pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: एवमादीनि चान्यानि परित्यक्तानि मेधया। ज्वलन्ति यशसा लोके यानि न व्याहरन्ति च॥
English: Similarly those men shine in the world with celebrity who by the help of their intelligence, renounce these and similar other faults and who do not blaze forth their own virtues.
Sanskrit: न लोके दीप्यते मूर्खः केवलात्मप्रशंसया। अपि चापिहितः श्वभ्रे कृतविद्यः प्रकाशते॥
English: The fool can never shine in the world by speaking out his own praise. The man, however, of real merit and learning acquires celebrity even if he be hidden in a pit.
Sanskrit: असदुच्चैरपि प्रोक्तः शब्दः समुपशाम्यति। दीप्यते त्वेव लोकेषु शनैरपि सुभाषितम्॥
English: Evil words, uttered with what strength of voice, die out. Good words, uttered, however softly, shine forth in the world.
Sanskrit: मूढानामवलिप्तानामसारं भाषितं बहु। दर्शयत्यन्तरात्मानमग्निरूपमिवांशुमान्॥
English: As the Sun shows his fiery form so the multitude of words, of little sense, that fools filled with vanity give vent to show their hearts.
Sanskrit: एतस्मात् कारणात् प्रज्ञां मृगयन्ते पृथग्विधाम्। प्रज्ञालाभो हि भूतानामुत्तमः प्रतिभाति मे॥
English: For these reasons men try to acquire wisdom of various sorts. It appears to me that of all acquisitions that of wisdom is the most precious.
Sanskrit: नापृष्टः कस्यचिद् ब्रूयान्नाप्यन्यायेन पृच्छतः। ज्ञानवानपि मेधावी जडवत् समुपाविशेत्॥
English: One should not speak until one is asked; nor should one speak when one is asked improperly. Even if endued with intelligence and knowledge, one should still sit in silence like an idiot.
Sanskrit: ततो वासं परीक्षेत धर्मनित्येषु साधुषु। मनुष्येषु वदान्येषु स्वधर्मनिरतेषु च।॥
English: One should seek to live among honest men given to righteousness and liberality and the observance of the duties of their own order,
Sanskrit: चतुर्णां यत्र वर्णानां धर्मव्यतिकरो भवेत्। न तत्र वासं कुर्वीत श्रेयोऽर्थी वै कथंचन॥
English: One desirous of acquiring what is excellent should never live in a place where people make a confusion of their respective duties.
Sanskrit: निरारम्भोऽप्ययमिह यथालब्धोपजीवनः। पुण्यं पुण्येषु विमलं पापं पापेषु चाप्नुयात्॥
English: A person may be seen to live who abstains from all works and who is well-content with whatever little is gained without exertion. By living amid the righteous, one succeeds in acquiring pure virtue, Similarly one by living amid the sinful, becomes sullied with sin.
Sanskrit: अपामग्नेस्तथेन्दोश्च स्पर्श वेदयते यथा। तथा पश्यामहे स्पर्शमुभयोः पुण्यपापयोः॥
English: As the touch of water or fire or the rays of the moon immediately carry the sensation of cold or heat, similarly the impressions of virtue and vice create happiness or misery.
Sanskrit: अपश्यन्तोऽनुविषयं भुञ्जते विघसाशिनः। भुजानाश्चात्मविषयान् विषयान् विद्धि कर्मणाम्॥
English: Those who eat Vighasa eat without marking the flavours of the foods placed before them. They, however, who eat carefully marking the flavours of the duties prepared for them, should be known as persons still fettered by the bonds of action.
Sanskrit: यत्रागमयमानानामसत्कारेण पृच्छताम्। प्रब्रूयाद् ब्रह्मणो धर्मं त्यजेत् तं देशमात्मवान्॥
English: The pious men should leave that place where a Brahmana describes duties to disciples desirous of acquiring knowledge, as based on reasons, of the Soul, but who do not reverentially enquire after such knowledge.
Sanskrit: शिष्योपाध्यायिकावृत्तिर्यत्र स्यात् सुसमाहिता। यथावच्छास्त्रसम्पन्ना कस्तं देशं परित्यजेत्॥
English: Who, however, will leave that place where exists fully that conduct between disciples and preceptors which is consistent with what has been sanctioned by the scriptures?
