pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: पुण्यां चेमामहं दिव्या प्रवृत्तामुत्तरायणे। देवीं रात्रिं नमस्यामि सिध्यतां मे मनोरथः॥
English: I bow to this holy, godly goddess night who is now on the northern solstice; let my wish be satisfied.
Sanskrit: प्रयता च निशां देवीमुपातिष्ठत तत्र सा! प्रतिव्रतात्वात् सत्येन सोपश्रुतिमथाकरोत्॥
English: Then did she making her body and soul pure, offer due worship to the goddess night and for the sake of her truth and chastity she had recourse to divination.
Sanskrit: यत्रास्ते देवराजोऽसौ तं देशं दर्शयस्व मे। इत्याहोपश्रुतिं देवीं सत्यं सत्येन दृश्यताम्॥
English: Show me the spot where stays he the king of gods. Show me truth by means of truth. Thus did she ask of Upashruti.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच कीदृशे पुरुषे तात स्त्रीषु वा भरतर्षभ। श्री: पद्मा वसते नित्यं तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह॥
English: Yudhishthira said Tell me, O grandfather, in what kind of man or woman, O chief of the Bharatas, does the goddess of Prosperity always live.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच अत्र ते वर्णयिष्यामि यथावृत्तं यथाश्रुतम्। रुक्मिणी देवकीपुत्रसंनिधौ पर्यपृच्छत॥
English: Bhishma said About it, I shall describe to you what took place and what I have heard. Once on a time, the princess Rukmini put this question in the presence of Devaki's son.
Sanskrit: नारायणस्याङ्गतां ज्वलन्ती दृष्ट्वा श्रियं पद्मसमानवर्णाम्। कौतूहलाद् विस्मितचारु नेत्रा पप्रच्छ माता मकरध्वजस्य॥
English: Seeing ihe goddess of Prosperity, shining with beauty and gifted with the hue of the lotus, the mother of Pradyumna having the emblem of Makara on his banner, filled with curiosity, said these words.
Sanskrit: कानीह भूतान्युपसेवसे त्वं संतिष्ठसे कानिव सेवसे त्वम्। तानि त्रिलोकेश्वरभूतकान्ते तत्त्वेन मे ब्रूहि महर्षिकल्पे॥
English: Who are those beings whom you help and whom you serve? Who, again, are those whom you do not serve? O you who are dear to him who is the lord of all creatures, tell me this truly, O you who are equal to a great Rishi in penances and power.
Sanskrit: एवं तदा श्रीरभिभाष्यमाणा देव्या समक्षं गरुडध्वजस्य। उवाच वाक्यं मधुराभिधानं मनोहरं चन्द्रमुखी प्रसन्ना॥
English: Thus addressed by the princess, the goddess of Prosperity, with a face beautiful like the moon, and, actuated by grace in the presence of the deity having the emblem of Garuda on his banner, said these words in reply which were sweet and charming.
Sanskrit: श्रीरुवाच वसामि नित्यं सुभगे प्रगल्भे दक्षे नरे कर्मणि वर्तमाने। अक्रोधने देवपरे कृतज्ञे जितेन्द्रिये नित्यमुदीर्णसत्त्वे॥
English: Shree said O blessed lady, I always live with him who is eloquent, active, attentive to business, free from anger, given to the adoration of the gods, endued with gratitude, has his passions under complete restraint, and is highminded in everything.
Sanskrit: नाकर्मशीले पुरुषे वसामि न नास्तिके साङ्गरिके कृतघ्ने। न भिन्नवृत्ते न नृशंसवर्णे न चापि चौरे न गुरुष्वसूये॥
English: I never live with one who does not attend to business, who is an unbeliever, who causes an intermixture by his lustful habit, who is ungrateful, who is of impure deeds, who uses harsh and cruel words, who is a thief, and who cherishes malice towards his preceptors and other elders.
Sanskrit: ये चाल्पतेजोबलसत्त्वमानाः क्लिश्यन्ति कृप्यन्ति च यत्र तत्र। न चैव तिष्ठामि तथाविधेषु नरेषु संगुप्तमनोरथेषु॥
English: I never live in those persons who are gifted with little energy, strength, life, and honour, who are distressed at every, trifle, and who always indulge in anger. Nor do I ever live with those who think in one way and act in a different way.
