pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: तमपि सरथवाजिसारथि शिनिवृषभो विविधैः शरैस्तवरना भुजगविषसमप्रभै रणे पुरुषवरं समवास्तृणोत् तदा॥
English: Thereafter that foremost one of the Shini race, with threat activity, wholly covered, in the field of battle, that chief among men, along with his car, horses and charioteer, with numerous arrows, that were as fierce as the virulent poison of the snake, in that dreadful field of battle.
Sanskrit: शिनिवृषभशरैर्निपीडितं तव सुहृदो वसुषेणमभ्ययुः। त्वरितमतिरथा रथर्षभं द्विरदरथाश्वपदातिभिः सह॥
English: Then the most expert car-warriors, who are your friends, being attended by their elephants, cars, horses and the foot-soldiers, with immense activity, rushed against Vasusena, that foremost of car-warriors, who was then highly oppressed with the shafts, shot by that chief of the Shini race.
Sanskrit: तदुदधिनिभमाद्रवद् बलं त्वरिततरैः समभिद्रुतं परैः। दुपदसुतमुखैस्तदाभवत् पुरुषरथाश्वगजक्षयो महान्॥
English: That army, which was like a vast ocean and dispersed in all directions, was wholly inade to run away from the battle by the Pandava heroes, headed by the sons of Drupada, with extraordinary quickness. On this occasion, a great slaughter of men, cars, horses and elephants took place.
Sanskrit: अथ पुरुषवौर कृताह्निको भवमभिपूज्य यथाविधि प्रभूम्। अरिवधकृतनिश्चयौ दुतं तव बलमर्जुनकेशवौ सृतौ॥
English: Thereupon those two best of all persons, Arjuna and Keshava, who were resolved upon slaughtering all their antagonists, after having finished the worship of lord Bhava, according to the ordained rites and also having performed their daily prayer ceremonies, with great rapidity proceeded against your force.
Sanskrit: जलदनिनदनि:स्वनं रथं पवनविधूतपताककेतनम्। सितहयमुपयान्तमन्तिकं कृतमनसो ददृशुस्तदाऽरयः॥
English: Then their antagonists, namely the Kuru warriors, highly gratified at heart, looked upon that car, that had its rattle resembling the uproar of the masses of clouds and also whose banners and standards were being by the air and to which again, beautiful white horses were yoked and moreover, that was proceeding towards them like the very Death himself.
Sanskrit: अथ विस्फार्य गाण्डीवं रथे नृत्यनिवार्जुन:। शरसम्बाधमकरोत् खं दिशः प्रदिशस्तथा॥
English: Thereupon Arjuna, after having stretched his bow, called Gandiva, as if dancing upon the car, spread showers of arrows all over the firmament and the different points of the horizon, as well as all the subsidiary points of the compass.
Sanskrit: रथान् विमानप्रतिमान् मजयन् सायुधध्वजान्। ससारथींस्तदा बाणैरभ्राणीवानिलोऽवधीत्॥
English: After this, he (the son of Pandu, Arjuna) smote down numerous cars, that resembled the celestial balloons and that were furnished with all their equipments and also that were adorned with the weapons and standards, along with the charioteers themselves, by means of diverse kinds of arrows even as the great tempest disperses the congregated masses of clouds.
Sanskrit: गजान् गजप्रयन्तुंश्च वैजयन्तायुधध्वजान्। सादिनोऽश्वांश्च पत्तीश्च शरैर्निन्ये यमक्षयम्॥
English: He then led, to the abode of Death by means of his numerous arrows, large numbers of elephants, along with their riders, that were equip with the most beautiful flags, weapons and standards, as also numerous horsemen and horses and many foot-soldiers.
Sanskrit: तमन्तकमिव क्रुद्धमनिवार्य महारथम्। दुर्योधनऽभ्ययादेको निनन् बाणैरजिह्मगैः॥
English: Thereupon Duryodhana, unattended by any body else, rushed against that most powerful car-warrior, who was like the very Death himself and who was filled with great wrath and who, again, was most invincible in battle, smiting him with his numerous straight arrows.