Sanskrit: आकाशस्था ध्रुवं यत्र दोषं ब्रूयुर्विपश्चिताम्। आत्मपूजाभिकामो वै को वसेत् तत्र पण्डितः॥
English: What learned man who cares for his respect will live there where people talk about the faults of the learned even when such have no foundations to stand upon?
Sanskrit: यत्र संलोडिता लुब्धैः प्रायशो धर्मसेतवः। प्रदीप्तमिव चैलान्तं कस्तं देशं न संत्यजेत्॥
English: Who is there that will not leave that place, like a garment whose end has caught fire, where covetous men tries to break down the limits of virtue?
Sanskrit: यत्र धर्ममनाशङ्काश्चरेयुर्वीतमत्सराः। भवेत् तत्र वसेच्चैव पुण्यशीलेषु साधुषु॥
English: One should remain and live in that place, among good men of pious disposition, where persons possessed of humility are engaged in fearlessly practising the duties of religion.
Sanskrit: धर्ममर्थनिमित्तं च चरेयुर्यत्र मानवाः। न ताननुवसेज्जातु ते हि पापकृतो जनाः॥
English: One should not dwell there where men practise the duties of religion for the sake of wealth and other worldly purposes, for the people of that place are all to be considered as sinful.
Sanskrit: कर्मणा यत्र पापेन वर्तन्ते जीवितेप्सवः। व्यवधावेत् ततस्तूर्णं ससर्पाच्छरणादिव॥
English: One should fly away quickly from that place, as if from a room which there is a snake, where the inhabitants, desirous of acquiring the means of life, are engaged in the practice of sinful deeds.
Sanskrit: येन खट्वां समारूढः कर्मणानुशयी भवेत्। आदितस्तन्न कर्तव्यमिच्छता भवमात्मनः॥
English: One desirous of what is wholesome, should, from the beginning, avoid that act for which one becomes stretched, as it were, on a bed of thorns and for which one becomes invested with the desires born of the pristine deeds.
Sanskrit: यत्र राजा च राज्ञश्च पुरुषाः प्रत्यनन्तराः। कुटुम्बिनामग्रभुजस्त्यजेत् तद् राष्ट्रमात्मवान्।॥
English: The pious man should leave that kingdom where the king and the king's officers exercise equal authority and where people eat before feeding their relatives.
Sanskrit: श्रोत्रियास्त्वग्रभोक्तारो धर्मनित्याः सनातनाः। याजनाध्यापने युक्ता यत्र तद् राष्ट्रमावसेत्॥
English: One should live in that country where Brahmanas having a knowledge of the scriptures are fed first; where they always practise religious duties, and where they are engaged in teaching disciples and officiating at the sacrifices of others.
Sanskrit: स्वाहास्वधावषट्कारा यत्र सम्यगनुष्ठिताः। अजस्रं चैव वर्तन्ते वसेत् तत्राविचारयन्॥
English: One should unhesitatingly live in that country where the sounds Svaha, Svadha, and Vashat are duly and continuously uttered.
Sanskrit: अशुचीन् यत्र पश्येत ब्राह्मणान् वृत्तिकर्शितान्। त्यजेत् तद् राष्ट्रमासन्नमुपसृष्टमिवामिषम्॥
English: One should leave that kingdom, like poisoned meat, where one sees Brahmanas compelled to follow unholy practices, by want of the means of life.
Sanskrit: प्रीयमाणा नरा यत्र प्रयच्छेयुरयाचिताः। स्वस्थचित्तो वसेत् तत्र कृतकृत्य इवात्मवान्॥
English: With a contented heart and considering all his wishes as already gratified, a pious man should live in that country whose denizens gladly give away before even they are asked.
Sanskrit: दण्डो यत्राविनीतेषु सत्कारश्च कृतात्मसु। चरेत् तत्र वसेच्चेव पुण्यशीलेषु साधुषु॥
English: One should live and move about, among good men devoted to pious acts in that country where the wicked are punished, and where respect and good offices are done to those who are of controlled and purified souls.