Sanskrit: यश्चात्मनि प्रार्थयते न किञ्चिद् यश्च स्वभावोपहतान्तरात्मा। तेष्वल्पसंतोषपरेषु नित्यं नरेषु नाहं निवसामि सम्यक्॥
English: I never live also with him who never wishes for any acquisition for imself, or him who is so blinded as to rest satisfied with the lot in which he finds himself without any exertion, or with those who are contented with small gains.
Sanskrit: स्वधर्मशीलेषु च धर्मविस्तु वृद्धोपसेवानिरते च दान्ते। कृतात्मनि क्षान्तिपरे समर्थे क्षान्तासु दान्तासु तथाबलासु॥
English: I live with those who perform the duties of their own order, or those who are conversant with the duties of virtue, or those who are given to the service of the aged, or those who have their passions under restraint, or those that are gifted with purified souls, or those who observe the virtue of forgiveness, or those who are able and prompt in action, or with such women as are forgiving and self-controlled.
Sanskrit: सत्यस्वभावार्जवसंयुत्तासु वसामि देवद्विजपूजिकासु॥ प्रकीर्णभाण्डामनपेक्ष्यकारिणी सदा च भर्तुः प्रतिकूलवादिनीम्॥
English: I live with those women also who are given to truth and sincerity and who adore the gods. I do not live with those women also who do not look after household furniture and provisions scattered all around the house, and who always ulter words against the wishes of their husbands.
Sanskrit: मेवंविधां तां परिवर्जयामि। पापामचोक्षामवलेहिनीं च व्ययेतधैर्य कलहप्रिया च।।१२।
English: I always avoid those women who are fond of the houses of other people and who have no modesty. On the other hand, I live with those women who are devoted to their husbands, who are blessed in conduct, and who are always adorned with ornaments and well-clad.
Sanskrit: निद्राभिभूतां सततं शयानां एवंविधां तां परिवर्जयामि। सत्यासु नित्यं प्रियदर्शनासु सौभाग्ययुक्तासु गुणान्वितासु॥ वसामि नारीषु पतिव्रतासु कल्याणशीलासु विभूषितासु। यानेषु कन्यासु विभूषणेषु यज्ञेषु मेघेषु च वृष्टिमत्सु॥ वसामि फुल्लासु च पद्मिनीषु नक्षत्रवीथीषु च शारदीषु। गजेषु गोष्ठेषु तथाऽऽसनेषु सर:सु फुल्लोत्पलपङ्कजेषु।।१५।
English: I always live with those women who are truthful in words, who are handsome and lovely in appearance, who are blessed and whe are gifted with all accomplishments. I always avoid such women who are sinful and unclean or impure, who always lick the corners of their mouths, who have no patience or fortitude, and who are fond of dispute and quarrelling; who are indolent and sleepy and always inclined to lie down. I always live in conveyances and the animals that drag them, in maidens, in ornaments and good dresses, in sacrifices, in clouds charged with rain, in full-blown lotises. and in those stars that covers the autumnal sky. I live in elephants, in the cowpeng in good seats, and in lakes adorned with full-bloun lotuses.
Sanskrit: नदीषु हंसस्वननादितासु क्रौञ्चावघुष्टस्वरशोभितासु। विकीर्णकूलद्रुमराजितासु तपस्विसिद्धद्विजसेवितासु।।१६।
English: I live also in such rivers as pass by with sweet murinurs, melodious with the music of cranes, having banks adorned with row of various trees, and resorted to by Brahmanas and ascetics.
Sanskrit: वसामि नित्यं सुबहूदकासु सिंहैर्गजैश्चाकुलितोदकासु। मत्ते गजे गोवृषभे नरेन्द्र सिंहासने सत्पुरुषेषु नित्यम्।।१७।
English: I always live in those rivers also which havo deep and extensive waters rendered turbid by lions and elephants plunging into them for bathing or satisfying their thirst. I live also in angry elephants, in bulls, in kings, on the throne, and in good men.
