pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: योऽवमन्यात्मनाऽऽत्मानमन्यथा प्रतिपद्यते। न तस्य देवाः श्रेयांसो यस्यात्मापि न कारणम्॥ स्वयं प्राप्तेति मामेवं मावमंस्थाः पतिव्रताम्। अर्चाहीं नार्चयसि मां स्वयं भार्यामुपस्थिताम्॥
English: He, who falsely represents his self and thus degrades himself, is never blessed by the celestials. Even his own soul does not bless him. I have come of my own accord, but I am a devoted wife to my husband. Do not disrespect me. I am your wife and deserve to be treated respectfully.
Sanskrit: किमर्थं मां प्राकृतवदुपप्रेक्षसि संसदि। न खल्वहमिदं शून्ये रौमि किं न शृणोषि मे॥
English: Why do you treat me before all these men like an ordinary woman? I am certainly not crying in the wilderness. Do you not hear me?
Sanskrit: यदि मे याचमानाया वचनं न करिष्यसि। दुष्यन्त शतधा मूर्धा ततस्तेऽद्य स्फुटिष्यति॥
English: O Dushyanta, If you refuse what I ask you to do, your head will to day be divided into a thousand pieces.
Sanskrit: भार्यां पतिः सम्प्रविश्य स यस्माजायते पुनः। जायायास्तद्धि जायात्वं पौराणाः कवयो विदुः॥
English: The learned men of old say that the husband himself, entering into the womb of his wife, comes out as the son. Therefore, the wife is called Jaya.
Sanskrit: यदागमवतः पुंसस्तदपत्यं प्रजायते। तत् तारयति संतत्या पूर्वप्रेतान् पितामहान्॥
English: The son, that is born to a wise man, rescues the spirits of his deceased ancestors.
Sanskrit: पुत्राम्नो नरकाद् यस्मात् पितरं त्रायते सुतः। तस्मात् पुत्र इति प्रोक्तः स्वयमेव स्वयम्भुवा॥
English: Because the son rescues his ancestors from the hell, called Put, therefore he has been called by the self-created (Brahma) himself as Putra.
Sanskrit: (पुत्रेण लोकाञ्जयति पौत्रेणानन्त्यमश्नुते। अथ पौत्रस्य पुत्रेण मोदन्ते प्रपितामहः।।)
English: A man conquers the world by the birth of a son; he enjoys eternity by that of a grandson; the great grandfathers enjoy eternal happiness by the birth of a grandson's son.
Sanskrit: सा भार्या या गृहे दक्षा सा भार्या या प्रजावती। सा भार्या या पतिप्राणा सा भार्या या पतिव्रता॥
English: She is a true wife who is a good housewife; she is a true wife whose heart is devoted to her husband; she is a true wife who is faithful to her husband,
Sanskrit: अर्धं भार्या मनुष्यस्य भार्या श्रेष्ठतमः सखा। भार्या मूलं त्रिवर्गस्य भार्या मूलं तरिष्यतः॥
English: A man's half is his wife, the wife is her husband's best of friends; the wife is the source of Dharma, Artha and Kama; the wife is the source of salvation.
Sanskrit: भार्यावन्त: क्रियावन्तः सभार्या गृहमेधिनः। भार्यावन्तः प्रमोदन्ते भार्यावन्तः श्रियान्विताः॥
English: Those that have wives can perform religious acts; those that have wives lead domestic lives. Those that have wives can be happy and those that have wives can achieve good fortune.
Sanskrit: सखायः प्रविविक्तेषु भवन्त्येताः प्रियंवदाः। पितरो धर्मकार्येषु भवन्त्यार्तस्य मातरः॥
English: The sweet-speeched wives their husband's friends on the occasion of joy; they are as fathers on occasions of religious acts; they are as mothers in the hours of illness and are woe.
