Pandu Renounces the World

Verse 1 (1.124.1)

तं व्यतीतमुपक्रम्य राजा स्वमिव बान्धवम् । सभार्यः शोकदुःखार्तः पर्यदेवयदातुरः ॥

taṃ vyatītamupakramya rājā svamiva bāndhavam | sabhāryaḥ śokaduḥkhārtaḥ paryadevayadāturaḥ

Vaishampayana said: The king, with his wives, stricken with grief and sorrow, turned to the one who had passed away as though to a kinsman of his own, and lamented in his distress.

Verse 2 (1.124.2)

सतामपि कुले जाताः कर्मणा बत दुर्गतिम् । प्राप्नुवन्त्यकृतात्मानः कामजालविमोहिताः ॥

satāmapi kule jātāḥ karmaṇā bata durgatim | prāpnuvantyakṛtātmānaḥ kāmajālavimohitāḥ

Pandu said: "Alas! Even those born in families of the good, if they have not mastered themselves, come to a wretched end through their own deeds, caught in the net of desire.

Verse 3 (1.124.3)

शश्वद्धर्मात्मना जातो बाल एव पिता मम । जीवितान्तमनुप्राप्तः कामात्मैवेति नः श्रुतम् ॥

śaśvaddharmātmanā jāto bāla eva pitā mama | jīvitāntamanuprāptaḥ kāmātmaiveti naḥ śrutam

"My father, though born of a man who was ever righteous, met the end of his life while still young because he was given over to desire, so we have heard.

Verse 4 (1.124.4)

तस्य कामात्मनः क्षेत्रे राज्ञः संयतवागृषिः । कृष्णद्वैपायनः साक्षाद्भगवान्मामजीजनत् ॥

tasya kāmātmanaḥ kṣetre rājñaḥ saṃyatavāgṛṣiḥ | kṛṣṇadvaipāyanaḥ sākṣādbhagavānmāmajījanat

"In the field of that king who was given over to desire, the blessed Krishna Dvaipayana himself, a seer of restrained speech, begot me.

Verse 5 (1.124.5)

तस्याद्य व्यसने बुद्धिः संजातेयं ममाधमा । त्यक्तस्य देवैरनयान्मृगयां परिधावतः ॥

tasyādya vyasane buddhiḥ saṃjāteyaṃ mamādhamā | tyaktasya devairanayānmṛgayāṃ paridhāvataḥ

"And yet today in me, his son, this base inclination to vice has arisen, forsaken as I am by the gods for my wrongdoing, running about in pursuit of the hunt.

Verse 6 (1.124.6)

मोक्षमेव व्यवस्यामि बन्धो हि व्यसनं महत् । सुवृत्तिमनुवर्तिष्ये तामहं पितुरव्ययाम् ॥

mokṣameva vyavasyāmi bandho hi vyasanaṃ mahat | suvṛttimanuvartiṣye tāmahaṃ pituravyayām

"I shall resolve upon release alone, for bondage is a great calamity. I shall follow that unfailing good way of life of my father the sage.

Note on the text: Wikisource vv. 6–14 pair their half-lines one line out of step with the critical edition (1.110.6–13, where verse 6 has three lines); this verse = CE 1.110.6ac.

Verse 7 (1.124.7)

अतीव तपसात्मानं योजयिष्याम्यसंशयम् । तस्मादेकाहमेकाहमेकैकस्मिन्वनस्पतौ ॥

atīva tapasātmānaṃ yojayiṣyāmyasaṃśayam | tasmādekāhamekāhamekaikasminvanaspatau

"Without doubt I shall yoke myself to austerity beyond measure. And so, alone, spending a single day beneath each single tree,

Note on the text: Wikisource vv. 6–14 pair their half-lines one line out of step with the critical edition (1.110.6–13, where verse 6 has three lines); this verse = CE 1.110.6e and 7a.

Verse 8 (1.124.8)

चरन्भैक्षं मुनिर्मुण्डश्चरिष्याम्याश्रमानिमान् । पांसुना समवच्छन्नः शून्यागारकृतालयः ॥

caranbhaikṣaṃ munirmuṇḍaścariṣyāmyāśramānimān | pāṃsunā samavacchannaḥ śūnyāgārakṛtālayaḥ

"living on alms, a shaven-headed sage, I shall wander among these hermitages, covered with dust, making my home in empty houses,

Note on the text: Wikisource vv. 6–14 pair their half-lines one line out of step with the critical edition (1.110.6–13, where verse 6 has three lines); this verse = CE 1.110.7c and 8a (with variants).

