pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: शुभं कर्म परित्यज्य सोऽहं शकुनिलुब्धकः। नृशंसस्य ममाद्यायं प्रत्यादेशो न संशयः॥ दत्तः स्वमांसं दहता कपोतेन महात्मना।
English: Alas, renouncing all sorts of honourable occupation, I have become a fowler! A cruel wretch that I am, forsooth, this noble pigeon, by sacrificing his own life, has taught me a great lesson.
Sanskrit: सोऽहं त्यक्ष्ये प्रियान् प्राणान् पुत्रान् दारांस्तथैव च।।५। उपदिष्टे हि मे धर्मः कपोतेन महात्मना।
English: Renouncing wives and sons, I shall certainly cast off my very life which is so dear! The great pigeon has taught me that duty.
Sanskrit: अद्यप्रभृति देहं स्वं सर्वभोगैर्विवर्जितम्॥ यथा स्वल्पं सरो ग्रीष्मे शोषयिष्याम्यहं तथा।
English: From this day, denying every comfort to my body, I shall exhaust it like a shallow tank in summer.
Sanskrit: क्षुत्पिपासातपसहः कृशो धमनिसंततः॥ उपवासैर्बहुविधैश्चरिष्ये पारलौकिकम्।
English: Capable of bearing hunger, thirst, and penances, and being emaciated with veins visible all over, I shall by various sorts of fasts, practise such vows as will take me to the other world.
Sanskrit: अहो देहप्रदानेन दर्शितातिथिपूजना॥ तस्माद् धर्मं चरिष्यामि धर्मो हि परमा गतिः। दृष्टो धर्मो हि धर्मिष्ठे यादृशो विहगोत्तमे॥
English: Alas, by giving up his body the pigeon has shown how a guest should be adored! Taught by his example, I shall hereafter practise righteousness. Righteousness is the greatest refuge! Indeed, I shall practise the righteousness shown by the virtuous pigeon, that foremost of all winged creatures.
Sanskrit: एवमुक्त्वा विनिश्चित्य रौद्रकर्मा स लुब्धकः। महाप्रस्थानमाश्रित्य प्रययौ संशितव्रतः॥
English: Having thus made up his mind and said these words, that fowler, once of dreadful deeds, started on a journey never to end, observing all the while the most rigid vows.
Sanskrit: ततो यष्टिं शलाकां च क्षारकं पञ्जरं तथा। तां च बद्धा कपोती स प्रमुच्य विससर्ज ह॥
English: He threw away his strong staff, his sharp iron-stick, his nets and springes, and his iron cage, and liberated the she-pigeon that he had caught and imprisoned.'
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच ततो गते शाकुनिके कपोती प्राह दुःखिता। संस्मृत्य सा च भर्तारं रुदतो शोककर्शिता।।।।
English: Bhishma said After the fowler had left there, the shepigeon, remembering her husband and stricken with grief for him, wept profusely and bewailed thus:नाहं ते विप्रियं कान्त कदाचिदपि संस्मरे।
Sanskrit: सर्वापि विधवा नारी बहुपुत्रापि शोचते॥ शोच्या भवति बन्धूनां पतिहीना तपस्विनी।
English: I cannot, O dear husband, remember a single instance of your having done me an injury! Widows, even when they are mothers of many children, are still miserable! Bereft of husband, a woman becomes helpless and an object of pity to her friends.
Sanskrit: लालिताहं त्वया नित्यं बहुमानाच्च पूजिता॥ वचनैर्मधुरैः स्निग्धैरसंक्लिष्टमनोहरैः।
English: I was always supported by you and for the great respect you had for me I was always honoured by you with sweet, agreeable, charming, and delightful words.
Sanskrit: कन्दरेषु च शैलानां नदीनां निझरेषु च॥ दुमागेषु च रम्येषु रमिताहं त्वया सह।
English: I have sported with you in valleys of mountans, in springs of rivers and on charming trees.
Sanskrit: आकाशगमने चैव विहृताहं त्वया सुखम्॥ रमामि स्म पुरा कान्त तन्मे नास्त्यद्य किञ्चन।
English: I was also made happy by you while passing with you through the skies! I used to sport with you before, O dear husband, but where are those joys now.
Sanskrit: मितं ददाति हि पिता मितं भ्राता मितं सुतः॥ अमितस्य हि दातारं भर्तारं का न पूजयेत्।
English: The gifts of the father, of the brother, and of the son to a woman are but limited. But unlimited are the gifts that her husband alone makes to her! What woman is there that would not, therefore, worship her husband.
