pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: यत् स्वयं कर्मणा किंचित् फलमाप्नोति पूरुषः। प्रत्यक्षमेतल्लोकेषु तत् पौरुषमिति श्रुतम्॥
English: The fruit, that a person reaps by acting himself and which is the direct outcome of his actions, is considered as a proof of manliness.
Sanskrit: स्वभावतः प्रवृत्तो यः प्राप्नोत्यर्थं न कारणात्। तत् स्वभावात्मकं विद्धि फलं पुरुषसत्तम॥
English: Of best of men, know that the riches acquired spontaneously and without cause are considered as a spontaneous acquisition.
Sanskrit: एवं हठाच्च दैवाच्च स्वभावात् कर्मणस्तथा। यानि प्राप्नोति पुरुषस्तत् फलं पूर्वकर्मणाम्।।२
English: Whatever is thus acquired accidentally, providentially or spontaneously by a person is the outcome of his pristine actions.
Sanskrit: धातापि हि स्वकर्मैव तैस्तैर्हेतुभिरीश्वरः। विदधाति विभज्येह फलं पूर्वकृतं नृणाम्॥
English: And judging according to their pristine actions, the good and bad, the ordainer of the universe distributes among men, their portions in this world.
Sanskrit: यद्ध्ययं पुरुषः किंचित् कुरुते वै शुभाशुभम्। तद्धातृविहितं विद्धि पूर्वकर्मफलोदयम्॥
English: Know that whatever actions, either good or bad, that a person performs are the outcome of God's arrangements with reference to their pristine actions.
Sanskrit: कारणं तस्य देहोऽयंधातुः कर्मणि वर्तते। स यथा प्रेरयत्येनं तथायं कुरुतेऽवशः॥
English: This body is the instrument of God for actions; inert in itself, it performs what is urged on by God.
Sanskrit: तेषु तेषु हि कृत्येषु विनियोक्ता महेश्वरः। सर्वभूतानि कौन्तेय कारयत्यवशान्यपि॥
English: O son of Kunti, it is the supreme Lord of all who makes all creatures do what they do, though they themselves are all inert.
Sanskrit: मनसार्थान् विनिश्चित्य पश्चात् प्राप्नोति कर्मणा। बुद्धिपूर्वं स्वयं वीर पुरुषस्तत्र कारणम्॥
English: O hero, having settled upon some object in mind, a man carries it out into action aided by his intelligence; man is himself therefore the cause.
Sanskrit: संख्यातुं नैव शक्यानि कर्माणि पुरुषर्षभ। अगारनगराणां हि सिद्धिः पुरुषहैतुकी॥ तिले तैलं गवि क्षीरं काष्ठे पावकमन्ततः। धियाधीरो विजानीयादुपायं चास्य सिद्धये॥
English: O best of men, the number of actions cannot be ascertained for towns and palaces are the result of man's acts. By the aid of their intelligence, intelligent men know that oil may be had from sesame, curds from milk and that food may be cooked by means of igniting fuel; they know the means for accomplishing them.
Sanskrit: ततः प्रवर्तते पश्चात् कारणैस्तस्य सिद्धये। तां सिद्धिमुपजीवन्ति कर्मजामिह जन्तवः॥
English: Thereupon they set themselves, by instruinents, to accomplishing them; and creatures maintain their lives by the results acquired in these directions by their own acts.
Sanskrit: कुशलेन कृतं कर्म क; साधु स्वनुष्ठितम्। इदं त्वकुशलेनेति विशेषादुपलभ्यते॥
English: If a work is done by a clever work-man it is done well; from the difference in execution another work may be said to be that of an unskilled hand.
Sanskrit: इष्टापूर्तफलं न स्यान्न शिष्यो न गुरुर्भवेत्। पुरुषः कर्मसाध्येषु स्याच्चेदयमकारणम्॥
English: If a person were not himself the instrument of his acts, the sacrifices would not bear any fruits in his case nor would anybody be a disciple or preceptor.
Sanskrit: कर्तृत्वादेव पुरुषः कर्मसिद्धौ प्रशस्यते। असिद्धौ निन्द्यते चापि कर्मनाशात् कथं त्विह॥
English: It is because a person is himself the instrument of his action that he is praised when or he acquires success, so the doer is censured when he is unsuccessful; nothing else exists.
