pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: अभार्यां शयने बिभ्रच्छूद्रं वृद्ध च वै द्विजः। अब्राह्मणं मन्यमानस्तुणेष्वासीत पृष्ठतः। तथा संशुध्यते राजशृणु चात्र वचो मम॥
English: That Brahmana who brings to his bed a maiden, or allows a Shudra, knowing him as deserving of respect, to sit upon the same carpet with him, should sit on a bed of dry grass behind some Kshatriya or Vaishya and show him respect in that way. It is in this way that he can be purified. Hear, O king, my words on this subject.
Sanskrit: यदेकरात्रेण करोति पापं निकृष्टवर्णं ब्राह्मणः सेवमान:। स्थानासनाभ्यां विहरन् व्रती स त्रिभिर्वर्षेः शमयेदात्मपापम्॥
English: The sin that a Brahmana perpetrates in one night by respectfully serving a member of a lower caste or by playing with him in the same spot or on the same bed, is purified by observing the practice of sitting behind by observing the practice of sitting behind a Kshatriya or a Vaishya on a bed of dry grass for three years continually.
Sanskrit: न नर्मयुक्तमनृतं हिनस्ति न स्त्रीषु राजन्न विवाहकाले। न गुर्वर्थं नात्मनो जीवितार्थे पञ्चानृतान्याहुरपातकानि॥
English: An untruth spoken for jest is not sinful; nor one spoken at the time of wedding; nor one spoken for doing good to one's preceptor; nor one spoken for saving one's own life. These five sorts of falsehood in speech, it has been said, are not sinful.
Sanskrit: श्रद्दधानः शुभां विद्यां हीनादपि समाप्नुयात्। सुवर्णमपि चामेध्यादाददीताविचारयन्।॥
English: One may gain useful knowledge from even a person of degraded calling, with devotion and reverence. One may take up gold, unhesitatingly from even an unclean spot.
Sanskrit: स्त्रीरत्नं दुष्कुलाच्चापि विषादप्यमृतं पिबेत्। अदृष्या हि स्त्रियो रत्नमाप इत्येव धर्मतः॥
English: A woman who is the ornament of her sex may be married from even a vile race. Nectar, if extracted from poison, may be drunk; women, jewels and other valuables, as also water, can never, according to the scriptural injunction, be impure or unclean.
Sanskrit: गोब्राह्मणहितार्थं च वर्णानां संकरेषु च। वैश्यो गृह्णीत शस्त्राणि परित्राणार्थमात्मनः॥
English: For the good of Brahmanas and kine, and on occasions when mixture of castes takes place, even a Vaishya may take up weapons for his own safety.
Sanskrit: सुरापानं ब्रह्महत्या गुरुतल्पमथापि वा। अनिर्देश्यानि मन्यन्ते प्राणान्तमिति धारणा॥
English: Drinking wine, killing a Brahmana, and the violation of the preceptor's bed, are sins when committed consciously, can never be expiated. The only expiation laid down for them is death.
Sanskrit: सुवर्णहरणं स्तैन्यं विप्रस्वं चेति पातकम्। विहरन् मद्यपानाच्च अगम्यागमनादपि॥
English: The sarne may be said of stealing gold, and the theft of a Brahmana's property. By drinking winc, by knowing prohibited women, by mingling with a degraded person, by knowing a Brahmana's woman, one becomes for ever fallen.
Sanskrit: पतितैः सम्प्रयोगाच्च ब्राह्मणीयोनितस्तथा। अचिरेण महाराज पतितो वै भवत्युत॥
English: By associating with a fallen person for one whole year in sacrifices and teaching and sexual intercourse, one becomes fallen. One, however, does not become so by associating with a fallen person in riding on the same car, sitting on the same seat, and eating in the same line.
Sanskrit: संवत्सरेण पतति पतितेन सहाचरन्। याजनाध्यापनाद् यौनान्न तु यानासनाशनात्॥
English: Excluding the five heinous sins that have been mentioned above, all other sins have expiations. Expiating those sins according to the ordinances laid down for them, one should not commit them again.
