pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: नाभीतो यजते राजन् नाभीतो दातुमिच्छति। नाभीतः पुरुषः कश्चित् समये स्थातुमिच्छति॥
English: He that is without any fear, O king, never celebrates a sacrifice. He that is without fear never gives away. The man that is without any fear never desires to satisfy and engagement or contract.
Sanskrit: नाच्छित्त्वा परमर्माणि नाकृत्वा कर्म दुष्करम्। नाहत्वा मत्स्यघातीव प्राणोति महतीं श्रियम्॥
English: Without cutting the vital parts of others, without performing the most difficult deeds, and without killing creatures like a fisherman (slaying fish), no person can acquire great prosperity.
Sanskrit: नाघ्नतः कीर्तिरस्तीह न वित्तं न पुनः प्रजाः। इन्द्रो वृत्रवधेनैव महेन्द्रः समपद्यत॥
English: Without slaughter no man has been able to acquire fame in this world or wealth or subjects. Indra himself, by killing Vritra, became the great Indra.
Sanskrit: य एव देवा हन्तारस्ताँल्लोकोऽर्चयते भृशम्। हन्ता रुद्रस्तथा स्कन्दः शक्रोऽग्निवरुणो यमः॥
English: Those amongst the gods that are giving to killing others are worshipped much more by inen. Rudra, Skanda, Shakra, Agni, Varuna, are all destroyers.
Sanskrit: हन्ता कालस्तथा वायुर्मुत्युर्वैश्रवणो रविः। वसवो मरुतः साध्या विश्वेदेवाश्च भारत॥
English: Kala and Mrityu and Vayu and Kubera and Surya, the Vasus, the Maruts, the Saddhyas and the Vishvedevas, O Bharata, are all destroyers.
Sanskrit: एतान् देवान् नमस्यन्ति प्रतापप्रणता जनाः। न ब्रह्माणं न धातारं न पूषाणं कथंचना॥
English: Humiliated by their power, all people bow to these gods, but not to Brahmana or Dhatri or Pushan at any time.
Sanskrit: मध्यस्थान् सर्वभूतेषु दान्ताशमपरायणान्। यजन्ते मानवाः केचित् प्रशान्ताः सर्वकर्मसु॥
English: Only a few noble-ininded men worship in all their acts those among the gods who treat all creatures equally and who are self-restrained and peaceful.
Sanskrit: न हि पश्यामि जीवन्तं लोके कञ्चिदहिंसया। सत्त्वैः सत्त्वा हि जीवन्ति दुर्बलैर्बलवत्तराः॥
English: I do not see any such creature in this world that supports life without doing any act of injury to others. Animals live upon animals, the stronger upon the weaker.
Sanskrit: नकुलो मूषिकानत्ति बिडालो नकुलं तथा। विडालमत्तिश्वा राजश्वानं व्यालमृगस्तथा॥
English: The mungoose eats up mice; the cat eats up inungoose; the dog eats up the cat; the dog again is devoured by the spotted leopard.
Sanskrit: तानत्तिं पुरुषः सर्वान् पश्य कालो यथागतः। प्राणस्यान्नमिदं सर्वं जङ्गमं स्थावरं च यत्॥
English: Behold, all things again are eaten up by the Destroyer when he comes! This mobile and immobile universe is food for living creatures.
Sanskrit: विधानं दैवविहितं तत्र विद्वान् न मुह्यति। यथा सृष्टोऽसि राजेन्द्र तथा भवितुमर्हसि॥
English: This has been ordained by the celestials. The learned man, therefore, is never stupefied at it. You should, O great king, become what you are by birth!
Sanskrit: विनीतक्रोधहर्षा हि मन्दा वनमुपाश्रिताः। विना वधं न कुर्वन्ति तापसा: प्राणयापनम्॥
English: Only the foolish (Kshatriyas) controlling anger and joy, dwell in the woods. The very ascetics cannot maintain their lives without killing creatures.
