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वैशंपायन उवाच तयोर्दुःखितयोर्वाक्यमतिमात्रं निशम्य तत् भृशं दुःखपरीताङ्गी कन्या तावभ्यभाषत
M. N. Dutt: Vaishampayana said : Having heard these words of her affected parents, the daughter was filled with grief and she thus spoke (to them.)
किमिदं भृशदुःखार्तौ रोरवीथो अनाथवत् ममापि श्रूयतां किंचिच्छ्रुत्वा च क्रियतां क्षमम्
M. N. Dutt: The Daughter said : Why are you so sorrowful? Why are you weeping, as if you have none. Listen to my words and hearing them, do what is proper.
धर्मतोऽहं परित्याज्या युवयोर्नात्र संशयः त्यक्तव्यां मां परित्यज्य त्रातं सर्वं मयैकया
M. N. Dutt: There is no doubt that you will one time abandon me by the dictates of virtue. Abandon me who am to be abandoned and thus save all by (sacrificing) me alone.
इत्यर्थमिष्यतेऽपत्यं तारयिष्यति मामिति तस्मिन्नुपस्थिते काले तरतं प्लववन्मया
M. N. Dutt: Men desire for children hoping, they will save them. Cross this stream of your difficulty by me.
इह वा तारयेद्दुर्गादुत वा प्रेत्य तारयेत् सर्वथा तारयेत्पुत्रः पुत्र इत्युच्यते बुधैः
M. N. Dutt: A child saves his presents in this world and in the next. Therefore, a child is called by the learmed Putra.
Supplementary Passages:
1.147.5 After 5, T1 G (except G2.6) ins.: *1622 पुन्नाम्नो नरकात्त्राणात्तनयः पुत्र उच्यते
आकाङ्क्षन्ते च दौहित्रानपि नित्यं पितामहाः तान्स्वयं वै परित्रास्ये रक्षन्ती जीवितं पितुः
M. N. Dutt: My forefathers always desire to have daughter's son by me, (to save them from hell). I shall myself save them by saving the life of my father.
भ्राता च मम बालोऽयं गते लोकममुं त्वयि अचिरेणैव कालेन विनश्येत न संशयः
M. N. Dutt: My brother is but of tender years; there is no doubt he will die soon after your death.
तातेऽपि हि गते स्वर्गं विनष्टे च ममानुजे पिण्डः पितॄणां व्युच्छिद्येत्तत्तेषामप्रियं भवेत्
M. N. Dutt: If you, my father, ascend to heaven, if my brother dies, the Pinda (funeral cake) for the Pitris (ancestors) will be stopped and it will be most unfavourite act of theirs.
पित्रा त्यक्ता तथा मात्रा भ्रात्रा चाहमसंशयम् दुःखाद्दुःखतरं प्राप्य म्रियेयमतथोचिता
M. N. Dutt: Having been abandoned by my father brother and also my mother, I shall fall from misery to greater misery and I shall finally perish in great distress.
त्वयि त्वरोगे निर्मुक्ते माता भ्राता च मे शिशुः संतानश्चैव पिण्डश्च प्रतिष्ठास्यत्यसंशयम्
M. N. Dutt: There is no doubt that if you can save yourself, my mother and my child brother, also the Pinda will be perpetuated.
आत्मा पुत्रः सखा भार्या कृच्छ्रं तु दुहिता किल स कृच्छ्रान्मोचयात्मानं मां च धर्मेण योजय
M. N. Dutt: The son is one's own self; the wife is one's friend; the daughter is (however) a source of trouble. Save yourself by sacrificing that cause of trouble; and set me on the path of virtue.
अनाथा कृपणा बाला यत्रक्वचनगामिनी भविष्यामि त्वया तात विहीना कृपणा बत
M. N. Dutt: O father, I am but a girl being abandoned by you, I shall be helpless and miserable and I shall have to go anywhere and everywhere.
