pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: कृतानां फलमप्राप्तं कर्मणां कर्मसंज्ञितम्। क्षेत्रापणगृहासक्तं मृत्युरादाय गच्छति॥
English: Death carries away the man, whatever he is called according to his calling, attached to his field, his shop, or his home, before he has acquired the fruit of his acts.
Sanskrit: दुर्बलं बलवन्तं च शूरं भीरूं जडं कविम्। अप्राप्तं सर्वकामार्थान् मृत्युरादाय गच्छति॥
English: Death carries away the weak, the strong, the brave, the timid, the idiotic, and the learned, before any of these acquires the fruits of his acts.
Sanskrit: मृत्युर्जरा च व्याधिश्च दुःखं चानेककारणम्। अनुषक्तं यदा देहे किं स्वस्थ इव तिष्ठसि॥
English: When death, decrepitude, disease, and grief originating from various causes, are all living in your body, how is it that you live as if you are perfectly hale.
Sanskrit: जातमेवान्तकोऽन्ताय जरा चान्वेति देहिनम्। अनुषक्ता द्वयेनैते भावाः स्थावरजङ्गमाः॥
English: As soon as an embodied creature is born, Decrepitude and Death follow him to bring about his destruction. All things, mobile and immobile, are affected by these two.
Sanskrit: मृत्योर्वा मुखमेतद् वै या ग्रामे वसतो रतिः। देवानामेष वै गोठो यदरण्यमिति श्रुतिः॥
English: The attachment which one feels for living in villages and towns is considered as the very mouth of Death. The forest, on the other hand, is considered as the fold within which the senses may be penned up. This is the injunction of the Shrutis.
Sanskrit: निबन्धनी रज्जुरेषा या ग्रामे वसतो रतिः। छित्त्वैतां सुकृतो यान्ति नैनां छिन्दन्ति दुष्कृतः॥
English: The attachment a person feels for living in a village or town is like a cord which fetters him strongly. Those that are good break that cord and acquire liberation, while they the wicked cannot break them.
Sanskrit: न हिंसयति यो जन्तून् मनोवाक्कायहेतुभिः। जीवितार्थापनयनैः प्राणिभिर्न स हिंस्यते॥
English: He who never injures living creatures by thought, word, or deed, is never injured by such agencies as wild beasts and lawless men always destroying life and property.
Sanskrit: न मृत्युसेनामायान्तीं जातु कश्चित् प्रबाधते। ऋते सत्यमसत् त्याज्यं सत्ये ह्यमृतमाश्रितम्॥
English: Nothing can resist the emissaries of Death when they advance except Truth which devours Untruth. Immortality, lives in Truth.
Sanskrit: तस्मात् सत्यव्रताचारः सत्ययोगपरायणः। सत्यागमः सदा दान्तः सत्येनैवान्तकं जयेत्॥
English: For these reasons, one should practise the vow of Truth; one should devote himself too Truth; one should accept Truth for one's Veda; and controlling is senses, one should defcat the Death by Truth.
Sanskrit: अमृतं चैव मृत्युश्च द्वयं देहे प्रतिष्ठितम्। मृत्युमापद्यते मोहात् सत्येनापद्यतेऽमृतम्॥
English: Both immortality and Death are in the body. One meets with Death through ignorance and loss of judgement; while Immortality is gained by Truth.
Sanskrit: सोऽहं ह्यहिस्रः सत्यार्थी कामक्रोधबहिष्कृतः। समदुःखसुखः क्षेमी मृत्यु हास्याम्यमर्त्यवत्॥
English: I shall, therefore, injure no one and try to acquire Truth, and transgressing the control of desire and anger, consider pleasure and pain impartially, and gaining tranquility, avoid Death like an immortal.
Sanskrit: शान्तियज्ञरतो दान्तो ब्रह्मयज्ञे स्थितो मुनिः। वामनः कर्मयज्ञश्च भविष्याम्युदगायने॥
English: When with the coming of the season the Sun will march towards the north, I shall, controlling my senses, engage in the practice of self-denial in the reflection of Vedantic truths, in the recitation of the mystic syllable OM, and in the contemplation of the Supreme Self.
Sanskrit: पशुयज्ञैः कथं हिंस्रैर्मादृशो यष्टुमर्हति। अन्तवद्भिरिव प्राज्ञः क्षेत्रयज्ञैः पिशाचवत्॥
English: How can one like me adore his Maker with animal-sacrifices involving cruelty, or sacrifices of the body such as Pishachas only can perform and such as yield transitory fruits.
