pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: चिरकारिक भद्रं ते चिरकारी चिरं भव। चिराय यदि ते सौम्य चिरमस्मि न दुःखितः॥
English: Blessed be you, O Chirakarika! Do you always think long before acting! By your delay in carrying out my command you have to-day made me happy for ever!
Sanskrit: गाथाश्चाप्यब्रवीद् विद्वान् गौतमो मुनिसत्तमः। चिरकारिषु धीरेषु गुणोद्देशसमाश्रयाः॥
English: That learned and best of Rishis then saying these verses upon the subject of the merits of such cool men as think for a long time before doing any work,-
Sanskrit: चिरेण मित्रं बघ्नीयाच्चिरेण च कृतं त्यजेत्। चिरेण हि कृतं मित्रं चिरं धारणमर्हति॥
English: If it be the death of a friend, one should perform it after a long time. If one has to give up a project already begun, he should do it after a long time. A friendship that is contracted after a long examination lasts for a long time.
Sanskrit: रागे दर्पे च माने च द्रोहे पापे च कर्मणि। अप्रिये चैव कर्तव्ये चिरकारी प्रशस्यते॥
English: In yielding to anger, to arrogance, to pride, to disputes, to sinful deeds, and in performing all disagreeable works, he who delays long, deserves praise!
Sanskrit: बन्धूनां सुहृदां चैव भृत्यानां स्त्रीजनस्य च। अव्यक्तेष्वपराधेषु चिरकारी प्रशस्यते॥
English: When the offence is not distinctly proved against a relative, a friend, a servant, or a wife, he who thinks long before inflicting the punishment, is praised.
Sanskrit: एवं स गौतमस्तत्र प्रीतः पुत्रस्य भारत। कर्मणा तेन कौरव्य चिरकारितया तथा॥
English: Thus, O Bharata, was Gautama pleased with his son, O you of Kuru's race or that act of delay on the latter's part in satisfying the former's order.
Sanskrit: एवं सर्वेषु कार्येषु विमृश्य पुरुषस्ततः। चिरेण निश्चयं कृत्वा चिरं न परितप्यते॥
English: In all deeds a man should, in this wise, think for a long time and then settle what he should do. By acting thus one is sure to avoid grief for a long time.
Sanskrit: चिरं धारयते रोष चिरं कर्म नियच्छति। पश्चात्तापकरं कर्म न किंचिदुपपद्यते॥ चिरं वृद्धानुपासीत चिरमन्वास्य पूजयेत्। चिरं धर्मं निषेवेत कुर्याच्चान्वेषणं चिरम्॥
English: That man who nurses his anger for a long time, who thinks long before doing any work, never does any act which produces repentance. One should wait for a long time upon the aged, and sitting near them show them respect. One should satisfy his duties for a long time and be engaged for a long time in determining them.
Sanskrit: चिरमन्वास्य विदुषश्चिरं शिष्टान् निषेव्य च। चिरं विनीय चात्मानं चिरं यात्यनवज्ञताम्॥
English: Serving for a long time the learned, and reverentially serving for a long time those who are good in conduct and keeping one's soul for a long while under proper control, one succeeds in enjoying the respect of the world for a long time.
Sanskrit: ब्रुवतश्च परस्यापि वाक्यं धर्मोपसंहितम्। चिरं पृष्टोऽपि च ब्रूयाच्चिरं न परितप्यते॥
English: One instructing others on the subject of religion and duty, should, when asked by another for information on those subjects, take a long time to think before giving an answer. He will not then repent.
Sanskrit: उपास्य बहुलास्तस्मिन्नाश्रमे सुमहातपाः। समाः स्वर्गं गतो विप्रः पुत्रेण सहितस्तदा॥
English: Regarding Gautama of austere penances, that Rishi, having worshipped the gods for a long while in that asylum of his, at last went up to heaven with his son.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच कथं राजा प्रजा रक्षेन्न च किंचित् प्रघातयेत्। पृच्छामि त्वां सतां श्रेष्ठ तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह॥
English: Yudhisthira said How, indeed, should the king protect his subjects without harming anybody? I ask you this, O grandfather, tell me, O foremost of good men!
