pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: त्वदृते हि जगत् कृत्स्नं सद्यो नश्येद्भुताशन। तुभ्यं कृत्वा नमो विप्राः स्वकर्मविजितां गतिम्॥ गच्छन्ति सह पत्नीभिः सुतैरपि च शाश्वतीम्। त्वामग्ने जलदानाहुः खे विषक्तान् सविद्युतः॥
English: O eater of the sacrificial ghee, this whole universe will be destroyed in a single day if you were not present in it. Bowing down to you, the Brahmanas, accompanied by their wives and children, go to the eternal regions acquired by them by their own (good) deeds. O Agni, the learned say that you are the clouds charged with lightning. The flames put forth by you consume every creatures, (on earth).
Sanskrit: दहन्ति सर्वभूतानि त्वत्तो निष्क्रम्य हेतयः। जातवेदस्त्वयैवेदं विश्वं सृष्टं महाद्युते॥
English: O effulgent deity, this universe is created by you. The Vedas are your words; all creatures, mobile and immobile, depend upon you.
Sanskrit: तवैव कर्म विहितं भूतं सर्वं चराचरम्। त्वयाऽऽपो विहिताः पूर्वं त्वयि सर्वमिदं जगत्॥
English: Water primarily depends upon you. Whole universe also depends upon you. All offerings of sacrificial ghee and all libations of food offered to the Pitris have also been established in you.
Sanskrit: त्वयि हव्यं च कव्यं च यथावत् सम्प्रतिष्ठितम्। त्वमेव दहनो देव त्वं धाता त्वं बृहस्पतिः॥ त्वमश्विनौ यमौ मित्रः सोमस्त्वमसि चानिलः।
English: O deity, you are the consumer, you are the creator, you are Brihaspati himself. You are Surya, you are Soma and you are Vayu.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच एवं स्तुतस्तदा तेन मन्दपालेन पावकः॥ तुतोष तस्य नृपते मुनेरमिततेजसः। उवाच चैन प्रीतात्मा किमिष्टं करवाणि ते॥
English: Vaishampayana said : O king, thus praised by Mandapala, Agni was much pleased with the immeasurably effulgent Rishi. He thus spoke to him with a delightful heart,” what good can I do to you?”
Sanskrit: तमब्रवीन्मन्दपाल: प्राञ्जलिहव्यवाहनम्। प्रदहन् खाण्डवं दावं मम पुत्रान् विसर्जय॥
English: Thereupon Mandapala with joined hands said to the carrier of sacrificial ghee fire, "When you will burn the Khandava, spare my sons."
Sanskrit: तथेति तत् प्रतिश्रुत्य भगवान् हव्यवाहनः। खाण्डवे तेन कालेन प्रजज्वाल दिधक्षया॥
English: The illustrious carrier of the sacrificial ghee Agni promised it by saying "Be it so.” And then at that very movement he blazed up with the intention of burning the Khandava.
Sanskrit: जरितोवाच अस्माद् बिलान्निष्पतितमाखुं श्येनो जहार तम्। क्षुद्रं पद्भ्यां गृहीत्वा च यातो नात्र भयं हि वः॥
English: Jarita said: The little mouse that came out of this hole was seized by a hawk with its claws and it has been carried away. Therefore, you may enter it without any fear.
Sanskrit: शाईका उवाच न हृतं तं वयं विद्यः श्येनोना कथंचन। अन्येऽपि भवितारोऽत्र तेभ्योऽपि भयमेव नः॥
English: The Sharangakas said : We are not at all certain whether that mouse has been carried away by the hawk. There may be other mice living there. We have every fear from them.
Sanskrit: संशयो बछिरागच्छेद् दृष्टं वायोर्निवर्तनम्। मृत्यु! बिलवासिभ्यो बिले स्यान्नात्र संशयः॥
English: There is every chance that the fire will not reach us in this place, for it may be carried away in some other direction by the wind. There is no doubt, however, that if we enter the hole, we shall be killed by the dwellers of the hole.
Sanskrit: निःसंशयात् संशयितो मृत्युर्मातर्विशिष्यते। चर खे त्वं यथान्यायं पुत्रानाप्स्यसि शोभनान्॥
English: If we remain where we are, death is uncertain. O mother, a position in which death is uncertain is better than one in which it is certain. Therefore, it is your duty to escape, for if you live, you may have other children as good as ourselves.
