Narada Is Asked to Speak

Verse 1 (13.204.1)

भवतां दर्शनादेव प्रीतिरभ्यधिका मम । भवन्तस्तु तपःसिद्धा भवन्तो दिव्यदर्शनाः ॥

bhavatāṃ darśanādeva prītirabhyadhikā mama | bhavantastu tapaḥsiddhā bhavanto divyadarśanāḥ

My joy is greater simply from seeing you. You are perfected in austerity, and you have divine sight.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 0117-0118.

Verse 2 (13.204.2)

सर्वत्र गतिमन्तश्च ज्ञानविज्ञानभाविताः । गत्यागतिज्ञा लोकानां सर्वे निर्धूतकल्मषाः ॥

sarvatra gatimantaśca jñānavijñānabhāvitāḥ | gatyāgatijñā lokānāṃ sarve nirdhūtakalmaṣāḥ

You go everywhere, you are steeped in knowledge and realisation, you know the comings and goings of the worlds, and all of you have shaken off every stain.

Note on the text: Corrected निर्दूतकल्मषाः → निर्धूतकल्मषाः (misprint in Wikisource; निर्धूत "shaken off"; Appendix I reads nirdhūta). Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 0119-0120.

Verse 3 (13.204.3)

तस्माद्भवद्भिर्यत्किंचिदृष्टं वाऽप्यथवा श्रुतम् । आश्चर्यभूतं लोकेषु तद्भवन्तो ब्रुवन्तु मे ॥

tasmādbhavadbhiryatkiṃcidṛṣṭaṃ vā'pyathavā śrutam | āścaryabhūtaṃ lokeṣu tadbhavanto bruvantu me

Therefore tell me whatever you have seen or heard that is a marvel in the worlds.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 0121-0122.

Verse 4 (13.204.4)

युष्माभिः कथितं यत्स्यात्तपसा भावितात्मभिः । तत्स्यादमृतसंकाशं वाङ्मधुश्रवणे स्पृहा ॥

yuṣmābhiḥ kathitaṃ yatsyāttapasā bhāvitātmabhiḥ | tatsyādamṛtasaṃkāśaṃ vāṅmadhuśravaṇe spṛhā

What you say, whose minds are purified by austerity, would be like nectar; I long to hear the honey of your speech.

Note on the text: Corrected तस्यादमृतसंकाशं → तत्स्यादमृतसंकाशं (misprint in Wikisource; dropped त; the sense "that would be like nectar", cf. Appendix I tat syād amṛtasaṃkāśaṃ). Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 0123-0124.

Verse 5 (13.204.5)

रागद्वेषवियुक्तानां सततं सत्यवादिनाम् । श्रद्धेयं श्रवणीयं च वचनं हि सतां भवेत् ॥

rāgadveṣaviyuktānāṃ satataṃ satyavādinām | śraddheyaṃ śravaṇīyaṃ ca vacanaṃ hi satāṃ bhavet

The words of good people, free of passion and hatred and always truthful, deserve belief and deserve to be heard.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 0125-0126.

Verse 6 (13.204.6)

तत्संयोगं हितं मेऽस्तु न वृथा कर्तुमर्हथ । भवतां दर्शनं तस्मात्सफलं तु भवेन्मम ॥

tatsaṃyogaṃ hitaṃ me'stu na vṛthā kartumarhatha | bhavatāṃ darśanaṃ tasmātsaphalaṃ tu bhavenmama

Let this meeting be for my good; you should not make it in vain. Thus may your visit be fruitful for me.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 0127-0128.

Verse 7 (13.204.7)

तदहं सज्जनमुखान्निःसृतं जनसंसदि । कथयिष्याम्यहं बुद्ध्या बुद्धिदीपकरं नृणाम् ॥

tadahaṃ sajjanamukhānniḥsṛtaṃ janasaṃsadi | kathayiṣyāmyahaṃ buddhyā buddhidīpakaraṃ nṛṇām

I shall therefore tell, with my understanding, what has come from the lips of good people in an assembly of men, a thing that lights up the minds of men.

Note on the text: Aligned with critical edition 13.126.44 (similarity 0.83); the parallel in Appendix I No. 15 is closer, at lines 0129-0130.