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच अत्राप्युदाहरन्तीममितिहासं पुरातनम्। धुमत्सेनस्य संवादं राज्ञा सत्यवता सह॥
English: Bhishma said Regarding it is cited the old conversation between Dyumutsena and king Satyavat.
Sanskrit: अव्याहृतं व्याजहार सत्यवानिति नः श्रुतम्। वधायोनीयमानेषु पितुरेवानुशासनात्॥
English: We have heard that upon a certain number of individuals having been brought out for execution at the command of his father, prince Satyavat gave vent to certain words that had never before been said by any body else.
Sanskrit: अधर्मतां याति धर्मो यात्यधर्मश्च धर्मताम्। वधो नाम भवेद् धर्मो नैतद् भवितुमर्हति॥
English: Sometimes virtue assumes the form of sin, and sin assumes the form of virtue. It can never be possible that destruction of individuals can ever be a virtuous act.
Sanskrit: धुमत्सेन उवाच अथ चेदवधो धर्मोऽधर्मः को जातु चिद् भवेत्। दस्यवश्चेन्न हन्येरन् सत्यवन् संकरो भवेत्॥
English: Dyumutsena said If the sparing of those who should be killed, by virtue, if robbers be spared, O Satyavat, then all distinctions (between virtue and vice) would disappear.
Sanskrit: ममेदमिति नास्यैतत् प्रवर्तेत कलौ युगे। लोकयात्रा न चैव स्यादथ चेद् वेत्थ शंस नः॥
English: 'This is mine,'-'This is not his'-ideas like these will not prevail in the Kali age. (If the wicked be not punished) the affairs of the world will come to an end. If you know how the world may go on, then describe it to ine.
Sanskrit: सत्यवानुवाच सर्व एते त्रयो वर्णाः कार्या ब्राह्मणबन्धनाः। धर्मपाशनिबद्धानामन्योऽप्येवं चरिष्यति॥
English: Satyvat said The three other castes should be placed under the control of the Brahmanas. If those three castes be kept within the limits of virtue, then the subsidiary caste (that have sprung from intermixture) will imitate their practises.
Sanskrit: यो यस्तेषामपचरेत् तमाचक्षीत वै द्विजः। अयं मे न शृणोतीति तस्मिन् राजा प्रधारयेत्॥
English: Of them those who will violate (these commands) be reported to the king.-This one does not care commands!-upon such a complaint being lodged by a Brahmana, the king should punish the offender.
Sanskrit: तत्त्वाभेदेन यच्छास्त्रं तत् कार्यं नान्यथाविधम्। असमीक्ष्यैव कर्माणि नीतिशास्त्रं यथाविधि॥
English: Without destroying the body of the offender the king should punish him as ordained by the Scriptures. The king should not act otherwise, neglecting to think properly upon the character shall for my of the offence and upon the science of morality.
Sanskrit: दस्यून् निहन्ति वै राजा भूयसो वाप्यनागसः। भार्या माता पिता पुत्रो हन्यन्ते पुरुषेण ते। परेणापकृतो राजा तस्मात् सम्यक् प्रधारयेत्॥
English: By killing the wicked, the king kills a large number of innocent men. See, by killing a single robber, his wife, mother, father, and children are all killed. When injured by a wicked person, the king should, therefore, think seriously on the question of punishment.
Sanskrit: असाधुश्चैव पुरुषो लभते शीलमेकदा। साधोश्चापि ह्यसाधुभ्यः शोभना जायते प्रजा॥
English: Sometimes a wicked man is seen to imbibe good conduct from a pious person. It is seen that good children spring from wicked persons.
