pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: न ह्यदैवकृतं किंचिन्नराणामिह विद्यते। न च मे बालभावेऽपरि किंचित् पापकृतं कृतम्॥ कर्मणा मनसा वाचा यदिदं दुःखमागतम्।
English: Indeed, there exists nothing of men that does not fall within the category of destiny. I had committed no crime even in my childhood, either in action, thought or speech, for which reason this great calamity might befall me.
Sanskrit: मन्ये स्वयंवरकृते लोकपालाः समागताः॥ प्रत्याख्याता मया तत्र नलस्यार्थाय देवताः। नूनं तेषां प्रभावेण वियोगं प्राप्तवत्यहम्॥ एवमादीनि दुःखार्ता सा विलप्य वराङ्गना। प्रलापानि तदा तानि दमयन्ती पतिव्रता॥
English: On the occasion of the Svayamvara, the assembled divine guardians of the worlds were neglected by me, for the sake of king Nala; and surely I think. it is through their potent interference, that I have been suffering from this separation.' That fair complexioned Damayanti, devoted to her husband, uttering these words of grief, became greatly afflicted with sorrows and looked pale.
Sanskrit: हतशेषैः सह तदा ब्राह्मणैर्वेदपारगैः। अगच्छद् राजशार्दूल चन्द्रलेखेव शारदी॥ गच्छन्ती साचिराद् बाला पुरमासादयन्महत्। सायाह्ने चेदिराजस्य सुबाहोः सत्यदर्शिनः॥
English: O foremost of kings! even as the autumnal moon herself, she then went away with the Brahmanas, conversant with the texts of the Vedas, who survived that terrible slaughter. In the course of her going with haste, the maiden arrived in the evening at the great city of truthful Subahu, the king of the Chedis.
Sanskrit: अथ वस्त्रार्धसंवीता प्रविवेश पुरोत्तमम्। तां विह्वलां कृशां दीनां मुक्तकेशीममार्जिताम्॥ उन्मत्तामिव गच्छन्तीं ददृशुः पुरवासिनः। प्रविशन्तीं तु तां दृष्ट्वा चेदिराजपुरीं तदा॥ अनुजग्मुस्तत्र बाला चामिपुत्राः कुतूहलात्। सा तैः परिवृतागच्छत् समीपं राजवेश्मनः॥
English: When she entered that good city, half dressed, the citizens saw her terror-stricken, very weak and helpless, of loosened hairs, unbathed and faring even as a mad woman. Through curiosity the boys of the city pursued her, while they saw her enter into the city of the king of the Chedis. Then the damsel, thus surrounded by the boys, came to the front of the palace.
Sanskrit: तां प्रासादगतापश्यद् राजमाता जनैर्वृताम्। धात्रीमुवाच गच्छैनामानयेह ममान्तिकम्॥
English: From the palace the Queen-mother beheld her surrounded by a large number of persons; and asked her nurse to go and bring her before her Highness.
Sanskrit: जनेन क्लिश्यते बाला दुःखिता शरणार्थिनी। तादृग् रूपं च पश्यामि विद्योतयति मे गृहम्॥
English: The Queen-mother also saw her, vexed by the people, helpless, overpowered by sorrows and seeking for protection, but the splendour of her beauty was such that it illumined the whole palace.
Sanskrit: उन्मत्तवेषा कल्याणी श्रीरिवायतलोचना। सा जनं वारयित्वा तं प्रासादतलमुत्तमम्॥ आरोग्य विस्मिता राजन् दमयन्तीमपृच्छत। एवमप्यसुखाविष्टा बिभर्षि परमं वपुः॥
English: That beautiful and large-eyed lady, even as Sri herself, looked like a mad woman. Then, O king, the nurse ordering the crowd to disperse, took her into the palace and, struck with amazement, inquired of Damayanti, saying: 'How do you, oppressed with sorrow, bear a graceful form.