Sanskrit: उदके बहवः प्राणाः पृथिव्यां च फलेषु च। न च कश्चिन्न तान् हन्ति किमन्यत् प्राणयापनात्॥
English: Innumerable creature live in water, on earth and in fruits. It is not true that one does not kill them. What greater duty is there than supporting one's life?
Sanskrit: सूक्ष्मयोनीनि भूतानि तर्कगम्यानि कानिचित्। पक्ष्मणोऽपि निपातेन येषां स्यात् स्कन्धपर्ययः॥
English: There are many creatures that are so ininute that their existence is not perceptible. The falling of the eyelids even kills them.
Sanskrit: ग्रामान् निष्क्रम्य मुनयो विगतक्रोधमत्सराः। वने कुटुम्बधर्माणो दृश्यन्ते परिमोहिताः॥
English: There are men who controlling anger and pride love like ascetics and abandoning villages and towns repair to the forests. Coming there, those men become so stupefied that they live like householder again.
Sanskrit: भूमि भित्त्वौषधीश्छित्त्वा वृक्षादीनण्डजान् पशून्। मनुष्यास्तन्वते यज्ञास्ते स्वर्ग प्राप्नुवन्ति च॥
English: Others living like householders and tilling the soil, uprooting herbs, cutting off trees and killing birds and animals celebrate sacrifices and at last attain to heaven.
Sanskrit: दण्डनीत्यां प्रणीतायां सर्वे सिद्ध्यन्त्युपक्रमाः। कौन्तेय सर्वभूतानां तत्र मे नास्ति संशयः॥
English: O son of Kunti, I am sure that the acts of all creatures become successful only when the policy of chastisement is properly applied.
Sanskrit: दण्डचेन्न भवेल्लोके विनश्येयुरिमाः प्रजाः। जले मत्स्यानिवाभक्ष्यन् दुर्बलान् बलवत्तराः॥
English: If chastisement were done away with in this word, creatures would soon be destroyed. Like fishes in the water, stronger animals devour the weaker.
Sanskrit: सत्यं चेदं ब्रह्मणा पूर्वमुक्तं दण्डः प्रजा रक्षति साधु नीतः। पश्याग्नयश्च प्रतिशाम्य भीताः संतर्जिता दण्डभयाज्ज्वलन्ति॥
English: Formerly Brahman himself, said that chastisement, properly applied, maintains creatures. Behold, the very fires, when put out, blaze up again, in fright, when blown! This is owing to the fear of force.
Sanskrit: अन्धं तम इवेदं स्यान्न प्राज्ञायत किंचना दण्डश्चेन्न भवेल्लोके विभजन साध्वसाधुनी॥
English: If there were no chastisement in the world differentiating the good from the evil, the whole world would have been covered with sheer darkness and all things would have been unsettled.
Sanskrit: येऽपि सम्भिन्नमर्यादा नास्तिका वेदनिन्दकाः। तेऽपि भोगाय कल्पन्ते दण्डेनाशु निपीडिताः॥
English: By chastisement the violators of laws, the atheists and scoffers of the Vedas, soon become disposed to observe rules and regulations.
Sanskrit: सर्वो दण्डजितो लोको दुर्लभो हि शुचिर्जनः। दण्डस्य हि भयाद् भीतो भोगायैव प्रवर्तते॥
English: Every one in this world is kept all right by chastisement. A person by nature pure and pious is rare. In fear of chastisement, man becomes disposed to observe rules and restrictions.
Sanskrit: चातुर्वर्ण्यप्रमोदाय सुनीतिनयनाय च। दण्डो विधात्रा विहितो धर्मार्थी भुवि रक्षितुम्॥
English: Chastisement was introduced by the Creator himself for protecting Religion and Profit, for the happiness of all the four orders, and for making thein pious and humble.