Sanskrit: कान्तारेष्वपि विश्रामो जनस्याध्वनिकस्य वै। यः सदारः स विश्वास्यस्तस्माद् दाराः परागतिः॥४४।
English: Even in the deep forest, the wife is the refreshment and solace to her roaming husband. He who has a wife, is trusted by all. The wife, therefore, is man's great means of salvation.
Sanskrit: संसरन्तमपि प्रेतं विषमेष्वेकपातिनम्। भावान्वेति भर्तारं सततं या पतिव्रता॥
English: When the husband goes to the land of Yama, leaving this world, it is the devoted wife only that accompanies him there.
Sanskrit: प्रथमं संस्थिता भार्या पतिं प्रेत्य प्रतीक्षते। पूर्वं मृतं च भर्तारं पश्चात् साध्व्यनुगच्छति॥
English: The wife, gone before (dying before her husband), waits for the spirit of her husband and if the husband goes before, the chaste wife soon follows him.
Sanskrit: एतस्मात् कारणाद् राजन् पाणिग्रहणमिष्यते। यदाप्नोति पतिर्भार्यामिहलोके परत्र च॥
English: O king, for all these reasons, marriage exists (in this world). The husband enjoys the company of his wife, both here in this world and hereafter.
Sanskrit: आत्माऽऽत्मनैव जनितः पुत्र इत्युच्यते बुधैः। तस्माद् भार्यां नरः पश्येन्मातृवत् पुत्रमातरम्॥
English: The learned men have said that a man himself is born as his son; therefore, a man whose wife has given birth to a son, should look upon her as his mother.
Sanskrit: भार्यायां जनितं पुत्रमादर्शेष्विव चाननम्। ह्लादते जनिता प्रेक्ष्य स्वर्गं प्राप्येव पुण्यकृत्॥
English: Looking at the face of the son, begotten on his wife, a man sees his own face as he does in a mirror; and feels himself as happy as a virtuous man attaining to heaven.
Sanskrit: दह्यमाना मनोदुःखैर्व्याधिभिश्चातुरा नराः। ह्लादन्ते स्वेषु दारेषु धर्मार्ताः सलिलेष्विव॥
English: Men, burnt out by mental grief or afflicted by disease, feel as much relieved in the company of their wives as a perspiring man does in a cool bath.
Sanskrit: सुसंरब्धोऽपि रामाणां न कुर्यादप्रियं नरः। रतिं प्रीतिं च धर्मं च तास्वायत्तमवेक्ष्य हि॥
English: No man, even in anger, should even do any thing that is disagreeable to his wife; for happiness, joy, virtue and everything depend on the wife.
Sanskrit: आत्मनो जन्मनः क्षेत्रं पुण्यं रामाः सनातनम्। ऋषीणामपि का शक्तिः स्रष्टुं रामामृते प्रजाम्॥
English: Wife is the sacred soil in which the husband is born again. Even Rishis cannot create men without women.
Sanskrit: प्रतिपद्य यदा सूनुर्धरणीरेणुगुण्ठितः। पितुराश्लिष्यतेऽङ्गानि किमस्त्यभ्यधिकं ततः॥
English: What is a greater happiness to a father than what the father feels when his son, running to him, clasps him with his (tiny little) arms, though his body is full of dust and dirt?
Sanskrit: स त्वं स्वयमभिप्राप्तं साभिलाषमिमं सुतम्। प्रेक्षमाणं कटाक्षेण किमर्थमवमन्यसे॥ अण्डानि बिभ्रति स्वानि न भिन्दन्ति पिपीलिकाः। न भरेथाः कथं न त्वं धर्मज्ञः सन् स्वमात्मजम्॥
English: Why are you treating with indifference this your son who has himself come to you and who is wistfully casting his glances towards you? Even ants support their off-spring and do not destroy their eggs. Why then should you not, being learned in the rules of piety, support your own child?