Sanskrit: उपसृष्टेषु दान्तेषु दुराचारेषु साधुषु। अविनीतेषु लुब्धेषु सुमहद् दण्डधारणम्॥ यत्र राजा धर्मनित्यो राज्यं धर्मेण पालयेत्। अपास्य कामान् कामेशो वसेत् तत्राविचारयन्॥
English: One should unhesitatingly live in that country whose king is given to virtue and which the king rules virtuously, casting off desires and possessed of prosperity, and where severe punishment is inflicted on those who subject self-controlled to the consequences of their anger, on those who treat men treat wickedly the righteous, on those who commit acts of violence, and on the covetious.
Sanskrit: यथाशीला हि राजानः सर्वान् विषयवासिनः। श्रेयसा योजयत्याशु श्रेयसि प्रत्युपस्थिते॥
English: Kings endued with such a disposition, secure the prosperity of those who live in their kingdoms when prosperity is on the point of leaving them.
Sanskrit: पृच्छतस्ते मया तात श्रेय एतदुदाहृतम्। न हि शक्यं प्रधानेन श्रेयः संख्यातुमात्मनः॥
English: I have thus told you, O son, in answer to you enquiry, what is beneficial or excellent. No one can describe, on account of its exceedingly high character, what is beneficial or excellent for the Soul.
Sanskrit: एवं प्रवर्तमानस्य वृत्तिं प्राणिहितात्मनः। तपसैवेह बहुलं श्रेयो व्यक्तं भविष्यति॥
English: Many and high will the excellences be, through the performance of the duties laid down for his, of the man who for earning his livelihood during the time of his stay in this world, acts in the way indicated above and who devotes his soul to the well-being of creatures.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच कथं नु युक्तः पृथिवीं चरेदस्मद्विधो नृपः। नित्यं कैश्च गुणैर्युक्तः संगपाशाद् विमुच्यते॥
English: Yudhishthira said How, O grandfather, should a king like us act in this world, keeping in view the great object of acquisition? What attributes, again, should he always possess so that he may be liberated from attachments.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच अत्र ते वर्तयिष्येऽहमितिहासं पुरातनम्। अरिष्टनेमिना प्रोक्तं सगरायानुपृच्छते॥
English: Bhishma said-I shall in this connection recite to you the old narrative that was uttered by Arishtanemi to Sagara who had sought his advice.
Sanskrit: सगर उवाच किं श्रेयः परमं ब्रह्मन् कृत्वेह सुखमश्नुते। कथं न शोचेन्न क्षुभ्येदेतदिच्छामि वेदितुम्॥
English: Sagara said What is that good, O Brahmana, by doing which one may enjoy happiness here? How, indeed, may one avoid grief and agitation? I wish to know all this.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच एवमुक्तस्तदा तार्क्ष्यः सर्वशास्त्रविदां वरः। विबुध्य सम्पदं चाग्र्यां सद्वाक्यमिदमब्रवीत्॥
English: Bhishma said Thus addressed by Sagara, Arishtanemi of Tarkshya's race, conversant with all the scriptures, considering the enquiries ad deserving fully of his instructions, said these words:सुखं मोक्षसुखं लोके न च मूढोऽवगच्छति।
Sanskrit: प्रसक्तः पुत्रपशुषु धनधान्यसमाकुलः॥
English: The happiness of Liberation is true happiness in the world. The ignorant man knows is not, attached, as he is, to children and animals and possessed of riches and corn.
Sanskrit: सक्तबुद्धिरशान्तात्मा न शक्यं तच्चिकित्सितुम्। स्नेहपाशसितो मूढो न स मोक्षाय कल्पते॥
English: The understanding that is attached to worldly objects and the longing mind baffle all skilful treatment. The ignorant man who is bound is the fetters of affection cannot acquire Liberation.
Sanskrit: स्नेहजानिह ते पाशान् वक्ष्यामि शृणु तान् मम। सकर्णकेन शिरसा शक्याः श्रोतुं विजानता॥
English: I shall now describe to you all the fetters which originate from the affections. Hear them with attention. Indeed, they can be heard with profit by one who is endued with knowledge.
