pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: पञ्चालानां कुरूणां च हता एव हि ये हताः। न चेत् सर्वानयं लोकः पश्येत् स्वेनैव कर्मणा॥
English: I think the Panchalas and the Kurus that have been killed (in this battle) have been lost, otherwise he who has killed would, by that act of his, obtain all blissful regions.
Sanskrit: वयमेवास्य लोकस्य विनाशे कारणं स्मृताः। धृतराष्ट्रस्य पुत्रेषु तत् सर्वं प्रतिपत्स्यति॥
English: We are the root of the destruction that has overtaken the world. The fault, however, should be attributed the of Dhritarashtra.
Sanskrit: सदैव निकृतिप्रज्ञो द्वेष्टा मायोपजीवनः। मिथ्याविनीतः सततमस्मास्वनपकारिषु॥
English: Duryodhana's heart was always wily. Always malicious, he addicted to to sons deception. Although we never offended him, yet he always behaved treacherously towards us.
Sanskrit: न सकामा वयं ते च न चास्माभिर्न तैर्जितम्। न तैर्भुक्तेयमवनिर्न नार्यो गीतवादितम्॥
English: We have not gained our object, nor have they gained theirs. We have not defeated them, nor have they defeated us. The Dhartarashtras could not enjoy this Earth, nor could they enjoy women and music.
Sanskrit: नामात्यसुहृदां वाक्यं न च श्रुतवतां श्रुतम्। न रत्नानि पराानि न भून द्रविणागमः॥
English: They did not listen to the counsels of ministers and friends and men well read in the scriptures. They could not, indeed, enjoy their rich gems and well-equipped treasury and vast territories.
Sanskrit: अस्मद्वेषेण संतप्तः सुखं न स्मेह विन्दति। ऋद्धिमस्मासु तां दृष्ट्वा विवर्णो हरिणः कृशः॥ धृतराष्ट्रश्च नृपतिः सौबलेन निवेदितः। तं पिता पुत्रगृद्धित्वादनुमेनेऽनये स्थितः॥
English: Burning with the hate they cherished against us, they could not enjoy happiness and peace. Witnessing advancement, Duryodhana became colourless, pale and emaciated. Suvala's son informed king Dhritarashtra of this. Like an indulgent father, Dhritarashtra tolerated the evil policy of his Our son.
Sanskrit: अनपेक्ष्यैव पितरं गाङ्गेयं विदुरं तथा। असंशयं क्षयं राजा यथैवाहं तथा गतः॥ अनियम्याशुचिं लुब्धं पुत्रं कामवशानुगम्।
English: Forsooth, by disregarding Vidura and the great son of Ganga, and neglecting to restrain his wicked and covetous son entirely under the influence of his passion, the king has met with destruction like my poor self.
Sanskrit: यशसः पतितो दीप्ताद् घातयित्वा सहोदरान्॥ इमौ हि वृद्धौ शोकाग्नौ प्रक्षिप्य स सुयोधनः। अस्मत्प्रद्वेषसंयुक्तः पापबुद्धिः सदैव ह॥ को हि बन्धुः कुलीनः संस्तथा ब्रूयात् सुहृज्जने। यथासाववदद् वाक्यं युयुत्सुः कृष्णसंनिधौ॥
English: Forsooth, Suyodhana, having caused his uterine brothers to be king and having cast this old pair into burning grief, has fallen off from shining glory. Burning with the hate he bore to us, Duryodhana was always sinful at heart. What other highly-born kinsman could use such language towards kinsman as he, with a view of fight, actually used in the presence of Krishna?
Sanskrit: आत्मनो हि वयं दोषाद् विनष्टाः शाश्वतीः समाः। प्रदहन्तो दिशः सर्वा भास्वरा इव तेजसा॥
English: We also have through Duryodhana's folly, been lost for ever, like suns burning everything around them with their own heat.
Sanskrit: सोऽस्माकं वैरपुरुषो दुर्मतिः प्रग्रहं गतः। दुर्योधनकृते ह्येतत् कुलं नो विनिपातितम्॥ अवध्यानां वधं कृत्वा लोके प्राप्ताः स्म वाच्यताम्।
English: The wicked man, that embodiment of enmity, was our evil star. Alas, Alas, for Duryodhana's deeds alone, this race of ours has been rooted out. Having killed those whom we should never have killed, we have incurred the blame of the world.
