after scrutiny, he never regrets afterwards.
Sanskrit: न दुष्करमिदं पुत्र यत् प्रभुर्घातयेत् परम्। श्लाघनीया यशस्या च लोके प्रभवतां क्षमा॥
English: It is not at all difficult, O son, for a master to put his servant to death. Forgiveness, however, in persons endued with power, is always praiseworthy and yields fame.
Sanskrit: स्थापितोऽयं त्वया पुत्र सामन्तेष्वपि विश्रुतः। दुःखेनासाद्यते पात्रं धार्यतामेष ते सुहृत्॥
English: You had made the jackal your first minister. For that act, you had acquired great fame among all the neighbouring chiefs. A good minister cannot be secured easily. The jackal is your well wisher. Let him, therefore, be supported.
Sanskrit: दूषितं परदोषैर्हि गृहीते योऽन्यथा शुचिम्। स्वयं संदूषितामात्यः क्षिप्रमेव विनश्यति॥
English: That king, who considers a really innocent person falsely accused by his enemies to be guilty, is soon ruined by the wicked ministers who create that conviction in him!
Sanskrit: तस्मादप्यरिसंघाताद् गोमायोः कश्चिदागतः। धर्मात्मा तेन चाख्यातं यथैतत् कपटं कृतम्॥
English: After the tiger's mother had her say, a righteous agent of the jackal, coming out of that array of his enemies, disclosed everything about the way in which that false accusation had been made.
Sanskrit: ततो विज्ञातचरित: सत्कृत्य स विमोक्षितः। परिष्वक्तश्च सस्नेहं मृगेन्द्रेण पुनः पुनः॥
English: The jackal's innocence being proved, he was acquitted and respected by his master. The king of beasts embraced him affectionately again and again.
Sanskrit: अनुज्ञाप्य मृगेन्द्रं तु गोमायुर्नीतिशास्त्रवित्। तेनामर्षेण संतप्तः प्रायमासितुमैच्छत॥
English: Burning with grief, the jackal, however, who was master of the science of policy, salutated the king of beasts and solicited his permission for sacrificing his life by observing the Praya vow.
Sanskrit: शार्दूलस्तं तु गोमायुं स्नेहात् प्रोत्फुल्ललोचनः। अवारयत् स धर्मिष्ठ पूजया प्रतिपूजयन्॥
English: Looking upon the virtuous jackal with affection and honouring him with reverential worship, the tiger, tried to dissuade him from fulfilling his wishes.
Sanskrit: तं स गोमायुरालोक्य स्नेहादागतसम्भ्रमम्। उवाच प्रणतो वाक्यं बाष्पगद्गदया गिरा॥
English: Seeing his master moved with affection, the jackal bowed down to him, and, in a voice suppressed with tears, said
Sanskrit: पूजितोऽहं त्वया पूर्वं पश्चाच्चैव विमानितः। परेषामास्पदं नीतो वस्तुं नार्हाम्यहं त्वयि॥
English: Honoured by you first, I have afterwards been insulted by you. Your conduct towards me is calculated to make me an enemy of yours. It is not meet, therefore, that I should any longer live with you.
Sanskrit: असंतुष्टाश्च युताः स्थानान्मानात् प्रत्यवरोपिताः। स्वयं चोपहृता भृत्या ये चाप्युपहिताः परैः॥ परिक्षीणाश्च लुब्धाश्च क्रुद्धा भीताः प्रतारिताः। हतस्वा मानिनो ये च त्यक्तादाना महेप्सवः॥ संतापिताश्च ये केचिद् व्यसनौघप्रतीक्षिणः। अन्तर्हिता: सोपहितास्ते सर्वे परसाधनाः॥
English: Servants who are discontented, who have been dismissed from their offices, or who have been degraded from honourable situations, who have brought destitution upon themselves, or who have been ruined by their enemies, who have been weakened, who are rapacious, or enraged, or alarmed, or deceived, who have suffered confiscation, who are proud and willing to perform great feats but who are deprived of the means of acquiring wealth, and who burn with grief or anger for any injury done to them,-always wait for misfortunes to befall their masters. Being deceived, they forsake their masters and become powerful instruments in the hands of his enemies.
Sanskrit: अवमानेन युक्तस्य स्थानभ्रष्टस्य वा पुनः कथं यास्यसि विश्वासमहं तिष्ठामि वा कथम्॥
English: I have been insulted by you and degraded from my place. How will you trust me again? How shall I continue to live with you?