Verse 9 (1.124.9)

वृक्षमूलनिकेतो वा त्यक्तसर्वप्रियाप्रियः । न शोचन्न प्रहृष्यंश्च तुल्यनिन्दात्मसंस्तुतिः ॥

vṛkṣamūlaniketo vā tyaktasarvapriyāpriyaḥ | na śocanna prahṛṣyaṃśca tulyanindātmasaṃstutiḥ

"or with the foot of a tree for my dwelling; having given up all that is dear and not dear, neither grieving nor rejoicing, holding blame and praise of myself alike,

Note on the text: Wikisource vv. 6–14 pair their half-lines one line out of step with the critical edition (1.110.6–13, where verse 6 has three lines); this verse = CE 1.110.8c and 9a.

Verse 10 (1.124.10)

निराशीर्निर्नमस्कारो निर्द्वन्द्वो निष्परिग्रहः । न चाप्यवहसन्कंचिन्न कुर्वन्भ्रुकुटीं क्वचित् ॥

nirāśīrnirnamaskāro nirdvandvo niṣparigrahaḥ | na cāpyavahasankaṃcinna kurvanbhrukuṭīṃ kvacit

"without wishes, bowing to no one, free of the pairs of opposites, owning nothing, mocking no one and frowning at none,

Note on the text: Wikisource vv. 6–14 pair their half-lines one line out of step with the critical edition (1.110.6–13, where verse 6 has three lines); this verse = CE 1.110.9c and 10a.

Verse 11 (1.124.11)

प्रसन्नवदनो नित्यं सर्वभूतहिते रतः । जङ्गमाजङ्गमं सर्वमविहिंसंश्चतुर्विधम् ॥

prasannavadano nityaṃ sarvabhūtahite rataḥ | jaṅgamājaṅgamaṃ sarvamavihiṃsaṃścaturvidham

"ever serene of face and devoted to the good of all beings, harming nothing of all that moves or does not move, of the four kinds of creatures,

Note on the text: Wikisource vv. 6–14 pair their half-lines one line out of step with the critical edition (1.110.6–13, where verse 6 has three lines); this verse = CE 1.110.10c and 11a.

Verse 12 (1.124.12)

स्वासु प्रजास्विव सदा समः प्राणभृतः प्रति । एककालं चरन्भैक्षं कुलानि दश पञ्च च ॥

svāsu prajāsviva sadā samaḥ prāṇabhṛtaḥ prati | ekakālaṃ caranbhaikṣaṃ kulāni daśa pañca ca

"always even toward all that breathe, as toward my own children; begging alms once a day at fifteen houses,

Note on the text: Wikisource vv. 6–14 pair their half-lines one line out of step with the critical edition (1.110.6–13, where verse 6 has three lines); this verse = CE 1.110.11c and 12a (fifteen houses here, seven in the critical edition).

Verse 13 (1.124.13)

असंभवे वा भैक्षस्य चरन्ननशनान्यपि । अल्पमल्पं च भुञ्जानः पूर्वालाभे न जातुचित् ॥

asaṃbhave vā bhaikṣasya carannanaśanānyapi | alpamalpaṃ ca bhuñjānaḥ pūrvālābhe na jātucit

"or, if no alms can be had, going without food; eating little by little, and never, when the first houses give nothing,

Note on the text: Wikisource vv. 6–14 pair their half-lines one line out of step with the critical edition (1.110.6–13, where verse 6 has three lines); this verse = CE 1.110.12c and 13a (with variants).

Verse 14 (1.124.14)

अन्यान्यपि चरँल्लोभादलाभे सप्त पूरयन् । अलाभे यदि वा लाभे समदर्शी महातपाः ॥

anyānyapi caram̐llobhādalābhe sapta pūrayan | alābhe yadi vā lābhe samadarśī mahātapāḥ

"going on to others out of greed, but completing the round of seven houses when nothing is given; looking alike on getting and not getting, great in austerity,

Note on the text: Wikisource vv. 6–14 pair their half-lines one line out of step with the critical edition (1.110.6–13, where verse 6 has three lines); the first line is a variant of CE 1.110.13c; the second line is not in the critical edition's text (it stands in its apparatus, 1.110.13*1164; found in the vulgate recension).