Sanskrit: जरितोवाच अहं वेगेन तं यान्तमद्राक्षं पततां वरम्। बिलादालुं समादाय श्येनं पुत्रा महाबलम्॥ तं पतन्तं महावेगात् त्वरिता पृष्ठतोऽन्वगाम्। आशिषोऽस्य प्रयुञ्जाना हरतो मूषिकं बिलात्॥
English: Jarita said : O children, I myself saw the great hawk, that best of birds, swoop down with great speed and fly away with the mouse from the hole. I quickly followed the bird and I pronounced blessings upon him for his carrying away the mouse from the hole,
Sanskrit: यो नो द्वेष्टारमादाय श्यनराज प्रधावसि। भव त्वं दिवमास्थाय निरमित्रो हिरण्मयः॥
English: “O king of hawks, as you are flying away with our enemy, the mouse, in your claws, may you live in heaven with a golden body and having not a single foe.
Sanskrit: स यदा भक्षितस्तेन श्येनेनाखुः पतत्रिणा। तदाहं तमनुज्ञाप्य प्रत्युपायां पुनर्गृहम्॥ प्रविशध्वं बिलं पुत्रा विश्रब्धा नास्ति वो भयम्। श्येनेन मम पश्यन्त्या हृत आखुर्महात्मना॥
English: When the hawk devoured the mouse, I then obtained his leave and returned to this place. O children, enter this hole with all confidence, you have nothing to fear. I myself has seen the mouse carried away by the illustrious hawk.
Sanskrit: शाईका ऊचुः न विद्महे हृतं मातः श्येनेनाखुं कथंचन। अविज्ञाय न शक्यामः प्रवेष्टुं विवरं भुवः॥
English: The Sharangakas said : O mother, we do know whether the mouse has been really carried away by the hawk. We cannot enter the hole in the grounds without knowing it.
Sanskrit: जरितोवाच अहं तमभिजानामि हृतं श्येनेन मूषिकम्। नास्ति वोऽत्र भयं पुत्राः क्रियतां वचनं मम॥
English: The Jarita said : I know to a certainty that the mouse has been carried away by the hawk. Therefore, O children, you have nothing to fear. Do what I say.
Sanskrit: शाईका उवाच न त्वं मिथ्योपचारेण मोखयेथा भयाद्धि नः। समाकुलेषु ज्ञानेषु न बुद्धिकृतमेव तत्॥
English: The Sharangakas said : C mother, .ve do not mean that you are trying to dispel our fears with a false story. When a person's reason is confused, his acts cannot be called his deliberate acts.
Sanskrit: न चोपकृतमस्माभिनं चास्मान् वेत्थ ये वयम् पीड्यमाना बिभर्घ्यस्मान् का सती के वयं तव॥
English: You have in no way been benefited by us; you do not know who we are. Why do you then try to save us to so much cost to yourself? Who are we to you?
Sanskrit: तरुणी दर्शनीयासि समर्था भतुरेषणे। अनुगच्छ पतिं मातः पुत्रानाप्स्यसि शोभनान्॥
English: You are young and handsome you are able to search for your husband. O mother, go to your husband and you will obtain excellent sons again.
Sanskrit: वयमग्निं समाविश्य लोकानाप्स्याम शोभनान्। अथास्मान् न दहेदग्निरायास्त्वं पुनरेव नः॥
English: Let us obtain the higher regions by entering the fire. If the fire does not consume us, you can then come back and obtain us.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच एवमुक्ता ततः शाी पुत्रानुत्सृज्य खाण्डवे। जगाम त्वरिता देशं क्षेममग्नेरनामयम्॥
English: Vaishampayana said : Having been thus addressed by them, the female bird (Jarita) left them (her sons) in the Khandava; with great speed she went to the place where there was no fire and where there was safety.
Sanskrit: ततस्तीक्ष्णार्चिरभ्यागात् त्वरितो हव्यवाहनः। यत्र शाॉ बभूवुस्ते मन्दपालस्य पुत्रकाः॥
English: Then Agni in haste and with fearful flames came to the spot where the sons of Mandapala were.
Sanskrit: ततस्तं ज्वलितं दृष्टवा ज्वलनं ते विहगमाः। जरितारिस्ततो वाक्यं श्रावयामास पावकम्॥
English: The (young) birds saw the blazing fire coming towards them. Then Jaritari spoke these wards in the hearing of Agni.
