pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: पापानि तु नराः कृत्वा तिर्यग् जायन्ति भारत। न चात्मनः प्रमाणं ते धर्मे जानन्ति किंचन॥
English: Indeed having perpetrated sins, O Bharata, one has to take birth in an order intermediate between that of humanity and vegetables. Those people do not know the principles of virtue who take their own hearts for their guide.
Sanskrit: ये पापानि नराः कृत्वा निरस्यन्ति व्रतैः सदा। सुखदुःखसमायुक्ता व्यथितास्ते भवन्त्युत॥
English: Those men who commit various sinful deeds, and then scck to expiate them by continuous vows and observances of piety, enjoy happiness and suffer misery and live in great anxiety of heart.
Sanskrit: असंवासाः प्रजायन्ते म्लेच्छाश्चापि न संशयः। नराः पापसमाचारा लोभमोहसमन्विताः॥
English: Those sinful men who yield to the influence of cupidity and stupefaction, are surely born as Mlechchhas who are uriworthy of being associated with.
Sanskrit: वर्जयन्ति च पापानि जन्मप्रभृति ये नराः। अरोगा रूपवन्तस्ते धनिनश्च भवन्त्युत॥
English: Those men, on the other hand, who abstain from sin all their lives, become free from disease of every sort gifted with beauty of form, and possessed of riches.
Sanskrit: स्त्रियोऽप्येतेन कल्पेन कृत्वा पापमवाप्नुयुः। एतेषामेव जन्तूनां भार्यात्वमुपयान्ति ताः॥
English: Women also when they act in this way attain to births of the same kind. Indeed, they have to take births as the males of the animals I have mentioned.
Sanskrit: परस्वहरणे दोषाः सर्व एव प्रकीर्तिताः। एतद्धि लेशमात्रेण कथितं ते मयाऽनद्य॥
English: I have told you all the faults of the misappropriation of others' properties. I have described to you very briefly the subject, O sinless one.
Sanskrit: अपरस्मिन् कथायोगे भूयः श्रोष्यसि भारत। एतन्मया महाराज ब्रह्मणो वदतः पुरा॥ सुरर्षीणां श्रुतं मध्ये पृष्टश्चापि यथातथम्। मयापि तच्च कार्थेन यथावदनुवर्णितम्। एतच्छुत्वा महाराज धर्मे कुरु मनः सदा॥
English: In connection with some other subject, O Bharata, you will again hear of those faults. I heard all this O king, Formerly from Bhrahman himself, and I asked all about it in a proper way, when he described it in the midst of the celestial Rishis. I have told you truly and in detail all that you had asked me. Having listened to all this,.o king, do you always set your heart on virtue.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच अर्धमस्य गतिर्ब्रह्मन् कथिता मे त्वयाऽनघ। धर्मस्य तु गतिं श्रोतुमिच्छामि वदतां वर॥
English: Yudhishthira said You have told me, O twiceborn one, what the end is of virtue or sin, I wish now to hear, O foremost of speakers, of what the end is of virtue.
Sanskrit: कृत्वा कर्माणि पापानि कथं यान्ति शुभां गतिम्। कर्मणा च कृतेनेह केन यान्ति शुभां गतिम्॥
English: Having committed various sinful deeds, by what acts do people succeed in acquiring an auspicious end in this world? By what acts also, do people acquire auspicious end in the celestial region?
Sanskrit: बृहस्पतिरुवाच कृत्वा पापानि कर्माणि अधर्मवशमागतः। मनसा विपरीतेन निरयं प्रतिपद्यते॥
English: Brihaspati said By committing sinful deeds with perverted mind, one gives way to the influence of sin, and accordingly goes to Hell.
Sanskrit: मोहादधर्मं यः कृत्वा पुनः समनुतप्यते। मन:समाधिसंयुक्तो न स सेवेते दुष्कृतम्॥ यथा यथा मनस्तस्य दुष्कृतं कर्म गर्हते। तथा तथा शरीर तु तेनाधर्मेण मुच्यते॥
English: That man who having perpetrated sinful deeds through stupefaction of mind, feels the pangs of repentance and sets his heart on meditation (of the deity), has not to suffer the consequences of his sins. One becomes freed from his sins inasmuch as he repents for them.
