Critical Edition
कपिल उवाच एतावदनुपश्यन्तो यतयो यान्ति मार्गगाः नैषां सर्वेषु लोकेषु कश्चिदस्ति व्यतिक्रमः
M. N. Dutt: Kapila said Seeing that all the fruits that can be gained by acts are instable instead of being eternal, Yatis, by adopting self-control and tranquallity, attain to Brahma through the path of knowledge. There is nothing in any of the worlds that can stand in their way.
निर्द्वंद्वा निर्नमस्कारा निराशीर्बन्धना बुधाः विमुक्ताः सर्वपापेभ्यश्चरन्ति शुचयोऽमलाः
M. N. Dutt: They are freed from the influence of all pairs of opposites. They never offer their salutation to anything or to any creature. They are above all the fetters of want. Wisdom is theirs. They are purged of every sin. Pure and stainless they live rove about.
अपवर्गेऽथ संत्यागे बुद्धौ च कृतनिश्चयाः ब्रह्मिष्ठा ब्रह्मभूताश्च ब्रह्मण्येव कृतालयाः
M. N. Dutt: They have, in their own understandings, formed fixed conclusions regarding all destructible objects and a life of at are Renunciation. Devoted to Brahma, and already at one with Brahma, they have taken refuge in Brahma.
विशोका नष्टरजसस्तेषां लोकाः सनातनाः तेषां गतिं परां प्राप्य गार्हस्थ्ये किं प्रयोजनम्
M. N. Dutt: Getting over grief, and freed from the quality of darkness, their acquisitions eternal. When the high end of these men is within reach of attainment, what need has one for performing the duties of the domestic mode of life.
स्यूमरश्मिरुवाच यद्येषा परमा निष्ठा यद्येषा परमा गतिः गृहस्थानव्यपाश्रित्य नाश्रमोऽन्यः प्रवर्तते
M. N. Dutt: If, indeed, that be the highest object of acquisition, if that be truly the highest end then the importance of the domestic mode of life becomes clear, because without the domestic mode no other mode of life ever becomes possible.
यथा मातरमाश्रित्य सर्वे जीवन्ति जन्तवः एवं गृहस्थमाश्रित्य वर्तन्त इतरेऽऽश्रमाः
M. N. Dutt: Indeed, as all living creatures live on account of their dependence on their respective mothers, similarly the three other modes of life exist on account of their dependence upon the domestic mode.
गृहस्थ एव यजते गृहस्थस्तप्यते तपः गार्हस्थ्यमस्य धर्मस्य मूलं यत्किंचिदेजते
M. N. Dutt: The householder who lives like a householder, celebrates sacrifices and practise penances. Whatever is done by anybody for acquiring happiness has for its root the domestic mode of life.
प्रजनाद्ध्यभिनिर्वृत्ताः सर्वे प्राणभृतो मुने प्रजनं चाप्युतान्यत्र न कथंचन विद्यते
M. N. Dutt: All living creatures consider the procreation of offspring as a root of great happiness. The procreation of children, however, becomes impossible in any other mode of life.
यास्ताः स्युर्बहिरोषध्यो बह्वरण्यास्तथा द्विज ओषधिभ्यो बहिर्यस्मात्प्राणी कश्चिन्न विद्यते कस्यैषा वाग्भवेत्सत्या मोक्षो नास्ति गृहादिति
AI Translation: O twice-born one, those which are external herbs and many wild plants, because no creature is outside the herbs, whose would this speech be true? There is no liberation outside the house
अश्रद्दधानैरप्राज्ञैः सूक्ष्मदर्शनवर्जितैः निराशैरलसैः श्रान्तैस्तप्यमानैः स्वकर्मभिः श्रमस्योपरमो दृष्टः प्रव्रज्या नाम पण्डितैः
M. N. Dutt: Who then speaks the truth who says that domesticity cannot bring on the acquisition of Liberation? Only those who have no faith and wisdom and penetration, only those who have no reputation, who are idle and toil-worn who have misery in their lot on account of their pristine deeds, only those who are destitute of learning, see the profusion of tranquillity in a life of mendicancy.
त्रैलोक्यस्यैव हेतुर्हि मर्यादा शाश्वती ध्रुवा ब्राह्मणो नाम भगवाञ्जन्मप्रभृति पूज्यते
M. N. Dutt: The central and unfailing (Vedic) distinctions are the causes that keep up the three worlds. That Illustrious person of the highest caste who is conversant with the Vedas, is adored from the very date of his birth.
