pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: अहंकृतावलिप्तैश्च प्रार्थ्यमानामिमां सुताम्। अयुक्तैस्तव सम्बन्धे कथं शक्ष्यामि रक्षितुम्॥
English: How shall I be able to protect the girl, if your this daughter is solicited by dishonourable and vain persons, unworthy of contracting an alliance with you?
Sanskrit: उत्सृष्टमामिषं भूमौ प्रार्थयन्ति यथा खगाः प्रार्थयन्ति जनाः सर्वे पतिहीनां तथा स्त्रियम्॥ साहं विचाल्यमाना वै प्रार्थ्यमाना दुरात्मभिः। स्थातुं पथि न शक्ष्यामि सज्जनेष्टे द्विजोत्तम्॥
English: As birds eagerly seek with avidity for the piece of) meat thrown on the ground, so men solicit women who have lost their husbands. O best of the twice-born, being solicited by wicked men, I might waver and I might not be able to keep myself on the path of virtue.
Sanskrit: कथं तव कुलस्यैकामिमां बालामनागसम्। पितृपैतामहे मार्गे नियोक्तुमहमुत्सहे॥
English: How shall I be able to place this only daughter of your house, this innocent girl, in the (virtuous) way in which her ancestors have always walked?
Sanskrit: कथं शक्ष्यामि बालेऽस्मिन् गुणानाधातुमीप्सितान्। अनाथे सर्वतो लुप्ते यथा त्वं धर्मदर्शिवान्॥
English: How shall I be able to teach this child (your son) every desirable accomplishment to make him as virtuous as yourself in that time of want I shall be helpless (without you)?
Sanskrit: इमामपि च ते बालामनाथां परिभूय माम्। अनर्हाः प्रार्थयिष्यन्ति शूद्रा वेदश्रुति यथा।॥
English: When I shall be in such helpless state, the unworthy persons will demand this orphan girl, like Shudras desiring to hear the Vedas.
Sanskrit: तां चेदहं न दित्सेयं त्वहगुणैरुपबृंहिताम्। प्रमथ्यैनां हरेयुस्ते हविर्खाङ्क्षा इवाध्वरात्॥
English: If I do not bestow this girl, endued with all qualities and possessing your blood, they may take her away by force as cows take the sacrificial ghee.
Sanskrit: सम्प्रेक्षमाणा पुत्रं ते नानुरूपमिवात्मनः। अनर्हवशमापन्नामिमां चापि सुतां तव॥ अवज्ञाता च लोकेषु तथाऽऽत्मानमजानती। अवलिप्तैनरैर्ब्रह्मन् मरिष्यामि न संशयः॥
English: Seeing your son (thoroughly) unlike yourself and your daughter under the control of unworthy person. I shall be despised in the world. I do not know what will happen to me. O Brahmana, there is no doubt I shall certainly die.
Sanskrit: तौ च हीनौ मया बालौ त्वया चैव तथाऽऽत्मजौ। विनश्येतां न संदेहो मत्स्याविव जलक्षये॥
English: There is no doubt these children of tender years, being bereft of me and you, will die as fish (in a tank) when the water is dried up.
Sanskrit: त्रितयं सर्वथाप्येवं विनशिष्यत्यसंशयम्। त्वया विहीनं तस्मात् त्वं मां परित्यक्तुमर्हसि॥
English: There is no doubt the three (myself, our son and daughter) will all die without you. Therefore you ought to abandon me.
Sanskrit: व्युष्टिरेषा परा स्त्रीणां पूर्वं भर्तुः परां गतिम्। गन्तुं ब्रह्मन् सपुत्राणामिति धर्मविदो दिदुः॥
English: O Brahmana, persons learned in the precepts of virtue have said that to predecease their husbands in an act of the highest merit for women who have borne children.
Sanskrit: परित्यक्तः सुतश्चायं दुहितेयं तथा मया। बान्धवाश्च परित्यक्तास्त्वदर्थं जीवितं च मे॥
English: I am ready to abandon this son and this daughter, these my relations, my this life itself.
