pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: विभेम्यहमधर्मस्य धर्नामादिश कर्म मे। त्वं मां भीतामवेक्षस्व शिवेनेक्षस्व चक्षुषा॥
English: I fear to do any thing that is iniquitious! Do you find out a holy work for me. You see that I am frightened. Oh, look upon me mercifully.
Sanskrit: बालान् वृद्धान् वयस्थांश्च न हरेयमनागसः। प्राणिनः प्राणिनामीश नमस्तेऽस्तु प्रसीद मे॥
English: I shall not be able to cut off living creatures,-infants, youths, and elderly ones,-who have done me no injury! O lord of all creatures, I bow to you, be pleased with me.
Sanskrit: प्रियान् पुत्रान् वयस्यांश्च भ्रातृन् मातृः पितृनपि। अपध्यास्यन्ति यद्येवं मृतास्तेषां बिभेम्यहम्॥
English: I shall not be able to cut off dear sons, loved friends and brothers and mothers and fathers! If these perish their surviving relatives will surely curse me. Thinking of this I am filled with fear.
Sanskrit: कृपणाश्रुपरिक्लेदो देहन्मां शाश्वतीः समाः। तेभ्योऽहं बलवद् भीता शरणं त्वामुपागता॥
English: The tears of the sorrow-stricken survivors will burn me for good. I am very much afraid of them. I seek your protection.
Sanskrit: यमस्य भवने देव पात्यन्ते पापकर्मिणः। प्रसादये त्वां वरद प्रसादं कुरु मे प्रभो॥
English: All sinful creatures will have to sink into hell. I seek to please you, O boon-giving god! Extend to me your favour, O powerful lord.
Sanskrit: एतदिच्छाम्यहं कामं त्वत्तो लोकपितामह। इच्छेयं त्वत्प्रसादार्थं तपस्तप्तुं महेश्वर॥
English: I seek the satisfaction of this wish, O Grandfather, of all the worlds. O foremost of all the gods, I seek, through your grace, permission to practise austere penances.
Sanskrit: पितामह उवाच मृत्यो संकल्पिता मे त्वं प्रजासंहारहेतुना। गच्छ संहर सर्वास्त्वं प्रजा मा च विचारय॥
English: The Grandfather said O Death, I have selected you for the destruction of all creatures! Go, and begin the task of killing all. Do not think thus.
Sanskrit: एतदेवमवश्यं हि भविता नैतदन्यथा। क्रियतामनवद्याङ्गि यथोक्तं मद्वचोऽनघे॥
English: This must surely take place. It cannot be otherwise. O sinless one, O fair lady do you satisfy the order I have given.
Sanskrit: एवमुक्ता महाबाहो मृत्युः परपुरंजय। न व्याजहार तस्थौ च प्रह्वा भगवदुन्मुखी॥
English: Thus addressed, O you of mighty arms, the lady called Death, O conqueror of hostile cities, did not utter a word, but humbly stood there with her eyes turned towards the powerful Lord of all creatures.
Sanskrit: पुनः पुनरथोक्ता सा गतसत्त्वेव भामिनी। तूष्णीमासीत् ततो देवो देवानामीश्वरेश्वरः॥
English: Brahma addressed her again and again, but the lady appeared to be herself deprived of life. Seeing her thus, the god of gods, that lords of lords, became silent.
Sanskrit: प्रससाद किल ब्रह्मा स्वयमेवात्मनाऽऽत्मनि। स्मयमानश्च लोकेशो लोकान् सर्वानवैक्षत॥
English: Indeed, the Self-create by an effort of his will, became pleased. Smiling the lord of all the worlds then looked at the universe.
Sanskrit: निवृत्तरोषे तस्मिस्तु भगवत्यपराजिते। सा कन्याथ जगामास्य समीपादिति नः श्रुतम्॥
English: We have heard that when that unconquered and illustrious lord controlled his anger, the lady (called Death) went away from his side.
Sanskrit: अपसृत्याप्रतिश्रुत्य प्रजासंहरणं तदा। त्वरमाणेव राजेन्द्र मृत्युर्धेनुकमभ्यगात्॥
English: Leaving Brahma's side without having promised to bring about the destruction of living creatures, Death speedily went, O king, 10 the sacred spot known by the name of Dhenuka.
