Adhyaya 315

Verse 1

वैशंपायन उवाच। ततस्ते यक्षवचनादुदतिष्ठन्त पाण्डवः। क्षुत्पिपासे च सर्वेषां क्षणेन व्यपगच्छताम् ।।

vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca| tataste yakṣavacanādudatiṣṭhanta pāṇḍavaḥ| kṣutpipāse ca sarveṣāṃ kṣaṇena vyapagacchatām ||

Vaishampayana said: Then, at the Yaksha's word, the Pandavas rose up, and in an instant the hunger and thirst of all of them departed.

Verse 2

युधिष्ठि उवाच। सरस्येकेन पादेन तिष्ठन्तमपराजितम्। पृच्छामि को भवान्देवो न मे यक्षो मतो भवान् ।।

yudhiṣṭhi uvāca| sarasyekena pādena tiṣṭhantamaparājitam| pṛcchāmi ko bhavāndevo na me yakṣo mato bhavān ||

Yudhishthira said: You who stand upon one foot in the lake, unconquered, I ask you — what god are you? For I do not take you to be a Yaksha.

Verse 3

बसूनां वा भवानेको रुद्राणामथवा भवान्। अथवा मरुतां श्रेष्ठो वज्री वा त्रिदशेश्वरः ।।

basūnāṃ vā bhavāneko rudrāṇāmathavā bhavān| athavā marutāṃ śreṣṭho vajrī vā tridaśeśvaraḥ ||

Are you one of the Vasus, or are you of the Rudras, or the chief of the Maruts, or the wielder of the thunderbolt, the lord of the thirty gods?

Verse 4

मम हि भ्रातर इमे सहस्रशतयोधिनः। तं योधं न प्रपश्यामि येन सर्वे निपातिताः ।।

mama hi bhrātara ime sahasraśatayodhinaḥ| taṃ yodhaṃ na prapaśyāmi yena sarve nipātitāḥ ||

For these brothers of mine are warriors who can each fight a hundred thousand; yet I do not see the warrior by whom they were all struck down.

Verse 5

सुखं प्रति प्रबुद्दानामिन्द्रियाण्युपलक्षये। स भवान्सुहृदोस्माकमथवा नः पिता भवान् ।। ।। इति श्रीमन्महाभारते शतसाहस्रिकायां संहितायां वैयासिक्यां अरण्यपर्वणि आरणेयपर्वणि पञ्चदशाधिकत्रिशततमोऽध्यायः ।। 315 ।। आरणेयपर्व समाप्तम् ।। 21 ।। समाप्तमिदमरण्यपर्व च ।। 3 ।। अतः परं विराटपर्व भविष्यति। तस्यायमाद्यः श्लोकः। जनमेयज उवाच। कथं विराटनगरे मम पूर्वपितामहाः। अज्ञातवासमुषिता दुर्योधनभयार्दिताः ।।

sukhaṃ prati prabuddānāmindriyāṇyupalakṣaye| sa bhavānsuhṛdosmākamathavā naḥ pitā bhavān || || iti śrīmanmahābhārate śatasāhasrikāyāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyāsikyāṃ araṇyaparvaṇi āraṇeyaparvaṇi pañcadaśādhikatriśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ || 315 || āraṇeyaparva samāptam || 21 || samāptamidamaraṇyaparva ca || 3 || ataḥ paraṃ virāṭaparva bhaviṣyati| tasyāyamādyaḥ ślokaḥ| janameyaja uvāca| kathaṃ virāṭanagare mama pūrvapitāmahāḥ| ajñātavāsamuṣitā duryodhanabhayārditāḥ ||

I observe that their senses have awakened happily, as if from sleep. Surely you are our friend — or rather, you are our father. Here ends the three-hundred-and-fifteenth chapter of the Araneya Parva within the Aranyaka Parva, in the glorious Mahabharata, the hundred-thousand-verse collection composed by Vyasa. Thus the Araneya Parva is completed (21), and with it the whole Aranyaka Parva is completed (3). After this comes the Virata Parva, whose opening verse is this: Janamejaya said: How did my ancestors of old, oppressed by fear of Duryodhana, dwell in the city of Virata in concealment, living unrecognized?