Sanskrit: समर्थ इति संगृह्य स्थापयित्वा परीक्षितः। कृतं च समय भित्त्वा त्वयाहमवमानितः॥
English: Knowing me to be competent you appointed me, and having examined me you had placed me in office. Violating the agreement then made (between us) you have insulted me.
Sanskrit: प्रथमं यः समाख्यातः शीलवानिति संसदि। न वाच्यं तस्य वैगुण्यं प्रतिज्ञां परिरक्षता॥
English: If one speaks of a particular person before others of righteous conduct, one should not, if desirous of keeping one's consistency, afterwards describe the same person as wicked.
Sanskrit: एवं चावमतस्येह विश्वास मे न यास्यसि। त्वयि चापेतविश्वासे ममोद्वेगो भविष्यति॥
English: I, who have thus been dishonoured by you, cannot any longer enjoy your confidence. On my part, when I shall find you withdraw your confidence from me, I shall be stricken with alarm and anxiety.
Sanskrit: शंकितस्त्वमहं भीतः परच्छिद्रानुदर्शिनः। अस्निग्धाश्चैव दुस्तोषा: कर्म चैतद् बहुच्छलम्॥
English: You entertaining suspicion and myself entertaining fear, our enemies will always try to find out opportunities for injuring us. Your subjects will, as a matter of fact, become anxious and discontented. Such a state of things has many shortcomings.
Sanskrit: दुःखेन श्लिष्यते भिन्नं श्लिष्टं दुःखेन भिद्यते। भिन्ना श्लिष्टा तु या प्रीतिर्न सा स्नेहेन वर्तते॥
English: It is difficult to unite again two who have been separated, as it is difficult to separate two that are united. If persons, reunited after separation, meet one another again, their conduct cannot be affectionate.
Sanskrit: कश्चिदेव हिते भर्तुर्दृश्यते न परात्मनोः। कार्यापेक्षा हि वर्तन्ते भावस्निग्धाः सुदुर्लभाः॥
English: No servant is to be seen who always wishes to do good to his master. People work with the desire of doing good to his master as also to one's own self. All works are undertaken from selfish desires. Unselfish works or motives are very rare.
Sanskrit: सुदु:खं पुरुषज्ञानं चित्तं ह्येषां चलाचलम्। समर्थो वाप्यशङ्को वा शतेष्वेकोऽधिगम्यते॥
English: Those kings, whose hearts are restless and unquiet; cannot gain a true knowledge of men. Only one in a hundred can be found who is either capable or undaunted.
Sanskrit: अकस्मात् प्रक्रिया नृणामकस्माच्चापकर्षणम्। शुभाशुभे महत्त्वं च प्रकर्तुं बुद्धिलाघवम्॥
English: The prosperity of men, as also their downfall, originates of itself. Prosperity and adversity, and greatness, all originate from weakness of understanding.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच एवंविधं सान्त्वमुक्त्वा धर्मकामार्थहेतुमत्। प्रसादयित्वा राजानं गोमायुर्वनमभ्यगात्॥
English: Bhishma said Having said these conciliatory words pregnant with virtue, pleasure and profit, and having pleased the king, the jackal retired to the forest.
Sanskrit: अगृह्यानुनयं तस्य मृगेन्द्रस्य च बुद्धिमान्। गोमायुः प्रायमास्थाय त्यक्त्वा देहं दिवं ययौ॥
English: Without heeding the entreaties of the king of beasts, the intelligent jackal renounced his body by sitting in Praya and went to heaven.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच एतस्मिन्नेव काले तु यथासम्प्रत्ययं कविः। विदुरः प्रेषयामास तद् वनं पुरुषं शुचिम्॥
English: Vaishampayana said : In the meanwhile, the learned Vidura sent to that forest a man of pure character whom he much trusted.
Sanskrit: स गत्वा तु यधोद्देशं पाण्डवान् ददृशे वने। जनन्या सह कौरव्य मापयानान् नदीजलम्॥
English: He went to the place where he was directed to go; and he was the descendants of Kuru, the son of Pandu, with their mother, measuring the depth of the water of a river in the forest.