Sanskrit: कुलस्यास्यान्तकरणं दुर्मतिं पापपूरुषम्॥ राजा राष्ट्रेश्वरं कृत्वा धृतराष्ट्रोऽद्य शोचति।
English: Having installed that wicked prince of sinful acts, that exterminator of his race, as the monarch, King Dhritarashtra is obliged to grieve today.
Sanskrit: हताः शूराः कृतं पापं विषयः स्वो विनाशितः॥ हत्वा नो विगतो मन्युः शोको मां रुन्धयत्ययम्।
English: Our heroic enemies have been killed. We have committed sin. His wealth and kingdom are gone. Having killed them, our anger has been pacified. But grief is overcoming me.
Sanskrit: धनंजय कृतं पापं कल्याणेनोपहन्यते॥ ख्यापनेनानुतापेन दानेन तपसापि वा। निवृत्त्या तीर्थगमनाच्छुतिस्मृतिजपेन वा॥ त्यागवांश्च पुनः पापं नालंकर्तुमिति श्रुतिः।
English: O Dhananjaya, sin is always expiated by pious acts, by giving wide publicity to it, by repentance, by alms giving, by penances, by sojourn to Tirthas after renunciation of everything, by constant meditation on the scriptures. Of all these, he who has practised renunciation is believed to be incapable of committing fresh sins.
Sanskrit: त्यागवाजन्ममरणे नाप्नोतीति श्रुतिर्यदा॥ प्राप्तवा कृतमतिर्ब्रह्म सम्पद्यते तदा।
English: The Shrutis say that he who practices renunciation escapes from birth and death, and obtaining the right way, that person of controlled mind, attains Brahman.
Sanskrit: स धनंजय निर्द्वन्द्वो मुनिर्ज्ञानसमन्वितः॥ वनमामन्त्र्य वः सर्वान् गमिष्यामि परंतप।
English: I shall, therefore, O Dhananjaya, go to the forest, with your permission, O scorcher of enemies, disregarding all the pairs of opposites, adopting the vow of silence, and walking in the way pointed out by knowledge.
Sanskrit: न हि कृत्स्नतमो धर्मः शक्यः प्राप्तुमिति श्रुतिः॥ परिग्रहवता तन्मे प्रत्यक्षमरिसूदन।
English: O destroyer of foes, the Shrutis say it, and I myself have seen it with my eyes, that one who is addicted to worldly objects can never obtain any kind of religious merit.
Sanskrit: मया निसृष्टं पापं हि परिग्रहमभीप्सता॥ जन्मक्षयनिमित्तं च प्राप्तुं शक्यमिति श्रुतिः।
English: Desirous of obtaining worldly objects, I have committed sin, which as the Shrutis declare, begets birth and death.
Sanskrit: स परिग्रहमुत्सृज्य कृत्स्नं राज्यं सुखानि च॥ गमिष्यामि विनिर्मुक्तो विशोको निर्ममः क्वचित्।
English: Abandoning the whole of my kingdom, therefore, and all the worldly objects, I shall go to the forest, escaping from the worldly fetters, freed from grief, and without affection for anything.
Sanskrit: प्रशाधि त्वमिमामुर्वी क्षेमां निहतकण्टकाम्॥ न ममार्थोऽस्ति राज्येन भोगैर्वा कुरुनन्दन।
English: Do you govern this Earth, on which peace has been restored, and which has been freed of all its thorns. O best of Kuru's race, I do not require kingdom or pleasure.'
Sanskrit: एतावदुक्त्वा वचनं कुरुराजो युधिष्ठिरः। उपारमत् ततः पार्थः कनीयानभ्यभाषत॥
English: Having said so, King Yudhishthira just stopped. His younger brother Arjuna then addressed him as follows.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच मुहूर्तं तावदेकाग्रो मनःश्रोत्रेऽन्तरात्मनि। धारयन्नपि तच्छुत्वा रोचेत वचनं मम॥
English: Yudhishthira said For a little while, O Arjuna, concentrate your attention, thought and hearing on the inner self. If you hear my words in such a state of mind, you will like them!
Sanskrit: साधुगम्यमहं मार्गं न जातु त्वत्कृते पुनः। गच्छेयं तद् गमिष्यामि हित्वा ग्राम्यसुखान्युत॥
English: Abandoning all earthly pleasure, I shall follow that path which is trod by the righteous! [ shall not, for your sake, follow the path pointed out by you.