Verse 8 (13.204.8)

तदन्ये वर्धयिष्यन्ति पूजयिष्यन्ति चापरे । वात्सल्यविगताश्चान्ये प्रशंसन्ति पुरातनाः ॥

tadanye vardhayiṣyanti pūjayiṣyanti cāpare | vātsalyavigatāścānye praśaṃsanti purātanāḥ

Some will enlarge upon it and others will honour it, and yet others, without partiality, will praise it as the ancients did.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 0131-0132.

Verse 9 (13.204.9)

एवं ब्रुवति गोविन्दे श्रवणार्थं महर्षयः । वाग्भिः साञ्जलिमालाभिरिदमूचुर्जनार्दनम् ॥

evaṃ bruvati govinde śravaṇārthaṃ maharṣayaḥ | vāgbhiḥ sāñjalimālābhiridamūcurjanārdanam

While Govinda was speaking thus, the great sages, wishing to hear, with joined palms and garlands of words, said this to Janardana.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 0133-0134. Speaker: narration (Bhishma), not the words of Shri Bhagavan under whose heading the page prints it; the input's Shri Bhagavan is corrected.

Verse 10 (13.204.10)

अयुक्तमस्मानेवं त्वं वाचा वरद भाषितुम् । त्वच्छासनमुखाः सर्वे त्वदधीनपरिश्रमाः ॥

ayuktamasmānevaṃ tvaṃ vācā varada bhāṣitum | tvacchāsanamukhāḥ sarve tvadadhīnapariśramāḥ

“It is not fitting, O giver of boons, that you should speak to us in such words. All of us take your command as our chief concern, and our labours are subject to you.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 0135-0136. Speaker: the sages' words, unheaded on the page; the input's Shri Bhagavan is corrected.

Verse 11 (13.204.11)

एवं पूजयितुं चास्मान्न चैवार्हसि केशव । त्वत्तस्त्वन्यं न पश्यामो यल्लोके ते न विद्यते । दिवि वा भुवि वा किञ्चित्तत्सर्वं हि त्वया ततम् ॥

evaṃ pūjayituṃ cāsmānna caivārhasi keśava | tvattastvanyaṃ na paśyāmo yalloke te na vidyate | divi vā bhuvi vā kiñcittatsarvaṃ hi tvayā tatam

You should not honour us in this way, Keshava. Other than you we see nothing in the world that does not exist in you; whatever there is in heaven or on earth, all of it is pervaded by you.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 0137-0139. Speaker: the sages' words, unheaded on the page; the input's Shri Bhagavan is corrected.

Verse 12 (13.204.12)

न विद्महे वयं देव कथ्यमानं तवान्तिके । एवमुक्तो हृषीकेशः सस्मितं चेदमब्रवीत् ॥

na vidmahe vayaṃ deva kathyamānaṃ tavāntike | evamukto hṛṣīkeśaḥ sasmitaṃ cedamabravīt

We do not know, O God, what could be told in your presence.” Thus addressed, Hrishikesha said with a smile:

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 0140-0141. Speaker: line a is the sages' words, line b narration; the verse is given to the sages. The input's Shri Bhagavan is corrected.

Verse 13 (13.204.13)

अहं मानुषयोनिस्थः साम्प्रतं मुनिपुङ्गवाः । तस्मान्मानुषवद्वीर्यं मम जानीत सुव्रताः । भवद्भिः कथ्यमानं च अपूर्वमिव तद्भवेत् ॥

ahaṃ mānuṣayonisthaḥ sāmprataṃ munipuṅgavāḥ | tasmānmānuṣavadvīryaṃ mama jānīta suvratāḥ | bhavadbhiḥ kathyamānaṃ ca apūrvamiva tadbhavet

“I am now living in a human birth, O foremost sages. So know my strength to be that of a man, O devout ones. What you tell will be, as it were, new to me.”

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 0142-0144.

Verse 14 (13.204.14)

एवं संचोदिताः सर्वे केशवेन महात्मना । ऋषयश्चानुवर्तन्ते वासुदेवस्य शासनम् ॥

evaṃ saṃcoditāḥ sarve keśavena mahātmanā | ṛṣayaścānuvartante vāsudevasya śāsanam

Thus urged by the high-souled Keshava, the sages complied with Vasudeva's command.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 0145-0146.

