pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: प्रतिरूपं यथैवाप्सु तापः सूर्यस्य लक्ष्यते। सत्त्ववत्सु तथा सत्त्वं प्रतिरूपं स पश्यति॥
English: As the shining solar disc is seen reflected in the reflected water so the Yogin sees reflected within gross bodies the existent self.
Sanskrit: तानि सूक्ष्माणि सत्त्वानि विमुक्तानि शरीरतः। स्वेन सत्त्वेन सत्त्वज्ञाः पश्यन्ति नियतेन्द्रियः॥
English: All those souls again that are encased in subtile forins after being alienated from the gross bodies in which they lived, are perceptible to Yogins, who have controlled their senses and who are gifted with knowledge of the soul. Indeed, helped by their own souls, Yogins see those invisible beings,
Sanskrit: स्वपतां जाग्रतां चैव सर्वेषामात्मचिन्तितम्। प्रधानाद्वैधमुक्तानां जहतां कर्मजं रजः॥ यथाहनि तथा रात्रौ यथा रात्रौ तथाहनि। वशे तिष्ठति सत्त्वात्मा सततं योगयोगिनाम्॥
English: Whether asleep or awake, during the day or in the night, and during the night or in the day, they who practise Yoga after renouncing all the creations of the understanding the passion engendered by acts, and the power which Yoga begets, succeed in keeping their subtile form under complete control.
Sanskrit: तेषां नित्यं सदा नित्यो भूतात्मा सततं गुणैः। सप्तभिस्त्वन्वितः सूक्ष्मैश्चरिष्णुरजरामरः॥
English: The individual soul which lives in such Yogins, always endued with the seven subtile principles, moves in all blissful regions, freed from decrepitude and death. I say “always,' and 'freed from death, as in common parlance, for, in sooth, that subtile form is also terininable.
Sanskrit: मनोबुद्धिपराभूतः स्वदेहपरदेहवित्। स्वप्नेष्वपि भवत्येष विज्ञाता सुखदुःखयोः॥
English: That man, however, who is under the influence of his mind and understanding, differentiates, even in his dreams, his own body from that of another and experiences both pleasure and pain.
Sanskrit: तत्रापि लभते दुःखं तत्रापि लभते सुखम्। क्रोधलोभौ तु तत्रापि कृत्वा व्यसनमृच्छति॥
English: Really, even in his dreams he enjoys happiness and suffers misery; and yielding to anger and cupidity, suffers all sorts of calamities.
Sanskrit: प्रीणितश्चापि भवति महतोऽर्थानवाप्य हि। करोति पुप्यं तत्रापि जीवन्निव च पश्यति॥
English: In his dreams he acquires great riches and feels highly satisfied: performs meritorious acts, and sees as he does when he is awake.
Sanskrit: महोष्मान्तर्गतश्चापि गर्भत्वं समुपेयिवान्। दश मासान् वसन् कुक्षौ नैषोऽन्नमिव जीर्यते॥
English: It is wonderful to mark that individual soul which has to lie within the uterus and amid much internal heat, and which has to pass there full ten months, is not digested and destroyed like food within the stomach.
Sanskrit: तमेतमतितेजोऽशं भूतात्मानं हृदि स्थितम्। तमोरजोभ्यामाविष्टा नानुपश्यन्ति मूर्तिषु॥
English: Men possessed by the qualities of Darkness and Ignorance never succeed in sceing within the gross body the sentiency which is a portion of the Supreme Soul to transcendent effulgence and which lies within the heart of every creature.
Sanskrit: योगशास्त्रपरा भूत्वा तमात्मानं परीप्सवः। अनुच्छ्वासान्यमूर्तानि यानि वज्रोपमान्यपि॥
English: They who learn Yoga for the purpose of obtaining a knowledge of Self succeed in getting over the inanimate and gross body, the imperceptible subtile body, and the casual body which is not destroyed on the occasion of even the universal destruction.
Sanskrit: पृथग्भूतेषु सृष्टेषु चतुर्थाश्रमकर्मसु। समाधौ योगमेवैतच्छाण्डिल्यः शममब्रवीत्॥
English: Of the duties laid down for the various modes of life including the fourth mode, these which I have described, which have Yoga for their foremost, and which indicate a complete stoppage of all operations of the Mind and the Understanding, have been laid down by Shandilya.