Sanskrit: एतानि हित्वातोऽन्यानि निर्देश्यानीति भारत। निर्देश्यानेन विधिना कालेनाव्यसनी भवेत्॥ अन्नं वीर्यं ग्रहीतव्यं प्रेतकर्मण्यपातिते। त्रिषु त्वेतेषु पूर्वेषु न कुर्वीत विचारणाम्॥
English: Except all those, O Bharata! Many other sins have been described as removable by penance. Thus he gives up the sinful habit. Regarding those who have been guilty of the first three of these five sins, (namely, drinking wine, killing a Brahmana, and violation of the preceptor's bed), their (surviving) kinsmen have no restrictions about taking food and wearing ornaments, even if their funeral rites remain unperformed when they die. The surviving kinsmen need make no scruple about such things at such times.
Sanskrit: अमात्यान् वा गुरून् वापि जह्याद् धर्मेण धार्मिकः। प्रायश्चित्तमकुर्वाणै तैरर्हति संविदम्॥ अधर्मकारी धर्मेण तपसा हन्ति किल्विषम्। ब्रुवन् स्तेन इति स्तेनं तावत् प्राप्नोति किल्बिषम्॥
English: A virtuous man should, while observing his duties, discard his very friends and elders. In fact, so long as they do not perform expiation, the virtuous should not even talk with those sinners. A man who has committed sins dissipates them by acting virtuously afterwards and by penances. By calling a thief a thief, one conimits the sin of theft.
Sanskrit: अस्तेनं स्तेन इत्युक्त्वा द्विगुणं पापमाप्नुयात्। त्रिभागं ब्रह्महत्यायाः कन्या प्राप्नोति दुष्यती॥ यस्तु दूषयिता तस्याः शेषं प्राप्नोति पाप्मनः।
English: By calling a person thief who, however, is not a thief, one commits a sin just double the sin of theft. The maiden who spoils her virginity incurs three-fourths of the sin of Brahmanicide, while the man who knows her incurs a sin equal to a fourth part of that of Brahmanicide.
Sanskrit: ब्राह्मणानवगर्नेह स्पृष्ट्वा गुरुतरं भवेत्॥ वर्षाणां हि शतं तावत् प्रतिष्ठां नाधिगच्छति।
English: By speaking against Brahmanas or by striking them, one sinks in infamy for a hundred years.
Sanskrit: सहस्रं चैव वर्षाणां निपत्य नरकं वसेत्॥ तस्मान्नैवावगर्खेत नैव जातु निपातयेत्।
English: By slaying a Brahmana one undergoes the torments of hell for a thousand years. No one should, therefore, speak ill of a Brahmana or slay him.
Sanskrit: शोणितं यावत: पांसून् संगृह्णीयाद् द्विजक्षतात्॥ तावती: स समा राजन् नरके प्रतिपद्यते।
English: If a man wounds a Brahmana with a weapon, he will have to live in hell for as many years as the grains of dust that are soaked by the blood flowing from the body of the wounded.
Sanskrit: भ्रूणहाऽऽहवमध्ये तु शुद्ध्यते शस्त्रपाततः॥ आत्मानं जुहुयादग्नौ समिद्धे तेन शुद्ध्यते।
English: One guilty of foeticide becomes purified if he dies of wounds received in battle fought for the sake of kine and Brahmanas. He may also be purified by casting his person on a burning fire.
Sanskrit: सुरापो वारुणीमुष्णां पीत्वा पापाद् विमुच्यते॥ तया स काये निर्दग्धे मृत्युं वा प्राप्य शुद्ध्यति। लोकांश्च लभते विप्रो नान्यथा लभते हि सः॥
English: A drinker of spirituous liquors becomes purified by drinking hot spirit. He is purified by his death, brought on by that hot drink, in the other world. A Brahmana stained by such a sin attains regions of felicity by such a course, and such a course only, and not by any other.
Sanskrit: गुरुतल्पमधिष्ठाय दुरात्मा पापचेतनः। स्त्र्याकारां प्रतिमां लिंग्य मृत्युना सोऽभिशुद्ध्यति॥
English: The wicked and sinful wretch who violates the bed of a preceptor, becomes purified by the death that results from embracing a heated iron statue of a female.
Sanskrit: अथवा शिश्नवृषणावादायाञ्जलिना स्वयम्॥ नैर्ऋती दिशमास्थाय निपतेत् स त्वजिह्मगः।
English: Or, emasculating himself and cutting off his organ, and bearing them in his hands, he should go straight way towards the south-west and then give up his ghost.