Sanskrit: नास्ति भर्तृसमो नाथो नास्ति भर्तृसमं सुखम्॥ विसृज्य धनसर्वस्वं भर्ता वै शरणं स्त्रियाः।
English: A word has no protector like her husband, and no happiness like her husband. Casting off all her riches and possessions, a woman should follow her husband as her only refuge.
Sanskrit: न कार्यमिह मे नाथ जीवितेन त्वया विना॥ पतिहीना तु का नारी सती जीवितुमुत्सहेत्।
English: Useless is life to me, O lord, now that I am separated from you! What chaste woman is there who would, when bereft of her husband, venture to bear the burden of life.
Sanskrit: एवं विलप्य बहुधा करुणं सा सुदुःखिता॥ पतिव्रता सम्प्रदीप्तं प्रविवेश हुताशनम्।
English: Filled with sorrow and bewailing thus, the she-pigeon, devoted to her husband cast herself on the burning fire.
Sanskrit: ततश्चित्राङ्गदधरं भर्तारं सान्वपश्यत॥ विमानस्थं सुकृतिभिः पूज्यमानं महात्मभिः।
English: She then saw her husband bedecked with bracelets, seated on a (celestial) car, and worshipped of many great and meritorious beings standing around him.
Sanskrit: चित्रमाल्याम्बरधरं सर्वाभरणभूषितम्॥ विमानशतकोटीभिरावृतं पुण्यकर्मभिः।
English: Indeed, there he was in the sky, decked with excellent garlands and clad in excellent robes, and adorned with every ornament. There were numberless celestial cars around him ridden by beings who had acted meritoriously while in this world.
Sanskrit: ततः स्वर्गं गतः पक्षी विमानवरमास्थितः। कर्मणा पूजितस्तत्र रेमे स सह भार्यया॥
English: Seated on his own celestial car, the bird went to heaven, and getting proper honours for his deeds in this world, continued to sport in joy, accompanied by his spouse. Seated on his own celestial car, the bird went to heaven, and getting proper honours for his deeds in this world, continued to sport in joy, accompanied by his spouse.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच विमानस्थौ तु तौ राजंल्लुब्धकः खे ददर्श ह। दृष्ट्वा तौ दम्पती राजन् व्यचिन्तयत तां गतिम्॥
English: Bhishma said lt so chanced that the fowler, O king, saw that pair while seated on their celestial car. Seeing the couple he became filled with sorrow and began to think of the means of acquiring the same end.
Sanskrit: ईदृशेनैव तपसा गच्छेयं परमां गतिम्। इति बुद्ध्या विनिश्चित्य गमनायोपचक्रमे।॥
English: And he said to himself,-I must, by austerities like those of the pigeon, acquire such a high end!—Having made this resolution, the fowler, who had lived by the destruction of birds, started on an unreturning journey.
Sanskrit: महाप्रस्थानमाश्रित्य लुब्धकः पक्षिजीवकः। निश्चेष्टो मरुदाहारो निर्ममः स्वर्गकाझया॥
English: Without any attempt (for getting food) and living upon air alone, he renounced all other desires for acquiring heaven.
Sanskrit: ततोऽपश्यत् सुविस्तीर्णं हृद्यं पद्माभिभूषितम्। नानापक्षिगणाकीर्णं सरः शीतजलं शिवम्॥
English: After he had gone for some distance, he saw an extensive and charming lake full of cool and pure water, adorned with lotuses and abounding with various sorts of water-fowi.
Sanskrit: पिपासार्तोऽपि तद् दृष्ट्वा तृप्त: स्यान्नात्र संशयः। उपवासकृशोऽत्यर्थं स तु पार्थिव लुब्धकः॥ अनवेक्ष्यैव संहृष्टः श्वापदाध्युषितं वनम्। महान्तं निश्चयं कृत्वा लुब्धकः प्रविवेश ह॥ प्रविशन्नेव स वनं निगृहीतः सकण्टकैः।
English: Forsooth, the very sight of such a lake is capable of satisfying the thirst of a person. Physically reduced with fasts, the fowler, however, O king, without casting his eyes upon it, gladly entered into a forest inhabited by beasts of prey, having previously learnt its wide extent. After he had entered the forest, he was painfully cut by sharp-pointed thorns.