Sanskrit: न मूलघातः कर्तव्यो नैष धर्मः सनातनः। अपि स्वल्पवधेनैव प्रायश्चित्तं विधीयते॥ उद्वेजनेन बन्धेन विरूपकरणेन च। वधदण्डेन ते क्लिश्या न पुरोहितसंसदि॥ यदा पुरोहितं वा ते पर्येयुः शरणैषिणः। करिष्यामः पुनर्ब्रह्मन् न पापमिति वादिनः॥ तदा विसर्गमर्हाः स्युरितीदं धातृशासनम्। बिभ्रद् दण्डाजिनं मुण्डो ब्राह्मणोऽर्हति शासनम्॥
English: The wicked, therefore, should not be uprooted. The extermination of the wicked is not quite of a piece with eternal practice. By punishing them gently, by depriving them of all their riches, by chains and imprisonment, by disfiguring them they may be made to expiate their offences. Their relatives should not be punished by the infliction of capital sentences on them. If in the presence of the priest and others, they give themselves up to him from desire of protection, and swear, saying,-0 Brahmana, we shall never again commit any sin,-they would then be discharged without any punishment. This is command of the Creator himself. Even the Brahmana who puts on a deer-skin and the wand and has his head shaved, should be punished.
Sanskrit: गरीयांसो गरीयांसमपराधे पुनः पुनः। तदा विसर्गमर्हन्ति न यथा प्रथमे तथा॥
English: If great men transgress, their punishment should be proportionate to their greatness. As regards them who offend again and again, they should not be let off without punishment as on their first offence.
Sanskrit: द्युमत्सेन उवाच यत्र यत्रैव शक्येरन् संयन्तुं समये प्रजाः। स तावान् प्रोच्यते धर्मो यावन्न प्रतिलझ्यते॥
English: Dyumatsena said As long as those limits within which men should be kept are not outstripped, so long are they known by the name of virtue.
Sanskrit: अहन्यमानेषु पुनः सर्वमेव पराभवेत्। पूर्वे पूर्वतरे चैव सुशास्या ह्यभवन् जनाः॥
English: If they who transgressed those limits were not punished with death, those barriers would soon be destroyed. Men of more ancient times were capable of being governed easily.
Sanskrit: मृदवः सत्यभूयिष्ठा अल्पद्रोहाल्पमन्यवः। पुरा धिगदण्ड एवासीद् वाग्दण्डस्तदनन्तरम्॥
English: They were very truthful. They were little bent upon quarrelling. They seldom gave way to anger, or, if they did, their anger never became ungovernable. In those days mere disapproval of offence sufficient punishment. After this came the punishment represented by harsh words or censures.
Sanskrit: आसीदादानदण्डोऽपि वधदण्डोऽद्य वर्तते। वधेनापि न शक्यन्ते नियन्तुमपरे जनाः॥
English: Then came the punishment of fines and forfeitures. In this age, however, the punishment of death is in vogue. Wickedness has increased to such an extent that by killing one others cannot be controlled.
Sanskrit: नैव दस्युर्मनुष्याणां न देवानामिति श्रुतिः। न गन्धर्वपितृणां च कः कस्येह न कश्चन॥
English: The robber has no connection with men, with the gods, with the Gandharvas, and with the Pitris. What is he to whom? He is not any was body to any one. This is the saying of the Shrutis.
Sanskrit: पद्मं श्मशानादादत्ते पिशाचाच्चापि दैवतम्। तेषु यः समयं कश्चित् कुर्वीत हतबुद्धिषु॥
English: The robber takes away the ornaments of dead bodies from cemeteries, and consumes from men afflicted by spirits. That man is a fool who would enter into any agreement with those miscreants or exact any oath from them.
Sanskrit: सत्यवानुवाच तान् न शक्नोषि चेत् साधून् परित्रातुमहिंसया। कस्यचिद् भूतभव्यस्य लाभेनान्तं तथा कुरु॥
English: Satyavat said If you cannot make honest men of those rogues and in saying them by means other than destruction, do you then root them out by celebrating some sacrifice.
Sanskrit: राजानो लोकयात्रार्थं तप्यन्ते परमं तपः। तेऽपत्रपन्ति तादृग्भ्यस्तथावृत्ता भवन्ति च।॥
English: Kings practise severe penances for the sake of enabling their subjects to grow prosperous in their callings. When thieves and robbers increase in their territories they become ashamed. They, therefore, perform penances for putting down thefts and robberies and making their subjects live happily.
Sanskrit: वित्रास्यमानाः सुकृतो न कामाद् जन्ति दुष्कृतीन्। सुकृतेनैव राजानो भूयिष्ठं शासते प्रजाः॥
English: Subjects can be made honest by, being only terrorized. Good kings never kill the wicked from motives of retribution. Good kings succeed in ruling their subjects properly with the help of good conduct.