Sanskrit: यस्य वाङ्मनसी स्यातां सम्यक् प्रणिहिते सदा। तपस्त्यागश्च सत्यं च स वै सर्वमवाप्नुयात्॥
English: That person person whose whose words, thoughts penances, renunciation, and Yoga meditation, all depend on Brahma, acquires the highest good.
Sanskrit: नास्ति विद्यासमं चक्षुर्नास्ति सत्यसमं तपः। नास्ति रागसमं दुःखं नास्ति त्यागसमं सुखम्॥
English: There is no eye which is equal to that of knowledge. There is no penance like Truth. There is no sorrow like Attachment. There is no happiness like Renunciation.
Sanskrit: आत्मन्येवात्मना जात आत्मनिष्ठोऽप्रजोऽपि वा। आत्मन्येव भविष्यामि न मां तारयति प्रजा॥
English: I have sprung from Brahma through Brahma. I shall devote myself to Brahma, though I have no child. I shall return to Brahma. I do not require a son for rescuing me.
Sanskrit: नैतादृशं ब्राह्मणस्यास्ति वित्तं यथैकता समता सत्यता च। शीलं स्थितिर्दण्डनिधानमार्जवं ततस्ततश्चोपरमः क्रियाभ्यः॥
English: A Brahmana can have no wealth which is the state of being alone, the state by virtue of which he can look upon everything impartially, the practice of truthfulness, good conduct, patience, abstention from injury, simplicity and avoidance of all rites and sacrifices,
Sanskrit: किं ते धनैर्बान्धवैर्वापि किं ते किं ते दारैर्ब्राह्मण यो मरिष्यसि। आत्मानमन्विच्छ गुहां प्रविष्टं पितामहास्ते क्व गताः पिता च॥
English: Why do you, O Brahmana, care for wealth or kinsmen and relatives and wives, when you shall have to die? Seek yourself which is concealed in a cave. Where are your grandfathers and where is your sire.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच पुत्रस्यैतद् वचः श्रुत्वा यथाकार्षीत् पिता नृप। तथा त्वमपि वर्तस्व सत्यधर्मपरायणः॥
English: Bhishma said Do you also, O king, act yourself like the father (in this story), behaved himself devoted to the religion of Truth, after having heard the words of his son.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच अत्राप्युदाहरन्तीममितिहासं पुरातनम्। गीतं विदेहराजेन जनकेन प्रशाम्यता॥
English: "Regarding it is also cited the old story of the verses sung by Janaka, the king of the Videhas, who had so qualified himself as to obtain tranquillity of the soul.
Sanskrit: अनन्तमिव मे वित्तं यस्य मे नास्ति किञ्चन। मिथिलायां प्रदीप्तायां न मे दह्यति किञ्चन॥
English: What the monarch said was,-My wealth is unlimited, At the same time I have nothing. If the whole of (my kingdom) Mithila be reduced to ashes in a conflagration, I shall lose nothing.
Sanskrit: अत्रैवोदाहरन्तीमं बोध्यस्य पदसंचयम्। निर्वेदं प्रति विन्यस्तं तं निबोध युधिष्ठिर॥
English: Once on a time the royal son of Nahusa (Yayati) asked the Rishi Vodhya who had, on account of Rcnunciation, attained to tranquillity of soul and who had a through knowledge of the scriptures. The king said
Sanskrit: बोध्यं शान्तमृषि राजा नाहुषः पर्यपृच्छत। निर्वेदाच्छान्तिमापन्नं शास्त्रप्रज्ञानतर्पितम्॥ उपदेशं महाप्राज्ञ शमस्योपदिशस्व मे। का बुद्धिं समनुध्याय शान्तश्चरसि निर्वृतः॥
English: O you of great wisdom, vouchsafe me those instructions which lead to tranquillity. What is that understanding which had enabled you to wander over the world in tranquillity of soul and free yourself from all acts?
Sanskrit: बोध्य उवाच उपदेशेन वर्तामि नानुशास्मीह कंचन। लक्षणं तस्य वक्ष्येऽहं तत् स्वयं परिमृश्यताम्॥
English: Vodhya said I follow the principles of others and never thrust inyself as an instructor. I shall, however, give you the outlines of those principles. Reflection will enable you to catch their spirit.