Sanskrit: क्षेम्यश्चैकाकिना गम्यः पन्थाः कोऽस्तीति पृच्छ माम्। अथवा नेच्छसि प्रष्टुमपृच्छन्नपि मे शृणु॥
English: If you ask me what path is auspicious which only one should follow, I shall tell you! If you are not inclined to ask me, I shall yet, unasked by you, tell you of it.
Sanskrit: हित्वा ग्राम्यसुखाचारं तप्यमानो महत् तपः। अरण्ये फलमूलाशी चरिष्यामि मृगैः सह॥
English: Abandoning the pleasures and what men do in this world, and practising the austerity of penances, I shall wander in the forest, with the animals dwelling there, living on fruits and roots!
Sanskrit: जुह्वानोऽग्निं यथाकालमुभौ कालावुपस्पृशन्। कृशः परिमिताहारश्चर्मचीरजटाधरः॥
English: Pouring libations on the fire at the appointed time and performing ablutions at morning, and evening I shall reduce myself by restricted diet. and clad in skins, bear matted locks on my head.
Sanskrit: शीतवातातपसहः क्षुत्पिपासाश्रमक्षमः। तपसा विधिदृष्टेन शरीरमुपशोषयन्॥ मनःकर्णसुखा नित्यं शृण्वन्नुच्चावचा गिरः। मुदितानामरण्येषु वसतां मृगपक्षिणाम्॥
English: Enduring cold, wind, and heat, as also hunger and thirst and toil, I shall emaciate my body by penances as sanctioned by the scriptures. I shall daily listen to the clear notes of happy birds and animals living in the forest, which please the heart and the ear.
Sanskrit: आजिघ्रन पेशलान् गन्धान फुल्लानां वृक्षवीरुधाम्। नानारूपान् वने पश्यन् रमणीयान् वनौकसः॥
English: I shall enjoy the fragrance of trees and creepers, covered with flowers and see various kinds of charining products that grow in the forest.
Sanskrit: वानप्रस्थजनस्यापि दर्शनं कुलवासिनाम्। नाप्रियाण्याचरिष्यामि किंपुनर्ग्रामवासिनाम्॥
English: I shall also see many recluses there. I shall not do the slightest harm to any creature, what to speak of those who live in villages and towns?
Sanskrit: एकान्तशीली विमृशन् पक्वापक्वेन वर्तयन्। पितृन् देवांश्च वन्येन वाग्भिरद्भिश्च तर्पयन्॥
English: Leading a retired life and engaged in contemplation, I shall live upon ripe and unripe fruits and propitiate the departed manes and the gods with offerings of forest fruits and spring water and beautiful hymns.
Sanskrit: एवमारण्यशास्त्राणामुग्रमुग्रतरं विधिम्। सेवमानः प्रतीक्षिष्ये देहस्यास्य समापनम्॥
English: Thus leading an austere forest-life, I shall live on, calmly awaiting the dissolution of my body.
Sanskrit: अथवैकोऽहमेकाहमेकैकस्मिन् वनस्पतौ। चरन् भैक्ष्यं मुनिर्मुण्डः क्षपयिष्ये कलेवरम्॥
English: Or, living alone and observing the vow of silence, with iny head shaved clean, I shall live by begging each day of only one trees.
Sanskrit: पांसुभिः समभिच्छन्नः शून्यागारप्रतिश्रयः। वृक्षमूलनिकेतो वा त्यक्तसर्वप्रियाप्रियः॥
English: Smearing my body with ashes, and living in forsaken houses, or lying at the foot of trees, I shall live, forsaking all things dear or hateful.
Sanskrit: न शोचन्न पहष्यंश्च तुल्यनिन्दात्मसंस्तुतिः। निराशीर्निर्ममो भूत्वा निर्द्वन्द्वो निष्परिग्रहः॥
English: Without being over-grieved, or over-joyed, and considering censure and applause, hope and affection, in the same light and conquering the pairs of opposites, I shall live, casting off all the things of the world.
Sanskrit: आत्मारामः प्रसन्नात्मा जडान्धवधिराकृतिः। अकुर्वाणः परैः काञ्चित् संविदं जातु कैरपि॥
English: Without talking with anybody, I shall outwardly appear as a blind and deaf idiot, while living in contentment and deriving liappiness from my innerself.
