pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: न संत्यजन्त्यात्मकर्म यो न जीर्यति जीर्यतः। यो न पूरयितुं शक्यो लोभः प्राप्त्या कुरूद्वह॥
English: Like the ocean that can never be filled by the continued flow of even numberless rivers of immeasurable depths, covetousness is incapable of being conquered by any number of acquisitions.
Sanskrit: नित्यं गम्भीरतोयाभिरापगाभिरिवोदधिः। न प्रहृष्यति यो लाभैः कामैर्यश्च न तृष्यति॥ यों न देवैर्न गन्धर्नासुरैर्न महोरगैः। ज्ञायते नृप तत्त्वेन सर्वैर्भूतगणैस्तथा॥
English: That covetousness, however, which is never satisfied by acquisitions and satiated by the fulfilment of desires, that the real nature of which is not known to the gods, the Gandharvas, the Asuras, the great snakes, and, in fact, to all beings, that irresistible passion, together with that foolishness which draws the heart to the unrealities of the world, should always be conquered by a person of purified soul.
Sanskrit: स लोभः सह मोहेन विजेतव्यो जितात्मना। दम्भो द्रोहश्च निन्दा च पैशुन्यं मत्सरस्तथा॥
English: Pride, malice, slander, wiliness and incapacity to hear other people's good, are vices, O Kuru chief, that are to be seen in persons of impure soul under the influence of covetousness.
Sanskrit: भवन्त्येतानि कौरव्य लुब्धानामकृतात्मनाम्। सुमहान्त्यपि शास्त्राणि धारयन्ति बहुश्रुताः॥
English: Even highly learned men who recollect all the scriptures, and who are capable of removing the doubts of others, appear very weak in this matter and feel great misery for this passion.
Sanskrit: छेत्तारः संशयानां च क्लिश्यन्तीहाल्पबुद्धयः। द्वेषक्रोधप्रसक्ताश्च शिष्टाचारबहिष्कृताः॥ अन्तःक्रूरा वाङ्मधुराः कूपाश्छन्नास्तृणैरिवा
English: Covetous men are swayed by malice and spite. They are beyond the range of good conduct. Wily as they are in their hearts, their speeches are sweet. They are like dark pits whose mouths are covered with grass.
Sanskrit: धर्मवैतं सिकाः क्षुद्रा मुष्णन्ति ध्वजिनो जगत्॥ कुर्वते च बहून् मार्गांस्तान् हेतुबलमाश्रिताः। सतां मार्गान् विलुम्पन्ति लोभाज्ञानेषु निष्ठिताः॥
English: They dress themselves in the hypocritical garb of religion, Low minded as they are, they rob the world, showing the standard of religion and virtue. Depending upon the strength of palpable reasons, they create various divisions in religion. Being anxious to serve cupidity, they destroy the ways of righteousness.
Sanskrit: धर्मस्य ह्रियमाणस्य लोभग्रस्तैर्दुरात्मभिः। या या विक्रियते संस्था ततः सापि प्रपद्यते॥
English: When wicked men under the influence of covetousness practise for the inere show of righteousness, the result is that the desecrations committed by them, soon become current among men.
Sanskrit: दर्पः क्रोधो मदः स्वप्नो हर्षः शोकोऽतिमानिता। एव एव हि कौरव्य दृश्यन्ते लुब्धबुद्धिषु॥
English: Pride, anger, arrogance, insensibility, fits of joy and sorrow, and self-conceit, all these, O descendant of Kuru, are to be seen in persons under the influence of covetousness.
Sanskrit: एतानशिष्टान् बुध्यस्व नित्यं लोभसमन्वितान्। शिष्टांस्तु परिपृच्छेथा यान् वक्ष्यामि शुचिव्रतान्॥
English: They who are always under the influence of covetousness are wicked. I shall now tell you of those about whom you ask,—those who are called good and whose practices are pure.