Sanskrit: यदि व्याहरते राजन् विप्राणां धर्मवादिनाम्। ततोऽधर्मकृतात् क्षिप्रमवादात् प्रमुच्यते॥
English: If one having committed a sin, O king, mentions it before Brahmanas conversant with a duties, he speedily becomes freed from the obloquy arising from his sin.
Sanskrit: यथा यथा नरः सम्यगधर्ममनुभाषते। समाहितेन मनसा विमुच्येत तथा तथा। भुजङ्ग इव निर्मोकात् पूर्वमुक्ताज्जरान्वितात्॥
English: Accordingly as one mentions his sins, fully or otherwise, with concentrated mind, he becomes cleansed there from fully or otherwise, like a snake freed from his diseased slough.
Sanskrit: दत्त्वा विप्रस्य दानानि विविधानि समाहितः। मन:समाधिसंयुक्तः सुगति प्रतिपद्यते॥
English: By making with a concentrated mind, gifts of various kinds to Brahmana, and concentrating the mind (on the deity), one attains to an auspicious end.
Sanskrit: प्रदानानि तु वक्ष्यामि यानि दत्त्वा युधिष्ठिर। नरः कृत्वाप्यकार्याणि ततो धर्मेण युज्यते॥
English: I shall now tell you what those gifts are, o Yudhishthira, by making which a person, even if guilty of having committed sinful deeds, may become gifted with merit.
Sanskrit: सर्वेषामेव दानानामन्नं श्रेष्ठमुदाहृतम्। पूर्वमन्नं प्रदातव्यमृजुना धर्ममिच्छता॥
English: Of all kinds of gifts, that of food is considered as the best. One desirous of acquiring merit should, with a sincere heart, make gifts of food.
Sanskrit: प्राणा ह्यन्नं मनुष्याणां तस्माज्जन्तुश्च जायते। अन्ने प्रतिष्ठितो लोकस्तस्मादनं प्रशस्यते॥
English: Food is the vital air of men. From it all creatures originate. All the worlds of living creatures are established upon food. Hence food is highly spoken of.
Sanskrit: अन्नमेव प्रशंसन्ति देवर्षिपितृमानवाः। अन्नस्य हि प्रदानेन रन्तिदेवो दिवं गतः॥
English: The deities Rishis, departed manes, and men, all praise food. Formerly king Rantideva, proceeded to the celestial region by making gifts of food.
Sanskrit: न्यायलब्धं प्रदातव्यं द्विजातिभ्योऽन्नमुत्तमम्। स्वाध्यायं समुपेतेभ्यः प्रहृष्टेनान्तरात्मना॥
English: Good food that has been acquired by fair means, should be given with a cheerful heart, lo Brahmanas possessed of Vedic learning.
Sanskrit: यस्य ह्यन्नमुपाश्नन्ति ब्राह्मणानां शतं दशं। हृष्टेन मनसा दत्तं न स तिर्यग्गतिर्भवेत्॥
English: That man, whose food, given with a cheerful heart, is taken by a is taken by a thousand Brahmanas, has never to take birth in an intermediate order.
Sanskrit: ब्राह्मणानां सहस्राणि दश भोज्य नरर्षभ। नरोऽधर्मात् प्रमुच्येत योगेष्वभिरतः सदा॥
English: A person, O king, by feeding ten thousand Brahmanas, becomes cleansed of sin and devoted to Yoga practices.
Sanskrit: भैक्ष्येणान्नं समाहृत्य विप्रो वेदपुरस्कृतः। स्वाध्यायनिरते विप्रे दत्त्वेह सुखमेधते॥
English: A Brahmana knowing the Vedas, by giving away food acquired by him as alms, to a Brahmana devoted to the study of the Vedas, succeeds in acquiring happiness here.
Sanskrit: अहिंसन् ब्राह्मणस्वानि न्यायेन परिपाल्य च। क्षत्रियस्तरसा प्राप्तमन्नं यो वै प्रयच्छति॥ द्विजेभ्यो वेदवृद्धेभ्यः प्रयत: सुसमाहितः। तेनोपोहति धर्मात्मन् दुष्कृतं कर्म पाण्डव॥
English: That Kshatriya who, without taking anything belonging to a Brahmana, protects his subjects lawfully, and makes gifts of food, obtained by his strength. to Brahmanas foremost in Vedic knowledge, with concentrated heart, succeeds by such conduci, O you of righteous soul in cleansing himself, O son of Pandu, of all his sinful deeds.