Sanskrit: यज्ञैस्तपोभिर्नियमैर्दानैश्च विविधैस्तथा। विशिष्यते स्त्रिया भर्तुनित्यं प्रियहिते स्थितिः॥
English: To be ever engaged in serving her husband is a higher duty to a women than sacrifices, asceticism, vows and various charities.
Sanskrit: तदिदं यच्चिकीर्षामि धर्मं परमसम्मतम्। इष्टं चैव हितं चैव तव चैव कुलस्य च॥
English: Therefore the act I desire to perform is consonant with the highest virtue. It is for your good and for the good of your race.
Sanskrit: इष्टानि चाप्यपत्यानि द्रव्याणि सुहृदः प्रियाः। आपद्धर्मप्रमोक्षाय भार्या चापि सतां मतम्॥
English: The virtuous (men) say, that children, relatives, wives and all things dear in this world) are cherished for rescuing oneself from distress.
Sanskrit: आपदर्थे धनं रक्षेद् दारान् रक्षेद् धनैरपि। आत्मानं सततं रक्षेद् दारैरपि धनैरपि॥
English: Man cherishes wealth for (rescuing himself) from distress and danger. By wealth be cherishes his wife. He must always cherish himself both by his wealth and wife.
Sanskrit: दृष्टादृष्टफलार्थं हि भार्या पुत्रो धनं गृहम्। सर्वमेतद् विधातव्यं बुधानमेष निश्चयः॥
English: The wise men have said that wife, son, wealth or house is acquired to provide for foreseen or unforescen accidents.
Sanskrit: एकतो वा कुलं कृत्स्नमात्मा वा कुलवर्धनः। न समं सर्वमेवेति बुधानामेष निश्चयः॥
English: The wise men have said that one's all relations, weighed against one's own self, would not be equal to one's own self.
Sanskrit: स कुरुष्व मया कार्यं तारयात्मानमात्मना। अनुजानीहि मामार्य सुतौ मे परिपालय॥
English: Therefore, O respected Sir, accomplish your object by me. Protect yourself by abandoning me. Give me your permission cherish children.
Sanskrit: अवध्यां स्त्रियमित्याहुर्धर्मज्ञा धर्मनिश्चये। धर्मज्ञान् राक्षसानाहुन हन्यात् स च मामपि॥
English: In fixing moralities the men, learned in the precepts of virtue, have said that women should never be killed; and (they have also said that the Rakshasas are learned in the rules of morality. Therefore he (the Rakshasas) may not kill me.
Sanskrit: निस्संशयं वधः पुंसां स्त्रीणां संशयितो वधः। अतो मामेव धर्मज्ञ प्रस्थापयितुमर्हसि॥
English: It is certain that he will kill a man, but it is doubtful whether he will kill a woman. O virtuously learned man, you ought to send me.
Sanskrit: भुक्तं प्रियाण्यवाप्तानि धर्मश्च चरितो महान्। त्वत् प्रसूतिः प्रिया प्राप्ता न मां तप्स्यत्यजीवितम्।३३॥
English: I have enjoyed much happiness; I have obtained many things agreeable; I have earned much of religious merits; I have obtained from you beloved sons; I do not grieve to die.
Sanskrit: जातपुत्रा च वृद्धा च प्रियकामा च ते सदा। समीक्ष्यैतदहं सर्वं व्यवसायं करोम्यतः॥
English: I have borne son and I have grown old; I am ever desirous of doing good to you. Having considered all this, I have come to this resolution.
Sanskrit: उत्सृज्यापि हि मामार्य प्राप्स्यस्यन्यामपि स्त्रियम्। ततः प्रतिष्ठितो धर्मो भविष्यति पुनस्तव॥
English: O respected Sir, you can take another wife by abandoning me. You may be then again placed on the path of virtue.