Verse 6

यक्ष उवाच। अहंते जनकस्तात धर्मो मृदुपराक्रम। त्वां रदिदृक्षुरनुप्राप्तो विद्धि मां भरतर्षभ ।।

yakṣa uvāca| ahaṃte janakastāta dharmo mṛduparākrama| tvāṃ radidṛkṣuranuprāpto viddhi māṃ bharatarṣabha ||

The Yaksha said: I am your father, my child — Dharma, gentle in prowess. Know me, O bull among the Bharatas, for I have come here longing to see you.

Verse 7

यशः सत्यंदमः शौचमार्जवं ह्रीरचापलम्। दानं तपो ब्रह्मचर्यमित्येतास्तनवो मम ।।

yaśaḥ satyaṃdamaḥ śaucamārjavaṃ hrīracāpalam| dānaṃ tapo brahmacaryamityetāstanavo mama ||

Fame, truth, self-restraint, purity, uprightness, modesty, steadiness, giving, austerity, and continence — these are my very forms.

Verse 8

अहिंसा समता शान्तिस्तपः शौचममत्सरः। द्वाराण्येतानि मे विद्धि प्रियो ह्यसि सुतो मम ।।

ahiṃsā samatā śāntistapaḥ śaucamamatsaraḥ| dvārāṇyetāni me viddhi priyo hyasi suto mama ||

Non-violence, evenness, peace, austerity, purity, and freedom from envy — know these to be my doorways. For you are dear to me, and you are my son.

Verse 9

दिष्ट्या पञ्चसु रक्तोसि दिष्ट्या ते षट्रपदी जिता। द्वे पूर्वे मध्यमे द्वे च द्वे शान्ते सांपरायिके ।। $ सुहृदः सुहृत्। छान्दसमदन्तत्वम् ।।

diṣṭyā pañcasu raktosi diṣṭyā te ṣaṭrapadī jitā| dve pūrve madhyame dve ca dve śānte sāṃparāyike || $ suhṛdaḥ suhṛt| chāndasamadantatvam ||

By good fortune you are devoted to the five, and by good fortune you have conquered the six-footed one — the two that come first, the two in the middle, and the two at the end, belonging to the passage to the other world. (Gloss: 'suhridah' stands for 'suhrit'; the extra final vowel is a Vedic usage.)

Verse 10

ध्रमोऽहमिति भद्रं ते जिज्ञासुस्त्वामिहागतः। आनृशंस्येन तुष्टोस्मि वरं दास्यामि तेऽनघ ।।

dhramo'hamiti bhadraṃ te jijñāsustvāmihāgataḥ| ānṛśaṃsyena tuṣṭosmi varaṃ dāsyāmi te'nagha ||

I am Dharma — blessings upon you — and I came here seeking to test you. I am pleased with your freedom from cruelty; I shall grant you a boon, O sinless one.

Verse 11

वरं वृणीष्व राजेन्द्रदाता ह्यस्मि तवानघ। ये हि मे पुरुषा भक्ता न तेषामस्ति दुर्गतिः ।।

varaṃ vṛṇīṣva rājendradātā hyasmi tavānagha| ye hi me puruṣā bhaktā na teṣāmasti durgatiḥ ||

Choose a boon, O lord of kings, for I am a giver to you, sinless one. Those men who are devoted to me — for them there is no misfortune.

Verse 12

युधिष्ठिर उवाच। अरणी तु हृतायस्य मृगेण वदतांवर। तस्याग्नयो न लुप्येरन्प्रथमोऽस्तु वरो मम ।।

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca| araṇī tu hṛtāyasya mṛgeṇa vadatāṃvara| tasyāgnayo na lupyeranprathamo'stu varo mama ||

Yudhishthira said: O best of speakers, the fire-sticks of a certain Brahmin were carried off by a deer; let his sacred fires not be interrupted — let this be my first boon.