Sanskrit: षड्भागपरिशुद्धं च कृपेर्भागमुपार्जितम्। वैश्यो ददद् द्विजातिभ्यः पापेभ्यः परिमुच्यते॥
English: Thai Vaishya who divides the produce of his fields into six equal parts and makes of gift a one of those shares to Brahmanas, succeeds by such conduct in cleansing himself from every sin.
Sanskrit: अवाप्य प्राणसंदेहं कार्कश्येन समार्जितम्। अन्नं दत्त्वा द्विजातिभ्यः शूद्रः पापात्प्रमुच्यते॥
English: That Shudra who acquiring food by hard labour and at the risk of life itself, makes a gift of it to Brahmanas, becomes purged off of every sin.
Sanskrit: औरसेन बलेनान्नमर्जयित्वाविहिंसकः। यः प्रयच्छति विप्रेभ्यो न स दुर्गाणि पश्यति॥
English: That man who, by dint of his physical strength acquires food without doing any act of injury to any creature, and makes gift of it to Brahmanas, succeeds in avoiding all calamities.
Sanskrit: न्यायेनैवाप्तमन्नं तु नरो हर्षसमन्वितः। द्विजेभ्यो वेदवृद्धेभ्यो दत्त्वा पापात् प्रमुच्यते॥
English: A person by cheerfully making gifts of food acquired by fair means to Brahmans pereminent for Vedic learning, becomes purged off of all his sins.
Sanskrit: अन्नपूर्जस्करं लोके दत्त्वोर्जस्वी भवेन्नरः। सतां पन्थानमावृत्य सर्वपापैः प्रमुच्यते॥
English: By treading in the path of the pious, one becomes freed from all sins, A person by making gifts of such food as creates great energy becomes himself endued with great energy.
Sanskrit: दानवद्भिः कृतः पन्था येन यान्ति मनीषिणः। ते हि प्राणस्य दातारस्तेभ्यो धर्मः सनातनः॥
English: The path made by charitable persons, is always trod by the wise. They who make gifts of food, are considered as givers of life. The merit they acquire by such gifts, is eternal.
Sanskrit: सर्वावस्थं मनुष्येण न्यायेनान्नमुपार्जितम्। कार्यं पात्रागतं नित्यमन्नं हि परमा गतिः॥
English: Hence, person should, under all circumstances, seek to acquire food by fair means, and having got it to make always gifts of it to worthy men. Food is the great support of living creatures.
Sanskrit: अन्नस्य हि प्रदानेन नरो रौद्रं न सेवते। तस्मादन्नं प्रदातव्यमन्यायपरिवर्जितम्॥
English: By making gifts of food, one has never to go to hell. Hence one should always make gifts of food, having got it by fair means. a
Sanskrit: यतेद् ब्राह्मणपूर्वं हि भोक्तुमन्नं गृही सदा। अवन्ध्यं दिवसं कुर्यादन्नदानेन मानवः॥
English: The householder should always try to eat after having made a gift of food to a Brahmana. Every man should make the day fruitful by making gifts of food.
Sanskrit: भोजयित्वा दशशतं नरो वेदविदां नृप। न्यायविद्धर्मविदुषामितिहासविदां तथा॥ न याति नरकं घोरं संसारांश्च न सेवते। सर्वकामसमायुक्तः प्रेत्य चाप्यश्नुते सुखम्॥
English: A person by feeding, O king a thousand Brahmanas who are all conversant with duties and the scriptures and the sacred histories, has not to go to Hell and to return to this world for going through rebirths. Gifted with the fruition of every desire he enjoys great happiness in the next world.
Sanskrit: एवं खलु समायुक्तो रमते विगतज्वरः। रूपवान् कीर्तिमांश्चैव धनवांश्चोपपद्यते॥
English: Gifted with such merit, he sports in happiness, freed from every anxiety, possessed of personal beauty and great fame and endued with wealth.