Sanskrit: भासि विद्युदिवाभ्रेषु शंस मे कासि कस्य वा। न हि ते मानुषं रूपं भूषणैरपि वर्जितम्॥
English: Do you blaze like lightning in the midst of clouds? O! tell me who are you and to whom do you belong? Surely your beauty is not human, although you are not decked in ornaments.
Sanskrit: असहाया नरेभ्यश्च नोद्विजस्यमरप्रभे। तच्छ्रुत्वा वचनं तस्या भैमी वचनमब्रवीत्॥
English: you effulgent one like unto the celestials! although you are helpless, yet you are unmoved by these (outraging) persons?' Hearing these words of the nurse, the daughter of king Bhima spoke the (following) words to her,
Sanskrit: मानुषीं मां विजानीहि भर्तारं समनुव्रताम्। सैरन्ध्रीजातिसम्पन्नं भुजिष्यां कामवासिनीम्॥ फलमूलाशनामेकां यत्रसायंप्रतिश्रयाम्। असंख्येयगुणो भर्ता मां च नित्यमनुव्रतः॥
English: 'Know that I am a woman, devoted to my husband; and a female-servant, belonging to a high caste. Know also that I stay wherever I like and subsist on fruits and roots. I am lonely; and I stop when evening draws nigh. My lord possesses innumerable virtues; and he was ever devoted to me.
Sanskrit: भक्तामहपि तं वीरं छायेवानुगता पथि। तस्य दैवात् प्रसङ्गोऽभूदतिमात्रं सुदेवने॥ द्यूते स निर्जितश्चैव वनमेक उपेयिवान्। तमेकवसनं वीरमुन्मत्तमिव विह्वलम्॥ आश्वासयन्ती भर्तारमहमप्यगमं वनम्। स कदाचिद् वने वीरः कस्मिंश्चित् कारणान्तरे॥
English: I was also attached to that heroic one, following him in his course even as a shadow. It so happened that once he was engaged in the play at dice, at which he was defeated; and in consequence thereof he came alone into the wood. Beholding my heroic husband, wearing a single piece of cloth, maniac-like and afflicted with grief, I also followed him into the forest with a view to console him. Once on a time, that warlike one, for some reason go to in forest.
Sanskrit: क्षुत्परीतस्तु विमनास्तदप्येकं व्यसर्जयत्। तमेकवसना नग्नमुन्मत्तवदचेतसम्॥ अनुव्रजन्ती बहुला न स्वपामि निशास्तदा। ततो बहुतिथे काले सुप्तामुत्सृज्य मां क्वचित्॥ वाससोऽर्धं परिच्छिद्य त्यक्तवान् मामनागसम्। तं मार्गमाणा भर्तारं दह्यमाना दिवानिशम्॥
English: He oppressed with hunger, lost, in the woods, that single piece of cloth out of carelessness. Following him, naked, maniaclike and devoid of all his senses as he was, I, with a single piece of cloth on, could not sleep for several nights. Thus many days passed away when I fell asleep. He then tore off onehalf of my garment and forsook me there, although I had not done to him any harm. Hence it is that I fare about seeking my husband and burn day and night in distress.
Sanskrit: साहं कमलगर्भाभमपश्यन्ती हृदि प्रियम्। न विन्दाम्यमरप्रख्यं प्रियं प्राणेश्वरं प्रभुम्॥
English: Thus afflicted, I am unable to find out my lord, who is the darling of my heart and whose splendour is like the filaments of the lotuses. I do not see my lord, who is the delight of my heart, my own presiding god, most beloved of me and who again is like the celestials in appearance.
Sanskrit: तामश्रुपरिपूर्णाक्षीं विलपन्ती तथा बहु। राजमाताब्रवीदार्ता भैमीमार्तस्वरां स्वयम्॥ वसस्व मयि कल्याणि प्रीतिमें परमा त्वयि। मृगयिष्यन्ति ते भद्रे भर्तारं पुरुषा मम॥
English: The Queen-mother herself addressed the daughter of Bhima, whose eyes were full of tears, bewailing in the above manner and whose voice was choked up in sorrow. O blessed lady! O gentle one! stay here with me. I am much pleased with you. Mymen will seek your husband in the woods.