Sanskrit: विदितं तन्महाबुद्धेर्विदुरस्य महात्मनः। ततस्तस्यापि चारेण चेष्टितं पापचेतसः॥ ततः प्रवासितो विद्वान् विदुरेण नरस्तदा। पार्थानां दर्शयामास मनोमारुतगामिनीम्॥ सर्ववातसहां नावं यन्त्रयुक्तां पताकिनीम्। शिवे भागीरथीतीरे नरैर्विस्त्रम्भिभिः कृताम्॥
English: The design of the wicked minded (Duryodhana) was made kncwn by this spy to the high souled and greatly learned Vidura. Therefore that learned man was sent by Vidura and that person showed to the sons of Pritha a boat, as swift as mind or wind. With mechanism and flags, made by trusted artificers and capable of withstanding wind and waves. It was on the banks of the holy Bhagirathi.
Sanskrit: ततः पुनरथोवाच ज्ञापकं पूर्वचोदितम्। युधिष्ठिर निबोधेदं संज्ञार्थं वचनं कवेः॥
English: He said these word to show that he was really sent (by Vidura). (He said), "O Yudhishthira, listen to what the learned Vidura) said to you.
Sanskrit: कक्षघ्नः शिशिरघ्नश्च महाकक्षे विलौकसः। न हन्तीत्येवमात्मानं यो रक्षति स जीवति॥
English: 'Neither the consumer of straw and wood, nor the drier of the dews burns the inmates of a hole in the forest. He escapes from death who protects himself.'
Sanskrit: तेन मां प्रेषितं विद्धि विश्वस्तं संज्ञयानया! भूयश्चैवाह मां क्षत्ता विदुरः सर्वतोऽर्थवित्॥ कर्णं दुर्योधनं चैव भ्रातृभिः सहितं रणे। शकुनि चैव कौन्तेय विजेतासि न संशयः॥
English: By these credentials know me to have been sent by Vidura and also to be his trusted agent. Kshatta (Vidura), learned in the precepts of all religions, told me also. O son of Kunti, that you shall surely defeat in battle Karna, Duryodhana with his brothers and Sakuni.
Sanskrit: इयं वारिपथे युक्ता नौरप्सु सुखगामिनी। मोचयिष्यति वः सर्वानस्माद् देशान्न संशयः॥
English: "This boat is ready on the waters. It will glide pleasantly on. It will surely carry away from these regions."
Sanskrit: अथ तान् व्यथितान् दृष्ट्वा सह मात्रा नरोत्तमान्। नावमारोष्य गङ्गायां प्रस्थितानब्रवीत् पुनः॥
English: Seeing those best of men with their mother pensive and sad, he made them get on the boat that was on the Ganges. Going with them hiniself, he again said ..
Sanskrit: विदुरो मूर्युपाघ्राय परिष्वज्य वचो मुहुः। अरिष्टं गच्छताव्यग्राः पन्थानमिति चाब्रवीत्॥
English: "Vidura, having smelled your heads and embracing you, has said it again and again that in commencing your auspicious journey and going alone, you should never be careless."
Sanskrit: इत्युक्त्वा स तु तान् वीरान् पुमान् विदुरचोदितः। तारयामास राजेन्द्र गङ्गां नावा नरर्षभान्॥
English: O king, having said this, the man sent by Vidura took those heroes, those best of man, to the other side of the Ganges on his boat.
Sanskrit: तारयित्वा ततो गङ्गां पारं प्राप्तांश्च सर्वशः। जयाशिषः प्रयुज्याथ यथागतमगाद्धि सः॥
English: Having taken them over the waters and seen them all safe on the opposite bank, he uttered the word Jaya (Victory) and blessing them he went back to the place whence he came.
Sanskrit: पाण्डवाश्च महात्मानः प्रतिसंदिश्य वै कवेः। गङ्गामुत्तीर्य वेगेन जग्मुर्मूढमलक्षिताः॥
English: The illustrious Pandavas also, sending some message to the learned (Vidura) and having crossed the Ganges, proceeded in haste and in great secrecy, being your observed by all.
Sanskrit: सौतिरुवाच एतत्ते कथितं सर्वममृतं मथितं तथा। यत्र सोऽश्वः समुत्पन्नः श्रीमानतुलविक्रमः॥
English: Sauti said : Thus have I narrated to you how the Ambrosia was churned out of the Ocean, in which the beautiful and powerful horse (Uchchaishrava) was produced.