Sanskrit: एतत् ते सर्वमाख्यातमन्नदानफलं महत्। मूलमेतत् तु धर्माणां प्रदानानां च भारता॥
English: I have thus told you all about the great merit of gifts of food. This is the root of all virtue and merit, as also of all gifts, O Bharata.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच अहिंसा वैदिकं कर्म ध्यानमिन्द्रियसंयमः। तपोऽथ गुरुशुश्रूषा किं श्रेयः पुरुषं प्रति॥
English: Yudhishthira said Which amongst these is more efficacious to a person, namely abstention from injury, the observance of the Vedic, ritual, meditation, control over the senses, penances and obedient services rendered to the preceptors.
Sanskrit: बृहस्पति रुवाच सर्वाण्येतानि धाणि पृथग्द्वाराणि सर्वशः। शृणु संकीर्त्यमानानि षडेव भरतर्षभ॥
English: Brihaspati said All these six are meritorious. They are different doors of virtue. I shall discourse upon them now. Do you listen to them O chief of the Bharatas!
Sanskrit: हन्त निःश्रेयसं जन्तोरहं वक्ष्याम्यनुत्तमम्। अहिंसापाश्रयं धर्मं यः साधयति वै नरः॥
English: I shall tell you what forms the highest good of a human being. That man who practises the religion of universal mercy, acquires his highest good.
Sanskrit: त्रीन् दोषान् सर्वभूतेषु निधाय पुरुषः सदा। कामक्रोधौ च संयम्य ततः सिद्धिमवाप्नुते॥
English: That man who keeps under restraint the three passions, viz., lust, anger and avarice by throwing them upon all creatures, acquires success.
Sanskrit: अहिंसकानि भूतानि दण्डेन विनिहन्ति यः। आत्मनः सुखमन्विच्छन् स प्रेत्य न सुखी भवेत्॥
English: He who, for his own happiness, kills other innocent creatures with the rod of punishment never acquires happiness in the next world.
Sanskrit: आत्मोपमस्तु भूतेषु यो वै भवति पुरुषः। न्यस्तदण्डो जितक्रोधः स प्रेत्य सुखमेधते॥
English: That man who considers all creatures as his own self, and treats them as his own self, laying aside the rod of punishment and completely controlling his anger, succeeds in acquiring happiness.
Sanskrit: न तत् परस्य संदध्यात् प्रतिकूलं यदात्मनः। एष संक्षेपतो धर्मः कामादन्यः प्रवर्तते॥
English: One should never do that to another which he considers as injurious to his own self. This in brief, is the rule of virtue. One by acting in a different way by giving way to desire, becomes guilty of sin.
Sanskrit: प्रत्याख्याने च दाने च सुखदुःखे प्रियाप्रिये। आत्मौपम्येन पुरुषः प्रमाणमधिगच्छति॥
English: In refusing and giving, in weal and woe, in the agrecable and the disagreeable, one should judge of their effects by considering his own self.
Sanskrit: यथाऽपरः प्रक्रमते परेषु तथापरे प्रक्रमन्ते परस्मिन्। तथैव तेऽस्तूपमा जीवलोके यथा धर्मो नैपुणेनोपदिष्ट॥१०
English: When one injures another, the injured in return injures the injurer. Likewise, when one cherishes another, that other cherishes the cherisher. One should forin his own rule of conduct according to this, I have told you what virtue is even by this subtile way.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच इत्युक्त्वा तं सुरगुरुर्धर्मराज युधिष्ठिरम्। दिवमाचक्रमे धीमान् पश्यतामेव नस्तदा॥
English: Vaishampayana continued: The preceptor of the celestials endued with great intelligence, having said this to king, Yudhishthira the just, ascended upwards for proceeding to the celestial region before our eyes.
Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन उवाच ततो युधिष्ठिरो राजा शरतल्पे पितामहम्। पुनरेव महातेजाः पप्रच्छ वदतां वरः॥
English: Vaishampayana said After this, king, Yudhishthira gifted with great energy, and the foremost of eloquent men, addressed his grandfather lying on his bed of arrows, in the following words.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच ऋषयो ब्राह्मणा देवाः प्रशंसन्ति महामते। अहिंसालक्षणं धर्म वेदप्रामाण्यदर्शनात्॥
English: Yudhishthira said O You of great intelligence, the Rishi and Brahmanas and the celestials led by the authority of the Vedas, all speak highly of the religion of mercy.