Sanskrit: पिङ्गलाककुररः सर्पः सारङ्गान्वेषणं वने। इषुकारः कुमारी च षडेते गुरवो मम॥
English: Pingala, the osprey, the snake, the bee in the forest, the maker of shafts (in the story), and the maiden (in the story),-these six are my preceptors.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच आशा बलवती राजन् नैराश्यं परमं सुखम्। आशां निराशां कृत्वा तु सुखं स्वपिति पिङ्गला॥
English: Hope is the one powerful agent to agitate human breast, O king. Freedom from hope is supreme bliss. Reducing hope to a nullity, Pingala sleeps in peace.
Sanskrit: सामिषं कुररं दृष्ट्वा वध्यमानं निरामिषैः। आमिषस्य परित्यागात् कुररः सुखमेधते॥
English: Seeing an osprey with a piece of meat in his breaks, those that have been unable to find any meat for themselves, pounce upon him and finally make him a osprey, while a certain other osprey, by abstaining from meat altogether, became happy.
Sanskrit: गृहारम्भो हि दुःखाय न सुखाय कदाचन। सर्पः परकृतं वेश्म प्रविश्य सुखमेधते॥
English: To build a house for one's ownself conduces not to his happiness but becomes the source of his annoyance. The snake residing in another creature's place of abode, lives in happiness.
Sanskrit: सुखं जीवन्ति मुनयो भैक्ष्यवृत्तिं समाश्रिताः। अद्रोहेणैव भूतानां सारङ्गा इव पक्षिणः॥
English: Adopting the life of mendicancy, the ascetics live in happiness, without having any object of fear from any creature, like the bees in the forest.
Sanskrit: इषुकारो नरः कश्चिदिषावासक्तमानसः। समीपेनापि गच्छन्तं राजानं नावबुद्धवान्॥
English: A certain shaft-maker busy with his work, was so deeply engrossed with it that he did not notice the king who was passing by him.
Sanskrit: बहूनां कलहो नित्यं द्वयोः संकथनं ध्रुवम्। एकाकी विचरिष्यामि कुमारीशंखको यथा॥
English: When many herd together, it foments dispute. Even when two reside together, they are sure to talk with each other. I, however, like the anklet made of sea-shells in the wrist of the maiden in the story wander alone.'
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच बान्धवाः कर्म वित्तं वा प्रज्ञा वेह पितामह। नरस्य का प्रतिष्ठा स्यादेतत् पृष्टो वदस्व मे॥
English: Yudhishthira said When of these, O grandfather, viz., relatives, or acts or riches, or wisdom, should be the refuge of a person? Accosted by men, answer me this!
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठा भूतानां प्रज्ञा लाभः परो मतः। प्रज्ञा निःश्रेयसी लोके प्रज्ञा स्वर्गो मतः सताम्॥
English: Bhishma said 'Wisdom is the refuge of creatures. Wisdom is considered as the greatest of acquisitions. Wisdom is the greatest happiness in the world. Wisdom is regarded by the good and virtuous as heaven.
Sanskrit: प्रज्ञया प्रापितार्थो हि बलिरैश्वर्यसंक्षये। प्रह्लादो नमुचिर्मङ्किस्तस्याः किं विद्यते परम्॥
English: It was through wisdom that Vali, Prahlada, Namuchi, and Manki, when they lost their prosperity, succeeded in gaining happiness, What is there that is superior to wisdom.
Sanskrit: अत्राप्युदाहरन्तीममितिहासं पुरातनम्। इन्द्रकाश्यपसंवादं तन्निबोध युधिष्ठिर॥
English: Regarding it is cited the old story of the conversation between Indra and Kashyapa. Listen to it,O Yudhishthira!
Sanskrit: वैश्यः कश्चिदृषिसुतं काश्यपं संशितव्रतम्। रथेन पातयामास श्रीमान् दृप्तस्तपस्विनम्॥
English: Once on a time a rich Vaishya, enjoying the highest state of prosperity and elated with his affluence, threw down, by rashly driving his car, a Rishi's son of rigid vows, named Kashyapa, given to penances.