प्राग्गर्भाधानान्मन्त्रा हि प्रवर्तन्ते द्विजातिषु अविश्रम्भेषु वर्तन्ते विश्रम्भेष्वप्यसंशयम्
M. N. Dutt: Besides the celebration of Garbhadhana, Vedic Mantras become necessary for enabling persons of the twice-born classes to perforin all their acts regarding both this and the oiher world.
दाहः पुनः संश्रयणे संस्थिते पात्रभोजनम् दानं गवां पशूनां वा पिण्डानां चाप्सु मज्जनम्
M. N. Dutt: In cremating his body in attainment of a second body, in that of his drink and food after such attainment, in that of giving away kine and other animals for helping him to cross the river that divides this world from that of Yama, in that of sinking the funeral cakes in water, Vedic Mantras are necessary.
अर्चिष्मन्तो बर्हिषदः क्रव्यादाः पितरः स्मृताः मृतस्याप्यनुमन्यन्ते मन्त्रा मन्त्राश्च कारणम्
M. N. Dutt: Then again the three classes of Pitris, viz., the Archishmats, the Varihshads, and the Kravyads, approve of the necessity of Mantras about the dead, and Mantras are regarded as powerful causes.
एवं क्रोशत्सु वेदेषु कुतो मोक्षोऽस्ति कस्यचित् ऋणवन्तो यदा मर्त्याः पितृदेवद्विजातिषु
M. N. Dutt: When the Vedas proclaim this so loudly and when again human beings are said to owe debts to the Pitris, the Rishis, and the gods, how can any one attain to Liberation.
श्रिया विहीनैरलसैः पण्डितैरपलापितम् वेदवादापरिज्ञानं सत्याभासमिवानृतम्
M. N. Dutt: This false doctrine (of incorporeal existence called Emancipation), seemingly consistent with truth, but subversive of the real meaning of the injunctions of the Vedas, has been introduced by learned men shorn of prosperity and eaten up by idleness.
न वै पापैर्ह्रियते कृष्यते वा; यो ब्राह्मणो यजते वेदशास्त्रैः ऊर्ध्वं यज्ञः पशुभिः सार्धमेति; संतर्पितस्तर्पयते च कामैः
M. N. Dutt: That Brahmana who celebrates sacrifices according to the injunctions of the Vedas, is never seduced by sin. Through sacrifices, such a person acquires high regions of happiness along with the animals he has killed in those sacrifices, and himself, pleased by the acquisition of all his wishes succeeds in pleasing those animals by fulfilling their wishes.
न वेदानां परिभवान्न शाठ्येन न मायया महत्प्राप्नोति पुरुषो ब्रह्म ब्रह्मणि विन्दति
M. N. Dutt: By neglecting the Vedas, by guile, or by deception, one never succeeds in attaining to the Supreme. On the other hand, it is by practising Vedic rites that one succeeds in attaining to Brahina.
कपिल उवाच दर्शं च पौर्णमासं च अग्निहोत्रं च धीमताम् चातुर्मास्यानि चैवासंस्तेषु यज्ञः सनातनः
M. N. Dutt: Kapila said There are the Darsha, the Pauranmasha, the Agnihotra, the Chaturmashya, and other rites which an intelligent man should perform. Eternal merit consists in their performance.
अनारम्भाः सुधृतयः शुचयो ब्रह्मसंश्रिताः ब्रह्मणैव स्म ते देवांस्तर्पयन्त्यमृतैषिणः
M. N. Dutt: Those that have adopted the Sanyasa mode of life, who abstain from all acts, who are endued with patience, who are cleansed, and who are conversant with Brahma, succeed by such knowledge of Brahma in satisfying the debts to the gods, (also the Pitris and the Rishis), described to be so very fond of libations poured in sacrifices.
सर्वभूतात्मभूतस्य सर्वभूतानि पश्यतः देवापि मार्गे मुह्यन्ति अपदस्य पदैषिणः
M. N. Dutt: The very gods become stupefied in finding out the path of that pathless person who forms himself the soul of all creatures and who regards all creatures impartially.
