pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: पक्वविद्या महाप्राज्ञा जितक्रोधा जितेन्द्रियाः। मनसा कर्मणा वाचा नापराध्यन्ति कर्हिचित्॥
English: Of mature knowledge, of great wisdom, with anger under complete control, and with their passions subjugated, they never commit an injury to any one in thought, word, or deed.
Sanskrit: अनीर्षवो न चान्योन्यं विहिंसन्ति कदाचन। न च जातूपतप्यन्ते धीराः परसमृद्धिभिः॥
English: Shorn of envy, they never injure others, and gifted with self-control, ihey are never pained on seeing other people's prosperity.
Sanskrit: निन्दाप्रशंसे चात्यर्थं न वदन्ति परस्य ये। न च निन्दाप्रशंसाभ्यां विक्रियन्ते कदाचन॥
English: Such men never indulge in exaggerated speeches, or laud others, or speak ill of them. They are again never influenced by praise and censure showered on them.
Sanskrit: सर्वतश्च प्रशान्ता ये सर्वभूतहिते रताः। न क्रुद्ध्यन्ति न हृष्यन्ति नापराध्यन्ति कर्हिचित्॥
English: They are tranquil regarding all their desires, and are engaged in the well being of the creatures. They never give way to anger to indulge in joy, or injure any creature.
Sanskrit: विमुच्य हृदयग्रन्थिं चक्रमन्ति यथासुखम्। न येषां बान्धवाः सन्ति ये चान्येषां न बान्धवाः॥
English: Loosening all the knots of their hearts, they pass on very happily. They have no friends nor are they the friends of others.
Sanskrit: अमित्राश्च न सन्त्येषां ये चामित्रा न कस्यचित्। य एवं कुर्वते माः सुखं जीवन्ति सर्वदा॥
English: They have no enemies nor are they the enemies of other creatures. Indeed men who can live in this way can pass their days in perpetual happiness.
Sanskrit: ये धर्म चानुरुद्ध्यन्ते धर्मज्ञा द्विजसत्तम। ये ह्यतो विच्युता मार्गात् ते हृष्यन्त्युद्विजन्ति च॥
English: O foremost of twice-born ones, they who acquire a knowledge of the rules of morality and righteousness, and who observe those rules in practice, acquire joy, while they who deviate from the path or righteousness are afflicted by anxieties and sorrow.
Sanskrit: आस्थितस्तमहं मार्गमसूयिष्यामि कं कथम्। निन्द्यमानः प्रशस्तो वा हृष्येऽहं केन हेतुना॥
English: I now follow the path of righteousness. Decried by others, why shall I be annoyed with them, or lauded by others, why shall I be pleased?
Sanskrit: यद् यदिच्छन्ति तत् तस्मादपि गच्छन्तु मानवाः। न मे निन्दाप्रशंसाभ्यां ह्रासवृद्धी भविष्यतः॥
English: Let men get whatsoever objects they please from whatsoever callings they pursue. Praise and censure cannot secure my advancement or the reverse.
Sanskrit: अमृतस्येव संतृप्येदवमानस्य तत्त्ववित्। विषस्येवोद्विजेन्नित्यं सम्मानस्य विचक्षणः॥
English: He who has understood the truths of things, becomes pleased with even disregard as if it were nectar. The wise man is indeed annoyed with regard as if it were poison.
Sanskrit: अवज्ञातः सुखं शेते इह चामुत्र चाभयम्। विमुक्तः सर्वदोषेभ्यो योऽवमन्ता स बध्यते॥
English: He who is freed from all shortcomings sleeps fearlessly both here and hereafter even if insulted by others, On the other hand, he who insults him, meets with destruction.
Sanskrit: परां गतिं च ये केचित् प्रार्थयन्ति मनीषिणः। एतद् व्रतं समाश्रित्य सुखमेधन्ति ते जनाः॥
English: The wise men who seek to attain to the highest end, succeed in obtaining it following such a conduct.
Sanskrit: सर्वतश्च समाहृत्य ऋतून् सर्वान् जितेन्द्रियः। प्राप्नोति ब्रह्मणः स्थानं यत्परं प्रकृतेर्बुवम्॥
English: The man who has controlled all his senses is considered to have performed all the sacrifices. Such a person attains to Brahma, which is eternal and which is above the reach of nature.