Sanskrit: न वाससां न रामाणां नापां स्पर्शस्तथाविधः। शिशोरालिङ्ग्यमानस्य स्पर्शः सूनोर्यथा सुखः॥
English: The touch of the sandal-paste, that of women and water, is not so pleasing as that of one's own infant son, locked in his embrace.
Sanskrit: ब्राह्मणो द्विपदां श्रेष्ठो गौर्वरिष्ठा चतुष्पदाम्। गुरुर्गरीयसां श्रेष्ठः पुत्रः स्पर्शवतां वरः॥
English: As the Brahmana is the best among bipeds (men), as cow is the best among quadrupeds, as preceptor is the best among all superiors, so is the son among all objects pleasing to the touch.
Sanskrit: स्पृशतु त्वां समाश्लिष्य पुत्रोऽयं प्रियदर्शनः। पुत्रस्पर्शात् सुखतरः स्पर्शो लोके न विद्यते॥
English: Let this handsome son touch you in your embrace. There is nothing in the world more pleasing to the touch than that of a son.
Sanskrit: त्रिषु वर्षेषु पूर्णेषु प्रजाताहमरिंदम। इमं कुमारं राजेन्द्र तव शोकविनाशनम्॥ आहर्ता वाजिमेधस्य शतसंख्यस्य पौरव। इति वागन्तरिक्षे मां सूतकेऽभ्यवदत् पुरा॥
English: O chastiser of foes, O great king, I gave birth to this boy, the dispeller of your grief, after the completion of three years. O descendant of the Puru race, when I was in the lying-in room, the following words were uttered in the sky, He shall perform one hundred horse-sacrifices.
Sanskrit: ननु नामाङ्कमारोप्य स्नेहाद् ग्रामान्तरं गताः। मूर्ध्नि पुत्रानुपाघ्राय प्रतिनन्दन्ति मानवाः॥
English: Men, going to places remote from their homes, take up other men's sons on their laps and smelling their heads, feel great happiness.
Sanskrit: वेदेष्वपि वदन्तीमं मन्त्रग्रामं द्विजातयः। जातकर्माणि पुत्राणां तवापि विदितं तथा॥
English: You know that the Brahmanas utter the following Vedic Mantras at the birthday, ceremony of the child.
Sanskrit: अङ्गादङ्गात् सम्भवसि हृदयादधिजायसे। आत्मा वै पुत्रनामासि स जीव शरदः शतम्॥
English: “You are born of my body; you have sprung from my heart. You are myself in the form of my son. Live for one hundred years."
Sanskrit: जीवितं त्वदधीनं मे संतानमपि चाक्षयम्। तस्मात् त्वं जीव मे पुत्र सुसुखी शरदां शतम्॥
English: "My life depends on you. The continuation of my race also depends on you. Therefore, live in happiness for one hundred years."
Sanskrit: त्वदङ्गेभ्यः प्रसूतोऽयं पुरुषात् पुरुषोऽपरः। वै सरसीवामलेऽऽत्मानं द्वितीयं पश्य सुतम्॥
English: He (this boy) has sprung from your body, he is a second being begotten from you. Behold your own self in your own son, as you see your image in the clear waters of the lake.
Sanskrit: यथा ह्याहवनीयोऽग्निर्गार्हपत्यात् प्रणीयते। तथा त्वत्तः प्रसूतोऽयं त्वमेकः सन् द्विधा कृतः॥ मृगावकृष्टेन पुरा मृगयां परिधावता। अहमासादिता राजन् कुमारी पितुराश्रमे॥
English: As the sacrificial fire is kindled from the domestic fire, so has this one (your son), sprung from you. Though you are one, you have divided yourself in two. O king, in your hunting expedition, I was approached by you when I was a virgin in my father's hermitage.
Sanskrit: उर्वशी पूर्वचित्तिश्च सहजन्या च मेनका। विश्वाची च घृताची च षडेवाप्सरसां वराः॥
English: Urvashi, Purvachitti, Sahajanya, Menaka, Vishvachi and Ghritachi, these are the six foremost Apsaras.