Sanskrit: विदित्वा सप्त सूक्ष्माणि षडङ्गं च महेश्वरम्। प्रधानविनियोगज्ञः परं ब्रह्मानुपश्यति॥
English: Having comprehended the seven subtile principles, having comprehended also the Supreme Cause of the universe with the six attributes, and lastly having understood that the universe so only a modification of nescience endued with the three qualities, one succeeds in seeing high Brahina,
Sanskrit: व्यास उवाच हृदि कामद्रुमश्चित्रो मोहसंचयसम्भवः। क्रोधमानमहास्कन्धो विधित्सापरिषेचनः॥
English: Vyasa said There is a wonderful tree in the heart of man, called Desire. It is born of the seed called Error. Anger and Pride from its large trunk. The desire for work is the hollow ground around its foot.
Sanskrit: तस्य चाज्ञानमाधारः प्रमादः परिषेचनम्। सोऽभ्यसूयापलाशो हि पुरा दुष्कृतसारवान्॥
English: Ignorance is the root of that tree, and carelessness is the water which nourishes it. Envy forms its leaves. The evil acts of pristine lives supply it with vigour.
Sanskrit: सम्मोहचिन्ताविटपः शोकशाखो भयाङ्कुर। मोहनीभिः पिपासाभिलताभिरनुवेष्टितः॥
English: Loss of judgement and anxiety are its twigs; grief forms its huge branches; and fear it is sprout. Thirst which seems agreeable, forms the creepers which twine round it on all sides.
Sanskrit: उपासते महावृक्षं सुलुब्धास्तत्फलेप्सवः। आयसैः संयुताः पाशैः फलदं परिवेष्ट्य तम्॥
English: Avaricious men, fettered in chains of iron, sitting around that fruit-producing tree, worship it, in expectation of its fruit.
Sanskrit: यस्तान् पाशान् वशे कृत्वा तं वक्षमपकर्षति। गतः स दुःखयोरन्तं जरामरणयोर्द्वयोः।
English: He who, subduing those chains, cuts down that tree and seeks to renounce both sorrow and joy, succeeds in attaining to the end of both.
Sanskrit: संरोहत्यकृतप्रज्ञः सदा येन हि पादपम्। स तमेव ततो हन्ति विषग्रन्थिरिवातुरम्॥
English: That foolish wight who nourishes this tree by enjoying the objects of the senses is destroyed by those very objects like a poisonous pill destroying the patient to whom it is given.
Sanskrit: तस्यानुगतमूलस्य मूलमुध्रियते बलात्। योगप्रसादात् कृतिना साम्येन परमासिना॥
English: However, by the help of Yoga, a clever man forcibly cuts off with the sword of concentration, the far-reaching root of this tree.
Sanskrit: एवं यो वेद कामस्य केवलस्य निवर्तनम्। बन्धं वै कामशास्त्रस्य स दुःखान्यतिवर्तते॥
English: One who understands that the end of all acts performed from the desire of fruit is rebirth or chains that bind, succeeds in getting over all sorrow.
Sanskrit: शरीरं पुरमित्याहुः स्वामिनी बुद्धिरिष्यते। तत्त्वबुद्धेः शरीरस्थं मनो नामाथचिन्तकम्॥
English: The body is compared to a city. The understanding is its mistress. The mind living within the body is the minister of that mistress whose chief duty is to decide.
Sanskrit: इन्द्रियाणि मन:पौरास्तदर्थं तु पराकृतिः। तत्र द्वौ दारुणौ दोषौ तमो नाम रजस्तथा।
English: The senses are the citizens who are employed by the mind. For maintaining those citizens the mind shows a strong inclination for various sorts of acts. Two great faults are seen in those acts, namely, Darkness and ignorance.
Sanskrit: तदर्थमुपजीवन्ति पौराः सह पुरेश्वरैः॥ अद्वारेण तमेवार्थं द्वौ दोषावुपजीवतः।
English: Upon the fruits of those acts depend those citizens along with the chiefs of the city. The two faults live upon the fruits of those acts which are done by forbidden means.