चतुर्द्वारं पुरुषं चतुर्मुखं; चतुर्धा चैनमुपयाति निन्दा बाहुभ्यां वाच उदरादुपस्था;त्तेषां द्वारं द्वारपालो बुभूषेत्
M. N. Dutt: Through instructions delivered by the preceptor one knows that which lives within this body to be of a four-fold nature, having besides four doors and four mouths. In consequence of two arms the organ of speech, the stomach, and the organ of pleasure, the very duties are said to have four doors. One should, therefore, do his best to keep those doors under control.
नाक्षैर्दीव्येन्नाददीतान्यवित्तं; न वायोनीयस्य शृतं प्रगृह्णेत् क्रुद्धो न चैव प्रहरेत धीमां;स्तथास्य तत्पाणिपादं सुगुप्तम्
M. N. Dutt: One should not gamble with dice. One should not appropriate others properties. One should not officiate at the sacrifice of a person of a mean birth. One should not, yielding to anger, smite another with hands or feet. That intelligent man who acts thus is said to have his hands and feet well-governed.
नाक्रोशमर्छेन्न मृषा वदेच्च; न पैशुनं जनवादं च कुर्यात् सत्यव्रतो मितभाषोऽप्रमत्त;स्तथास्य वाग्द्वारमथो सुगुप्तम्
M. N. Dutt: One should not make loud abuse or censure. Onc should not speak useless words. One should forbear from knavery and from accusing others. One should observe the vow of truthfulness, be sparing of speech, and always careful. By acting thus one will have his organ of speech well-governed.
नानाशनः स्यान्न महाशनः स्या;दलोलुपः साधुभिरागतः स्यात् यात्रार्थमाहारमिहाददीत; तथास्य स्याज्जाठरी द्वारगुप्तिः
M. N. Dutt: One should not abstain entirely from food. One should not eat too much. One should give up covetousness, and always seek company of the good. One should eat only so much as is necessary for keeping life. By acting thus one succeeds in properly governing the door represented by his stomach.
न वीरपत्नीं विहरेत नारीं; न चापि नारीमनृतावाह्वयीत भार्याव्रतं ह्यात्मनि धारयीत; तथास्योपस्थद्वारगुप्तिर्भवेत
M. N. Dutt: One should not, O hero, out of lust take another wife when he has a wedded wife. One should never call a woman to bed except in her season. One should confine himself to her own married spouse without seeking union with other women. By acting thus one is said in have his organ of pleasure properly governed.
द्वाराणि यस्य सर्वाणि सुगुप्तानि मनीषिणः उपस्थमुदरं बाहू वाक्चतुर्थी स वै द्विजः
M. N. Dutt: That wise man is truly a regenerate person who has all his four doors, viz., the organ of pleasure, the stomach, the two arms (and two feet), and the organ of speech, properly governed.
मोघान्यगुप्तद्वारस्य सर्वाण्येव भवन्त्युत किं तस्य तपसा कार्यं किं यज्ञेन किमात्मना
M. N. Dutt: Everything becomes useless of that person whose doors are not well governed. O what avail are the penances of such a man? Of what avail are his sacrifices? What can be gained by his body?
अनुत्तरीयवसनमनुपस्तीर्णशायिनम् बाहूपधानं शाम्यन्तं तं देवा ब्राह्मणं विदुः
M. N. Dutt: The gods consider him a Brahmana who has cast off his upper garment, who sleeps on the naked earth, who makes his arm a pillow, and whose heart is endued with tranquillity.
द्वंद्वारामेषु सर्वेषु य एको रमते मुनिः परेषामननुध्यायंस्तं देवा ब्राह्मणं विदुः
M. N. Dutt: That person who, given to contemplation, singly enjoys all the happiness that married couples enjoy, and who pays no attention to the joys and griefs of others, should be known as a Brahmana.
येन सर्वमिदं बुद्धं प्रकृतिर्विकृतिश्च या गतिज्ञः सर्वभूतानां तं देवा ब्राह्मणं विदुः
M. N. Dutt: That man who properly understands all this as it really is and its various metamorphoses, and who knows what the end is of all created objects, is known by the gods as a Brahmana.
अभयं सर्वभूतेभ्यः सर्वेषामभयं यतः सर्वभूतात्मभूतो यस्तं देवा ब्राह्मणं विदुः
AI Translation: He who is the refuge of all beings, the refuge of all, He who has become the self of all beings, the gods know him to be a Brahmin.
