pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: तेवैवान्यः प्रभवति सोऽपरं बाधते पुनः। दृश्यते चैव स पुनस्तुल्यरूपो यदृच्छया॥
English: By a certain action, one becomes really meritorious. The same actions prevent another from the acquisition of merit. Another, by performing those actions at his pleasure, it is seen, remains unchanged.
Sanskrit: येनैवान्यः प्रभवति सोऽपरानपि बाधते। आचाराणामनैकाम्यं सर्वेषामुपलक्षयेत्॥
English: Thus that action by which one reaps merit, obstructs another in the acquisition of merit. One may thus seen that all actions are not peculiar in motive and character.
Sanskrit: चिराभिपन्नः कविभिः पूर्वं धर्म उदाहृतः। तेनाचारेण पूर्वेण संस्था भवति शाश्वती॥
English: It seems, therefore, that only that which the learned of old denominated righteousness is righteousness to this day; and through that course of conduct the distinctions and limitations have become eternal.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच अत्राप्युदाहरन्तीममितिहासं पुरातनम्। तुलाधारस्य वाक्यानि धर्मे जाजलिना सह॥
English: Regarding it is cited the old conversation of Tuladhara with Jajali on the subject of virtue. There was once a Brahmana named Jajali who lived in a certain forest, like a forest-recluse.
Sanskrit: वने वनचरः कश्चिज्जाजलि म वै द्विजः। सागरोद्देशमागम्य तपस्तेपे महातपाः॥
English: Practising austere penances, he proceeded at a certain time towards the sea-shore, and arrived there began to practise the most austere penances.
Sanskrit: नियतो नियताहारथीराजिनजटाधरः। मलपङ्कधरो धीमान् बहून् वर्षगणान् मुनिः॥
English: Observing many vows and restraints his food restricted by fast, his body clad in rags and skins, bearing matted locks on his head, his entire body smeared with filth and clay, the intelligent Brahmana passed many years there, speechless.
Sanskrit: स कदाचिन्महातेजा जलवासो महीपते। चचार लोकान् विप्रर्षिः प्रेक्षमाणो मनोजवः॥
English: Highly energetic that regenerate ascetic, O king, while living within the waters, travelled through all the worlds with the speed of the mind, desirous of seeing all things.
Sanskrit: स चिन्तयामास मुनिर्जलवासे कदाचन। विप्रेक्ष्य सागरान्तां वै महीं सवनकाननाम्॥
English: Having seen the whole Earth bounded by the ocean and adorned with rivers and lakes and forests, the ascetic one day, while sitting under the water, began to think thus:न मया सदृशोऽस्तीह लोके स्थावरजङ्गमे।
Sanskrit: अप्सु वैहायसं गच्छेन्मया योऽन्यः सहेति वै॥
English: In this world of mobile and immobile creatures there is none who can equal me! Who can travel with me among the stars and planets in the sky and live again within the waters!
Sanskrit: अदृश्यमानो रक्षोभिर्जलमध्ये वदंस्तथा। अब्रुवंश्च पिशाचास्तं नैवं त्वं वक्तुमर्हसि॥
English: Unseen by the Rakshasas while he said this to himself, the Pishachas said to him,-You should not say so!
Sanskrit: तुलाधारो वणिग्धर्मा वाराणस्यां महायशाः। सोऽप्येवं नार्हते वक्तुं यथा त्वं द्विजसत्तम॥
English: There is a man named Tuladhara highly illustrious and doing the business of buying and selling, Even he, O best of twice-born ones, is not worthy of saying such words as you say!
Sanskrit: इत्युक्तो जाजलिर्भूतैः प्रत्युवाच महातपाः। पश्येयं तमहं प्राज्ञं तुलाधारं यशस्विनम्॥
English: Thus addressed by those beings, Jajali of austere penances replied to them, saying,-I shall see that famous Tuladhara who is endued with such wisdom!
Sanskrit: इति ब्रुवाणं तमृषि रक्षास्युद्धृत्य सागरात्। अब्रुवन् गच्छ पन्थानमास्थायेमं द्विजोत्तम्॥
English: When the Rishi said this, those superhuman beings raised him from the sea, and said to him,-best of twice-born one, go along this road!