Sanskrit: सम्भाव्य पुत्रान् कालेन यौवनस्थान् विवेश्य च। समर्थान् जीवने ज्ञात्वा मुक्तश्चर यथासुखम्॥
English: Having procreated children in due time and married them when they become young men, and having found them to be competent for earning their livelihood, do you free youself from all attachments and rove about happily.
Sanskrit: भार्यां पुत्रवती वृद्धां लालितां पुत्रवत्सलाम्। ज्ञात्वा प्रजहि कालेन परार्थमनुदृश्य च॥
English: When you find you dear consort grown old in years and attached to the son she has given birth to, do you leave her in time, keeping in view the highest object of acquisition.
Sanskrit: सापत्यो निरपत्यो वा मुक्तश्चर यथासुखम्। इन्द्रियैरिन्द्रियार्थांस्त्वमनुभूय यथाविधि॥
English: Whether you get a son or not, having, during the first years of your life, duly enjoyed with your senses the objects thereof, liberate yourself from attachments and rove about in happiness.
Sanskrit: कृतकौतूहलस्तेषु मुक्तश्चर यथासुखम्। उपपत्त्योपलब्धेषु लोकेषु च समो भव॥
English: Having satisfied the senses with their objects, you should suppress the desire of further indulging them. Liberating yourself from attachments, you should rove in happiness, contenting yourself with what is got without exertion and previous calculation, and loO king impartially towards all creatures and objects.
Sanskrit: एष तावत् समासेन तव संकीर्तितो मया। मोक्षार्थो विस्तरेणाथ भूयो वक्ष्यामि तच्छृणु॥
English: Thus, O son, have I told you briefly. Hear me now, for I shall tell you fully, the desirability of the acquisition of Liberation.
Sanskrit: मुक्ता वीतभया लोके चरन्ति सुखिनो नराः। सक्तभावा विनश्यन्ति नरास्तत्र न संशयः॥
English: Those persons who live in this world shorn of attachments and fear, succeed in acquiring happiness. Those persons, however, who are attached to worldly objects, forsooth, meet with destruction,
Sanskrit: आहारसंचयाश्चैव तथा कीटपिपीलिकाः। असक्ताः सुखिनो लोके सक्ताश्चैव विनाशिनः॥
English: Worms and ants are engaged in the acquisition of food and are seen to die in the search. They who are shorn or attachments are happy, while they who are attached to worldly objects meet with destruction.
Sanskrit: स्वजने न च ते चिन्ता कर्तव्या मोक्षबुद्धिना। इमे मया विनाभूता भविष्यन्ति कथं त्विति॥
English: If you wish to acquire Liberation you should never place your thoughts on your relatives, thinking, How shall these live without me?
Sanskrit: स्वयमुत्पद्यते जन्तुः स्वयमेव विवर्धते। सुखदुःखे तथा मृत्यु स्वयमेवाधिगच्छति॥
English: A living creature takes birth by himself, and, grow by himself, and acquires happiness and misery, and death by himself.
Sanskrit: भोजनाच्छादने चैव मात्रा पित्रा च संग्रहम्। स्वकृतेनाधिगच्छन्ति लोके नास्त्यकृतं पुरा॥
English: In this world people enjoy and obtain good and cloth and other acquisitions acquired by either their parents or themselves. This is the result of the acts of pristine lives, for nothing can be had in this life which is not the result of the past.
Sanskrit: धात्रा विहितभक्ष्याणि सर्वभूतानि मेदिनीम्। लोके विपरिधावन्ति रक्षितानि स्वकर्मभिः॥
English: All creatures live on the Earth, protected by their own acts, and acquiring their food as the result of what is ordained by Him who allots the fruits of acts.
Sanskrit: स्वयं मृत्पिण्डभूतस्य परतन्त्रस्य सर्वदा। को हेतुः स्वजनं षोष्टुं रक्षितुं वादृढात्मनः॥
English: A man is but a lump of clay, and always depends completely on their forces. A man, being thus so weak, what rational motive can one have for protecting and feeding his relatives?
Sanskrit: स्वजनं हि यदा मृत्युर्हन्त्येव तव पश्यतः। कृतेऽपि यत्ने महति तत्र बोद्धव्यमात्मना॥
English: When your relatives are carried away by Death in your very presence and despite you utmost efforts to save them, that circumstance alone should awaken you.