Sanskrit: यं निशम्य तदा कदूर्विनतामिदमब्रवीत्। उच्चैःश्रवा हि किं वर्णो भद्रे प्रब्रूहि मा चिरम्॥
English: Beholding this horse Kadru asked Vinata, saying, “Tell me, sister, without delay, what is the colour of Uchchaishrava?”
Sanskrit: विनतोवाच श्वेत एवाश्वराजोऽयं किं वा त्वं मन्यसे शुभे। ब्रूहि वर्णं त्वमप्यस्य ततोऽत्र विपणावहे॥
English: Vinata said: This king of the horses is of white colour. What colour do you think, sister? Say what is its colour; let us lay a wager on it.
Sanskrit: कदूरुवाच कृष्णवालमहं मन्ये हयमेनं शुचिस्मिते। एहि सार्धं मया दीव्य दासीभावाय भामिनि॥
English: Kadru said : O sweet lady of smiles, I think the horse is black in its tail. Let us lay this wager that she, whose words will be untrue, will become the slave of the other.
Sanskrit: सौतिरुवाच एवं ते समयं कृत्वा दासीभावाय वै मिथः। जग्मतुः स्वगृहानेव श्वो द्रक्ष्याव इति स्म ह॥
English: Sauti said: Thus wagering that one will be the slave of the other, they went home, saying "We shall see the horse tomorrow."
Sanskrit: ततः पुत्रसहस्रं तु कर्जिा चिकीर्षती। आज्ञापयामास तदा वाला भूत्वाचनप्रभाः॥
English: Wishing to play a deception, Kadru ordered her thousand sons to be black hair;
Sanskrit: आविशध्वं हयं क्षिप्रं दासी न स्यामहं यथा। नावपद्यन्त ये वाक्यं ताशशाप भुजंगमान्॥
English: And speedily cover the horse's tail so that she might not become a slave. But on their refusal to do her bidding. She cursed the snakes, saying,
Sanskrit: सर्पसत्रे वर्तमाने पावको वः प्रधक्ष्यति। जनमेजयस्य राजर्षेः पाण्डवेयस्य धीमतः॥
English: "In the Snake-sacrifice of the royal sage, wise Janamejaya of the Pandava race Agni will consume you all.
Sanskrit: शापमेनं तु शुश्राव स्वयमेव पितामहः। अतिक्रूरं समुत्सृष्टं कवा दैवादतीव हि॥
English: The Grandsire (Brahma) himself heard this exceedingly cruel curse, denounced by Kadru, impelled by Fate.
Sanskrit: सार्धं देवगणैः सर्वैर्वाचं तामन्वमोदत। बहुत्वं प्रेक्ष्य सर्पाणां प्रजानां हितकाम्यया॥
English: And he (Brahma), out of kindness for creatures and seeing that the snakes had enormously multiplied, approved of this curse with all the deities.
Sanskrit: तिग्मवीर्यविषा होते दन्दशूका महाबलाः। तेषां तीक्ष्णविषत्वाद्धि प्रजानां च हिताय च॥ युक्तं मात्रा कृतं तेषां परपीडोपसर्पिणाम्। अन्येषामपि सत्त्वानां नित्यं दोषपरास्तु ये॥
English: "Considering their virulent poison, excessive strength, great prowess, biting propensity, their mother's curse had been very proper for the good of all creatures.
Sanskrit: तेषां प्राणान्तिकी दण्डो दैवेन विनिपात्यते। एवं संभाष्य देवस्तु पूज्य कदूं च तां तदा॥
English: “Fate always inflicts death on those who seek the death of others.” Talking thus, the celestials much praised Kadru.
Sanskrit: आहूय कश्यपं देव इदं वचनमब्रवीत्। यदेते दन्दशूकाश्च सर्पा जातस्त्वयानघ॥ विषोल्बणा महाभोगा मात्रा शप्ताः परंतप। तत्र मन्युस्त्वया तात न कर्तव्यः कथंचन॥
English: Then calling Kashyapa, the Deity said. “O sinless one, O powerful one, the snakes of virulent poison, of huge bodies and of biting propensity whom you have begotten have been cursed by their mother. O child, you should not be angry with her.