Sanskrit: इत्युक्तो जाजलिर्भूतैर्जगाम विमनास्तदा। वाराणस्यां तुलाधारं समासाद्याब्रवीदिदम्॥
English: Thus addressed by those beings, Jajali went onwards with a depressed heart. Arrived at Baranasi he met Tuladhara whom he addressed thus.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच किं कृतं दुष्कर तात कर्म जाजलिना पुरा। येन सिद्धिं परा प्राप्तस्तन्मे व्याख्यातुमर्हसि॥
English: Yudhisthira said What, O sire, are those difficult feats which Jajali had performed before for which he had acquired such great success? You should describe them to me.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच अतीव तपसा युक्तो घोरेण स बभूव ह। तथोपस्पर्शनरतः सायं प्रातर्महातपाः॥
English: Bhishma said Jajali had practised penances of the severest austerities. He used to perform ablutions morning and cvening.
Sanskrit: अग्नीन् परिचरन् सम्यक् स्वाध्यायपरमोद्विजः। वानप्रस्थविधानज्ञो जाजलिवलितः श्रिया॥
English: Carefully serving his fires, he was given to the study of the Vedas. Well conversant with the duties laid down for hermits, Jajali, seemed to shine with effulgence.
Sanskrit: वने तपस्यतिष्ठत् स न च धर्ममवैक्षत। वर्षास्वाकाशशायी च हेमन्तं जलसंश्रयः॥
English: He continued to live in the forest, performing penances, But he never took himself for one who had acquired any merit by his acts. During the rains he slept under the open sky. In auturnn he sat in water.
Sanskrit: वातातपसहो ग्रीष्मे न च धर्ममविन्दत। दुःखशय्याश्च विविधा भूमौ च परिवर्तते॥
English: In summer he exposed himself to the sun and the wind. Still he never took himself for one who had acquired any merit by such acts. He used to sleep on various sorts of painful beds and also on the naked earth.
Sanskrit: ततः कदाचित् स मुनिर्वर्षास्वाकाशमास्थितः। अन्तरिक्षाज्जलं मूर्धा प्रत्यगृह्णान्मुहुर्मुहुः॥
English: On one occasion that ascetic, while standing under the sky during the rainy season, received on his head repeated showers froin the clouds.
Sanskrit: अथ तस्य जटाः क्लिना बभूवुर्ग्रथिताः प्रभो। अरण्यगमनान्नित्यं मलिनोऽमलसंयुतः॥
English: He had to pass through the forests again and again. Partly with exposure to the rains and partly with the filth they caught, the locks of that pure Rishi became entangled and intertwined with one another.
Sanskrit: स कदाचिनिराहारो वायुभक्षो महातपाः। तस्थौ काष्ठवदव्यग्रो न चचाल च कर्हिचित्॥
English: At one time abstaining entirely from food and living upon air alone, that great ascetic, stood in the forest like a wooden post Unmoved at heart, he stood there, without once moving an inch.
Sanskrit: तस्य स्म स्थाणुभूतस्य निर्विचेष्टस्य भारत। कुलिङ्गशकुनौ राजन् नीडं शिरसि चक्रतुः॥
English: While he stood there unmoved like a wooden post, О Bharata, a pair of Kulinga birds, O king, built their nest on his head.
Sanskrit: स तौ दयावान् ब्रह्मर्षिरुपप्रेक्षत दम्पती। कुर्वाणौ नीडकं तत्र जटासु तृणतन्तुभिः॥
English: Filled with pity, the great Rishis allowed those birds in building their nest among his matted locks with pieces of grass.
Sanskrit: यदा न स चलत्येव स्थाणुभूतो महातपाः। ततस्तौ सुखविश्वस्तौ सुखं तत्रोषतुस्तदा॥
English: And as the ascetic stood there like a wooden post, the two birds lived on his head happily and confidingly.
Sanskrit: अतीतास्वथ वर्षासु शरत्काल उपस्थिते। प्राजापत्येन विधिना विश्वासात् काममोहितौ॥ तत्रापातयतां राजन् शिरस्यण्डानि खेचरौ।
English: The rainy season passed away and autumn set in. Actuated by desire, the couple approached each other according to the law of the Creator, and with perfect confidence laid their eggs, O king, on the head of that Rishi.