Verse 15 (1.124.15)

वास्यैकं तक्षतो बाहुं चन्दनेनैकमुक्षतः । नाकल्याणं न कल्याणं चिन्तयन्नुभयोस्तयोः ॥

vāsyaikaṃ takṣato bāhuṃ candanenaikamukṣataḥ | nākalyāṇaṃ na kalyāṇaṃ cintayannubhayostayoḥ

"holding alike the one who hews off one arm with an adze and the one who anoints the other with sandal paste, thinking neither ill nor good of either of them,

Verse 16 (1.124.16)

न जिजीविषुवत्किंचिन्न मुमूर्षुवदाचरन् । जीवितं मरणं चैव नाभिनन्दन्न च द्विषन् ॥

na jijīviṣuvatkiṃcinna mumūrṣuvadācaran | jīvitaṃ maraṇaṃ caiva nābhinandanna ca dviṣan

"acting neither like one who longs to live nor like one who longs to die, neither welcoming life and death nor hating them,

Note on the text: Corrected नाभिन्दन् → नाभिनन्दन् (misprint in Wikisource; a dropped akshara, the critical edition reads nābhinandan).

Verse 17 (1.124.17)

याः काश्चिज्जीवता शक्याः कर्तुमभ्युदयक्रियाः । ताः सर्वाः समतिक्रम्य निमेषादिव्यवस्थितः ॥

yāḥ kāścijjīvatā śakyāḥ kartumabhyudayakriyāḥ | tāḥ sarvāḥ samatikramya nimeṣādivyavasthitaḥ

"passing beyond every rite for worldly gain that a living man can perform, and keeping only to the bare acts that sustain life, such as the blinking of the eyes,

Verse 18 (1.124.18)

तासु चाप्यनवस्थासु त्यक्तसर्वेन्द्रियक्रियः । संपरित्यक्तधर्मार्थः सुनिर्णिक्तात्मकल्मषः ॥

tāsu cāpyanavasthāsu tyaktasarvendriyakriyaḥ | saṃparityaktadharmārthaḥ sunirṇiktātmakalmaṣaḥ

"and in those passing acts too giving up all the workings of the senses; having wholly renounced dharma and wealth, my self cleansed of every stain,

Verse 19 (1.124.19)

निर्मुक्तः सर्वपापेभ्यो व्यतीतः सर्ववागुराः । न वशे कस्यचित्तिष्ठन्सधर्मा मातरिश्वनः ॥

nirmuktaḥ sarvapāpebhyo vyatītaḥ sarvavāgurāḥ | na vaśe kasyacittiṣṭhansadharmā mātariśvanaḥ

"freed from all sins, beyond every snare, subject to no one, free like the wind,

Verse 20 (1.124.20)

एतया सततं वृत्त्या चरन्नेवंप्रकारया । देहं संस्थापयिष्यामि निर्भयं मार्गमास्थितः ॥

etayā satataṃ vṛttyā carannevaṃprakārayā | dehaṃ saṃsthāpayiṣyāmi nirbhayaṃ mārgamāsthitaḥ

"living ever by this rule of life in this way, I shall bring this body to its end, set upon the path that knows no fear.

Verse 21 (1.124.21)

नाहं सुकृपणे मार्गे स्ववीर्यक्षयशोचिते । स्वधर्मात्सततापेते चरेयं वीर्यवर्जितः ॥

nāhaṃ sukṛpaṇe mārge svavīryakṣayaśocite | svadharmātsatatāpete careyaṃ vīryavarjitaḥ

"I will not, bereft of manly vigour, walk a most wretched path, a path to be mourned for the loss of one's own strength, a path forever fallen from one's own dharma.

Verse 22 (1.124.22)

सत्कृतोऽसत्कृतो वाऽपि योऽन्यां कृपणचक्षुषा । उपैति वृत्तिं कामात्मा स शुनां वर्तते पथि ॥

satkṛto'satkṛto vā'pi yo'nyāṃ kṛpaṇacakṣuṣā | upaiti vṛttiṃ kāmātmā sa śunāṃ vartate pathi

"Whoever, whether honoured or slighted, looks to another for his living with a beggar's eye, given over to desire, walks the path of dogs."