Sanskrit: जरितारिरुवाच पुरतः कृच्छ्रकालस्य धीमाञ्जागर्ति पूरुषः। स कृच्छ्रकालं सम्प्राप्य व्यथां नैवैति कर्हिचित्॥
English: Jaritari said : The intelligent men always remain wakeful in view of death. When the house of death approaches, he feels no pangs.
Sanskrit: यस्तु कृच्छ्रमनुप्राप्तं विचेता नावबुध्यते। स कृच्छ्रकाले व्यथितो न श्रेयो विन्दतं महत्॥
English: But a man with perplexed soul who does not remain wakeful (in view of death) feels the pangs of death when the hours of death come. He never gets salvation.
Sanskrit: सारिसृक्क उवाच धीर स्त्वमसि मेधावी प्राणकृच्छ्रमिदं च नः। प्राज्ञः शूरो बहूनां हि भवेत्येको न संशयः॥
English: Sarisrikka said : You are patient and intelligent. The time has come when our lives are in danger. There is no doubt one only amongst many becomes wise and brave..
Sanskrit: स्तम्वमित्र उवाच ज्येष्ठस्तातो भवति वै ज्येष्ठो मुञ्चति कृच्छ्रतः। ज्येष्ठश्चेन्न प्रजानाति कनीयान् किं करिष्यति॥
English: Stambamitra said : The elder brother is called the protector. It is the eldest brother who rescues (the younger brothers) from danger. If the eldest fails to rescue them what can the younger brothers do?
Sanskrit: द्रोण उवाच हिरण्यरेतास्त्वरितो ज्वलन्नायाति नः क्षयम्। सप्तजिह्वाननः क्रूरो लेलिहानो विसर्पति॥
English: Drona said: The cruel deity of fire with seven tongues and the seven mouths is coming towards our abode with all speed, blazing forth in his great splendour and licking up every thing on his way.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच एवं सम्भाष्य तेऽन्योन्यं मन्दपालस्य पुत्रकाः। तुष्टावः प्रयता भूत्वा यथाग्निं शृणु पार्थिवः॥
English: Vaishampayana said : Having thus addressed one another, the sons of Mandapala then each with reverence uttered an eulogistic hymn to Agni. O king, listen to them as I recite.
Sanskrit: जरितारिरुवाच आत्मासि वायोर्खलन शरीरमसि वीरुधाम्। योनिरापश्च ते शुक्रं योनिस्त्वमसि चाम्भसः॥
English: Jaritari said: O fire, you are the soul of our body you are the body of the earth's visitation. O Shukra, you are the progenitor of the water and the water is your progenitor as well.
Sanskrit: ऊर्ध्वं चाधश्च सर्पन्ति पृष्ठतः पार्श्वतस्तथा। अर्चिषस्ते महावीर्य रश्मयः सवितुर्यथा।॥
English: O effulgent deity, your flame like the rays of the sun exists above, below, behind and on every side.
Sanskrit: सारिसृक्क उवाच माता प्रणष्टा पितरं न विद्यः पक्षा जाता नैव नो धूमकेतो। स्तस्मादस्मांस्त्राहि बालांस्त्वमग्ने॥
English: Sarisrikka said: O smoke-banned deity, we cannot see our mother; we know not our father. Our feathers have not grown as yet. We have no one except you who can protect us. We are infants, therefore, O Agni protect us.
Sanskrit: यदग्ने ते शिवं रूपं ये च ते सप्त हेतयः। तेन नः परिपाहि त्वमान्न् वै शरणैषिणः॥
English: O Agni, we are in (great) distress. Protect us with your auspicious form and with your seven flames. We pray for your protection.
Sanskrit: त्वमेवैकस्तपसे जातवेदो नान्यस्तप्ता विद्यते गोषु देव। ऋषिनस्मान् बालकान् पालयस्व परेणास्मान् प्रेहि वै हव्यवाह॥
English: O deity, O carrier of the (sacrificial) ghee, O Agni, you are the giver of heat, you alone give heat to the rays of the sun. We are young, we are Rishis, protect us, and be pleased to go from this place by some other way.
Sanskrit: स्तम्बमित्र उवाच सर्वमग्ने त्वमेवैकस्त्वयि सर्वमिदं जगत्। त्वं धारयसि भूतानि भुवनं त्वं बिभर्षि च॥
English: Stambamitra said : O Agni, you are every thing. The whole universe is established in you. You uphold every creature and you support the worlds.
