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Having the shelter of brāhmaṇas, dharma and Kṛṣṇa, you should not live your life in suffering since that is dangerous and improper.
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- 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.
- rī-kṛṣṇa-dvārakā-gamanaṁ nāma
- The rivers, oceans, mountains, trees, shrubs, and herbs of that kingdom yielded their products in every season.
- While Yudhiṣṭhira ruled, the living beings suffered no anxieties, sickness or inconveniences caused by nature, other living beings or themselves.
- Looking upon him with unblinking eyes, their hearts melted, they became filled with affection, and moved wherever he moved.
- Mṛdaṅgas, conches, bheris, vīṇas, paṇavas, gomukhas, dhundhuris, ānakas, bells and dundubhis began to sound.
- Acknowledging the words of the women of Hastināpura who had spoken in this way, with smiles and glances, Kṛṣṇa departed.
- Yudhiṣṭhira, worried about enemies, out of affection engaged an army of four parts[40] for the protection of Kṛṣṇa.
- rī-kṛṣṇa-dvārakā-gamanaṁ nāma
- O Lord! When you leave, how can we maintain our lives, not seeing your attractive face decorated with a pleasing smile, which dries up all miseries with its joyful glances.
- The city appeared splendid with lakes surrounded by pleasure gardens and plantations, with groves of pious trees and creepers giving fruit and flowers of all seasons.
- The city was adorned with full water pots, incense, lamps, offerings, yogurt, rice, fruits and sugar cane stalks at the door of every house.
- The actors, dancers, singers, reciters, bards and eulogists sang about the astonishing activities of the Lord.
- Entering the house of his parents, embraced by seven mothers, headed by Devakī, he offered respects with his head to them.
- Hearts trembling with joy, milk flowing from their breasts, they put Kṛṣṇa on their laps, and moistened them with their tears.
- Yudhiṣṭhira, like his father, freed from personal desires by engaging in service to the Lord, satisfied and protected the citizens.
- O son of Bhṛgu! The courageous hero Parīkṣit in the womb of his mother, burned by the heat of the weapon, saw the form of the Lord.
- Yudhiṣṭhira had the brāhmaṇas such as Dhaumya and Kṛpācārya chant auspicious verses such as puṇyāham and perform the birth rites.
TRANSLATION
O Śaunaka! There the brāhmaṇa sages, the sages of the heavenly planets and the kings who were sages had gathered to see the best of the Bharata lineage.
|| 1.9.6-8 ||
parvato nārado dhaumyo bhagavān bādarāyaṇaḥ |
bṛhadaśvo bharadvājaḥ saśiṣyo reṇukā-sutaḥ ||
vasiṣṭha indrapramadas trito gṛtsamado ’sitaḥ |
kakṣīvān gautamo ’triś ca kauśiko ’tha sudarśanaḥ ||
anye ca munayo brahman brahmarātādayo ’malāḥ |
śiṣyair upetā ājagmuḥ kaśyapāṅgirasādayaḥ ||
TRANSLATION
O brāhmaṇa! Parvata, Nārada, Dhaumya, Vyāsa, Bṛhadaśva, Bharadvāja, Parāśurāma, Vasiṣṭha, Indrapramada, Trita, Gṛtsamada, Asita, Kakṣivān, Gautama, Atri, Kauśika, Sudarśana, along with their disciples, and as well many other pure sages such as Śuka, Kaśyapa and Bṛhaspati came along with their disciples.
COMMENTARY
Renukā-suta is Paraśurāma. Brahma-rāta is Śukadeva. Āṅgirasa is Bṛhaspati.
|| 1.9.9 ||
tān sametān mahā-bhāgān upalabhya vasūttamaḥ |
pūjayām āsa dharma-jño deśa-kāla-vibhāgavit ||
TRANSLATION
The best of the Vasus, Bhīṣma, endowed with great qualities, knowledgeable of dharma as applicable according to place and time, seeing that they had gathered, worshipped them.[32]
COMMENTARY
Vasūttama is Bhīṣma.
|| 1.9.10 ||
kṛṣṇaṁ ca tat-prabhāva-jña āsīnaṁ jagad-īśvaram |
hṛdi-sthaṁ pūjayām āsa māyayopātta-vigraham ||
TRANSLATION
Bhīṣma, understanding Kṛṣṇa’s powers, worshipped Kṛṣṇa, the lord of the universe, situated within the heart, who was seated there and who had come before Bhīsṁa out of great mercy.
COMMENTARY
Māyayopātta-vigraham can mean Kṛṣṇa who had a conflict (vigraha) with Yudhiṣṭhira by covering up his discrimination with his yoga-māyā. Or it means Kṛṣṇa who brought himself before the eyes of Bhīṣma (upātta) by his mercy (māyayā).
|| 1.9.11 ||
pāṇḍu-putrān upāsīnān praśraya-prema-saṅgatān |
abhyācaṣṭānurāgāśrair andhībhūtena cakṣuṣā ||
TRANSLATION
His eyes blinded by tears of love, he spoke to the Pāṇḍavas sitting there, filled with humility and love.
COMMENTARY
Abhyācaṣta means “he spoke.”
|| 1.9.12 ||
aho kaṣṭam aho ’nyāyyaṁ yad yūyaṁ dharma-nandanāḥ |
jīvituṁ nārhatha kliṣṭaṁ vipra-dharmācyutāśrayāḥ ||
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