नान्तरेणानुजानन्ति वेदानां यत्क्रियाफलम् अनुज्ञाय च तत्सर्वमन्यद्रोचयतेऽफलम्
M. N. Dutt: Without having gained purity of heart which is the true end of all religions acts such as gifts and sacrifices, men of foolish a even understandings do not succeed in acquiring a knowledge of what is necessary in making one Brahmana when explained by preceptors. Shorn of a knowledge of all this, these men desire fruits of a different sort, viz., heaven and its joys.
फलवन्ति च कर्माणि व्युष्टिमन्ति ध्रुवाणि च विगुणानि च पश्यन्ति तथानैकान्तिकानि च
AI Translation: They see actions that are fruitful, that are prosperous, that are stable, and they see those that are defective, and those that are not one-sided.
गुणाश्चात्र सुदुर्ज्ञेया ज्ञाताश्चापि सुदुष्कराः अनुष्ठिताश्चान्तवन्त इति त्वमनुपश्यसि
M. N. Dutt: About sacrifices again, it is very difficult to determine all their particulars. If ascertained, it is very difficult to follow them in practice. If practised, the fruits which they beget are terminable. Mark this well.
स्यूमरश्मिरुवाच यथा च वेदप्रामाण्यं त्यागश्च सफलो यथा तौ पन्थानावुभौ व्यक्तौ भगवंस्तद्ब्रवीहि मे
M. N. Dutt: The Vedas sanction acts and disallow them. Whence then is their authority when their injunctions thus contradict each other? Renunciation of acts, again, yield great benefit. Both these ways have been laid down in the Vedas. Do you describe to me this subject, O Brahmana.
कपिल उवाच प्रत्यक्षमिह पश्यन्ति भवन्तः सत्पथे स्थिताः प्रत्यक्षं तु किमत्रास्ति यद्भवन्त उपासते
M. N. Dutt: Kapila said Adopting the path of the good (viz., Yoga), do you in even this life realise its fruits by the direct evidence of your senses! What, however, are the palpable results of those other objects which pursue?
स्यूमरश्मिरुवाच स्यूमरश्मिरहं ब्रह्मञ्जिज्ञासार्थमिहागतः श्रेयस्कामः प्रत्यवोचमार्जवान्न विवक्षया इमं च संशयं घोरं भगवान्प्रब्रवीतु मे
M. N. Dutt: O Brahmana, I am Syumarashmi by name! I have come here for gaining knowledge. Desirous of done good to myself I have begun this conversation in all simplicity and not from desire of argumentation.
प्रत्यक्षमिह पश्यन्तो भवन्तः सत्पथे स्थिताः किमत्र प्रत्यक्षतमं भवन्तो यदुपासते अन्यत्र तर्कशास्त्रेभ्य आगमाच्च यथागमम्
AI Translation: Those who see directly here, you are established in the path of the good. What is most directly seen by you, which you worship, Apart from the scriptures and the scriptures, as they are.
आगमो वेदवादस्तु तर्कशास्त्राणि चागमः यथागममुपासीत आगमस्तत्र सिध्यति सिद्धिः प्रत्यक्षरूपा च दृश्यत्यागमनिश्चयात्
M. N. Dutt: Without avoiding the duties sanctioned for the particular inode of life which one may follow, one should follow the practices laid down in Agama. Such observance of the practices laid down in Agama gives one success. On account of the certainty of the conclusions of Agama, the success which the latter brings on may be said to be almost realisable by direct evidence.
नौर्नावीव निबद्धा हि स्रोतसा सनिबन्धना ह्रियमाणा कथं विप्र कुबुद्धींस्तारयिष्यति एतद्ब्रवीतु भगवानुपपन्नोऽस्म्यधीहि भोः
M. N. Dutt: As a boat, that is tied to another bound for a different port, cannot take its passengers to the port they wish to reach, so ourselves, dragged by our acts due to past desires, can never cross the eternal river of birth and death. Describe to me this subject, O illustrious one! Teach me as a preceptor teaches a disciple.
नैव त्यागी न संतुष्टो नाशोको न निरामयः न निर्विवित्सो नावृत्तो नापवृत्तोऽस्ति कश्चन
M. N. Dutt: No one is seen among men who has perfectly renounced all earthly objects, nor one who is perfectly contented with oneself, nor one who has gone over grief, nor one who is perfectly free from disease, nor one who is absolutely free from the desire to act, nor one who has absolute distaste for companionship, nor one who has entirely abstained froin acts of every sort.