Sanskrit: नास्य देवा न गन्धर्वा न पिशाचा न राक्षसाः। पदमन्ववरोहन्ति प्राप्तस्य परमां गतिम्॥
English: The very gods, the Gandharvas, the Pishachas, and the Rakshasas, cannot attain to the end of one who has attained to the hightest end.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच प्रियः सर्वस्य लोकस्य सर्वसत्त्वाभिनन्दिता। गुणैः सर्वैरुपेतश्च को न्वस्ति भुवि मानवः॥
English: Yudhishthira said What man is there who is dear to all, who pleases all persons, and who is gifted with every merit and every accomplishment?
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच अत्र ते वर्तयिष्यामि पृच्छतो भरतर्षभ। उग्रसेनस्य संवादं नारदे केशवस्य च॥
English: Bhishma said About it I shall recite to you the words that Keshava, asked by Ugrasena, said to him on a former occasion.
Sanskrit: उग्रसेन उवाच यस्य संकल्पते लोको नारदस्य प्रकीर्तने। मन्ये स गुणसम्पन्नो ब्रूहि तन्मम पृच्छतः॥
English: Ugrasena said All persons seem to be auxious to describe of the merits of Narada. I think that celestial Rishi must really be endued with every sort of merit. I ask you tell me this, O Keshava.
Sanskrit: वासुदेव उवाच कुकुराधिप यान् मन्ये शृणु तान् मे विवक्षतः। नारदस्य गुणान् साधून् संक्षेपेण नराधिप॥
English: Vasudeva said O chief of the Kukuras, listen to me as I describe shortly those good qualities of Narada which I know, I king! Narada is as well-read in the scriptures as he is good and pious in his conduct
Sanskrit: न चारित्रनिमित्तोऽस्याहंकारो देहतापनः। अभिन्नश्रुतचारित्रस्तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजितः॥
English: And yet, he is not proud of his conduct, which makes one's blood so hot. It is for this that he is adored everywhere.
Sanskrit: अरतिः क्रोधचापल्ये भयं नैतानि नारदे। अदीर्घसूत्रः शूरश्च तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजितः॥
English: Discontent, anger, levity, and fear, do not exist in Narada. He is free from procrastination, and endued with courage. For this he is adored everywhere.
Sanskrit: उपास्यो नारदो बाढं वाचि नास्य व्यतिक्रमः कामतो यदि वा लोभात् तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजितः॥
English: Narada deserves the respectful adorations of all. He never retracts his words through desire of cupidity. For this he is adored everywhere.
Sanskrit: अध्यात्मविधितत्त्वज्ञः क्षान्तः शक्तोजितेन्द्रियः। ऋजुश्च सत्यवादी च तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजितः॥
English: He is fully conversant with the knowledge of the soul, bent on peace, endued with great energy, and a master of his senses. He is free from guile, and truthful in words. For this he is adored with respect everywhere.
Sanskrit: तेजसा यशसा बुद्ध्या ज्ञानेन विनयेन च। जन्मना तपसा वृद्धस्तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजितः॥
English: He is distinguished by energy, fame, intelligence, knowledge, humility, birth, by penances, and years. For these he is everywhere adored with respect.
Sanskrit: सुशीलः सुखसंवेशः सुभोजः स्वादरः शुचिः। सुवाक्यश्चाप्यनीर्घ्यश्च तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजितः॥
English: He is of good conduct. He dresses and houses himself well. He cats pure food. He loves all. He is pure in body and mind. He is sweet-speeched. He is free from envy and malice. For this he is adored everywhere with respect.
Sanskrit: कल्याणं कुरुते बाढं पापमस्मिन्न विद्यते। न प्रीयते परानर्थस्तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजितः॥
English: He is, forsooth, always employed in doing good to all people. No sin is in him. He never rejoices at other people's misfortunes. For this he is adored everywhere with respect.
Sanskrit: वेदश्रुतिभिराख्यानैरानभिजिगीषति। तितिक्षुरनवज्ञाता तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजितः॥
English: He always tries to conquer all earthly desires by listening to Vedic recitations and attending to the Puranas. He is a great renouncer and he never disrespects any one. For this he is adored everywhere with respect.