Sanskrit: येष्वावृत्तिभयं नास्ति परलोकभयं न च। नामिषेषु प्रसंगोऽस्ति न प्रियेष्वप्रियेषु च॥ शिष्टाचारः प्रियो येषु दमो येषु प्रतिष्ठितः। सुखं दुःखं समं येषां सत्यं येषां परायणम्॥ दातारो न ग्रहीतारो दयावन्तस्तथैव च। पितृदेवातिथेयाश्च नित्योधुक्तास्तथैव च॥ सर्वोपकारिणो वीराः सर्वधर्मानुपालकाः। सर्वभूतहिताश्चैव सर्वदेयाश्च भारत॥
English: They who fear no obligation of returning to this world (after death), they who have no fear of the next world, they who do not take animal food and who have no liking for what is agreeable and no dislike for what is otherwise, they to whom good conduct is always dear, they who practise self-restraint, they who consider pleasure and pain as same, they who have truth for their refuge, they who give but not take, they who have mercy, they who adore, Pitris, gods, and guests, they who are always ready to work (for the behoof of others), they who are universal benefactors, they who are endued with great courage (of mind), they who follow all the duties sanctioned by the scriptures, they who are devoted to the well-being of all, they who can give their all and sacrifice their very lives for others, are considered as good and virtuous, O Bharata.
Sanskrit: न ते चालयितुं शक्या धर्मव्यापारकारिणः। न तेषां भिद्यते वृत्तं यत्पुरा साधुभिः कृतम्॥
English: Those promoters of virtue cannot be seduced from the path of virtue. Their conduct, in imitation of that of virtuous men of yore, can never be otherwise.
Sanskrit: न त्रासिनो न चपला न रौद्राः सत्पथे स्थिताः। ते सेव्याः साधुभिर्नित्यं येष्वहिंसा प्रतिष्ठिता॥
English: They are perfectly fearless; they are tranquil; they are mild; and they always follow the right path. Full of mercy, they are always adored by the good.
Sanskrit: कामक्रोधव्यपेता ये निर्ममा निरहंकृताः। सुव्रताः स्थिरमर्यादास्तानुपास्व च पृच्छ च॥
English: They are free from lust and anger. They are not attached to any worldly object. They have no pride. They observe excellent vows. They always command respect. Do you, therefore, always attend them and seek instruction from them.
Sanskrit: न धनार्थं यशोऽर्थं वा धर्मस्तेषां युधिष्ठिर। अवश्यं कार्य इत्येव शरीरस्य क्रियास्तथा।॥
English: They never acquire virtue, O Yudhishthira, for the sake of riches or of fame. They acquire error it only, because they know it as a duty like that of supporting the body.
Sanskrit: न भयं क्रोधचापल्ये न शोकस्तेषु विद्यते। न धर्मध्वजिनश्चैव न गुह्यं कञ्चिदास्थिताः॥
English: Fear, anger, restlessness, and sorrow do not live in them. They carry no external garb of religion for misleading their fellow-men. They observe no mystery.
Sanskrit: येष्वलोभस्तथामोहो ये च सत्यार्जवे स्थिताः। तेषु कौन्तेय रज्येथा येषां न भ्रश्यते पुनः॥
English: They are perfectly contended. They have of judgement originating from covetousness. They always follow truth and sincerity. Their hearts never deviate from righteousness. You should always respect them, O son of Kunti!
Sanskrit: ये न हृष्यन्ति लाभेषु नालाभेषु व्यथन्ति च। निर्ममा निरहंकाराः सत्त्वस्थाः समदर्शिनः॥
English: They are never overjoyed at any acquisition or pained at any loss. Without being attached to anything, and shorn of pride, they are devoted to the quality of Goodness, and they regard all impartially.
Sanskrit: लाभालाभौ सुखदुःखे च तात प्रियाप्रिये मरणं जीवितं च। समानि येषां स्थिरविक्रमाणां बुभुत्सतां सत्त्वपथे स्थितानाम्॥
English: Gain and loss, happiness and misery, the agreeable and the disagreeable, life and death, are held in equal estimation by those men of firm mind, engaged in acquiring (divine) knowledge, and wending the path of tranquility and righteousness.