Sanskrit: स कण्टकैर्विभिन्नाङ्गो लोहितार्दीकृतच्छविः॥ बभ्राम तस्मिन् विजने नानामृगसमाकुले।
English: Cut and torn by prickles, and bathed in blood, he began to wander in that forest, shorn of men but abounding with animals of various species.
Sanskrit: ततो दुमाणां महता पवनेन वने तदा॥ उदतिष्ठत संघर्षात् सुमहान् हव्यवाहनः।
English: Sometime after, on account of the friction of some huge trees caused by a strong wind, a wide spread forest-fire arose.
Sanskrit: तद् वनं वृक्षसम्पूर्ण लताविटपसंकुलम्॥ ददाह पावकः क्रुद्धो युगान्ताग्निसमप्रभः।
English: The raging element, appearing like the fire at the end of the Cycle, the powerful fire began to consume that large forest abounding with tall trees and thick bushes and creepers.
Sanskrit: स ज्वालैः पवनोदतैर्विस्फुलिङ्गैःसमन्ततः॥ ददाह तद् वनं घोरं मृगपक्षिसमाकुलम्।
English: Indeed, with flames fanned by the wind and numberless sparks flying about in all directions, the all-consuming god began to consume that dense forest teeming with birds and beasts.
Sanskrit: ततः स देहमोक्षार्थं सम्प्रहृष्टेन चेतसा॥ अभ्यधावत वर्धन्तं पावकं लुब्धकस्तदा।
English: The fowler, desirous of renouncing his body, ran with a delighted heart towards that spreading fire.
Sanskrit: ततस्तेनाग्निना दग्धो लुब्धको नष्टकल्मषः। जगाम परमां सिद्धिं ततो भरतसत्तम॥
English: Consumed by that fire the fowler became purged of all his sins and acquired, O best of the Bharatas, high success.
Sanskrit: ततः स्वर्गस्थमात्मानमपश्यद् विगतज्वरः। यक्षगन्धर्वसिद्धानां मध्ये भ्राजन्तमिन्द्रवत्॥
English: The anxiety of his mind gone, he at last saw himself in heaven, shining like Indra in midst of Yakshas and Gandharvas and persons endued with ascetic success.
Sanskrit: एवं खलु कपोतश्च कपोती च पतिव्रता। लुब्धकेन सह स्वर्गं गताः पुण्येन कर्मणा॥
English: Thus the pigeon and his devoted wife, with the fowler, went to heaven for their meritorious acts.
Sanskrit: यापि चैवंविधा नारी भर्तारमनुवर्तते। विराजते हि सा क्षिप्रं कपोतीव दिवि स्थिता॥
English: The woman who thus follows her husband speedily ascends to heaven and shines there like the she-pigeon of whom I have spoken.
Sanskrit: एवमेतत् पुरावृत्तं लुब्धकस्य महात्मनः। कपोतस्य च धर्मिष्ठा गतिः पुण्येन कर्मणा॥
English: This is the ancient history of the great fowler and the pigeon. Thus did they acquire highly meritorious end by their righteous acts.
Sanskrit: यश्चेदं शृणुयान्नित्यं यश्चेदं परिकीर्तयेत्। नाशुभं विद्यते तस्य मनसापि प्रमादतः॥
English: No evil overtakes the person who listens every day to this story or who recites it every day, even if error possesses his mind.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर महानेष धर्मो धर्मभृतां वर। गोनेष्वपि भवेदस्मिनिष्कृतिः पापकर्मणः॥
English: O Yudhishthira, O foremost of all righteous persons, the protection of a suppliant is, indeed, a great act of merit. By following this duty, even the killer of a cow may be cleansed of sin.
Sanskrit: न निष्कृतिर्भवेत् तस्य यो हन्याच्छरणागतम्। इतिहासमिमं श्रुत्वा पुण्यं पापप्रणाशनम्। न दुर्गतिमवाप्नोति स्वर्गलोकं च गच्छति॥
English: That man, however, will never be cleansed who kills a suppliant. By listening to this sacred and sin-destroying story one becomes freed from distress and goes to heaven at last.'