Sanskrit: सा तत्र परमं देवी तपोऽचरद् दुश्चरम्। समा होकपदे तस्थौ दश पद्मानि पञ्च च॥
English: There the goddess performed austere penances for fifteen billions of years, standing upon one foot.
Sanskrit: तां तथा कुर्वतीं तत्र तपः परमदुश्चरम्। पुनरेव महातेजा ब्रह्मा वचनमब्रवीत्॥ कुरुष्व मे वचो मृत्यो तदनादृत्य सत्वरा। तथैवैकपदे तात पुनरन्यानि सप्त सा॥ तस्थौ पद्मानि षट् चैव पञ्च द्वे चैव मानद। भूयः पद्मायुतं तात मृगैः सह चचार सा॥
English: After she had practised such highly severe austerities in that place, the highly energetic Brahma once more said to her,-Do you satisfy iny command, O Death! Disregarding this order, the lady once more practised austerities standing upon one foot for twenty billions of years, O giver of honours! And once more, O son, she lived in the forest with the deer for another long period of ten thousand billions of years.
Sanskrit: द्वे चायुते नरश्रेष्ठ वायवाहारा महामते। पुनरेव ततो राजन् मौनमातिष्ठदुत्तमम्॥ अप्सु वर्षसहस्राणि सप्त चैकं च पार्थिवा ततो जगाम सा कन्या कौशिकी नृपसत्तम॥
English: And once more, O foremost of men, she passed twenty thousand years living upon air only. Once again, O king she observed the excellent vow of silence for eight thousand years passing the whole period in water. Then that maiden, O best of kings, went to river Kaushiki.
Sanskrit: तत्र वायुजलाहारा चचार नियम पुनः। ततो ययौ महाभागा गङ्गां मेरुं च केवलम्॥
English: There she began to pass her days observing another vow, living upon only water and air. After this, O king, the blessed maiden proceeded to the Ganges and thence to the mount Meru.
Sanskrit: तस्थौ दार्विव निश्चेष्टा प्रजानां हितकाम्यया। ततो हिमवतो मूनि यत्र देवाः समीजिरे॥ तत्राङ्गुष्ठेन राजेन्द्र निखर्वमपरं ततः। तस्थौ पितामहं चैव तोषयामास यत्नतः॥
English: Actuated by the desire of doing good to all living creatures, she stood perfectly motionless there like a piece of wood. Going thence to the summit of Himavat where the gods had celebrated their great sacrifice, she stood there for another hundred billions of years, standing upon only the toes of her feet, with the object of pleasing the Grandfather with such an act of austerity.
Sanskrit: ततस्तामब्रवीत् तत्र लोकानां प्रभवाप्ययः। किमिदं वर्तते पुत्रि क्रियतां मम तद् वचः॥
English: Going there the Creator and Destroyer of the universe again addressed her saying,-What are you doing, O daughter! Satisfy those words of mine!
Sanskrit: ततोऽब्रवीत् पुनर्मृत्युर्भगवन्तं पितामहम्। न हरेयं प्रजा देव पुनश्चाहं प्रसादये॥
English: Addressing the divine Grandfather, the maiden once more said, I am unable to destroy living creatures, O god! I seek to please you.
Sanskrit: तामधर्मभयाद् भीतां पुनरेव प्रयाचतीम्। तदाब्रवीद् देवदेवो निगृह्येदं वचस्ततः॥
English: Frightened at doing the prospect of iniquity as she then was and employed in soliciting the Grandfather to excuse her for disobedience the Grandsire silenced her, and once more said to her',-
Sanskrit: अधर्मो नास्ति ते मृत्यो संयच्छेमाः प्रजाः शुभे। मया हुक्तं मृषा भद्रे भविता नेह किंचन॥
English: No sin shall visit you, O Death,! Do you, O auspicious maiden, begin the task of destroying living creatures! What I have said, O amiable girl, cannot be falsified.
Sanskrit: धर्मः सनातनश्च त्वामिहैवानुप्रवेक्ष्यति। अहं च विबुधाश्चैव त्वद्धिते निरताः सदा॥
English: Eternal virtue shall now live in you. Myself and all the gods shall always be busy with secking your well-being.