Verse 23 (1.124.23)

एवमुक्त्वा सुदुःखार्तो निःश्वासपरमो नृपः । अवेक्षमाणः कुन्तीं च माद्रीं च समभाषत ॥

evamuktvā suduḥkhārto niḥśvāsaparamo nṛpaḥ | avekṣamāṇaḥ kuntīṃ ca mādrīṃ ca samabhāṣata

Vaishampayana said: Having spoken thus, deeply grieved and sighing heavily, the king looked at Kunti and Madri and said to them:

Note on the text: Corrected मान्द्रीं → माद्रीं (misprint in Wikisource; a stray न्, the critical edition reads mādrīṃ).

Verse 24 (1.124.24)

कौसल्या विदुरः क्षत्ता राजा च सह बन्धुभिः । आर्या सत्यवती भीष्मस्ते च राजपुरोहिताः ॥

kausalyā viduraḥ kṣattā rājā ca saha bandhubhiḥ | āryā satyavatī bhīṣmaste ca rājapurohitāḥ

Pandu said: "Kausalya, Vidura the steward, the king with his kinsmen, the noble Satyavati, Bhishma, and the royal priests,

Note on the text: Speaker set to Pandu: these are his words to Kunti and Madri, introduced by "said" in the previous verse; neither Wikisource nor the critical edition prints a speaker line.

Verse 25 (1.124.25)

ब्राह्मणाश्च महात्मानः सोमपाः संशितव्रताः । पौरवृद्धाश्च ये तत्र निवसन्त्यस्मदाश्रयाः । प्रसाद्य सर्वे वक्तव्याः पाण्डुः प्रव्राजितो वने ॥

brāhmaṇāśca mahātmānaḥ somapāḥ saṃśitavratāḥ | pauravṛddhāśca ye tatra nivasantyasmadāśrayāḥ | prasādya sarve vaktavyāḥ pāṇḍuḥ pravrājito vane

"the great-souled brahmins who drink the Soma and keep strict vows, and the elders of the city who live there under our protection: all of them are to be gently told, 'Pandu has gone forth into the forest as a renunciant.'"

Note on the text: Speaker set to Pandu (continuing his words to his wives).

Verse 26 (1.124.26)

निशम्य वचनं भर्तुस्त्यागधर्मकृतात्मनः । तत्समं वचनं कुन्ती माद्री च समभाषताम् ॥

niśamya vacanaṃ bhartustyāgadharmakṛtātmanaḥ | tatsamaṃ vacanaṃ kuntī mādrī ca samabhāṣatām

Vaishampayana said: Hearing these words of their husband, whose mind was set on the dharma of renunciation, Kunti and Madri gave him an answer to match:

Verse 27 (1.124.27)

अन्येऽपि ह्याश्रमाः सन्ति ये शक्या भरतर्षभ । आवाभ्यां सह वस्तुं वै धर्ममाश्रित्य चिन्त्यताम् । आवाभ्यां धर्मपत्नीभ्यां सह तप्तुं तपो महत् ॥

anye'pi hyāśramāḥ santi ye śakyā bharatarṣabha | āvābhyāṃ saha vastuṃ vai dharmamāśritya cintyatām | āvābhyāṃ dharmapatnībhyāṃ saha taptuṃ tapo mahat

Kunti and Madri said: "There are other orders of life as well, O bull of the Bharatas, open to you. Consider living with us, holding fast to dharma, and practising great austerity together with us, your lawful wives,

Note on the text: Speaker set to Kunti and Madri: these are their words, introduced in the previous verse; neither Wikisource nor the critical edition prints a speaker line. Removed stray wiki marks (a backtick, a quote mark and a doubled danda) around the middle line, which is not in the critical edition's text (it stands in its apparatus, 1.110.26*1165; found in the vulgate recension).

Verse 28 (1.124.28)

शरीरस्यापि मोक्षाय धर्मं प्राप्य महाफलम् । त्वमेव भविता भर्ता स्वर्गस्यापि न संशयः ॥

śarīrasyāpi mokṣāya dharmaṃ prāpya mahāphalam | tvameva bhavitā bhartā svargasyāpi na saṃśayaḥ

"for the release of the body too, having gained the dharma that bears great fruit; you yourself will be lord even of heaven, there is no doubt.

