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The method of killing the fallen brāhmaṇa is by shaving his head, taking away his wealth, and taking away his living place. One should not physically kill him.
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- When the mendicant teachers who had given me knowledge left, even though I was of young age, I did as they instructed.
- Considering that her death was the mercy of the Lord who is concerned for the welfare of his devotees, I departed immediately for the north.
- Senses and body exhausted, thirsty and hungry, after bathing in a pool of a river, I performed ācamana and took rest.
- In that desolate forest, sitting at the base of a pippala tree, I concentrated by my intelligence on Paramātmā situated within my mind, as I had been taught.
- As I endeavored to see him in that lonely place the Lord, inexpressible by words, then spoke to me with affectionate words, which removed my grief.
- Oh! In this body you will not be able to see me again. But lax practitioners who still have some contamination cannot see me at all.
- By serving the devotees for even a short time, your intelligence became firmly fixed in Me. When you give up this body of low birth, you will become my associate.
- At the end of thousand yuga cycles, Brahmā awoke and Marīci, other sages and I appeared from the senses of Brahmā, who desired to create the universe again.
- With continuous worship of the Lord, by the grace of Mahā-viṣṇu, I travel outside and inside the universe with no obstacles at all.
- When I sing his glories, the Lord who makes any place that he touches holy, and who is attracted to those who sing his glories, quickly appears in my heart, as if being called.
- atha saptamo ’dhyāyaḥ
- Oh Sūta! When Nārada departed, what did the powerful Vyāsa do, having heard the advice of Nārada?
- And Vyāsa saw bhakti-yoga to the Lord which effectively destroys jīva’s saṁsāra. Learned Vyāsa then wrote the Bhāgavatam for ignorant people.
- ukadeva was fixed in the brahman, indifferent to everything, and enjoying in the self. Why did he study this elaborate work?
- After the warriors of both sides had met their end on the battlefield, and Duryodhana had his thigh broken by a blow from the club of Bhīma;
- At that time their mother hearing of the terrible death of her youthful sons, pained, eyes full of tears, began to lament. Arjuna spoke to pacify her.
- Sipping water and concentrating his mind, he released the weapon without knowing how to withdraw it, because his life was in danger.
- O Supreme Lord! What is this? I do not know where it has come from. This most ferocious fire is spread out in all directions.
- Seeing the great fire of their two weapons burning up the three worlds, all the citizens, afflicted by the heat, thought that this was the fire of final destruction.
- Eyes burning with anger, Arjuna quickly caught cruel Aśvatthāmā, and tied him up with rope like a beast.
- The knower of dharma does not kill an enemy who is a drunkard, or who is inattentive, insane, sleeping, young, a female, immobilised, surrendered, without chariot, or afraid.
- Arriving at his camp, Arjuna, whose friend and driver was Kṛṣṇa, offered Aśvatthāmā to his wife who was lamenting for her killed sons.
- Do not make Kṛpī, the mother of Aśvatthāmā and devoted to her husband, cry as I cry constantly with tearful face, pained by the death of my sons.
- Nakula and Sahadeva, Sātyaki, Arjuna, Kṛsṇa, and the women, were also happy with her words.
- You must fulfill your promise to Draupadī so that she is pacified. You must also act to please Bhīma, Draupadī, me and others.
- The method of killing the fallen brāhmaṇa is by shaving his head, taking away his wealth, and taking away his living place. One should not physically kill him.
- O powerful lord! This arrow of burning iron is pursuing me. O Lord! Let it burn me up! But let it not kill by child!
- O best of sages! Seeing five flaming arrows headed towards them, the Pāṇḍavas then took up their weapons.
- O Śaunaka! Though the brahmāstra is effective and cannot be prevented from acting, on meeting the weapon of Viṣṇu, it became completely ineffective.
- How can we women hope to see you, the object of bhakti for the omniscient, liberated sages?
- I repeatedly offer respects to Kṛṣṇa, the son of Vasudeva, who gave joy to Devakī, who was the child of Nanda and satisfier of the senses of the gopīs.
- I offer respects to you, with lotus navel, wearing a lotus garland, having lotus eyes, and lotus feet.
- O guru of the universe! May we have dangers in such situations continually, because in those dangers we will see you, and by that we will gain release from this material world.
- No one knows the intentions of the Lord who desires to hide himself in human form, who does not show favor or hatred to anyone, and about whom all men have different opinions.
- O soul of the universe! You are unborn and perform no actions, but you take birth and perform activities in the forms of animals, men and aquatics. This is extremely deceptive.
- Some say that you, though unborn, appeared as the son of Vasudeva in Devakī upon their request, in order to protect the world and kill the demons.
- Without your presence who are we, the Pāṇḍavas along with the Yadus with their fame and strength? We are like the senses without the jīva.