Sanskrit: तासां सा मेनका नाम ब्रह्मयोनिर्वराप्सराः। दिवः सम्प्राप्य जगतीं विश्वामित्रादजीजनत्॥
English: Amongst them again, Menaka, born of a Brahmana, is the first. Descending from heaven on earth, she gave me birth from her association with Vishvamitra.
Sanskrit: सा मां हिमवतः प्रस्थे सुषुवे मनेकाप्सराः। अवकीर्य च मां याता परात्मजमिवासती॥
English: The Apsara Menaka gave me birth in a valley of the Himalayas. Devoid of affections, she went away, leaving me there, as if I was a child of some others.
Sanskrit: किं नु कर्माशुभं पूर्वं कृतवत्यन्यजन्मनि। यदहं बान्धवैस्त्यक्ता बाल्ये सम्प्रति च त्वया।॥
English: What great sin did I commit of old in some other life that I was cast away by my parents in my infancy and now I am cast away by you?
Sanskrit: कामं त्वया परित्यक्ता गमिष्यामि स्वमाश्रमम्। इमं तु बालं संत्यक्तुं नार्हस्यात्मजमात्मनः॥
English: Cast off from you, I am ready to go back to the hermitage. But you should not cast off this child who is your own son.
Sanskrit: दुष्यन्त उवाच न पुत्रमभिजानामि त्वयि जातं शकुन्तले। असत्यवचना नार्यः कस्ते श्रद्धास्यते वचः॥ मेनका निरनुक्रोशा बन्धकी जननी तव। यया हिमवतः पृष्ठे निर्माल्यमिव चोज्झिता॥
English: Dushyanta said : O Shakuntala, I do not know that I begot this child on you. Women generally speak falsehood. Who will believe your words? Your mother is lewd Menaka, destitute of affection; she cast off you in the valley of the Himalayas as one casts off the flowers after offering them to the gods.
Sanskrit: स चापि निरनुक्रोशः क्षत्रयोनिः पिता तव। विश्वामित्रो ब्राह्मणत्वे लुब्धः कामवशं गतः॥
English: Your father also is lustful Vishvamitra of the Kshatriya race, destitute of all affection, the ! man who was tempted to become a Brahmana.
Sanskrit: मेनकाप्सरसां श्रेष्ठा महर्षीणां पिता च ते। तयोरपत्यं कस्मात् त्वं पुंश्चलीव प्रभाषसे॥
English: But (if you say), Menaka is the foremost of Apsaras and Vishvamitra is the foremost of Rishis, why then do you, being their daughter, speak like a lewd woman?
Sanskrit: अश्रद्धेयमिदं वाक्यं कथयन्ती न लजसे। विशेषतो मत्सकाशे दुष्टतापसि गम्यताम्॥
English: Your these words deserve no credence. Are you not ashamed to utter them, specially before me? Go away, O wicked ascetic woman.
Sanskrit: व महर्षिः स चैवाग्र्यः साप्सराः क्व च मेनका। क्व च त्वमेवं कृपणा तापसीवेषधारिणी॥
English: Where is now that best of great Rishis (Vishvamitra) and that best of Apsaras Menaka? And where are you, (though) in the humble garb of ascetics.
Sanskrit: अतिकायश्च ते पुत्रो बालोऽतिबलवानयम्। कथमल्पेन कालेन शालस्तम्भ इवोद्गतः॥
English: Your this son is very big and appears to be very strong. How has he, within so short time, grown up like a Sala sprout?
Sanskrit: सुनिकृष्टा च ते योनिः पुंश्चलीव प्रभाषसे। यदृच्छया कामरागाजाता मेनकया ह्यसि॥
English: You are born very low, you speak also like a lewd woman. You were lustfully conceived by Menaka.