Sanskrit: तान्यबुध्यत तेजस्वी स विप्रः संशितव्रतः॥ बुद्ध्वा च स महातेजा न चचाल च जाजलि। धर्मे कृतमना नित्यं नाधर्मं स त्वरोचयत्॥
English: Of rigid vows and endued with energy, the ascetic knew it. Knowing even what the birds had done, Jajali did not move. Bent strongly upon acquiring merit, no act involving the slightest injury to others could meet with his approval.
Sanskrit: अहन्यहनि चागत्य ततस्तौ तस्य मूर्धनि। आश्वासितौ निवसतः सम्प्रहृष्टौ तदा विभो॥
English: Going away and returning every day from, and to his head, the birds happily and trustfully lived there, O powerful king.
Sanskrit: अण्डेभ्यस्त्वथ पुष्टेभ्यः प्राजायन्त शकुन्तकाः। व्यवर्धन्त च तत्रैव न चाकम्पत जाजलिः॥
English: When in the course of time the eggs became mature and young ones came out, they began to grow up in that nest, for Jajali moved not in the least.
Sanskrit: स रक्षमाणस्त्वण्डानि कुलिङ्गानां धृतव्रतः। तथैव तस्थौ धर्मात्मा निर्विचेष्टः समाहितः॥
English: Firmly observing his vows, the righteous Rishi continued to hold and protect those eggs by standing on that very spot perfectly motionless and immersed in Yoga meditation.
Sanskrit: ततस्तु कालसमये बभूवुस्तेऽथ पक्षिणः। बुबुधे तांस्तु स मुनिर्जातपक्षान् कुलिङ्गकान्॥
English: In course of time the young ones grew and became endued with wings. The Muni knew that the young Kulingas had grown up so.
Sanskrit: ततः कदाचित् तांस्तत्र पश्यन् पक्षीन् यतव्रतः। बभूव परमप्रीतस्तदा मतिमतां वरः॥
English: That foremost of intelligent men, of austere VOWS, one day saw those young ones and became filled with pleasure.
Sanskrit: तथा तानपि संवृद्धान् दृष्ट्वा चाप्नुवतां मुदम्। शकुनौ निर्भयौ तत्र उपतुश्चात्मजैः सह॥
English: Seeing their young ones endued with wings, the parent birds became very happy and continued to live in the Rishi's head with them in perfect confidence.
Sanskrit: जातपक्षांश्च सोऽपश्यदुड्डीनान् पुनरागतान्। सायं सायं द्विजान् विप्रो न चाकम्पत जाजलिः॥
English: The learned Jajali saw that when the young birds had wings they flew to the air every evening and came back to his head without having gone far. He still stood motionless there.
Sanskrit: कदाचित् पुनरभ्येत्य पुनर्गच्छन्ति संततम्। त्यक्ता मातापितृभ्यां ते न चाकम्पत जाजलिः॥
English: Sometime after he saw that, left by their parents, they went out alone and came back again alone, Jajali did not still move.
Sanskrit: तथा वे दिवसं चापि गत्वा सायं पुनर्नृप। उपावर्तन्त तत्रैव निवासार्थं शकुन्तकाः॥
English: Sometime after, the young birds going away in the morning spent the whole day out of his sight but returned in the evening for living in the nest.
Sanskrit: कदाचिद् दिवसान् पञ्च समुत्पत्य विहङ्गमाः। षष्ठेऽहनि समाजग्मुर्न चाकम्पत जाजलिः॥
English: Sometime after, leaving their nest for five days at a time, they returned on the sixth day. Jajali still did not move.
Sanskrit: क्रमेण च पुनः सर्वे दिवसान् सुबहूनथ। नोपावर्तन्त शकुना जातप्राणाः स्म ते यदा॥
English: Subsequently, when they gained their full strength, they left him and did not return at all even after many days.
Sanskrit: कदाचिन्मासमात्रेण समुत्पत्य विहङ्गमाः। नैवागच्छंस्ततो राजन् प्रातिष्ठत स जाजलिः॥
English: At last, at another time, leaving him, they did not come even after a month. Then, O king, Jajali left that place.