Sanskrit: समत्वाच्च प्रियो नास्ति नाप्रियश्च कथंचन। मनोऽनुकूलवादी च तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजितः॥ बहुश्रुतश्चित्रकथः पण्डितोऽलालसोऽशठः। अदीनोऽक्रोधनोऽलुब्धस्तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजितः॥
English: He is endued with great learning in the scriptures. His conversation is varied and charming. His knowledge and wisdom are great. He is free from cupidity. He is free also from deception. He is large-hearted. He has conquered anger and cupidity. For this he is adored everywhere with respect.
Sanskrit: नार्थे धने वा कामे वा भूतपूर्वोऽस्य विग्रहः। दोषाश्चास्य समुच्छिन्नास्तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजितः॥ दृढभक्तिरनिन्दात्मा श्रुतवाननृशंसवान्।
English: His devotion (to Brahma) is firm. His soul is blameless. He is well-versed in the Shrutis. He is free from cruelty. He is above the influence of delusion or faults. For this he is adored everywhere with respect.
Sanskrit: वीतसम्मोहदोषश्च तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजितः॥ असक्तः सर्वभूतेषु सक्तात्मेव च लक्ष्यते। अदी संशयो वाग्मी तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजितः॥
English: He is unattached to all objects of attachment (for others). For all that he seems to be attached to all things. He does not suffer long from the influence of any doubt. For this he is everywhere adored with respect.
Sanskrit: समाधिर्नास्य कामार्थे नात्मानं स्तौति कर्हिचित्। अनीर्घHदुसंवादस्तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजितः॥
English: He has no longing for objects of profit and pleasure. He never speaks highly of his own self. He is shorn of malice. He is mild in speech. Therefore he is everywhere adored with respect.
Sanskrit: लोकस्य विविधं चित्तं प्रेक्षते चाप्यकुत्सयन्। संसर्गविद्याकुशलस्तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजितः॥
English: He sees the hearts, different from one another, of all men, without blaming any of them. He is well-versed in all matters relating to the origin of things.
Sanskrit: नासूयत्यागमं कंचित् स्वनयेनोपजीवति। अवन्ध्यकालो वश्यात्मा तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजितः॥
English: He never disregards or hates any kind of sense. He lives according to his own standard of morality. He never passes time idly. He has controlled his soul. Therefore he is everywhere adored with respect.
Sanskrit: कृतश्रमः कृतप्रज्ञो न च तृप्तः समाधितः। नित्ययुक्तोऽप्रमत्तश्च तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजितः॥
English: He has worked hard in subjects worthy of hard application. He has acquired knowledge and wisdom. He is never satiate with yoga. He is always attentive and ready for work. He is ever careful. For this he is everywhere adored with respect.
Sanskrit: नापत्रपश्च युक्तश्च नियुक्तः श्रेयसे परैः। अभेत्ता परगुह्यानां तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजितः॥
English: He does not feel shame for any deficiency of his. He is very attentive. He is always engaged by others for doing what is for their behoof. He never divulges the secrets of others. For this he is everywhere adored with respect.
Sanskrit: न हृष्यत्यर्थलाभेषु नालाभे तु व्यथत्यपि। स्थिरबुद्धिरसक्तात्मा तस्मात् सर्वत्र पूजितः॥
English: He is never puffed up with joy at the time of making even valuable acquisitions. He is never pained at losses. His understanding is firm and fixed. His mind is unattached to all things. Therefore he is everywhere adored with respect.
Sanskrit: तं सर्वगुणसम्पन्नं दक्षं शुचिमनामयम्। कालज्ञं च प्रियज्ञं च कः प्रियं न करिष्यति॥
English: Who, indeed, is there who will not love him who is thus endued with every merit and accomplishment, who is expert in all things, who is pure in body and mind, who is perfectly auspicious, who is well-versed with the course of time and the opportuneness it affords for particular acts, and who is well-acquainted with all agreeable things?