Sanskrit: तस्यार्जुनो धनुः सूतमश्वान् केतुं च सायकैः। हत्वा सप्तभिरेकेन छत्रं चिच्छेद पत्रिणा॥
English: Arjuna, on the other hand, after having destroyed his (antagonist's) bow, charioteer, horses and the standard by means of seven sharp shafts, severed his (foe's) umbrella by means of another winged arrow.
Sanskrit: नवमं च समाधाय व्यसृजत् प्राणघातिनम्। दुर्योधनायेषुवरं त द्रौणिः सप्ताच्छिनन्त्॥
English: Then he (Arjuna), finding an opening in his antagonist, shot the foremost of his arrows, that was powerful enough to take away the very life itself (of the person struck with it), at Duryodhana. This the son of Drona severed into seven fragments.
Sanskrit: ततो द्रौणिर्धनुश्छित्त्वा हत्वा चाश्वरथाशरैः। कृपस्यापि तदत्युग्रं धनुचिच्छेद पाण्डवः॥
English: Thereupon the son of Pandu, having first cut-off the bow of the son of Drona and slaughtered his horses, that were the best of their species, by means of his arrows, again, shattered that formidable bow belonging to Kripa.
Sanskrit: हार्दिक्यस्य धनुश्छित्त्वा ध्वजं चाश्वांस्तदावधीत्। दुःशासनस्येष्वसनं छित्त्वा राधेयमभ्ययात्॥
English: Then he (the son of Pandu), having severed into pieces the bow, owned by the son of Hridika, cut-off his standard and slaughtered his horses. Again, he, cutting off the bow of Dushasana, rushed against the son of Radha,
Sanskrit: अथ सात्यकिमुत्सृज्य त्वरन् कर्णोऽर्जुनं त्रिभिः। विद्ध्वा विव्याध विंशत्या कृष्णं पार्थं पुनः पुनः॥
English: Thereupon Karna, having abandoned Satyaki and penetrated Arjuna with three sharp shafts most activity, pierced Krishna with twenty other arrows; and again, penetrated the son of Pritha often and often.
Sanskrit: न ग्लानिरासीत् कर्णस्य क्षिपतः सायकान् बहून्। रणे विनिघ्नतः शत्रून् क्रुद्धस्येव शतक्रतोः॥
English: Karna, resembling Indra himself, when he is greatly filled with wrath, felt no fatigue while he was shooting large numbers of arrows in the field of battle, slaughtering the antagonists.
Sanskrit: अथ सात्यकिरागत्य कर्ण विद्ध्वाशितैः शरैः। नवत्या नवभिश्चोग्रैः शतेन पुनरार्पयत्॥
English: Thereupon Satyaki, having advanced to him, pierced Karna with ninety-nine sharpheaded and dreadful arrows and again, struck him with one hundred others.
Sanskrit: ततः प्रवीरा पार्थानां सर्वे कर्णमपीडयन्। युधामन्युः शिखण्डी च द्रौपदेयाः प्रभद्रकाः॥
English: Afterwards all the best heroes among the Parthas continued to oppress Karna greatly. Thus Yudhamanyu, Shikhandin, the sons of Draupadi, as well as all the Prabhadrakas.
Sanskrit: उत्तमौजा युयुत्सुश्च यमौ पार्घत एव च। चेदिकारूषमत्स्यानां केकयाना च यद् बलम्॥
English: And also Uttamanjas and Yuyutsu along with the twin brothers and the several divisions of the Chedis, the Karushas, the Matsyas and the Kaikeyas.
Sanskrit: चेकितानश्च बलवान् धर्मराजश्च सुव्रतः। एते रथाश्वद्विरदैः पत्तिभिश्चोग्रविक्रमः॥
English: And Chekitana, who was possessed of immense prowess and the king of righteousness (Yudhishthira), observing the most excellent vows, all these heroes, perfectly aggrandised them by their cars, horses and elephants, as well as by their foot-soldiers, possessing fierce strength.
Sanskrit: परिवार्य रणे कर्ण नानाशस्त्रैवाकिरन्। भाषन्तो वाग्भिस्याभिः सर्वे कर्णवधे घृताः॥
English: They all, having surrounded Karna on all sides, poured forth showers of numerous kinds of arrows upon him; and they, then having addressed him in a very harsh language, all deterinined to bring about the fall of Karna.