Sanskrit: अपि वा स्वयमागच्छेत् परिधावन्नितस्ततः। इहैव वसती भद्रे भर्तारमुपलप्स्यसे॥
English: It may so happen that he shall come here of himself in course of his roving about in the forest. O gentle one! do you live here now; and you shall get your husband back.'
Sanskrit: राजमातुर्वचः श्रुत्वा दमयन्ती वचोऽब्रवीत्। समयेनोत्सहे वस्तुं त्वयि वीरप्रजायिनि॥ उच्छिष्टं नैव भुञ्जीयां न कुर्यां पादधावनम्। न चाहं पुरुषानन्यान् प्रभाषेयं कथंचन॥
English: Hearing these words of the Queen-mother, Damayanti spoke to her; 'O mother of heroes! I dare reside with you, provided that I shall not have to eat the remnants of a dish, nor I shall have ever to speak with other men.
Sanskrit: प्रार्थयेद् यदि मां कश्चिद् दण्ड्यस्ते स पुमान् भवेत्। वध्यश्च तेऽसकृन्मन्द इति मे व्रतमाहितम्॥
English: If any body shall solicit me (to be his wife), that person must be punished by you. Or should he solicit me repeatedly, that criminal person shall be punished with death. This is the vow that I have prearranged.
Sanskrit: भर्तुरन्वेषणार्थं तु पश्येयं ब्राह्मणानहम्। यद्येवमिह वत्स्यामि त्वत्सकाशे न संशयः॥
English: 'I will find out those Brahmanas, who will search for my husband. Should you arrange all this, I shall no doubt live with you.'
Sanskrit: अतोऽन्यथा न मे वासो वर्तते हृदये क्वचित्। तां प्रहष्टेन मनसा राजमातेदमब्रवीत्॥
English: If it is otherwise, to live does not find place in my heart.' The Queen-mother said to her:
Sanskrit: सर्वमेतत् करिष्यामि दिष्ट्या ते व्रतमीदृशम्। एवमुक्त्वा ततो भैमी राजमाता विशाम्पते॥ उवाचेदं दुहितरं सुनन्दा नाम भारत। सैरन्ध्रीमभिजानीष्व सुनन्दे देवरूपिणीम्॥
English: 'I will do all this. Very good is this your vow.' O monarch! the daughter of king Bhima was thus addressed by the Queen-mother. O Bharata! she called her daughter Sunanda and spoke to her this: 'O Sunanda! know well that this maiden is a goddess, even as your Shairindhri (a high class maid-servant).
Sanskrit: वयसा तुल्यतां प्राप्ता सखी तव भवत्वियम्। एतया सह मोदस्व निरुद्विग्नमनाः सदा॥
English: As she is of the same age with yourself, do you take the lady as your companion and also play with her always without any apprehension in the mind.'
Sanskrit: ततः परमसंहष्टा सुनन्दा गृहमागमत्। दमयन्तीमुपादाय सखीभिः परिवारिता॥
English: Thereupon Sunanda, having received Damayanti with the greatest delight, conducted her into her own apartinents, attended by all her companions.
Sanskrit: स तत्र पूज्यमाना वै दमयन्ती व्यनन्दत। सर्वकामैः सुविहितैर्निरुद्वेगावसत् तदा॥
English: Damayanti was highly gratified with the respectful behaviour of her companion; and she lived there for some time, because all her desires were excellently satisfied.
Sanskrit: वृहदश्व उवाच तस्मिन्नन्तहिते नागे प्रययौ नैषधो नलः। ऋतुपर्णस्य नगरं प्राविशद् दशमेऽहनि॥
English: Brihadashva said : After the disappearance of the Naga, Nala, the prince of the Nishadhas, repaired to the city of Rituparna on the tenth day.