Sanskrit: कर्मणा मनुजः कुर्वन् हिंसा पार्थिवसत्तम। वाचा च मनसा चैव कथं दुःखात् प्रमुच्यते॥
English: But, o king, what I ask you is this how does a man who has perpetrated acts of injury to others in word, thought and deed, succeed in purifying himself from misery.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच चतुर्विधेयं निर्दिष्टा ह्यहिंसा ब्रह्मवादिभिः। एकैकतोऽपि विभ्रष्टा न भवत्यरिसूदन॥
English: Bhishma said Brahmavadins have said that there are four kinds of mercy or abstention from injury. If even one of those four kinds be not observed. The religion of mercy, it is said, is not observed.
Sanskrit: यथा सर्वश्चतुष्याद् वै त्रिभिः पादै तिष्ठति। तथैवेयं महीपाल कारणैः प्रोच्यते त्रिभिः॥
English: As all quadruped animals are incapable of standing on three legs so the religion of mercy cannot stand if any of those four divisions or parts be wanting.
Sanskrit: यथा नागपदेऽन्यानि पदानि पदगामिनाम्। सर्वाण्येवापिधीयन्ते पदजातानि कौञ्जरे॥ एवं लोकेष्वहिंसा तु निर्दिष्टा धर्मतः पुरा। कर्मणा लिप्यते जन्तुर्वाचा च मनसापि च॥
English: As the footprints of all other animals are sunk in those of the elephant, so all other religions are said to be contained in that of mercy. A person becomes guilty of injury through acts, words, and thoughts.
Sanskrit: पूर्वं तु मनसा त्यक्त्वा तथा वाचाऽथ कर्मणा। न भक्षयति सो मांसं त्रिविधं स विमुच्यते॥
English: Discarding it mentally in the beginning, one should next discard it in word and thought. He who according to this rule, abstains from eating meat is said to be purified in a three fold way.
Sanskrit: विकारणं तु निर्दिष्टं श्रूयते ब्रह्मवादिभिः। मनो वाचि तथाऽऽस्वादे दोषा ह्येषु प्रतिष्ठिताः॥
English: It is heard that Brahmavadins point out three causes (for the sin of eating meat). That sin may attach to the mind, to words, and to deeds.
Sanskrit: न भक्षयन्त्यतो मांसं तपोयुक्ता मनीषिणः। दोषांस्तु भक्षणे राजन् मांसस्येह निबोध मे॥
English: It is therefore, that wise men who are gifted with penances refrain from eating meat. Listen to me, O king, as tell you what the faults are which attach to the eating of meat.
Sanskrit: पुत्रमांसोपमं जानन् खादते योऽविचक्षणः। मांसं मोहसमायुक्तः पुरुषः सोऽधमः स्मृतः॥
English: The meat of other animals is like the flesh of one's son. That foolish person, stupefied by folly, who eats meat is considered as the vilest of human beings.
Sanskrit: पितृमातृसमायोगे पुत्रत्वं जायते यथा। हिंसां कृत्वावशः पापो भूयिष्ठं जायते तथा॥
English: The union of father and mother produces children, Similarly the cruelty that a helpless and sinful wretch commits, produces its progeny of repeated rebirths fraught with great misery.
Sanskrit: रसं च प्रतिजिह्वाया ज्ञानं प्रज्ञायते यथा। तथा शास्त्रत्रेषु नियतं रागो ह्यास्वादिताद् भवेत्॥
English: As the tongue is the cause of sensation of taste, so, the scriptures declare, attachment proceeds from taste.
Sanskrit: संस्कृतासंस्कृताः पक्वा लवणालवणास्तथा। प्रजायन्ते यथा भावास्तथा चित्तं निरुध्यते॥
English: Well-dressed, cooked with salt or without salt, meat, in whatever form one may take it, by and by attracts the mind and enslaves it.
Sanskrit: भेरीमृदङ्गशब्दांश्च तन्त्रीशब्दांश्च पुष्कलान्। निषेविष्यन्ति वै मन्दा मांसभक्षाः कथं नराः॥
English: How will those foolish men who live upon meat succeed in listening to the sweet music of celestial drums and cymbals and lyres and harps?
Sanskrit: अचिन्तितमनिर्दिष्टमसंकल्पितमेव च। रसवृद्ध्याभिभूता ये प्रशंसन्ति फलार्थिनः॥
English: They who eat meat highly speak of it, allowing themselves to be stupefied by its taste which they declare be something inconceivable, undesirable, and unimaginable.