Sanskrit: तत्र बुद्धिर्हि दुर्धर्षा मनः सामान्यमश्नुते॥ पौराश्चापि मनस्त्रस्तास्तेषामपि चला स्थितिः।
English: Such being the case, the understanding, which of itself is unconquerable, goes down to a state of equality with the mind. Then again the senses, moved by the stained mind, lose their own firmness.
Sanskrit: तदर्थं बुद्धिरध्यास्ते सोऽनर्थः परिषीदति॥ यदर्थं पृथगध्यास्ते मनस्तत्परिषीदति।
English: Those objects again to acquire which the understanding tries, tries, produce grief and ultimately meet with destruction. Those objects, after destruction, are remembered by the mind, and accordingly they afflict the mind even after they are lost.
Sanskrit: पृथग्भूतं मनो बुद्धया मनो भवति केवलम्॥ तत्रैनं विधृतं शून्यं रजः पर्यवतिष्ठते।
English: The understanding is also afflicted, for the mind is said to be different from the understanding only when the mind is viewed regarding its chief function of getting impressions about whose certainty it is no judge. In sooth, however, the mind is identical with the understanding. The quality of Darkness which is in the understanding then overwhelms the Soul itself that lies over that understanding sullied by Darkness like an image upon a mirror.
Sanskrit: तन्मनः कुरुते सख्यं रजसा सह सङ्गतम्। चादाय जनं पौरं रजसे सम्प्रयच्छति॥
English: It is the mind that first becomes united with darkness. Having united itself, it attacks the soul, the understanding, and the senses, and surrenders them to Rajas."
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच भूतानां परिसंख्यानं भूयः पुत्र निशामय। द्वैपायनमुखाद् भ्रष्टं श्लाघया परयानघ॥ दीप्तानलनिभः प्राह भगवान् धूमवर्चसे। ततोऽहमपि वक्ष्यामि भूयः पुत्र निदर्शनम्॥
English: Bhishma said Do you, O son, O sinless one, listen once more, with feeling of great pride, to the words given vent to by the Island-born Rishi on the subject of the enumeration of the principles. Like a blazing fire, the great Rishi said these words to his son who took after a fire wrapped in smoke. Instructed by what he said, I also, O son, shall again explain to you that certain knowledge.
Sanskrit: भूमेः स्थैर्यं गुरुत्वं च काठिन्यं प्रसवार्थता। गन्धो गुरुत्वं शक्तिश्च संघातः स्थापना धृतिः॥
English: The properties of earth are immobility, weight, hardness, productiveness, scent, density, capacity to absorb all sorts of scents, cohesion, habitableness, and that attribute of the mind which is called patience.
Sanskrit: अपां शैत्यं रसः क्लेदो द्रवत्वं स्नेहसौम्यता। जिह्वा विस्यन्दनं चापि भौमानां श्रपणं तथा॥
English: The properties of water are coolness, taste, moisture, liquidity, softness, agreeableness, tongue, fluidity, capacity to the congealed, and power to melt all earthy products.
Sanskrit: अग्नेर्दुर्धर्षता ज्योतिस्ताप: पाकः प्रकाशनम्। शोको रागो लघुस्तैक्ष्ण्यं सततं चोर्ध्वभासिता॥
English: The properties of fire are irresistible energy, inflammability, heat, capacity to soften, light, sorrow, disease, speed, fury, and upward motion.
Sanskrit: वायोरनियमस्पर्शी वादस्थानं स्वतन्त्रता। बलं शैघ्यं च मोक्षं च कर्म चेष्टाऽऽत्मता भवः॥
English: The properties of the wind are touch that is neither hot nor cool, power to help the organs of speech, independence, strength, celerity, power to help all kinds of discharge, power to raise other objects, breaths inhaled and exhaled, life, and birth.
Sanskrit: आकाशस्य गुणः शब्दो व्यापित्वं च्छिद्रतापि च। अनाश्रयमनालम्बमव्यक्तमविकारिता॥ अप्रतीघातिता चैव भूतत्वं विकृतानि च। गुणा: पञ्चाशतं प्रोक्ताः पञ्चभूतात्मभाविताः॥
English: The properties of space are sound, extension, capacity of being enclosed, absence of refuge, power of being unmanifest, capacity for modification, incapacity for resistance, material cause for producing the sense of hearing, and the unoccupied parts of the human body. These are the fifty properties, as declared, which form the essences of the five elementary entities.