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच अबुद्धिपूर्वं यत् पापं कुर्याद् भरतसत्तम। मुच्यते स कथं तस्मादेतत् सर्वं वदस्व मे॥
English: Yudhishthira said O best of the Bharatas, when a person commits sin from want of discrimination, how may he be purified by it? Tell me all about it.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच अत्र ते वर्तयिष्यामि पुराणमृषिसंस्तुतम्। इन्द्रोत: शौनको विप्रो यदाह जनमेजयम्॥
English: Bhishma said In this connection I shall recite to you the old narrative, spoken highly of by the Rishis, of what the twice-born Indrota, the son of Shunaka, said to Janamejaya.
Sanskrit: आसीद् राजा महावीर्यः परिक्षिज्जनमेजयः। अबुद्धिपूर्वामागच्छद् ब्रह्महत्यां महीपतिः॥
English: There was, in days of old, a highly energetic king, called Janamejaya, who was the son of Parikshit. On one occasion from want of discrimination, that king became guilty of Brahmanicide.
Sanskrit: ब्राह्मणाः सर्व एवैते तत्यजुः सपुरोहिताः। स जगाम वनं राजा दह्यमानो दिवानिशम्॥
English: Upon this, all the Brahmanas together with his priests cast him off. Burning day and night with grief, the king retired into the forest.
Sanskrit: प्रजाभिः स परित्यक्तश्चकार कुशलं महत्। अतिवेलं तपस्तेपे दह्यमानः स मन्युना॥
English: Deserted by his subjects too, he adopted this course for acquiring great merit. Reduced by repentance, the king practised the most rigid austerities.
Sanskrit: ब्रह्महत्यापनोदार्थमपृच्छद् ब्राह्मणान् बहून्। पर्यटन् पृथिवीं कृत्स्ना देशे देशे नराधिपः॥
English: For purifying himself of the sin of Brahmanicide he asked many Brahmanas, and travelled from one country to another over the whole Earth.
Sanskrit: तत्रेतिहासं वक्ष्यामि धर्मस्यास्योपबृंहणम्। दह्यमानः पापकृत्या जगाम जनमेजयः॥
English: I shall now tell you the story of his expiation. Burning with the recollection of his sin, Janamejaya wandered about.
Sanskrit: चरिष्यमाण इन्द्रोतं शौनकं संशितव्रतम्। समासाद्योपजग्राह पादयोः परिपीडयन्॥
English: One day, in course of his peregrinations, he met Indrota, the son of Shunaka, of rigid vows, and approaching him touched his feet.
Sanskrit: ऋषिर्दृष्ट्वा नृपं तत्र जगहें सुभृशं तदा। कर्ता पापस्य महतो भ्रूणहा किमिहागतः॥
English: Seeing the king before him, the sage reproved him, saying,-You have committed a great sin. You have been guilty of foeticide. Why have you come here.
Sanskrit: किं त्वयास्मासु कर्तामा मां स्प्राक्षीः कथंचन। गच्छ गच्छ न ते स्थानं प्रीणात्यस्मानिति ब्रुवन्॥
English: What have you to do with us? Do not touch me! Go, go away! Your presence does not give us pleasure!
Sanskrit: रुधिरस्येव ते गन्धः शवस्येव च दर्शनम्। अशिवः शिवसंकाशो मृतो जीवन्निवाटसि॥
English: Your body smells like blood. You look like a corpse. Though impure, you appear as pure, and though dead you move like a living being!
Sanskrit: ब्रह्ममृत्युरशुद्धात्मा पापमेवानुचिन्तयन्। प्रबुद्ध्यसे प्रस्वपिषि वर्तसे परमे सुखे॥
English: Dead within, you are of impure soul for you always wish to commit sin. Though you sleep, and wake, your life, however, is spent in great misery.
Sanskrit: मोघं ते जीवितं राजन् परिक्लिष्टं च जीवसि। पापायैव हि सृष्टोऽसि कर्मणे हि यवीयसे॥
English: Useless is your life, O king. You live most miserably. You have been created for ignoble and sinful acts.
Sanskrit: बहुकल्याणमिच्छन्ति ईहन्ते पितरः सुतान्। तपसा दैवतेज्याभिर्वन्दनेन तितिक्षया॥
English: Fathers wish for sons for obtaining various kinds of blessings, and hoping they would perform penances and sacrifices, adore the gods, and practise renunciation.