Sanskrit: दृष्टं पुरातनं ह्येतद्यज्ञे सर्पविनाशनम्। इत्युक्त्वा सृष्टिकृदेवस्तं प्रसाद्य प्रजापतिम्। प्रादाद्विषहरी विद्यां कश्यपाय महात्मने॥
English: The destruction of the snakes in the sacrifice (of Janamejaya) has been told in the Purana.” Saying this, the Divine creator of the Universe propitiated Kashyapa and bestowed on the knowledge of neutralising poison. that great man
Sanskrit: अर्जुन उवाच संन्यासस्य महाबाहो तत्त्वमिच्छामि वेदितुम्। त्यागस्य च हृषीकेश पृथक् केशिनिषूदन॥
English: Arjuna said O mighty-armed, I desire to know the true nature of Sanyasa (Renunciation) and Tyaga (Abandonment). O slayer of Keshi, I want to know them distinctly.
Sanskrit: श्रीभगवानुवाच काम्यानां कर्मणां न्यासं संन्यासं कवयो विदुः। सर्वकर्मफलत्यागं प्राहुस्त्यागं विचक्षणाः॥
English: The great one said Rejection of works with some desire is known by the learned as Sanyasa. But the abandonment of the desire for the fruit of all works, is called Tyaga, by the discerning man.
Sanskrit: त्याज्यं दोषवदित्येके कर्म प्राहुर्मनीषिणः। यज्ञदानतपःकर्म न त्याज्यमिति चापरे॥
English: Some wise men say that work itself should be abandoned considering it to be evil; others say that the works of sacrifice, gifts and penance should not be renounced.
Sanskrit: मे तत्र त्यागे भरतसत्तम। त्यागो हि पुरुषव्याघ्र त्रिविधः सम्प्रकीर्तितः॥
English: 0 best of Bharata's son, listen to my opinion about Tyaga, for powerful of men, Tyaga is of three kinds.
Sanskrit: यज्ञदानतपःकर्म न त्याज्यं कार्यमेव तत्। यज्ञो दान तपश्चैव पावनानि मनीषिणाम्॥
English: The works of sacrifice, gifts and penance should not be renounced. They should indeed be performed, for, sacrifices, gifts and penances are the means for the purification of the wise.
Sanskrit: एतान्यपि तु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा फलानि च। कर्तव्यानीति में पार्थ निश्चितं मतमुत्तमम्॥ निश्चयं शृणु
English: But these works should be performed without attachment and without the desire for fruits. Partha, this is my decided opinion.
Sanskrit: नियतस्य तु संन्यासः कर्मणो नोपपद्यते। मोहात् तस्य परित्यागस्तामसः परिकीर्तितः॥
English: The Renunciation of work is not proper. It is the result of delusion and arises from Tama.
Sanskrit: दुःखमित्येव यत् कर्म कायक्लेशभयात् त्यजेत्। स कृत्वा राजसं त्यागं नैव त्यागफलं लभेत्॥
English: When work is abandoned from bodily fear and froin the consideration of pain, such abandonment arises from Raja, and one who makes such abandonment never obtains the fruit of Tyaga.
Sanskrit: कार्यमित्येव यत् कर्म नियतं क्रियतेऽर्जुन। सङ्गत्यक्त्वा फलं चैव स त्यागः सात्त्विको मतः॥
English: The abandonment of attachment and the fruit of actions which are performed because they are prescribed in the Shastras. O Arjuna, is considered to be of the quality of Sativa.
Sanskrit: न द्वेष्ट्यकुशलं कर्म कुशले नानुषज्जते। त्यागी सत्त्वसमाविष्टो मेधावी छिन्नसंशयः॥
English: He, who has such Tyaga, being possessed of intelligence and with doubts dispelled, has no aversion for an unpleasant action, and has no attachment for pleasant ones.
Sanskrit: न हि देहभृता शक्यं त्यक्तुं कर्माण्यशेषतः। यस्तु कर्मफलत्यागी स त्यागीत्यभिधीयते॥
English: Actions cannot be absolutely a abandoned by man; therefore he, who abandons the fruit of actions, is a true Tyagi.
Sanskrit: अनिष्टमिष्टं मिश्रं च त्रिविधं कर्मणः फलम्। भवत्यत्यागिनां प्रेत्य न तु संन्यासिनां क्वचित्॥
English: Those, that do not abandon the desire for the fruit of actions, have after death threefold fruits, good, bad and indifferent.