Sanskrit: त्वमग्निहव्यवाहस्त्वं त्वमेव परमं हविः। मनीषिणस्त्वां जानन्ति बहुधा चैकधापि च॥
English: O Agni, you are the career of (sacrificial) ghee, you are the great (sacrificial) ghee itself. The wise know you to be one and (at the same time) Many.
Sanskrit: सृष्ट्वा लोकांस्त्रीनिमान् हव्यवाह काले प्राप्ते पचसि पुनः समिद्धः। स्त्वमेवाग्ने भवसि पुनः प्रतिष्ठा॥
English: O carrier of (sacrificial) ghee (Agni), you create the three worlds and you again destroy them when the time comes for their destruction by swelling (your body to a fearful dimension). You are the progenerating mother of the whole universe; you are the essence also in which the universe dissolves.
Sanskrit: द्रोण उवाच त्वमन्नं प्राणिभिर्भुक्तमन्तर्भूतो जगत्पते। नित्यप्रवृद्धः पचसि त्वयि सर्वं प्रतिष्ठितम्॥
English: Drona said: O lord of the universe, growing in strength and remaining within their bodies, you cause to be digested the food that creatures eat. Every thing is established in you.
Sanskrit: सूर्यो भूत्वा रश्मिभिर्जातवेदो भूमेरम्भो भूमिजातान् रसांश्चा। विश्वानादाय पुनरुत्सृज्य काले दृष्ट्वा वृष्ट्या भावयसीह शुक्र॥
English: O Shukra, O deity from whose mouth the Vedas have sprung, in the form of the sun you suck up the waters of the earth and every liquid juice that earth yields. You then again in proper time and in proper season give them back in the form of rains; and you thus cause every thing to grow.
Sanskrit: त्वत्त एताः पुनः शुक्र वीरुधो हरितच्छदाः। जायन्ते पुष्करिण्यश्च सुभद्रश्च महोदधिः॥
English: O Shukra, these plants and creepers with green leaves have all sprung through you. These tanks and ponds and the ever blessed great ocean also, have all sprung from you.
Sanskrit: इदं वै सद्म तिग्मांशो वरुणस्य परायणम्। शिवस्त्राता भवास्माकं मास्मानध विनाशय॥
English: O deity of fearful rays, this our (mortal) body depends on Varuna (the god of waters). We are incapable of bearing your heat. Therefore, (O deity) be our blessed protector. Do not destroy us today.
Sanskrit: पिङ्गाश्च लोहितग्रीव कृष्णवर्त्मन् हुताशन। परेण प्रेहि मुञ्चास्मान् सागरस्य गृहानिव॥
English: O Agni of copper-coloured eyes and of red neck, o deity whose path is marked by black colour, save us as the ocean saves the houses on its banks by going away (from this place) by some other way.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच एवमुक्तो जातवेदा द्रोणेन बह्मवादिना। द्रोणमाह प्रतीतात्मा मन्दपालप्रतिज्ञया॥
English: Vaishampayana said : Having been thus addressed by that utterer of the Vedas, Drona, the deity from whose mouth the Vedas have sprung (Agni) being well-pleased and remembering his promise to Mandapala, thus spoke.
Sanskrit: अग्निरुवाच ऋषिोणस्त्वमसि वै ब्रह्म तद् व्याहृतं त्वया। ईप्सितं ते करिष्यामि न च ते विद्यते भयम्॥
English: Agni said : O Drona, you are a Rishi, what you have said is the Vedic truth. I shall do your pleasure. You have nothing to fear.
Sanskrit: मन्दपालेन वै यूयं मम पूर्वं निवेदिताः। वर्जयेः पुत्रकान् मह्यं दहन् दावमिति स्म ह॥ तस्य तद् वचनं द्रोण त्वया यच्चेह भाषितम्। उभयं ते गरीयस्तु ब्रूहि किं करवाणि ते। भृशं प्रीतोऽस्मि भद्रं ते ब्रह्मन् स्तोत्रेण सत्तम।॥
English: I was formerly asked by Mandapala to spare his sons when consuming the forest. The words be spoke and your speech also both are entitled to great weight. Tell me what I am to do. O excellent Brahmana, I have been greatly pleased with your blessed hymn.