Sanskrit: धैर्योपपत्तिर्व्यक्तिश्च विसर्गः कल्पना क्षमा। सदसच्चाशुता चैव मनसो नव वै गुणाः॥
English: Patience, reasoning, remembrance, forgetfulness or error, imagination, endurance, inclination towards good, inclination towards evil, and restlessness,-are the properties of the mind.
Sanskrit: इष्टानिष्टविपत्तिश्च व्यवसाय: समाधिता। संशयः प्रतिपत्तिश्च बुद्धेः पञ्चगुणान् विदुः।१०।।
English: Destruction of both good and evil thoughts, perseverance, concentration, decision, and ascertainment of all things depending upon direct evidence, form the five properties of the understanding.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच कथं पञ्चगुणा बुद्धिः कथं पञ्चेन्द्रिया गुणाः। एतन्मे सर्वमाचक्ष्व सूक्ष्मज्ञानं पितामह॥
English: Yudhisthira said How can the understanding be said to have five properties? How again, can the five senses be described as properties. Explain to me, O grandfather, all this abstruse topic.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच आहुः षष्टिं बुद्धिगुणान्वै भूतविशिष्टा नित्यविषक्ताः। भूतविभूतीश्चाक्षरसृष्टाः पुत्र न नित्यं तदिह वदन्ति॥
English: Bhishma said The understanding is said to possess altogether sixty properties, for the understanding includes the five clements. All those properties exist in the Soul. The Vedas say, O son, that the elements, their properties, are all created by Him who is above all decay. These entities, therefore, are not eternal.
Sanskrit: तत्पुत्र चिन्ताकलिलं तदुक्तमनागतं वै तव सम्प्रतीह। भूतार्थतत्त्वं तदवाप्य सर्वं भूतप्रभावाद् भव शान्तबुद्धिः।।
English: The theories contradicting the Revelation which have in the previous Verses, O son, been placed before you, are all defective in the eye of reason. Minding, however, in this world all that I have said to you about the Supreme Brahma, do you after acquiring the power which the knowledge of Brahma offers, seek to acquire tranquillity of heart.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच य इमे पृथिवीपाला: शेरते पृथिवीतले। पृतनामध्य एते हि गतसंज्ञा महाबलाः॥
English: Yudhisthira said These kings who lie on the Earth's surface amid their respective armies, these princes of great power, are now all deprived of life.
Sanskrit: एकैकशो भीमबला नागायुतबलास्तथा। एते हि निहताः संख्ये तुल्यतेजोबलैनरैः॥
English: Every one of these powerful kings was endued with strength equal to that of ten thousand elephants. Alas! these have all have killed by men equally powerful and strong.
Sanskrit: नैषां पश्यामि हन्तारं प्राणिनां संयुगे परम्। विक्रमेणोपसम्पन्नास्तेजोबलसमन्विताः॥
English: I do not see any one else that could kill any of these men in battle. All of them were gifted with great prowess, great energy, and great strength.
Sanskrit: अथ चेमे महाप्राज्ञाः शेरते हि गतासवः। मृता इति च शब्दोऽयं वर्तत्येषु गतासुषु॥
English: Highly wise, they are now lying dead on the naked earth. about them, however, that are deprived of life, the word that is used is that they are dead.
Sanskrit: इमे मृता नृपतयः प्रायशो भीमविक्रमाः। तत्र मे संशयो जातः कुतः संज्ञा मृता इति॥
English: All these highly powerful kings are said to be dead. On this subject a doubt lies in my mind. Whence is life and whence is death.
Sanskrit: कस्य मृत्युः कुतो मृत्युः केन मृत्युरिह प्रजाः। हरत्यमरसंकाश तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह॥
English: Who is it that dies? whence is death? Whence is death? Why does death take away living creatures. O grandfather, tell me this, O you who are like a god.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच पुरा कृतयुगे तात राजा ह्यासीदकम्पनः। स शत्रुवशमापन्नः संग्रामे क्षीणवाहनः॥
English: Bhishma said In days of yore, in the Krita age, O son, there was a king of the name of Anukampaka. His cars, elephants, horse and men having been reduced in number, he succumbed to the power of his enemies in battle.