Sanskrit: स राजानमुपातिष्ठद् बाहुकोऽहमिति ब्रुवन्। अश्वानां वाहने युक्तः पृथिव्यां नास्ति मत्समः॥
English: He approached the king with these words: “I am Bahuka, skilled in the management of horses. I have not a peer in this earth.
Sanskrit: अर्थकृच्छ्रेषु चैवाहं प्रष्टव्यो नैपुणेषु च। अन्नसंस्कारमपि च जानाम्यन्यैर्विशेषतः॥
English: I may be referred to on the matters of pecuniary difficulty, as well as on those of skill. I know the art of cooking, in which I am unsurpassed by others.
Sanskrit: यानि शिल्पानि लोकेऽस्मिन् यच्चैवान्यत् सुदुष्करम् सर्वं यतिष्ये तत् कर्तुमृतुपर्ण भरस्व माम्॥
English: O Rituparna, I will take care to bring under operation all the arts, that rest in the world and also other matters difficult of accomplishment. Therefore, do you maintain me.”
Sanskrit: ऋतुपर्ण उवाच वस बाहुक भद्रं ते सर्वमेतत् करिष्यसि। शीघ्रयाने सदा बुद्धिर्धियते मे विशेषतः॥
English: Rituparna said : O Bahuka! stay with me! All hail unto you! Shall you perform all this. Always my mind particularly turns to this, viz., to be driven very fast.
Sanskrit: स त्वमातिष्ठ योगं तं येन शीघ्रा हया ममा भवेयुरश्वाध्यक्षोऽसि वेतनं ते शतं शतम्॥
English: Do you adopt some such means that my horses may become very fast. Be then the superintendent of my stables, on a salary of ten thousand coins.
Sanskrit: त्वामुपस्थास्यतश्चैव नित्यं वार्ष्णेयजीवलौ। एताभ्यां रंस्यसे सार्धं वस वै मयि बाहुक॥
English: Varshneya and Jivala shall always be guided by you; and in whose company shall you pass your days in joy. O Bahuka! do you, therefore, stay with me.
Sanskrit: बृहदश्व उवाच एवमुक्तो नलस्तेन न्यवसत् तत्र पूजितः। ऋतुपर्णस्य नगरे सहवार्ष्णेयजीवलः॥
English: Brihadashya said : Having been thus addressed, Nala, thus received, lived there in the city of Rituparna in company with Varshneya and Jivala.
Sanskrit: स वै तत्रावसद् राजा वैदर्भीमनुचिन्तयन्। सायं सायं सदा चेमं श्लोकमेकं जगाद ह॥
English: That king continued to live there in anxiety for the daughter of the king of the Vidharbhas; and every evening he repeated a verse which runs thus:
Sanskrit: क्व नु सा क्षुत्पिपासार्ता श्रान्ता शेते तपस्विनी। स्मरन्ती तस्य मन्दस्य कं वा साद्योपतिष्ठति॥
English: Where does lie that glorious one, oppressed with hunger and thirst and fatigued with toil; and always meditating upon that miserable one, to whom does she now attach herself?"
Sanskrit: एवं ब्रुवन्तं राजानं निशायां जीवलोऽब्रवीत्। कामेनां शोचसे नित्यं श्रोतुमिच्छामि बाहुक॥
English: Jivala asked the king, while he was muttering the above verse in the night, saying: 'O Bahuka! I desire to learn about the person, for whom do you mourn every day.
Sanskrit: आयुष्मन् कस्य वा नारी यामेवमनुशोचसि। तमुवाच नलो राजा मन्दप्रज्ञस्य कस्यचित्॥ आसीद् बहुमता नारी तस्यादृढतरं वचः। स वै केनचिदर्थेन तया मन्दो व्ययुज्यत॥
English: O you blessed with longevity! whose is that lady, for whom do you lament every day?” Thus spoken, king Nala answered him, saying, There was a wretch, who had lost all his senses. He had a spouse known to many. He was false in his promises (to her). For a certain cause he was separated from her.