Sanskrit: सर्वमेतत् परोक्षं मे यत् त्वं वदसि तापसि। नाहं त्वामभिजानामि यथेष्टं गम्यतां त्वया॥
English: O ascetic woman, all that you say is quite unknown to me. I do not know you. Go away wherever you please.
Sanskrit: शकुन्तलोवाच राजन् सर्पपमात्राणि परच्छिद्राणि पश्यसि। आत्मनो बिल्वमात्राणि पश्यन्नपि न पश्यसि॥
English: Shakuntala said: O king, you (can) see the faults of others, though they may be as small as the mustard seed. But you can not see your own faults, though they are as big as the Bilva fruit.
Sanskrit: मेनका त्रिदशेष्वेव त्रिदशाश्चानु मेनकाम्। ममैवोद्रिच्यते जन्म दुष्यन्त तव जन्मनः॥
English: Menaka is a celestial, (nay) Menaka is considered to be the best of celestial. O Dushyanta, my birth is noble than your own.
Sanskrit: क्षितावटसि राजेन्द्र अन्तरिक्षे चराम्यहम्। आवयोरन्तरं पश्य मेरुसर्षपयोरिव॥
English: O great king, you walk on earth, but I roam in the sky. Know that the difference between you and me is like that of a mustard seed and the Meru (mountain).
Sanskrit: महेन्द्रस्य कुबेरस्य यमस्य वरुणस्य च। भवनान्यनुसंयामि प्रभावं पश्य मे नृप॥
English: O king, behold, I can go to the abodes of Indra, Kubera, Yama and Varuna.
Sanskrit: सत्यश्चापि प्रवादोऽयं यं प्रवक्ष्यामि तेऽनघ। निदर्शनार्थं न द्वेषाच्छ्रुत्वा तं क्षन्तुमर्हसि॥
English: O sinless man, there is a proverb which I am going to mention to you; (but I am not doing it) from any evil motive, but only as an example. Therefore, kindly pardon me for referring to it.
Sanskrit: विरूपो यावदादर्श नात्मनः पश्यते मुखम्। मन्यते तावदात्मानमन्येभ्यो रूपवत्तरम्॥
English: The ugly man, until he sees his face in a mirror, considers himself more handsome than others.
Sanskrit: यदा स्वमुखमादर्श विकृतं सोऽभिवीक्षते। तदान्तरं विजानीते आत्मानं चेतरं जनम्।। ८८
English: But when he sees his own face in the mirror, it is then that he perceives the difference between himself and others.
Sanskrit: अतीवरूपसम्पन्नो न कंचिदवमन्यते। अतीव जल्पन् दुर्वाचो भवतीह विहेठकः॥
English: He, who is really very handsome, never taunts others. He, who too much vilifies others, is only considered to be a reviler.
Sanskrit: मूतॊ हि जल्पतां पुंसां श्रुत्वा वाचः शुभाशुभाः। अशुभं वाक्यमादत्ते पुरीषमिव सूकरः॥
English: As the swine seeks for the dirt and filth even when it is in a flower-garden, so does a wicked man chose only evil out of the evil and the good that others speak.
Sanskrit: प्राज्ञस्तु जल्पतां पुंसां श्रुत्वा वाचः शुभाशुभाः। गुणवद् वाक्यमादत्ते हंसः क्षीरमिवाम्भसः॥
English: But as the geese always extract milk, though inixed with water, so does a wise man accept only what is good from the speech that is intermixed with both good and evil.
Sanskrit: अन्यान् परिवदन् साधुर्यथा हि परितप्यते। तथा परिवदन्नन्यांस्तुष्टो भवति दुर्जनः॥
English: Honest men always feel pain to speak ill of others, but wicked men always derive pleasure in doing it.