Note on the text: Speaker set to Kunti and Madri. The first line is not in the critical edition's text (it stands in its apparatus, 1.110.26*1166; found in the vulgate recension); the second line = CE 1.110.26e (bhartā for sārthaḥ).

Verse 29 (1.124.29)

प्रणिधायेन्द्रियग्रामं भर्तृलोकपरायणे । त्यक्त्वा कामसुखे ह्यावां तप्स्यावो विपुलं तपः ॥

praṇidhāyendriyagrāmaṃ bhartṛlokaparāyaṇe | tyaktvā kāmasukhe hyāvāṃ tapsyāvo vipulaṃ tapaḥ

"Restraining the whole host of our senses, intent on the world our husband will reach, and giving up the pleasures of desire, we two will practise vast austerity.

Note on the text: Speaker set to Kunti and Madri. Corrected तप्स्यवो → तप्स्यावो (misprint in Wikisource; the first-person dual future is needed, the critical edition reads tapsyāvo).

Verse 30 (1.124.30)

यदि चावां महाप्राज्ञ त्यक्ष्यसि त्वं विशांपते । अद्यैवावां प्रहास्यावो जीवितं नात्र संशयः ॥

yadi cāvāṃ mahāprājña tyakṣyasi tvaṃ viśāṃpate | adyaivāvāṃ prahāsyāvo jīvitaṃ nātra saṃśayaḥ

"If you abandon us, wise one, lord of the people, we will give up our lives this very day; there is no doubt of it."

Note on the text: Speaker set to Kunti and Madri (continuing).

Verse 31 (1.124.31)

यदि व्यवसितं ह्येतद्युवयोर्धर्मसंहितम् । स्ववृत्तिमनुवर्तिष्ये तामहं पितुरव्ययाम् ॥

yadi vyavasitaṃ hyetadyuvayordharmasaṃhitam | svavṛttimanuvartiṣye tāmahaṃ pituravyayām

Pandu said: "If this is truly your resolve, and it accords with dharma, then I shall follow my own course, that unfailing way of life of my father.

Verse 32 (1.124.32)

त्यक्त्वा ग्राम्यसुखाहारं तप्यमानो महत्तपः । वल्कली फलमूलाशी चरिष्यामि महावने ॥

tyaktvā grāmyasukhāhāraṃ tapyamāno mahattapaḥ | valkalī phalamūlāśī cariṣyāmi mahāvane

"Giving up the food and comforts of settled life, practising great austerity, clad in bark and living on fruits and roots, I shall roam the great forest,

Verse 33 (1.124.33)

अग्नौ जुह्वन्नुभौ कालावुभौ कालावुपस्पृशन् । कृशः परिमिताहारश्चीरचर्मजटाधरः ॥

agnau juhvannubhau kālāvubhau kālāvupaspṛśan | kṛśaḥ parimitāhāraścīracarmajaṭādharaḥ

"offering into the fire morning and evening and bathing at both those times, lean, sparing in food, wearing rags and deerskin and matted hair,

Verse 34 (1.124.34)

शीतवातातपसहः क्षुत्पिपासानवेक्षकः । तपसा दुश्चरेणेदं शरीरमुपशोषयन् ॥

śītavātātapasahaḥ kṣutpipāsānavekṣakaḥ | tapasā duścareṇedaṃ śarīramupaśoṣayan

"enduring cold, wind and heat, heedless of hunger and thirst, wasting this body with austerity hard to bear,

Verse 35 (1.124.35)

एकान्तशीली विमृशन्पक्वापक्वेन वर्तयन् । पितॄन्देवांश्च वन्येन वाग्भिरद्भिश्च तर्पयन् ॥

ekāntaśīlī vimṛśanpakvāpakvena vartayan | pitṝndevāṃśca vanyena vāgbhiradbhiśca tarpayan

"living in solitude and reflecting, sustaining myself on what is ripe and unripe, satisfying the ancestors and the gods with forest fare, with words and with water.

Note on the text: Corrected पितृन् → पितॄन् (misprint in Wikisource; the accusative plural needs the long vowel, the critical edition reads pitṝn).

Verse 36 (1.124.36)

वानप्रस्थजनस्यापि दर्शनं कुलवासिनः । नाप्रियाण्याचरिष्यामि किं पुनर्ग्रामवासिनाम् ॥

vānaprasthajanasyāpi darśanaṃ kulavāsinaḥ | nāpriyāṇyācariṣyāmi kiṃ punargrāmavāsinām

"I shall do nothing displeasing even to forest hermits or to those who live in households, let alone to the people of the villages.