भवन्तोऽपि च हृष्यन्ति शोचन्ति च यथा वयम् इन्द्रियार्थाश्च भवतां समानाः सर्वजन्तुषु
M. N. Dutt: Even men like yourself are seen to yield to joy and indulge in grief as persons like ourselves. Like other creatures the senses of persons like yourselves have their functions or objects. an
एवं चतुर्णां वर्णानामाश्रमाणां प्रवृत्तिषु एकमालम्बमानानां निर्णये किं निरामयम्
M. N. Dutt: Tell me, in what then, if we are to determine the question of happiness, consists pure happiness for all the four castes and all the four modes of life who and which have the same basis.
कपिल उवाच यद्यदाचरते शास्त्रमथ सर्वप्रवृत्तिषु यस्य यत्र ह्यनुष्ठानं तत्र तत्र निरामयम्
M. N. Dutt: Kapila said Whatever may be the Shastras according to which one performs the acts, the ordinances laid down in it for regulating those acts never become fruitless. Whatever again the school of opinion according to which one may act, one is sure to attain to the highest end by only following the duties of self-control or Yoga.
सर्वं पावयते ज्ञानं यो ज्ञानं ह्यनुवर्तते ज्ञानादपेत्य या वृत्तिः सा विनाशयति प्रजाः
M. N. Dutt: Knowledge helps that man in crossing (over the river of life and death), who follows knowledge. That conduct, however, which men follow after deviating from the path of knowledge, pains them.
भवन्तो ज्ञानिनो नित्यं सर्वतश्च निरागमाः ऐकात्म्यं नाम कश्चिद्धि कदाचिदभिपद्यते
M. N. Dutt: It is clear that ye are endued with knowledge and dissociated from every earthly object that may produce pain. But have any of you at any time, succeeded in gaining that knowledge by which everything is capable of being seen as at one with one Universal Self.
शास्त्रं ह्यबुद्ध्वा तत्त्वेन केचिद्वादबला जनाः कामद्वेषाभिभूतत्वादहंकारवशं गताः
M. N. Dutt: Without a correct understanding of the scriptures, some there are, fond only of argumentation who, on account of being overwhelmed by desire and hatred, become the slaves of pride and arrogance.
याथातथ्यमविज्ञाय शास्त्राणां शास्त्रदस्यवः ब्रह्मस्तेना निरारम्भा अपक्वमतयोऽशिवाः
M. N. Dutt: Without having correctly understood the meaning of scriptural sayings, these robbers of the scriptures, these depredators of Brahma, actuated by arrogance and mistake, refuse to pursue tranquillity and practise self-control;.
वैगुण्यमेव पश्यन्ति न गुणाननुयुञ्जते तेषां तमःशरीराणां तम एव परायणम्
M. N. Dutt: These men see fruitlessness on every side, and if they succeed in acquiring the power of knowledge they never give it to others for rescuing them. Made up entirely of the quality of ignorance, they have ignorance only for their refuge.
यो यथाप्रकृतिर्जन्तुः प्रकृतेः स्याद्वशानुगः तस्य द्वेषश्च कामश्च क्रोधो दम्भोऽनृतं मदः नित्यमेवाभिवर्तन्ते गुणाः प्रकृतिसंभवाः
M. N. Dutt: One becomes subject to all the characteristics of that nature which one imbibes. Accordingly, of him who has ignorance for his refuge, the passions of envy, lust, anger, pride, falsehood, and vanity, continually grow, for one's qualities have one's nature for their root.
एतद्बुद्ध्यानुपश्यन्तः संत्यजेयुः शुभाशुभम् परां गतिमभीप्सन्तो यतयः संयमे रताः
M. N. Dutt: Thinking in this way and seeing these faults, Yatis, who seek the highest end, follow Yoga, leaving both good and ill.
Supplementary Passages:
12.261.52 After 52, M5 ins.: *712 यतः स्वरूपतश्चान्यो जातितः श्रुतितोऽर्थतः कथमस्मिन्स इत्येव संबन्धः स्यादसंहितः
स्यूमरश्मिरुवाच सर्वमेतन्मया ब्रह्मञ्शास्त्रतः परिकीर्तितम् न ह्यविज्ञाय शास्त्रार्थं प्रवर्तन्ते प्रवृत्तयः
M. N. Dutt: O Brahmana, all that I have said is strictly according to the scriptures. It is, however, very true that without a correct understanding of the meaning of the scriptures, one does not feel inclined to obey what the scriptures really say.