Sanskrit: धर्मप्रियांस्तान्सुमहानुभावान् दान्तोऽप्रमत्तश्च समर्चयेथाः। दैवान्सर्वे गुणवन्तो भवन्ति शुभाशुभे वाक्प्रलापास्तथान्ये॥
English: Keeping your senses under control and without yielding to carelessness, you should always adore those great persons who bear such love for virtue. O blessed one, one's words always yield good only through the favour of the gods. Under other circumstances, words beget evil consequence. words always yield good only through the favour of the gods. Under other circumstances, words beget evil consequence.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच अनर्थानामधिष्ठानमुक्तो लोभः पितामह। अज्ञानमपि वै तात श्रोतुमिच्छामि तत्त्वतः॥
English: Yudhishthira said You have said, O grandfather, that the root of all evils is covetousness. I wish, O sire, to licar fully of ignorance.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच करोति पापं योऽज्ञानानात्मनो वेत्ति च क्षयम्। प्रद्वेष्टि साधुवृत्तांश्च स लोकस्यैति वाच्यताम्॥
English: Bhishma said The person who commits sin out of ignorance, who does not know that his end is near, and who always hates persons of good conduct, soon incurs infamy in the world.
Sanskrit: अज्ञानान्निरयं याति तथाज्ञानेन दुर्गतिम्। अज्ञानात् क्लेशमाप्नोति तथापत्सु निमज्जति॥
English: In consequence of ignorance one goes to hell. Ignorance one suffers miseries and incurs great danger.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच अज्ञानस्य प्रवृत्तिं च स्थानं वृद्धिक्षयोदयौ। मूलं योगं गतिं कालं कारणं हेतुमेव च॥ श्रोतुमिच्छामि तत्त्वेन यथावदिह पार्थिव। अज्ञानप्रसवं हीदं यद् दुःखमुपलभ्यते॥
English: Yudhishthira said I wish, O king, to hear fully the origin, the place, the growth, the decay, the rise, the root, the attribute, the course, the time, the cause, and the result of ignorance. The misery that is felt here is the outcome of ignorance.
Sanskrit: रागो द्वेषस्तथा मोहो हर्षः शोकोऽभिमानिता। कामः क्रोधश्च दर्पश्च तन्द्री चालस्यमेव च॥ इच्छा द्वेषस्तथा तापः परवृद्ध्युपतापिता। अज्ञानमेतन्निर्दिष्टं पापानां चैव याः क्रियाः॥
English: Bhishma said Attachment, hate, loss of judgement, joy, sorrow, vanity, lust, anger, pride, procrastination, idleness, desire, aversion, jealousy, envy, and all other sinful habits pass by the common name of ignorance.
Sanskrit: एतस्य वा प्रवृत्तेश्च वृद्ध्यादीन्यांश्च पृच्छसि। विस्तरेण महाराज शृणु तच्च विशेषतः॥
English: Hear fully now, O king, about its nature, growth and other characteristics after which you enquire.
Sanskrit: उभावेतौ समफलौ समदोषौ च भारत। अज्ञानं चातिलोभश्चाप्येकं जानीहि पार्थिव॥
English: These two, viz., ignorance and covetousness, know, O king, are the same. Both produce the same fruits and same faults, O Bharata.
Sanskrit: लोभप्रभवमज्ञानं वृद्धं भूयः प्रवर्धते। स्थाने स्थानं क्षये क्षैण्यमुपैति विविधां गतिम्॥
English: Ignorance originates from covetousness. Ignorance grows along with coveteousness. Ignorance exists simultaneously with covetousness. Ignorance decreases with covetousness. It rises with the rise of covetousness. Manifold again is its course.
Sanskrit: मूलं लोभस्य मोहो वै कालात्मगतिरेव च। छिन्ने भिन्ने तथा लोभे कारणं काल एव च॥ तस्याज्ञानाद्धि लोभो हि लोभादज्ञानमेव च। सर्वदोषास्तथा लोभात् तस्माल्लोभंविवर्जयेत्॥
English: The root of covetousness is loss of judgement. Loss of judgement, again, is its inseparable quality. Eternity is ignorance's course. The time when ignorance occurs is when the objects of covetousness are not gained.
Sanskrit: जनको युवनाश्वच वृषादर्भिः प्रसेनजित्। लोभक्षयाद् दिवं प्राप्तास्तथैवान्ये नराधिपाः॥
English: From ignorance proceeds covetousness, and from the latter proceeds ignorance. Covetousness produces all faults. For these reasons every one should avoid covetousness. Janaka, Yuvanashva, Vrishadarbhi, Prasenajit, and other kings acquired heaven for their having conquered covetousness.