Sanskrit: यस्मिन् जनो हव्यभुजं जुहोति गोब्राह्मणं चार्चति देवताश्च। काले च पुष्पैर्बलयः क्रियन्ते तस्मिन् गृहे नित्यमुपैमि वासम्॥
English: I always live in that house in which the inmate pours libations on the sacrificial fire and adore kine, Brahmanas, and the gods. I live in that house where at the proper time offerings are made, to the gods, of flowers in course of worship.
Sanskrit: स्वाध्यायनित्येषु सदा द्विजेषु क्षत्रे च कृष्याभिरते सदैव। वैश्ये च धर्माभिरते वसामि शूद्रे शुश्रूषणनित्ययुक्ते॥
English: I always live in such Brahmanas as are given to the study of the Vedas, in Kshatriyas devoted to the observance of virtue, in Vaishyas devoted to cultivation, and in Shudras devoted to the service of the three upper castes.
Sanskrit: नारायणे त्वेकमना वसामि सर्वेण भावेन शरीरभूता। तस्मिन् हि धर्मः सुमहान् निविष्टो ब्रह्मण्यता चात्र तथा प्रियत्वम्॥
English: I live, with a heart firm and unshaken, in Narayana, in my embodied self. In Him exists virtue, full and perfect, devotion to the Brahmanas, and the quality of goodness.
Sanskrit: नाहं शरीरेण वसामि देवि नैवं मया शक्यमिहाभिधातुम्। भावेन यस्मिन् निवसामि पुंसि स वर्धते धर्मयशोर्थकामैः॥
English: Can I not say, O lady, that I do not live in my embodied form? That person in whom I live in spirit increases in virtue and fame and wealth and object of desire.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच के पूज्याः के नमस्कार्याः कथं वर्तेते केषु च। किमाचारः कीदृशेषु पितामह न रिष्यते॥
English: Yudhishthira said Who are worthy of being adored? Who are they to whom we should bow? How, Indeed, should we behave towards whom? What course of conduct, O grandfather, towards what classes of persons is considered faultless?
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच ब्राह्मणानां परिभवः सादयेदपि देवताः। ब्राह्मणांस्तु नमस्कृत्य युधिष्ठिर न रिष्यते॥
English: Bhishma said The humiliation of Brahmanas would humiliate the very celestials. By bowing to Brahmanas, one does not, O Yudhishthira, commit any fault.
Sanskrit: ते पूज्यास्ते नमस्कार्या वर्तेथास्तेषु पुत्रवत्। ते हि लोकानिमान् सर्वान् धारयन्ति मनीषिणः॥
English: They, indeed, deserve to be adored. They deserve to have our vows. You should bchave towards them as if they are your sons. Indeed, it is those wise men who upholds all the worlds.
Sanskrit: ब्राह्मणा: सर्वलोकानां महान्तो धर्मसेतवः। धनत्यागाभिरामाश्च वाक्संयमरताश्च ये॥
English: The Brahmanas are the great causeways of Virtue about all the worlds. Their happiness consists in renouncing all kinds of riches. They are devoted to the vow of controlling speech.
Sanskrit: रमणीयाश्च भूतानां निधानं च धृतव्रताः। प्रणेतारश्च लोकाना शास्त्राणां च यशस्विनः॥
English: They are agreeable to all creatures, and observe various excellent vows. They are the refuge of all creatures in the universe. They are the authors of all the regulations which govern the worlds. They are endued with great fame.
Sanskrit: तपो येषा धनं नित्यं वाक् चैव विपुलं बलम्। प्रभवश्चैव धर्माणां धर्माज्ञाः सूक्ष्मदर्शिन॥
English: Penances are always their great riches. Their power consists in speech. Their energy emanates from the duties they observe. Knowing all duties, they are gifted with minute vision, so that they are cognizant of the subtlest consideration.
Sanskrit: धर्मकामाः स्थिता धर्मे सुकृतैर्धर्मसेतवः। यान् समाश्रित्य जीवन्ति प्रजाः सर्वाश्चतुर्विधाः॥
English: They are of righteous desires. They live in the observance of welldone duties. They are the causeways of Virtue. The four kinds of living creatures exist, depending upon them as their refuge.