Sanskrit: सर्वमेव हठेनैके दैवेनैके वदन्त्युत। पुंसः प्रयत्न केचित्त्रैधमेतन्निरुच्यते॥ न चैवेतावता कार्यं मन्यन्त इति चापरे। अस्ति सर्वमदृश्यं तु दिष्टं चैव तथा हठः॥
English: Some say that everything is the outcome of chance, some say everything is providential, whereas others hold that this, is not so, but everything that is said to be the outcome of Destiny or chance is the result of pristine actions.
Sanskrit: दृश्यते हि हठाच्चैव दिष्टाच्चार्थस्य संततिः। किंचिद् दैवाद्धठात् किंचित् किंचिदेव स्वभावतः।३४॥ पुरुषः फलमाप्नोति चतुर्थं नात्र कारणम्। कुशलाः प्रतिजानन्ति ये वै तत्त्वविदो जनाः॥
English: It is seen that wealth proceeds from chance Destiny; something accidental and something natural. In the acquisition of fruits for a man, there is not the fourth cause; this is said by those who are cognizant of truth and well-versed in knowledge.
Sanskrit: तथैवधाता भूतानामिष्टानिष्टफलप्रदः। यदि न स्यान्न भूतानां कृपणो नाम कश्चन॥
English: If God himself were not the bestower of good or bad fruits then among creatures there would not be any miserable being.
Sanskrit: यं यमर्थमभिप्रेप्सुः कुरुते कर्म पूरुषः। तत्तत् सफलमेव स्याद् यदि न स्यात् पुरा कृतम्।
English: If pristine actions had no existence then all purposes for which a man would work should prove successful.
Sanskrit: त्रिद्वारामर्थसिद्धिं तु नानुपश्यन्ति ये नराः। तथैवानर्थसिद्धिं च यथा लोकास्तथैव ते॥
English: Those persons, who do not observe these three doors for the accomplishment of objects as well as for the failure, are dull and exist like the body itself.
Sanskrit: कर्तव्यमेव कर्मेति मनोरेष विनिश्चयः। एकान्तेन ह्यनीहोऽयं पराभवति पूरुषः॥
English: Man should always act; for this is the conclusion of Manu; a person that does not act is always defeated.
Sanskrit: कुर्वतो हि भवत्येव प्रायेणेह युधिष्ठिर। एकान्तफलसिद्धिं तु न विन्दत्यलसः क्वचित्॥
English: A man of action in this world, O Yudhishthira, generally meets with success; the idle however never acquire success.
Sanskrit: असम्भवे त्वस्य हेतुः प्रायश्चित्तं तु लक्षयेत्। कृते कर्मणि राजेन्द्र तथानृण्यमवाप्नुते॥
English: If success becomes impossible a person should remove the difficulties; when engaged in action, O king, he is freed from debts (whether he is successful or not).
Sanskrit: अलक्ष्मीराविशत्येनं शयानमलसं नरम्। नि:संशयं फलं लब्ध्वा दक्षो भूतिमुपाश्नुते॥
English: Adversity overpowers a person who is idle and lies down, whereas whoever is active reaps success and enjoys prosperity.
Sanskrit: अनर्थाः संशयावस्थाः सिद्ध्यन्ते मुक्त संशयाः। धीरा नराः कर्मरता ननु निःसंशयाः क्वचित्॥
English: Intelligent persons engaged confidently in acts consider all who are diffident as doubting and unsuccessful.
Sanskrit: एकान्तेन ह्यनर्थोऽयं वर्ततेऽस्मासु साम्प्रतम्। स तु निःसंशयं न स्यात् त्वयि कर्मण्यवस्थिते॥
English: Now we are overtaken by misfortune and if you engage in action this misfortune will certainly be removed.
Sanskrit: अथवा सिद्धिरेव स्यादभिमानं तदेव ते। वृकोदरस्य बीभत्सोमा॑त्रोश्च यमयोरपि॥
English: Even if you are unsuccessful it shall be proved to you. Vrikodara, Vivatsu and the twins (that you are unable to take the kingdom).
Sanskrit: अन्येषां कर्म सफलमस्माकमपि वा पुनः। विप्रकर्षण बुध्येत कृतकर्मा यथाफलम्।॥
English: The actions of others have been seen crowned with success and ours might be as well; how can one, performing action, perceive beforehand what would be the result?
Sanskrit: पृथिवीं लागलेनेह भित्त्वा बीजं वपत्युत। आस्तेऽथ कर्षकस्तूष्णीं पर्जन्यस्तत्र कारणम्॥
English: Having tilled the ground with plough one sows the seeds; the tiller then sits silent (for) the clouds are the next cause.