Sanskrit: प्रत्यक्षं तु कुरुश्रेष्ठ त्यज लोभमिहात्मना। त्यक्त्वा लोभं सुखं लोके प्रेत्य चानुचरिष्यसि॥
English: Do you before all persons, avoid covetousness by a strong determination, O Kuru chief. Avoiding covetousness you will acquire happiness both here and in the next world.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच स्वाध्याये कृतयत्नस्य नरस्य च पितामह। धर्मकामस्य धर्मात्मन् किं नु श्रेय इहोच्यते॥
English: Yudhishthira said O grandfather, O you of virtuous soul, what, indeed, yields great merit for a person assiduously engaged in the study of the Vedas and desirous of gaining virtue.
Sanskrit: बहुधा दर्शने लोके श्रेयो यदिह मन्यसे। अस्मिल्लोके परे चैव तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह॥
English: That which yields in this world high merit is of various kinds as described in the scriptures. Tell me, O grandfather, about what is regarded as such both in this world and in the next.
Sanskrit: महानयं धर्मपथो बहुशाखश्च भारत। किंस्विदेवेह धर्माणामनुष्ठेयतमं मतम्॥
English: The path of duty is long and has numberless branches, O Bharata. Amongst those duties what are those few which should, in your opinion, be observed in preference to all others?
Sanskrit: धर्मस्यो महतो राजन् बहुशाखस्य तत्त्वतः। यन्मूलं परमं तात तत् सर्वं ब्रूह्यशेषतः॥
English: Tell me, O king, fully about that which is so vast and which has so many branches.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच हन्त ते कथयिष्यामि येन श्रेयो ह्यवाप्स्यसि। पीत्वामृतमिव प्राज्ञो ज्ञानतृप्तो भविष्यसि॥
English: Bhishma said I shall describe to you that by which you may acquire high merit. Wise as you are, you will be satisfied with the knowledge I will impart to you, like a person gratified with having drunk ambrosia.
Sanskrit: धर्मस्य विधयो नैके ये वै प्रोक्ता महर्षिभिः। स्वं स्वं विज्ञानमाश्रित्य दमस्तेषां परायणम्॥
English: The rules of duty described by the great Rishis, each depending upon his own wisdom, are many. The highest among them all is selfcontrol.
Sanskrit: दमं निःश्रेयसं प्राहुर्वृद्धा निश्चितदर्शिनः। ब्राह्मणस्य विशेषेण दमो धर्मः सनातनः॥
English: Those amongst the ancient Rishis that were acquainted with truth said that self-control, leads to the highest merit. Self-control is the eternal duty of the Brahmanas especially.
Sanskrit: दमात् तस्य क्रियासिद्धिर्यथावदुपलभ्यते। दमो दानं तथा यज्ञानधीतं चातिवर्तते॥
English: It is from self-control that he acquires the due fruition of his acts. Self-control of surpasses (in merit) charity and sacrifice and study of the Vedas.
Sanskrit: दमस्तेजो वर्धयति पवित्रं च दम: परम्। विपाप्मा तेजसा युक्तः पुरुषो विन्दते महत्॥
English: Self-control increases (his) energy. Selfcontrol is highly sacred. Through self-control a man becomes purified of all his sins and gifted with energy, and therefore, acquires the highest blessedness.
Sanskrit: दमेन सदृशं धर्मं नान्यं लोकेषु शुश्रुम। दमो हि परमो लोके प्रशस्तः सर्वधर्मिणाम्॥
English: We have not heard that there is any other duty in all the worlds equal to self-control. Self-control, according to all virtuous persons, is the highest virtues in this world.
Sanskrit: प्रेत्य चात्र मनुष्येन्द्र परमं विन्दते सुखम्। दमेन हि समायुक्तो महान्तं धर्ममश्नुते॥
English: Through self-control, O foremost of men, a person enjoys the highest happiness both in this world and in the next. Gifted with self-control, one wins great virtue.
Sanskrit: सुखं दान्तः प्रस्वपिति सुखं च प्रतिबुध्यते। सुखं पर्येति लोकांश्च मनश्चास्य प्रसीदति॥
English: The self-controlled man sleeps in happiness and awakes in happiness, and moves through the world in happiness. His mind is always cheerful.