Sanskrit: ब्राह्मणार्थेऽपि वा प्राणान् संत्यजेत् तेन शुद्ध्यति॥ अश्वमेधेन वापीष्ट्वा अथवा गोसवेन वा। अग्निष्टोमेन वा सम्यगिह प्रेत्य च पूज्यते॥
English: Or, he may cleanse himself of all his sins, by meeting with death for the sake of benefiting a Brahmana. Or, he may regain esteem both in this world and in the next by performing a Horse-sacrifice or a Cowsacrifice or an Agnishtoma.
Sanskrit: तथैव द्वादशसमाः कपाली ब्रह्महा भवेत्। ब्रह्मचारी भवेन्नित्यं स्वकर्म ख्यापयन् मुनिः॥
English: The killer of a Brahmana should practise the vow of Brahmacharya for twelve years, and devoting himself to penances, he should wander, holding in his hands the skull of the killed all the time and the time and proclaiming his sin to all. on
Sanskrit: एवं वा तपसा युक्तो ब्रह्महा सवनी भवेत्। एवं तु समभिज्ञातामात्रेयीं वा निपातयेत्॥
English: He should even adopt such a course, devoted to penances and leading the life of an ascetic. Even such is the expiation provided for one who skills a woman quick with child, knowing her condition.
Sanskrit: द्विगुणा ब्रह्महत्या वै आत्रेयीनिधने भवेत्। सुरापो नियताहारो ब्रह्मचारी क्षितीशयः॥ ऊर्ध्वं त्रिभ्योऽपि वर्षेभ्यो यजेताग्निष्टुता परम्। ऋषभैकसहस्रं वा गा दत्त्वा शौचमाप्नुयात्॥
English: The man that knowingly kills such a woman incurs double the sin that follows from Brahmanicide. A drinker of spirituous liquor should live spare diet, practising Brahmacharya vows, and sleep on the naked earth, and perform, for more than three years the sacrifice next to the Agnishtoma. He should then present a thousand kine with one bull (to a good Brahmana). He would then regain his purily by doing all this.
Sanskrit: वैश्यं हत्वा तु वर्षे द्वे ऋषभैकशतं च गाः। शूद्रं हत्वाब्दमेवैकमृषभं च शतं च गाः॥ श्ववराहखरान् हत्वा शौद्रमेव व्रतं चरेत्।
English: Having killed a Vaishya one Vaishya one should perform such a sacrifice for two years and present a hundred kine with one bull. Having killed a Shudra, one should perform such a sacrifice for one year and present a hundred kine with one bull. Having killed a dog or a bear or a camel, one should perform the same penance that is laid down for killing a Shudra.
Sanskrit: मार्जारचाषमण्डूकान् काकं व्यालं च मूषिकम्॥ उक्तः पशुसमो दोषो राजन् प्राणिनिपातनात्।
English: For killing a cat, a chasa, a frog, a crow, a reptile or a rat, it has been said, one incurs the sin of animal slaughter O king.
Sanskrit: प्रायश्चित्तान्यथान्यानि प्रवक्ष्याम्यनुपूर्वशः॥ अल्पे वाप्यथ शोचेत पृथक् संवत्सरं चरेत्।
English: I shall now tell you of other kinds of expiations one after the other. For all minor sins one should repent or practise some vow for one year.
Sanskrit: त्रीणि श्रोत्रियभार्यायां परदारे च द्वे स्मृते॥ काले चतुर्थे भुञ्जानो ब्रह्मचारी व्रती भवेत्।
English: For ravishing the wife of a Brahmana well read in the Vedas, one should, for three years, practise the vow of Brahmacharya, living on spare diet at the fourth part of the day. For ravishing any other woman one should undergo similar penances for two years.
Sanskrit: स्थानासनाभ्यां विहरेत् त्रिरह्नाभ्युपयन्नपः। एवमेव निराकर्ता यश्चाग्नीनपविध्यति॥
English: For enjoying oneself in the company of a woman as by sitting with her on the same spot or on the same seat, one should live only on water for three days. By doing this he may purify himself of his sin. The same is laid down for one who befouls a burning fire (by throwing impure things on it.)
