Mandavya Curses Dharma

Verse 1 (1.117.1)

ततः स मुनिशार्दूलस्तानुवाच तपोधनान् । दोषतः कं गमिष्यामि न हि मेऽन्योपराध्यति ॥

tataḥ sa muniśārdūlastānuvāca tapodhanān | doṣataḥ kaṃ gamiṣyāmi na hi me'nyoparādhyati

Then that tiger among sages said to those ascetics: "Whom shall I blame? No one else has wronged me."

Verse 2 (1.117.2)

तं दृष्ट्वा रक्षिणस्तत्र तथा बहुतिथेऽहनि । न्यवेदयंस्तथा राज्ञे यथावृत्तं नराधिप ॥

taṃ dṛṣṭvā rakṣiṇastatra tathā bahutithe'hani | nyavedayaṃstathā rājñe yathāvṛttaṃ narādhipa

Seeing him there in that state after many days, the guards reported to the king exactly what had happened, O lord of men.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition (found in the vulgate recension).

Verse 3 (1.117.3)

राजा च तमृषिं श्रुत्वा निष्क्रम्य सह मन्त्रिभिः । प्रसादयामास तदा शूलस्थमृषिसत्तमम् ॥

rājā ca tamṛṣiṃ śrutvā niṣkramya saha mantribhiḥ | prasādayāmāsa tadā śūlasthamṛṣisattamam

When the king heard about the seer, he came out with his ministers and sought to appease that best of seers, still upon the stake.

Verse 4 (1.117.4)

यन्मयाऽपकृतं मोहादज्ञानादृषिसत्तम । प्रसादये त्वां तत्राहं न मे त्वं क्रोद्धुमर्हसि ॥

yanmayā'pakṛtaṃ mohādajñānādṛṣisattama | prasādaye tvāṃ tatrāhaṃ na me tvaṃ kroddhumarhasi

The king said: "Whatever wrong I have done you through delusion and ignorance, best of seers, for that I beg your grace. You should not be angry with me."

Note on the text: Speaker corrected: Wikisource heads this verse प्रजोवाच ("the subjects said"), a misprint for राजोवाच; the speaker is the king, as the singular मया and the preceding verse show.

Verse 5 (1.117.5)

एवमुक्तस्ततो राज्ञा प्रसादमकरोन्मुनिः । कृतप्रसादं राजा तं ततः समवतारयत् ॥

evamuktastato rājñā prasādamakaronmuniḥ | kṛtaprasādaṃ rājā taṃ tataḥ samavatārayat

Vaishampayana said: Addressed thus by the king, the sage granted him his grace. When the sage had forgiven him, the king had him taken down.

Verse 6 (1.117.6)

अवतार्य च शूलाग्रात्तच्छूलं निश्चकर्ष ह । अशक्नुवंश्च निष्क्रष्टुं शूलं मूले स चिच्छिदे ॥

avatārya ca śūlāgrāttacchūlaṃ niścakarṣa ha | aśaknuvaṃśca niṣkraṣṭuṃ śūlaṃ mūle sa cicchide

Having brought him down from the point of the stake, he tried to draw the stake out; unable to pull it out, he cut it off at the base.

Verse 7 (1.117.7)

स तथान्तर्गतेनैव शूलेन व्यचरन्मुनिः । कण्ठपार्श्वान्तरस्थेन शङ्कुना मुनिराचरत् । पुष्पभाजनधारी स्यादिति चिन्तापरोऽभवत् ॥

sa tathāntargatenaiva śūlena vyacaranmuniḥ | kaṇṭhapārśvāntarasthena śaṅkunā munirācarat | puṣpabhājanadhārī syāditi cintāparo'bhavat

So the sage went about with the stake still inside him. With the spike lodged between his throat and his side, the sage went on with his practice, and he fell to thinking that it could serve him to carry his flower-basket.

Note on the text: Removed stray wiki marks (quote mark, doubled danda). Corrected मुनिराचत् → मुनिराचरत् (misprint in Wikisource; dropped र of ācarat, which also leaves the line a syllable short). The first line = 1.101.21a of the critical edition; the other two are not in the critical edition (found in the vulgate recension).

Verse 8 (1.117.8)

स चातितपसा लोकान्विजिग्ये दुर्लभान्परैः ॥

sa cātitapasā lokānvijigye durlabhānparaiḥ

By his surpassing austerity he won worlds that are hard for others to attain.

Note on the text: A variant of 1.101.21c of the critical edition; a single line, as in the source.

Verse 9 (1.117.9)

अणीमाण्डव्य इति च ततो लोकेषु गीयते । स गत्वा सदनं विप्रो धर्मस्य परमार्थवित् ॥

aṇīmāṇḍavya iti ca tato lokeṣu gīyate | sa gatvā sadanaṃ vipro dharmasya paramārthavit

From then on he was celebrated in the worlds as Animandavya, "Mandavya of the stake-point." That brahmin, who knew the highest truth, went to the abode of Dharma,

Note on the text: The automatic alignment found no match; lines = a variant of 1.101.21e and 1.101.22a of the critical edition.

Verse 10 (1.117.10)

आसनस्थं ततो धर्मं दृष्ट्वोपालभत प्रभुम् । किं नु तद्दुष्कृतं कर्म मया कृतमजानता ॥

āsanasthaṃ tato dharmaṃ dṛṣṭvopālabhata prabhum | kiṃ nu tadduṣkṛtaṃ karma mayā kṛtamajānatā

and seeing the lord Dharma seated there, he reproached him: "What evil deed did I commit unknowingly,

Note on the text: The automatic alignment found no match; lines = 1.101.22c and 1.101.23a of the critical edition.