Sanskrit: आर्तः स पतितः क्रुद्धस्त्यक्त्वाऽऽत्मानमथाब्रवीत्। मरिष्याम्यधनस्येह जीवितार्थो न विद्यते॥ तथा मुमूर्षुमासीनमकूजन्तमचेतसम्। इन्द्रः शृगालरूपेण बभाषे लुब्धमानसम्॥ मनुष्ययोनिमिच्छन्ति सर्वभूतानि सर्वशः। मनुष्यत्वे च विप्रत्वं सर्व एवाभिनन्दति॥
English: Laid low on the ground, the young man, in great pain, yielded to his anger; and in despair resolved, saying, I shall renounce my life. A poor man has no necessity of life in this world!-While the Brahmana was lying in that condition, silent and agitated, shorn of energy and on the verge of death, Indra appeared there in the shape of a jackal and addressing him, said,-All (inferior) creatures seek to be born as men. Among men, again, the dignity of a Brahmana is much coveted.
Sanskrit: मनुष्यो ब्राह्मणश्चासि श्रोत्रियश्चासि काश्यप। सुदुर्लभमवाप्यैतन्न दोषान्मर्तुमर्हसि॥
English: You, O Kashyapa, are a human being! Amongst men you are again a Brahmana. Among Brahmanas, you are again well-read in the Vedas. Having acquired that which is difficult to get, you should not give up life from folly.
Sanskrit: सर्वे लाभाः साभिमाना इति सत्यवती श्रुतिः। संतोषणीयरूपोऽसि लोभाद् यदभिमन्यसे॥
English: All sorts of earthly) acquisitions are fraught with pride. What the Shrutis hold about it is perfectly true. You appear as the embodiment. In forming such a resolution about renouncing your life, you act from cupidity.
Sanskrit: अहो सिद्धार्थता तेषां येषां सन्तीह पाणयः। अतीव स्पृहये तेषां येषां सन्तीह पाणयः॥
English: Those who have hands become successful. I eagerly wish to be like those creatures who have hands.
Sanskrit: पाणिमद्भ्यः स्पृहास्माकं यथा तव धनस्य वै। न पाणिलाभादधिको लाभः कश्चन विद्यते॥
English: We seek hands as eagerly as you seek riches. There is no acquisition more valuable than that of hands.
Sanskrit: अपाणित्वाद् वयं ब्रह्मन् कण्टकं नोद्धरामहे। जन्तूनुच्चावचानङ्गे दशतो न कषाम वा॥
English: See, O Brahmana, I cannot get out this thorn that has entered my body, or crush these insects and worms that are biting and paining me greatly.
Sanskrit: अथ येषां पुनः पाणी देवदत्तौ दशाङ्गुली। उद्धरन्ति कृमीनङ्गाद् दशतो निकषन्ति च॥
English: Those who have got two hands with ten fingers, can throw away or crush the worms that bite their limbs.
Sanskrit: वर्षाहिमातपानां च परित्राणानि कुर्वते। चैलमन्नं सुखं शय्यां निवातं चोपभुञ्जते॥
English: They can make shelters for themselves against rain, cold and heat. They can also enjoy excellent clothes for themselves, good food, comfortable beds, and excellent houses.
Sanskrit: अधिष्ठाय च गां लोके भुञ्जते वाहयन्ति च। उपायैर्बहुभिश्चैव वश्यानात्मनि कुर्वते॥
English: Living on this Earth, those who have hands enjoy kine and other animals and cause them to carry loads or draw their cars, and by the help of various means make those animals obey them.
Sanskrit: ये खल्वजिह्वाः कृपणा अल्पप्राणा अपाणयः। सहन्ते तानि दुःखानि दिष्ट्या त्वं न तथा. मुने॥
English: Those living creatures that are without tongues, that are helpless, that have little strength, and that have no hands, suffer all kinds of misery. By good luck, O ascetic, you are not like them.
Sanskrit: दिष्ट्या त्वं न शृगालो वै न कृमिर्न च मूषकः। न सर्पो न च मण्डूको न चान्यः पापयोनिजः॥
English: By good luck, you are not a jackal, nor a worm, nor a mouse, nor a snake, nor a frog, or nor any other wretched animal.
Sanskrit: एतावतापि लाभेन तोष्टुमर्हसि काश्यप। किं पुनर्योऽसि सत्त्वानां सर्वेषां ब्राह्मणोत्तमः॥
English: With this gain, you should O Kashyapa, be contented. How happy, again, should you feel yourself, as you think that amongst living creatures you are a superior Brahmana.