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच आद्यन्तं सर्वभूतानां ज्ञातुमिच्छामि कौरव। ध्यानं कर्म च कालं च तथैवायुर्युगे युगे॥
English: I wish, O Kuru hero, to know what origin and what the end is of all creatures; what the nature of their meditation is and what their acts; what the divisions of time are, and what is the spare of human existence in the respective cycles.
Sanskrit: लोकतत्त्वं च कात्स्येंन भूतानामागतिं गतिम्। सर्गश्च निधनं चैव कुत एतत् प्रवर्तते॥
English: I wish also to know fully the truth about the genesis and the conduct of the world; the you. coming of creatures into the world and their exit. Indeed; whence their creation and destruction?
Sanskrit: यदि तेऽनुग्रहे बुद्धिरस्मास्विह सतां वर। एतद्भवन्तं पृच्छामि तद् भवान् प्रब्रवीतु मे॥
English: O best of virtuous persons, if you wish to favour us, do tell this about which I ask
Sanskrit: पूर्वं हि कथितं श्रुत्वा भृगुभाषितमुत्तमम्। भरद्वाजस्य विप्रर्षस्ततो मे बुद्धिरुत्तमा॥ जाता परमधर्मिष्ठा दिव्यसंस्थानसंस्थिता। ततो भूयस्तु पृच्छामि तद् भवान् वक्तुमर्हति॥
English: Having heard before this the excellent discourse of Bhrigu to the twice-born sage Bharadvaja, which you did recite, my understanding, shorn of ignorance, has become greatly attached to yoga, and withdrawn from worldly objects rests upon heavenly purity. I ask you about the subject, therefore, once more. You should describe it to me fully.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच अत्र ते वर्तयिष्येऽहमितिहासं पुरातनम्। जगौ यद् भगवान् व्यासः पुत्राय परिपृच्छते॥
English: Bhishma said Regarding it I shall recite to you an old narrative of what the divine Vyasa said to his son Shuka when the latter had asked the former.
Sanskrit: अधीत्य वेदानखिलान् साङ्गोपनिषदस्तथा। अन्विच्छन्नैष्ठिकं कर्म धर्मनैपुणदर्शनात्॥ कृष्णद्वैपायनं व्यासं पुत्रो वैयासकिः शुकः। पप्रच्छ संदेहमिमं छिन्नधर्मार्थसंशयम्॥
English: Having studied the measureless Vedas with all their branches and the Upanishads, and desirous of leading a life of celibacy on account of his having acquired excellence of religious merit, Shuka put these very questions, about which his doubts had not been removed, to his father Dvipayana, who had removed (by study and contemplation) all doubt regarding true duties.
Sanskrit: श्रीशुक उवाच भूतग्रामस्य कर्तारं कालज्ञाने च निश्चयम्। ब्राह्मणस्य च यत् कृत्यं तद् भवान् वक्तुमर्हति॥
English: Shuka said You should tell me who the Creator is of all beings, as fixed by a knowledge of time, and what the duties are of a Brahmana!
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच तस्मै प्रोवाच तत् सर्वं पिता पुत्राय पृच्छते। अतीतानागते विद्वान् सर्वज्ञः सर्वधर्मवित्॥
English: Bhishma said The father, having a knowledge of both the past and the future, conversant with all duties and gifted with omniscience, thus described the subject to his son, who had questioned him.
Sanskrit: व्यास उवाच अनाद्यन्तमजं दिव्यमजरं ध्रुवमव्ययम्। अप्रतर्व्यमविज्ञेयं ब्रह्माने सम्प्रवर्तते॥
English: Vyasa said Only Brahma, who is without beginning without end, unborn, effulgent, above decay, immutable, indestructible, inconceivable and transcending knowledge, exists before the Creation.