Sanskrit: न चाप्यधर्मः कल्याण बहुपत्नीकृतां नृणाम्। स्त्रीणामधर्मः सुमहान् भर्तुः पूर्वस्य लङ्घने॥
English: To marry more than one wife is not sin among men. It is very sinful for a woman to take second husband after the first.
Sanskrit: एतत् सर्वं समीक्ष्य त्वमात्मत्यागं च गर्हितम्। आत्मानं तारयाद्याशु कुलं चेमौ च दारकौ॥
English: Having considered all this and knowing that your self-sacrifice is censurable, save today yourself, your race and your these two children without loss of time.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच एवमुक्तस्तया भर्ता तां समालिङ्गय भारत। मुमोच बाष्पं शनकैः सभार्यो भृशदुःखितः॥
English: O foremost of the Bharata race, when Brahmani told thus, her husband became griefstricken and, embracing her, shed copious tears along with her.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच तयोर्दुःखितयोर्वाक्यमतिमात्रं निशम्य तु। ततो दुःखपरीताङ्गी कन्या तावभ्यभाषत॥
English: Vaishampayana said : Having heard these words of her affected parents, the daughter was filled with grief and she thus spoke (to them.)
Sanskrit: किमेवं भृशदुःखार्ती रोरूयेतामनाथवत्। ममापि श्रूयतां वाक्यं श्रुत्वा च क्रियतां क्षमम्॥
English: The Daughter said : Why are you so sorrowful? Why are you weeping, as if you have none. Listen to my words and hearing them, do what is proper.
Sanskrit: धर्मतोऽहं परित्याज्या युवयोर्नात्र संशयः। त्यक्तव्यां मां परित्यज्य त्राहि सर्वं मयैकया।॥
English: There is no doubt that you will one time abandon me by the dictates of virtue. Abandon me who am to be abandoned and thus save all by (sacrificing) me alone.
Sanskrit: इत्यर्थमिष्यतेऽपत्यं तारयिष्यति मामिति। अस्मिन्नुपस्थिते काले तरध्वं प्लवन्मया॥
English: Men desire for children hoping, they will save them. Cross this stream of your difficulty by me.
Sanskrit: इह वा तारयेद् दुर्गादुत वा प्रेत्य भारत। सर्वथा तारयेत् पुत्रः पुत्र इत्युच्यते बुधैः॥
English: A child saves his presents in this world and in the next. Therefore, a child is called by the learmed Putra.
Sanskrit: आकाङ्क्षन्ते च दौहित्रान् मयि नित्यं पितामहाः। तत् स्वयं वै परित्रास्ये रक्षन्ती जीवितं पितुः॥
English: My forefathers always desire to have daughter's son by me, (to save them from hell). I shall myself save them by saving the life of my father.
Sanskrit: भ्राता च मम बालोऽयं गते लोकममुं त्वयि। अचिरेणैव कालेन विनश्यत न संशयः॥
English: My brother is but of tender years; there is no doubt he will die soon after your death.
Sanskrit: तातेऽपि हि गते स्वर्ग विनष्टे च ममानुजे। पिण्डः पितॄणां व्युच्छिद्येत् तत् तेषां विप्रियं भवेत्॥
English: If you, my father, ascend to heaven, if my brother dies, the Pinda (funeral cake) for the Pitris (ancestors) will be stopped and it will be most unfavourite act of theirs.
Sanskrit: पित्रा त्यक्ता तथा मात्रा भ्रात्रा चाहमसंशयम्। दुःखाद् दुःखतरं प्राप्य म्रियेयमतथोचिता॥
English: Having been abandoned by my father brother and also my mother, I shall fall from misery to greater misery and I shall finally perish in great distress.
Sanskrit: त्वयि त्वरोगे निर्मुक्ते माता भ्राता च मे शिशुः। संतानश्चैव पिण्डश्च प्रतिष्ठास्यत्यसंशयम्॥
English: There is no doubt that if you can save yourself, my mother and my child brother, also the Pinda will be perpetuated.