Sanskrit: इममन्यं च ते कामं ददानि मनसेप्सितम्। न त्वां दोषेण यास्यन्ति व्याधिसम्पीडिताः प्रजाः॥
English: I grant you this other wish that is in your heart! Living creatures shall be possessed by disease, and shall not censure you.
Sanskrit: पुरुषेषु स्वरूपेण पुरुषस्त्वं भविष्यसि। स्त्रीषु स्त्रीरूपिणी चैव तृतीयेषु नपुंसकम्॥
English: You will become a male in all male beings, a female in all female beings, and a eunuch in all those who are so.
Sanskrit: सैवमुक्ता महाराज कृताञ्जलिरुवाच ह। पुनरवे महात्मानं नेति देवेशमव्ययम्॥ तामब्रवीत् तदा देवो मृत्यो संहर मानवान्।
English: Thus addressed by Brahma, O king, the maiden at last said, with joined hands to that great and undecaying lord of all the gods-I am unable to satisfy your order. The great God again said to her, O Death, do you kill men!
Sanskrit: अधर्मस्ते न भविता तथा ध्यास्याम्यहं शुभे॥ यानश्रुबिन्दूम्पतितानपश्यं ये पाणिभ्यां धारितास्ते पुरस्तात्। ते व्याधयो मानवान् घोररूपाः। प्राप्ते काले कालयिष्यन्ति मृत्यो॥
English: I shall so ordain that you will not commit any sin by doing this, O auspicious lady. The tears that I see fall from your eyes, and which you still hold in joined hands, shall take the form of terrible diseases and even they shall destroy men when their time comes.
Sanskrit: सर्वेषा त्वं प्राणिनामन्तकाले कामक्रोधौ सहितौ योजयेथाः। एवं धर्मस्त्वामुपैष्यत्यमेयो न चाधर्मं लप्स्यसे तुल्यवृत्तिः॥
English: When the end of living creatures arrives you will send Desire and Anger together against them. You shall reap immeasurable merit. You will not commit sin, being yourself perfectly equal in your conduct.
Sanskrit: एवं धर्म पालयिष्यस्यथो त्वं न चात्मानं मज्जयिष्यस्यधर्मे। तस्मात् कामं रोचयाभ्यागतं त्वं संयोज्याथो संहरस्वेह जन्तून।३६॥
English: By doing this you will only observe righteousness instead of committing sin. Do you, therefore, mind the work in hand, and addressing Desire and Anger begin to kill all living creatures.
Sanskrit: सा वै तदा मृत्युसंज्ञापदेशा गीता शापाद्बाढमित्यब्रवीत् तम्। अथो प्राणान्प्राणिनामन्तकाले कामक्रोधौ प्राप्य निर्मोह्य हन्ति॥
English: Thus addressed, that lady, Death, became afraid of Brahma's curse and answered him, saying,-Yes! Thence-forward she began to send Desire and Anger at the last hours of living creatures, and through their agency to kill them.
Sanskrit: मृत्योर्ये ते व्याधयश्चाश्रुपाता मनुष्याणां रुज्यते यैः शरीरम्। सवेषां वै प्राणिनां प्राणनान्ते तस्माच्छोकं मा कृथा बुद्ध्य बुद्ध्या॥
English: Those tears that Death had shed are the diseases by which the bodies of men are possessed. At the destruction, therefore, of living creatures, one should not, understanding with the help of the intelligence, give way to grief.
Sanskrit: सर्वे जीवाः प्राणिनां प्राणनान्ते गत्वा वृत्ताः संनिवृत्तास्तथैव। एवं सर्वे मानवाः प्राणनान्ते गत्वा वृत्ताः देववद्राजसिंह॥
English: As the senses of all creatures disappear when they are in dreamless slumber and return once more when they awake, similarly, upon the dissolution of their bodies, all human beings have to go into the other world and return thence to this, O foremost of kings.