Sanskrit: काष्ठा निमेषा दश पञ्च चैव त्रिंशत्तु काष्ठा गणयेत् कलां ताम्। त्रिंशत्कलश्चापि भवेन्मुहूर्ता भागः कलाया दशमश्च यः स्यात्॥ त्रिंशन्मुहूर्तं तु भवेदहश्च रात्रिश्च संख्या मुनिभिः प्रणीता। मासः स्मृतो रात्र्यहनी च त्रिंशत् संवत्सरो द्वादशमास उक्तः॥ संवत्सरं द्वे त्वयने वदन्ति संख्याविदो दक्षिणमुत्तरं च॥
English: The Rishis, measuring time, have given particular names to particular portions. Five and ten winks of the eye make what is called a Kashtha: Thirty Kashthas make what is called a Kala. Thirty Kalas, with the tenth part of a Kala, make a Muhurta. Thirty Muhurtas make up one day and night. Thirty days and nights form a month, and twelve months form a year. Persons well-read in mathematical science say that a year is made up of two solar motions. viz., the northern and the southern.
Sanskrit: अहोरात्रे विभजते सूर्यो मानुषलौकिके। रात्रिः स्वमाय भूतानां चेष्टायै कर्मणामहः॥
English: The sun makes the day and the night for men. The night is for the sleep of all living creatures, and the day is for work.
Sanskrit: पित्र्ये रात्र्यहनी मास: प्रविभागस्तयोः पुनः। शुक्लोऽहं कर्मचेष्टायां कृष्णः स्वप्नाय शर्वरी॥
English: A month of human beings is equal to a day and night of the departed manes. That division consists in this: the light half of the month is their day which is for work; and the dark fortnight is their night for sleep.
Sanskrit: दैवे रात्र्यहनी वर्ष प्रविभागस्तयोः पुनः। अहस्तत्रोदगयनं रात्रिः स्याद् दक्षिणायनम्॥
English: A year (of men) is equal to a day and night to the gods. This division consists in this: the half year for which the sun travels from the vernal to the autumnal equinox is the day of the gods, and the half year for which the sun moves from the latter to the former is their night.
Sanskrit: ये ते रात्र्यहनी पूर्व कीर्तिते जीवलौकिके। तयोः संख्याय वर्षाग्रं ब्राह्मे वक्ष्याम्यहःक्षपे॥
English: Calculating by the days and nights of human beings about which I have told you, I shall speak of the day and night of Brahman and his years also.
Sanskrit: पृथक् संवत्सराग्राणि प्रवक्ष्याम्यनुपूर्वशः। कृते त्रेतायुगे चैव द्वापरे च कलौ तथा॥
English: I shall, in their order, tell you the number of years, that are for different purposes calculated differently, in the Krita, the Treta, the Dvapara, and the Kali Yugas.
Sanskrit: चत्वार्याहुः सहस्राणि वर्षाणां तत्कृतं युगम्। तस्य तावच्छती संध्या संध्यांशश्च तथाविधः॥
English: Four thousand celestial years is the duration of the first or Krita age. The morning of that cycle consists of four hundred years and its evening is of four hundred years.
Sanskrit: इतरेषु ससंध्येषु संध्यांशेषु ततस्त्रिषु। एकपादेन हीयन्ते सहस्राणि शतानि च॥
English: Regarding the other cycles, the duration of each gradually decreases by a quarter in respect of both the principal period with the minor portion and the conjoining portion itself.
Sanskrit: एतानि शाश्वताल्लोकान् धारयन्ति सनातनान्। एतद् ब्रह्मविदां तात विदितं ब्रह्म शाश्वतम्॥
English: These periods always keep up the neverending and eternal worlds. They who know Brahma, O child, regard this as Immutable Brahma.
Sanskrit: चतुष्पात् सकलो धर्मः सत्यं चैव कृते युगे। नाधर्मेणागमः कश्चित् परस्तस्य प्रवर्तते॥
English: In the Krita age all the duties exist in full, along with Truth. Men of that age never acquired knowledge or object through unrighteous or forbidden means.
Sanskrit: इतरेष्वागपाद् धर्मः पादशस्त्ववरोप्यते। चौर्यकानृतमायाभिरधर्मश्चोपचीयते॥
English: In the other cycles duty, as laid down in the Vedas, is seen to gradually decline by a quarter in each. Sinfulness multiplies by theft, untruth, and deception.
Sanskrit: अरोगाः सर्वसिद्धार्थाश्चतुर्वर्षशतायुषः। कृते त्रेतायुगे त्वेषां पादशो ह्रसते वयः॥
English: In the Krita age, all persons are free from disease and achieve their objects, and all live for four hundred years. In the Treta, the period of life decreases by a quarter.