Sanskrit: द्रोण उवाच इमे मार्जारकाः शुक्र नित्यमुद्वेजयन्ति नः। एतान् कुरुष्व दग्धांस्त्वं हुताशन सबान्धवान्॥
English: Drona said: O Shukra, these eats trouble us every day. O fire, consume them with their friends and relatives.
Sanskrit: तथा तत् कृतवानग्निरभ्यनुज्ञाय शाकान्। ददाह खाण्डवं दावं समिद्धो जनमेजय॥
English: Vaishampayana said : O Janamejaya, telling them what were his intentions, Agni then accomplished all that the Sharanagakas asked him to do. Growing in strength, he then again began to consume the Khandava.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच मन्दपालोऽपि कौरव्य चिन्तयामास पुत्रकान्। उक्त्वापि च स तिग्मांशुं नैव शर्माधिगच्छति॥
English: Vaishampayana said : O descendant of Kuru, Mandapala became anxious for his sons. Although he had spoken of them to the deity of fearful rays (Agni), his mind was not in peace.
Sanskrit: स तप्यमानः पुत्रार्थे लपितामिदमब्रवीत्। कथं नु शक्ताः शरणे लपिते मम पुत्रकाः॥ वर्धमाने हुतवहे वाते चाशु प्रवायति। असमर्था विमोक्षाय भविष्यन्ति ममात्मजाः॥
English: Being very much anxious for his sons, he spoke thus to Lapita, my children are not now in possession of the power of moving, how are they (now)? When the fire will grow in strength and when the wind will begin to blow run with violence, my children will be incapable of saving themselves.
Sanskrit: कथं त्वशक्ता त्राणाय माता तेषां तपस्विनी। भविष्यति हि शोकार्ता पुत्रत्राणमपश्यती॥
English: How shall their ascetic mother be able to save them? She will be afflicted with great sorrow when she will find herself unable to save them.
Sanskrit: कथमुयनेऽशक्तान् पतने च ममात्मजान्। संतप्यमाना बहुधा वाशमाना प्रधावती॥
English: She will about uttering various laminations; for my sons are incapable of flying or rising up in the air.
Sanskrit: जरितारिः कथं पुत्रः सारिसृक्कः कथं च मे। स्तम्बमित्रः कथं द्रोणः कथं सा च तपस्विनी॥
English: Alas, how is Jaritari, my son! How is Sarisrikka, how is Stamvamitra and how id Drona! Alas, how is also the ascetic lady (their helpless mother)!"
Sanskrit: लालप्यमानं तमृषि मन्दपालं तथा वने। लपिता प्रत्युवाचेदं सासूयमिव भारत॥
English: O descendant of Bharata, when the Rishi Mandapala was thus lamenting in the forest, Lapita, out of jealousy, thus replied to him,
Sanskrit: न तं पुत्रेष्ववक्षास्ति यानृषीनुक्तवानसि। तेजस्विनो वीर्यवन्तो न तेषां ज्वलनाद् भयम्॥
English: "You need have no anxiety for your children who, as you have assured me, are all greatly effulgent and powerful Rishis. They can have no fear from the fire.
Sanskrit: त्वयाग्नौ ते परीताश्च स्वयं हि मम संनिधौ। प्रतिश्रुतं तथा चेति ज्वलनेन महामना॥
English: Did you not yourself in my presence speak to Agni on their behalf? Did not the illustrious deity promise to save them?
Sanskrit: लोकपालो न तां वाचमुक्त्वा मिथ्या करिष्यति। समक्षं बन्धुकृत्ये न तेन तं स्वस्थ मानसम्॥
English: Being the protector of creatures, he (Agni) will never falsify his words. You have no anxiety in your mind, your heart is never inclined towards your friends.
Sanskrit: तामेव तु ममामित्रां चिन्तयन् परितप्यसं। ध्रुवं मयि न ते स्नेहो यथा तस्यां पुराभवत्॥
English: It is only by thinking of her, my enemy (Jarita), that you are so very much in anxiety. It is certain that the love you bear for her is not cqual to that you bear for me.
Sanskrit: न हि पक्षवता न्याय्यं नि:स्नेहेन सुहृज्जने। पीड्यमान उपद्रष्टुं शक्तेनात्मा कथंचन॥
English: He who has two parties to divide his attention can easily see one of them suffer all sorts of pangs. But he can never disregard the party next to his heart.