Sanskrit: तां शस्त्रवृष्टि बहुधा कर्णश्छित्त्वा शितैः शरैः। अपोवाहास्त्रवीर्येण द्रमं भक्त्वे मारुतः॥
English: Then Karna, having severed into several fragment that shower of weapons by means of his sharp-headed arrows, cast away his foes with the help of his prowess in the use of weapon even as the wind uproots the tree that stands in its way.
Sanskrit: रथिन: समहामात्रान् गजानश्वान् ससादिनः। पत्तिव्रातांश्च संक्रुद्धो निघ्नन् कर्णो व्यदृश्यत॥
English: Karna, who was highly enraged, was found to slaughter large numbers of car-warriors, elephants along with their riders, horses with men riding upon them, as well as throngs of foot-soldiers.
Sanskrit: तद् वध्यमानं पाण्डूनां बलं कर्णास्त्रतेजसा। विशस्त्रपत्रदेहासु प्राय आसीत् पराङ्मुखम्॥
English: Then the entire army of the Pandavas, being thus slain by the prowess of those weapons belonging to Karna and being deprived of wcapons and also having had their limbs torn and shattered, almost fled away from the field of battle.
Sanskrit: अथ कर्णास्त्रमस्त्रेण प्रतिहत्यार्जुन। दिशं खं चैव भूमिं च प्रावृणोच्छरवृष्टिभिः॥
English: Thereupon Arjuna, smiling for a time and smiting down in return the weapons of Karna by means of the weapons of his own, shrouded the different points of the horizon, the entire firmament and the earth will the showers of arrows.
Sanskrit: मुसलानीव सम्पेतुः परिधा इव चिषवः। शतघ्य इव चाप्यन्ये वज्राण्युग्राणि चापरे॥
English: Some of the arrows, shot by Arjuna, dropped down upon the earth like the maces; and some, like the spiked clubs; and other fell like the Shataghnis; whereas several other shafts fell down upon the ground like the most dreadful thunderbolt.
Sanskrit: तैर्वध्यमानं तत् सैन्यं सपत्तश्वरथद्विपम्। निमीलिताक्षमत्यर्थं बभ्राम च ननाद च॥
English: That force, belonging to the Kauravas, that consisted of numerous foot-soldiers, horses, cars and elephants and that were being slaughtered with the above weapons, that seemed to shut up the eyes, roved about (in the field of battle) ceaselessly and roared most loudly.
Sanskrit: निष्कैवल्यं तदा युद्धं प्रापुरश्वनरद्विपाः। हन्यमानाः शरैरार्तास्तदा भीताः प्रदुद्रुवः॥
English: Thereupon the battle became most dreadful, as numerous horses, men and elephants were continually slaughtered. Then, again, a large number of them, highly afflicted with the arrows and struck with terror, fled away from the field of battle,
Sanskrit: त्वदीयानां तदा युद्धे संसक्तानां जयैषिणाम्। गिरिमस्तं समासाद्य प्रत्यपद्यत भानुमान्॥
English: Thus whilst the battle raged most fearfully amongst your troops, who most were enthusiastic with the desire of victory, the Sun, approaching the setting mountain, entered into it.
Sanskrit: तमसा च महाराज रजसा च विशेषतः न किंचत् प्रत्यपश्याम शुभं वा यदि वाशुभम्॥
English: O great monarch, we could not behold anything in the field, either favourable or unfavourable, owing to the thick darkness and especially on account of the dust,
Sanskrit: ते त्रसन्तो महेष्वासा रात्रियुद्धस्य भारत। अपयानं ततश्चकुः सहिताः सर्वयोधिभिः॥
English: O descendant of the Bharata race, then the most powerful bowman (belonging to the Kuru army), being afraid of a battle that would take place in the night, made retreat from the field of battle, accompanied by all their combatants.
Sanskrit: कौरवेष्वपयातेषु तदा राजन् दिनक्षये। जयं सुमनसः प्राप्य पार्थाः स्वशिबिरं ययुः॥
English: Thereupon, O monarch, at the fall of night when the Kaurava divisions had all field away (from the field), the sons of Pritha, highly gratified to attain the victory, retired to their own cainps.