Sanskrit: इमे मां कृमयोऽदन्ति येषामुद्धरणाय वै। नास्ति शक्तिरपाणित्वात् पश्यावस्थामिमां मम॥
English: These worms are biting me. For want of hands I cannot drive them off. Look at this my miserable condition.
Sanskrit: अकार्यमिति चैवेमं नात्मानं संत्यजाम्यहम्। नातः पापीयसी योनि पतेयमपरामिति॥
English: I do not renounce life because it is a very sinful act, and lest, indeed, I may have a more miserable birth.
Sanskrit: मध्ये वै पापयोनीनां शार्गाली यामहं गतः। पापीयस्यो बहुतरा इतोऽन्याः पापयोनयः॥
English: This birth, to which I now belong, is rather tolerable. Miserable as it is, there are many more orders below it which miserable.
Sanskrit: जात्यैवैके सुखितराः सन्त्यन्ये भृशदुःखिताः। नैकान्तं सुखमेवेह क्वचित्पश्यामि कस्यचित्॥
English: By birth certain classes of creatures become happier than other who suffer great miseries. But I never see that there is any order of being which can enjoy consummate happiness.
Sanskrit: मनुष्या ह्याढ्यतां प्राप्य राज्यमिच्छन्त्यनन्तरम्। राज्याद् देवत्वमिच्छन्ति देवत्वादिन्द्रतामपि॥
English: more come Having acquired riches men next wish for sovereignty. Having acquired riches men next wish for sovereignty. Having acquired sovereignty they next wish to be gods. Having acquired that status they then wish to be the king of the gods.
Sanskrit: भवेस्त्वं यद्यपि त्वाट्यो न राजा न च दैवतम्। देवत्वं प्राप्य चेन्द्रत्वं नैव तुष्येस्तथा सति॥
English: If you become affluent, you will never become a king, nor a god. If by any means you become a god, you will then wish for the kingship of the gods. In no state you will be contented.
Sanskrit: न तृप्ति: प्रियलाभेऽस्ति तृष्णा नाद्भिः प्रशाम्यति। सम्प्रज्वलति सा भूयः समिद्भिग्वि पावकः॥
English: Contentment does not from acquisition of objects of desire. Thirst is never satiated although there is sufficient water. The thirst for acquisition is only increased by each fresh acquisition like a fire with new fuels thrown into it.
Sanskrit: अस्त्येव त्वयि शोकोऽपि हर्षश्चापि तथा त्वयि। सुखदुःखे तथा चोभे तत्र का परिवेदना॥
English: You have grief for your associate. But joy, at the same time, lives in you. Both happiness and misery live in you. Why should you then yield to grief?
Sanskrit: परिच्छिद्यैव कामानां सर्वेषां चैव कर्मणाम्। मूलं बुद्धीन्द्रियग्रामं शकुन्तानिव पञ्जरे॥
English: One should shut up, like birds in a cage, the very springs, viz., the understanding and the senses, of his desires and acts.
Sanskrit: न द्वितीयस्य शिरसश्छेदनं विद्यते क्वचित्। न च पाणेस्तृतीयस्य यन्नास्ति न ततो भयम्॥
English: A second head, or a third hand, can never by cut. That which does not exist produces no fear,
Sanskrit: न खल्वप्यरसज्ञस्य कामः क्वचन जायते। संस्पर्शाद् दर्शनाद् वापि श्रवणाद् वापि जायते।॥
English: One who has not experienced the enjoyment of a certain object, never feels a desire for that object. Desires originate from the actual experience of the pleasures that touch, or sight, or hearing gives.
Sanskrit: न त्वं स्मरसि वारुण्या लट्वाकानां च पक्षिणाम्। ताभ्यां चाभ्यधिको भक्ष्यो न कश्चिद् विद्यते क्वचित्।।
English: You have no idea of the taste of the wine called Varuni or of the meat of the birds called Ladvaka. There is no drink and no so food sweeter than these.
Sanskrit: यानि चान्यानि भूतेषु भक्ष्यजातानि कस्यचित्। येषामभुक्तपूर्वाणि तेषामस्मृतिरेव ते॥
English: You have no idea also, O Kashyapa, of every other superior kind of drink and edible that exists among men, for you have never tasted it.