Sanskrit: पन्थानः सर्वनेतारो यशवाहाः सनातनाः। पितृपैतामहीं गुर्वीमुद्वहन्ति धुरं सदा॥
English: They are the path or road along which all should go. They are the guides of all. They are the eternal upholders of all the sacrifices. They always upholds the heavy loads of fathers and grandfathers.
Sanskrit: धुरि ये नावसीदन्ति विषये सद्गवा इव। पित्रुदेवातिथिमुखा हव्यकव्याग्रभोजिनः॥
English: They never droop under heavy loads even when passing along difficult roads, like strong cattle. They are attentive to the requirements of manes and deities and guests. They are entitles to eat the first portions of Havya and Kavya.
Sanskrit: भोजनादेव लोकांस्त्रींस्त्रायन्ते महतो भयात्। दीप: सर्वस्य लोकस्य चक्षुश्चक्षुष्मतामपि॥
English: By the very food they eat, they rescue the three worlds from great feat. They are, as it were, the Island for all worlds. They are the cyes of all persons gifted with sight.
Sanskrit: सर्वशिक्षा श्रुतिधना निपुणा मोक्षदर्शिनः। गतिज्ञाः सर्वभूतानामध्यात्मगतिचिन्तिकाः॥
English: The wealth they possess consists of all the branches of knowledge known by the name of Shiksha, and all the Shrutis. Gifted with great skill, they are conversant with the most subtile relations of things. They know the ends of all things, and their thoughts are always engaged upon the science of the soul.
Sanskrit: आदिमध्यावसानानां ज्ञातारश्छिन्नसंशयाः। परमावरविशेषज्ञा गन्तारः परमां गतिम्॥
English: They are gifted with the knowledge of the beginning, the middle, and the end of all things, and they are persons in whom doubts no longer exist on account of the certitude of their knowledge. They are fully aware of the distinctions between what is superior and what is inferior. They it is who acquire the highest end.
Sanskrit: विमुक्ता धूतपाप्मानो निर्द्वन्द्वा निष्परिग्रहाः। मानार्हा मानिता नित्यं ज्ञानविद्भिर्महात्मभिः॥
English: Shorn of altachments, purged of all sins, getting over all pairs of opposites, they are unattached to all worldly things. Deserving of every honour, they are always esteemed by persons gifted with knowledge and high souls.
Sanskrit: चन्दने मलपङ्के च भोजनेऽभोजने समाः। समं येषां दुकूलं च तथा क्षौमाजिनानि च॥
English: They cast impartial looks on sandal paste and filth or dirt, on what is food and what is not food. They see with an equal eye their brown dresses of coarse cloth and fabrics of silk and animal skins.
Sanskrit: तिष्ठेयुरप्यभुञ्जाना बहूनि दिवसान्यपि। शोषयेयुश्च गात्राणि स्वाध्यायैः संयतेन्द्रियाः॥
English: They would live for days together without partaking of any food, and dry up their limbs by such abstention. They devote themselves earnestly to the study of the Vedas, controlling their senses.
Sanskrit: अदैवं दैवतं कुर्युर्दैवतं चाप्यदैवतम्। लोकानन्यान् सृजेयुस्ते लोकपालांश्च कोपिताः॥
English: They would make gods of those who are not gods, and not gods of those who are gods. Enraged, they can create other worlds and other Regents of the worlds than those who exist.
Sanskrit: अपेयः सागरो येषामपि शापान्महात्मनाम्। येषां कोपाग्निरद्यापि दण्डके नोपशाम्यति॥
English: Through the curse of those great ones, the ocean become so saline as to be undrinkable. The fire of their anger yet burns in the forest of Dandaka, unquenched by time.
Sanskrit: देवानामपि ये देवाः कारणं कारणस्य च। प्रमाणस्य प्रमाणं च कस्तानभिभवेद् बुधः॥
English: They are the gods of the gods, and the cause of all causes. They are the authority of all authorities. What man of intelligence and wisdom is there who would seek to humiliate them.
Sanskrit: येषां वृद्धश्च बालश्च सर्वः सम्मानमहीति। तपोविद्याविशेषात्तु मानयन्ति परस्परम्॥
English: Amongst them the young and the old all deserve honours. They honour one another on account of distinctions in respect of penances and knowledge.