Sanskrit: अदान्तः पुरुषः क्लेशमभीक्ष्णं प्रतिपद्यते। अनर्थांश्च बहूनन्यान् प्रसृजत्यात्मदोषजान्॥
English: The man who is without self-control always suffers misery. Such a man brings upon himself many calamities all begotten by his own faults.
Sanskrit: आश्रमेषु चतुर्बाहुर्दममेवोत्तमं व्रतम्। तस्य लिङ्गानि वक्ष्यामि येषां समुदयो दमः॥
English: It has been said that in all the four modes of life self-control is the best of vows. I shall now describe to you the characteristic marks the sum-total of which is called self-control.
Sanskrit: क्षमा धृतिरहिंसा च समता सत्यमार्जवम्। इन्द्रियाभिजयो दाक्ष्यं मार्दवं ह्रीरचापलम्॥ अकार्पण्यमसंरम्भः संतोषः प्रियवादिता। अविहिंसानसूया चाप्येषां समुदयो दमः॥
English: Forgiveness, patience, abstention from injury, impartiality, truth, sincerity, control of the senses, cleverness, mildness, modesty, firmness, liberality, freedom from anger, contentment, sweetness of words, benevolence, freedom from malice, all these combined make up self-control.
Sanskrit: गुरुपूजा च कौरव्य दया भूतेष्वपैशुनम्। जनवादं मृषावादं स्तुतिनिन्दाविसर्जनम्॥ कामं क्रोधं च लोभं च दर्प स्तम्भं विकत्थनम्। रोषमीया॑वमानं च नैव दान्तो निषेवते॥
English: It also consists, O son of Kuru, of respect for the preceptor and mercy for all. The selfcontrolled man avoids both adulation and slander. Depravity, infamy, falsehood, lust, covetousness, pride, arrogance, self-edification, fear, envy, and disrespect, are all shunned by the self-controlled man.
Sanskrit: अनिन्दितो ह्यकामात्मा नाल्पेष्वर्थ्यनसूयकः। समुद्रकल्पः स नरो न कथंचन पूर्यते॥
English: He never incurs obloquy. He is free from envy. He is never satisfied with trivial acquisitions. He is like the ocean which can never be filled.
Sanskrit: अहं त्वयि मयि त्वं च मयि ते तेषु चाप्यहम्। पूर्वसम्बन्धिसंयोग नैतद् दान्तो निषेवते॥
English: The self-controlled man is never fettered by the attachments originating from earthly connections and sentiments like these,-'I am yours, You are yours. They are in me, and I am in them.
Sanskrit: सर्वा ग्राम्यास्तथाऽऽरण्या याश्च लोके प्रवृत्तयः। निन्दां चैव प्रशंसां च यो नाश्रयति मुच्यते॥
English: Such a man who follows the practices of either cities or the woods, and who never vilifies others nor indulges in adulation, acquires liberation.
Sanskrit: मैत्रोऽथ शीलसम्पन्नः प्रसन्नात्माऽऽत्मविच्च यः। मुक्तस्य विविधैः सङ्गैस्तस्य प्रेत्य फलं महत्॥
English: Practising universal friendliness, and virtuous conduct, and possessed of cheerful spirit and psychic knowledge, and freed from the various attachments of the Earth, a person acquires great reward in the next world.
Sanskrit: सुवृत्तः शीलसम्पन्नः प्रसन्नात्माऽऽत्मविद् बुधः। प्राप्येह लोके सत्कारं सुगति प्रतिपद्यते॥
English: Of excellent behaviour and observant of duties, cheerful and endued with learning and knowledge of self, such a man acquires esteem while in this world and attains to a high end hereafter.
Sanskrit: कर्म यच्छुभमेवेह सद्भिराचरितं च यत्। तदेव ज्ञानयुक्तस्य मुनेवर्त्म न हीयते॥
English: All acts that are considered as good on Earth,-all those acts that are practised by the righteous, form the path of the ascetic endued with knowledge. A person that is good never transgresses that path.