Sanskrit: विप्रयुक्तः स मन्दात्मा भ्रमत्यसुखपीडितः। दह्यमानः स शोकेन दिवारानमतन्द्रितः॥
English: Being thus separated (from her), that wicked person roved about. He was repressed with sorrow; and burning with grief, he never slept either by day or night.
Sanskrit: निशाकाले स्मरंस्तस्याः श्लोकमेकं स्म गायति। स विभ्रमन् महीं सर्वां क्वचिदासाद्य किंचन॥ वसत्यनहर्हस्तद् दुःखं भूय एवानुसंस्मरन्।
English: Remembering her during the night, he sings the above verse. Then having wandered over the whole world and at last coming to a place where he, undeserving of the calamity that has overtaken him, resides always remembering his wife.
Sanskrit: सा तु तं पुरुषं नारी कृच्छ्रेऽप्यनुगता वने।॥ त्यक्ता तेनाल्पपुण्येन दुष्करं यदि जीवति। एका बालानभिज्ञा च मार्गाणामतथोचिता॥
English: Having fallen into distress, the person was followed by his wife into the forest. Forsaken by that man of little virtue, the lady, aftlicted with sorrow, hardly lives. That solitary girl, having no knowledge of the forest paths, saves her life with difficulty.
Sanskrit: क्षुत्पिपासापरीताङ्गी दुष्करं यदि जीवति। श्वापदाचरिते नित्यं वने महति दारुणे॥ त्यक्ता तेनाल्पभाग्यन मन्दप्रज्ञेन मारिष। इत्येवं नैषधो राजा दमयन्तीमनुस्मरन्। अज्ञातवासं न्यवसद् राज्ञस्तस्य निवेशने॥
English: As she, fatigued with hunger and thirst, is quite unfit to wander about in that dreadful and dense forest, always haunted by fierce animals. Cfriend! having left her in that dreadful forest, the stupid king of the Nishadhas of little fortune thus remembered Damayanti, while he was living an unknown life in the house of that king.''
Sanskrit: बृहदश्व उवाच हृतराज्ये नले भीमः सभार्ये च वनं गते। द्विजान् प्रस्थापयामास नलदर्शनकाझया।।।।
English: Brihadashva said : When Nala, deprived of his kingdom, turned himself to a servant with his wife, then king Bhima sent away Brahmanas, with the object of seeing Nala.
Sanskrit: संदिदेश च तान् भीमो वसु दत्त्वा च पुष्कलम्। मृगयध्वं नलं चैव दमयन्तीं च मे सुताम्॥
English: Bhima, having given immense wealth to the Brahmanas, asked them to go in quest of Nala and his daughter, Damayanti.
Sanskrit: अस्मिन् कर्मणि सम्पन्ने विज्ञाते निषधाधिपे। गवां सहस्रं दास्यामि यो वस्तावानयिष्यति॥ अग्रहारांश्च दास्यामि ग्राम नगरसम्मितम्। न चेच्छक्याविहानेतुं दमयन्ती नलोऽपि वा॥ ज्ञातमात्रेऽपि दास्यामि गवां दशशतं धनम्।
English: “To him, who will perform this deed, viz., learning the place where at the king of the Nishadhas does live now or bringing him hither with his wife, will I give a thousand kine, fields and a village like a city. Should he fail to bring hither Nala as well as Damayanti, his very knowledge of them would be rewarded by my giving him wealth in the shape of a ten thousand kine."