Sanskrit: यदि दण्डान्न बिभ्येयुर्वयांसि श्वापदानि च। अधुः पशून् मनुष्यांश्च यज्ञार्थानि हवींषि च॥
English: If there had been no fear of chastisement, then ravens and beasts of prey would have devoured all other animals and men and the clarified butter intended for sacrifices.
Sanskrit: न ब्रह्मचार्यधीयीत कल्याणी गौर्न दुह्यते। न कन्योद्वहनं गच्छेद् यदि दण्डो न पालयेत्॥
English: If chastisement did not keep up and protect (the world), then no body would have read the Vedas, nobody would have milked a milch cow, and no maiden would have married.
Sanskrit: विष्वग्लोपः प्रवर्तेत भिधेरन् सर्वसेतवः। ममत्वं न प्रजानीयुर्यदि दण्डो न पालयेत्॥
English: If chastisement did not uphold and protect, then destruction and confusion would have prevailed everywhere and all restrictions would have disappeared, and the idea of property would have gone away.
Sanskrit: न संवत्सरसत्राणि तिष्ठेयुरकुतोभयाः। विधिवद् दक्षिणावन्ति यदि दण्डो न पालयेत्॥
English: If chastisement did not uphold and protect, people could never duly celebrate annual sacrifices with profuse presents.
Sanskrit: चरेयुर्नाश्रमे धर्म यथोक्तं विधिमाश्रिताः। न विद्यां प्राप्नुयात् कश्चिद् यदि दण्डो न पालयेत्।।४०
English: If chastisement did not uphold and protect, no one would observe the duties of his own order as sanctioned (in the scriptures), and no one would have succeeded in gaining knowledge.
Sanskrit: न चोष्टा न बलीव नाश्वाश्वतरगर्दभाः। युक्ता वहेयुर्यानानि यदि दण्डो न पालयेत्॥
English: If chastisement did not reign supreme, neither, nor asses, would, even if yoked thereto, would carry cars and carriages.
Sanskrit: न प्रेष्या वचनं कुर्युर्न बाला जातु कर्हिचित्। न तिष्ठेद् युवती धर्मे यदि दण्डो न पालयेत्॥ दण्डे स्थिताः प्रजाः सर्वा भयं दण्डे विदुर्बुधाः। दण्डे स्वर्गो मनुष्याणां लोकोऽयं सुप्रतिष्ठितः॥
English: All creatures depend upon chastisement. The learned, therefore, declare that chastisement is the root of all things. Upon chastisement rests the heaven that people seek, and upon il rests this world also.
Sanskrit: न तत्र कूटं पापं वा वञ्चना वापि दृश्यते। यत्र दण्डः सुविहितश्चरत्यरिविनाशनः॥
English: No sin, no falsehood, and no wickedness, is to be seen there where foe-destroying chastisement is properly used.
Sanskrit: हविःश्वा प्रलिहेद् दृष्ट्वा दण्डश्चेन्नोद्यतो भवेत्। हरेत् काकः पुरोडाशं यदि दण्डो न पालयेत्॥
English: If the rod of chastisement be not taken up, the dog will lick the sacrificial butter. If that rod were not raised up, the crow also would take away the first (sacrificial) offering.
Sanskrit: यदीदं धर्मतो राज्यं विहितं यद्यधर्मतः। कार्यस्तत्र शोको वै भुक्ष्व भोगान् यजस्व च॥
English: Fairly or unfairly, this kingdom has not been gained by us. Our duty now is to give up grief. Do you, therefore, enjoy it and celebrate sacrifices!
Sanskrit: सुखेन धर्मं श्रीमन्तश्चरन्ति शुचिवाससः। संवर्षन्तः फलैर्दानैर्भुजानाश्चान्नमुत्तमम्॥
English: Living with their dear wives the lucky men, cat good food, wear good clothes, and cheerfully acquire virtue by fruits and gifts.