Sanskrit: जङ्गमाजङ्गमान् सर्वानविहिसंश्चतुर्विधान्। प्रजाः सर्वाः स्वधर्मस्थाः समः प्राणभृतः प्रति॥
English: Without doing the least harm to the four kinds of movable and immovable creatures, I shall deal with all creatures equally whether fulfilling their duties, or guided entirely by the Senses.
Sanskrit: न चाप्यवहसन् कञ्चिन्न कुर्वन् भृकुटी: क्वचित्। प्रसन्नवदनो नित्यं सर्वेन्द्रियसुसंयतः॥
English: I shall not inock at any one, nor shall I frown at any body. governing all my senses, I shall always put on a cheerful face.
Sanskrit: अपृच्छन् कस्यचिन्मार्ग प्रव्रजन्नेव केनचित्। न देशं न दिशं काञ्चिद् गन्तुमिच्छन् विशेषतः॥
English: Without asking anybody about the way, proceeding along any way that I may happen to see, I shall go on, without caring for the country or the point of the compass to which or towards which I may go.
Sanskrit: गमने निरपेक्षश्च पश्चादनवलोकयन्। ऋजुः प्रणिहितो गच्छंस्त्रसस्थावरवर्जकः॥
English: Not caring where I may go, I shall not look behind. Divesting myself of desire and anger, and concentrating my look inwards, I shall go on forsaking pride of soul and body.
Sanskrit: स्वभावस्तु प्रयात्यग्रे प्रभवन्त्यशनान्यपि। द्वन्द्वानि च विरुद्धानि तानि सर्वाण्यचिन्तयन्॥
English: Nature always walks before : hence, food and drink will somehow come. I shall not think of those pairs of opposites that are inimical to such a life.
Sanskrit: अल्पं वास्वादु वा भोज्यं पूर्वालाभेन जातुचित्। अन्येष्वपि चरँल्लाभमलाभे सप्त पूरयन्॥
English: If even a small quantity of pure food be not available in the first house (where I may go) I shall secure it by going to other houses. If I cannot procure it by even such around, I shall go to seven houses successively and fill my cravings.
Sanskrit: विधूमे न्यस्तमुसले व्यङ्गारे भुक्तवज्जने। अतीतपात्रसंचारे काले विगतभिक्षुके॥ एककालं चरन् भक्ष्यं त्रीनथ द्वे च पञ्च वा। स्नेहपाशं विमुच्याहं चरिष्यामि महीमिमाम्॥
English: When the smoke of houses will cease to come out, their hearth-fires having been put out, when husking rods will cease working, and all the inmates will have taken their food, and when mendicants and guests will cease to walk, I shall select a moment for going out a begging and solicit alms at two, three, or five houses at the inost. I shall wander over the Earth, shorn of all desires.
Sanskrit: अलाभे सति वा लाभे समदर्शी महातपाः। न जिजीविषुवत् किंचिन्न मुमूर्षुवदाचरन्।॥
English: Unmoved in success and failure, I shall earn great ascetic merit, I shall behave neither like one who is fond of life nor like one who is about to die.
Sanskrit: जीवितं मरणं चैव नाभिनन्दन्न च द्विषन्। वास्यैकं तक्षतो बाहुं चन्दनेनैकमुक्षतः॥
English: I shall not show any liking for life or dislike for death. If one cuts off one arm of mine and another smears the other with sandal-paste, I shall not wish evil to the one or good to other.
Sanskrit: नाकल्याणं न कल्याणं चिन्तयन्नुभयोस्तयोः। याः काश्चिज्जीवता शक्याः कर्तुमभ्युदयक्रियाः। सर्वास्ताः समभित्यज्य निमेषादिव्यवस्थितः॥
English: Abandoning all those acts which lead to prosperity and which one can do in life, the only acts I shall perform will be to open and shut my eyes and take as much food and drink as will barely keep up of my existence.
Sanskrit: तेषु नित्यमसक्तश्च त्यक्तसर्वेन्द्रियक्रियः। सुपरित्यक्तसंकल्प: सुनिर्णिक्तात्मकल्मषः॥
English: Without ever being attached to action, and always restraining the senses, I shall abandon all desire and free the soul of all impurities.
Sanskrit: विमुक्तः सर्वसंगेभ्यो व्यतीतः सर्ववागुराः। न वशे कस्यचित्तिष्ठन् सधर्मा मातरिश्वनः॥
English: Freed from all attachments and snapping all fetters, I shall live free as the wind.