Sanskrit: त्यजत्यकारणे यश्च पितरं मातरं गुरुम्। पतितः स्यात्स कौरव्य यथा धर्मेषु निश्चयः॥ ग्रासाच्छादनमात्रं तु दद्यादिति निदर्शनम्। (ब्रह्मचारी द्विजेभ्यश्च दत्त्वा पापात् प्रपुच्यते।) भार्यायां व्यभिचारिण्यां निरुद्धायां विशेषतः। यत् पुंसः परदारेषु तदेनां चारयेद् व्रतम्॥
English: He who, without sufficient reason leaves his father or mother or preceptor, forsooth, becomes degraded, O ye scion of Kuru's race, as is laid down in the scriptures. Only food and clothes shall be given to a wife guilty of fornication or one confined in a prison. Indeed, the vows that are laid down for a male person guilty of fornication should also be forced on a woman who is as well guilty of the same.
Sanskrit: श्रेयांसं शयनं हित्वा यान्यं पापं निगच्छति। श्वभिस्तामर्दयेद् राजा संस्थाने बहुविस्तरे॥
English: That woman who abandoning a husband of a superior caste, commits adultery with a vile person (of a lower order), should be made by the king to be devoured by dogs in a public place in the midst of a large number of spectators.
Sanskrit: पुमांसमुन्नयेत् प्राज्ञः शयने तप्त आयसे। अप्यादधीत दारूणि तत्र दह्येत पापकृत्॥
English: A wise king should make the male person, committing adultery under such circumstances to be placed upon a heated bed of iron and then, placing woods underneath, burn the sinner thereon.
Sanskrit: एष दण्डो महाराज स्त्रीणां भर्तृष्वतिक्रमात्। संवत्सरोऽभिशस्तस्य दुष्टस्य द्विगुणो भवेत्॥
English: The same punishment, O king, holds for the woman who is guilty of adultery. The wicked sinner who does not perform expiatory rite within a year of the perpetration of the sin incurs demerit that is double of what attaches to the original sin.
Sanskrit: द्वे तस्य त्रीणि वर्षाणि चत्वारि सहसेविनि। कुचरः पञ्चवर्षाणि चरेद् भैक्ष्यं मुनिव्रतः॥
English: One who mixes with such a person for two years must walk over the Earth, devoting himself to penances and living upon alms. One mixing with a sinner for four years should follow such a mode of life for five years.
Sanskrit: परिवित्तिः परिवेत्ता या चैव परिविद्यते। पाणिग्रहास्त्वधर्मेण सर्वे ते पतिताः स्मृताः॥
English: If a young brother marries before his elder brother, then the younger brother, the elder brother, and the woman that is married, all three, on account of such wedding, become degraded.
Sanskrit: चरेयुः सर्व एवैते वीरहा यद् व्रतं चरेत्। चान्द्रायणं चरेन्मासं कृच्छ्रे वा पापशुद्धये॥ परिवेत्ता प्रयच्छेत तां स्नुषां परिवित्तये।
English: All of them should observe the vows laid down for a person who has neglected his sacrificial fire, or practise the of Chandrayana for month, or some other painful vow, for purging themselves off their sin.
Sanskrit: ज्येष्ठेन त्वभ्यनुज्ञातो यवीयानप्यनन्तरम्। एवं च मोक्षमाप्नोति तौ च सा चैव धर्मतः॥
English: The younger brother, marrying should give his wife to his unmarried elder brother. Having acquired the permission of the elder brother, the younger brother may take back his wife. By such means all three may be cleansed of their sin.
Sanskrit: अमानुषीषु गोवामनावृष्टिर्न दुष्यति। अधिष्ठात्रवमन्तारं पशूनां पुरुषं विदुः॥
English: By killing animals except a cow, the killer is not stained. The learned hold that man has supremacy over all the lower animals.
Sanskrit: परिधायोर्ध्ववालं तु पात्रमादाय मृन्मयम्। चरेत् सप्तगृहान्नित्यं स्वकर्म परिकीर्तयन्।॥ तत्रैव लब्धभोजी स्याद् द्वादशाहात्स शुद्ध्यति। चरेत् संवत्सरं चापि तद् व्रतं येन कृन्तति॥
English: Holding in his hand a yak-tail and an earthen pot, a sinner should go about, giving a publicity to his sin. He should every day beg of only seven families, and live upon what may thus be got. By doing this for twelve days he may be purified of his sin. He who cannot hold in his hand the yak-tail while practising this vow should become a mendicant (as stated above) for one whole year.
Sanskrit: भवेत्तु मानुषेष्वेवं प्रायश्चित्तमनुत्तमम्। दानं वा दानशक्तेषु सर्वमेतत् प्रकल्पयेत्॥
English: Amongst men such expiation ranks foremost. The practice of charity has been sanctioned in all such cases for those that are able to practise charity.