Sanskrit: वायुीमो भीमनादो महौजा: स सर्वेषां प्राणिनां प्राणभूतः। नानावृत्तिर्देहिनां देहभेदे तस्माद्वायुर्देवदेवो विशिष्टः॥
English: The element called wind, which has terrible energy and mighty prowess and dealening roars, acts as the life in all living creatures. When the bodies of living creatures are destroyed, that wind, passing from the old performs various functions in various new bodies. Therefore the wind is called the lord of senses and is superior to all other elements forming the gross body.
Sanskrit: सर्वे देवा मर्त्यसंज्ञाविशिष्टाः सर्वे मर्त्या देवसंज्ञाविशिष्टाः। तस्मात् पुत्रं मा शुचो राजसिंह पुत्रः स्वर्ग प्राप्य ते मोदते ह॥
English: The gods, without any exception, have to take birth as mortal creatures on Earth. Likewise, all mortal creatures also, succeed in acquiring the dignity to gods. Therefore, O foremost of kings, do not grieve for you son. Your son has gone to heaven, and is enjoying great happiness there.
Sanskrit: एवं मृत्युर्देवसृष्टा प्रजानां प्राप्ते काले संहरन्ती यथावत्। तस्याश्चैव व्याधयस्तेऽश्रुपाताः प्राप्ते काले संहरन्तीह जन्तून्॥
English: It was thus, O king, that Death was created by the Self-Create and it is in this way that she kills duly all living creatures when their time comes. the tears she had shed became diseases, which when their last hours come, snatch away all beings gifted with life.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच इमे वै मानवाः सर्वे धर्म प्रति विशङ्किताः। कोऽयं धर्मः कुतो धर्मस्तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह॥ धर्मस्त्वयमिहार्थः किमुत्रार्थोऽपि वा भवेत्। उभयार्थो हि वा धर्मस्तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह॥
English: Yudhisthira said All men who live on this Earth, are filled with doubts regarding the nature .or righteousness. Who is this that is called Righteousness? Whence also does Righteousness come? come? Tell me this, O Grandfather! Is Righteousness for this world or for the next world? Or, is it for both here and hereafter? Tell me this, O grandfather?"
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच सदाचारः स्मृतिर्वेदास्त्रिविधं धर्मलक्षणम्। चतुर्थमर्थमित्याहुः कवयो धर्मलक्षणम्॥
English: The practices of the good, the Smritis and the Vedas, are the three marks of righteousness. Besides these, the learned have said that the object (of doing works) is the fourth mark.
Sanskrit: अपि झुक्तानि धाणि व्यवस्यन्त्युत्तरावरे। लोकयात्रार्थमेवेह धर्मस्य नियमः कृतः॥
English: The Rishis of old have said what acts are righteous and also classificd them as superior or inferior in point of merit. The rules of righteousness have been sanctioned for the conduct of the affairs of the world.
Sanskrit: उभयत्र सुखोदर्क इह चैव परत्र च । अलध्वा निपुणं धर्मं पाप: पापेन युज्यते॥
English: In both the worlds, here and hereafter, righteousness begets happiness as its fruit. A sinful person, unable to acquire merit by subtile ways, becomes sullied with sin only.
Sanskrit: न च पापकृतः पापान्मुच्यन्ते केचिदापदि। अपापवादी भवति यथा भवति धर्मकृत्। धर्मस्य निष्ठा त्वाचारस्तमेवाश्रित्य भोत्स्यसे॥
English: Some hold that sinful wights can never be purged of their sins. In times of difficulty a person by even speaking an untruth acquires the merit of speaking the truth. So a person who performs a sinful act acquires by that very means the merit of having done a pious act. Conduct is the refuge of righteousness. Helped by it you should know what righteousness is.
Sanskrit: यथा धर्मसमाविष्टो धानं गृह्णाति तस्करः। रमते निर्हरन् स्तेनः परवित्तमराजके॥
English: The very thief, stealing others things, spends them in acts of seeming virtue. During anarchy, the thief takes great pleasure in approaching what belongs to others.
Sanskrit: यदास्य तद्धरन्त्यन्ये तदा राजानमिच्छति। तदा तेषां स्पृहयते ये वै तुष्टाः स्वकैर्धनैः॥
English: When others, however, rob him of what he has gained by robbery, he then seeks a king. At even such a time, when he is highly indignant for his rights of property being violated, he secretly hankers after the riches of those who are contented with their own.