Sanskrit: श्रेयसः श्रेयसोऽप्येवं वृत्तं लोकोऽनुवर्तते। सदैव हि गुरोर्वृत्तमनुवर्तन्ति मानवाः॥
English: If the king act properly, the high class subjects imitate him. The inferior people, again, imitate their immediate superiors. Men are so formed that they imitate those whom they consider as their betters.
Sanskrit: आत्मानमसमाधाय समाधित्सति यः परान्। विषयेष्विन्द्रियवशं मानवाः प्रहसन्ति तम्।॥
English: That king who, without controlling himself, seeks to govern others (from evil ways) becomes an object of ridicule with all men on account of his being engaged in the enjoyment of all worldly pleasures as a slave of his senses.
Sanskrit: यो राज्ञो दम्भमोहेन किंचित् कुर्यादसाम्प्रतम्। सर्वोपयैर्नियम्यः स तथा पापान्निवर्तते॥
English: That man who, through pride or mistaken judgement, offends against the king in any way, should be governed by every means. It is by this way that he is prevented from committing fresh offences.
Sanskrit: आत्मैवादौ नियन्तव्यो दुष्कृतं संनियच्छता। दण्डयेच्च महादण्डैरपि बन्धूननन्तरान्॥
English: The king should first control his own self if he mean to control other offenders. He should punish sufficiently even his friends and near relatives.
Sanskrit: यत्र वै पापकृन्नचो न महद् दुःखमर्च्छति। वर्धन्ते तत्र पापानि धर्मो हसति च ध्रुवम्॥
English: In that kingdom where a wicked offender is not sufficiently punished, offences increase and virtue decreases forsooth.
Sanskrit: इति कारुण्यशीलस्तु विद्वान् वै ब्राह्मणोऽन्वशात्। इति चैवानुशिष्टोऽस्मि पूर्व स्तात पितामहैः॥ आश्वासयद्भिः सुभृशमनुक्रोशात् तथैव च। एतत् प्रथमकल्पेन राजा कृतयुगे जयेत्॥
English: Formerly, a Brahmana, endued with mercy and knowledge, taught me this. And, son, I have thus been instructed by also our grandfathers of olden days, who gave such assurances of harınlessness to people, actuated by pity. Their words were,-In the Krita age, kings should govern their subjects by adopting harmless ways.
Sanskrit: पादोनेनापि धर्मेण गच्छेत् त्रेतायुगे तथा। द्वापरे तु द्विपादेन पादेन त्वधरे युगे॥
English: In that Treta age kings should act according to ways that follow virtue lessened by a fourth part. In the Dvapara age, they act according to ways conforming with virtue decreased by half, and in the age following, according to ways conforming with virtue decreased by threefourths.
Sanskrit: तथा कलियुगे प्राप्ते राज्ञो दुश्चरितेन ह। भवेत् कालविशेषण कला धर्मस्य षोडशी॥
English: When the Kali age begins, through the wickedness of kings and no account of the nature of the age itself, fifteen parts of even that fourth portion of virtue disappear, a sixteenth portion thereof being all that then remains.
Sanskrit: अथ प्रथमकल्पेन सत्यवन् संकरो भवेत्। आयुः शक्तिं च कालं च निर्दिश्य तप आदिशेत्॥
English: If, O Satyavat, by adopting the way mentioned first, confusion sets in, the king, considering the span of human life, the strength of human beings, and the nature of the time that has come, should give punishments.
Sanskrit: सत्याय हि यथा नेह जह्याद् धर्मफलं महत्। भूतानामनुकम्पार्थं मनुः स्वायम्भुवोऽब्रवीत्॥
English: Indeed, Manu, the son of the Self create, has, through pity for human beings, indicated the way by means of which men may follow knowledge for the sake of Liberation."