Sanskrit: वीतरागश्चरन्नेवं तुष्टिी प्राप्स्यामि शाश्वतीम्। तृष्णया हि महत् पापमज्ञानादस्मि कारितः॥
English: Being frced from affections, I shall enjoy everlasting contentment. Through desire, and ignorance, I have committed great sins.
Sanskrit: कुशलाकुशलान्येके कृत्वा कर्माणि मानवाः। कार्यकारणसंश्लिष्टं स्वजनं नाम बिभ्रति॥
English: Doing both auspicious and inauspicious acts here, a class of men maintain their wives, children, and kinsmen, all bound to them in relations of cause and effect.
Sanskrit: आयुषोऽन्ते प्रहायेदं क्षीणप्राणं कलेवरम्। प्रतिगृह्णाति तत् पापं कर्तुः कर्मफलं हि तत्॥
English: When the lease of their life expires, abandoning their weakened bodies, they take upon themselves all the effects of their sinful acts, for none but the actor is laden with the consequences of his own acts.
Sanskrit: एवं संसारचक्रेऽस्मिन् व्याविद्धे रथचक्रवत्। समेति भूतग्रामोऽयं भूतग्रामेण कार्यवान्॥
English: Thus, endued with actions, creatures come into this wheel of life that is continually turning like the wheel of a car, and coming there, they meet with their fellow-creatures.
Sanskrit: जन्ममृत्युजराव्याधिवेदनाभिरभिद्रुतम्। अपारमिव चास्वस्थं संसारं त्यजतः सुखम्॥
English: He, however, who gives up his worldly concern, which is really a passing illusion although it looks permanent, and which is afflicted by birth, death, decrepitude, disease, and pain, is sure to enjoy happiness.
Sanskrit: दिवः पतत्सु देवेषु स्थानेभ्यश्च महर्षिषु। को हि नाम भवेनार्थी भवेत् कारणतत्त्ववित्॥
English: Again, when the very gods drop down from heaven and great Rishis from their high positions, who that knows truths of causes (and effects) would wish to have even heavenly prosperity?
Sanskrit: कृत्वा हि विविधं कर्म तत्तद् विविधलक्षणम्। पार्थिवैर्नृपतिः स्वल्पैः कारणैरेव बध्यते॥
English: Having performed various acts according to the diverse means of royal policy, insignificant kings, often destroy a great king through some contrivance.
Sanskrit: तस्मात् प्रज्ञामृतमिदं चिरान्मां प्रत्युपस्थितम्। तत् प्राप्य प्रार्थये स्थानमव्ययं शाश्वतं ध्रुवम्॥
English: Meditating on these circumstances, this nectar of wisdom has come to me. Having attained it, I desire to get a permanent, eternal, and ever-abiding place (for myself).
Sanskrit: एतया संततं धृत्या चरन्नेवंप्रकारया। जन्ममृत्युजराव्याधिवेदनाभिरभिद्रुतम्। देहं संस्थापयिष्यामि निर्भयं मार्गमास्थितः॥
English: Always (behaving) with such wisdom and acting in this wise, I shall, by following that fearless path of life, and this body that is subject to birth, death, decrepitude, disease, and pain.
Sanskrit: भीम उवाच श्रोत्रियस्येव ते राजन् मन्दकस्याविपश्चितः। अनुवाकहता बुद्धि:षा तत्त्वार्थदर्शिनी॥
English: Bhimasena said-Your understanding, O king, cannot perceive the truth, like that of a foolish and unintelligent reciter of the Veda for his recitation of those scriptures.
Sanskrit: आलस्ये कृतचित्तस्य राजधर्मानसूयतः। विनाशे धार्तराष्ट्राणां किं फलं भरतर्षभ॥
English: If censuring the duties of kings you would lead an idle life, then, O foremost of Bharata's race, this destruction of the Dhartarashtras was perfectly useless.
Sanskrit: क्षमानुकम्पा कारुण्यमानृशंस्यं न विद्यते। क्षात्रमाचरतो मार्गमपि बन्धोस्त्वदन्तरे॥
English: Does not a Kshatriya possess forgiveness and compassion and pity and abstention from injury?
Sanskrit: यदीमां भवतो बुद्धिं विद्याम वयमीदृशीम्। शस्त्रं नैव ग्रहीष्यामो न वधिष्याम कंचन॥
English: If we knew that this was your intention, we would then have never taken up arms and killed a single creature.