Sanskrit: वृष्टिश्चेन्नानुगृहणीयादनेनास्तत्र कर्षकः। यदन्यः पुरुषः कुर्यात् तत् कृतं सफलं मया॥
English: If however the clouds do not favour him the cultivator is not to blame-he says :-"I have done what others do."
Sanskrit: तच्चेदं फलमस्माकमपराधो न मे क्वचित्। इतिधीरोऽन्ववेक्ष्यैव नात्मानं तत्र गर्हयेत्।।
English: If however I do not meet with success I am not to blame thinking this he contents himself and does not reproach himself.
Sanskrit: कुर्वतो नार्थसिद्धिर्मे भवतीति ह भारत। निर्वेदो नात्र कर्तव्यो द्वावन्यौ ह्या कारणम्॥
English: O descendant of Bharata, no one should despair saying, “I am working still I do not succeed," for besides exertion there are two other ause for success.
Sanskrit: सिद्धिर्वाप्यथवासिद्धिरप्रवृत्तिरतोऽन्यथा। बहूनां समवाये हि भावानां कर्म सिद्ध्यति॥
English: Success or failure, no one should despair, for success in action depends upon the union of many circumstances.
Sanskrit: गुणाभावे फलं न्यूनं भवत्यफलमेव च। अनारम्भे हि न फलं न गुणो दृश्यते क्वचित्॥
English: One element wanting proportionate success does not come or nothing at all; if however no exertion is made no success is acquired, nor any quality is seen.
Sanskrit: देशकालावुपायांश्च मङ्गलं स्वस्तिवृद्धये। युनक्ति मेधयाधीरो यथाशक्ति यथाबलम्॥
English: The man is by his intelligence and according to his might and power, brings place, time, means and auspicious rites for the acquisition of prosperity.
Sanskrit: अप्रमत्तेन तत् कार्यमुपदेष्टा पराक्रमः। भूयिष्ठं कर्मयोगेषु दृष्ट एव पराक्रमः॥
English: One should assiduously engage in action, his guide being his prowess; among the qualities necessary for action energy is the foremost.
Sanskrit: यत्रधीमानवेक्षेत श्रेयांसं बहुभिर्गुणैः। साम्नैवार्थं ततो लिप्सेत् कर्म चास्मै प्रयोजयेत्॥
English: If an intelligent man finds his enemy superior to him in many qualities he should accomplish his object by the arts of conciliation and proper appliances.
Sanskrit: व्यसनं वास्य काक्षेत विवासं वा युधिष्ठिर। अपि सिन्धोगिरेर्वापि किं पुनर्मर्त्यधर्मिणः॥
English: O Yudhishthira, he should wish for the calamity and banishment (of his foe), what of mortal men, even he be an ocean or a mountain.
Sanskrit: उत्थानयुक्तः सततं परेषामन्तरैषौ। आनृण्यमाप्नोति नरः परस्यात्मन एव च॥
English: A person, by actively praying into the holes of his enemy, satisfies a debt to himself as well as to his enemies.
Sanskrit: न त्वेवात्मावमन्तव्यः पुरुषेण कदाचन। न ह्यात्मपरिभूतस्य भूतिर्भवति शोभना॥
English: A man should never think ill of himself; whoever thinks ill of himself never earnis splendid prosperity.
Sanskrit: एवंसंस्थितिका सिद्धिरियं लोकस्य भारत। तत्र सिद्धिर्गतिः प्रोक्ता कालावस्थाविभागतः॥
English: O descendant of Bharata, the success of persons is thus situated; it is said that the course of success depends upon time and situation.
Sanskrit: ब्राह्मणं मे पिता पूर्वं वासयामास पण्डितम्। सोऽपि सर्वामिमां प्राह पित्रे मे भरतर्षभ॥ नीति बृहस्पतिप्रोक्ता भ्रातृन् मेऽचाहयत् पुरा। तेषां सकाशादौषमहमेतां तदा गृहे॥
English: In the days of yore my father housed a learned Brahmana; he said all this to my father, O foremost of Bharatas. My brothers, formerly accept from Brihaspati inoral precepts and then in our house I heard all this from them.