Verse 13

धर्म उवाच। आरणेयमिदं तस्य ब्राह्मणस्य हृतं मया। मृगवेषेण कौन्तेय जिज्ञालार्थं तवानघ ।।

dharma uvāca| āraṇeyamidaṃ tasya brāhmaṇasya hṛtaṃ mayā| mṛgaveṣeṇa kaunteya jijñālārthaṃ tavānagha ||

Dharma said: It was I, O son of Kunti, who in the guise of a deer carried off those fire-sticks of that Brahmin, in order to test you, O sinless one.

Verse 14

वैशंपायन उवाच। ददानीत्येव भगवानुत्तरं प्रत्यपद्यत। अन्यं वरय भद्रं ते वरं त्वममरोपम ।।

vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca| dadānītyeva bhagavānuttaraṃ pratyapadyata| anyaṃ varaya bhadraṃ te varaṃ tvamamaropama ||

Vaishampayana said: 'I grant it,' the Lord replied in answer. 'Choose another boon — blessings upon you — you who are the equal of the immortals.'

Verse 15

युधिष्टिर उवाच। वर्षाणि द्वादशारण्ये त्रयोदशमुपस्थितम्। तत्रनो नाभिजानीयुर्वसतो मनुजाः क्वचित् ।। पञ्चस्वात्मदर्शनसाधनेषु शान्तो दान्त उपरतस्तितिक्षुः समाहितो भूत्वेति श्रुत्युक्तेषु शमादिषु। दिष्ट्या पूर्वपुण्यवशाद्रक्तोसि तस्य फलं च षट्पदीजयः। पद्यन्ते प्राप्नुवन्ति देहिनमिति पदानि षडूर्मयो योशनायापिपासे शोकं मोहं जरां मृत्युमत्येतीति श्रुत्युक्तः। तेषां षण्णां पदानां समाहारः षट्‌पदी सा त्वया जिता। तेषु पदेषु द्वे पदे पूर्वे जातमात्रस्य ह्यशनायापिपासे प्रथमं भवतः। द्वे मध्ये शोकमोहौ। शोक इष्टवियोगजश्चित्तस्य संतापः। मोहोऽतिपापेन कार्याकार्यप्रतिसंधानशून्यत्वम्। एते मध्ये मध्यमे वयसि प्राप्नुतः। सांपरायिके जरामृत्यू उत्तरे वयस्युपतिष्ठतः। संपरायः परलोकस्तं प्रति नेतुमुदिते सांपरायिके ।। $[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxohHGWivCd7RTlOdWM1Z1lyMnc षट्पदी उपरि अन्ये संदर्भाः] $ [http://vipin110012.tripod.com/pur_index28/shatpadi.htm षट्पद्योपरि अन्ये संदर्भाः]

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Yudhishthira said: Twelve years in the forest have passed, and the thirteenth has arrived; may the people in whatever place we dwell not recognize us there. (Commentary: 'devoted to the five' means fixed in the five means of self-realization declared in scripture — becoming calm, restrained, withdrawn, forbearing, and composed. 'By good fortune you are devoted' — through the power of former merit; and its fruit is the conquest of the six-footed one. The 'six feet' are the six waves that overtake the embodied being — hunger, thirst, grief, delusion, old age, and death, as scripture declares. The aggregate of these six is the 'six-footed one,' and it has been conquered by you. Among them, the first two — hunger and thirst — arise first, for one just born. The middle two are grief and delusion — grief being the mind's anguish born of separation from what is dear, and delusion being, through great misfortune, the inability to discern what should and should not be done; these two are met with in middle age. The two belonging to the passage beyond — old age and death — arise in the later stage of life. 'Sampraya' means the other world; the two that bear one toward it are called 'samparayika.')

Verse 16

ददानीत्येव भगवानुत्तरं प्रत्यपद्यत। भूयश्चाश्वासयामास कौन्तेयं सत्यविक्रमम् ।।

dadānītyeva bhagavānuttaraṃ pratyapadyata| bhūyaścāśvāsayāmāsa kaunteyaṃ satyavikramam ||

'I grant it,' the Lord replied in answer, and once more he reassured the son of Kunti, whose valor was truth itself.