Sanskrit: भैक्ष्यमेवाचरिष्याम शरीरस्याविमोक्षणात्। न चेदं दारुणं युद्धमभविष्यन्महीक्षिताम्॥
English: We would then have lived by begging till the destruction of this body! This dreadful battle between the kings would also have never taken place!
Sanskrit: प्राणस्यान्नमिदं सर्वमिति वै कवयो विदुः। स्थावरं जङ्गमं चैव सर्वं प्राणस्य भोजनम्॥
English: The learned have declared that what we see is food for the strong. This mobile and immobile world is worthy of being enjoyed by the strong.
Sanskrit: आददानस्य चेद् राज्यं ये केचित् परिपन्थिनः। हन्तव्यास्त इति प्राज्ञाः क्षत्रधर्मविदो विदुः॥
English: Wise men conversant with Kshatriya duties have said that they who stand in the way of the person taking the sovereignty of the Earth, should be killed.
Sanskrit: ते सदोषा हतास्माभी राज्यस्य परिपन्थिनः। तान् हत्वा भुड्क्ष्वधर्मेण युधिष्ठिर महीमिमाम्॥
English: Committing the same fault, those that stood as enemies of our kingdom have all been killed by us. Having killed then, O Yudhishthira, righteously govern this Earth!
Sanskrit: यथा हि पुरुषः खात्वा कूपमप्राप्य चोदकम्। पङ्कदिग्धो निवर्तेत कर्मेदं नस्तथोपमम्॥
English: This act of our refusing the kingdom is like that of a person who having dug a well stops in his work before obtaining water and comes up covered with mire.
Sanskrit: यथाऽऽरुह्य महावृक्षमपहृत्य ततो मधु। अप्राश्य निधनं गच्छेत् कर्मेदं नस्तथोपमम्॥
English: Or, this our act is like that of a person who having climbed up a tall tree and collected honey therefrom dies before tasting it.
Sanskrit: यथा महान्तमध्वानमाशया पुरुषः पतन्। स निराशो निवर्तेत कर्मतन्नस्तथोपमम्॥
English: Or, it is like that of a person who having set out on a long journey comes back in despair without having reached his goal.
Sanskrit: यथा शत्रून् घातयित्वा पुरुषः कुरुनन्दन। आत्मानं घातयेत् पश्चात् कर्मेदं नस्तथोपमम्॥
English: Or, it is like that of a person who having killed all his enemies, O you of Kuru's race, at last dies at his own hand.
Sanskrit: यथान्नं क्षुधितो लब्ध्वा न भुञ्जीयाद् यदृच्छया। कामीव कामिनी लब्ध्वा कर्मेदं नस्तथोपमम्॥
English: Or, it is like that of a person with hunger, who having obtained food, refuses to take it, or of a person under the influence of passion, who having obtained a woman reciprocating his desire refuses to know her.
Sanskrit: वयमेवात्र गर्वा हि यद् वयं मन्दचेतसम्। त्वां राजन्ननुगच्छामो ज्येष्ठोऽयमिति भारत॥
English: We have become butts of censure, O Bharata, because, O king, we follow you who are of weak understanding, in consequence of yourself being our eldest brother!
Sanskrit: वयं हि बाहुबलिनः कृतविद्या मनस्विनः। क्लीबस्य वाक्ये तिष्ठामो यथैवाशक्तयस्तथा॥
English: We are endued with the might of arms; we are accomplished in knowledge and gifted with great energy. Yet we follow the words of a eunuch as if we were entirely helpless!
Sanskrit: अगतीकगतीनस्मान् नष्टार्थानर्थसिद्धये। कथं वै नानुपश्येयुर्जना: पश्यत यादृशम्॥
English: We are the refuge of all helpless persons. Yet, when people see us so, why would they not say that we are entirely powerless to acquire our objects? Think of what I say!
Sanskrit: आपत्काले हि संन्यासः कर्तव्य इति शिष्यते। जरयाभिपरीतेन शत्रुभियंसितेन वा॥
English: It has been laid down that (a life of) Renunciation should be adopted, only in times of difficulty, by kings attacked with decrepitude or defeated by, enemies!