Sanskrit: अविद्वान् ब्राह्मणो देवः पात्रं वै पावनं महत्। विद्वान् भूयस्तरो देवः पूर्णसागरसंनिभः॥
English: Even the Brahmana who is destitute of knowledge is a god and is a great instrument for purifying others. He amongst them, then, who is possessed of knowledge is a much higher god and like the ocean when full (to the brim).
Sanskrit: अवद्विांश्चैव विद्वांश्च ब्राह्मणो दैवतं महत्। प्रणीतश्चाप्रणीतश्च यथाग्निर्दैवतं महत्॥
English: Learned or unlearned, the Brahmana is always a great deity. Purified or not, Fire is ever a great god.
Sanskrit: श्मशाने ह्यपि तेजस्वी पावको नैव दुष्यति। हविर्यज्ञे च विधिवद् गृह एवातिशोभते॥
English: A blazing fire, even when it burns on a crematorium, is not considered as sullied on account of the character of the spot whereon it burns. Clarified butter looks beautiful whether kept on the sacrificial after or in a chamber.
Sanskrit: एवं यद्यप्यनिष्टेषु वर्तते सर्वकर्मसु। सर्वथा ब्राह्मणो मान्यो दैवतं विद्धि तत्परम्॥
English: So if the Brahmana be always engaged in evil deeds, he is still to be considered as deserving of honours. Indeed, know that the Brahmana is always a great god.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच कर्मणां च समस्तानां शुभानां भरतर्षभ। फलानि महतां श्रेष्ठ प्रब्रूहि परिपृच्छतः॥
English: Yudhishthira said O best of Bharata's family and the foremost of great men, I wish to know what the fruits are of good deeds! Do you enlighten me.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच हन्त ते कथयिष्यामि यन्मां पृच्छसि भारत। रहस्यं यदृषीणां तु तच्छृणुष्व युधिष्ठिर। या गतिः प्राप्यते येन प्रेत्यभावे चिरेप्सिता॥
English: Bhishma said I shall tell you what you have asked. Do you, O Yudhishthira, listen to this which forms the secret knowledge of the Rishis.
Sanskrit: येन येन शरीरेण यद्यत् कर्म करोति यः। तेन तेन शरीरेण तत्तत् फलमुपाश्नुते॥
English: Listen to me as I explain what the long coveted ends, are which befall men after death. The fruits of whatever actions are performed by creatures in whatever bodies or forms of existence, are reaped by the doers while crcatures perform good or evil acts, they reap the fruits there of in similar states of succeeding lives. No act done with the help of the five organs of sensual perception, is ever lost.
Sanskrit: यस्यां यस्यामवस्थायां यत् करोति शुभाशुभम्। तस्यां तस्यामवस्थायां भुङ्क्ते जन्मनि जन्मनि॥ न नश्यति कृतं कर्म सदा पञ्चेन्द्रियैरिह। ते ह्यस्य साक्षिणो नित्यं षष्ठ आत्मा तथैव च॥ चक्षुर्दद्यान्मनो दद्याद् वाचं दद्याच्च सूनृताम्। अनुव्रजेदुपासीत स यज्ञः पञ्चदक्षिणः॥ यो दद्यादपरिक्लिष्टमन्नमध्वनि वर्तते। श्रान्तायादृष्टपूर्वाय तस्य पुण्यफलं महत्॥
English: The five sensual organs and the immortal soul which is the sixth, are its witnesses. One should devote his eye (to the service of others); one should devote his heart (to the same); one should utter sweet words: one should also follow and worship (one's guest). This is the sacrifice with five gifts. He who offers good food to the unknown, and tired traveller, fatigued by a long journey, acquires great merit.
Sanskrit: स्थण्डिलेषु शयानानां गृहाणि शयनानि च। चीरवल्कलसंवीते वासांस्याभरणानि च॥
English: Those who use the sacrificial platform as their only bed, obtain palatial mansions and beds (in subsequent births). He who wears only rags and barks of trees for dress, gets good apparel and ornaments.
Sanskrit: वाहनानि च यानानि योगात्मनि तपोधने। अग्नीनुपश्यानस्य राज्ञः पौरुषमेव च॥
English: One possessed of penances and having his soul on Yoga, gets vehicles and riding animals. The king who lics down by the side of the sacrificial fire, acquires vigour and valour.