Sanskrit: इत्युक्तास्ते ययुर्हष्टा ब्राह्मणाः सर्वतो दिशम्॥ पुरराष्ट्राणि चिन्वन्तो नैषधं सह भार्यया। नैव क्वापि प्रपश्यन्ति नलं वा भीमपुत्रिकाम्॥ ततश्चेदिपुरी रम्यां सुदेवो नाम वै द्विजः। विचिन्वानोऽथ वैदर्भीमपश्यद् राजवेश्मनि॥
English: Having been thus addressed, the Brahmanasa went out in all directions, searching for Nala and Damayanti in the various cities and provinces. But they could not see Nala or the daughter of Bhima anywhere. While at last a Brahmana, Sudeva by name, was searching in the city of the king of the Chedis, he saw the daughter of the king of the Vidarbhas, Damayanti.
Sanskrit: पुण्याहवाचने राज्ञः सुनन्दासहितां स्थिताम्। मन्दं प्रख्यायमानेन रूपेणाप्रतिमेन ताम्॥ निबद्धां धूमजालेन प्रभामिव विभावसोः। तां समीक्ष्य विशालाक्षीमधिकं मलिनां कृशाम्। तर्कयामास भैमीति कारणैरुपपादयन्॥
English: She seated with Sunanda, in the house of that monarch, who at the time was repeating his prayers. She was faintly seen, on account of the great luminosity of her extraordinary beauty. Even as her splendour was like the blazing of a fire enveloped by smokes. Thus beholding that lady, with large eyes, colorless and weak, he, after arguing from various reasons, decided her to be the daughter of Bhima.
Sanskrit: सुदेव उवाच यथेयं मे पुरा दृष्टा तथारूपेयमङ्गना। कृतार्थोऽस्म्यद्य दृष्ट्वेमा लोककान्तामिव श्रियम्॥
English: Sudeva said: As I saw the lady beforehand, she seems to be the self-same in appearance at present. This day I think myself blessed by the very sight of her, who is like Sree herself, delighting all the worlds.
Sanskrit: पूर्णचन्द्रनिभां श्यामां चारुवृत्तपयोधराम्। वन्तीं प्रभया देवी सर्वा वितिमिरा दिशः॥
English: Also, the lady is like the full moon in splendour. She looks ever youthful, possessing a handsome breast; and dispelling darkness from all the directions by virtue of her effulgence.
Sanskrit: चारुपद्मविशालाक्षी मन्मथस्य रतीमिव। इष्टां समस्तलोकस्य पूर्णचन्द्रप्रभामिव॥
English: She again looks even as Kama's Rati herself, having eyes as large as the handsome lotusleaves. She is the delight of all the worlds like the rays of the full moon.
Sanskrit: विदर्भसरसस्तस्माद् दैवदोषादिवोद्धताम्। मलपङ्कानुलिप्ताङ्गी मृणालीमिव चोद्धृताम्॥ पौर्णमासीमिव निशां राहुग्रस्तनिशाकराम्। पतिशोकाकुलां दीनां शुष्कस्रोतां नदीमिव॥
English: Separated on account of her adverse fortune from that Vidarbha lake, she looks like the transplanted lotus-stalk, besmeared with mire. Or also, she looks like the night of the full moon, when that nocturnal god is swallowed up by Rahu. Repressed by sorrow for her, husband, she looks slender like the river with all its current dried up.
Sanskrit: विध्वस्तपर्णकमलां वित्रासितविहंगमाम्। हस्तिहस्तपरामृष्टां व्याकुलामिव पद्मिनीम्॥
English: She looks (in her present condition) like a ravaged lake, with the leaves of its lotuses crushed by the trunks of elephants and with its birds all flying away from fear.
Sanskrit: सुकुमारी सुजाताङ्गी रत्नगर्भगृहोचिताम्। दह्यमानामिवार्केण मृणालीमिव चोद्धृताम्॥
English: Possessed of slender constitution and handsome limbs and fit to dwell in a jewelled palace, she looks like a transplanted lotus-stalk burnt by the rays of the sun.