Sanskrit: अभिवाद्य यथा वृद्धान् सन्तो गच्छन्ति निर्वृतिम्। एवं सज्जनमाक्रुश्य मूर्यो भवति निर्वृतः॥ सुखं जीवन्त्यदोषज्ञा मूर्खा दोषानुदर्शिनः। यत्र वाच्याः परैः सन्तः परानाहुस्तथाविधान्॥
English: Honest men always feel pleasure in showing respect towards the old (good men), but the fools always feel pleasure in abusing them. Honest men are happy in not seeking others' fault, but the fools are happy in doing it. The wicked always speak ill of honest men, but honest men never injure the wicked, even if injured by them.
Sanskrit: अतो हास्यतरं लोके किंचिदन्यन्न विद्यते। यत्र दुर्जनमित्याह दुर्जनः सज्जनं स्वयम्॥
English: What could be more ridiculous in the world than this, that those that are wicked should represent really honest men as wicked.
Sanskrit: सत्यधर्मच्युतात् पुंसः क्रुद्धादाशीविषादिव। अनास्तिकोऽप्युद्विजते जनः किं पुनरास्तिकः॥
English: Even atheists are afraid of those who have fallen from truth and virtue, as all men are afraid of the snakes of virulent poison. (When such is the case with an atheist), what shall I speak of me who is atheist?
Sanskrit: स्वयमुत्पाद्य वै पुत्रं सदृशं यो न मन्यते। तस्य देवाः श्रियं प्रन्ति न च लोकानुपाश्नते॥
English: The man, who having begotten a son who is his own image, does not look after him, never gains the higher worlds. The celestial destroy his good fortune an wealth.
Sanskrit: कुलवंशप्रतिष्ठां हि पितरः पुत्रमब्रुवन्। उत्तमं सर्वधर्माणां तस्मात् पुत्रं न सन्त्यजेत्॥
English: The Pitris (ancestors) have said that the son continues the race and supports the relations; therefore, to give birth to a son is the best of all pious acts. Therefore, your this son should not be abandoned.
Sanskrit: स्वपत्नीप्रभवान् पञ्च लब्धान् क्रीतान् विवर्धितान्। कृतानन्यासु चोत्पन्नान् पुत्रान् वै मनुरब्रवीत्॥
English: Manu has said that there are five kinds of sons, namely those begotten by one on his wife, those obtained from others, those purchased for a price, those reared out of affection and those begotten on other women.
Sanskrit: धर्मकीर्त्यावहा नृणां मनस: प्रीतिवर्धनाः। त्रायन्ते नरकाजाता: पुत्रा धर्मप्लवाः पितॄन्। १०० ।।
English: Sons support the religion and achievements of men; they increase their happiness; they rescue the dead ancestor from hell.
Sanskrit: स त्वं नृपतिशार्दूल पुत्रं न त्यक्तुमर्हसि। आत्मानं सत्यधर्मी च पालयन् पृथिवीपते। नरेन्द्रसिंह कटं न वोढुं त्वमिहार्हसि॥
English: Therefore, O best of kings, it is not proper for you to abandon your son. O king of the earth, cherish your own self, truth and virtue, more more (by cherishing your this son). () best of the kings, it is not proper for you to play hypocrite's in this matter.
Sanskrit: वरं कूपशताद् वापी वरं वापीशतात् क्रतुः। वरं क्रतुशतात् पुत्रः सत्यं पुत्रशताद् वरम्॥
English: The dedication of a tank is meritorious than that of one hundred wells. A sacrifice is meritorious than the dedication of a tank. But (to beget a son) is inore meritorious than the celebration of sacrifices. Truth (however) is more meritorious than the birth of one hundred sons.
Sanskrit: अश्वमेधसहस्रं च सत्यं च तुलया धृतम्। अश्वमेधसहस्राद्धि सत्यमेव विशिष्यते॥
English: If one thousand horse-sacrifices and truth were weighed, truth would be found heavier than one thousand horse-sacrifices.
Sanskrit: सर्ववेदाधिगमनं सर्वतीर्थावगाहनम्। सत्यं च वचनं राजन् समं वा स्यान्न वा समम्।। १०४।
English: O king, I tell you, truth is equal to the study of the entire Vedas and ablutions in all the sacred pilgrimages.