Sanskrit: आत्मा पुत्रः सखा भार्या कृच्छं तु दुहिता किला स कृच्छ्रान्मोचयात्मानं मां च धर्मे नियोजय॥
English: The son is one's own self; the wife is one's friend; the daughter is (however) a source of trouble. Save yourself by sacrificing that cause of trouble; and set me on the path of virtue.
Sanskrit: अनाथा कृपणा बाला यत्रक्वचनगामिनी। भविष्यामि त्वया तात विहीना कृपणा सदा॥
English: O father, I am but a girl being abandoned by you, I shall be helpless and miserable and I shall have to go anywhere and everywhere.
Sanskrit: अथवाहं करिष्यामि कुलस्यास्य विमोचनम्। फलसंस्था भविष्यामि कृत्वा कर्म सुदुष्करम्॥
English: I shall, therefore, save my race and I shall acquire the merit that such difficult work brings in.
Sanskrit: अथवा यास्यसे तत्र त्यक्त्वा मां द्विजसत्तम्। पीडिताहं भविष्यामि तदवेक्षस्व मामपि॥
English: O best of the twice-born, leaving me behind, if you go there (to the Rakshasas) I shall be very much pained; therefore be kind to ine.
Sanskrit: तदस्मदर्थं धर्मार्थं प्रसवार्थं स सत्तम। आत्मानं परिरक्षस्व त्यक्तव्यां मां च संत्यज॥
English: O excellent man, abandoning me who am to be (one day) abandoned, save yourself for our sake, for the sake of virtue and your race.
Sanskrit: अवश्यकरणीये च मा त्वां कालोऽत्यगादयम्। किं त्वतः परमं दुःखं यद् वयं स्वर्गते त्वयि॥ याचमानाः परादन्नं परिधावेमहि श्ववत्। त्वयि त्वरोगे निर्मुक्ते क्लेशादस्मात् सबान्धवे। अमृते वसती लोके भविष्यामि सुखान्विता॥
English: There should not be may delay in doing that which is inevitable. What could be more painful to us than your ascending heaven. (Then) we shall have to beg our food from others like dogs. If you are saved with your friends (dear ones), I shall pass my time in heaven and bliss.
Sanskrit: इतः प्रदाने देवाश्च पितरश्चेति न श्रुतम्। त्वया दत्तेन तोयेन भविष्यन्ति हिताय वै॥
English: We have heard that if after bestowing your daughter, you offer obtains to the celestial and forefathers, they will be propitious to you.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच एवं बहुविधं तस्या निशम्य परिदेवितम्। पिता माता च सा चैव कन्या प्ररुरुदुस्त्रयः॥
English: Vaishampayana said : Having heard her these piteous lamentations, the father, the brother and the daughter began to weep (together).
Sanskrit: ततः प्ररुदितान् सर्वान् निशम्याथ सुतस्तदा। उत्फुल्लनयनो बाल: कलमव्यक्तमब्रवीत्॥
English: Thereupon seeing them all weep, their son of tender years, spoke thus in childish words, his eyes expanded with joy.
Sanskrit: मा पिता रुद मा मातर्मा स्वसस्त्विति चाब्रवीत्। प्रहसन्निव सर्वांस्तानेकैकमनुसर्पति॥ ततः स तृणमादाय प्रहृष्टः पुनरब्रवीत्। अनेनाहं हनिष्यामि राक्षसं पुरुषादकम्॥
English: He said O father, o you mother, O sister also, do not weep.” Thus saying and smiling, he came to each of them. Then taking up a blade of glass, he said again in joy, “I shall kill the cannibal Rakshasas by it.
Sanskrit: तथापि तेषां दुःखेन परीतानां निशम्य तत्। बालस्य वाक्यमव्यक्तं हर्षः समभवन्महान्॥
English: Through they were all in grief, yet hearing the lisping words of the child, they felt exceeding delight.