Sanskrit: तस्य पुत्रो हरि म नारायणसमो बले। स शत्रुभिर्हतः संख्ये सबलः सपदानुगः॥
English: His son, named Hari, who was like Narayana himself in strength, was in that battle killed by his enemies along with all his followers and troops.
Sanskrit: स राजा शत्रुवशगः पुत्रशोकसमन्वितः। यदृच्छया शान्तिपरो ददर्श भुवि नारदम्॥
English: Stricken with grief consequent on the death of his son, and himself brought under the control of enemies, the king devoted himself thence to a life of peacefulness. One day, while wandering listlessly he met the sage Narada on the Earth.
Sanskrit: तस्मै स सर्वमाचष्ट यथावृत्तं जनेश्वरः। शत्रुाभिर्ग्रहणं संख्ये पुत्रस्य मरणं तथा॥
English: The king told Narada all that had taken place, viz., the death of his son in battle and his own capture by his enemies.
Sanskrit: तस्य तद् वचनं श्रुत्वा नारदोऽथ तपोधनः आख्यानमिदमाचष्ट पुत्रशोकापहं तदा॥
English: Having heard him Narada, endued with wealth of penances, then recited to him the following narrative for removing his grief consequent on the death of his son.
Sanskrit: नारद उवाच राजशृणु समाख्यानमद्येदं बहुविस्तरम्। यथावृत्तं श्रुतं चैव मयेदं वसुधाधिप॥
English: Narada said Listen now, O king, to the following long narrative which had taken place. I myself heard it formerly, O king!
Sanskrit: प्रजाः सृष्टाः महातेजाः प्रसार्गे पितामहः। अतीव वृद्धा बहुला नामृष्यत पुनः प्रजाः॥
English: Endued with great energy, the Grandfather, at the time of the creation of the universe, created a large number of living beings. These multiplied greatly, and none of them died.
Sanskrit: न ह्यन्तरमभूत् किञ्चित् क्वचिज्जन्तुभिरच्युत। निरुच्छ्वासमिवोन्नद्धं त्रैलोक्यमभवन्नृप॥
English: There was not a part of the universe which was not overcrowded with living creatures, O you of great glory! Indeed, O king, the three worlds appeared to swell with living beings, and became, as it were, breathless.
Sanskrit: तस्य चिन्ता समुत्पन्ना संहारं प्रति भूपते। चिन्तयन् नाध्यगच्छच्च संहारे हेतुकारणम्॥
English: Then, O king, the Grandfather thought as to how he should destroy the surplus population. Thinking of the matter, the Self-create, however, could not decide by what means the destruction of life was to be performed.
Sanskrit: तस्य रोषान्महाराज खेभ्योऽग्निरुदतिष्ठत। तेन सर्वा दिशो राजन् ददाह स पितामहः॥
English: Thereupon, O king, Brahman gave way to anger and in consequence of his anger a fire issued out of his body. With that fire born of his anger, the Grandfather burnt all the quarters of the universe, O king.
Sanskrit: ततो दिवं भुवं खं च जगच्च सचराचरम्। ददाह पावको राजन् भगवत्कोपसम्भवः॥
English: Indeed, that fire begotten of the Divine Lord's anger, O king, burnt Heaven and Earth and the Sky and the whole Universe with all its mobile and immobile beings.
Sanskrit: तत्रादह्यन्त भूतानि जङ्गमानि ध्रुवाणि च। महता क्रोधवेगेन कुपिते प्रपितामहे॥
English: Truly, when the Grandfather thus became angry, all mobile and immobile beings began to be consumed by the irresistible power of that anger.
Sanskrit: ततोऽध्वरजटः स्थाणुर्वेदाध्वरपतिः शिवः। जगाम शरणं देवो ब्रह्माणं परवीरहा।॥
English: Then the divine and sacred Sthanu, that destroyer of hostile heroes, that lord of the Vedas and the scriptures, filled with pity, tried to please Brahma.