Sanskrit: ततस्तेषु प्रलीनेषु जाजलिर्जातविस्मयः। सिद्धोऽस्मीति मतिं चक्रे ततस्तं मान आविशत्॥
English: When they had thus gone away for ever, Jajali wondered much and thought that he had gained ascetic success. Then pride entered his heart.
Sanskrit: स तथा निर्गतान् दृष्ट्वा शकुन्तान् नियतव्रतः। सम्भावितात्मा सम्भाव्य भृशं प्रीतमनाऽभवत्॥
English: Ever observing vows, the great ascetic, seeing the birds thus leave him. After having been brought up on his head, thought highly of himself, and became filled with joy.
Sanskrit: स नद्यां समुपस्पृश्य तर्पयित्वा हुताशनम्। उदयन्मथादित्यमुपातिष्ठन्महातपाः॥
English: He then bathed in a river and poured libations on the sacred fire, and worshipped the rising Sun.
Sanskrit: सम्भाव्य चटकान् मूनि जाजलिर्जपतां वरः। आस्फोटयत् तथाऽऽकाशे धर्मः प्राप्तो मयेति वै॥
English: Having thus made those chataka birds, grow on his head, Jajali that foremost of ascetics, began to strike his armpits and cry loudly through the sky, I have acquired great merit.
Sanskrit: अथान्तरिक्षे वागासीत् तां च शुश्राव जाजलिः। धर्मेण न समस्त्वं वै तुलाधारस्य जाजले॥
English: Then an unseen voice arose in the sky and Jajali heard these words:-You are not equal, O Jajali, to Tuladhara in righteousness.
Sanskrit: वाराणस्यां महाप्राज्ञस्तुलाधारः प्रतिष्ठितः। सोऽप्येवं नार्हते वक्तुं यथा त्वं भाषसे द्विज॥
English: Highly wise, that Tuladhara lives at Baranasi. Even he is not competent to say what you say, O twice-born one!
Sanskrit: सोऽमर्षवशमापन्नस्तुलाधारदिदृक्षया। पृथिवीमचरद् राजन् यत्र सायंगृहो मुनिः॥
English: Hearing these words, Jajali became possessed by anger and desirous of meeting with Tuladhara, O king, began to roam over the whole Earth, observing the vow of silence and passing the night where he met with evening.
Sanskrit: सोऽपि दृष्ट्वैव तं विप्रमायान्तं भाण्डजीवनः। समुत्थाय सुसंहृष्टः स्वागतेनाभ्यपूजयत्॥
English: After a long time he reached the city of Baranasi, and saw Tuladhara engaged in selling miscellaneous articles.
Sanskrit: कालेन महतागच्छत् स तु वाराणसी पुरीम्। विक्रीणन्तं च पण्यानि तुलाधारं ददर्श सः॥
English: As soon as the shop-keeper Tuladhara saw the Brahmana arrived at his place, he cheerfully stood up and adored the guest with proper salutations.
Sanskrit: तुलाधार उवाच आयानेवासि विदितो मम ब्रह्मन् न संशयः। ब्रवीमि यत् तु वचनं तच्छृणुष्व द्विजोत्तम॥
English: Tuladhara said For tsooth, O Brahmana, I know that you have come to me. Listen, however, Oforemost of twice-born ones, to what I say!
Sanskrit: सागरानूपमाश्रित्य तपस्तप्तं त्वया महत्। न च धर्मस्य संज्ञां त्वं पुरा वेत्थ कथंचन॥
English: Living on a low land near the sea-shore you had practised very hard penancces. But you had no consciousness of having acquired religious merit.
Sanskrit: ततः सिद्धस्य तपसा तव विप्र शकुन्तकाः। क्षिप्रं शिरस्यजायन्त ते च सम्भावितास्त्वया॥
English: When you had at last acquired ascetic success, certain birds were born on your head. You took great care of the little creatures:
Sanskrit: जातपक्षा यदा ते च गताचारीमितस्ततः। मन्यमानस्ततो धर्मं चटकप्रभवं द्विज॥
English: When at last those birds came winged and when they began to leave your head for going here and there in search of food, it was then that, for your having thus assisted at the birth of those Chatakas, you began to feel pride, O Brahmana, thinking you had acquired great merit.