Sanskrit: अयं काल इति ज्ञात्वा कुन्ती समुपसृत्य तान्। गतासूनमृतेनेव जीवयन्तीदमब्रवीत्॥
English: Thinking that to be the (proper) time (to appear before them), Kunti came to them and reviving them as nectar revives a dead man, she thus spoke (to them).
Sanskrit: कुन्त्युवाच कुतोमूलमिदं दुःखं ज्ञातुमिच्छामि तत्त्वतः। विदित्वाप्यपकर्षेयं शक्यं चेदपकर्षितुम्॥
English: Kunti said: I desire to learn from you what is the cause of this grief. Learning it, I shall remove it, if is capable of being removed.
Sanskrit: ब्राह्मण उवाच उपपन्नं सतामेतद् यद् ब्रवीषि तपोधने। न तु दुःखमिदं शक्यं पानुषेण व्यपोहितम्॥
English: The Brahmana said : O ascetic lady, what you say is no doubt worthy of virtuous men. But this grief cannot be removed by any human being.
Sanskrit: समीपे नगरस्यास्य बको वसति राक्षसः। ईशो जनपदस्यास्य पुरस्य च महाबलः॥ पुष्टो मानुषमांसेन दुर्बुद्धिः पुरुषादकः। रक्षत्यसुररानित्यमिमं जनपदं बली॥ नगरं चैव देशं च रक्षोबलसमन्वितः। तत्कृते परचक्राच्च भूतेब्यश्च न नो भयम्॥
English: A Rakshasas, named Baka, lives not far off from this town. That greatly powerful (cannibal) is the lord of this town and of this country. That wicked-minded and powerful cannibal, that chief of the Asuras, being fattened by (eating) human flesh, rules over this country. This country and town are protected by the strength of that Rakshasas; thus being protected, we have no fear of any enemy, nay of any living soul.
Sanskrit: वेतनं तस्य विहितं शालिवाहस्य भोजनम्। महिषौ पुरुषश्चैको यस्तदादाय गच्छति॥
English: His remuneration however is fixed to supply his food, which consists of one cart load of rice, two buffaloes and the man who takes them to him.
Sanskrit: एकैकश्चापि पुरुषस्तत् प्रयच्छति भोजनम्। स वारो बहुभिर्वर्भवत्यसुकरो नरैः॥
English: One after another all (men of this town) send him his food. Though it is very difficult to be kept, yet the turn comes to a particular family at intervals of many years.
Sanskrit: तद्विमोक्षाय ये केचिद् यतन्ति पुरुषाः क्वचित्। सपुत्रदारांस्तान् हत्वा तद् रक्षो भक्षयत्युत॥
English: If people try to avoid it, the Rakshasas then eats them up with their wives and children.
Sanskrit: वेत्रकीयगृहे राजा नायं नयमिहास्थितः। उपायं तं न कुरुते यत्नादपि स मन्दधीः। अनामयं जनस्यास्य येन स्यादद्य शाश्वतम्॥
English: There is a king in a place called Vetrakiyagriha, but that foolish man does not know how to govern (his kingdom) and he does not take any step by which this country may be rendered safe.
Sanskrit: एतदर्हा वयं नूनं वसामो दुर्बलस्य ये। विषये नित्यवास्तव्याः कुराजानमुपाश्रिताः॥
English: We certainly deserve it all, for we live in everlasting anxiety in the kingdom of a wretched and weak king.
Sanskrit: ब्राह्मणाः कस्य वक्तव्याः कस्य वाच्छन्दचारिणः। गुणैरेते हि वत्स्यन्ति कामगाः पक्षिणो यथा॥
English: The Brahmanas can never be made to live (permanently) in the house of any one, (for) they are free men. They depend upon their own accomplishments and roam (over the world) like a bird, free to fly at pleasure.