Sanskrit: अर्थे सर्वे समारम्भाः समायत्ता न संशयः। स च दण्डे समायत्तः पश्य दण्डस्य गौरवम्॥
English: Forsooth, all our acts, depend on wealth : that wealth again depends on chastisement. Mark, therefore, the utility of chastisement!
Sanskrit: लोकयात्रार्थमेवेह धर्मप्रवचनं कृतम्। अहिंसासाधुहिंसेति श्रेयान् धर्मपरिग्रहः॥
English: Duties have been laid down for maintaining the various relations of the world. There are two things here, viz., abstention from injury and injury done with righteous motives, Of these two, that which brings in righteousness is preferable.
Sanskrit: नात्यन्तं गुणवत् किंचिन्न चाप्यत्यन्तनिर्गुणम्। उभयं सर्वकार्येषु दृश्यते साध्वसाधु वा॥
English: There is no act that is entirely pure, nor any that is entirely simple. In all acts, right or wrong, something of both prevails.
Sanskrit: पशूनां वृषणं छित्त्वा ततो भिन्दन्ति मस्तकम्। वहन्ति बहवो भारान् बध्नन्ति दमयन्ति च॥
English: Animals are castrated, and their horns are cut off. They are then compelled to carry weights are tethered, and beaten.
Sanskrit: एवं पर्याकुले लोके वितथैर्जर्जरीकृते। तैस्तैायैर्महाराज पुराणं धर्ममाचर॥
English: In this world that is unsubstantial full of abuses and painful, O king, do you practise the old customs of men, following rules and examples quoted above.
Sanskrit: यज्ञ देहि प्रजां रक्ष धर्म समनुपालय। अमित्राञ्जहि कौन्तेय मित्राणि परिपालय॥
English: Celebrate sacrifices, distribute alms, protect your subjects, and practise righteousness. Kill your enemies, O son of Kunti, and protect your friends.
Sanskrit: मा च ते निघ्नतः शत्रून् मन्युर्भवतु पार्थिव। न तत्र किल्बिषं किंचित् कर्तुर्भवति भारत।॥
English: Be not dispirited. O king, while killing enemies! He that does it, О Bharata, does not commit the slightest sin!
Sanskrit: आततायी हि यो हन्यादाततायिनमागतम्। न तेन भ्रूणहा स स्यान्मन्युस्तं मन्युमार्छति॥
English: He who takes up a weapon and kills an arined enemy advancing against him, does not incur the sin of killing a man, for it is the anger of the advancing enemy that excites the anger of the destroyer.
Sanskrit: अवध्यः सर्वभूतानामन्तरात्मा न संशयः। अवध्ये चात्मनि कथं वध्योभवति कस्यचित्॥
English: The soul of every creature cannot be killed. When the soul cannot be killed how then can one be killed by another?
Sanskrit: यथा हि पुरुषः शालां पुनः सम्प्रविशेन्नवाम्। एवं जीवः शरीराणि तानि तानि प्रपद्यते॥
English: As a person enters a new house, so does a creature put on successive bodies.
Sanskrit: देहान् पुराणानुत्सृज्य नवान् सम्प्रतिपद्यते। एवं मृत्युमुखं प्राहुर्जना ये तत्त्वदर्शिनः॥
English: Leaving behind decrepit bodies, a creature acquires new forms. People gifted with true insight consider this change as death.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच अर्जुनस्य वचः श्रुत्वा भीमसेनोऽत्यमर्षणः। धैर्यमास्थाय तेजस्वी ज्येष्ठं भ्रातरमब्रवीत्॥
English: Vaishampayana said After Arjuna had done the highly wrathful and energetic Bhimasena, collecting all his patience, said these words to his eldest brother:राजन् विदितधर्मोऽसि न तेऽस्त्यविदितं क्वचित्।
Sanskrit: उपशिक्षाम ते वृत्तं सदैव न च शक्नुमः॥
English: 'You are, O king, conversant with all duties. There is nothing unknown to you. We always wish to imitate your conduct, but, alas, we cannot do it.