Sanskrit: गच्छ त्वं जरितामेव यदर्थं परितप्यसे। चरिष्याम्यहमप्येका यथा कुपुरुषाश्रिता॥
English: Go to Jarita for whom your heart is so very sorrowful. As for myself, I shall roam alone, it would be a fit regard for me for having attached myself to a wicked man.
Sanskrit: मन्दपाल उवाच नाहमेवं चरे लोके यथा त्वमभिमन्यसे। अपत्यहेतोर्विचरे तच्च कृच्छ्रगतं मम॥
English: Mandapala said : I do not roam over the world with such intentions as you believe. It is only for begetting offspring that I am here. But even those that I have is now in danger.
Sanskrit: भूतं हित्वा च भाव्यर्थे योऽवलम्बेत् स मन्दधीः। अवमन्येत तं लोको यथेच्छसि तथा कुरु॥
English: He who casts off that which he has for the sake of what he may acquire(in future) is a wicked man. The world disregards and insults him. As for myself, you are at liberty to do what you choose.
Sanskrit: एष हि प्रज्वलन्नग्निर्लेलिहानो महीरुहान्। आविग्ने हृदि संतापं जनयत्यशिवं मम॥
English: This blazing fire that licks up the trees produces sorrow in my anxious heart; it create in my mind anticipations of fear.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच तस्माद् देशादतिक्रान्ते ज्वलने जरिता पुनः। जगाम पुत्रकानेव त्वरिता पुत्रगृद्धिनी॥
English: Vaishampayana said : After Agni has left the place where the Sharangakas lives, Jarita, very much attached to her sons, came with all speed to see how they all were.
Sanskrit: सा तान् कुशलिनः सर्वान् विमुक्ताञ्जातवेदसः। रोरूयमाणान् ददृशे वने पुत्रान् निरामयान्॥
English: She found that all of them had escaped from the conflagration and they were all well. Seeing their mother, they too began to weep, although they were safe and well.
Sanskrit: अश्रूणि मुमुचे तेषां दर्शनात् सा पुनः पुनः। एकैकश्येन तान् सर्वान् क्रोशमानान्वपद्यत॥
English: Seeing them (well), she too shed tears again and again. She embraced one by one all her weeping children.
Sanskrit: ततोऽभ्यगच्छत् सहसा मन्दपालोऽपि भारत। अथ ते सर्व एवैनं नाभ्यनन्दंस्तदा सुताः॥
English: O descendant of Bharata, just at that very time, Mandapala suddenly arrived there, but none of his sons expressed any joy on seeing him.
Sanskrit: लालप्यमानमेकैकं जरितां च पुनः पुनः। न चैवोचुस्तदा किंचित् तमृषि साध्वसाधु वा॥
English: But he spoke to them one after the other and he spoke also to Jarita, but none of them said ill or well to him in reply.
Sanskrit: मन्दपाल उवाच ज्येष्ठः सुतस्ते कतमः कतमस्तस्य चानुजाः। मध्यमः कतमश्चैव कनीयान् कतमश्च ते॥
English: Mandapala said : Who amongst these (my sons) is your first born and who is born next to him? And who is the third and who is the youngest?
Sanskrit: एवं ब्रुवन्तं दुःखार्तं किं मां न प्रतिभाषसे। कृतवानपि हि त्यागं नैव शान्तिमितो लभे॥
English: I am speaking to you in sorrow; why do you not reply to me? It is true I left you, but I did not get peace where I was.
Sanskrit: जरितोवाच किं नु ज्येष्ठेन ते कार्यं किमनन्तरजेन ते। किं वा मध्यमजातेन किं कनिष्ठेन वा पुनः॥
English: Jarita said: What business have you with the eldest of these (sons) and with him also who is the next and with him also who is the third and with him who is the youngest?
Sanskrit: यां त्वं मां सर्वतो हीनामुत्सृज्यासि गतः पुरा। तामेव लपितां गच्छ तरुणी चारुहासिनीम्॥
English: Go to Lapita of sweet smiles who is endued with beauty and youth and to whom you had gone on seeing me difficult in every thing.
Sanskrit: मन्दपाल उवाच न स्त्रीणां विद्यते किंचिदमुत्र पुरुषान्तरात्। सापत्नकमृते लोके नान्यदर्थविनाशनम्॥
English: Mandapala said : As regards woman, there is nothing that destroys their happiness more in this or the next world than a co-wife and a clandestine lover.