Sanskrit: स मां राजन् कर्मवतीमागतामाह सान्त्वयन्। शुश्रूषमाणामासीनां पितुरङ्के युधिष्ठिर॥
English: O king, O Yudhishthira, he said this to me, consoling, who had approached my father for some work and who for serving was seated on my father's lap.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच याज्ञसेन्या वचः श्रुत्वा भीमसेनो झमर्षणः। निःश्वसन्नुपसंगम्य क्रुद्धो राजानमब्रवीत्॥
English: Vaishampayana said : Having heard these words of Yajnaseni (Draupadi), Bhimasena came to the king (Yudhishthira). And sighing in wrath, he thus spoke to him.
Sanskrit: राज्यस्य पदवीधयां व्रज सत्पुरुषोचिताम्। धर्मकामार्थहीनानां किं नो वस्तुं तपोवने॥
English: Bhima said: O king, walk as regards kingdoms in the customary path trodden by good men. What do you gain by living in the hermitage of the ascetics, thus deprived of Dharma, Artha and Kama?
Sanskrit: नैवधर्मेण तद् राज्यं नार्जवेन न चौजसा। अक्षकूटमधिष्ठाय हृतं दुर्योधनेन वै॥
English: Your kingdom has been robbed by Duryodhana by an unfair gambling at dice and not by virtue or by honesty or by prowess.
Sanskrit: गोमायुनेव सिंहानां दुर्बलेन बलीयसाम्। आमिषं विघसाशेन तद्वद् राज्यं हि नो हृतम्॥
English: He has robbed our kingdom like a weak offal-eating jackal that steals the prey from mighty lions.
Sanskrit: धर्मलेशप्रतिच्छन्नः प्रभवंधर्मकामयोः। अर्थमुत्सृज्य किं राजन् दुःखेषु परितप्यसे॥
English: O king, why do you, abandoning the wealth which is the source of both virtue and pleasures and in obedience of the (mere) trifling virtue of keeping one's promise, suffer such afflictions?
Sanskrit: भवतोऽनवधानेन राज्यं नः पश्यतां हृतम्। अहार्यमपि शक्रेण गुप्तं गाण्डीवधन्वना॥
English: Our kingdom, protected by the wielder of Gandiva (Arjuna) and incapable of being snatched from us by (even) Shakra (Indra), was robbed from us in our very sight (only) on account of your carelessness.
Sanskrit: कुणीनामिव बिल्वानि पशूनामिवधेनवः। हृतमैश्वर्यमस्माकं जीवतां भवतः कृते॥
English: It was for you, that notwithstanding we were alive, our prosperity was wrested from use like a fruit from one who is unable to use his arms or like kine from one who cannot use his legs.
Sanskrit: भवत: प्रियमित्येवं महद् व्यसनमीदृशम्। धर्मकामे प्रतीतस्य प्रतिपन्नाः स्म भारत॥
English: O descendant of Bharata, you are firin in the desire of acquiring virtue. It was to please you that we suffered ourselves to be overwhelmed with such calamities.
Sanskrit: कर्शयामः स्वमित्राणि नन्दयामश्च शात्रवान्। आत्मानं भवतां शास्त्रैर्नियम्य भरतर्षभ।॥
English: O best of the Bharata race, it was because we are at your command that we are giving pain to our friends and joy to our enemies.
Sanskrit: यद् वयं न तदैवैतान्धार्तराष्ट्रान् निहन्महि। भवतः शास्त्रमादाय तन्नस्तपति दुष्कृतम्॥
English: It was on our part an act of folly which gives me great pain that we did not, obeying your command, kill the sons of Dhritarashtra then and there.
Sanskrit: अथैनामन्ववेक्षस्व मृगचर्यामिवात्मनः। दुर्बलाचरितां राजन् न बलस्थैनिषेविताम्॥
English: O king, this your living in the forest like an wild animal is an act which only a weak man alone would submit to.
Sanskrit: यां न कृष्णो न बीभत्सु भिमन्युर्न संजयाः। न चाहमभिनन्दामि न च माद्रीसुतावुभौ॥
English: Your this act is approved of neither by Krishna, nor by Vivatsu (Arjuna), nor by Abhimanyu, nor by the Srinjayas, nor by myself, nor by the sons of Madri.
Sanskrit: भवान्धर्मोधर्म इति सततं व्रतकर्शितः। कच्चिद् राजन् न निर्वेदादापन्नः क्लीबजीविकाम्।।
English: Afflicted with your vow you always cry, "Virtue, virtue."O king, have you from despair become a man of no manliness?