Sanskrit: न वक्ष्यामि न वक्ष्यामीत्येवं मे मनसि स्थितम्। अतिदुःखात्तु वक्ष्यामि तन्निबोध जनाधिप॥
English: I had wished not to say anything. Excited, however, by great grief I am compelled to say something. Listen to these words of mine, O king.
Sanskrit: भवतः सम्प्रमोहेन सर्वं संशयितं कृतम्। विक्लवत्वं च नः प्राप्तमवलत्वं तथैव च॥
English: Everything has been imperilled by the bewilderment of your faculties, and ourselves are being made disspirited and weak.
Sanskrit: कथं हि राजा लोकस्य सर्वशास्त्रविशारदः। मोहमापद्यसे दैन्याद् यथा कापुरुषस्तथा॥
English: How is it that you who are the king of the world, you who are the master of all branches of knowledge, allow your understanding to be clouded, with depression like a coward?
Sanskrit: अगतिश्च गतिश्चैव लोकस्य विदिता तव। आयत्यां च तदात्वे च न तेऽस्त्यविदितंप्रभो॥
English: The fair and unfair paths of the world are known to you. Everything belonging either to the future or the present is known to you, O powerfiil one.
Sanskrit: एवं गते महाराज राज्यं प्रति जनाधिप। हेतुमत्र प्रवक्ष्यामि तमिहैकमनाः शृणु॥
English: When such in the case, O king, I will point out, O king, the reasons in favour of your assuming sovereignty. Listen to me with rapt attention.
Sanskrit: द्विविधो जायते व्याधिः शारीरो मानसस्तथा। परस्परं तयोर्जन्म निर्द्वन्द्वं नोपलभ्यते॥
English: There are two sorts of diseases, viz., physical and mental. Each originates from the other. None of them exists independently.
Sanskrit: शारीराज्जायते व्याधिर्मानसो नात्र संशयः। मानसाज्जायते वापि शारीर इति निश्चयः॥
English: Forsooth, mental diseases originate form physical ones. Likewise physical diseases originate from mental ones. This is the truth.
Sanskrit: शारीरं मानसं दुःखं योऽतीतमनुशोचति। दुःखेन लभते दुःखं द्वावनौँ च विन्दति॥
English: He who bewails for past physical or mental afflictions, reaps affliction from afflictions and suffers double afflictions.
Sanskrit: शीतोष्णे चैव वायुश्च त्रयः शारीरजा गुणाः। तेषां गुणानां साम्यं यत्तदाहुः स्वस्थलक्षणम्॥
English: Cold, heat, and winds,-are the three essentials of the body. Their harmonious existence indicates good heath.
Sanskrit: तेषामन्यतमोद्रेके विधानमुपदिश्यते। उष्णेन बाध्यते शीतं शीतेनोष्णं प्रबाध्यते॥
English: In case of one of the three prevailing over the rest, remedies have been prescribed. Cold is checked by heat, and heat is checked by cold.
Sanskrit: सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति मानसाः स्युस्त्रयो गुणाः। तेषां गुणानां साम्यं यत्तदाहुः स्वस्थलक्षणम्॥
English: Goodness, darkness, and ignorance are the three qualities of the mind. The harmonious existence of these three is the sign of (mental) health.
Sanskrit: तेषामन्यतमोत्सेके विधानमुपदिश्यते। हर्षेण बाध्यते शोको हर्षः शोकेन बाध्यते॥
English: If one of these reigns supreme over the rest, remedies have been laid down. Grief is checked by joy, and joy is checked by grief.