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच अविरोधेन भूतानां योगः षाड्गुण्यकारकः। यः स्यादुभयभाग्धर्मस्तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह॥ गार्हस्थ्यस्य च धर्मस्य योगधर्मस्य चोभयोः। अदूरसम्प्रस्थितयोः किंस्विच्छ्रेयः पितामह॥
English: Yudhishthira said You have already explained to me O grandfather, how the religion of Yoga, which produces six well-known attributes, may be adopted and practised without injuring any creature. Describe to me, O grandfather that religion which produces enjoyment and Liberation. O these two, both of which lead to the same end, which is superior?”
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच उभौ धर्मो महाभागावुभौ परमदुश्चरौ। उभौ महाफलौ तौ तु सद्भिराचरितावुभौ॥
English: Bhishma said “Both courses of duty are highly sacred. Both are extremely difficult of performance. Both yield high fruits. Both are practised by those who are admittedly good.
Sanskrit: अत्र ते वर्तयिष्यामि प्रामाण्यमुभयोस्तयोः। शृणुष्वैकमनाः पार्थ च्छिन्नधर्मार्थसंशयम्॥
English: I shall now describe to you on the authoritativeness of both these duties, for removing your doubts about their true meaning. Listen to me with rapt attention.
Sanskrit: अत्राप्युदाहरन्तीममितिहासं पुरातनम्। कपिलस्य गोश्च संवादं तन्निबोध युधिष्ठिर॥
English: Regarding it is cited the old discourse between Kapila and the cow. Listen to it, O Yudhishthira.
Sanskrit: आम्नायमनुपश्यन् हि पुराणं शाश्वतं ध्रुवम्। नहुषः पूर्वमालेभे त्वष्टुर्गामिति नः श्रुतम्॥
English: We have heard that in days of yore when the god Tashtri came to the palace of king Nahusha, the latter, for satisfying the duties of hospitality, was on the point of slaying a cow in accordance with the true, ancient, and eternal injunction of the Vedas.
Sanskrit: तां नियुक्तामदीनात्मा सत्त्वस्थः संयमे रतः। ज्ञानवान् नियताहारो ददर्श कपिलस्तथा॥ स बुद्धिमुत्तमां प्राप्तो नैष्ठिकीमकुतोभयाम्। सतीमशिथिला सत्यां वेदा इत्यब्रवीत् सकृत्॥ तां गाषिः स्यूमरश्मिः प्रविश्य यतिमब्रवीत्। हंहो वेदा यदि मता धर्माः केनापरे मताः॥
English: Seeing that cow tied for slaughter, Kapila of liberal soul, ever following Sattvika duties, always engaged in controlling his senses, endued with true knowledge, and sparing in diet, having gained an excellent understanding that was characterised by faith, perfectly fearless, beneficial, firm, and ever directed towards truth, uttered-Alas, ye Vedas!-At that time a Rishi by name Syumarashmi, entering the form of that cow, addressed the Yati Kapila, saying,-Silence, O Kapila! If the Vedas are censurable, whence have those other duties come to regarded as authoritative.
Sanskrit: तपस्विनो धृतिमन्तः श्रुतिविज्ञानचक्षुषः। सर्वमाष हि मन्यन्ते व्याहृतं विदितात्मनः॥
English: Men given to penances and endued with intelligence, and who have the Shrutis and knowledge for their eyes, consider the injunctions of the Vedas, which have been declared through and compiled by the Rishis, to be the words of God himself.
Sanskrit: तस्यैवं गततृष्णस्य विज्वरस्य निराशिषः। का विवक्षास्ति वेदेषु निरारम्भस्य सर्वतः॥
English: What can a person say regarding the contents of the Vedas when these are the words of the Supreme Being himself, who is shorn of the desire of fruit, who is without the fever, who is addicted to nothing, and who is shorn of all exertion.
Sanskrit: कपिल उवाच नाहं वेदान् विनिन्दामि न विवक्ष्यामि कर्हिचित्। पृथगाश्रमिणां कर्माण्येकार्थानीति नः श्रुतम्॥
English: Kapila said-I do not censure the Vedas, I do not wish to disparage them. We have heard that the different classes of duty laid down for the different modes of life, all lead to the same end.
Sanskrit: गच्छत्येव परित्यागी वानप्रस्थश्च गच्छति। गृहस्थो ब्रह्मचारी च उभौ तावपि गच्छतः॥
English: The Sanyasin attains to a high end. The herinit also attains to a hight end. Both the other two, also, viz., the house-holder and the Brahmacharin, attain to the same end.