Verse 17

यद्यपि स्वेन रूपेण चरिष्यथ महीमिमाम्। न वो विज्ञास्यते कश्चित्रिषु लोकेषु भारत ।।

yadyapi svena rūpeṇa cariṣyatha mahīmimām| na vo vijñāsyate kaścitriṣu lokeṣu bhārata ||

Even if you roam this earth in your own forms, no one in the three worlds will recognize you, O Bharata.

Verse 18

वर्षंत्रयोदशमिदं मत्प्रसादात्कुरूद्वहाः। विराटनगरे गूढा अविज्ञाताश्चरिष्यथ ।।

varṣaṃtrayodaśamidaṃ matprasādātkurūdvahāḥ| virāṭanagare gūḍhā avijñātāścariṣyatha ||

By my grace, O upholders of the Kurus, through this thirteenth year you shall move about hidden and unrecognized in the city of Virata.

Verse 19

यद्वः संकल्पितं रूपं मनसा यस् यादृशम्। तादृशं तादृशं सर्वे छन्दतो धारयिष्यथ ।। अरण्ये गतानीति शेषः। नोऽस्मान् ।।

yadvaḥ saṃkalpitaṃ rūpaṃ manasā yas yādṛśam| tādṛśaṃ tādṛśaṃ sarve chandato dhārayiṣyatha || araṇye gatānīti śeṣaḥ| no'smān ||

Whatever form you conceive in your minds, of whatever kind, that very form, each of you, shall assume at will. (Gloss: 'gone into the forest' is understood as the completing sense; 'nah' means 'us.')

Verse 20

अरणीसहितं भाण्डं ब्राह्मणाय प्रयच्छत। जिज्ञासार्थं मया ह्येतदाहृतंमृगरूपिणा ।।

araṇīsahitaṃ bhāṇḍaṃ brāhmaṇāya prayacchata| jijñāsārthaṃ mayā hyetadāhṛtaṃmṛgarūpiṇā ||

Give back to the Brahmin the vessel together with the fire-sticks; for it was I who carried them off, in the form of a deer, in order to test you.

Verse 21

प्रवृणीष्वापरं सौम्य वरमिष्टं ददानि ते। न तृप्यामि नरश्रेष्ठ प्रयच्छन्वै वरांस्तथा ।।

pravṛṇīṣvāparaṃ saumya varamiṣṭaṃ dadāni te| na tṛpyāmi naraśreṣṭha prayacchanvai varāṃstathā ||

Choose yet another cherished boon, gentle one, and I shall grant it to you. For I am not sated, O best of men, in bestowing boons upon you thus.

Verse 22

तृतीयं गृह्यतां पुत्र वरमप्रतिमं महत्। त्वं हि मत्प्रभवो राजन्विदुरश्चममांशजः ।।

tṛtīyaṃ gṛhyatāṃ putra varamapratimaṃ mahat| tvaṃ hi matprabhavo rājanviduraścamamāṃśajaḥ ||

Take, my son, a third boon, matchless and great; for you are sprung from me, O king, and Vidura too is born of a portion of me.

Verse 23

जुधिष्ठिर उवाच। देवदेवो मया दृष्टो भवान्साक्षात्सनातनः। यं ददासि वरं तुष्टस्तं ग्रहीष्याम्यहं पितः ।।

judhiṣṭhira uvāca| devadevo mayā dṛṣṭo bhavānsākṣātsanātanaḥ| yaṃ dadāsi varaṃ tuṣṭastaṃ grahīṣyāmyahaṃ pitaḥ ||

Yudhishthira said: I have beheld you, the God of gods, the eternal one, face to face. The boon you grant, being pleased, that I shall accept, O father.

Verse 24

जयेयं लोभमोहौ च क्रोधं चाहं सदा विभो। दाने तपसि सत्ये च मनो मे सततं वेत् ।।

jayeyaṃ lobhamohau ca krodhaṃ cāhaṃ sadā vibho| dāne tapasi satye ca mano me satataṃ vet ||

May I ever conquer greed and delusion and anger, O mighty lord, and may my mind be always set upon giving, austerity, and truth.