Sanskrit: जीवन्तमपि चैवैनं भरणे रक्षणे तथा। असमाप्ते परित्यज्य पश्चादपि मरिष्यसि॥
English: In the very life-time of your relatives and before own duty is completed of feeding and protecting them, you may yourself die and leave them.
Sanskrit: यदा मृतं च स्वजनं न ज्ञास्यसि कदाचन। सुखितं दुःखितं वापि ननु बोद्धव्यमात्मना॥
English: After your relatives have been carried away from this world by death, you cannot know what becomes of them there,—that is, whether they are happy or miserable. This fact ought to awaken you.
Sanskrit: मृते वा त्वयि जीवे वा यदा भोक्ष्यति वै जनः। स्वकृतं ननु बुद्ध्वैवं कर्तव्यं हितमात्मनः॥
English: When on account of the fruits of their own acts your relatives can maintain themselves in this world whether you live or die, thinking of this you should do what is for your own wellbeing.
Sanskrit: एवं विजानल्लोकेऽस्मिन् कः कस्येत्यभिनिश्चितः। मोक्षे निवेशय मनो भूयश्चाप्युपधारय॥
English: When such is the case, who is the world is to be considered as whose? Do you, therefore, think of acquiring Liberation. Hear now what more I shall say to you.
Sanskrit: क्षुत्पिपासादयो भावा जिता यस्येह देहिनः। क्रोधोलोभस्तथा मोहः सत्त्वन् मुक्त एव सः॥
English: That man of firm Soul, forsooth, liberated who has conquered hunger and thirst and such other states of the body, as also anger and cupidity and error.
Sanskrit: द्यूते पाने तथा स्त्रीषु मृगयायां च यो नरः। न प्रमाद्यति सम्मोहात् सततं मुक्त एव सः॥
English: That man is always liberated who does not forget himself, through folly, by indulging in gambling and drinking and concubinage and the chase.
Sanskrit: दिवसे दिवसे नाम रात्रौ रात्रौ पुमान् सदा। भोक्तव्यमिति यः खिन्नो दोषबुद्धिः स उच्यते॥
English: That man who is really affected by sorrow for being compelled to eat every day and every night for maintaining life, is said to be congnisant of the faults of life.
Sanskrit: आत्मभावं तथा स्त्रीषु मुक्तमेव पुनः पुनः। यः पश्यति सदा युक्तो यथावन्मुक्त एव सः॥
English: Once who, as the outcome of careful reflection, considers his repeated births as due to sexual congress with women, is held to be freed from attachments.
Sanskrit: सम्भवं च विनाशं च भूताना चेष्टितं तथा। यस्तत्त्वतो विजानाति लोकेऽस्मिन् मुक्त एव सः॥
English: That man is certainly Liberated who knows truly the nature of the birth, the destruction, and the acts of living creatures.
Sanskrit: प्रस्थं वाहसहस्रेषु यात्रार्थं चैव कोटिषु। प्रासादे मञ्चकं स्थानं यः पश्यति स मुच्यते॥
English: That man becomes certainly freed who seeks only a handful of corn, for the support of life, from amidst millions upon millions of carts loaded with gain, and who finds no difference between a shad of bamboo and reeds and a palace.
Sanskrit: मृत्युनाभ्याहतं लोकं व्याधिभिश्चोपपीडितम्। अवृत्तिकर्शितं चैव यः पश्यति स मुच्यते॥
English: That man becomes certainly freed who seeks the world as afflicted by death, disease and famine.
Sanskrit: यः पश्यति स संतुष्टो न पश्यंश्च विहन्यते। यश्चाप्यल्पेन संतुष्टो लोकेऽस्मिन् मुक्त एव सः॥
English: Indeed, one who sees the world to consist of eaters and edibles, and who is never affected by pleasure and pain begotten by illusion, is considered as liberated.
Sanskrit: अग्नीषोमाविदं सर्वमिति यश्चानुपश्यति। न च संस्पृश्यते भावैरद्भुतैर्मुक्त एव सः॥
English: One, who sees all the objects in the form of Fire and Soma, he is never affected by wonderful pleasures and is considered as liberated.