Sanskrit: देवयाना हि पन्थानश्चत्वारः शाश्वता मता: एषां ज्याय: कनीयस्त्वं फलेषूक्तं बलाबलम्॥
English: All the four modes of life have always been considered as Deva-yana ways. The respective strength or weakness of these, are represented by their respective superiority or inferiority, has been declared in the character of their respective ends.
Sanskrit: एवं विदित्वा सर्वार्थानारभेतेति वैदिकम्। नारभेतेति चान्यत्र नैष्ठिकी श्रूयते श्रुतिः॥
English: Knowing these, perform acts which lead to heaven and other blessings,—this is a Vedic declaration.-Do not perform acts,—this also is another obligatory declaration of the Vedas.
Sanskrit: अनालम्भे ह्यदोषः स्यादालम्भे दोष उत्तमः। एवं स्थितस्य शास्त्रस्य दुर्विज्ञेयं बलाबलम्॥
English: If abstention from acts produces merit, then their performance must be highly reprehensible. When the scriptures say this, the strength or weakness of particular sayings must be difficult to determine.
Sanskrit: यद्यत्र किञ्चित् प्रत्यक्षमहिंसायाः परं मतम्। ऋते त्वागमशास्त्रेभ्यो ब्रूहि तद् यदि पश्यसि॥
English: If you know of any class of duty which is superior to the religion of harmlessness, and which depends upon direct evidence instead of that of the scriptures, do you then describe them to me,
Sanskrit: स्यूमरश्मिरुवाच स्वर्गकामो यजेतेति सततं श्रूयते श्रुतिः। फलं प्रकल्प्य पूर्वं हि ततो यज्ञः प्रतायते॥
English: One should celebrate sacrifices from desire of heaven'-we always hear this Shruti. Thinking first of the fruit, one makes preparations for sacrifice.
Sanskrit: अजश्चाश्वश्च मेषश्च गौश्च पक्षिगणाश्च ये। ग्राम्यारण्याचौषधयः प्राणस्यानमिति श्रुतिः॥
English: Goat, horse, sheep, cow, all sorts of birds, domestic or wild, and herbs and plants, constitute the food of living creatures. We have heard this.
Sanskrit: तथैवान्नं ह्यहरहः सायंप्रातर्निरूप्यते। पशवश्चाथ धान्य च यज्ञस्याङ्गमिति श्रुतिः॥
English: Food again ought to be taken day after day morning and evening. Again the Shruti says that aniinals and grain form the limbs of Sacrifice.
Sanskrit: एतानि सह यज्ञेन प्रजापतिकल्पयत्। तेन प्रजापतिर्देवान् यज्ञेनायजत प्रभुः॥
English: The Lord of the universe created them along with Sacrifice. The powerful Lord of all creatures made the god celebrate sacrifices with their help.
Sanskrit: तदन्योन्यवराः सर्वे प्राणिनः सप्त सप्तधा। यज्ञेषूपाकृतं विश्वं प्राहुरुत्तमसंज्ञितम्॥
English: Altogether seven (domestic) and seven (wild animals are declared fit for sacrifice. Instead of all being equally fit, each succeeding one is inferior to the preceding one. The Vedas again say that the whole universe is appointed for sacrifice. The Vedas have appointed Purusha for the same purpose.
Sanskrit: एतच्चैवाभ्यनुज्ञातं पूर्वैः पूर्वतरैस्तथा। को जातु न विचिन्वीत विद्वान् स्वां शक्तिमात्मनः।।२३।
English: This again has been sanctioned by men of ancient times. What learned man is there who does not sclect, according to his own power, individuals from among living creatures for sacrifice?
Sanskrit: पशवश्च मनुष्याश्च दुमाश्चौषधिभिः सह। स्वर्गमेवाभिकाङ्क्षन्ते न च स्वर्गस्ततो मखात्॥
English: The inferior animals, human beings, trees and herbs, all desire for the attainment of heaven. There is no means, however, except sacrifice, by which they can acquire the fruition of that desire.