Verse 25

धर्म उवाच। रउपपन्नो गुणैरेतैः स्वभावेनासि पाण्डव। भवान्धर्मः पुनश्चैव यथोक्तं ते भविष्यति ।।

dharma uvāca| raupapanno guṇairetaiḥ svabhāvenāsi pāṇḍava| bhavāndharmaḥ punaścaiva yathoktaṃ te bhaviṣyati ||

Dharma said: You are, by your very nature, endowed with these virtues, O Pandava. You are Dharma himself; and once again it shall be for you just as you have said.

Verse 26

वैशंवायन उवाच। इत्युक्त्वान्तऽर्दधे धर्मो भगबाँल्लोकभावनः। समेताः पाण्डवाश्चैव सुखसुप्ता मनस्विनः ।।

vaiśaṃvāyana uvāca| ityuktvānta'rdadhe dharmo bhagabā~llokabhāvanaḥ| sametāḥ pāṇḍavāścaiva sukhasuptā manasvinaḥ ||

Vaishampayana said: Having spoken thus, Dharma, the blessed one, the sustainer of the worlds, vanished; and the high-minded Pandavas, reunited, had slept a peaceful sleep.

Verse 27

उपेत्यचाश्रमं वीराः सर्व एव गतक्लमाः। आरणेयं ददुस्तस्मै ब्राह्मणाय तपस्विने ।। छन्दत उच्छातः ।।

upetyacāśramaṃ vīrāḥ sarva eva gataklamāḥ| āraṇeyaṃ dadustasmai brāhmaṇāya tapasvine || chandata ucchātaḥ ||

The heroes, all their weariness gone, returned to the hermitage and gave the fire-sticks to that ascetic Brahmin. (Gloss: 'chandatah' means 'at will.')

Verse 28

इदं समुत्थानसमागतं मह- त्पितुश्चपुत्रस्य च कीर्तिवर्धनम्। पठन्नरः रस्याद्विजितेन्द्रियो वशी सपुत्रपौत्रः शतपर्षभाग्भवेत् ।। आरणेयमरणीसंपुटम् ।।

idaṃ samutthānasamāgataṃ maha- tpituścaputrasya ca kīrtivardhanam| paṭhannaraḥ rasyādvijitendriyo vaśī saputrapautraḥ śataparṣabhāgbhavet || āraṇeyamaraṇīsaṃpuṭam ||

This great tale — the rising up and reunion, enhancing the glory of both father and son — the man who reads it becomes master of his senses, self-controlled, and lives with sons and grandsons for a hundred autumns. (This is the 'Araneya,' the casket of the fire-sticks.)

Verse 29

न चाप्यधर्मे न सुहृद्विभेदने परस्वहारे परदारमर्शने। कदर्यभावे न रमेनेमनः सदा नृणां सदाख्यानमिदं विजानताम् ।। समुत्थानसमागतं भीमादीनां समुत्थानं च रधर्मराजेन सह समागतं संमेलनं चेति समाहारः। पितुर्धर्मस्य। पुत्रस् युधिष्ठिरस्य। चात् समागतमिति समासैकदेशभूतमप्यनुवर्तते ।।

na cāpyadharme na suhṛdvibhedane parasvahāre paradāramarśane| kadaryabhāve na ramenemanaḥ sadā nṛṇāṃ sadākhyānamidaṃ vijānatām || samutthānasamāgataṃ bhīmādīnāṃ samutthānaṃ ca radharmarājena saha samāgataṃ saṃmelanaṃ ceti samāhāraḥ| piturdharmasya| putras yudhiṣṭhirasya| cāt samāgatamiti samāsaikadeśabhūtamapyanuvartate ||

And the mind of one who knows this ever-holy narration of men never delights in unrighteousness, nor in setting friends at odds, nor in seizing others' wealth, nor in coveting another's wife, nor in meanness of spirit. (Commentary: 'the rising up and reunion' — the rising up of Bhima and the others, together with their reunion and coming together with Yudhishthira the King of Dharma, is taken as a compound whole. 'Of the father' means of Dharma; 'of the son' means of Yudhishthira. By the force of 'and,' the word 'reunion,' though part of the compound, carries over here as well.)