Sanskrit: पर्यङ्कशय्या भूमिश्च समाने यस्य देहिनः। शालयश्च कदन्नं च यस्य स्यान्मुक्त एव सः॥
English: That man who considers a soft bed on a fine bed-stead and the hard ground as equal, and who considers good shali rice and hard thick rice as equal, is liberated.
Sanskrit: क्षौमं च कुशचीरं च कौशेयं वल्कलानि च। आविकं चर्म च समं यस्य स्यान्मुक्त एव सः॥
English: That man who considers linen and cloth made of grass as equal, and who considers cloth of silk and barks of trees as the same, and who sees no difference between cleans sheepskin and unclean leather, is liberated.
Sanskrit: पञ्चभूतसमुद्भूतं लोकं यश्चानुपश्यति। तथा च वर्तते दृष्ट्वा लोकेऽस्मिन् मुक्त एव सः॥
English: That man who considers this world as the result of the combination of the five principal elements, and who acts in this world, keeping this notion foremost, is liberated.
Sanskrit: सुखदुःखे समे यस्य लाभालाभौ जयाजयौ। इच्छाद्वेषौ भयोद्वेगौ सर्वथा मुक्त एव सः॥
English: That man who considers pleasure and pain in the same light and gain and loss as equal, and victory and defeat as the same to whom like and dislike are the same, and who is unmoved under fear and anxiety, is perfectly liberated.
Sanskrit: रक्तमूत्रपुरीषाणां दोषाणां संचयांस्तथा। शरीरं दोषबहुलं दृष्ट्वा चैव विमुच्यते॥
English: That man who considers his body which had so many inperfections, to be only a mass of blood, urine and excreta, as also of disorders and diseases, is liberated,
Sanskrit: वलीपलितसंयोगे कायँ वैवर्ण्यमेव च। कुब्जभावं च जरया यः पश्यति स मुच्यते॥
English: That man becomes liberated who always recollects that this body, when possessed by decrepitude, becomes assailed by wrinkless and white hairs and leanness and paleness of complexion and a bending of the form.
Sanskrit: पुंस्त्वोपघातं कालेन दर्शनोपरमं तथा। बाधिर्यं प्राणमन्दत्वं यः पश्यति स मुच्यते॥
English: That man who considers his body as subject to loss of power, weakness of sight, deafness, and loss of strength, is liberated.
Sanskrit: गतानृषींस्तथा देवानसुरांश्च तथा गतान्। लोकादस्मात् परं लोकं यः पश्यति स मुच्यते॥
English: That man who knows that the very Rishis, the gods, and the Asuras are beings that have to depart form their respective spheres to other regions, is liberated.
Sanskrit: प्रभावैरन्वितास्तैस्तैः पार्थिवेन्द्राः सहस्रशः। ये गताः पृथिवींत्यत्वा इति ज्ञात्वा विमुच्यते॥
English: That man who knows that thousands of kings possessed of even great power have dies, succeeds in becoming liberated.
Sanskrit: अर्थांश्च दुर्लभाँल्लोके क्लेशांश्च सुलभांस्तथा। दुःखं चैव कुटुम्बार्थे यः पश्यति स मुच्यते॥
English: That man who knows that in this world the acquisition of objects is always hard, that pain of profuse, and that the maintenance of relative is always painful becomes liberated.
Sanskrit: अपत्यानां च वैगुण्यं जनं विगुणमेव च। पश्यन् भूयिष्ठशो लोके को मोक्षं नाभिपूजयेत्॥
English: Seeing the abundant faults of children and of other men, who is there that would worship Liberation?
Sanskrit: शास्त्राल्लोकाच्च यो बुद्धः सर्वं पश्यति मानवः। असारमिव मानुष्यं सर्वथा मुक्त एव सः॥
English: That man who, enlightened by the scriptures and the experience of the world sees every human concern in this world to be unreal, becomes liberated.
Sanskrit: एतच्छ्रुत्वा मम वचो भवांश्चरतु मुक्तवत्। गार्हस्थ्ये यदि वा मोक्षे कृता बुद्धिरविक्लवा॥
English: Remembering these words of mine, do you act like one who has become liberated, whether it is a life of domesticity that you would lead or pursue Liberation without allowing your understanding to be confounded.