Sanskrit: वेदवादाश्चानुयुगं ह्रसन्तीतीह नः श्रुतम्। आयूंषि चाशिषश्चैव वेदस्यैव च यत्फलम्॥
English: We have heard that, in the succeeding Yugas, the words of the Vedas, the periods of life, the blessings and the fruits of Vedic rites, all decrease gradually.
Sanskrit: अन्ये कृतयुगे धर्मास्त्रेतायां द्वापरेऽपरे। अन्ये कलियुगे नृणां युगह्रासानुरूपतः॥
English: The duties set down for the Krita Yuga are of one kind. Those for the Treta are otherwise. Those for the Dwapara are different. And those for the Kali are otherwise. This is in accordance with the decline which marks every succeeding cycle.
Sanskrit: तपः परं कृतयुगे त्रेतायां ज्ञानमुत्तमम्। द्वापरे यज्ञमेवाहुर्दानमेकं कलौ युगे।॥
English: In the Krita, Penance is the foremost. In the Treta, Knowledge is foremost. In Dvapara, Sacrifice has been said to be the foremost. In the Kali Yuga, only gift is sanctioned.
Sanskrit: एता द्वादशसाहस्री युगाख्यां कवयो विदुः। सहस्रपरिवर्तं तद् ब्राह्यं दिवसमुच्यते॥
English: The learned say that these twelve thousand celestial years from what is celled a cycle. A thousand such cycles form a single day of Brahman.
Sanskrit: रात्रिमेतावतीं चैव तदादौ विश्वमीश्वरः। प्रलये ध्यानमाविश्य सुप्त्वा सोऽन्ते विबुद्ध्यते॥
English: The same is the duration of Brahman's night. With the beginning of Brahman's day the universe begins to come into being. During the period of universal dissolution the Creator sleeps, in Yoga-meditation. When the period of sleep expires, He awakes.
Sanskrit: सहस्रयुगपर्यन्तमहर्यब्रह्मणो विदुः। रात्रिं युगसहस्रान्तां तेऽहोरात्रविदो जनाः॥
English: What is Brahman's day covers a thousand such cycles. His night also covers a thousand similar cycles. They who know this are said to know the day and the night.
Sanskrit: प्रतिबुद्धो विकुरुते ब्रह्माक्षय्यं क्षपाक्षये। सृजते च महद्भूतं तस्माद् व्यक्तात्मकं मनः॥
English: On the expiry of His night, Brahman, waking up modifies the indestructible intelligence by causing it to be overlaid with ignorance. He then causes Consciousness to spring up, whence originates Mind which is at one with the Manifest.
Sanskrit: व्यास उवाच प्रत्याहारं तु वक्ष्यामि शर्वर्यादौ गतेऽहनि। यथेदं कुरुतेऽध्यात्म सुसूक्ष्मं विश्वमीश्वरः॥
English: Vyasa said I shall now tell you how, when his day is gone and his night comes, he withdraws ali things to himself, or how the Supreme Master, making this gross universe exceedingly subtile, inerges every thing into his Soul.
Sanskrit: दिवि सूर्यस्तथा सप्त दहन्ति शिखिनोऽर्चिषः। सर्वमेतत् तदार्चिभिः पूर्ण जाज्वल्यते जगत्॥
English: When the time for universal dissolution comes twelve Suns, and Agni with his seven flames, begin to burn. Wrapt by those flames, the entire universe begins to blaze forth in a huge fire.
Sanskrit: पृथिव्यां यानि भूतानि जङ्गमानि ध्रुवाणि च। तान्येवाने प्रलीयन्ते भूमित्वमुपयान्ति च॥
English: All things mobile and immobile that are on the Earth first disappear and merge into the substance of which this planet is formed.
Sanskrit: ततः प्रलीने सर्वस्मिन् स्थावरे जङ्गमे तथा। निर्वृक्षा निस्तृणा भूमिदृश्यते कूर्मपृष्ठवत्॥
English: After all mobile and immobile objects have thus disappeared, the Earth, shorn of trees and herbs, looks nude like a tortoise shell.