Sanskrit: प्रशंसा ह्येव मांसस्य दोषकर्मफलान्विता॥ जीवितं हि परित्यज्य बहवः साधवो जनाः। स्वमासैः परमांसानि परिपाल्य दिवं गताः॥
English: Such pradise even of meat is sinful. Formerly, many pious men, by giving the flesh of their own bodies, protected the flesh of other creatures and as a result of such deeds of merit, have proceeded to the celestial region.
Sanskrit: एवमेषा महाराज चतुर्भिः कारणैर्वृता। अहिंसा तव निर्दिष्टा सर्वधर्मानुसंहिता॥
English: In this way, O king, the religion of mercy is surrounded by four considerations. I have thus declared to you that religion which contains all other religions within it. to
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच अहिंसा परमो धर्म इत्युक्तं बहुशस्त्वया। जातो नः संशयो धर्मे मांसस्य परिवर्जने। दोषो भक्षयतः कः स्यात् कश्चाभक्षयतो गुणः॥
English: Yudhishthira said You have told it many times that abstention from injury is the highest Religion. In Shraddhas, however, that are performed in honour of the departed Manes, persons for their own behoof, should make offerings of various kinds of meat. A doubt has, therefore, sprung in our mind about the duty of abstaining from meat. What are the sins that one commits by eating meat, and what are the merits that one acquires?
Sanskrit: हत्वा भक्षयतो वापि परेणोपहतस्य वा। हन्याद् वा यः परस्यार्थं क्रीत्वा वा भक्षयेन्नरः॥
English: You have said SO So while discoursing formerly upon the ordinances about Shraddhas. How can meat, however, be procured without killing a living creature? Your declarations, therefore, appear to me to be contradictory.
Sanskrit: एतदिच्छामि तत्त्वेन कथ्यमानं त्वयानघ। निश्चयेन चिकीर्षामि धर्ममेतं सनातनम्॥
English: What are the demerits of him who eats meat by himself slaying a living creature? What are the merits of him who eats the meat of animals, slain by others? What the merits or demerits of hini who kills a living creature for another? Or of him who eats meat buying it of others? I wish, O sinless one, that you should describe to me this subject in full. I wish to ascertain this eternal Religion with certainty.
Sanskrit: कथमायुरवाप्नोति कथं भवति सत्त्ववान्। कथमव्यङ्गतामेति लक्षण्यो जायते कथम्॥
English: How does one acquire longevity? How does onc acquire strength? How does one acquire faultlessness of limbs? Indeed, how does one become gifted with excellent marks?
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच मांसस्याभक्षणाद् राजन् यो धर्मः कुरुनन्दन। तन्मे शृणु यथातत्त्वं यथास्य विधिरुत्तमः॥
English: Bhishma said Listen to me, O scion of Kuru's race, what the merit is of abstention from meat. Listen to me as I declare to you what the excellent ordinances, in sooth, are on this subject.
Sanskrit: रूपमव्यङ्गतामायुर्बुद्धिं सत्त्वं बलं स्मृतिम्। प्राप्तुकामैनरैहिंसा वर्जिता वै महात्मभिः॥
English: Those great inen who desire beauty, faultessness of limbs, long life, understanding mental and physical strength, and memory should abstain from acts of injury.
Sanskrit: ऋषीणामत्र संवादो बहुशः कुरुनन्दन। बभूव तेषां तु मतं यत् तच्छृणु युधिष्ठिर।॥
English: Numberless discourses took place. between the Rishis on this subject, O scion of Kuru's race. Listen, O Yudhishthira, what their opinion was.
Sanskrit: यो यजेताश्वमेधेन मासि मासि यतव्रतः। वर्जयेन्मधु मांसं च सममेतद् युधिष्ठिर॥
English: The merit acquired by that person, O Yudhishthira, who, with the steadiness of a vow, worship the celestials every month in Horse sacrifices, is equal to him who discards honey and meat.
Sanskrit: सप्तर्षयो वालखिल्यास्तथैव च मरीचिपाः। अमांसभक्षणं राजन् प्रशंसन्ति मनीषिणः॥
English: The highly wise seven celestial Rishis, the Valakhillyas, and those Rishi, who drink the rays of the sun, all speak highly of abstention from ineat.
