The Pandavas' Life in the Kamyaka Forest

Verse 1 (3.47.1)

यदिदं शोचितं राज्ञा धृतराष्ट्रेण वै मुने । प्रव्राज्य पाण्डवान्वीरान्सर्वमेतन्निरर्थकम् ॥

yadidaṃ śocitaṃ rājñā dhṛtarāṣṭreṇa vai mune | pravrājya pāṇḍavānvīrānsarvametannirarthakam

Sage, all this grieving by King Dhritarashtra, after he had sent the heroic Pandavas into exile, was to no purpose.

Note on the text: Corrected निर्रथकम् → निरर्थकम् (misprint in Wikisource; the word is निरर्थक, as in the critical edition's nirarthakam) and restored a missing word space (प्रव्राज्यपाण्डवान् → प्रव्राज्य पाण्डवान्).

Verse 2 (3.47.2)

कथं च राजपुत्रं तमुपेक्षेताल्पचेतसम् । दुर्योधनं पाण्डुपुत्रान्कोपयानं महारथान् ॥

kathaṃ ca rājaputraṃ tamupekṣetālpacetasam | duryodhanaṃ pāṇḍuputrānkopayānaṃ mahārathān

And how could he disregard that foolish prince Duryodhana as he provoked the sons of Pandu, those great chariot-warriors?

Verse 3 (3.47.3)

किमासीत्पाण्डुपुत्राणां वने भोजनमुच्यताम् । वन्यं वाऽप्यथवा कृष्टमेतदाख्यातु नो भवान् ॥

kimāsītpāṇḍuputrāṇāṃ vane bhojanamucyatām | vanyaṃ vā'pyathavā kṛṣṭametadākhyātu no bhavān

Tell us what food the sons of Pandu had in the forest: what grows wild, or what is raised by tilling. Let your honour tell us this.

Note on the text: Corrected वाऽप्यवा → वाऽप्यथवा (misprint in Wikisource; a dropped akshara leaves a non-word and a short line; the critical edition reads atha vā). वन्यं is a recension variant of the critical edition's vāneyam and is kept.

Verse 4 (3.47.4)

वानेयं च मृगांश्चैव शुद्धैर्बाणैर्निपातितान् । ब्राह्मणानां निवेद्याग्रमभुञ्जत महारथाः ॥

vāneyaṃ ca mṛgāṃścaiva śuddhairbāṇairnipātitān | brāhmaṇānāṃ nivedyāgramabhuñjata mahārathāḥ

The great chariot-warriors lived on the produce of the forest and on deer brought down with clean arrows, untouched by poison, first offering the best part to the brahmins and then eating.

Note on the text: Corrected अभुञ्जता → अभुञ्जत (misprint in Wikisource; the imperfect is अभुञ्जत, "they ate"; the critical edition reads abhuñjan). महारथाः is a recension variant of the critical edition's puruṣarṣabhāḥ and is kept. The speaker heading is misprinted वैंशंपायन in Wikisource; given as वैशंपायन.

Verse 5 (3.47.5)

तांस्तु शूरान्महेष्वासांस्तदा निवसतो वने । अन्वयुर्ब्राह्मणा राजन्साग्नयोऽनग्नयस्तथा ॥

tāṃstu śūrānmaheṣvāsāṃstadā nivasato vane | anvayurbrāhmaṇā rājansāgnayo'nagnayastathā

While those heroic great archers were living in the forest, brahmins followed them, O king, both those who kept the sacred fires and those who did not.

Verse 6 (3.47.6)

ब्राह्मणानां सहस्राणि स्नातकानां महात्मनाम् । दश मोक्षविदां तद्वद्यान्बिभर्ति युधिष्ठिरः ॥

brāhmaṇānāṃ sahasrāṇi snātakānāṃ mahātmanām | daśa mokṣavidāṃ tadvadyānbibharti yudhiṣṭhiraḥ

Thousands of high-souled brahmins who had completed their Vedic studies, and ten thousand more who knew the way to liberation: all these Yudhishthira supported.