Sanskrit: वादित्रशब्दैर्विविधेः सिंहनादैः सगर्जितैः। परानुपहसन्तश्च स्तुवन्तश्चाच्युतार्जुनौ॥
English: And they (the Pandava troops) continued to mock at the antagonists by raising various sorts of sounds with all their musical instruments and also by sending froth leonine-roars and uproars; and moreover, they praised both Achyuta and Arjuna.
Sanskrit: कृतेऽवहारे तैवीरैः सैनिकाः सर्व एव ते। आशीर्वाचः पाण्डवेषु प्रायुञ्जन्त नरेश्वराः॥
English: Thus when that force of the Kauravas was routed by those heroic warriors, all the troops, as well as the lords of men, began to utter benedictions upon the Pandavas.
Sanskrit: ततः कृतेऽवहारे च परदृष्टास्तत्र पाण्डवाः। निशाया शिविरं गत्वा न्यवसन्त नरेश्वराः॥
English: Thereupon, when the hostile army had made their retreat from the field, the Pandava warriors as well as the lords of men, became highly gratified and having retired to their camps, passed the night most cheerfully.
Sanskrit: ततो रक्षः पिशाचाच श्वापदाश्चैव संघशः। जग्मुरायोधनं धोरं रुद्रस्याक्रीडासंनिभम्।॥
English: Thereafter large numbers of Rakshasas and Pisachas, as well as numerous other beasts, came to that dreadful field of battle, the looked like the sporting ground of Rudra himself.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच पुनरेव तु तं शक्रः प्रहसन्निदमब्रवीत्। निःश्वसन्तं यथा नागं प्रव्याहाराय भारत॥
English: Bhishma said Again, laughing at Vali who was sighing like a snake, Shakra addressed him for saying something more painful than what he had said before.
Sanskrit: शक्र उवाच यत् तद् यानसहस्रेण ज्ञातिभिः परिवारितः। लोकान् प्रतापयन् सर्वान् यास्यस्मानवितर्कयन्॥
English: Shakra said Formerly, attended by a train consisting of thousands of vehicles and kinsmen, you used to march, burning all the worlds with your splendour and disregarding us all.
Sanskrit: दृष्ट्वा सुकृपणां चेमामवस्थामात्मनो बले। ज्ञातिमित्रपरित्यक्तः शोचस्याहो न शोचसि॥
English: You are now, however, deserted by both kinsmen and friends. Beholding this miserable condition of yours, do you or do you not indulge in grief?
Sanskrit: प्रीतिं प्राप्यातुलां पूर्वं लोकांश्चात्मवशे स्थितान्। विनिपातमिमं बाह्यं शोचस्याहो न शोचसि॥
English: Formerly all the worlds were under your sway and great was your joy. I ask, do you or you not grieve now, for this loss of your splendour?
Sanskrit: बलिरुवाच अनित्यमुपलक्ष्येह कालपर्यायधर्मतः। तस्माच्छक न शोचामि सर्वं ह्येवेदमन्तवत्॥
English: Vali said Regarding all this as transitory,-due, indeed, to the course of time,-I do not, O Shakra, grieve. These things have an end.
Sanskrit: अन्वन्त इमे देहा भूतानां च सुराधिप। तेन शक न शोचामि नापराधादिदं मम॥
English: These bodies of creatures, O king of the celestials, are all transitory. Therefore, 0 Shakra, I do not grieve. Nor is this form due to any fault of mine.
Sanskrit: जीवितं च शरीरं च जात्यैव सह जायते। उमे सह विवर्धते उभे सह विनश्यतः॥
English: The animating principle and the body come into existence simultaneously for their own nature. They grow together and meet with destruction together.
Sanskrit: न हीदृशमहं भावमवशः प्राप्य केवलम्। यदेवमभिजानामि का व्यथा मे विजानतः॥
English: Having obtained this form of birth I have not been enslaved by it for good. Since I know this, I have no cause for sorrow.