Verse 37 (1.124.37)

एवमारण्यशास्त्राणामुग्रमुग्रतरं विधिम् । काङ्क्षमाणोऽहमास्थास्ये देहस्यास्याऽऽसमापनात् ॥

evamāraṇyaśāstrāṇāmugramugrataraṃ vidhim | kāṅkṣamāṇo'hamāsthāsye dehasyāsyā''samāpanāt

"Thus, seeking the stern and ever sterner rule of the forest scriptures, I shall abide until this body of mine comes to its end."

Verse 38 (1.124.38)

इत्येवमुक्त्वा भार्ये ते राजा कौरवनन्दनः । ततश्चूडामणिं निष्कमङ्गदे कुण्डलानि च ॥

ityevamuktvā bhārye te rājā kauravanandanaḥ | tataścūḍāmaṇiṃ niṣkamaṅgade kuṇḍalāni ca

Vaishampayana said: Having said this to his two wives, the king, the joy of the Kauravas, then took his crest-jewel, his necklace, his armlets and earrings,

Note on the text: Wikisource vv. 38–43 divide CE 1.110.36–39 differently, with added lines; this verse = CE 36ac.

Verse 39 (1.124.39)

वासांसि च महार्हाणि स्त्रीणामाभरणानि च । वाहनानि च मुख्यानि शस्त्राणि कवचानि च ॥

vāsāṃsi ca mahārhāṇi strīṇāmābharaṇāni ca | vāhanāni ca mukhyāni śastrāṇi kavacāni ca

costly garments and the women's ornaments, the finest carriages, weapons and armour,

Note on the text: = CE 1.110.36e; the second line is not in the critical edition's text (it stands in its apparatus, 1.110.36*1168; found in the vulgate recension). Removed a stray wiki mark (a backtick) before the second line.

Verse 40 (1.124.40)

हेमभाण्डानि दिव्यानि पर्यङ्कास्तरणानि च । मणिमुक्ताप्रवालानि रत्नानि विविधानि च ॥

hemabhāṇḍāni divyāni paryaṅkāstaraṇāni ca | maṇimuktāpravālāni ratnāni vividhāni ca

divine vessels of gold, couches and coverlets, gems, pearls and coral, and riches of every kind,

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition (found in the vulgate recension; CE apparatus 1.110.36*1168). Removed stray wiki marks (a doubled danda and a quote mark) at the end.

Verse 41 (1.124.41)

प्रदाय सर्वं विप्रेभ्यः पाण्डुर्भृत्यानभाषत । गत्वा नागपुरं वाच्यं पाण्डुः प्रव्राजितो वने । अर्थं कामं सुखं चैव रतिं च परमात्मिकाम् ॥

pradāya sarvaṃ viprebhyaḥ pāṇḍurbhṛtyānabhāṣata | gatvā nāgapuraṃ vācyaṃ pāṇḍuḥ pravrājito vane | arthaṃ kāmaṃ sukhaṃ caiva ratiṃ ca paramātmikām

and gave it all away to the brahmins. Then Pandu said to his servants: "Go to Nagapura and say, 'Pandu has gone forth into the forest as a renunciant.'" Then, giving up wealth, desire, comfort and the highest delight,

Note on the text: = CE 1.110.37ac and 38a.

Verse 42 (1.124.42)

प्रतस्थे सर्वमुत्सृज्य सभार्यः कुरुनन्दनः । ततस्तस्यानुयातारस्ते चैव परिचारकाः ॥

pratasthe sarvamutsṛjya sabhāryaḥ kurunandanaḥ | tatastasyānuyātāraste caiva paricārakāḥ

the joy of the Kurus set out with his wives, leaving everything behind. Then his followers and attendants,

Note on the text: = CE 1.110.38c and 39a.

Verse 43 (1.124.43)

श्रुत्वा भरतसिंहस्य विविधाः करुणा गिरः । भीममार्तस्वरं कृत्वा हाहेति परिचुक्रुशुः ॥

śrutvā bharatasiṃhasya vividhāḥ karuṇā giraḥ | bhīmamārtasvaraṃ kṛtvā hāheti paricukruśuḥ

hearing the many piteous words of that lion of the Bharatas, raised a terrible cry of grief and wailed, "Alas, alas!"