यः कश्चिन्न्याय्य आचारः सर्वं शास्त्रमिति श्रुतिः यदन्याय्यमशास्त्रं तदित्येषा श्रूयते श्रुतिः
M. N. Dutt: Whatever conduct is consistent with equity, is conformable with the scriptures. Even that is what the Shruti says, Likewise, whatever conduct is inconsistent with equity in incompatible with the scriptures. This also is held by the Shruti.
न प्रवृत्तिरृते शास्त्रात्काचिदस्तीति निश्चयः यदन्यद्वेदवादेभ्यस्तदशास्त्रमिति श्रुतिः
M. N. Dutt: It is certain that no one can do a scriptural act by violating the scriptures. That which is against the Vedas is unscriptural. The Shruti says this. are
शास्त्रादपेतं पश्यन्ति बहवो व्यक्तमानिनः शास्त्रदोषान्न पश्यन्ति इह चामुत्र चापरे अविज्ञानहतप्रज्ञा हीनप्रज्ञास्तमोवृताः
AI Translation: Many who are proud of their knowledge see it as separate from the scriptures. Others do not see the faults of the scriptures, either in this world or the next. Their wisdom is destroyed by
Supplementary Passages:
12.261.56 After 56cd, B0.8 Da3 Dn1.n4 Ds D2.3.6 Cn Kumbh. ed. ins.: *713 इन्द्रियार्थाश्च भवतां समानाः सर्वजन्तुषु एवं चतुर्णां वर्णानामाश्रमाणां प्रवृत्तिषु एवमालम्बमानानां निर्णये सर्वतोदिशम्
शक्यं त्वेकेन मुक्तेन कृतकृत्येन सर्वशः पिण्डमात्रं व्यपाश्रित्य चरितुं सर्वतोदिशम् वेदवादं व्यपाश्रित्य मोक्षोऽस्तीति प्रभाषितुम्
M. N. Dutt: Only he who is given to Yoga, who has satisfied all his duties, who is capable of roving everywhere depending only on his own body, who has brought his soul under perfect restraint, who has gone above the requirements of the science of morality and who disregards the whole world, can transgress the declarations of the Vedas regarding acts, and say that there is Liberation,
Supplementary Passages:
12.261.57 K6.7 V1 B6.7.9 D3-5.7.9 T1 G2 (also).3 M1.5-7 Kumbh. ed. (also) ins. after 57cd: B0.8 Ds D2.3 (also).6 Kumbh. ed. after 713*: G2 after 56cd: *714 आनन्त्यं वदमानेन शक्तेन विजितात्मना After 57, K6 V1 B0.6-9 Da3.a4 Dn1. n4 Ds D2.3.5-7 Kumbh. ed. ins.: *715 अपेतन्यायशास्त्रेण सर्वलोकविगर्हिणा
इदं तु दुष्करं कर्म कुटुम्बमभिसंश्रितम् दानमध्ययनं यज्ञः प्रजासंतानमार्जवम्
AI Translation: This is a difficult task, based on the family. Giving, studying, sacrifice, progeny, continuity, and honesty.
यद्येतदेवं कृत्वापि न विमोक्षोऽस्ति कस्यचित् धिक्कर्तारं च कार्यं च श्रमश्चायं निरर्थकः
AI Translation: If this is so, then even if one does this, there is no liberation for anyone. Shame on the doer and the deed, and this effort is pointless.
नास्तिक्यमन्यथा च स्याद्वेदानां पृष्ठतःक्रिया एतस्यानन्त्यमिच्छामि भगवञ्श्रोतुमञ्जसा
M. N. Dutt: One is charged with atheism if he disregards the Vedas by not doing the acts they declare. O illustrious one, I wish to hear forthwith about that which comes in the Vedas after the injunctions about acts.
तथ्यं वदस्व मे ब्रह्मन्नुपसन्नोऽस्म्यधीहि भोः यथा ते विदितो मोक्षस्तथेच्छाम्युपशिक्षितुम्
M. N. Dutt: Do tell me the truth, O Brahmana! I sit at your feet as a disciple. Teach me kindly! I wish to know as much about Liberation as is known to you, O learned one!