Sanskrit: भूतानां निधनं निष्ठा स्रोतसामिव सागरः। नैतत् सम्यग्विजानन्तो नरा मुह्यन्ति वज्रधृक्॥ य त्वेवं नाभिजानन्ति रजोमोहपरायणाः। ते कृच्छं प्राप्य सीदन्ति बुद्धिर्येषां प्रणश्यति॥
English: As the final place of all rivers is the ocean, so the end of all embodied creatures is death. Those persons that know this well are never stupefied, O holder of the thunder-bolt. 10. They, however, who, overwhelmed with Darkness and loss of judgement, do not know this, they whose understanding is lost, sink under the load of misfortune.
Sanskrit: बुद्धिलाभात् तु पुरुषः सर्वं तुदति किल्बिषम्। विपाप्मा लभते सत्त्वं सत्त्वस्थः सम्प्रसीदति॥
English: A person wins a keen understanding, succeeds in dissipating all his sins. A sinless person acquires the quality of Goodness, and having acquired it becomes cheerful.
Sanskrit: ततस्तु ये निवर्तन्ते जायन्ते वा पुनः पुनः। कृपणाः परितप्यन्ते तैरथैरभिचोदिताः॥
English: They, however, that deviate from the quality of Goodness, and go through repeated re-births, are obliged to indulge in sorrow and grief, led on by desire and the objects of the senises,
Sanskrit: अर्थसिद्धिमनर्थं च जीवितं मरणं तथा। सुखदुःखफले चैव न दृष्मि न च कामये॥
English: I neither dislike nor like success or defeat, regarding the attainment of all objects of desire, life, or death, the fruits of action that are represented by pleasure or pain.
Sanskrit: हतं हन्ति हतो ह्येव यो नरो हन्ति कञ्चन। उभौ तौ न विजानीतो यश्च हन्ति हतश्च यः॥
English: When one kills another, he kills only that other's body. That man who thinks that it is he who kills another, is himself killed. Indeed, both of then do not know the truth, viz., he who kills and he who is killed.
Sanskrit: हत्वा जित्वा च मघवन् यः कश्चित् पुरुषायते। अकर्ता होव भवति कर्ता ह्येव करोति तत्॥
English: O Maghavat, that person, who having killed or defeated any one brags of his manliness, should know that he is not the actor, but that the act has been performed by another who is the real agent.
Sanskrit: को हि लोकस्य कुरुते विनाशप्रभवावुभौ। कृतं हि तत् कृतेनैव कर्ता तस्यापि चापरः॥
English: When it is asked that who is it that brings about the creation and destruction of things in the world, it is generally thought that some person has caused it. Know, however, that the person who is so known has a creator.
Sanskrit: पृथिवी ज्योतिराकाशमापो वायुश्च पञ्चमः। एतद्योनीनि भूतानि तत्र का परिदेवना॥
English: Earth, light or heat, ether, water, and wind form the fifth-from these do all creatures originate. (When I know this) what sorrow can I feel?
Sanskrit: महाविद्योऽल्पविद्यश्च बलवान् दुर्बलश्च यः। दर्शनीयो विरूपश्च सुभगो दुर्भगश्च यः॥ सर्वं काल: समादत्ते गम्भीरः स्वेन तेजसा। तस्मिन् कालवशं प्राप्ते का व्यथा मे विजानतः॥
English: One who is endued with great learning, one who is not much learned, one who is strong, one who is destitute of strength, one who is beautiful, and one who is very ugly, one who is lucky, and one who is not blessed by fortune, are all carried away by Time, which is too deep to be measured by its own energy. When I know that I have been defeated by Time what sorrow can I feel.
Sanskrit: दग्धमेवानुदहति हतमेवानुहन्यते। नश्यते नष्टमेवाग्रे लब्धव्यं लभते नरः॥
English: One that burns anything burns a thing that has been already burnt. One who kills, only kills, a victim already killed. One who is destroyed, has been before destroyed. A thing that is acquired by a person is what is already arrived and intended for his acquirement.
Sanskrit: नास्य द्वीप: कुतः पारो नावारः सम्प्रदृश्यते। नान्तमस्य प्रपश्यामि विधेर्दिव्यस्य चिन्तयन्॥
English: This Time is like an ocean. There is no island in it. Its other shore is beyond reach. Its boundary cannot be seen. Thinking even deeply, I do not see the end of this continuous steam that is the great ordainer of all things and that is, forsooth celestial.