Verse 11 (1.117.11)

यस्येयं फलनिर्वृत्तिरीदृश्यासादिता मया । शीघ्रमाचक्ष्व मे तत्त्वं पश्य मे तपसो बलम् ॥

yasyeyaṃ phalanirvṛttirīdṛśyāsāditā mayā | śīghramācakṣva me tattvaṃ paśya me tapaso balam

that I have reaped such a fruit as this? Tell me the truth at once; behold the power of my austerity!"

Note on the text: The automatic alignment found no match; = 1.101.23ce of the critical edition.

Verse 12 (1.117.12)

पतङ्गिकानां पुच्छेषु त्वयेषीका प्रवेशिता । कर्मणस्तस्य ते प्राप्तं फलमेतत्तपोधन ॥

pataṅgikānāṃ puccheṣu tvayeṣīkā praveśitā | karmaṇastasya te prāptaṃ phalametattapodhana

Dharma said: "You once thrust a blade of grass into the tails of little insects. This is the fruit of that deed that has come to you, O ascetic."

Verse 13 (1.117.13)

स्वल्पमेव यथा दत्तं दानं बहुगुणं भवेत् । अधर्म एवं विप्रर्षे बहुदुःखफलप्रदः ॥

svalpameva yathā dattaṃ dānaṃ bahuguṇaṃ bhavet | adharma evaṃ viprarṣe bahuduḥkhaphalapradaḥ

"Just as a gift, though small, grows manifold, so too, brahmarshi, adharma yields a fruit of much suffering."

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition (found in the vulgate recension).

Verse 14 (1.117.14)

कस्मिन्काले मया तत्तु कृतं ब्रूहि यथातथम् । तेनोक्तं धर्मराजेन बालभावे त्वया कृतम् ॥

kasminkāle mayā tattu kṛtaṃ brūhi yathātatham | tenoktaṃ dharmarājena bālabhāve tvayā kṛtam

Animandavya said: "Tell me truly, when did I do that?" The king of Dharma answered him: "You did it when you were a child."

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition (found in the vulgate recension). The second line is narration (Dharma's reply), printed under Animandavya's speaker line as in the source.

Verse 15 (1.117.15)

बालो हि द्वादशाद्वर्षाज्जन्मतो यत्करिष्यति । न भविष्यत्यधर्मोऽत्र न प्रज्ञास्यति वै दिशः ॥

bālo hi dvādaśādvarṣājjanmato yatkariṣyati | na bhaviṣyatyadharmo'tra na prajñāsyati vai diśaḥ

Animandavya said: "Whatever a child does up to the twelfth year from birth shall not be adharma, for he does not yet know the injunctions of scripture."

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition (found in the vulgate recension).

Verse 16 (1.117.16)

अल्पेऽपराधेऽपि महान्मम दण्डस्त्वया धृतः । गरीयान्ब्राह्मणवधः सर्वभूतवधादपि ॥

alpe'parādhe'pi mahānmama daṇḍastvayā dhṛtaḥ | garīyānbrāhmaṇavadhaḥ sarvabhūtavadhādapi

"For a slight offence you have laid a heavy punishment on me. The killing of a brahmin is graver than the killing of all other beings."

Note on the text: The first line is a variant of 1.101.25a of the critical edition; the second is not in the critical edition (found in the vulgate recension).

Verse 17 (1.117.17)

शूद्रयोनावतो धर्म मानुषः संभविष्यसि । मर्यादां स्थापयाम्यद्य लोके कर्मफलोदयाम् ॥

śūdrayonāvato dharma mānuṣaḥ saṃbhaviṣyasi | maryādāṃ sthāpayāmyadya loke karmaphalodayām

"Therefore, Dharma, you shall be born a man from a shudra womb. And today I set a limit in the world for the fruit of deeds."

Note on the text: Lines = 1.101.25c and a variant of 1.101.26a of the critical edition.

Verse 18 (1.117.18)

आ चतुर्दशकाद्वर्षान्न भविष्यति पातकम् । परतः कुर्वतामेव दोष एव भविष्यति ॥

ā caturdaśakādvarṣānna bhaviṣyati pātakam | parataḥ kurvatāmeva doṣa eva bhaviṣyati

"Up to the fourteenth year there shall be no sin; only those who act after that age shall incur guilt."

Note on the text: A variant of 1.101.26ce of the critical edition.

Verse 19 (1.117.19)

एतेन त्वपराधेन शापात्तस्य महात्मनः । धर्मो विदुररूपेण शूद्रयोनावजायत ॥

etena tvaparādhena śāpāttasya mahātmanaḥ | dharmo vidurarūpeṇa śūdrayonāvajāyata

Vaishampayana said: Because of this offence, and through the curse of that great soul, Dharma was born from a shudra womb in the form of Vidura,

Verse 20 (1.117.20)

धर्मे चार्थे च कुशलो लोभक्रोधविवर्जितः । दीर्घदर्शी शमपरः कुरूणां च हिते रतः ॥

dharme cārthe ca kuśalo lobhakrodhavivarjitaḥ | dīrghadarśī śamaparaḥ kurūṇāṃ ca hite rataḥ

skilled in dharma and in worldly affairs, free from greed and anger, far-sighted, devoted to peace and intent on the welfare of the Kurus.