Sanskrit: पितृवंशमिमं पश्य त्वत्कृते नरकं गतम्। निरर्थाः सर्व एवैषामाशाबन्धास्त्वदाश्रयाः॥
English: See all your ancestors have fallen into hell for your acts. All the hopes your fathers had placed upon you have been frustrated,
Sanskrit: यान् पूजयन्तो विन्दन्ति स्वर्गमायुर्यशः प्रजाः। तेषु त्वं सततं द्वेष्टा ब्राह्मणेषु निरर्थकः॥
English: You live in vain, for you, always entertain hatred and malice towards the Brahmanas,-by worshipping whom other men acquire long life, fame, and heaven.
Sanskrit: इमं लोकं विमुच्य त्वमवाङ्मूर्द्धा पतिष्यसि। अशाश्वतीः शाश्वतीश्च समाः पापेन कर्मणा॥
English: Leaving this world, you shall have to fall (into hell) with head downwards and remain in that posture for numberless years for your sinful deeds.
Sanskrit: अर्धमानो यत्र गृधैः शितिकण्ठैरयोमुखैः। ततश्च पुनरावृत्तः पापयोनि गमिष्यसि॥
English: There you will be tortured by vultures and peacocks having iron beaks. Returning thence into this world, you will be born again in a wretched order of creatures.
Sanskrit: यदिदं मन्यसे राजन् नायमस्ति कुतः परः। प्रतिस्मारयितारस्त्वां यमदूता यमक्षये॥
English: If you think, o king, that this world is nothing and that the next world is nothing and that the next world is but a shadow, the attendants of Yama in the infernal regions will convince you, removing your scepticism.
Sanskrit: शौनक उवाच तस्मात् तेऽहं प्रवक्ष्यामि धर्ममावृतचेतसे। श्रीमान् महाबलस्तुष्टः स्वयं धर्ममवेक्षसे॥
English: Shaunaka said I shall for these reasons describe to you virtue, you whose heart has been exceedingly agitated. Endued with knowledge, great strength, and a contented heart, you seek virtue of your own accord.
Sanskrit: पुरस्ताद् दारुणो भूत्वा सुचित्रतरमेव तत्। अनुगृह्णाति भूतानि स्वेन वृत्तेन पार्थिवः॥
English: First becoming exceedingly stern, a king then shows mercy and does good to all creatures by his acts. This is certainly very wonderful.
Sanskrit: कृत्स्नं नूनं स दहति इति लोको व्यवस्यति। यत्र त्वं तादृशो भूत्वा धर्ममेवानुपश्यसि॥
English: People say that that king who begins with sternness consumes the entire world. You were stern before. But you now seck righteousness.
Sanskrit: हित्वा तु सुचिरं भक्ष्यं भोज्यांश्च तप आस्थितः। इत्येतदभिभूतानामद्भुतं जनमेजय॥
English: Forsaking luxurious food and all articles of enjoyment, you are now practising rigid penances for a long time. All this, O Janamejaya, is sure to appear wonderful to those kings who are sunk in sin.
Sanskrit: योऽदुर्लभो भवेद् दाता कृपणो वा तपोधनः। अनाश्चर्यं तदित्याहु तिदूरेण वर्तते॥
English: It is not at all wonderful that he who has wealth should become liberal, or that he who has wealth of asceticism should become unwilling to spend it. It has been said that the one does not live far off from the other.
Sanskrit: एतदेव हि कार्पण्यं समग्रमसमीक्षितम्। यचेत्सममीक्षयैव स्याद्भवेत्तस्मिस्ततो गुणः॥
English: An ill-judged thing produces enough of miserics. That, on the other hand, which is done with the help of sound judgement yields excellent results.
Sanskrit: यज्ञो दानं दया वेदाः सत्यं च पृथिवीपते। पञ्चैतानि पवित्राणि षष्ठं सुचरितं तपः॥ तदेव राज्ञां परमं पवित्रं जनमेजया
English: Sacrifice, gift, mercy, the Vedas, and truth, O king,-these five,-are purifying. The sixth is penance well-practised. This last, O Janamejaya, is highly purifying for kings.
Sanskrit: तेन सम्यग्गृहीतेन श्रेयांसं धर्ममाप्स्यसि॥ पुण्यदेशाभिगमन पवित्रं परमं स्मृतम्।
English: By following it duly, you are sure to acquire great merit and blessedness. Pilgrimage to sacred places has also been described to be highly purifying
Sanskrit: अत्राप्युदाहरन्तीमां गाथां गीतां ययातिना॥ यो मर्त्यः प्रतिपद्येत आयुर्जीवितमात्मनः। यज्ञमेकान्ततः कृत्वा तत् संन्यस्य तपश्चरेत्॥
English: Regarding it is cited the following verse sung by Yayati-That mortal who would acquire life and longevity should, after having celebrated sacrifices with devotion, renounce them and practise penances.