Note on the text: = CE 1.110.39ce. Corrected विधिधाः → विविधाः and भममार्तस्वरं → भीममार्तस्वरं (misprints in Wikisource; ध for व and a dropped vowel sign, the critical edition reads vividhāḥ and bhīmam).

Verse 44 (1.124.44)

उष्णमश्रु विमुञ्चन्तस्तं विहाय महीपतिम् । ययुर्नागपुरं तूर्णं सर्वमादाय तद्धनम् ॥

uṣṇamaśru vimuñcantastaṃ vihāya mahīpatim | yayurnāgapuraṃ tūrṇaṃ sarvamādāya taddhanam

Shedding hot tears, they left the king and went swiftly to Nagapura, taking all that wealth with them.

Verse 45 (1.124.45)

ते गत्वा नगरं राज्ञो यथावृत्तं महात्मनः । कथयांचक्रिरे राज्ञस्तद्धनं विविधं ददुः ॥

te gatvā nagaraṃ rājño yathāvṛttaṃ mahātmanaḥ | kathayāṃcakrire rājñastaddhanaṃ vividhaṃ daduḥ

Reaching the city, they told the king all that had befallen the great-souled Pandu, and handed over that wealth of many kinds.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition (found in the vulgate recension; CE apparatus 1.110.40*1169).

Verse 46 (1.124.46)

श्रुत्वा तेभ्यस्ततः सर्वं यथावृत्तं महावने । धृतराष्ट्रो नरश्रेष्ठः पाण्डुमेवान्वशोचत ॥

śrutvā tebhyastataḥ sarvaṃ yathāvṛttaṃ mahāvane | dhṛtarāṣṭro naraśreṣṭhaḥ pāṇḍumevānvaśocata

Hearing from them all that had happened in the great forest, Dhritarashtra, best of men, grieved for Pandu.

Verse 47 (1.124.47)

न शय्यासनभोगेषु रतिं विन्दति कर्हिचित् । भ्रातृशोकसमाविष्टस्तमेवार्थं विचिन्तयन् ॥

na śayyāsanabhogeṣu ratiṃ vindati karhicit | bhrātṛśokasamāviṣṭastamevārthaṃ vicintayan

He never found pleasure in bed, in seat or in any enjoyment, overcome by grief for his brother and brooding on that one matter.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition (found in the vulgate recension; CE apparatus 1.110.41*1170).

Verse 48 (1.124.48)

राजपुत्रस्तु कौरव्य पाण्डुर्मूलफलाशनः । जगाम सह पत्नीभ्यां ततो नागशतं गिरिम् ॥

rājaputrastu kauravya pāṇḍurmūlaphalāśanaḥ | jagāma saha patnībhyāṃ tato nāgaśataṃ girim

Meanwhile the prince Pandu, the Kaurava, living on roots and fruits, went with his wives to the mountain Nagashata.

Verse 49 (1.124.49)

स चैत्ररथमासाद्य कालकूटमतीत्य च । हिमवन्तमतिक्रम्य प्रययौ गन्धमादनम् ॥

sa caitrarathamāsādya kālakūṭamatītya ca | himavantamatikramya prayayau gandhamādanam

Reaching Chaitraratha and passing beyond Kalakuta, he crossed the Himalaya and went on to Gandhamadana.

Verse 50 (1.124.50)

रक्ष्यमाणो महाभूतैः सिद्धैश्च परमर्षिभिः । उवास स महाराज समेषु विषमेषु च ॥

rakṣyamāṇo mahābhūtaiḥ siddhaiśca paramarṣibhiḥ | uvāsa sa mahārāja sameṣu viṣameṣu ca

Guarded by the great beings, by the Siddhas and by the supreme seers, he dwelt there, great king, on level ground and rough.

Verse 51 (1.124.51)

इन्द्रद्युम्नसरः प्राप्य हंसकूटमतीत्य च । शतशृङ्गे महाराज तापसः समतप्यत ॥

indradyumnasaraḥ prāpya haṃsakūṭamatītya ca | śataśṛṅge mahārāja tāpasaḥ samatapyata

Reaching the lake of Indradyumna and passing beyond Hamsakuta, he practised austerities, great king, as an ascetic on Shatashringa.