Sanskrit: निष्क्रम्य वनमास्थाय ज्ञानयुक्तो जितेन्द्रियः। कालाकाङ्क्षी चरत्येवं ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते॥
English: Retiring from the world, and living in the woods, that learned person, having a complete mastery over the senses who treads in that path, expecting his own demise, is sure to acquire the state of Brahma.
Sanskrit: अभयं यस्य भूतेभ्यो भूतानामभयं यतः। तस्य देहाद् विमुक्तस्य भयं नास्ति कुतश्चन॥
English: He who has no fear of any creature, and whom no creature fears, has, after, the dissolution of his body, no fear to meet.
Sanskrit: अवाचिनोति कर्माणि न च सम्प्रचिनोति ह। समः सर्वेषु भूतेषु मैत्रायणगतिश्चरेत्॥
English: He who exhausts his merits without trying to hoard them up, who considers all creatures equally and cherishes friendship for the entire universe, attains to Brahma.
Sanskrit: शकुनीनामिवाकाशे जले वारिचरस्य च। यथा गतिर्न दृश्येत तथा तस्य न संशयः॥
English: As the route of birds along the sky or of fowl over the surface of water cannot be made out, so the path of such a person (on Earth) does not attract notice.
Sanskrit: गृहानुत्सृज्य यो राजन् मोक्षमेवाभिपद्यते। लोकास्तेजोमयास्तस्य कल्पन्ते शाश्वतीः समाः॥
English: O king, many bright worlds await him for eternal enjoyment, who renouncing his domestic life, adopts the religious course of emancipation. acts,
Sanskrit: संन्यस्य सर्वकर्माणि संन्यस्य विधिवत्तपः। संन्यस्य विविधा विद्याः सर्वं संन्यस्य चैव ह॥ कामे शुचिरनावृत्तः प्रसन्नात्माऽऽत्मविच्छुचिः। प्राप्येह लोके सत्कारं स्वर्ग समभिपद्यते॥
English: If abandoning all abandoning penances in due time, leaving off the various branches of study, in fact, leaving off all things, one becomes pure in his desires, freed from all restraints, of cheerful soul, conversant with self, and of pure heart, he then acquires esteem in this world and at last attains to heaven.
Sanskrit: यच्च पैतामहं स्थानं ब्रह्मराशिसमुद्भवम्। गुहायां पिहितं नित्यं तद् दमेनाभिगम्यते॥
English: That eternal region of the grandfather which originates from Vedic penances, and which is concealed in a cave, can only be acquired by self-control.
Sanskrit: ज्ञानारामस्य बुद्धस्य सर्वभूताविरोधिनः। नावृत्तिभयमस्तीह परलोकभयं कुतः॥
English: He who finds pleasure in true knowledge, who has become enlightened, and who never injures any creature, has no fear of returning to this world, not to speak of any fear from the other.
Sanskrit: एक दव दमे दोषो द्वितीयो नोपपद्यते। यदेनं क्षमया युक्तमशक्तं मन्यते जनः॥
English: There is only one fault in self-control. No second fault is seen in it. A person who has self-control is considered by men as weak and imbecile.
Sanskrit: एकोऽस्य सुमहाप्राज्ञः दोषः स्यात् सुमहान् गुणः। क्षमया विपुला लोकाः सुलभा हि सहिष्णुता।॥
English: you of great wisdom, this attribute has only one defect. Its merits are many. By forgiveness, the man of self-control may easily acquire numberless worlds.
Sanskrit: दान्तस्य किमरण्येन तथाऽदान्तस्य भारत। यत्रैव निवसेद् दान्तस्तदरण्यं स चाश्रमः॥
English: Of what use is forest to a man of selfcontrol. Likewise, O Bharata, of what use is the forest to him that has no self-control? That is a forest where the man of self-control lives, and that is even a sacred asylum.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच एतद् भीष्मस्य वचनं श्रुत्वा राजा युधिष्ठिरः। अमृतेनेव संतृप्तः प्रहृष्टः समपद्यत॥
English: Hearing these words of Bhishina, Yudhishthira became highly pleased as if he had drunk nectar.