Verse 15 (13.204.15)

ततस्त्वृषिगणाः सर्वे नारदं देवदर्शनम् । अमन्यन्त बुधा बुद्ध्या समर्थं तन्निबोधने ॥

tatastvṛṣigaṇāḥ sarve nāradaṃ devadarśanam | amanyanta budhā buddhyā samarthaṃ tannibodhane

Then all the company of sages, being wise, judged Narada, who has divine sight, able to make it known.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 0147-0148.

Verse 16 (13.204.16)

ऋषिरुग्रतपाश्चायं केशवस्य प्रियोऽधिकम् । पुराणज्ञश्च वाग्मी च कारणैस्तं च मेनिरे ॥

ṛṣirugratapāścāyaṃ keśavasya priyo'dhikam | purāṇajñaśca vāgmī ca kāraṇaistaṃ ca menire

“This sage of fierce austerity is especially dear to Keshava, knows the Puranas and is eloquent.” For these reasons they thought him fit.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 0149-0150.

Verse 17 (13.204.17)

सर्वे तदर्हणं कृत्वा नारदं वाक्यमब्रुवन् ॥

sarve tadarhaṇaṃ kṛtvā nāradaṃ vākyamabruvan

All of them, having honoured Narada, said to him:

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), line 0151. One line only, as printed on the page.

Verse 18 (13.204.18)

भवता तीर्थयात्रार्थं चरता हिमवद्गिरौ । दृष्टं वै यत्तदाश्चर्यं श्रोतॄणां परमं प्रियम् ॥

bhavatā tīrthayātrārthaṃ caratā himavadgirau | dṛṣṭaṃ vai yattadāścaryaṃ śrotṝṇāṃ paramaṃ priyam

“While travelling on pilgrimage on the Himalaya mountain, you saw a marvel, one most dear to those who listen.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 0152-0153. Speaker: the sages' words to Narada, unheaded on the page; the input's carried-over Bhishma is corrected.

Verse 19 (13.204.19)

अतस्त्वमविशेषेण हितार्थं सर्वमादितः । प्रियार्थं केशवस्यास्य स भवान्वक्तुमर्हति ॥

atastvamaviśeṣeṇa hitārthaṃ sarvamāditaḥ | priyārthaṃ keśavasyāsya sa bhavānvaktumarhati

Therefore, for the good of all, tell it entire from the beginning, and for the pleasure of this Keshava; you are fit to tell it.”

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 0154-0155. Speaker: the sages' words to Narada, unheaded on the page; the input's carried-over Bhishma is corrected.

Verse 20 (13.204.20)

तदा संयोजितः सर्वैर्ऋषिभिर्नारदस्तदा । प्रणम्य शिरसा विष्णुं सर्वलोकहिते रतम् । समुद्वीक्ष्य हृषीकेशं वक्तुमेवोपचक्रमे ॥

tadā saṃyojitaḥ sarvairṛṣibhirnāradastadā | praṇamya śirasā viṣṇuṃ sarvalokahite ratam | samudvīkṣya hṛṣīkeśaṃ vaktumevopacakrame

Thus urged by all the sages, Narada bowed his head to Vishnu, who delights in the good of all the worlds, looked up at Hrishikesha, and began to speak.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition proper (vulgate recension); parallel text in Appendix I No. 15 (after 13.134.57d), lines 0156-0158.

Verse 21 (13.204.21)

ततो नारायणसुहृन्नारदो वदतांवरः । शङ्करस्योमया सार्धं संवादमनुभाषत ॥

tato nārāyaṇasuhṛnnārado vadatāṃvaraḥ | śaṅkarasyomayā sārdhaṃ saṃvādamanubhāṣata

Then Narada, friend of Narayana and best of speakers, recounted the dialogue of Shankara with Uma.

Note on the text: Aligned with critical edition 13.127.1 (similarity 0.83), which opens the Uma-Maheshvara dialogue; the parallel in Appendix I No. 15 is at lines 0159-0160.