Sanskrit: राजानं प्रथमं विन्देत् ततो भार्यां ततो धनम्। त्रयस्य संचयेनास्य ज्ञातीन् पुत्रांश्च तारयेत्॥
English: It is said that a (good) king should be saved first, them a wife and then wealth, by the acquisition of the three, one can rescue his relatives and sons.
Sanskrit: विपरीतं मया चेदं त्रयं सर्वमुपार्जितम्। तदिमामापदं प्राप्य भृशं तप्यामहे वयम्॥
English: In the matter of the acquisition of these three, my course has been (quite) the reserve. Therefore falling into this danger, I am suffering great affections.
Sanskrit: सोऽयमस्माननुप्राप्तो वारः कुलविनाशनः। भोजनं पुरुषश्चैकः प्रदेयं वेतनं मया॥
English: The race destroying turn of (supplying food to the Rakshsasa) has come round to me. I shall have to give the food and a man as the remuneration of the (Rakshasas).
Sanskrit: न च मे विद्यते वित्तं संक्रेतुं पुरुषं क्वचित्। सुहज्जनं प्रदातुं च न शक्ष्यामि कदाचन॥
English: I have no wealth to buy a man. I shall not bu able to give one who is dear to me.
Sanskrit: गतिं चैव न पश्यामि तस्मान्मोक्षाय रक्षसः। सोऽहं दुःखार्णवे मग्नो महत्यसुकरे भृशम्॥
English: I do not see any means to save myself from the Rakshasas; therefore, I am plunged into a great ocean of grief, from which there is no escape.
Sanskrit: सहैवैतैर्गमिष्यामि बान्धवैरद्य राक्षसम्। ततो नः सहितान् क्षुद्रः सर्वानेवोपभोक्ष्यति॥
English: I shall today with all my family, go to that Rakshasas so that, that wretch may devour us all at once.
Sanskrit: कुत्युवाच न विषादस्त्वया कार्यों भयादस्मात् कथंचन। उपायः परिदृष्टोऽत्र तस्मान्मोक्षाय रक्षसः॥
English: Kunti said : Do not grieve for this fear, I see a means by which you may be saved from the Rakshasas.
Sanskrit: एकस्तव सुतो बालः कन्या चैका तपस्विनी। न चैतयोस्तथा पत्न्या गमनं तव रोचये।॥
English: You have only one son who is of tender years; you have only one daughter, who is engaged in vows. I do not like that any of these or yourself or your wife should go.
Sanskrit: मम पञ्च सुता ब्रह्मस्तेषामेको गमिष्यति। त्वदर्थं वलिमादाय तस्य पापस्य रक्षसः॥
English: I have five sons; one of them will go carrying on your behalf your tribute to that sinful Rakshasas.
Sanskrit: ब्राह्मण उवाच नाहमेतत् करिष्यामि जीवितार्थी कथंचन। ब्राह्मणस्यातिथैश्चैव स्वार्थे प्राणान् वियोजयन्॥
English: The Brahmana said : I can never do this in order to live. I can not cause the death of a Brahmana and a guest for saving my own life.
Sanskrit: न त्वेतदकुलीनासु नाधर्मिष्ठासु विद्यते। यद् ब्राह्मणार्थं विसृजेदात्मानमपि चात्मजम्॥
English: Even those that are lowly born and sinful refuse to do this; one should sacrifice himself and children for the sake of a Brahmana.
Sanskrit: आत्मनस्तु मया श्रेयो बोद्धव्यमिति रोचते। ब्रह्मवध्याऽऽत्मवध्या वा श्रेयानात्मवधो मम॥ ब्रह्मवध्या परं पापं निष्कृति त्र विद्यते। अबुद्धिपूर्वं कृत्वापि वमात्मवधो मम॥
English: I consider this precept best for me and I like to follow it. Between the death of a Brahmana and of my own, I would prefer the latter. To kill a Brahmana is a great sin, of which there is no expiation. It is best for me to sacrifice myself reluctantly instead of sacrificing a Brahmana reluctantly.