Sanskrit: नास्ति सत्यसमो धर्मो न सत्याद् विद्यते परम्। न हि तीव्रतरं किंचिदनृतादिह विद्यते॥
English: There is no virtue equal to truth, there is nothing (in this world) superior to truth. And there is nothing (again) more sinful than falsehood.
Sanskrit: राजन् सत्यं परं ब्रह्म सत्यं च समयः परः। मा त्याक्षीः समयं राजन् सत्यं संगतमस्तु ते॥
English: O king, truth is the great Brahma, truth is the great vow; therefore, O king, do not violate your pledge. Let truth and yourself be ever united.
Sanskrit: अनृते चेत् प्रसङ्गस्ते श्रद्दधासि न चेत् स्वयम्। आत्मना हन्त गच्छामि त्वादृशे नास्ति संगतम्॥
English: If, however, you are united with falsehood, li you do not place any credence on my word, I shall go away from this place of my own accord. Your companionship should not be sought after.
Sanskrit: त्वामृतेऽपि हि दुष्यन्त शैलराजावतंसकाम्। चतुरन्ताभिमामुर्वी पुत्रो मे पालयिष्यति॥
English: But, ( Dushyanta, (know this for a certainty), that when you are dead, my this son shall rule the whole earth, surrounded by the four seas and adorned by the king of mountains.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच एतावदुक्त्वा राजानं प्रातिष्ठत शकुन्तला। अथान्तरिक्षाद् दुष्यन्तं वागुवाचाशरीरिणी॥ ऋत्विक्पुरोहिताचार्यैर्मन्त्रिभिश्च वृतं तदा।
English: Vaishampayana said : Having said all this to the king, Shakuntala turned her back. Thereupon a voice from the sky, coming from one who had no visible shape, addressed Dushyanta who was sitting, surrounded by his ministers, priests and Ritvikas.
Sanskrit: भस्त्रा माता पितुः पुत्रो येन जातः स एव सः॥ भरस्व पुत्रं दुष्यन्त मावमंस्थाः शकुन्तलाम्। रेतोधाः पुत्र उन्नयति नरदेव यमक्षयात्॥ त्वं चास्य धाता गर्भस्य सत्यमाह शकुन्तला। जाया जनयते पुत्रमात्मनोऽङ्गं द्विधा कृतम्॥
English: (It said), “O Dushyanta, the mother is but a sheath of flesh (within which the son dwells). The son, sprung from the father, is the father himself. Therefore, cherish your son and do not insult Shakuntala. O best of men, the son begotten by one's own self, rescues him from the abode of Yama. You are the father of this son. Shakuntala has spoken the truth. The husband divides his body in two parts and is born in the womb of his wife as the son.
Sanskrit: तस्माद् भरस्व दुष्यन्त पुत्रं शाकुन्तलं नृप। अभूतिरेषा यत् त्यक्त्वा जीवेजीवन्तमात्मजम्॥
English: O king, O Dushyanta, therefore, cherish your this son, born of Shakuntala. To forsake one's own son and to live thereafter is a great misfortune.
Sanskrit: शाकुन्तलं महात्मानं दौष्यन्ति भर पौरव। भर्तव्योऽयं त्वया यस्मादस्माकं वचनादपि॥ तस्माद् भवत्वयं नाम्ना भरतो नाम ते सुतः।
English: Therefore, O descendant of the Puru race, cherish your this high-souled son, born of Shakuntala. As you will cherish this child at our word, therefore, your this son will be known by the name of Bharata.
Sanskrit: तच्छ्रुत्वा पौरवो राजा व्याहृतं त्रिदिवौकसाम्॥ पुरोहितममात्यांश्च सम्प्रहृष्टोऽब्रवीदिदम्। शृण्वन्त्वेतद् भवन्तोऽस्य देवदूतस्य भाषितम्॥
English: Having heard these words of the dwellers of heaven, the king of the Puru race was much pleased and addressing his priests and ministers, he said : “Hear all of you the words of the messenger of heaven."