Sanskrit: रूपौदार्यगुणोपेतां मण्डनार्हाममण्डिताम्। चन्द्रलेखामिव नवां व्योम्नि नीलाभ्रसंवृताम्॥
English: Endued with beauty and liberality and undecked in ornaments, although befitting thein, she looks like the crescent of the moon, newly appearing in heaven and enveloped with the dark clouds.
Sanskrit: कामभोगैः प्रियीनां हीनां बन्धुजनेन च। देहं संधारयन्ती हि भर्तृदर्शनकाझ्या॥
English: Deprived of all the delightful objects of enjoyments and separated from friends and relatives, she lives a miserable life, cherishing the hope of beholding her husband again.
Sanskrit: भर्ता नाम परं नार्या भूषणं भूषणैर्विना। एषा हि रहिता तेन शोभमाना न शोभते॥
English: The best ornament of a woman, who is without the ornaments, is (the accompaniment of) her husband. Destitute so such an ornament (as the husband), she does not shine, although she is beautiful.
Sanskrit: दुष्करं कुरुतेऽत्यन्तं हीनो यदनया नलः। धारयत्यात्मनो देहं न शोकेनापि सीदति॥
English: Nala performs a very arduous task by holding his life without his dear wife and also without succumbing to sorrow.
Sanskrit: इमामसितकेशान्तां शतपत्रायतेक्षणाम्। सुखाहाँ दुःखितां दृष्ट्वा ममापि व्यथते मनः॥
English: My heart aches to behold that maiden, possessing black hairs and eyes as large as the lotus leaves and afflicted with sorrow, although she is most deserving of prosperity.
Sanskrit: कदा नु खलु दुःखस्य पारं यास्यति वै शुभा। भर्तुः समागमात् साध्वी रोहिणी शशिनो यथा॥
English: When, after sometime, the auspicious lady will surely have bridged over this ocean of woe, then she, devoted to her husband as ever, will, in company with her lord, look like Rohini in company with the Moon.
Sanskrit: अस्या नूनं पुनर्लाभान्नैषधः प्रीतिमेष्यति। राजा राज्यपरिभ्रष्टः पुनर्लब्ध्वा च मेदिनीम्॥
English: Certainly the king of the Nishadhas will obtain great delight by regaining his wife, even as the monarch, deprived of his kingdom, does by recovering his lost territories.
Sanskrit: तुल्यशीलवयोयुक्तां तुल्याभिजनसंवृताम्। नैषधोऽर्हति वैदर्भी तं चेयमसितेक्षणा॥
English: The king of the Nishadhas deserves the daughter of Vidharbha, who is like Nala in disposition, age and birth; as also the daughter of Vidharbha with black eyes is quite becoming to him.
Sanskrit: युक्तं तस्याप्रमेयस्य वीर्यसत्त्ववतो मया। समाश्वासयितुं भार्यां पतिदर्शनलालसाम्॥
English: It is my duty to console the wife of that immensely powerful one who is gifted with prowess and goodness, as she is most anxious for beholding her lord.
Sanskrit: अहमाश्वासयाम्येनां पूर्णचन्द्रनिभाननाम्। अदृष्टपूर्वां दुःखस्य दुःखाध्यिानतत्पराम्॥
English: I will (rather must) comfort the lady the splendour of whose face is like that of the full moon; and who is oppressed with such an woe that she had never experienced before, and also who is ever in fervid devotion for her husband.