Sanskrit: दुर्मनुष्या हि निर्वेदमफलं स्वार्थघातकम्। अशक्ताः श्रियमाहर्तुमात्मनः कुर्वते प्रियम्॥
English: Cowards only, being unable to win back their prosperity, cherish despair which is fruitless and destructive of one's own purpose.
Sanskrit: स भवान् दृष्टिमाञ्छक्तः पश्यन्नस्मासु पौरुषम्। आनृशंस्यपरो राजन् नानर्थमवबुध्यसे॥
English: You have ability and cyes. You see that we possess manliness. O king, it is because you have adopted a peaceful life that you do not feel (the pain of) this distress.
Sanskrit: अस्मानमीधार्तराष्ट्राः क्षममाणानलं सतः। अशक्तानिव मन्यन्ते तद् दुःखं नाहवे वधः॥
English: The sons of Dhritarashtra consider us, who are only forgiving, as men really incompetent and weak. O king, this gives me more pain than death in battle would have given me.
Sanskrit: तत्र चेद् युध्यमानानामजिह्ममनिवर्तिनाम्। सर्वशो हि वधः श्रेयान् प्रेत्य लोकान् लभेमहि॥
English: If we all die in a fair fight without turning our backs on our foes, even that would be better than this exile, for we shall then obtain regions of bliss.
Sanskrit: अथवा वयमेवैतान् निहत्य भरतर्षभ। आददीमहि गां सर्वां तथापि श्रेय एव नः॥
English: O best of the Bharata race, on the other hand if we become the ruler of the whole earth by killing them, that would be doing us a great good.
Sanskrit: सर्वथा कार्यमेतन्नः स्वधर्मनुतिष्ठताम्। काक्षतां विपुलां कीर्तिं वैरं प्रतिचिकीर्षताम्॥
English: This is our bounded duty, we who ever adhere to the duties of our own order, who are ever desirous of great achievements and who wish to take revenge on our enemies.
Sanskrit: आत्मार्थं युध्यमानानां विदिते कृत्यलक्षणे। अन्यैरपि हृते राज्ये प्रशंसैव न गर्हणा॥
English: Our kingdom having been robbed from us, if we (under the circumstances) engage in a war, our that act, when it well be known in the world, will bring praise and no condemnation.
Sanskrit: कर्शनार्थो हि योधर्मो मित्राणामात्मनस्तथा। व्यसनं नाम तद् राजन् नधर्मः स कुधर्म तत्॥
English: O king, the virtue, that produces affliction on one's ownself and on one's own friends, is no virtue, at all. It is vice that produces calamities.
Sanskrit: सर्वथाधर्मनित्यं तु पुरुषंधर्मदुर्बलम्। त्यजतस्तात्धर्मार्थों प्रेतं दुःखसुखे यथा॥
English: O sire, virtue is sometimes (the indirect cause of) the weakness of men. Dharina and Artha forsake such men, as pain and pleasure forsake a dead man.
Sanskrit: यस्यधर्मो हिधर्मार्थं क्लेशभाङ् न स पण्डितः। न सधर्मस्य वेदार्थं सूर्यस्यान्धः प्रभामिव॥
English: He who practices virtue only for the sake of virtue always suffers afflictions. He can never be called a wise man. He cannot know the (real) purpose of virtue, as a blind man is incapable of seeing the light of the sun.
Sanskrit: यस्य चार्थार्थमेवार्थः स च नार्थस्य कोविदः। रक्षेत भृतकोऽरण्ये यथा गास्तादृगेव सः॥
English: He who considers that his wealth exists for himself alone does not at all understand the purpose of wealth. He is like the servant tending kine in the forest.
Sanskrit: अतिबेलं हि योऽर्थार्थी नेतरावनुतिष्ठति। स वध्यः सर्वभूतानां ब्रह्महेव जुगुप्सितः॥
English: He, again, who pursues Artha (profit or wealth) too much without pursuing Dharma (virtue) and Kama (pleasure) deserves to be censured and killed by all creatures.
Sanskrit: सततं यश्च कामार्थी नेतरावनुतिष्ठति। मित्राणि तस्य नश्यन्तिधर्मार्थाभ्यां च हीयते॥
English: He who always pursues Kama without pursuing Dharma and Artha loses his friends and also loses virtue and profit.