Sanskrit: ओषध्यः पशवो वृक्षा वीरुदाज्यं पयो दधि। हविर्भूमिर्दिशः श्रद्धा कालश्चैतानि द्वादश॥ ऋचो यजूंषि सामानि यजमानश्च षोडश। अग्नि यो गृहपतिः स सप्तदश उच्यते॥ अङ्गान्येतानि यज्ञस्य यज्ञो मूलमिति श्रुतिः। आज्येन पयसा दधा शकृताऽऽमिक्षया त्वचा॥ वालैः शृङ्गेण पादेन सम्भवत्येव गौमखम्। एवं प्रत्येकशः सर्वं यद् यदस्य विधीयते॥ यज्ञं वहन्ति सम्भूय सहत्विग्भिः सदक्षिणैः। संहृत्यैतानि सर्वाणि यज्ञं निवर्तयन्त्युत॥
English: The deciduous herbs, animals, trees, creepers, clarified butter, milk, curds, meat and other selected things land, the points of the horizon, faith, and time which forms the twelfth, the Richs, the Yajushes, the Samans, and the sacrificer himself froming the sixteenth, and Fire which should be known as the householder, these seventeen are said to be the linbs of Sacrifice. Sacrifice, the Shruti says, is the root of the world and its movement. With clarified butter, milk, curds, dung, curds mixed with milk, skin, the hair in her tail, horns, and hoofs, the cow alone is able to supply all the necessaries of sacrifice. For particular sacrifices are sanctioned particular ones, Ritwijas and presents together sustain Sacrifices. By collecting these things together, people celebrate sacrifices.
Sanskrit: यज्ञार्थानि हि सृष्टानि यथार्था श्रूयते श्रुतिः। एवं पूर्वतरा: सर्वे प्रवृत्ताश्चैव मानवाः॥
English: This Shruti, quite of a piece with the truth, is heard that all things have been created for the celebration of Sacrifice. It was thus that all men of yore undertook the celebration of sacrifices.
Sanskrit: न हिनस्ति नारभते नाभिद्रुह्यति किंचन। यज्ञो यष्टव्य इत्येव यो यजत्यफलेप्सया॥
English: Regarding that person, however, who celebrates sacrifices, because of the belief that sacrifices should be celebrated not for the sake of fruit or reward, it is seen that he does not injure any creature or treat any one with hostility, or engage in the performance of any worldly work.
Sanskrit: यज्ञाङ्गान्यपि चैतानि यज्ञोक्तान्यनुपूर्वशः। विधिना विधियुक्तानि धारयन्ति परस्परम्॥
English: The things named above as the limbs of sacrifice, and those that have been mentioned as necessary in sacrifices and that are indicated in the ordinances, all maintain one another when used according to the approved ritual.
Sanskrit: आम्नायमाएं पश्यामि यस्मिन् वेदाः प्रतिष्ठिताः। तं विद्वांसोऽनुपश्यन्ति ब्राह्मणस्यानुदर्शनात्॥
English: I see also the Smritis compiled by the Rishis, into which the Vedas have been introduced. Learned men regard them as authoritative on account of their following the Brahmanas.
Sanskrit: ब्राह्मणप्रभवो यज्ञो ब्राह्मणार्पण एव च। अनुयज्ञं जगत् सर्वं यज्ञश्चानुजगत् सदा॥
English: Sacrifices have the Brahmanas for their progenitor, and truly they depend upon the Brahmanas. The whole universe depends upon sacrifices, and sacrifice depends upon the universe.
Sanskrit: ओमिति ब्रह्मणो योनिनमः स्वाहा स्वधा वषट्। यस्यैतानि प्रयुज्यन्ते यथाशक्ति कृतान्यपि॥ न तस्य त्रिषु लोकेषु परलोकभयं विदुः। इति वेदा वदन्तीह सिद्धाश्च परमर्षयः॥
English: The syllable OM is the root from which the Vedas have originated. He has no fear about next life in all the three worlds, who has uttered for him the syllables 'OM, Namas, Svaha, Svadha, and Vashat, and who has according to his means, celebrated sacrifices and other rites. The Vedas and sages crowned with ascetic success, and the foremost of Rishis declare thus.