Sanskrit: अप्राशनमसंस्पर्शमसंदर्शनमेव च। पुरुषस्यैष नियमो मन्ये श्रेयो न संशयः॥
English: Forsooth, therefore, a man to acquire happiness should vow not to taste, not to touch, and to see.
Sanskrit: पाणिमन्तो बलवन्तो धनवन्तो न संशयः। मनुष्या मानुषैरेव दासत्वमुपपादिताः॥ वधबन्धपरिक्लेशैः क्लिश्यन्ते च पुनः पुनः। ते खल्वपि रमन्ते च मोदन्ते च हसन्ति च॥
English: Creatures that have hands, forsooth, become strong and acquire riches. men are forced by men to become servants, and are repeatedly afflicted with death, imprisonment, and other punishments. Although such is their condition yet even they laugh and sport and become merry.
Sanskrit: अपरे बाहुबलिनः कृतविद्या मनस्विनः। जुगुप्सितां च कृपणां पापवृत्तिमुपासते॥
English: Although gifted with strength of arms, knowledge and great energy of mind, others again, follow censurable, sinful, and miserable callings.
Sanskrit: उत्सहन्ते च ते वृत्तिमन्यामप्युपसेवितुम्। स्वकर्मणा तु नियतं भवितव्यं तु तत् तथा॥
English: They try to change such professions or better ones but then they are fettered by their pristine deeds and by the force of Destiny.
Sanskrit: न पुल्कसो न चाण्डाल आत्मानं त्यक्तुमिच्छति तया तुष्टः स्वया योन्या मायां पश्यस्व यादृशीम्॥
English: The vilest man of the Pukkasa or the Chandala orders never wishes to renounce his life. He is quiet satisfied with his birth. Mark the illusion in it.
Sanskrit: दृष्ट्वा कुणीन् पक्षहतान् मनुष्यानामयाविनः। सुसम्पूर्णः स्वया योन्या लब्धलाभोऽसि काश्यप॥
English: Seeing those amongst your order that have no arms, or are struck with palsy, or suffering from other diseases, you can consider yourself as very happy and possessed of valuable properties amongst the members of your own order.
Sanskrit: यदि ब्राह्मण देहस्ते निरातङ्कोनिरामयः। अङ्गानि च समग्राणि न च लोकेषु धिक्कृतः॥
English: If this your regenerated body remains all right, and free from disease, and all your limbs remain perfect, you will incur reproach amongst men.
Sanskrit: न केनचित् प्रवादेन सत्येनैवापहारिणा। धर्मायोत्तिष्ठ विप्रर्षे नात्मानं त्यक्तुमर्हसि॥
English: You should not, O Brahmana, renounce your life, even if any blame affects you which can be proved and which can you which can be proved and which lead your excommunication. Rise, and practise virtue. You should not throw away your life.
Sanskrit: यदि ब्रह्मशृणोष्येतच्छ्रद्दधासि च मे वचः। वेदोक्तस्यैव धर्मस्य फलं मुख्यमवाप्स्यसि॥
English: If, O twice-born one, you listen to me and confide in my words, you will acquire the highest reward of the religion laid down in the Vedas.
Sanskrit: स्वाध्यायमग्निसंस्कारमप्रमत्तोऽनुपा सत्यं दमं च दानं च स्पर्धिष्ठा मा च केनचित्॥
English: Engage, in Vedic studies, and properly maintain your consecrated hearth, and observe can to truth, and self-control, and charity. Never compare yourself boastfully with another.
Sanskrit: ये केचन स्वध्ययनाः प्राप्ता यजनयाज । कथं ते चानुशोचेयुायेयुर्वाप्यशोभनम्।
English: They who, by studying the Vedas, become competent for celebrating sacrifices for themselves and others, need no. regret or fear any sort of evil.
Sanskrit: इच्छन्तस्ते विहाराय सुखं महदवाप्नुयुः॥ उत जाताः सुनक्षत्रे सुतिथौ सुमुहूर्तजाः। यज्ञदानप्रजेहायां यतन्ते शक्तिपूर्वकम्॥
English: They who are born under an auspicious constellation on an auspicious lunation and at an auspicious hour, try their best for performing sacrifices, practising charity, and procreating children, and wishing to pass their time cheerfully in those acts, at last acquire very great happiness.