Sanskrit: तस्यधर्मार्थहीनस्य कामान्ते निधनंध्रुवम्। कामतो रममाणस्य मीनस्येवाम्भसः क्षये॥
English: Such a man, indulging in pleasure at will becoming destitute of virtue and profit, meets with certain death at the expiration of the period of enjoyment, as the fish dies when the water is dried up.
Sanskrit: तस्माद्धर्मार्थयोर्नित्यं न प्रमाद्यन्ति पण्डिताः। प्रकृतिः सा हि कामस्य पावकस्यारणिर्यथा॥
English: It is for this, those that are wise always pursue both virtue and profit, for the union of virtue and profit is the essential requisite of pleasure, as wood is of fire.
Sanskrit: सर्वथाधर्ममूलोऽर्थोधर्मश्चार्थपरिग्रहः। इतरेतरयो तौ विद्धि मेघोदधी यथा॥
English: Pleasure has always virtue for its root and virtue is always united with pleasure. Know that both are dependent on one another, as the ocean and the clouds (depend on each other).
Sanskrit: द्रव्यार्थस्पर्शसंयोगे या प्रीतिरुपजायते। स कामश्चित्तसंकल्पः शरीरं नास्य दृश्यते॥
English: The sensation that one feels in consequence of the contact with the objects of touch or in consequence of the possession of wealth is called pleasure. It exists in the mind and has no corporeal existence.
Sanskrit: अर्थार्थी पुरुषो राजन् बृहन्तंधर्ममिच्छति। अर्थमिच्छति कामार्थी न कामादन्यमिच्छति॥
English: O king, he that wishes to have Artha should seek a large share of virtue. Those that wish Karma should seek (also) Artha, but Kama does not yield any thing in return.
Sanskrit: न हि कामेन कामोऽन्यः साध्यते फलमेव तत्। उपयोगात् फलस्यैव काष्ठाद् भस्मेव पण्डितैः॥
English: Pleasure brings its own fruit; it cannot lead to another (pleasure). Ashes may be had from wood, but nothing could be had from ashes.
Sanskrit: इमाञ्छकुनकान् राजन् हन्ति वैतंसिको यथा। एतद् रूपमधर्मस्य भूतेषु हि विहिंसता॥ कामाल्लोभाच्चधर्मस्य प्रकृति यो न पश्यति। स बध्यः सर्वभूतानां प्रेत्य चेह च दुर्मतिः॥
English: O king, as a fowler kills the birds, so does sin kill all the creatures of the world. He who, being misled by pleasure and covetousness, does not understand the nature of virtue, deserves to be killed by all. He becomes a wretch here and hereafter (after death).
Sanskrit: व्यक्तं ते विदितो राजत्रों द्रव्यपरिग्रहः। प्रकृतिं चापि वेत्थास्य विकृतिं चापि भूयसीम्॥
English: O king, it is evident that you know that pleasure is to be derived from virtuous objects of enjoyments. You also know (what) their ordinary states as well as their great changes (are).
Sanskrit: तस्य नाशे विनाशे वा जरया मरणेन वा। अनर्थ इति मन्यन्ते सोऽयमस्मासु वर्तते॥
English: From their (objects of enjoyment's) loss, destruction, decrepitude and death, arises what is called affliction. That affliction has overtaken us.
Sanskrit: इन्द्रियाणां च पञ्चानां मनसो हृदयस्य च। विषये वर्तमानानां या प्रीतिरुपजायते॥ स काम इति मे बुद्धिः कर्मणां फलमुत्तमम्।
English: The pleasure that is produce by the five senses, by the mind and by the heart being directed to the objects proper to each, is in my opinion, one of the best fruits of our actions.
Sanskrit: एवमेव पृथग् दृष्ट्वाधर्मार्थो काममेव च।॥ नधर्मपर एव स्यान्न चार्थपरमो नरः। न कामपरमो वा स्यात् सर्वान् सेवेत सर्वदा॥ धर्म पूर्वेधनं मध्ये जघन्ये काममाचरेत्। अहन्यनुचरेदेवमेष शास्त्रकृतो विधिः॥
English: Thus Dharma, Artha and Kama should be taken into one's consideration one after the other. One should not pursue virtue alone. No man should consider profit or pleasure as the highest object of his desire. All the three should always be (equally) pursued. The Shastras ordain that one should pursue virtue in the morning, profit at noon and pleasure in the evening.
Sanskrit: काम पूर्वेधनं मध्ये जघन्येधर्ममाचरेत्। वयस्यनुचरेदेवमेष शास्त्रकृतो विधिः॥
English: The Shastras ordain that one should pursue pleasure in the first, profit in the second and virtue in the last portion of his life.