Sanskrit: अभीतः शुचिरभ्येति राजद्वारमशङ्कितः। न हि दुश्चरितं किंचिदन्तरात्मनि पश्यति॥
English: Fearlessly and without a doubt in his mind he goes to the king's palace, with a mind purged of every sin. Within even his own heart he does not see mark of any evil act.
Sanskrit: सत्यस्य वचनं साधु न सत्याद् विद्यते परम्। सत्येन विधृतं सर्वं सर्वं सत्ये प्रतिष्ठितम्॥
English: To speak the truth is meritorious. There is nothing superior to truth. Everything is supported by truth, and everything depends upon truth.
Sanskrit: अपि पापकृतो रौद्राः कृत्वा पृथक् पृथक्। अद्रोहमविसंवादं प्रवर्तन्ते तदाश्रयाः॥ ते चेन्मिथोऽधृतिं कुर्युविनश्येयुरसंशयम्।
English: Even the sinful and dreadful persons swearing to keep the truth amongst themselves, do away with all grounds of quarrel and in a body perform their (sinful) deeds, depending upon truth. If they behaved falsely towards one another, they would, forsooth, he destroyed.
Sanskrit: न हर्तव्यं परधनमिति धर्मः सनातनः॥ मन्यन्ते बलवन्तस्तं दुर्बलैः सम्प्रवर्तितम्।
English: One should not take other's properties. That is an eternal duty. Powerful men consider it as one that has been introduced by the weak.
Sanskrit: यदा नियतिदौर्बल्यमथैषामेव रोचते॥ न ह्यत्यन्तं बलवन्तो भवन्ति सुखिनोऽपि वा।
English: When, however, ill luck overtakes, these men they the approve of this injunction. Again, they who surpass others in strength or power do not necessarily become happy.
Sanskrit: तस्मादनार्जवे बुद्धिर्न कार्या ते कदाचन॥ असाधुभ्योऽस्य न भयं न चौरेभ्यो न राजतः। अकिंचित् कस्यचित् कुर्वन् निर्भयः शुचिरावसेत्॥
English: Therefore, do not ever think of doing a wrong act. One behaving in this way has no fear of dishonest men or thieves, or the king. Not having injured any one, such a man lives fearlessly and with a pure heart.
Sanskrit: सर्वतः शङ्कते स्तेनो मृगो ग्राममिवेयिवान्। बहुधाऽऽचरितं पापमन्यत्रैवानुपश्यति॥
English: A thief fears every body, like a deer driven from the forest into the midst of an inhabited village. He considers other people as sinful as himself.
Sanskrit: मुदितः शुचिरभ्येति सर्वतो निर्भयः सदा। न हि दुश्चरितं किंचिदात्मनोऽन्येषु पश्यति॥
English: A pure-hearted person is always filled with cheerfulness and has no fear from any where. Such a person never sees his own misconduct in other persons.
Sanskrit: दातव्यमित्ययं धर्म उक्तो भूतहिते रतैः। तं मन्यन्ते धनयुताः कृपणैः सम्प्रवर्तितम्॥
English: Persons who do good to all creatures have said that charity is another high duty. The rich people think that this duty has been laid down by the poor.
Sanskrit: यदा नियतिकार्पण्यमथैषामेव रोचते। न हत्यन्तं धन्वन्तो भवन्ति सुखिनोऽपि वा॥
English: When, however, those wealthy men become poor on account of some bad turn of fortune, they then appreciate the practice of charity. Men who are highly rich do not necessarily experience happiness.
Sanskrit: यदन्यैर्विहितं नेच्छेदात्मनः कर्म न तत् परेषु कुर्वीत जानन्नप्रिययात्मनः॥
English: A person should never do that to others which he does not like to be done to him by others, knowing how painful it is to himself.
Sanskrit: पूरुषः। योऽन्यस्य स्यादुपपतिः स कं किं वक्तुमर्हति। यदन्यस्य ततः कुर्यान्न मृष्येदिति मे मतिः॥
English: What can a man seeking another man's wife say to another man? It is seen, however, that even such a man, when he sees his wife with another person, becomes unable to forgive the act.