Sanskrit: भूमेरपि गुणं गन्धमाप आददते यदा। आत्तगन्धा तदा भूमिः प्रलयत्वाय कल्पते॥
English: Then water takes up the attribute of earth, viz., scent. When earth becomes shorn of its principal attribute, that element is about to be destroyed.
Sanskrit: आपस्तत्र प्रतिष्ठन्ति उर्मिमत्यो महास्वनाः। सर्वमेवेदमापूर्य तिष्ठन्ति च चरन्ति च॥
English: Water then prevails. Surging into big billows and roaring dreadfully only water fills this space and moves about or stands still.
Sanskrit: अपामपि गुणं तात ज्योतिराददते यदा। आपस्तदा त्वात्तगुणा ज्योतिःषूपरमन्ति वै॥
English: Then the attribute of water is taken by Heat, and losing its own attribute, water emerges in that element.
Sanskrit: यदाऽऽदित्यं स्थितं मध्ये गृहन्ति शिखिनोऽर्चिषः। सर्वमेवेदमर्चिभिः पूर्ण जाज्वल्यते नभः॥
English: Dazzling flames of fire, ablaze all around, hide the Sun that is in the centre of ether. Indeed, then, ether itself, full of those flames, burns in a vast fire.
Sanskrit: ज्योतिषोऽपि गुणं रूपं वायुराददते यदा। प्रशाम्यति ततो ज्योतिर्वायुर्दोधूयते महान्॥
English: Then Wind comes and takes the attribute, viz., form, of Heat of Light, which, possessed of great power, begins to be awfully agitated.
Sanskrit: ततस्तु स्वनमासाद्य वायुः सम्भवमात्मनः। अधश्चोर्ध्वं च तिर्यक् च दोधवीति दिशो दश॥
English: Obtaining its own attribute, viz., sound the Wind begins to move upwards and downwards and transversely along all the ten points.
Sanskrit: वायोरपि गुणं स्पर्शमाकाशं ग्रसते यदा। प्रशाम्यति तदा वायुः खं तु तिष्ठति नादवत्॥
English: Then Space takes the attribute, viz., sound, of Wind, upon which the latter is extinguished and enters into a state of existence resembling that of unheard or unuttered sound.
Sanskrit: अरूपमरसस्पर्शमगन्धं न च मूर्तिमत्। सर्वलोकप्रणदितं खं तु तिष्ठति नादवत्॥
English: Then Space is all that remains, that element whose attribute, viz., sound, exists in all the other elements, shorn of the attributes of form, and taste, and touch, and scent, and without shape of any kind, like sound in its unmanifest form of existence.
Sanskrit: आकाशस्य गुणं शब्दमभिव्यक्तात्मकं मनः। मनसो व्यक्तमव्यक्तं ब्राह्मः सम्प्रतिसंचरः॥
English: Then sound, which is the attribute of space, is swallowed up by Mind which is the essence of all manifest things. Thus Mind which in itself is unmanifest withdraws all that is manifested by Mind. This withdrawal of manifest Mind into unmanifest Mind, is called the destruction of the external universe.
Sanskrit: तदात्मगुणमाविश्य मनो ग्रसति चन्द्रमाः। मनस्युपरते चापि चन्द्रमस्युपतिष्ठते॥
English: Then the Moon having made Mind withdraw its attribute into itself, swallows it up. When Mind, ceasing to exist, thus enters into the Moon, the other attributes of Creator are all that remain.
Sanskrit: तं तु कालेन महता संकल्पः कुरुते वशे। चित्तं ग्रसति संकल्पं तच्च ज्ञानमनुत्तमम्॥
English: This Moon which is called also determination, is then, after a very long time, brought under Creator's sway, the reason being that determination has to perform a very difficult work, viz., the destruction of the faculties that are employed in the process of judgement. When this has been done, the condition reached is said to be of high knowledge.
Sanskrit: कालो गिरति विज्ञानं कालं बलमिति श्रुतिः। बलं कालो ग्रसति तु तं विद्वान् कुरुते वशे॥
English: Then time swallows up this Knowledge, and as the Shruti says, Time itself in its turn is devoured by Might or Energy. Might or cnergy, however, is (again) devoured by time, which last is then brought under her sway by kilowledge.