Sanskrit: धर्मं चार्थं च कामं च यथावद् वदतां वर। विभज्य काले कालज्ञः सर्वान् सेवेत पण्डितः॥
English: O foremost of eloquent men, those that are learned and fully conversant with the proper divisions of time, dividing their time properly, pursue all three, Dharma Artha and Kama.
Sanskrit: मोक्षो वा परमं श्रेय एष राजान् सुखार्थिनाम्। प्राप्तिर्वा बुद्धिमास्थाय सोपायां कुरुनन्दन॥ तद् वाऽऽशु क्रियतां राजन् प्राप्तिर्वाप्यधिगम्यताम्। जीवितं ह्यातुरस्येव दुःखमन्तरवर्तिनः॥
English: O king, O descendant of Kuru, whether freedom from all these three (Dharma, Artha and Kama) or possession of them is the better course for those that desire happiness, should be settled by you after careful thought. O king, you should then without the least hesitation act either to achieve them or to abandon them, for he who lives wavering between the two becomes most miserable.
Sanskrit: विदितश्चैव मेधर्मः सततं चरितश्च ते। जानन्तस्त्वयि शसन्ति सुहृदः कर्मचोदनाम्॥
English: It is well that your conduct is ever regulated by virtue. Knowing this, your sensible friends advise you to act (thus).
Sanskrit: दानं यज्ञाः सतां पूजा वेदधारणमार्जवम्। एषधर्मः परो राजन् बलवान् प्रेत्य चेह च॥
English: O king, gift, sacrifice, adoration to the honest, study of the Vedas and honesty, these are the highest virtues strong both here and hereafter.
Sanskrit: एष नार्थविहीनेन शक्यो राजन् निषेवितुम्। अखिलाः पुरुषव्याघ्र गुणाः स्युर्यद्यपीतरे॥
English: But, O foremost of men, these virtues, cannot be attained by one that has no wealth, even if he possess infinite other accomplishments.
Sanskrit: धर्ममूलं जगद् राजन् नान्यद्धर्माद् विशिष्यते। धर्मश्चार्थेन महता शक्यो राजन् निषेवितुम्॥
English: O king, the universe depends on virtue. There is nothing higher than virtue. O king, virtue is attainable (only) by those who possess wealth.
Sanskrit: न चार्थो भैक्ष्यचर्येण नापि क्लैब्येन कर्हिचित्। वेत्तुं शक्यः सदा राजन् केवलंधर्मबुद्धिना॥
English: But wealth cannot be acquired by leading the life of a mendicant nor by bearing a life of weakness. O king, wealth can be earned by virtuous intelligence.
Sanskrit: प्रतिषिद्धा हि ते याचा यया सिद्ध्यति वै द्विजः। तेजसैवार्थलिप्सायां यतस्व पुरुषर्षभ॥
English: O best of men, in your case, begging, which is a success to the Brahmanas, has been forbidden. Therefore try to acquire wealth by prowess and energy.
Sanskrit: भैक्ष्यचर्या न विहिता न च विट्शूद्रजीविका। क्षत्रियस्य विशेषेणधर्मस्तु बलमौरसम्॥
English: It is not proper for you to lead a life of mendicancy or the life of Shudra. Prowess and energy constitute the special virtue of the Kshatriya.
Sanskrit: स्वधर्म प्रतिपद्यस्व जहि शत्रून् समागतान्। धार्तराष्ट्रवनं पार्थ मया पार्थेन नाशय॥
English: Therefore, O son of Pritha, perform the duty of your own (order) and destroy the enemies. Destroy the prowess of the sons of Dhritarashtra with my help and with that of Partha (Arjuna).
Sanskrit: उदारमेव विद्वांसोधर्मं प्राहुर्मनीषिणः। उदारं प्रतिपद्यस्व नावरे स्थातुमर्हसि॥
English: The wise and learned man says that prosperity is virtue. Therefore, acquire prosperity, for you ought not to be in frivolity.
Sanskrit: अनुबुध्यस्व राजेन्द्र वेत्थधर्मान् सनातनान्। क्रूरकर्माभिजातोऽसि यस्मादुद्विजते जनः॥
English: O king of kings, awake and understand the eternal virtues (of one's own order). You belong by birth to an order the acts of which are cruel and are the sources of pain to others.