Sanskrit: तस्मिन्नभिगते स्थाणौ प्रजानां हितकाम्यया। अब्रवीत् परमो देवो ज्वलन्निव तदा शिवम्॥ करवाण्यद्य कं काम वरा.ऽसि मतो मम। कर्ता ह्यस्मि प्रियं शम्भो तव यद्धदि वर्तते॥
English: When Sthanu came to Brahma out of feelings of benevolence, the great God addressed him, saying,-you deserved boons at my hands! What desire of yours shall I fulfil? I shall do you good by doing whatever you wish.
Sanskrit: स्थाणुरुवाच पजासर्गनिमित्तं मे कार्यवत्तामिमां प्रभो। विद्धि सृष्टास्त्वया हीमा मा कुप्यासां पितामह॥
English: Sthanu said Know, O lord, that my prayer to you is in behalf of the created beings of the universe! These beings have been created by you. Do not be angry with them, O Grandfather.
Sanskrit: तव तेजोऽग्निना देव प्रजा दह्यन्ति सर्वशः। ता दृष्ट्वा मम कारुण्यं मा कुष्यासां जगत्प्रभो॥
English: By the fire born of your anger, illustrious one, all the created beings are being burnt. Seeing them placed in such a condition, I am filled with compassion. Do not be angry with them, O maker of the universe.
Sanskrit: प्रजापतिरुवाच न कुप्ये न च मे कामो न भवेयुः प्रजा इति। लाघवार्थं धरण्यास्तु ततः संहार इष्यते॥
English: The lord of all created beings said, I am not angry, nor is it my desire that all the create beings should perish. It is only for lightening the lord of the Earth that destruction is desirable.
Sanskrit: इयं हि मां सदा देवी भारार्ता समचोदयत्। संहारार्थं महादेव भारेणाप्सु निमज्जति॥
English: The godess Earth, suffering from the load of creatures, requested me, O Mahadeva, for destroying them, especially as she appeared to sink under their load into the water.
Sanskrit: यदाहं नाधिगच्छामि बुद्ध्या बहु विचारयन्। संहारमासां वृद्धानां ततो मां क्रोध आविशत्॥
English: When after exercising my intelligence even for a long time I could not find out the means by which to bring about the destruction of this overgrown population, it was then that I was possessed by ire.
Sanskrit: स्थाणुरुवाच संहारार्थं प्रसीदस्व मा क्रुधो विबुधेश्वर। मा प्रजाः स्थावरं चैव जङ्गमं च व्यनीनशत्॥
English: Do not give way to anger, O lord of the celestials, about the destruction of living creatures! Be-pleased! Let not these mobile and immobile beings be destroyed.
Sanskrit: पल्वलानि च सर्वाणि सर्वं चैव तृणोपलम्। स्थावरं जङ्गमं चैव भूतग्रामं चतुर्विधम्॥ तदेतद् भस्मसाद्भूतं जगत् सर्वमुपल्लुतम्। प्रसीद भगवन् साधो वर एष वृतो मया॥
English: All tanks, all sorts of grass and herbs, all immobile beings, and all the four divisions of mobile creatures, are being consumed. The whole universe is about to be shorn of beings. Be pleased, O divine Lord! O you of pious soul this is the boon that I seek at your hands.
Sanskrit: नष्टा न पुनरेष्यन्ति प्रजा ह्येताः कथंचन। तस्मानिवर्ततामेतत् तेन स्वेनैव तेजसा॥
English: If destroyed, these creatures would not return. Therefore, let this energy of yours be neutralised by your own energy.
Sanskrit: उपायमन्यं सम्पश्य भूतानां हितकाम्यया। यथामी जन्तवः सर्वे न दोरन् पितामह॥ अभावं हि न गच्छेयुरुच्छिन्नप्रजनाः प्रजाः। अधिदैवे नियुक्तोऽस्मि त्वया लोकेश्वरेश्वर॥
English: Moved by pity for all created beings, find some means so that, O Grandfather, these living creatures may not be consumed! Oh, let not these living creatures die with even their descendants thus destroyed! You have appointed me to preside over the consciousness of all living creatures, O Lord of all the lords of the universe.