Sanskrit: रसानां प्रतिसंहारे सौभाग्यमनुगच्छति। आमिषप्रतिसंहारे पशून् पुत्रांश्च विन्दति॥
English: The man who casts off the enjoyment of all delicacies, acquires prosperity, and he who abstains from animal food, obtains children and cattle.
Sanskrit: अवाशिरास्तु यो लम्बेदुदवासं च यो वसेत्। सततं चैकशायी य: स लभेतेप्सितां गतिम्॥
English: He who lies down with his head downwards, or who lives in water, or who lives secluded and alone in the practice of Brahmacharya, acquires all the desired ends.
Sanskrit: पाद्यमासनमेवाथ दीपमन्नं प्रतिश्रयम्। दद्यादतिथिपूजार्थं स यज्ञः पञ्चदक्षिणः॥
English: He who gives shelter to a guest and welcomes him with water to wash his feet as also with food, light and bed, acquires the merits of the sacrifice with the five gifts.
Sanskrit: वीरासनं वीरशय्यां वीरस्थानमुपागतः। अक्षयास्तस्य वै लोकाः सर्वकामगमास्तथा।॥
English: He who on the battlefield, lays himself down as a warrior on a warrior's bed, goes to those eternal regions where all the objects of desire are fulfilled.
Sanskrit: धनं लभेत दानेन मौनेनाज्ञां विशाम्पते। उपभोगांश्च तपसा ब्रह्मचर्येण जीवितम्॥
English: A man, O king, acquires riches who makes charitable gifts. One gets obedience to one's command by the vow of silence all the enjoyments of life by practice of austerities, long life by Brahmacharya, and beauty, prosperity and immunity from discase by abstaining from injury to others.
Sanskrit: रूपमैश्वर्यमारोग्यमहिंसाफलमश्नुते। फलमूलाशिनो राज्यं स्वर्ग: पर्णाशिनां भवेत्॥
English: Those who live on fruits and roots only, acquire Sovereignty, those who live on only leaves of trees acquire Residence in heaven.
Sanskrit: प्रायोपवेशिनो राजन् सर्वत्र सुखमुच्यते। गवाढ्यः शाकदीक्षायां स्वर्गगामी तृणाशनः॥
English: A man, O king, is said to acquire happiness, by abstention from food. By eating herbs alone, one gets cows. By living on grass, one acquires the celestial regions.
Sanskrit: स्त्रियस्त्रिषवणं स्नात्वा वायुं पीत्वा क्रतुं लभेत्। स्वर्ग सत्येन लभते दीक्षया कुलमुत्तमम्॥
English: By avoiding all intercourse with his wife and making ablutions three times a day and by inhaling the air only for purposes of maintenance one acquires the merit of a sacrifice. Heaven is gained by the practice of truth, and nobility of birth by sacrifices.
Sanskrit: सलिलाशी भवेद् यस्तु सदाग्निः संस्कृतो द्विजः। मनुं साधयतो राज्यं नाकपृष्ठमनाशके॥
English: The Brahmana of pure practices who lives on water only, and performs the Agnihotra continually, and recites the Gayatri, acquires a kingdom. By abstaining from food or by restricting it, one acquires residence in heaven.
Sanskrit: उपवासं च दीक्षायामभिषेकं च पार्थिव। कृत्वा द्वादश वर्षाणि वीरस्थानाद् विशिष्यते॥
English: O king, by avoiding all but the prescribed diet while celebrating sacrifices, and by making pilgrimage for twelve years, one acquires a place better than the abodes reserved for heroes.
Sanskrit: धीत्य सर्ववेदान् वै सद्यो दुःखाद् विमुच्यते। मानसं हि चरन् धर्मं स्वर्गलोकमुपाश्नुते।।२
English: By reading all the Vedas, is immediately freed from misery, and by practising virtue in thought, one acquires the heavenly regions.
Sanskrit: या दुस्त्यजा दुर्मतिभिर्या न जीर्यति जीर्यतः। योऽसौ प्राणान्तिको रोगस्तां तृष्णां त्यजतः सुखम्।।
English: That man who shakes off the longing for happiness and material comforts-a thirst that is difficult of conquest by the foolish and which does not abate with the decline of physical vigour and which clings to him like a dreadful disease,-is able to secure happiness.