Sanskrit: कश्चित् सुखे वर्तमानो दुःखस्य स्मर्तुमिच्छति। कश्चिद् दुःखे वर्तमानः सुखस्य स्मर्तुमिच्छति॥ स त्वं न दुःखी दुःखस्य न सुखी च सुखस्य वा। न दुःखी सुखजातस्य न सुखी दुःखजस्य वा॥ स्मर्तुमिच्छसि कौरव्य दिष्टं हि बलवत्तरम्। अथवा ते स्वभावोऽयं येन पार्थिव क्लिश्यसे॥ दृष्ट्वा सभागतां कृष्णामेकवस्त्रां रजस्वलाम्। मिषतां पाण्डुपुत्राणां न तस्य स्मर्तुमर्हसि॥
English: One, living in the present enjoyment of happiness, wishes to recollect his past miseries. Another, suffering in the present woe, wishes to recollect his past happiness. You, however, were never sorry in grief or glad in happiness. You should not, therefore, use your memory for becoming sad during times of happiness, or glad during times of miseries. It seems that Destiny is omnipotent. Or, if it be your nature, which afflicts you, why do you not then remember the sight you saw before, viz., the scantily-clad Krishna dragged, while in her season, before the assembly?
Sanskrit: द्रौपद्या राजपुत्र्याश्च प्रव्राजनं च नगरादजिनैश्च विवासनम्। महारण्यनिवासश्च न तस्य स्मर्तुमर्हसि॥
English: Why do you not remember our expulsion from the (Kuru) city and our exile (into the forest clad in deer-skins, as also our, living in the great forests?
Sanskrit: जटासुरात् परिक्लेशं चित्रसेनेन चाहवम्। सैन्धवाच्च परिक्लेशं कथं विस्मृतवानसि॥
English: Why have you forgotten the woes inflicted by Jatasura, the battle with Chitrasena, and the miseries suffered at the hands of the Sindhu king?
Sanskrit: पुनरज्ञातचर्यायां कीचकेन पदा वधम्। कथं विस्मृतवानसि॥
English: Why have you forgotten the princess Draupadi kicked by Kichaka while we were living in concealment?
Sanskrit: यच्च ते द्रोणभीष्माभ्यां युद्धमासीदरिन्दम। मनसैकेन योद्धव्यं तत्ते युद्धमुपस्थितम्॥
English: A dreadful battle, O chastiser of foes, like that which you have fought with Bhishma and Drona is now before you, to be fought, (however) with your mind alone.
Sanskrit: यत्र नास्ति शरैः कार्यं न मित्रैर्न च बन्धुभिः । आत्मनैकेन योद्धव्यं तत्ते युद्धमुपस्थितम्॥
English: Indeed, a battle is now before you in which there is no necessity of arrows, friends, of relatives and kinsmen, but which will have to be fought with your mind only.
Sanskrit: तस्मिन्ननिर्जिते युद्धे प्राणान् यदि विमोक्ष्यसे। अन्यं देहं समास्थाय ततस्तैरपि योत्स्यसे॥
English: If you expire before conquering in this battle, then, assuming another body, you shall have to fight these very enemies again.
Sanskrit: तस्मादद्यैव गन्तव्यं युद्ध्यस्व भरतर्षभ। परमव्यक्तरूपस्य व्यक्तं त्यक्त्वा स्वकर्मभिः॥
English: Therefore, fight that battle this every day, O foremost of Bharata's race, not caring for your body, and helped by your own acts, conquer the enemy of your mind,
Sanskrit: तस्मिन्ननिर्जिते युद्धे कामवस्थां गमिष्यसि। एतजित्वा महाराज कृतकृत्यो भविष्यसि॥
English: If you cannot win that battle what will be your condition? On the other hand, by acquiring victory in it, O monarch, you shall have attained the great end of life.
Sanskrit: एतां बुद्धिं विनिश्चित्य भूतानामागतिं गतिम्। पितृपैतामहे वृत्ते शाधि राज्यं यथोचितम्॥
English: Applying your intellect to this, and determining the right and the wrong paths of creatures, follow the course of your forefathers and govern properly your kingdom.