Sanskrit: अनास्तिकेषु गोमात्रं दानमेकं प्रचक्षते। ववराहमनुष्याणां कुक्कुटस्य खरस्य च॥
English: Those who have faith and virtue may purify themselves by giving away only one cow.
Sanskrit: मांसं मूत्रं पुरीषं च प्राश्य संस्कारमर्हति। ब्राह्मणास्तु सुरापस्य गन्धमादाय सोमपः॥ अपस्त्र्यहं पिबेदुष्णं त्र्यहमुष्णं पयः पिबेत्। त्र्यहमुष्णं पयः पीत्वा वायुभक्षो भवेत् त्र्यहम्॥ एवमेतत् समुद्दिष्टं प्रायश्चित्तं सनातनम्। ब्राह्मणस्य विशेषेण यदज्ञानेन सम्भवेत्॥
English: One who eats or drinks the flesh, ordure, or urine of a dog, a boar, a man, a cock or a camel must have the ceremony of putting on the sacred thread performed again. If a Somadrinking Brahmana smells alcohol from the mouth of one who has drunk it, he should drink warm water for three days or warm milk for the same period. Or, drinking warm water for three days he should live for that period upon air alone. These are the eternal injunctions prescribed for the expiation of sin, especially for a Brahmana who has perpetrated these sins through ignorance and want of judgement.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच कथान्तरमथासाद्य खड्गयुद्धविशारदः। नकुलः शरतल्पस्थमिदमाह पितामहम्॥
English: When this discourse was finished, Nakula who was an expert swordsman thus questioned the Kuru grandfather lying on his bed of arrows.
Sanskrit: नकुल उवाच धनुः प्रहरणं श्रेष्ठमतीवात्र पितामह। मतस्तु मम धर्मज्ञ खड्ग एव सुसंशितः॥ विशीर्णे कार्मुके राजन् प्रक्षीणेषु च वाजिषु। खड्ड्रेन शक्यते युद्धे साध्वात्मा परिरक्षितुम्॥
English: Nakula said-The bow, O grand-father, known as the foremost of weapons in this world. I, however, prefer the sword, since when the bow, O king, is cut off or broken, when horses are dead or weakened, a good warrior, well-trained in the sword, can protect himself by means of his sword.
Sanskrit: शरासनधरांश्चैव गदाशक्तिधरांस्तथा। एकः खड्गधरो वीरः समर्थः प्रतिबाधितुम्॥
English: A hero armed with the sword can, alone, withstand inany bowmen and many antagonists armed with maces and arrows.
Sanskrit: अत्र मे संशयश्चैव कौतूहलमतीव च। किंस्वित् प्रहरणं श्रेष्ठं सर्वयुद्धषु पार्थिव॥
English: I have this doubt, and I am anxious to know the truth. Which, O king, is really the foremost of weapons in all battles.
Sanskrit: कथं चोत्पादितः खड्गः कस्मै चाय केन च। पूर्वाचार्यं च खड्गस्य प्रब्रूहि प्रपितामह॥
English: How was the sword first created and why? Who also was the first teacher in that weapon? Tell me all this, O grandfather.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच तस्य तद्वचनं श्रुत्वा माद्रीपुत्रस्य धीमतः। स तु कौशल संयुक्तं सूक्ष्मचित्रार्थसम्मतम्॥ ततस्तस्योत्तरं वाक्यं स्वरवर्णोपपादितम्। शिक्षया चोपपन्नाय द्रोणशिष्याय भारत॥ उवाच स तु धर्मज्ञो धनुर्वेदस्य पारगः। शरतल्पगतो भीष्मो नकुलाय महात्मने॥
English: Hearing these words of the intelligent son of Madri, the virtuous Bhishma, that perfect master of the science of the bow, lying upon his bed of arrows, answered in many refined words of great significance, of sweet cadence, and showing considerable skill, to the great Nakula, that discipline of Drona of skilful training.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच तत्त्वं शृणुष्व माद्रेय यदेतत् परिपृच्छसि। प्रबोधितोऽस्मि भवता धातुमानिव पर्वतः॥
English: Bhishma said Hear the truth, O son of Madri, about what you have asked me! I am worked up by this question of yours, like a hill of red chalk.