Sanskrit: नक्षत्रेष्वासुरेष्वन्ये दुस्तिथौ दुर्मुहूर्तजाः। सम्पतन्त्यासुरी योनि यज्ञप्रसववर्जिताः॥
English: They, on the other hand, who are born under evil slaves, inauspicious lunations and at evil hours, cannot perform sacrifices and get progeny and at last fall into the Asura order.
Sanskrit: अहमासं पण्डितको हैतुको वेदनिन्दकः। आन्वीक्षिकी तर्कविद्यामनुरक्तो निरर्थिकाम्॥
English: In my previous birth 1 had much useless learning. I always tried to find out reasons and had very little faith. I used to censure the Vedas. I was unacquainted with the fourfold objects of life, and was devoted to the science of reaping which is based upon ocular or tangible proofs.
Sanskrit: हेतुवादान् प्रवदिता वक्ता संसत्सु हेतुमत्। आक्रोष्टा चाभिवक्ता च ब्रह्मवाक्येषु च द्विजान्॥
English: I used to speak of reasons only. Indeed, in assemblies, I always spoke of reasons. I used to speak irreverently of the injunctions of the Shrutis and address Brahmanas haughtily.
Sanskrit: नास्तिकः सर्वशङ्की च मूर्खः पण्डितमानिकः। तस्येयं फलनिर्वृत्तिः शृगालत्वं मम द्विज॥
English: I was an atheist a sceptic, and though really ignorant, proud of my learning. This birth of a jackal that I have got in this life is the outcome, twice-born one, of those sins of mine.
Sanskrit: अपि जातु तथा तस्मादहोरात्रशतैरपि। यदहं मानुषी योनि शृगालः प्राप्नुयां पुनः॥ संतुष्टश्चाप्रमत्तश्च यज्ञदानतपोरतिः। ज्ञेयज्ञाता भवेयं वै वर्ण्यवर्जयिता तथा॥
English: If even after hundreds of days and nights, a jackal that I am now, I can once again secure the birth of humanity, I shall then pass my life in contentment, caring for the true objects of existence, and engaged in sacrifices and gifts. I shall then know what should be known, and shun what should be shunned.
Sanskrit: ततः स मुनिरुत्थाय काश्यपस्तमुवाच ह। अहो बतासि कुशलो बुद्धिमांश्चेति विस्मित:॥
English: Thus addressed, the ascetic Kashyapa, rising up, said-0, you are surely endued with great knowledge, and intelligence. I really wonder at all this.
Sanskrit: समवैक्षत तं विप्रो ज्ञानदीभ्रुण चक्षुषा। ददर्श चैनं देवानां देवमिन्द्रं शचीपतिम्॥
English: With eye whose vision was extended by knowledge, the Brahmana then saw that being who had addressed him as Indra the king on the gods and the lord of Shachi.
Sanskrit: ततः सम्पूजयामास काश्यपो हरिवाहनम्। अनुज्ञातस्तु तेनाथ प्रविवेश स्वमालयम्॥
English: Kashyapa then adored that god having the best of horses to carry him. Receiving afterwards with the god's permission, the Bralunana returned to his house.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच यद्यस्ति दत्तमिष्टं वा तपस्तप्तं तथैव च। गुरूणां वापि शुश्रूषा तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह॥
English: Yudhishthira said Tell me, O grand-father, if gifts, sacrifices, penances and dutiful services offered to preceptors, yield wisdom and supreme bliss.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच आत्मनानर्थयुक्तेन पापे निविशते मनः। स्वकर्मकलुषं कृत्वा कृच्छ्रे लोके विधीयते॥
English: Bhishma said 'If the mind is stricken with desire, anger and other evil passions, it then inclines towards sin. If one's acts are sullied by sin, he is obliged to dwell in painful regions.
Sanskrit: दुर्भिक्षादेव दुर्भिक्षं क्लेशात् क्लेशं भयाद् भयम्। मृतेभ्यः प्रमृतं यान्ति दरिद्राः पापकारिणः॥
English: Sinful men are born as poor men and suffer again and again the pangs of fainine, woe, fear, and death.
Sanskrit: उत्सवादुत्सवं यान्ति स्वर्गात् स्वर्ग सुखात् सुखम्। श्रद्दधानाश्च दान्ताश्च धनाढ्याः शुभकारिणः॥
English: The virtuous, the faithful, and the selfrestrained, become born as affluent men and continually enjoy festivities and heaven and happiness.