Sanskrit: तत् तस्य वचनं श्रुत्वा सम्यक् स पृथिवीपतिः। मोक्षजैश्च गुणैर्युक्तः पालयामास च प्रजाः॥
English: Hearing these words of his with attention, king Sagara, acquired those virtues which yield liberation and continued, with their help to rule his subjects.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच तिष्ठते मे सदा तात कौतूहलमिदं हृदि। तदहं श्रोतुमिच्छामि त्वत्तः कुरुपितामह॥
English: Yudhishthira said This curiosity, O sire, is always living in my mind. O grandfather to the Kurus, I wish to hear everything about it form you!
Sanskrit: कथं देवर्षिरुशना सदा काव्यो महामतिः। असुराणां प्रियकरः सुराणामप्रिये रतः॥
English: Why was the celestial Rishi, the great Ushanas, called also Kavi, engaged in doing what was agreeable to the Asuras and disagreeable to the gods.
Sanskrit: वर्धयामास तेजश्च किमर्थममितौजसाम्। नित्यं वैरनिबद्धाश्च दानवाः सुरसत्तमैः॥
English: Why was he engaged in diminishing the energy of the gods? Why the Danavas always fought with the foremost of the gods.
Sanskrit: कथं चाप्युशना प्राप शुक्रत्वममरद्युतिः। ऋद्धिं च स कथं प्राप्तः सर्वमेतद् वदस्व मे॥
English: Endued with the effulgence of an immortal, why did Ushanas obtain the name of Shukra? How also did he acquire such superior excellence? Tell me all about these things.
Sanskrit: न याति च स तेजस्वी मध्येन नभसः कथम्। एतदिच्छामि विज्ञातुं निखिलेन पितामह॥
English: Though highly energetic, why can he not go to the centre of the sky? I wish, O grandfather, to learn everything about all these matters.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच शृणु राजन्नवहितः सर्वमेतद् यथातथम्। यथामति यथा चैतच्छुतपूर्वं मयानघ॥
English: Bhishma said Listen, O king, attentively to all this as it actually took place, O sinless one, I shall describe these masters to you as I have heard and understood them.
Sanskrit: एष भार्गवदायादो मुनिर्मान्यो दृढव्रतः। सुराणां विप्रियकरो निमित्ते कारणात्मके॥
English: O firm vows and respected by all, Ushanas, that descendant of Bhrigu's race, became engaged in doing what was disagreeable to the gods for some good cause.
Sanskrit: इन्द्रोऽथ धनदो राजा यक्षरक्षोऽधियः सदा। प्रभविष्णुश्च कोशस्य जगतश्च तथा प्रभुः॥
English: The royal Kuvera, the chief of the Yakshas and the Rakshas, is the lord of the wealth of Indra, that master of the universe.
Sanskrit: तस्यात्मानमथाविश्य योगसिद्धो महामुनिः। रुद्ध्वा धनपतिं देवं योगेन हतवान् वसु॥
English: The great ascetic Ushanas, crowned with Yoga-success, entered the person of Kuvera, and depriving the lord of wealth of his liberty by means of Yoga, robbed him of all his riches.
Sanskrit: हृते धने ततः शर्म न लेभे धनदस्तथा। आपन्नमन्युः संविग्नः सोऽभ्यगात् सुरसत्तमम्॥
English: Seeing his riches taken away from him, the lord of wealth became highly displeased. Filled anxiety, and his anger also being worked up, he want to that foremost of god, viz., Mahadeva.
Sanskrit: निवेदयामास तदा शिवायामिततेजसे। देवश्रेष्ठाय रुद्राय सौम्याय बहुरूपिणे॥
English: Kuvera reported the matter to Shiva of great energy, that first of gods, fierce and amiable, and endued with various forms.
Sanskrit: योगात्मकेनोशनसा रुद्ध्वा मम हृतं वसु। योगेनात्मगतं कृत्वा निःसृतश्च महातपाः॥
English: He said Ushanas, having spiritualised himself by Yoga, entered my body and depriving myself of liberty, has taken away all my riches. Having by Yoga entered my body he has again left it.