Sanskrit: सलिलैकार्णवं तात पुरा सर्वमभूदिदम्। निष्पकम्पमनाकाशमनिर्देश्यमहीतलम्॥
English: In days of yore the universe was one vast sheet of water, fixed and skyless, and without this Earth existing in it.
Sanskrit: तमसाऽऽवृतमस्पर्शमतिगम्भीरदर्शनम्। निःशब्दं चाप्रमेयं च तत्र जज्ञे पितामहः॥
English: Covered with darkness, and unseen, it presented a dreadful aspect. Perfect silence prevailed everywhere and it was immeasurable in extent. In his own proper time the Grandfather (of the universe) was born.
Sanskrit: सोऽसृजद् वातमग्निं च भास्करं चापि वीर्यवान्। आकाशमसृजच्चोर्ध्वमधो भूमिं च नैर्ऋतीम्॥ नभः सचन्द्रतारं च नक्षत्राणि ग्रहांस्तथा। संवत्सरानृतून् मासान् पक्षानथ लवान् क्षणान्॥
English: He then created wind, and fire, and the highly powerful sun. He also created the sky, the heavens, the nether regions, Earth, the quarters, the firmament with the moon and the stars, the constellations, the planets, the year, the seasons, the months, the two fortnights and the smaller divisions of time.
Sanskrit: ततः शरीरं लोकस्थं स्थापयित्वा पितामहः। जनयामास भगवान् पुत्रानुत्तमतेजसः॥
English: Assuming a visible form the divine Grandfather then begot (by the power of his will) some highly energetic sons.
Sanskrit: मरीचिमृषिमत्रिं च पुलस्त्यं पुलहं ऋतुम्। वसिष्ठाङ्गिरसौ चोभौ रुद्रं च प्रभुमीश्वरम्॥ प्राचेतसस्तथा दक्षः कन्याषष्टिमजीजनत्। ता वै ब्रह्मर्षयः सर्वाः प्रजार्थं प्रतिपेदिरे॥
English: They are the sages Marichi, Atri, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu, Vashishtha, Angiras, and the mighty and powerful lord Rudra, and Prachetas. The last beget Daksha, who in his turn beget sixty daughters. All those daughters were accepted by the twice-born sages for the purpose of begetting children upon them.
Sanskrit: ताभ्यो विश्वानि भूतानि देवाः पितृगणास्तथा। गन्धर्वाप्सरसश्चैव रक्षांसि विविधानि च॥ पतत्रिमृगमीनाश्च प्लवङ्गाश्च महोरगाः। तथा पक्षिगणाः सर्वे जलस्थलविचारिणः॥ उद्भिदः स्वेदजाश्चैव साण्डजाश्च जरायुजाः। जज्ञे तात जगत्सर्वं तथा स्थावरजङ्गमम्॥
English: From them originated all the creatures of the universe, including the gods, Pitris, Gandharvas, Apsaras all sorts of Rakshasas, birds, animals, fishes, monkeys, great snakes, and various species of fowl ranging in the air or the water and vegetables, and all oviparous or viviparous being or those or born of filth. In this wise the whole universe consisting of mobile and immobile creatures came into being.
Sanskrit: भूतसर्गमिमं कृत्वा सर्वलोकपितामहः। शाश्वतं वेदपठितं धर्म प्रयुयुजे ततः॥
English: Having thus created all mobile and immobile creatures, then the universal Grandfather preached the eternal religion of the Vedas.
Sanskrit: तस्मिन् धर्मे स्थिता देवा: सहाचार्यपुरोहिताः। आदित्या वसवो रुद्राः ससाध्या मरुदतश्विनः॥ भृग्वत्र्यङ्गिरसः सिद्धाः काश्यपाश्च तपोधनाः। वसिष्ठगौतमागस्त्यास्तथा नारदपर्वतौ॥ ऋषयो वालखिल्याश्च प्रभासा: सिकतास्तथा। घृतपा: सोमवायव्या वैश्वानरमरीचिपाः॥ अकृष्टाश्चैव हंसाश्च ऋषयो वाग्नियोनयः। वानप्रस्थाः पृश्नयश्च स्थिता ब्रह्मानुशासने॥
English: That religion was accepted by the gods, with their preceptors and priests, the Adityas, the Vasus, the Rudras, the Saddhyas, the Maruts, the Ashvins, Bhrigu, Atri, Angiras, the Siddhas, Kashyapa of Penances, Vashishtha, Gautama, Agastya, Narada, Parvata, the Valkhilya Rishis, those other Rishis known as Prabhasas, the Sikatas, the Ghritapas, the Somavayavyas, the Vaishvanaras, the Marichipas, the Akrishtas, the Hansas, those born of Fire, the Vanaprasthas, and the Prashins. All of them followed the commands of Brahman.