Sanskrit: जीवितुं यः स्वयं चेच्छेत् कथं सोऽन्यं प्रघातयेत्। यद् यदात्मनि चेच्छेत तत् परस्यापि चिन्तयेत्॥
English: How can a person who wishes to himself take breath think of preventing another by a murderous act from doing the same? Whatever wishes one cherishes about his own self, one should certainly cherish regarding another.
Sanskrit: अतिरिक्तैः संविभजेद् भोगैरन्यानकिंचनान्। एतस्मात् कारणाद् धात्रा कुसीदं सम्प्रवर्तितम्॥
English: With his surplus riches he should remove the wants of the poor. Therefore the Creator ordained the practice of multiplying one's wealth.
Sanskrit: यस्मिस्तु देवाः समये संतिष्ठेरंस्तथा भवेत्। अथवा लाभसमये स्थितिधर्मेऽपि शोभना॥
English: One should walk along that road by proceeding along which he may hope to meet with the gods; or, at such times when wealth is acquired, the duties of sacrifice and gift are highly spoken of.
Sanskrit: सर्वं प्रियाभ्युपगतं धर्ममाहुर्मनीषिणः। पश्यैतं लक्षणोद्देशं धर्माधर्मे युधिष्ठिर॥
English: The sages have said that righteousness consists in the performance of objects by means of agreeable means. See, O Yudhisthira, that this is the standard that has been upheld in pointing out the marks of virtue and sin.
Sanskrit: लोकसंग्रहसंयुक्तं विधात्रा विहितं पुरा। सूक्ष्मधर्मार्थनियतं सतां चरितमुत्तमम्॥
English: In days of yore the Creator ordained virtue gifting it with the power of holding the world together. The excellent conduct of the good, is subjected to restraints for acquiring virtue which depends upon many delicate considerations.
Sanskrit: धर्मलक्षणमाख्यातमेतत् ते कुरुसत्तम। तस्मादनार्जवे बुद्धिर्न ते कार्या कथंचन॥
English: The marks of virtue have now been described to you, O best of Kuru's race? Do not, therefore, at any time think of doing a wrong act.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच सूक्ष्मं साधु समादिष्टं भवता धर्मलक्षणम्। प्रतिभा त्वस्ति मे काचित् तां ब्रूयामनुमानतः॥
English: Yudhisthira said You say that virtue or duty depends upon delicate consideration, that it is marked out by the conduct of the good, that it is fraught with restraints, and that its characteristics are also contained in the Vedas. It appears to me, however, that I have a certain inward light by virtue of which I can differentiate between right and wrong by inferences.
Sanskrit: भूयांसो हृदये ये मे प्रश्नास्ते व्याहृतास्त्वया। इदं त्वन्यत् प्रवक्ष्यामि न राजन् निग्रहादिव॥
English: Numberless questions which I had wished to ask you have all been answered by you. There is one question, however, that I shall just now put. It is not prompted, O king, by desire of mere discussion.
Sanskrit: इमानि हि प्राणयन्ति सृजन्त्युत्तारयन्ति च। न धर्मः परिपाठेन शक्यो भारत वेदितुम्॥
English: All these embodied creatures, it seems, take birth, exist, and renounce their bodies, of their own nature. Duty and its opposite, therefore, cannot be determined, O Bharata, by study of the scriptures alone.
Sanskrit: अन्यो धर्मः समस्थस्य विषमस्थस्य चापरः। आपदस्तु कथं शक्याः परिपाठेन वेदितुम्॥
English: The duties of a rich person are of one sort. Those of a person who has fallen into distress are of another sort. How can duty in the time of poverty be determined by reading the scriptures alone?
Sanskrit: सदाचारो मतो धर्मः सन्तस्त्वाचारलक्षणाः। साध्यासाध्यं कथं शक्यं सदाचारो ह्यलक्षणः॥
English: The acts of the good, as you have said, form virtue. The good, however, are to be known by their acts. The definition, therefore, has at the bottom a begging of the question, and the result is that what is meant by conduct of the good remains unsettled.
Sanskrit: दृश्यते हि धर्मारूपेणाधर्मं प्राकृतश्चरन्। धर्मं चाधर्मरूपेण कश्चिदप्राकृतश्चरन्॥
English: It is seen that some ordinary man commits sin while apparently achieving virtue. Some extraordinary person again may be seen who achieves virtue by committing acts which are seemingly sinful.