Sanskrit: यदि मे पश्यतः कालो भूतानि न विनाशयेत्। स्यान्मे हर्षश्च दर्पश्च क्रोधश्चैव शचीपते॥
English: If I did not know that it is Time which destroys all creatures, then, perhaps, I would have experienced the emotions of joy, pride and anger, O husband of Shachi.
Sanskrit: तुषभक्षं तु मां ज्ञात्वा प्रविविक्तजने गृहे। बिभ्रतं गार्दभं रूपमागत्य परिगर्हसे॥२३॥
English: Have you come here to condemn me, having come to know that I am now assuming the form of an ass that lives upon chaff and that is now passing his days in a lonely spot remote from the dwellings of men.
Sanskrit: इच्छन्नहं विकुर्यां हि रूपाणि बहुधाऽऽत्मनः। विभीषणानि यानीक्ष्य पलायेथास्त्वमेव मे॥
English: If I wish, even now I can assume various dreadful forms, seeing any one of which you would immediately fly away from my presence.
Sanskrit: कालः सर्वं समादत्ते कालः सर्वं प्रयच्छति। कालेन विहितं सर्वं मा कृथाः शक्र पौरुषम्॥
English: It is Time that gives every thing and again takes away everything. It is Time that ordains all things. Do not, O Shakra, brag of your manliness.
Sanskrit: पुरा सर्वं प्रव्यथितं मयि क्रुद्धे पुरंदर। अवैमि त्वस्य लोकस्य धर्मं शक्र सनातनम्॥
English: Formerly, O Purandara, whenever, I used to be angry everything used to become agitated. I know, however, O Shakra, that eternal attributes of all things in the world.
Sanskrit: त्वमप्येवमवेक्षस्व माऽऽत्मना विस्मयं गमः। प्रभवश्च प्रभावश्च नात्मसंस्थः कदाचन।॥
English: Do you also know the truth. Do not allow yourself to be filled with wonder. Prosperity and its origin are not under one's control.
Sanskrit: कौमारमेव ते चित्तं तथैवाद्य यथा पुरा। समवेक्षस्व मघवन् बुद्धिं विन्दस्व नैष्ठिकीम्॥
English: Your mind is like that of a child. It is the same as it was before. Open your eyes, O Maghavat and acquire an understanding which is sure and true.
Sanskrit: देवा मनुष्याः पितरो गन्धर्वोरगराक्षसाः। आसन् सर्वे मम वशे नत् सर्वं वेत्थ वासव॥
English: In days gone by, that gods, men, the Pitris, the Gandharvas, the Nagas, and the Rakshasas, were all under my control. You know this, O Vasava.
Sanskrit: नमस्तस्यै दिशेऽप्यस्तु यस्यां वैरोचनो बलिः इति मामभ्यपद्यन्त बुद्धिमात्सर्यमोहिताः॥ । नाहं तदनुशोचामि नात्मभ्रंशं शचीपते। एवं मे निश्चिता बुद्धिः शास्तुस्तिष्ठाम्यहं वशे॥
English: Having their understandings overcome by ignorance, all creatures used to flatter me, saying,-Salutations to that cardinal point where Virochana's son Vali may now be living, O husband of Sachi, I do not at all grieve when I think of that honour. I am not sorry for this fall of mine. My understanding is very strong here, viz., that I will abide by the sway of the Ordainer.
Sanskrit: दृश्यते हि कुले जातो दर्शनीयः प्रतापवान्। दुःखं जीवन् सहामात्यो भवितव्यं हि तत् तथा॥
English: It is seen that some one of nobly born highly beautiful and powerful, lives in misery, with all his counsellors and friends. This happens because it has been so ordained.
Sanskrit: दौष्कुलेयस्तथा मूढो दुर्जातः शक्र दृश्यते। सुखं जीवन् सहामात्यो भवितव्यं हि तत् तथा॥
English: Likewise, some one born in an ignoble race, devoid of knowledge, and with even a stain on his birth, is seen, O Shakra, to live happily with all his counsellors and friends. This also happens because it has been so oridained.