Verse 7 (3.47.7)

रुरून्कृष्णमृगांश्चैव मेध्यांश्चान्यान्मनोरमान् । बाणैरुन्मथ्य विविधैर्ब्राह्मणेभ्यो न्यवेदयत् ॥

rurūnkṛṣṇamṛgāṃścaiva medhyāṃścānyānmanoramān | bāṇairunmathya vividhairbrāhmaṇebhyo nyavedayat

Ruru deer, black antelope and other fine animals fit for sacrifice he brought down with arrows of many kinds and offered to the brahmins.

Verse 8 (3.47.8)

न तत्र कश्चिद्दुर्वर्णो व्याधितो वाऽपि दृश्यते । कृशो वा दुर्बलो वाऽपि दीनो भीतोपि वा पुनः ॥

na tatra kaściddurvarṇo vyādhito vā'pi dṛśyate | kṛśo vā durbalo vā'pi dīno bhītopi vā punaḥ

No one there was seen pale or sick; none was lean or weak, wretched or afraid.

Note on the text: Corrected पुनाः → पुनः (misprint in Wikisource; पुनाः is no word, and the smallest fix gives the particle पुनः; the critical edition reads naraḥ here).

Verse 9 (3.47.9)

पुत्रानिव प्रियान्भ्रातॄन्ज्ञातीनिव सहोदरान् । पुपोष कौरवश्रेष्ठो धर्मराजो युधिष्ठिरः ॥

putrāniva priyānbhrātṝnjñātīniva sahodarān | pupoṣa kauravaśreṣṭho dharmarājo yudhiṣṭhiraḥ

Yudhishthira, King of Dharma and best of the Kurus, cared for his brothers as though they were his dear sons, and for his kinsmen as though they were brothers born of one womb.

Note on the text: Corrected पुरोष → पुपोष and धर्मेराजो → धर्मराजो (misprints in Wikisource; the verb is the perfect of पुष्, "he nourished", and the title is धर्मराज, as in the critical edition's pupoṣa … dharmarājo). The order भ्रातॄन् … ज्ञातीन् is a recension variant of the critical edition's jñātīn … bhrātṝn and is kept.

Verse 10 (3.47.10)

पतींश्च द्रौपदी सर्वान्द्विजातींश्च यशस्विनी । मातेव भोजयित्वाऽग्रे शिष्टमाहारयत्तदा ॥

patīṃśca draupadī sarvāndvijātīṃśca yaśasvinī | māteva bhojayitvā'gre śiṣṭamāhārayattadā

Glorious Draupadi, like a mother, fed all her husbands and the brahmins first, and then ate what was left.

Note on the text: Corrected पतीश्च → पतींश्च and सर्वाञ्द्विजातीश्च → सर्वान्द्विजातींश्च (misprints in Wikisource; the accusative plurals पतीन्, सर्वान्, द्विजातीन् need ंश्च before च, and ञ् cannot stand before द; the critical edition reads patīṃś ca … sarvān).

Verse 11 (3.47.11)

प्राचीं राजा दक्षिणां भीमसेनो । यमौ प्रतीचीमथवाऽप्युदीचीम् । धनुर्धरा मांसहेतोर्मृगाणां । क्षयं चक्रुर्नित्यमेवोपगम्य ॥

prācīṃ rājā dakṣiṇāṃ bhīmaseno | yamau pratīcīmathavā'pyudīcīm | dhanurdharā māṃsahetormṛgāṇāṃ | kṣayaṃ cakrurnityamevopagamya

The king went east, Bhimasena south, and the twins west or north; bows in hand, they went out every day and killed deer for meat.

Verse 12 (3.47.12)

तथा तेषां वसतां काम्यके वै । विहीनानामर्जुनेनोत्सुकानाम् । पञ्चैव वर्षाणि तथा व्यतीयु- । रधीयतां जपतां जुह्वतां च ॥

tathā teṣāṃ vasatāṃ kāmyake vai | vihīnānāmarjunenotsukānām | pañcaiva varṣāṇi tathā vyatīyu- | radhīyatāṃ japatāṃ juhvatāṃ ca

So they lived in the Kamyaka forest without Arjuna, longing for him, studying, reciting prayers and making offerings into the fire; and five years went by.

Note on the text: Corrected कवसतां → वसतां (misprint in Wikisource; a stray क makes a non-word and an over-long line, the critical edition reads vasatāṃ) and रथीयतां → रधीयतां (misprint, थ for ध; व्यतीयुर् + अधीयतां, "studying", as in the critical edition's vyatīyur adhīyatāṃ).