Sanskrit: पुण्यमाहुः कुरुक्षेत्रं कुरुक्षेत्रात् सरस्वतीम्। सरस्वत्याश्च तीर्थानि तीर्थेभ्यश्च पृथूदकम्॥ यत्रावगाह्य पीत्वा च नैनं श्वोमरणं तपेत्। महासरः पुष्कराणि प्रभासोत्तरमानसे॥
English: The field of Kuru has been described to be sacred. The river Sarasvati is considered more so. The Tirthas of the Sarasvati are inore sacred than the Sarasvati herself; and the Tirtha called Prithudaka is more sacred than all the Tirthas of the Sarasvati. One that has bathed in Prithudaka and drunk its waters will not have to be sorry for a premature death.
Sanskrit: कालोदकं च गन्तासि लब्धायुर्जीविते पुनः। सरस्वतीदृषद्वत्योः संगमो मानसः सरः॥ स्वाध्यायशीलः स्थानेषु सर्वेषु समुपस्पृशेत्। त्यागधर्मः पवित्राणां संन्यासं मनुरब्रवीत्॥
English: You should go to Mahasaras, to all the Tirthas known by the name of Pushkara, to Prabhasa, to the northern lake Manasa, and to Kalodaka. You will then regain life and acquire longevity. Lake Manasa is where the Sarasvati and the Drishadvati join each other. A person endued with Vedic lore should bathe in these places. Manu has said that liberality is the highest of all duties, and that renunciation is better than liberality.
Sanskrit: अत्राप्युदाहरन्तीमा गाथाः सत्यवता कृताः। यथा कुमारः सत्यो वै नैव पुण्यो न पापकृत्॥
English: Regarding it is cited the following verse composed by Satyavat (One should act) as a child full of simplicity and shorn of either merit or sin.
Sanskrit: न ह्यस्ति सर्वभूतेषु दुःखमस्मिन् कुतः सुखम्। एवं प्रकृतिभूतानां सर्वसंसर्गयायिनाम्॥
English: For all creatures there is in this world neither misery nor happiness. Such is the true nature of all living creatures.
Sanskrit: त्यजतां जीवितं श्रेयो निवृत्ते पुण्यपापके। यत्त्वेव राज्ञो ज्यायिष्ठं कार्याणां तद् ब्रवीमि ते ॥
English: Of all creatures, they are superior who have betaken themselves to renunciation and abstained from acts both meritorious and sinful, I shall now tell you those acts which are best for a king.
Sanskrit: बलेन संविभागैश्च जय स्वर्ग जनेश्वर। यस्यैव बलमोजश्च स धर्मस्य प्रभुर्नरः॥
English: By showing your power and liberality do you conquer heaven, O king. that man who is endued with might and energy acquired righteousness.
Sanskrit: ब्राह्मणानां सुखार्थं हि त्वं पाहि वसुधां नृप। यथैवैतान् पुराऽऽक्षेप्सीस्तथैवैतान् प्रसादय॥
English: Do you govern the Earth, O king, for the sake of the Brahmanas and for the sake of happiness. You used formerly to blame the Brahmanas. Do you please them now.
Sanskrit: अपि धिक्रियमाणोऽपि त्यज्यमानोऽप्यनेकधा। आत्मनो दर्शनाद् विप्रान्न हन्तास्मीति मार्गया घटमानः स्वकार्येषु कुरु निःश्रेयसं परम्॥
English: Though they have censured you and though they have deserted you, do you still, guided by knowledge of self, solemnly promise never to injure them, Engaged in becoming acts, try to do what is for your highest good.
Sanskrit: हिमाग्निघोरसदृशो राजा भवति कश्चन। लांगलाशनिकल्पो वा भवेदन्यः परंतप॥
English: Amongst kings some one becomes as cool as snow; some one, as fierce as fire; some one becomes like a plough; and some one, again, becomes like a thunder-bolt.
Sanskrit: न विशेषेण गन्तव्यमविच्छिन्नेन वा पुनः। न जातु नाहमस्मीति सुप्रसक्तमसाधुषु।॥
English: He who wishes to prevent self-destruction, should never mix with wicked persons for general or particular purposes.