Sanskrit: खे वाचं त्वमथाश्रौषीर्मा प्रति द्विजसत्तम। अमर्षवशमापन्नस्ततः प्राप्तो भवानिह। करवाणि प्रियं किं ते तद् ब्रूहि द्विजसत्तम॥
English: Then, O foremost of twice-born ones, you heard in the sky a voice that spoke of me. The words you had heard filled you with anger and for that you have come here! Tell me, what wish of yours shall I fulfil, O best of Brahmanas.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच इत्युक्तः स तदा तेन तुलाधारेण धीमता। प्रोवाच वचनं धीमाजाजलिर्जपतां वरः॥
English: Thus accosted by the intelligent Tuladhara on that occasion, the highly intelligent Jajali, that foremost of ascetics, said these words to him:
Sanskrit: जाजलिरुवाच विक्रीणत: सर्वरसान् सर्वगन्धांश्च वाणिज। वनस्पतीनोषधीश्च तेषां मूलफलानि च॥
English: You sell all sorts of juices and scents, O son of a trader, as also (barks and leaves of) huge trees and herbs and their fruits and roots.
Sanskrit: अध्यगा नैष्ठिकी बुद्धिं कुतस्त्वामिदमागतम्। एतदाचक्ष्व मे सर्वं निखिलेन महामते॥
English: But how have you gained this stability of understanding? How have you gained this knowledge? O you of great intelligence, tell me all this fully.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच एवमुक्तस्तुलाधारो ब्राह्मणेन यशस्विना। उवाच धर्मसूक्ष्माणि वैश्यो धर्मार्थतत्त्ववित्॥
English: Thus accosted by that highly famous Brahmana, Tuladhara of the Vaishya caste, well acquatinted with the truths of morality and contented with knowledge, described to Jajali who had practised severe penances, the ways of morality.
Sanskrit: तुलाधार उवाच वेदाहं जाजले धर्मं सरहस्यं सनातनम्। सर्वभूतहितं मैत्रं पुराणं यं जना विदुः॥
English: Tuladhara said a O Jajali, I know, with all its mysteries, morality, which is eternal. It is nothing else but that ancient morality which every body knows, and which consists of universal friendliness, and beneficence to all creatures.
Sanskrit: अद्रोहेणैव भूतानामल्पद्रोहेण वा पुनः। या वृत्तिः स परो धर्मस्तेन जीवामि जाजले॥
English: The highest form of morality consists in a living which is founded upon total harmlessness towards all creatures or upon the smallness of such harin. I live according to that mode,OJajali.
Sanskrit: परच्छिन्नैः काष्ठतृणैर्मयेदं शरणं कृतम्। अलक्तं पद्मकं तुझं गन्धांश्चोच्चावचांस्तथा॥ रसांश्च तांस्तान् विप्रर्षे मद्यवान् बहूनहम्। क्रीत्वा वै प्रतिविक्रीणे परहस्तादमायया॥
English: This my house hath been made with wood and grass cut by other people's hands, Lacdye, the roots of Nymphoea lotus, filaments of the lotus, various sorts of good scents, and many kinds of liquids, O twice-born Rishi, with the exception of wines, I purchase from other people and sell without cheating.
Sanskrit: सर्वेषां यः सुहृन्नित्यं सर्वेषां च हिते रतः। कर्मणा मनसा वाचा स धर्म वेद जाजले।॥
English: He, O Jajali, only knows morality or righteousness is, who is always the friend of all creatures and who is always engaged in the behoof of all creatures, in thought, word, and deed.
Sanskrit: नानुरुद्ध्ये निरुध्ये वा न द्वेष्मि न च कामये। समोऽहं सर्वभूतेषु पश्य मे जाजले व्रतम्।
English: I never beg of any one, I never fall out with any one; I never hate any one. I never desire for anything. I regard equally all things and all creatures. See, O Jajali, this is my vow.
Sanskrit: तुला मे सर्वभूतेषु समा तिष्ठति जाजले।॥ नाहं परेषां कृत्यानि प्रशंसामि न गर्हये। आकाशस्येवविप्रेन्द्र पश्यल्लोकस्य चित्रताम्॥
English: My scales are perfectly even, O Jajali, as regards all creatures. I neither praise nor blame the deeds of others, considering this variety in the world. O foremost of Brahmanas, as the variety seen in the sky.