Sanskrit: त्वद्भवं हि जगन्नाथ एतत् स्थावरजङ्गमम्। प्रसाद्य त्वां महादेव याचाम्यावृत्ति जाः प्रजाः॥
English: All this inobile and immobile creatures, O lord of the universe, originated from you. Pacifying you, O god of gods, I beg of you that living creatures may repeatedly come back into the world, undergoing repeated deaths!
Sanskrit: नारद उवाच श्रुत्वा तु वचनं देवः स्थाणोनियतवाङ्मनाः। तेजस्तत् संनिजग्राह पुनरेवान्तरात्मनि॥
English: Narada continued Hearing these words of Sthanu, the divine Brahma of controlled speech and mind himself suppressed that energy of his within his own heart.
Sanskrit: ततोऽग्निमुपसंगृह्य भगवाँल्लोकपूजितः। प्रवृत्तिं च निवृत्तिं च कल्पयामास वै प्रभुः॥
English: Suppressing that fire that had been destroying the universe, the illustrious Brahma, worshipped of all, and endued with illimitable power, then arranged for both birth and death of all living creatures.
Sanskrit: उपसंहरतस्तस्य तमग्नि रोषजं तदा। प्रादुर्बभूव विश्वेभ्यः खेभ्यो नारी महात्मनः॥ कृष्णरक्ताम्बरधरा कृष्णनेत्रतलान्तरा। दिव्यकुण्डलसम्पन्ना दिव्याभरणभूषिता॥
English: After the Self-create had withdrawn and suppressed that fire, there came out, from all the pores of his body, a lady dressed in robes of black and red, with black eyes, black palms, wearing a pair of charming ear-rings and bedecked with celestial ornaments.
Sanskrit: सा विनिःसृत्य वै खेभ्यो दक्षिणामाश्रिता दिशम्। ददृशाते च तां कन्यां देवौ विश्वेश्वरावुभौ॥
English: Having originated from Brahman's body, the lady sat on his right. The two foremost of gods thereupon espied her.
Sanskrit: तामाहूय तदा देवो लोकानामादिरीश्वरः। मृत्यो इति महीपाल जहि चेमाः प्रजा इति॥
English: Then, O king, the powerful Self-create, the prime Cause of all the worlds, saluted her and said, O Death, kill these creatures of the universe.
Sanskrit: त्वं हि संहारबुद्ध्या मे चिन्तिता रुषितेन च। तस्मात् संहर सर्वांस्त्वं प्रजाः सजडपण्डिताः॥
English: Filled with ire and resolved to encompass the destruction of created beings, I have called you. Do you, there, begin to destroy all creatures foolish or learned.
Sanskrit: अविशेषेण चैव त्वं प्रजाः संहर कामिनि। मम त्वं हि नियोगेन श्रेयः परमवाप्स्यसि॥
English: O lady, kill all created beings without any exception. At my command you will acquire great prosperity.
Sanskrit: एवमुक्ता तु सा देवी मृत्युः कमलमालिनी। प्रदध्यौ दुःखिता बाला साश्रुपातमतीव॥
English: Thus addressed, the the goddess Death, adorned with a garland of lotuses, began to think sorrowfully and shed profuse tears.
Sanskrit: पाणिभ्यां चैव जग्राह तान्यश्रूणि जनेश्वरः। मानवानां हितार्थाय ययाचे पुनरेव ह॥
English: Without suffering her tears, however, to fall down, she held them, O king, in her joinedhands. She then solicited the Self-born, moved by the desire of doing good to mankind.
Sanskrit: नारद उवाच विनीय दुःखमबला साऽऽत्मनैवायतेक्षणा। उवाच प्राञ्जलिर्भूत्वा लतेवावर्जिता तदा॥
English: Narada said The lady having large eyes, controlling her grief by self-exertion, addressed the Grandfather, with joined hands and bending low like a creeper.
Sanskrit: त्वया सृष्टा कथं नारी मादृशी वदतां वर। रौद्रकर्माभिजायेत सर्वप्राणिभयङ्करी॥
English: And she said, How, O foremost of speakers, shall a lady like me who has sprung from you proceed to perform such a terrible feat-a feat, which is sure to terrorize all living creatures.