Sanskrit: वैराग्निदीपनं चैव भृशमुद्धेगकारि च। सुव्रता चापि कल्याणी सर्वभूतेषु विश्रुता॥ अरुन्धती महात्मानं वसिष्ठं पर्यशरूत। विशुद्धभावमत्यन्तं सदा प्रियहिते रतम्॥ सप्तर्षिमध्यगं धीरमवमेने च तं मुनिम्। अपध्यानेन सा तेन धूमारुणसम्प्रभा। लक्ष्यालक्ष्या नाभिरूपा निमित्तमिव पश्यति॥
English: They inflame the fire of hostility and cause great anxiety. Even the auspiciously blessed and well behaved Arundhati, ever renowned among all creatures felt jealousy against the illustrious and pure minded Vasishtha, ever devoted to the greatly good of his wife. She insulted even that Rishi, one of the seven (great Rishis, the mind born sons of Brahma). On account of her that insulting thought, she has become a little star and looks like fire covered with smoke, sometimes visible and sometimes invisible, as if she is an evil omen.
Sanskrit: अपत्येहेतोः सम्प्राप्तं तथा त्वमपि मामिह। इष्टमेवं गते हि त्वं सा तथैवाद्य वर्तते॥
English: I had connection with you for offspring. I have never wronged you as did not the Rishi (Vasishtha) of old, but you have become jealous as Arundhati (once was).
Sanskrit: न हि भार्येति विश्वासः कार्यः पुंसा कथंचन। न हि कार्यमनुध्याति नारी पुत्रवती सती॥
English: Men should never trust women, even if they be wedded wives. When women become mothers, they do not much care to serve their husbands.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच ततस्ते सर्व एवैनं पुत्राः सम्यगुपासते। स च तानात्मजान् सर्वानाश्वासयितुमुद्यतः॥
English: Vaishampayana said: Thereupon all his sons came to worship him. And he too giving them all assurance spoke kindly towards them.
Sanskrit: मन्दपाल उवाच युष्माकमपवर्गार्थं विज्ञप्तो ज्वलनो मया। अग्निना च तथेत्येवं प्रतिज्ञातं महात्मना॥
English: Mandapala said : I spoke to Agni about your safety, the illustrious deity also promised me that he would do what I wished.
Sanskrit: अग्नेवर्चनमाज्ञाय मातुर्धर्मज्ञतां च वः। भवतां च परं वीर्यं पूर्वं नाहमिहागतः॥
English: On account of those words of Agni and also knowing the virtuous character of your mother and the great effulgence that are in you, I did not come here earlier.
Sanskrit: न संतापो हि वः कार्यः पुत्रका हदि मां प्रति। ऋषीन् वेद हुताशोऽपि ब्रह्म तद् विदितं च वः॥
English: O sons, therefore do not allow anger to enter your hearts. You are all Rishis, learned in the Vedas. Agni knows you full well.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच एवमाश्वासितान् पुत्रान् भार्यामादाय स द्विजः। मन्दपालस्ततो देशादन्यं देशं जगाम ह॥
English: Vaishampayana said : Having thus assuring his sons, the Brahmana Mandapala took with hirn his wife and children; and leaving that region, he went away to some other country.
Sanskrit: भगवानपि तिग्मांशुः समिद्धः खाण्डवं ततः। ददाह सह कृष्णाभ्यां जनयञ्जगतो हितम्॥
English: Having grown in strength, the illustrious deity of fearful rays also consumed the Khandava with the assistance of the two Krishna's for the good of the world.
Sanskrit: वसामेदोवहाः कुल्यास्तत्र पीत्वा च पावकः। जगाम परमां तृप्तिं दर्शयामास चार्जुनम्॥
English: Having drunk many rivers of fat and marrow, Agni became highly gratified and he then appeared before Arjuna.
Sanskrit: ततोऽन्तरिक्षाद् भगवान वतीर्य पुरंदरः। मरुद्गणैर्वृतः पार्थं केशवं चेदमब्रवीत्॥
English: Then Purandara (Indra), surrounded by the Marutas, came down from the sky and thus spoke to Partha and Keshava.
Sanskrit: कृतं युवाभ्यां कर्मेदममरैरपि दुष्करम्। वरं वृणीतं तुष्टांऽस्मि दुर्लभं पुरुषेष्विह॥
English: “You have achieved a feat that even a celestial can never do. Ask each of you a boon that is not obtainable by man. I am very much pleased with you”.