Sanskrit: पुनश्च परिपप्रच्छ भीष्मं धर्मभृतां वरम्। तपः प्रति स चोवाच तस्मै सर्वं कुरूद्वह॥
English: Again the king asked that foremost of virtuous men. That perpetuator of Kuru's race once more began to discourse cheerfully on the subject.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच सर्वमेतत् तपोमूलं कवयः परिचक्षते। न ह्यतप्ततपा मूढः क्रियाफलमवाप्नुते॥
English: Bhishma said They who arc endued with knowledge say that everything springs from penance. That foolish person who has not practised penances does not get the rewards of even his own acts.
Sanskrit: प्रजापतिरिदं सर्वं तपसैवासृजत् प्रभुः। तथैव वेदानृषयस्तपसा प्रतिपेदिरे॥
English: The powerful Creator created all this universe with the help of penances. In ihe same way, the Rishis won ihe Vedas by the power of penanccs.
Sanskrit: तपसैव ससर्जानं फलमूलानि यानि च। त्रील्लोकांस्तपसा सिद्धाः पश्यन्ति सुसमाहिताः॥
English: It was by the help of penances that the Grandfather created food, fruits and roots. It is one by penances that ascetics behold the three worlds, with enraptured souls.
Sanskrit: औषधान्यगदादीनि क्रियाश्च विविधास्तथा। तपसैव हि सिद्ध्यन्ति तपोमूलं हि साधनम्॥
English: Medicines and all antidotes to poisonous articles, and the various acts (seen here), produce their intended results through the help of penance. The fulfilment of all purposes depends upon penance.
Sanskrit: यद् दुरापं भवेत् किंचित् तत्सर्वं तपसो भवेत्। ऐश्वर्यमृषयः प्राप्तास्तपसैव न संशयः॥
English: Whatever things there are which seem to be unattainable are sure to be acquired by penance. forsooth, the Rishis acquired their sixfold divine attributes through penance.
Sanskrit: सुरापोऽसम्मतादायी भ्रूणहा गुरुतल्पगः। तपसैव सुतप्तेन नरः पापात् प्रमुच्यते॥
English: A person who takes intoxicating liquors, who appropriates others' properties without their consent, one guilty of foeticide, one who violates his preceptor's bed, are all purified by penance duly performed.
Sanskrit: तपसो बहुरूपस्य तैस्तैारैः प्रवर्ततः। निवृत्या वर्तमानस्य तपो नानशनात् परम्॥
English: Penances manifold. They throw themselves through various channels. Of all sorts of penance, however, that one may practise after abstaining from pleasure and enjoyment, abstention from food is the greatest and best.
Sanskrit: अहिंसा सत्यवचनं दानमिन्द्रियनिग्रहः। एतेभ्यो हि महाराज तपो नानशनात् परम्॥
English: The penance of abstention from food is superior, O king, even to mercy, truthfulness, gifts, and restraint of senses.
Sanskrit: न दुष्करतरं दानान्नातिमातरमाश्रयः। विद्यभ्यः परं नास्ति संन्यासः परमं तपः॥
English: There is not act more hard to perform than gift. There is no mode of life which is superior to serving one's mother. There is no creature are superior to those who are conversant with the three Vedas. Likewise, Renunciation is the highest penance.
Sanskrit: इन्द्रियाणीह रक्षन्ति स्वर्गधर्माभिगुप्तये। तस्मादर्थे च धर्मे च तपो नानशनात् परम्॥
English: People restrain their senses for taking care of their virtue and heaven. There is no penance higher than abstention from food in control over the senses as also in the acquisition of virtue.
Sanskrit: ऋषयः पितरो देवा मनुष्या मृगपक्षिणः। यानि चान्यानि भूतानि स्थावराणि चराणि च॥ तपः परायणाः सर्वे सिद्ध्यन्ति तपसा च ते। इत्येवं तपसा देवा महत्त्वं प्रतिपेदिरे॥
English: The Rishis, the gods, human beings, beasts, birds, and all other creatures, mobile or immobile, practise penances, and whatever success they acquire is won through penance. It was through penance that the gods acquired their superiority.
Sanskrit: इमानीष्टविभागानि फलानि तपसः सदा। तपसा शक्यते प्राप्तुं देवत्वमपि निश्चयात्॥
English: The luminous bodies in the sky have got their position through penance. Forsooth, through penance the very status of godhead may be gained.