Sanskrit: दानवेन्द्रास्त्वतिक्रम्य तत् पितामहशासनम्। धर्मस्यापचयं चक्रुः क्रोधलोभसमन्विताः॥
English: Disregarding the cominands of the Grandfather, and giving way to anger and covetousness, the foremost of the Danavas, however, began to bring about the destruction of virtue.
Sanskrit: हिरण्यकशिपुश्चैव हिरण्याक्षो विरोचनः। शम्बरो विप्रचित्तिश्च विराधो नमुचिर्बलिः :॥
English: They were Hiranyakashipu, Hiranyaksha, Virochana, Shamvara, Viprachitti, Prahlada, Namuchi and Vali.
Sanskrit: एते चान्ये च बहवः सगणा दैत्यदानवाः। धर्मसेतुमतिक्रम्य रेमिरेऽधर्मनिश्चयाः॥
English: Disregarding all restraints of duty and religion, these and many other Daityas and Danavas sported and found pleasure in all sorts of wicked acts.
Sanskrit: सर्वे तुल्याभिजातीया यथा देवास्तथा वयम्। इत्येवं धर्ममास्थाय स्पर्धमानाः सुरर्षिभिः॥
English: Considering themselves equal in point of birth with the gods, they began to challenge them and the pure sages.
Sanskrit: न प्रियं नाप्यनुक्रोशं चक्रुर्भूतेषु भारत। त्रीनुपायानतिक्रम्य दण्डेन रुरुधुः प्रजाः॥
English: They never did any good to the other creatures of the universe or showed mercy for any of them. Neglecting the three well-known means, they began to persecute and assail all creatures by holding only the rod of chastisement.
Sanskrit: न जग्मुः संविदं तैश्च दर्पादसुरसत्तमाः॥ तदा हिमवतः शृङ्गे सुरम्ये पद्मतारके। शतयोजनविस्तारे मणिरत्नचयाचिते॥
English: Indeed, those foremost of Asuras, filled with pride did not treat other creatures as friends. Accompanied by the twice-born ones the divine Brahman, proceeded to a delightful summit of Himavat, extending for a hundred Yojanas in area, adorned with various sorts of jewels and gems, and upon whose surface the stars existed like so many lotuses on a lake.
Sanskrit: तस्मिन् गिरिवरे पुत्र पुष्पितद्रुमकानने। तस्थौ स विबुधश्रेष्ठो ब्रह्मा लोकार्थसिद्धये॥
English: On that king of mountains, O sire, filled with forests of blossoming trees, that foremost of the gods, viz., Brahmana, lived for sometime for accomplishing the business of the world.
Sanskrit: ततो वर्षसहस्रान्ते वितानमकरोत् प्रभुः। विधिना कल्पदृष्टेन यथावच्चोपपादितम्॥
English: After the expiration of a thousand years, the powerful lord made arrangements for a grand sacrifice according to the ordinances prescribed in the scriptures.
Sanskrit: ऋषिभिर्यज्ञपटुभिर्यथावत् कर्मकर्तृभिः। समिद्भिः परिसंकीर्णं दीप्यमानैश्च पावकैः॥
English: The sacrificial altar was adorned with Rishis skilled in sacrifice and capable of performing all acts, with sacrificial fuel, and with burning fires.
Sanskrit: काञ्चनैर्यज्ञभाण्डैश्च भ्राजिष्णुभिरलंकृतम्। वृतं देवगणैश्चैव प्रवरैर्यज्ञमण्डलम्॥
English: And it looked highly beautiful for the sacrificial plates and vessels having been all made of gold. All the leading gods sat there.
Sanskrit: तथा ब्रह्मर्षिभिश्चैव सदस्यैरुपशोभितम्। तत्र घोरतमं वृत्तमृषीणां मे परिश्रुतम्॥
English: The platform was further adorned with Sadasyas who were all high regenerate Rishis. I have heard from the Rishis that something very awful soon took place in that sacrifice.