Sanskrit: न त्वहं वधमाकाक्षे स्वयमेवात्मनः शुभे। परैः कृते वधे पापं न किंचिन्मयि विद्यते॥
English: O blessed lady, in sacrificing myself, I do not commit the sin of self destruction. I shall commit no sin by being killed by another.
Sanskrit: अभिसंधिकृते तस्मिन् ब्राह्मणस्य वधे मया। निष्कृतिं न प्रपश्यामि नृशंसं क्षुद्रमेव च॥ आगतस्य गृहं त्यागस्तथैव शरणार्थिनः। याचमानस्य च वधो नृशंसो गर्हितो बुधैः॥
English: But if I deliberately kill a Brahmana, I shall commit a cruel and sinful act, from which I shall never escape. The learned men have said that the abandonment of one who has come to your house or who has sought your protection and the killing of one who seeks death at your hands are both cruel and sinful.
Sanskrit: कुर्यान्न निन्दितं कर्म न नृशंसं कथंचन। इति पूर्वे महात्मान आपद्धर्मविदो विदुः॥ श्रेयांस्तु सहदारस्य विनाशोऽद्य मम स्वयम्। ब्राह्मणस्य वधं नाहमनुमंस्ये कदाचन॥
English: The high-souled men, learned in the precepts that should be adopted in distress and danger, formerly said that one should never perform a cruel and censurable act. It is best for me that I should myself perish to day with my wife. I shall never cause the death of a Brahmana.
Sanskrit: कुन्त्युवाच ममाप्येषा मतिर्ब्रह्मन् विप्रा रक्ष्या इति स्थिरा। न चाप्यनिष्टः पुत्रो मे यदि पुत्रशतं भवेत्॥ न चासौ राक्षसः शक्तो मम पुत्रविनाशने। वीर्यवान् मन्त्रसिद्धश्च तेजस्वी च सुतो मम॥
English: Kunti said: O Brahmana, my form opinion is that Brahmanas must be protected always. if I have one hundred sons, none of them would be less dear to me. But this Rakshasa will not be able to kill my son. my son is powerful energetic and learned in Mantras.
Sanskrit: राक्षसाय च तत् सर्वं प्रापयिष्यति भोजनम्। मोक्षयिष्यति चात्मानमिति मे निश्चिता मतिः॥
English: He will reach the food of the Rakshasa, but he will be able to save himself; this is my firm belief.
Sanskrit: समागताश्च वीरेण दृष्टपूर्वाश्च राक्षसाः। बलवन्तो महाकाया निहताश्चाप्यनेकशः॥
English: I had seen before that many powerful and huge Rakshasas came to my son and were killed at his hands.
Sanskrit: न त्विदं केषुचिद् ब्रह्मन् व्याहर्तव्यं कथंचन। विद्यार्थिनो हि मे पुत्रान् विप्रकुर्युः कुतूहलात्॥
English: O Brahmana, do not by any means disclose this to anybody; for then people, being curious and desirous of learning (their power), will trouble my sons.
Sanskrit: गुरुणा चाननुज्ञातो ग्राहयेद् यत् सुतो मम। न स कुर्यात् तथा कार्यं विद्ययेति सतां मतम्॥
English: The opinion of the learned men is that if my son gives this knowledge (to others) without the assent of his preceptor, he will no longer be able to profit by it.
Sanskrit: एवमुक्तस्तु पृथया स विप्रो भार्यया सह। हृष्टः सम्पूजयामास तद्वाक्यममृतोपमम्॥
English: Vaishampayana said : Having been thus addressed by Pritha (Kunti) the Brahmana and his wife became exceedingly glad and assented to those nectar like words (of Kunti).
Sanskrit: ततः कुन्ती च विप्रश्च सहितावनिलात्मजम्। तमबूतां कुरुष्वेति स तथेत्यब्रवीच्च तौ॥
English: Thereupon Kunti and the Brahmana went to the son of Anila (Bhima) and told him "Do this"; and he replied by saying “Be it so."
