Yayati's Gift of a Thousand Cows

Verse 1 (3.198.1)

इदमन्यच्छ्रूयतां ययातिर्नाहुषो राजा राज्यस्थः पौरजनावृत आसांचक्रे । गुर्वर्थी ब्राह्मण उपेत्याब्रवीत् भो राजन्गुर्वर्थं भिक्षेयं समयादिति ॥

idamanyacchrūyatāṃ yayātirnāhuṣo rājā rājyasthaḥ paurajanāvṛta āsāṃcakre | gurvarthī brāhmaṇa upetyābravīt bho rājangurvarthaṃ bhikṣeyaṃ samayāditi

Hear this other story. Yayati, son of Nahusha, was seated as king, surrounded by the people of his city. A brahmin seeking his teacher's fee came up to him and said, "O king, I would beg of you for my teacher's fee, on a condition."

Note on the text: The speaker heading "मार्कण्डेय उवाच" (with a footnote mark "[*") had slipped into the text and is made the speaker; the heading "राजोवाच" at the end of the paragraph is made the speaker of the next verse. Corrected इदमन्यच्छ्रूतां → इदमन्यच्छ्रूयतां (misprint in Wikisource; dropped य; Appendix I.21 reads idam anyac chrūyatām). The double danda inside the paragraph is set as a line break. Not in the critical edition (found in the vulgate recension); the CE gives it only in Appendix I, No. 21 (lines 110–112), a passage inserted after 3.190.82 whose third section is this adhyaya, Yayati's gift. The raw page's footnote likewise says this adhyaya and the next two are found in only one of its manuscripts.

Verse 2 (3.198.2)

ब्रवीतु भगवान्समयमिति ॥

bravītu bhagavānsamayamiti

"Let the revered one state the condition."

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition (found in the vulgate recension); the CE gives it only in Appendix I, No. 21 (lines 112–113), a passage inserted after 3.190.82 whose third section is this adhyaya, Yayati's gift. The raw page's footnote likewise says this adhyaya and the next two are found in only one of its manuscripts.

Verse 3 (3.198.3)

विद्वेषणं परमं जीवलोके । कुर्यान्नरः पार्थिव याच्यमानः । तं त्वां पृच्छामि कथं तु राज- । न्दद्याद्भवान्दयितं च मेऽद्य ॥

vidveṣaṇaṃ paramaṃ jīvaloke | kuryānnaraḥ pārthiva yācyamānaḥ | taṃ tvāṃ pṛcchāmi kathaṃ tu rāja- | ndadyādbhavāndayitaṃ ca me'dya

"In this world of the living, a man who is begged from comes to feel the bitterest ill-will. So I ask you, O king: how will you give me today what I hold dear?"

Note on the text: Corrected दद्याद्वान् → दद्याद्भवान् (misprint in Wikisource; dropped भ, the quarter is a syllable short; Appendix I.21 reads dadyād bhavān). Not in the critical edition (found in the vulgate recension); the CE gives it only in Appendix I, No. 21 (lines 114–118), a passage inserted after 3.190.82 whose third section is this adhyaya, Yayati's gift. The raw page's footnote likewise says this adhyaya and the next two are found in only one of its manuscripts.

Verse 4 (3.198.4)

न चानुकीर्तये दद्य दत्त्वा । अयाच्यमर्थं न च संशृणोमि । प्राप्यमर्थं च संश्रुत्य । तं चापि दत्त्वा सुसुखी भवामि ॥

na cānukīrtaye dadya dattvā | ayācyamarthaṃ na ca saṃśṛṇomi | prāpyamarthaṃ ca saṃśrutya | taṃ cāpi dattvā susukhī bhavāmi

"Having given, I do not proclaim it, O worthy one; nor do I promise what should not be asked. When I have promised a thing that may rightly be had and have given it too, I am truly happy.

Note on the text: Restored a missing word space (नचानुकीर्तये → न चानुकीर्तये). दद्य (where the critical edition's appendix has no such word) is kept: the raw page's commentary takes it as a vocative, "O one worthy of gifts". Not in the critical edition (found in the vulgate recension); the CE gives it only in Appendix I, No. 21 (lines 119–123), a passage inserted after 3.190.82 whose third section is this adhyaya, Yayati's gift. The raw page's footnote likewise says this adhyaya and the next two are found in only one of its manuscripts.

Verse 5 (3.198.5)

ददामि ते रोहिणीनां सहस्रं । प्रियो हि मे ब्राह्मणो याचमानः । न मे मनः कुप्यति याचमाने । दत्तं न शोचामि कदाचिदर्थम् ॥

dadāmi te rohiṇīnāṃ sahasraṃ | priyo hi me brāhmaṇo yācamānaḥ | na me manaḥ kupyati yācamāne | dattaṃ na śocāmi kadācidartham

I give you a thousand red cows, for a brahmin who asks is dear to me. My mind is never angered by one who asks, and I never grieve over wealth I have given."

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition (found in the vulgate recension); the CE gives it only in Appendix I, No. 21 (lines 124–127), a passage inserted after 3.190.82 whose third section is this adhyaya, Yayati's gift. The raw page's footnote likewise says this adhyaya and the next two are found in only one of its manuscripts.

Verse 6 (3.198.6)

इत्युक्त्वा ब्राह्मणाय राजा गोसहस्रं ददौ । प्राप्तवांश्च गवां सहस्रं ब्राह्मण इति ॥

ityuktvā brāhmaṇāya rājā gosahasraṃ dadau | prāptavāṃśca gavāṃ sahasraṃ brāhmaṇa iti

With these words the king gave the brahmin a thousand cows, and the brahmin received the thousand cows.

Note on the text: Corrected ब्राह्मणा → ब्राह्मणाय (misprint in Wikisource; dropped य, the dative is needed; Appendix I.21 reads brāhmaṇāya). The speaker is the narrator Markandeya, not the king carried over from the verses above. Not in the critical edition (found in the vulgate recension); the CE gives it only in Appendix I, No. 21 (lines 128–129), a passage inserted after 3.190.82 whose third section is this adhyaya, Yayati's gift. The raw page's footnote likewise says this adhyaya and the next two are found in only one of its manuscripts.