Sanskrit: दिष्ट्या दुर्योधनः पापो निहतः सानुगो युधि। द्रौपद्याः केशपाशस्य दिष्ट्या त्वं पदवीं गतः॥
English: By good luck, O king, the sinful Duryodhana has been killed with all his followers. By good luck, you too, like Draupadi's locks, have regained your normal position.
Sanskrit: यजस्व वाजिमेधेन विधिवद् दक्षिणावता। वयं ते किंकराः पार्थ वासुदेवश्च वीर्यवान्॥
English: Celebrate with due rites and enough presents the horse-sacrifice. We are your servants, O son of Pritha, as also the highly energetic Vasudeva.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच तूष्णीम्भूतं तु राजानं पुनरेवार्जुनोऽब्रवीत्। संतप्तः शोकदुःखाभ्यां राजवाक्छल्यपीडितः॥
English: Vaishampayana said When after saying these words, Yudhishthira became silent, Arjuna, pained by that speech of the king, and burning with sorrow and grief, once more said to his eldest brother,
Sanskrit: अर्जुन उवाच कथयन्ति पुरावृत्तमितिहासमिमं जनाः। विदेहराज्ञः संवादं भार्यया सह भारत॥
English: Arjuna said People recite this old history, O Bharata, about the discourse between the king of the Videhas and his queen.
Sanskrit: उत्सृज्य राज्यं भिक्षार्थं कृतबुद्धिं नरेश्वरम्। विदेहराजमहिषी दुःखिता यदभाषत॥
English: It is the account of the words which the grief-stricken wife of the king of the Videhas had said to her lord when the latter, leaving his kingdom, had resolved to live like a mendicant.
Sanskrit: धनान्यपत्यं दाराश्च रत्नानि विविधानि च। पन्थानं पावकं हित्वा जनको मौढ्यमास्थितः॥
English: Leaving off wealth and children and wives and valuable possessions of all sorts and the established path for acquiring religious merit and fire itself, king Janaka shaved his head.
Sanskrit: तं ददर्श प्रिया भार्या भक्ष्यवृत्तिमकिंचनम्। धानामुष्टिमुपासीनं निरीहं गतमत्सरम्॥
English: His dear wife saw him deprived of wealth, practising the vow of mendicancy resolved to abstain from inflicting any kind of injury on others, shorn of vanity and prepared to subsist upon a handful of barley fallen off from the stalk.
Sanskrit: तमुवाच समागत्य भर्तारमकुतोभयम्। क्रुद्धा मनस्विनी भार्या विविक्ते हेतुमद् वचः॥
English: Approaching her husband when he was alone, the queen possessing great strength of mind, fearlessly and in anger, told him these reasonable words:-
Sanskrit: कथमुत्सृज्य राज्यं स्वं धनधान्यसमन्वितम्। कापाली वृत्तिमास्थाय धानामुष्टिर्न ते वरः॥
English: 'Why have you adopted a life of mendicancy, leaving your prosperous kingdom : full of corn? A handful of fallen off barley is not your becoming diet.
Sanskrit: प्रतिज्ञा तेऽन्यथा राजन् विचेष्टा चान्यथा तव। यद् राज्यं महदुत्सृज्य स्वल्पे तुष्यसि पार्थिव॥
English: Your resolution does not agree with your acts, since leaving your large kingdom you, O king, seek a handful of grain.
Sanskrit: नैतेनातिथयो राजन् देवर्षिपितरस्तथा। अद्य शक्यास्त्वया भर्तुं मोघस्तेऽयं परिश्रमः॥
English: With this handful of barley, O king, you will not be able to gratify your guests, gods, Rishis, and Pitris? This your labour, therefore, is in vain.
Sanskrit: देवतातिथिभिश्चैव पितृभिश्चैव पार्थिव। सर्वरेतैः परित्यक्तः परिव्रजसि निष्क्रियः॥
English: Alas forsaken by gods, guests, and Pitris, you live like a wandering mendicant, o king, having cast off all action.