- O holder of the club! When you go, this land, marked with the special signs on your feet, will not glow as it does now.
- O brāhmaṇas! Yudhiṣṭhira, thinking of the killing of his friends, overcome with bewilderment arising from affection, due to material thinking, then spoke.
- Because I have killed children, brāhmaṇas, relatives, friends, paternal uncles, cousins, and gurus, I cannot be free from hellish punishments for ten thousand years.
- There is no sin for the king who kills the enemy in a righteous war, protecting the citizens. This rule does not apply to me.
- yudhiṣṭhira-rājya-pralambho nāma
- Having the shelter of brāhmaṇas, dharma and Kṛṣṇa, you should not live your life in suffering since that is dangerous and improper.
- I consider that this, which is unwelcome, has all been done to you by time, which controls the world and its protectors just as the wind controls the clouds.
- O King! No one can understand the plan of Kṛṣṇa because even those engaged in reasoning and scripture are bewildered by that inquiry.
- Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa, the original Nārāyaṇa, the puruṣa, who bewilders the world with his energy, secretly moves in the Yādava family.
- You think of Kṛṣṇa as your cousin, as a dear friend, as your selfless helper, and out of affection made him your counselor, messenger, and charioteer.
- Yudhiṣṭhira, hearing what he had said, then asked Bhīṣma, lying on a bed of arrows, about various dharmas while the sages were listening.
- The ignorant, who were like birds who think that day has been destroyed at the approach of evening, thought that Bhīṣma had attained the brahman, became silent.
- O Śaunaka of the Bhṛgu dynasty! Yudhiṣṭhira had last rites of the departed Bhīṣma performed and became sad for a moment.
The method of killing the fallen brāhmaṇa is by shaving his head, taking away his wealth, and taking away his living place. One should not physically kill him.
COMMENTARY
One should execute dharma according to the scriptures as the verse indicates.
|| 1.7.58 ||
putra-śokāturāḥ sarve pāṇḍavāḥ saha kṛṣṇayā |
svānāṁ mṛtānāṁ yat kṛtyaṁ cakrur nirharaṇādikam ||
TRANSLATION
Then all the Pāṇdāvas and Draupadī, lamenting for their sons, performed the death rites for their dead relatives and carried them for burning.
COMMENTARY
Nirharaṇa means “going for burning.”
kuntī-stuti-yudhiṣṭhirānutāpo nāma
|| 1.8.1 ||
sūta uvāca
atha te samparetānāṁ svānām udakam icchatām |
dātuṁ sakṛṣṇā gaṅgāyāṁ puraskṛtya yayuḥ striyaḥ ||
TRANSLATION
Sūta said:
Then the Pāṇḍavas along with Kṛṣṇa, putting the women in front, went to the Gaṅgā to give water to the departed relatives who desired it.
COMMENTARY
In the Eight Chapter Kṛṣṇa protects Parīkṣit from the brahmāstra when he is in the womb, Kuntī offers prayers to Kṛṣṇa and Yudhiṣṭhira laments.
There is a rule that the women should go in front during the funeral rites.
|| 1.8.2 ||
te ninīyodakaṁ sarve vilapya ca bhṛśaṁ punaḥ |
āplutā hari-pādābja-rajaḥ-pūta-sarij-jale ||
TRANSLATION
Offering water to the departed and lamenting intensely, everyone again took bath in the water purified by the dust from the lotus feet of the Lord.
COMMENTARY
Ninīya means “having given.”
|| 1.8.3-4 ||
tatrāsīnaṁ kuru-patiṁ dhṛtarāṣṭraṁ sahānujam |
gāndhārīṁ putra-śokārtāṁ pṛthāṁ kṛṣṇāṁ ca mādhavaḥ ||
sāntvayām āsa munibhir hata-bandhūñ śucārpitān |
bhūteṣu kālasya gatiṁ darśayan na pratikriyām ||
TRANSLATION
Kṛṣṇa along with the sages then consoled Yudhiṣṭhira and his brothers, Dhṛtarāṣtṛa, Gāndhaṛī, Kuntī and Draupadī, lamenting the loss of their sons, all of whom were overcome with grief by the death of their relatives, who were all seated there, by showing the relentless movement of time upon all entities.
COMMENTARY
Kuru-patim refers to Yudhiṣṭhira. Sahānujam refers to Bhīma and his brothers. Kṛṣṇa consoled them along with the sages.
|| 1.8.5-6 ||
ādhayitvājāta-śatroḥ svaṁ rājyaṁ kitavair hṛtam |
ghātayitvāsato rājñaḥ kaca-sparśa-kṣatāyuṣaḥ ||
yājayitvāśvamedhais taṁ tribhir uttama-kalpakaiḥ |
tad-yaśaḥ pāvanaṁ dikṣu śata-manyor ivātanot ||
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