Sanskrit: कल्याणी रूपसम्पन्ना दुर्भगा शक्र दृश्यते। अलक्षणा विरूपा च सुभगा दृश्यते परा॥
English: An auspicious and beautiful woman, O Shakra, is seen to pass her life miserably. Likewise, ugly woman with every inauspicious mark is seen to live in great happiness.
Sanskrit: नैतदस्मत्कृतं शक्र नैतच्छक त्वया कृतम्। यत् त्वमेवंगतो जिन् यच्चाप्येवंगता वयम्॥
English: That we have now become so is not owing to any act of ours, O Shakra. That you are now so is not owing, O holder of the thunderbolt, to any act of yours?
Sanskrit: न कर्म भविताप्येतत् कृतं मम शतक्रतो। ऋद्धिर्वाप्यथवा नद्धिः पर्यायकृतमेव तत्॥
English: You have not done anything, O you of a hundred sacrifices, for which you are now an enjoying this prosperity. Nor have I done anything for which I have now been shorn of prosperity. Prosperity and adversity come in succession.
Sanskrit: पश्यामि त्वां विराजत्वं देवराजमवस्थितम्। श्रीमन्तं द्युतिमन्तं च गर्जमानं ममोपरि॥
English: I now see you blazing with splendour, endued with prosperity, possessed of beauty, placed at the head of all the gods, and thus roaring at me.
Sanskrit: एवं नैव न चेत् कालो मामाक्रम्य स्थितो भवेत्। पातयेयमहं त्वाद्य सवज्रमपि मुष्टिना॥
English: This would never be but for the Time standing near after having attacked me. Indeed, if Time had not attacked me I would have today slain you with only a blow of my fists albeit you are armed with the thunder.
Sanskrit: न तु विक्रमकालोऽयं शान्तिकालोऽयमागतः। कालः स्थापयते सर्वं काल: पचति वै तथा॥
English: This, however, is not the time for displaying my prowess. On the other hand, the time that has come when I should conduct myself with peace and tranquillity. It is Time which establishes all things. Time acts upon all things and brings about their final consummation.
Sanskrit: मां चेदभ्यागतः कालो दानवेश्वरपूजितम्। गर्जन्तं प्रतपन्तं च कमन्यं नागमिष्यति॥
English: I was the adored king of the Danavas. Consuming all with my energy, I used to roar in strength and pride. When Time has attacked even myself, who is there whom he will not attack.
Sanskrit: द्वादशानां तु भवतामादित्यानां महात्मनाम्। तेजांस्येकेन सर्वेषां देवराज धृतानि मे॥
English: Formerly, O king of the gods, singly I bore the energy of all the twelve illustrious Adityas with yourself amongst them.
Sanskrit: अहमेवोद्वहाम्यापो विसृजामि च वासव। तपामि चैव त्रैलोक्यं विद्योताम्यहमेव च॥
English: It was I that used to bear up water and then to shower it as rain. O Vasava! It was I who used to give both light and heat to the three worlds.
Sanskrit: संरक्षामि विलुम्पामि ददाम्यहमथाददे। संयच्छामि नियच्छामि लोकेषु प्रभुरीश्वरः॥
English: It was I who used to protect and it was I that used to destroy. It was I who gave and it was I who took. It was I who used to bind and it was I who used to unbind. In all the worlds I was the one powerful master.
Sanskrit: तदद्य विनिवृत्तं मे प्रभुत्वममराधिप। कालसैन्यावगाढस्य सर्वं न प्रतिभाति मे॥
English: That sovereign control which I had, O king of the gods, is now gone. I am now attacked by the foreces of Time. Those things, therefore, are no longer seen to shine in me.
Sanskrit: नाहं कर्ता न चैव त्वं नान्यः कर्ता शचीपते। पर्यायेण हि भुज्यन्ते लोकाः शक्र यदृच्छया॥
English: I am not the actor. You are not the actor. None else, O husband of Sachi, is the doer. It is Time, O Shakra, that protects or destroys all things.
Sanskrit: मासमासार्धवेश्मानमहोरात्राभिसंवृतम्। ऋतुद्वारं वर्षमुखमायुर्वेदविदो जनाः॥
English: Persons well-read in the Vedas say that me is Brahma. The fortnights and months are his body. That body is clothed with days and nights as its dresses. The seasons are his senses. The year is his mouth.