Sanskrit: यथा धेनुसहस्त्रेषु वत्सो विन्दति मातरम्। एवं पूर्वकृतं कर्म कर्तारमनुगच्छति॥
English: As the young calf is able to recognise its dam from among a thousand cows, so do the pristinc deeds of a man follow him.
Sanskrit: अचोद्यमानानि यथा पुष्पाणि च फलानि च। स्वकालं नातिवर्तन्ते तथा कर्म पुरा कृतम्॥
English: As the flowers and fruits of a tree, unmoved by apparent influences, never miss their proper one season, so does Karma done in a pristine existence bring about its fruits in proper time.
Sanskrit: जीर्यन्ति जीर्यतः केशा दन्ता जीर्यन्ति जीर्यतः। चक्षुःश्रोत्रे च जीर्येते तृष्णैका न तु जीर्यते॥
English: With age, man's hair grows grey; his teeth become loose; his eyes and ears too become dim in action; but the only thing that does not decline is his desire for enjoyments.
Sanskrit: येन प्रीणाति पितरं तेन प्रीतः प्रजापतिः। प्रीणाति मातरं येन पृथिवी तेन पूजिता॥ येन प्रीणात्युपाध्यायं तेन स्याद् ब्रह्म पूजितम्। सर्वे तस्यादृता धर्मा यस्यैते त्रय आदृताः। अनादृतास्तु यस्यैते सर्वास्तस्याफला: क्रियाः॥
English: Prajapati is pleased with those deeds which please one's father, and the Earth is pleased with those acts which please one's mother, and Brahma is pleased with those acts which please one's mother, and Brahma is adored with those acts that please one's preceptor. Virtue is honoured by him who honours these three. The acts of those who despise these three do not help them.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच भीष्मस्यैतद् वचः श्रुत्वा विस्पताः कुरुपुङ्गवाः। आसन् प्रहृष्टमनसः प्रीतिमन्तोऽभवंस्तदा॥
English: Vaishampayana said The princes of the line of Kuru became filled with surprise upon listening to this speech of Bhishma. All of them became pleased in mind and overpowered with joy.
Sanskrit: यन्मन्त्रे भवति वृथोपयुज्यमाने यत् सोमे भवति वृथाभिषूयमाणे। यच्चाग्नौ भवति वृथाभिहूयमाने तत् सर्वं भवति वृथाभिधीयमाने॥
English: As Mantras applied for gaining victory, or the performance of the Soma sacrifice made without proper gifts, or oblations poured on the fire without proper hymns, become fruitless and produce evil results, so sin and evil results originate from falsehood.
Sanskrit: इत्येतदृषिणा प्रोक्तमुक्तवानस्मि यद् विभो। शुभाशुभफलप्राप्तौ किमतः श्रोतुमिच्छसि॥
English: O prince, I have thus described to you this doctrine of the fruition of good and evil deeds, as recounted by the Rishis of old. What else do you wish to hear. O prince, I have thus described to you this doctrine of the fruition of good and evil deeds, as recounted by the Rishis of old. What else do you wish to hear.
Sanskrit: मार्कण्डेय उवाच अत्रैव च सरस्वत्या गीतं परपुरंजय। पृष्टया मुनिना वीर शृणु तायेणधीमता॥
English: Markandeya said : O conqueror of hostile cities, O hero in this connection, Sarasvati, when asked by that intelligent Rishi Tarkshya, said (the following). Hear it.
Sanskrit: तार्क्ष्य उवाच किं नु श्रेयः पुरुषस्येह भद्रे कथं कुर्वन् न च्यवते स्वधर्मात्। आचक्ष्व मे चारुसर्वाङ्गि कुर्यां त्वया शिष्टो न च्यवेयं स्वधर्मात्॥
English: Tarkshya said: O blessed lady, what is the best thing for a man to do here on earth) and how he must act so that he may not deviate from (the path of) virtue. O beautiful lady, tell me all, so that being instructed by you I may not deviate from the path of my own duty (Dharma).