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच करिष्य इति भीमेन प्रतिज्ञातेऽथ भारत। आजग्मुस्ते ततः सर्वे भैक्षमादाय पाण्डवाः॥
English: Vaishampayana said : O descendant of Bharata, when Bhima promised by saying, “I shall do it," the Pandavas all came there after collecting food,
Sanskrit: आकारेणैव तं ज्ञात्वा पाण्डुपुत्रो युधिष्ठिरः। रहः समुपविश्यैकस्तत: पप्रच्छ मातरम्॥
English: The son of Pandu Yudhisthira learnt the affair by the appearance of Bhima and sitting by his mother, he spoke thus to her in private.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच किं चिकीर्षत्ययं कर्म भीमो भीमपराक्रमः। भवत्यनुमते कच्चित् स्वयं वा कर्तुमिच्छति॥
English: Yudhisthira said: What is the work that the greatly powerful Bhima wants to performs? Does he wish to do it by your command or of his own will?
Sanskrit: कुन्त्युवाच ममैव वचनादेष करिष्यति परंतपः। ब्राह्मणार्थे महत् कृत्यं मोक्षाय नगरस्य च॥
English: Kunti said: By my request the chastiser of foes (Bhima) will do this great deed for the sake of the Brahmana and in order to save the town (from the Rakshasa).
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच किमिदं साहसं तीक्ष्णं भवत्या दुष्करं कृतम्। परित्यागं हि पुत्रस्य न प्रशंसन्ति साधवः॥
English: Yudhisthira said : What rush act has been done by you! It is a very difficult work. The learned men never praise one's abandonment of his own son.
Sanskrit: कथं परसुतस्यार्थे स्वसुतं त्यक्तुमिच्छसि। लोकवेदविरुद्धं हि पुत्रत्यागात् कृतं त्वया॥
English: were Why do you wish to abandon your son for the sake of another's son? You have done this act of abandonment of your son which is not approved by both men and by the Vedas.
Sanskrit: यस्य बाहू समाश्रित्य सुखं सर्वे शयामहे। राज्यं चापहृतं क्षुद्रराजिहीर्षामहे पुनः॥
English: By the strength of whose arms we all sleep in comfort and hope to recovered the kingdom of which we have been deprived by the wretches (Duryodhana and others).
Sanskrit: यस्य दुर्योधनो वीर्यं चिन्तयन्नमितौजसः। न शेते रजनी: सर्वा दुःखाच्छकुनिना सह॥
English: Remembering whose great prowess, Duryodhana with Sakuni and all others do not sleep (for a moment) in the night in anxiety;
Sanskrit: यस्य वीरस्य वीर्येण मुक्ता जतुगृहाद् वयम्। अन्येभ्यश्चैव पापेभ्यो निहतश्च पुरोचनः॥
English: By whose heretic prowess we rescued from the burning house of lac and others dangers; by whom Purochana was killed.
Sanskrit: यस्य वीर्यं समाश्रित्य वसुपूर्णां वसुन्धराम्। इमां मन्यामहे प्राप्तां निहत्य धृतराष्ट्रजान्॥ तस्य व्यवसितस्त्यागो बुद्धिमास्थाय बुद्धिमास्थाय कां त्वया। कच्चिन्नु दुःखैर्बुद्धिस्ते विलुप्ता गतचेतसः॥
English: Relying on whose prowess we believe ourselves that we have already acquired this earth full of wealth and have killed the sons of Dhritarashira. On what consideration have you resolved upon abandoning him? have you lost your senses on account of the calamities?
Sanskrit: कुन्त्युवाच युधिष्ठिर न संतापस्त्वया कार्यो वृकोदरे। न चायं बुद्धिदौर्बल्याद् व्यवसायः कृतो मया॥
English: Kunti said: ( Yudhisthira, you need not be anxious for Vrikodara. I have not resolved (to do it) out of any weakness of my understanding.