Sanskrit: यस्त्वं त्रैविद्यवृद्धानां ब्राह्मणानां सहस्रशः। भर्ता भूत्वा च लोकस्य सोऽद्य तै तिमिच्छसि॥
English: You, before this, supported thousands of Brahmanas versed in the three Vedas and many more others. How can you desire to beg of them your own food today.
Sanskrit: श्रियं हित्वा प्रदीप्तां त्वं श्ववत् सम्प्रति वीक्ष्यसे। अपुत्रा जननी तेऽद्य कौसल्या चापतिस्त्वया॥
English: Forsaking your blazing prosperity, you look about like a dog for his food. Your mother has to-day been made sonless by you, and your wife, the princess of Koshala, a widow.
Sanskrit: अमी च धर्मकामास्त्वां क्षत्रियाः पर्युपासते। त्वदाशामभिकाङ्क्षन्तः कृपणाः फलहेतुका॥
English: These helpless Kshatriyas, expecting fruits of religious merit, wait upon you, placing all their hopes on you.
Sanskrit: तांश्च त्वं विफलान् कुर्वन् कं नु लोकं गमिष्यसि। राजन् संशयिते मोक्षे परतन्त्रेषु देहिषु॥
English: By dissipating their hopes, to what regions will you go, O king, especially when salvation is doubtful and creatures are dependent on actions?
Sanskrit: नैव तेऽस्ति परो लोको नापरः पापकर्मणः! धान् दारान् परित्यज्य यस्त्वमिच्छसि जीवितुम्॥
English: Sinful as you are, you will acquire neither this world nor the next, since you wish to live, having cast off your married wife?
Sanskrit: स्त्रजो गन्धानलंकारान् वासांसि विविधानि च। किमर्थमभिसंत्यज्य परिव्रजसि निष्क्रियः॥
English: Why, indeed, do you lead a life of roving mendicancy, abstaining from all actions, after having forsaken garlands and perfumes and ornaments and robes of various sorts.
Sanskrit: निपानं सर्वभूतानां भूत्वा त्वं पावनं महत्। आढ्यो वनस्पतिर्भूत्वा सोऽन्यांस्त्वं पर्युपाससे॥
English: Having been, like a large and sacred lake to all creatures, having been a mighty tree worthy of adoration, alas, how can you wait upon and adore others?
Sanskrit: खादन्ति हस्तिनं न्यासैः क्रव्यादा बहवोऽप्युत। बहवः कृमयश्चैव किं पुनस्त्वामनर्थकम्॥
English: If even an elephant gives up all work, carnivorous creatures and innumerable worms would eat it up. What need be said of yourself who are so powerless?
Sanskrit: य इमां कुण्डिका भिन्द्यात् त्रिविष्टब्धं च यो हरेत्। वासश्चापि हरेत् तस्मिन् कथं ते मानसं भवेत्॥ यस्त्वयं सर्वमुत्सृज्य धानामुष्टेरनुग्रहः। यदानेन समं सर्वं किमिदं ह्यवसीयसे॥
English: How could your heart approve of that mode of life which recommends an earthen pot, and a triple-headed rod, and which compels one to give up his very clothes, and which sanctions the acceptance of only a handful of barley after leaving off everything? If, again, you hold that kingdom and a handful of barley are the same to you, then why do you abandon the foriner.
Sanskrit: धानामुष्टेरिहार्थश्चेत् प्रतिज्ञा ते विनश्यति। का वाहं तव को मे त्वं कश्च तेमय्यनुग्रहः॥
English: If, again, a handful of barley becomes an object of attachment with you, then your original resolution of leaving off everything becomes futile! If, again, you carry out your resolution of leaving off everything, then who am I to you, who are you to me, and what can be your favour to me?