Sanskrit: तस्मादिह कृतप्रज्ञास्त्यागं न परिचक्षते। धर्मव्यतिक्रमं चैव मन्यन्ते सूक्ष्मदर्शिनः॥
English: Wise men, therefore, do not praise Renunciation as the duty of a Kshatriya. On the other hand, the clear-sighted think that the adoption of such a life (by a Kshatriya) involves even the loss of virtue.
Sanskrit: कथं तस्मात् समुत्पन्नास्तनिष्ठास्तदुपाश्रयाः। तदेव निन्दा भाषेयुर्धाता तत्र न गर्यते॥
English: How can those who are born in that order, who follow the practices of that order, and that have their refuse in them, censure those duties? If indeed those duties be censurable, then why should not the Supreme Ordainer be blamed?
Sanskrit: श्रिया विहीनैरधनैर्नास्तिकैः सम्प्रवर्तितम्। वेदवादस्य विज्ञानं सत्याभासमिवानृतम्॥
English: The persons who are shorn of prosperity and wealth and who are unbelievers, have laid down this precept of the Vedas as the truth. In reality, however, it is never, proper for a Kshatriya to do so.
Sanskrit: शक्यं तु मौनमास्थाय बिभ्रताऽऽत्मानमात्मना। धर्मच्छद्म समास्थाय च्यवितुं न तु जीवितुम्॥
English: He who can support life by prowess, he who can support himself by his own exertions, does note live, but really deviates from his duty, by following the life of Renunciation.
Sanskrit: शक्यं पुनररण्येषु सुखमेकेन जीवितुम्। अबिभ्रता पुत्रपौत्रान् देवर्षीनतिथीन् पितॄन्।॥
English: That man only is capable of leading a solitary life of happiness in the forest who cannot support sons and grandsons and the deities and Rishis and guests and Pitris.
Sanskrit: नेमे मृगाः स्वर्गजितो न वराहा न पक्षिणः। अथान्येन प्रकारेण पुण्यमाहुर्न तं जनाः॥
English: As the deer and boars and birds cannot attain to heaven, even so those Kshatriyas who are not shorn of prowess cannot attain to heaven by leading only a forest life. They should acquire religious merit by other means.
Sanskrit: यदि संन्यासत: सिद्धिं राजा कश्चिदवाप्नुयात्। पर्वताश्च दुमाश्चैव क्षिप्रं सिद्धिमवाप्नुयुः॥
English: If, O king, anybody could secure success from Renunciation, then mountains and trees would surely obtain it.
Sanskrit: एते हि नित्यसंन्यासा दृश्यन्ते निरुपद्रवाः। अपरिग्रहवन्तश्च सततं ब्रह्मचारिणः॥
English: These latter always lead lives of Renunciation. They do not harın any one. They do not lead a life of worldliness and are all Brahmacharins.
Sanskrit: अथ चेदात्मभाग्येषु नान्येषां सिद्धिमश्नुते। तस्मात् कर्मैव कर्तव्यं नास्ति सिद्धिरकर्मणः॥
English: If it be the truth that a person's success depends upon his own torture in life and not upon that of others, then you should take to action. He that is shorn of action can never attain success.
Sanskrit: औदकाः सृष्टयश्चैव जन्तवः सिद्धिमाप्नुयुः। तेषामात्मैव भर्तव्यो नान्यः कश्चन विद्यते॥
English: If they who fill only their own stomachs could achieve success, then all aquatic creatures would get it, for these have none else to support save their own selves.
Sanskrit: अवेक्षस्व यथा स्वैः स्वैः कर्मभिर्व्यापृतं जगत्। तस्मात् कर्मव कर्तव्यं नास्ति सिद्धिरकर्मणः॥
English: Behold, the world moves on, with every creature on it acting according to its nature, therefore, one should act. The man shorn of action can never attain success.
Sanskrit: अर्जुन उवाच अत्रैवोदाहरन्तीममितिहासं पुरातनम्। तापसैः सह संवादं शक्रस्य भरतर्षभ॥
English: Arjuna said The old history of the discourse between certain ascetics and Shakra, is cited in this connection, O foremost of Bharata's race!
Sanskrit: केचिद् गृहान् परित्यज्य वनमभ्यागमन् द्विजाः। अजातश्मश्रवो मन्दाः कुले जाताः प्रवव्रजुः॥
English: Certain little-witted well-born Brahmana youths, without attaining manhood, forsaking their homes, came to the woods for leading a forest life.