Sanskrit: पुनरस्य प्रमाणं हि निर्दिष्टं शास्त्रकोविदैः। वेदवादाश्चानुयुगं ह्रसन्तीतीह नः श्रुतम्॥ अन्ये कृतयुगे धर्मास्त्रेतायां द्वापरे परे। अन्ये कलियुगे धर्मा यथाशक्ति कृता इव॥
English: Then, again, the proof has been given by even those who are well-conversant with the scriptures themselves, for we have heard that the ordinances of the Vedas disappear gradually in every successive cycle. The duties in the Krita age are of one sort. Those in the Treta are of another sort, and those in the Dvapara are of a different sort. The duties in the Kali age, again, are entirely of a different character. It seems, therefore, that duties have been sanctioned for the respective cycles according to the powers of human beings in the different ages.
Sanskrit: आम्नायवचनं सत्यमित्ययं लोकसंग्रहः। आम्नायेभ्यः पुनर्वेदाः प्रसृताः सर्वतोमुखाः॥
English: When, therefore, all the declarations in the Vedas do not suit equally all the ages, the saying that the Vedas are true is only a popular parlance given vent to for popular satisfaction. whose range From the Shrutis have originated the Smritis is very wide.
Sanskrit: ते चेत् सर्वप्रमाणं वै प्रमाणं ह्यत्र विद्यते। प्रमाणेऽप्यप्रमाणेन विरुद्ध शास्त्रता कुतः॥
English: If the Vedas be considered authoritative everywhere, then the Smritis also would be considered authoritative, for the latter are based on the former. But when the Shrutis and the Smritis contradict each other, how can either be authoritative.
Sanskrit: धर्मस्य क्रियमाणस्य बलवद्भिर्दुरात्मभिः। या या विक्रियते संस्था ततः सापि प्रणश्यति॥
English: Then, again, it is seen, that when some wicked wights of great power cause certain portions of religious acts to be stopped, these are destroyed for ever.
Sanskrit: विद्म चैवं न वा विद्म शक्यं वा वेदितुं न वा। अणीयान् क्षुरधाराया गरीयानपि पर्वतात्॥
English: Whether we know it or not, whether we are able to determine it or not, the course of duty is sharper than the edge of a razor and grosser than even a mountain.
Sanskrit: गन्धर्वनगराकारः प्रथमं सम्प्रदृश्यते। अन्वीक्ष्यमाणः कविभिः पुनर्गच्छत्यदर्शनम्॥
English: Virtue at first appears in the form of the romantic house of vapour seen in the distant sky. When, however, it is examined by the ! learned, it disappears.
Sanskrit: निपानानीव गोभ्योऽपि क्षेत्रे कुल्ये च भारत। स्मृतिर्हि शाश्वते धर्मो विप्रहीणो न दृश्यते॥
English: Like the small ponds at which cattle drink or the shallow canals along cultivated fields, that dry up very soon, the eternal practices laid down in the Smrities, falling into discontinuance, at last disappear for good.
Sanskrit: कामादन्येच्छया चान्ये कारणैरपरैस्तथा। असन्तोऽपि वृथाचारं भजन्ते बहवोऽपरे॥
English: Amongst good men, some are seen to become hypocrites by allowing themselves to be moved by desire. Some become so, desiring by others. Many others tread in the same path, moved by various other motives of a similar nature.
Sanskrit: धर्मो भवति स क्षिप्रं प्रलापस्त्वेव साधुषु। अथैतानाहुरुन्मत्तानपि चावहसन्त्युत॥
English: It cannot be gainsaid that such acts are righteous. Fools, again, hold that virtue is an empty sound among those called good. They ridicule such persons and consider them as men bereft of reason.
Sanskrit: महाजना छुपावृत्ता राजधर्म समाश्रिताः। न हि सर्वहितः कश्चिदाचारः सम्प्रवर्तते॥
English: Many great men, again, neglecting the duties of their own order, follow those of the Kshatriyas. No such conduct, therefore, is to be seen, which is for universal benevolence.