Sanskrit: अहं चाप्येवमेवैनं जानामि स्वयमात्मजम्। यद्यहं वचनादस्या गृह्णीयामि ममात्मजम्॥ भवेद्धि शङ्कयो लोकस्य नैव शुद्धो भवेदयम्।
English: "I myself know that this boy is my son. If I had accepted him as my son at Shakuntala's words, my people would have been suspicious and my son also would not have been considered to be pure (of pure birth).”
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच तं विशोध्य तदा राजा देवदूतेन भारत। हृष्टः प्रमुदितश्चापि प्रतिजग्राह तं सुतम्॥
English: Vaishampayana said : O descendant of the Virata race, the king was exceedingly pleased, because the purity of the birth of his son was established by the messenger of heaven.
Sanskrit: ततस्तस्य तदा राजा पितृकर्माणि सर्वशः। कारयामास मुदितः प्रीतिमानात्मजस्य ह॥
English: He then performed with joy all those rites which a father should perform for his son.
Sanskrit: मूर्ध्नि चैनमुपाघ्राय सस्नेहं परिषस्वजे। सभाज्यमानो विप्रैश्च स्तूयमानश्च वन्दिभिः। स मुदं परमां लेभे पुत्रसंस्पर्शजां नृपः॥
English: He smelt his son's head; he embraced him with affection. The Brahmanas uttered blessings on him and the bards began to applaud him. The king then enjoyed the great pleasure that one feels at the touch of one's own son.
Sanskrit: धर्मतः। तां चैव भार्या दुष्यन्तः पूजयामास अब्रवीचैव तां राजा सान्त्वपूर्वमिदं वचः॥
English: Dushyanta also received his wife (Shakuntala) with all honour and affection. Affectionately pacifying her, he spoke to her thus,
Sanskrit: कृतो लोकपरोक्षोऽयं सम्बन्धो वै त्वया सह। तस्मादेतन्मया देवि त्वच्छुद्ध्यर्थं विचारितम्॥ मन्यते चैव लोकस्ते स्त्रीभावान्मयि संगतम्। पुत्रश्चायं वृतो राज्ये मया तस्माद् विचारितम्॥
English: “O lady, my union with you took place in private. None knew of it and therefore, it is natural that people should have thought that our union was only out of lust and that we were not husband and wife. This son, installed as my heir-apparent, would have been considered as a man of impure birth. Therefore, I was thinking how best to establish your purity.
Sanskrit: यच्च कोपितयात्यर्थं त्वयोक्तोऽस्म्यप्रियं प्रिये। प्रणयिन्या विशालाक्षि तत् क्षान्तं ते मया शुभे॥
English: "O dearest, O lady of beautiful eyes, I have forgiven you for all the hard words you have uttered in anger. You are my darling.”
Sanskrit: तामेवमुक्त्वा राजर्षिर्दुष्यन्तो महिषीं प्रियाम्। वासोभिरन्नपानैश्च पूजयामास भारत॥
English: O descendant of the Bharata race, having spoken thus to his dear queen (Shakuntala), the royal sage Dushyanta, received her with the presents of perfume, food and drink.
Sanskrit: दुष्यन्तस्तु तदा राजा पुत्रं शाकुन्तलं तदा। भरतं नामतः कृत्वा यौवराज्येऽभ्यषेचयत्॥
English: The king Dushyanta, thereupon, installed the son of Shakuntala as his heir-apparent bestowing upon him the name of Bharata.
Sanskrit: तस्य तत् प्रथितं चक्रं प्रावर्तत महात्मनः। भास्वरं दिव्यमजितं लोकसंनादनं महत्॥
English: From that day the invincible car of Bharata, like the car of the celestials, with its famous and bright wheels, traversed the whole earth, filling it with its rattle.