Sanskrit: इति मां त्वं विजानीहि सर्वलोकस्य जाजले। समं मतिमतां श्रेष्ठ समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनम्॥
English: Know, O Jajali, that I regard equally all creatures. O highest of intelligent men, I perceive no difference between a clod of earth, a piece of stone, and a lump of gold.
Sanskrit: यथान्धबधिरोन्मत्ता उच्छ्वासपरमाः सदा। देवैरपिहितद्वारा: सोपमा पश्यतो मम॥
English: As the blind, the deaf, and they who are bereft of reason, find consolation for the loss of their senses, likewise, I find consolation by their example.
Sanskrit: यथा वृद्धातुरकृशा निःस्पृहा विषयान् प्रति। तथार्थकामभोगेषु ममापि विगता स्पृहा॥
English: As they who are possessed by decrepitude, they who are afflicted by disease, and they who are weakened and emaciated, do not like any sort of enjoyments, similarly, I feel no inclination for wealth pleasure enjoyments.
Sanskrit: यदा चायं न विभेति यदा चास्मान्न बिभ्यति। यदा नेच्छति न द्वेष्टि ब्रह्म सम्पद्यते तदा॥
English: Then only a person attains to Brahma when he fears nothing and is not feared himself, when he cherishes no desire and does not hate anything.
Sanskrit: न भूतो न भविष्योऽस्ति न च धर्मोऽस्ति कश्चन। योऽभयः सर्वभूतानां स प्राप्नोत्यभयं पदम्॥
English: There is no past, no future, There is no morality or virtue. He who is not an object of fear with any creature acquires a state in which there is no fear. or or
Sanskrit: यस्मादुद्विजते लोकः सर्वो मृत्युमुखादिव। वाक्क्राद् दण्डपरुषात् स प्राप्नोति महद् भयम्॥
English: On the other hand, that person who for his harsh words and bad temper, is troublesome to all creatures like death itself, certainly attains to a state full of fear.
Sanskrit: यथावद् वर्तमानानां वृद्धानां पुत्रपौत्रिणाम्। अनुवर्तामहे वृत्तमहिंस्राणां महात्मनाम्॥
English: I follow the practices of great and benevolent men of advanced years who with their children and grand children live observing duly the ordinance laid down in the scritptures.
Sanskrit: प्रणष्टः शाश्वतो धर्मस्त्वनाचारेण मोहितः। तेन वैद्यस्तपस्वी वा बलवान् वा विमुह्यते॥
English: The eternal Vedic practices are entirely abandoned by one who allows himself to be stupefied by some mistakes that he may have marked in the conduct of those who are admittedly good and wise. One, however, who is gifted with learning, or one who has controlled his senses, or one who has strength of mind, acquires liberations by virtue of that very conduct.
Sanskrit: आचाराज्जाजले प्राज्ञः क्षिप्रं धर्मवाप्नुयात्। एवं यः साधुभिर्दान्तश्चरेदद्रोहचेतसा॥
English: That wise man who, having controlled his senses, follows with a heart purged off all desire of injuring others, the conduct of the good, is, sure, O Jajali, to acquire the merit of righteousness.
Sanskrit: नद्यां चेह यथा काष्ठमुह्यसानं यदृच्छया। यदृच्छयैव काष्ठेन सन्धिं गच्छेत केनचित्॥ तत्रापराणि दारूणि संसृज्यन्ते परस्परम्। तृणकाष्ठकरीषाणि कदाचिन्न समीक्षया।॥
English: In this world, as in a river, a piece of wood that is being carried away by the current, is seen to come into contact (for some time) with another piece which is being likewise carried away. There on the current, other pieces of wood that had been collected together, are scen to again separate from one another. Grass, sticks, and cow dung cakes are seen to be joined together. This union is merely accidental and not brought about by any set design.
Sanskrit: यस्मान्नोद्विजते भूतं जातु किंचित् कथंचन। अभयं सर्वभूतेभ्यः स प्राप्नोति सदा मुने॥
English: He, whom no creature fears, is himself, O ascetic, never frightened by any creature.
Sanskrit: यस्मादुद्विजते विद्वन् सर्वलोको वृकादिव। क्रोशतस्तीरमासाद्य यथा सर्वे जलेचराः॥
English: He, on the other hand, O learmed man, whom every creature fears like a wolf, becomes himself filled with fear as aquatic animals when compelled to leap on the shore from fear of the roaring Vadava fire.