Sanskrit: विकर्मणा तप्यमानः पापाद् विपरिमुच्यते। नैतत् कार्यं पुनरिति द्वितीयात् परिमुच्यते॥
English: From a sinful act committed only once, one may clear himself by repenting for it. From an act committed twice, one may purify himself by vowing never to repeat the act.
Sanskrit: करिष्ये धर्ममेवेति तृतीयात् परिमुच्यते। शुचिस्तीर्थान्यनुचरन् बहुत्वात्परिमुच्यते॥
English: From such an act committed thrice, one may purify himself by determining to act virtuously all along afterwards. By committing such an act again and again, one may purify himself by visiting sacred places.
Sanskrit: कल्याणमनुकर्तव्यं पुरुषेण बुभूषता। ये सुगन्धीनि सेवन्ते तथागन्धा भवन्ति ते॥ ये दुर्गन्धीनि सेवन्ते तथागन्धा भवन्ति ते!
English: One who wishes to acquire prosperity should do all that yields blessedness. They who live amidst fragrance themselves become fragrant by virtue thereof. They, on the other hand, who live in the midst of foul smell themselves become foui.
Sanskrit: तपश्चर्यापरः सद्यः पापाद् विपरिमुच्यते॥ संवत्सरमुपास्याग्निमभिशस्तः प्रमुच्यते।
English: One who practises ascetic austerities is soon purged of all one's sins. By adoring the sacrificial fire for a year, one sullied by various sins becomes purified.
Sanskrit: त्रीणि वर्षाण्युपास्याग्निं भ्रूणहा विप्रमुच्यते।।२७ महासरः पुष्कराणि प्रभासोत्तरमानसे। अभ्येत्य योजनशतं भ्रूणहा विप्रमुच्यते॥ यावतः प्राणिनो हन्यात् तज्जातीयांस्तु तावतः प्रमीयमानानुन्मोच्य प्राणिहा विप्रमुच्यते॥
English: One guilty of foeticide is purified by adoring the fire for three years. One guilty for foeticide becomes purifies at even a hundred Yojanas from Mahasara, or the Tirthas called Pushkara, or Prabhasa, or Manasa on the north, if only he sets out for any of them. A slayer of creatures is purged of his sins by saving from impending danger as many creatures of that particular kind as have been killed by him.
Sanskrit: अपि चाप्सु निमज्जेत जपंस्त्रिरघमर्षणम्। यथाश्वमेधावभृथस्तथा तन्मनुरब्रवीत्॥
English: Manu has said that by diving in water after reciting thrice the sin-destroying Mantras, one rcaps the fruits of the final bath in a Horsesacrifice.
Sanskrit: तत्क्षिप्रं नुदते पापं सत्कारं लभते यथा। अपि चैनं प्रसीदन्ति भूतानि जडमूकवत्॥
English: Such an act very soon purifies one of all his sins, and he becomes, once again, the esteemed of the world. All creatures obey such a person, like helpless idiots.
Sanskrit: बृहस्पति देवगुरुं सुरासुराः सर्वे समेत्याभ्यनुयुज्य राजन्। धर्म्यं फलं वेत्थ फलं महर्षे तथैव तस्मिन्नरके पारलोक्ये॥
English: Approaching, in days of yore, the celestial preceptor Brihaspati, the gods and Asuras, O king, humbly enquired of him, saying,-You are cognisant, O great Rishi, of the fruits of virtue, as also the fruits of those other acts which lead to hell in the next world.
Sanskrit: उभे तु यस्य सदृशे भवेतां किंस्वित्तयोस्तत्र जयोथ न स्यात्। आचक्ष्व नः पुण्यपैलं महर्षे कथं पापं नुदते धर्मशीलः।।३३।
English: Can not that person free himself from both virtue and sin who regards the two (happiness and inisery) equally? Tell us, O great Rishi, what are the fruits of righteousness, and how does a virtuous person remove his sins!
Sanskrit: बृहस्पतिरुवाच कृत्वा पापं पूर्वमबुद्धिपूर्व पुण्यानि चेत्कुरुते बुद्धिपूर्वम्। स तत्पापं नुदते कर्मशीलो वासो यथा मलिनं क्षारयुक्तम्॥
English: Brihaspati answered If, having committed sin through foolishness, one performs meritorious acts understanding their nature, he succeeds, by such righteousness, in cleansing himself from sin even as a piece of dirty cloth is washed clean by some saline substance.