Sanskrit: बृहदश्व उवाच एवं विमृश्य विविधैः कारणैर्लक्षणैश्च ताम्। उपागम्य ततो भैमी सुदेवो ब्राह्मणोऽब्रवीत्॥ अहं सुदेवो वैदर्भि भ्रातुस्ते दयितः सखा। भीमस्य वचनाद् राज्ञस्त्वामन्वेष्टुमिहागतः॥
English: Brihadashva said: Thereupon the Brahmana, Sudeva by name, having recognised the daughter of Bhima by observing the various circumstances and signs of hers, advanced to her and addressed her thus, O the daughter of Vidharbha! I am Sudeva, the intimate friend of your brother. Enjoined by king Bhima, I have come here searching for yourself. came
Sanskrit: कुशली ते पिता राज्ञि जननी भ्रातरश्च ते। आयुष्मन्तौ कुशलिनौ तत्रस्थौ दारकौ च तौ॥
English: O princess! your father is at peace, as also your mother and brothers. Those, your son and daughter, are enjoying length of days and living in peace.
Sanskrit: त्वत्कृते बन्धुवर्गाश्च गतसत्त्वा इवासते। अन्वेष्टारो ब्राह्मणाश्च भ्रमन्ति शतशो महीम्॥
English: Your friends and relatives, though living, are like the dead on your account; and hundreds of Brahmanas are wandering about over the whole world in quest of you.
Sanskrit: बृहदश्व उवाच अभिज्ञाय सुदेवं तं दमयन्ती युधिष्ठिर। पर्यपृच्छत तान् सर्वान् क्रमेण सुहृदः स्वकान्॥
English: Brihadashva said: O Yudhishthira! Damayanti to recognize Sudeva; and then asked him about all her friends and relatives in succession.
Sanskrit: रुरोद च भृशं राजन् वैदर्भी शोककर्शिता। दृष्ट्वा सुदेवं सहसा भ्रातुरिष्टं द्विजोत्तमम्॥
English: O king! crushed with misery as she was, the daughter of the king of the Vidharbhas began to lament most bitterly at the unexpected sight of that best of the Brahmanas, Sudeva, who is the friend of her brother.
Sanskrit: रुदतीं तामथो दृष्ट्वा सुनन्दा शोककर्शिता। सुदेवेन सहैकान्ते कथयन्तीं च भारत॥ जनित्र्यै कथयामास सैरन्ध्री रोदितीति च। ब्राह्मणेन सहागम्य तां वेद यदि मन्यसे॥
English: Thereupon, O Bharata! Sunanda, seeing her (Damayanti) conversing in private with a Brahmana and weeping most bitterly, was hard pressed with sorrow and informed her mother, saying: 'Sairindhri is most bitterly lamenting. Know this, if should you like.'
Sanskrit: अथ चेदिपतेर्माता राज्ञश्चान्तःपुरात् तदा। जगाम यत्र सा बाला ब्राह्मणेन सहाभवत्॥
English: Thereafter the mother of the king of the Nishadhas, having left the inner apartments of the palace, repaired to the place where that lady (Damayanti) was waiting with the Brahmana.
Sanskrit: ततः सुदेवमानाय्य राजमाता विशाम्यते। पप्रच्छ भार्या कस्येयं सुता वा कस्य भाविनी॥ कथं च नष्टा ज्ञातिभ्यो भर्तुर्वा वामलोचना। त्वया च विदिता विप्र कथमेवगंता सती॥
English: O the ruler of the earth! the Queen-mother summoned Sudeva before her and asked him, saying, 'whose wife is this lady? and whose daughter? and how this damsel, possessing handsome eyes has been separated from her husband as well as her relatives? O Brahmana! how have you come to know her, falling in this great distress?
Sanskrit: एतदिच्छाम्यहं श्रोतुं त्वत्तः सर्वमशेषतः। तत्त्वेन हि ममाचक्ष्व पृच्छन्त्या देवरूपिणीम्॥
English: I desire to hear from you all about her in detail. Do you surely relate to me, as I am asking of that lady of celestials splendour.”
Sanskrit: एवमुक्तस्तया राजन् सुदेवो द्विजसत्तमः। सुखोपविष्ट आचष्ट दमयन्त्या यथातथम्॥
English: O monarch! Sudeva, the foremost of the Brahmanas, thus addressed by the Queenmother, sat at his ease and began to relate the true account of Damayanti.