अथ वाहं करिष्यामि कुलस्यास्य विमोक्षणम् फलसंस्था भविष्यामि कृत्वा कर्म सुदुष्करम्
M. N. Dutt: I shall, therefore, save my race and I shall acquire the merit that such difficult work brings in.
अथ वा यास्यसे तत्र त्यक्त्वा मां द्विजसत्तम पीडिताहं भविष्यामि तदवेक्षस्व मामपि
M. N. Dutt: O best of the twice-born, leaving me behind, if you go there (to the Rakshasas) I shall be very much pained; therefore be kind to ine.
तदस्मदर्थं धर्मार्थं प्रसवार्थं च सत्तम आत्मानं परिरक्षस्व त्यक्तव्यां मां च संत्यज
M. N. Dutt: O excellent man, abandoning me who am to be (one day) abandoned, save yourself for our sake, for the sake of virtue and your race.
अवश्यकरणीयेऽर्थे मा त्वां कालोऽत्यगादयम् त्वया दत्तेन तोयेन भविष्यति हितं च मे
AI Translation: In a matter that must be done, may time not pass you by. By the water you give, there will be benefit for me.
किं न्वतः परमं दुःखं यद्वयं स्वर्गते त्वयि याचमानाः परादन्नं परिधावेमहि श्ववत्
AI Translation: What greater misery is there than that we, begging for food from others, should run about like dogs, when you have gone to heaven?
त्वयि त्वरोगे निर्मुक्ते क्लेशादस्मात्सबान्धवे अमृते वसती लोके भविष्यामि सुखान्विता
AI Translation: When you are free from this affliction, along with your relatives, and are dwelling in the world of immortality, I shall be happy.
Supplementary Passages:
1.147.18 After 18, N ins.: *1623 इतः प्रदाने देवाश्च पितरश्चेति नः श्रुतम् On the other hand, after 18, S ins.: *1624 इत्येतदुभयं तात निशाम्य तव यद्धितम् तद्व्यवस्य तथाम्बाया हितं स्वस्य सुतस्य च मातापित्रोः पुनः पुत्रा भवितारो गुणान्विताः न तु पुत्रस्य पितरौ पुनर्जातु भविष्यतः
एवं बहुविधं तस्या निशम्य परिदेवितम् पिता माता च सा चैव कन्या प्ररुरुदुस्त्रयः
M. N. Dutt: Vaishampayana said : Having heard her these piteous lamentations, the father, the brother and the daughter began to weep (together).
ततः प्ररुदितान्सर्वान्निशम्याथ सुतस्तयोः उत्फुल्लनयनो बालः कलमव्यक्तमब्रवीत्
M. N. Dutt: Thereupon seeing them all weep, their son of tender years, spoke thus in childish words, his eyes expanded with joy.
मा रोदीस्तात मा मातर्मा स्वसस्त्वमिति ब्रुवन् प्रहसन्निव सर्वांस्तानेकैकं सोऽपसर्पति
AI Translation: Saying, "Do not cry, father, mother, sister," he laughs at them all and moves away from each one.
ततः स तृणमादाय प्रहृष्टः पुनरब्रवीत् अनेन तं हनिष्यामि राक्षसं पुरुषादकम्
AI Translation: Then, taking a blade of grass, he joyfully said again: "With this I shall kill that demon, the man-eater."
तथापि तेषां दुःखेन परीतानां निशम्य तत् बालस्य वाक्यमव्यक्तं हर्षः समभवन्महान्
M. N. Dutt: Through they were all in grief, yet hearing the lisping words of the child, they felt exceeding delight.
अयं काल इति ज्ञात्वा कुन्ती समुपसृत्य तान् गतासूनमृतेनेव जीवयन्तीदमब्रवीत्
M. N. Dutt: Thinking that to be the (proper) time (to appear before them), Kunti came to them and reviving them as nectar revives a dead man, she thus spoke (to them).