Sanskrit: न भक्षयति यो मांसं न च हन्यान्न घातयेत्। तन्मित्रं सर्वभूतानां मनुः स्वायम्भुवोऽब्रवीत्॥
English: The self-create Manu has said that man who does not eat meat, or who does not kill living creatures, or who does not cause them to be killed, is a friend of all creatures.
Sanskrit: अधृष्यः सर्वभूतानां विश्वास्यः सर्वजन्तुषु। साधूनां सम्मतो नित्यं भवेन्मांसं विवर्जयन्॥
English: Such a man is incapable of being oppressed by any creature. He enjoys the confidence of all living beings. He always enjoys, besides, the praise of the pious.
Sanskrit: स्वमांसं परमांसेन यो वर्धयितुमिच्छति। नारदः प्राह धर्मात्मा नियतं सोऽवसीदति॥
English: The virtuous Narada has said that that man who wishes to multiply his own flesh by eating the flesh of other creatures, meet with disaster.
Sanskrit: ददाति यजते चापि तपस्वी च भवत्यपि। मधुमांसनिवृत्त्येति प्राहु चैवं बृहस्पतिः॥
English: Brihaspati has said that that man who abstains from honey and meat, gains the merit of gifts and sacrifices and penances.
Sanskrit: मासि मास्यश्वमेधेन यो यजेत शतं समाः। न खादति च यो मांसं सममेतन्मतं मम॥
English: In my view, these two persons are equal viz.hc who worships the celestials every month in a Horse-sacrifice for a century and he who abstains from honey and meat.
Sanskrit: सदा यजति सत्रेण सदा दानं प्रयच्छति। सदा तपस्वी भवति मधुमांसविवर्जनात्॥
English: On account of abstention from meat, one is considered as one who always worships the celestials in sacrifices, or as one who always makes gifts to others, or as one who always practises the severest austerities.
Sanskrit: सर्वे वेदा न तत् कुर्युः सर्वे यज्ञाश्च भारत। यो भक्षयित्वा मांसानि पश्चादपि निवर्तते॥
English: That inan who having eaten meal, gives it up afterwards, wins merit by such a deed that is so great that a study of all the Vedas or a performance, O Bharata, of all the sacrifices, cannot give its like.
Sanskrit: दुष्करं च रसज्ञाने मांसस्य परिवर्जनम्। चर्तुं व्रतमिदं श्रेष्ठं सर्वप्राण्यभयप्रदम्॥
English: It is very difficult to abstain from meat after one has known itstaste. Indeed, it is extremely difficult for such a person to observe the great vow abstention from meat, a vow that assures every creature by removing all fear.
Sanskrit: सर्वभूतेषु यो विद्वान् ददात्यभयदक्षिणाम्। दाता भवति लोके स प्राणानां नात्र संशयः॥
English: That learned person who gives to all living creatures the gift of complete assurance, is forsooth, regarded as the giver of lifc-breaths in this world.
Sanskrit: एवं वै परमं धर्मे प्रशंसन्ति मनीषिणः। प्राणा यथाऽऽत्मनोऽभीष्टा भूतानामपि वै तथा॥
English: This is the high Religion which wise men esteem very highly. The vital airs of other creatures are as dear to them as those of his own self.
Sanskrit: आत्मौपम्येन मन्तव्यं बुद्धिमद्भिः कृतात्मभिः। मृत्युतो भयमस्तीति विदुषां भूतिमिच्छताम्॥
English: Men gifted with intelligence and purified souls should always treat others as they theinselves wish to be treated. It is seen that even those men who are endued with learning and who seek to acquire the greatest good in the shape of Liberation, are not free from of the fear of death.
Sanskrit: किं पुनर्हन्यमानानां तरसा जीवितार्थिनाम्। अरोगाणामपापानां पापैराँसोपजीविभिः॥
English: What necessity there be said those innocent and healthy creatures gifted with love of life, when they are sought to be killed by sinful wretches living by slaughter?
Sanskrit: तस्माद् विद्धि महाराज मांसस्य परिवर्जनम्। धर्मस्यायतनं श्रेष्ठं स्वर्गस्य च सुखस्य च॥
English: Therefore, O king, know that the discarding of meat is the highest refuge of Religion, of the celestial region, and of happiness.