Sanskrit: स भयं सर्वभूतेभ्यः सम्प्राप्नोति महामते। एवमेवायमाचारः प्रादुर्भूतो यतस्ततः। सहायवान् द्रव्यवान् यः सुभगोऽथ परस्तथा॥
English: This practice of universal harmlessness has thus originated. One may follow it by every means in his power. He who has a following and he who has riches, may seek to adopt it. It is sure to bring on prosperity and heaven.
Sanskrit: ततस्तानेव कवयः शास्त्रेषु प्रवदन्त्युत। कीर्त्यर्थमल्पहल्लेखाः पटवः कृत्स्ननिर्णया:॥
English: On account of their power to remove the fears of others, men having riches and followers are considered as foremost by the learned. Those, who seek common-place happiness, practise this duty of universal harmlessness for the sake of fame; while they, who are truly skilled, practise the same for attaining to Brahma.
Sanskrit: तपोभिर्यज्ञदानैश्च वाक्यैः प्रज्ञाश्रितैस्तथा। प्राप्नोत्यभयदानस्य यद् यत् फलमिहाश्नुते॥
English: Whatever fruits one enjoys by penances, by sacrifices, by making charities, by speaking the truth, and by seeking wisdom, may all be acquired by practising the duty of harmlessness.
Sanskrit: लोके यः सर्वभूतेभ्यो ददात्यभयदक्षिणाम्। स सर्वयज्ञैरीजानः प्राप्नोत्यभयदक्षिणाम्॥
English: That person who declares to all creatures the assurance of harmlessness acquires the merit of all the sacrifices and at last acquires fearlessness for himself as his meed.
Sanskrit: न भूतानामहिंसाया ज्यायान् धर्मोऽस्ति कश्चन। यस्मानोद्विजते भूतं जातु किंचित् कथंचन। सोऽभयं सर्वभूतेभ्यः सम्प्राप्नोति महामुने॥
English: There is no duty superior to the duty of not injuring other creatures. He whom, 0 great ascetic, no creature fears in the least, does not himself fear any creatures.
Sanskrit: यस्मादुद्विजते लोकः सर्पाद् वेश्मगतादिव। न स धर्ममवाप्नोति इहलोके परत्र च॥
English: He whom every body fears like a snake lying in ones bed-room, never acquires any merit in this world or in the next.
Sanskrit: सर्वभूतात्मभूतस्य सर्वभूतानि पश्यतः। देवाऽपि मार्गे मह्यन्ति अपदस्य पदैषिणः॥
English: The very celestials, in their search after it, become bewildered in the track of that person who rises above all states, the person, viz., who himself is the soul of all creatures and who considers all creatures as identical with his own self.
Sanskrit: दानं भूताभयस्याहुः सर्वदानेभ्य उत्तमम्। ब्रवीमि ते सत्यमिदं श्रद्दधस्व च जाजले॥
English: Of all gifts, the promise of harmlessness to all creatures in the greatest. I tell you truly, believe me, O Jajali.
Sanskrit: स एव सुभगो भूत्वा पुनर्भवति दुर्भगः। व्यापत्तिं कर्मणां दृष्ट्वा जुगुप्सन्ति जनाः सदा॥
English: One who performs acts at first acquires prosperity, but then he once more meets with adversity. Seeing the destruction of the merits of) acts, the wise do not speak highly of them.
Sanskrit: अकारणो हि नैवास्ति धर्मः सूक्ष्मो हि जाजले। भूतभव्यार्थमेवेह धर्मप्रवचनं कृतम्॥
English: There is no duty, O Jajali, that is not done by some motive (of happiness). Duty, however, is very subtile. Duties have been ordained in the Vedas for both Brahma and heaven.
Sanskrit: सूक्ष्मत्वान्न स विज्ञातुं शक्यते बहुनिह्नवः। उपलभ्यान्तरा चान्यानाचारानवबुध्यते॥
English: The subject of duties is full of secrets and mysteries. It is so subtile that one cannot understand it fully. Amongst various conflicting ordinances, some succeed in understanding duty by observing the acts of the good.