Krishna Consoles Subhadra

Verse 1 (7.77.1)

तां निशां दुःखशोकार्तौ निःश्वसन्ताविवोरगौ । निद्रां नैवोपलेभाते वासुदेवधनञ्जयौ ॥

tāṃ niśāṃ duḥkhaśokārtau niḥśvasantāvivoragau | nidrāṃ naivopalebhāte vāsudevadhanañjayau

That night Vasudeva and Dhananjaya, tormented by grief and sorrow, sighing like two serpents, found no sleep.

Verse 2 (7.77.2)

नरनारायणौ क्रुद्धौ ज्ञात्वा देवाः सवासवाः । व्यथिताश्चिन्तयामासुः किंस्विदेतद्भविष्यति ॥

naranārāyaṇau kruddhau jñātvā devāḥ savāsavāḥ | vyathitāścintayāmāsuḥ kiṃsvidetadbhaviṣyati

Knowing that Nara and Narayana were enraged, the gods with Indra were troubled and wondered, "What can this mean?"

Verse 3 (7.77.3)

ववुश्च दारुणा वाता रूक्षा घोराभिशंसिनः । सकबन्धस्तथाऽऽदित्ये परिघः समदृश्यत ॥

vavuśca dāruṇā vātā rūkṣā ghorābhiśaṃsinaḥ | sakabandhastathā''ditye parighaḥ samadṛśyata

Harsh, dry, dreadful winds blew, foretelling terror, and a dark bar with a headless trunk beside it was seen across the sun.

Verse 4 (7.77.4)

शुष्काशन्यश्च निष्पेतुः सनिर्घाताः सविद्युतः । चचाल चापि पृथिवी सशैलवनकानना ॥

śuṣkāśanyaśca niṣpetuḥ sanirghātāḥ savidyutaḥ | cacāla cāpi pṛthivī saśailavanakānanā

Dry thunderbolts fell with crashes and lightning, and the earth, with its mountains, forests and groves, trembled.

Verse 5 (7.77.5)

चुक्षुभुश्च महाराज सागरा मकरालयाः । प्रतिस्रोतःप्रवृत्ताश्च तथा गन्तुं समुद्रगाः ॥

cukṣubhuśca mahārāja sāgarā makarālayāḥ | pratisrotaḥpravṛttāśca tathā gantuṃ samudragāḥ

The oceans, home of sea-monsters, were stirred, O great king, and the rivers turned to run against their course.

Note on the text: Corrected सागारा → सागरा (misprint in Wikisource; spurious long ā; the critical edition reads sāgarā).

Verse 6 (7.77.6)

रथाश्वनरनागानां प्रवृत्तमधरोत्तरम् । क्रव्यादानां प्रमोदार्थं यमराष्ट्रविवृद्धये ॥

rathāśvanaranāgānāṃ pravṛttamadharottaram | kravyādānāṃ pramodārthaṃ yamarāṣṭravivṛddhaye

Among chariots, horses, men and elephants, everything was thrown into disorder, high turned to low, to the delight of the flesh-eaters and the enlargement of Yama's realm.

Verse 7 (7.77.7)

वाहनानि शकृन्मूत्रे मुमुचू रुरुदुश्च ह । तान्दृष्ट्वा दारुणान्सर्वानुत्पाताँल्लोमहर्षणान् ॥

vāhanāni śakṛnmūtre mumucū ruruduśca ha | tāndṛṣṭvā dāruṇānsarvānutpātām̐llomaharṣaṇān

The animals dropped dung and urine and wept. Seeing all those dreadful, hair-raising portents,

Verse 8 (7.77.8)

सर्वे ते व्यथिताः सैन्यास्त्वदीया भरतर्षभ । श्रुत्वा महाबलस्योग्रां प्रतिज्ञां सव्यसाचिनः ॥

sarve te vyathitāḥ sainyāstvadīyā bharatarṣabha | śrutvā mahābalasyogrāṃ pratijñāṃ savyasācinaḥ

all those troops of yours were shaken, O best of the Bharatas, having heard the fierce vow of the mighty Savyasachin.

Note on the text: Corrected भरतर्षभा → भरतर्षभ (misprint in Wikisource; a stray final ā on the vocative; the critical edition reads bharatarṣabha).

Verse 9 (7.77.9)

अथ कृष्णं महाबाहुरब्रवीत्पाकशासनिः । आश्वासय सुभद्रां त्वं भगिनीं स्नुषया सह ॥

atha kṛṣṇaṃ mahābāhurabravītpākaśāsaniḥ | āśvāsaya subhadrāṃ tvaṃ bhaginīṃ snuṣayā saha

Then the mighty-armed son of Indra said to Krishna: "Console Subhadra, your sister, together with her daughter-in-law.

Note on the text: The first line is narration; the second line is Arjuna's words to Krishna, introduced by the first line, so the verse stays with Sanjaya.

Verse 10 (7.77.10)

स्नुषां चास्या वयस्याश्च विशोकाः कुरु माधव । साम्ना सत्येन युक्तेन वचसाऽऽश्वासय प्रभो ॥

snuṣāṃ cāsyā vayasyāśca viśokāḥ kuru mādhava | sāmnā satyena yuktena vacasā''śvāsaya prabho

Free her daughter-in-law and her companions from sorrow, Madhava; console them, O lord, with gentle words that are true and fitting."

Note on the text: Direct speech of Arjuna continuing from verse 9; the page prints no speaker heading, so the verse is given to Arjuna. Wikisource's wording differs from CE 7.54.10 (similarity 0.805); a recension variant, Wikisource's reading kept.

Verse 11 (7.77.11)

ततोऽर्जुनगृहं गत्वा वासुदेवः सुदुर्मनाः । भगिनीं पुत्रशोकार्तामाश्वासयत दुःखिताम् ॥

tato'rjunagṛhaṃ gatvā vāsudevaḥ sudurmanāḥ | bhaginīṃ putraśokārtāmāśvāsayata duḥkhitām

Then Vasudeva, deeply troubled, went to Arjuna's house and consoled his sister, who was in distress, stricken with grief for her son.

Verse 12 (7.77.12)

मा शोकं कुरु वार्ष्णेयि कुमारं प्रति सस्नुषा । सर्वेषां प्राणिनां भीरु निष्ठैषा कालनिर्मिता ॥

mā śokaṃ kuru vārṣṇeyi kumāraṃ prati sasnuṣā | sarveṣāṃ prāṇināṃ bhīru niṣṭhaiṣā kālanirmitā

Do not grieve, daughter of the Vrishnis, over the boy, you and your daughter-in-law. This is the end that time has fixed for all living beings, timid one.

Verse 13 (7.77.13)

कुले जातस्य वीरस्य क्षत्रियस्य विशेषतः । सदृशं मरणं ह्येतत्तव पुत्रस्य मा शुचः ॥

kule jātasya vīrasya kṣatriyasya viśeṣataḥ | sadṛśaṃ maraṇaṃ hyetattava putrasya mā śucaḥ

This death is fitting for a hero born in a good family, and most of all for a kshatriya. Do not grieve for your son.

Verse 14 (7.77.14)

दिष्ट्या महारथो धीरः पितुस्तुल्यपराक्रमः । क्षात्रेण विधिना प्राप्तो वीराभिलषितां गतिम् ॥

diṣṭyā mahāratho dhīraḥ pitustulyaparākramaḥ | kṣātreṇa vidhinā prāpto vīrābhilaṣitāṃ gatim

By good fortune, that steadfast great warrior, equal to his father in valour, has reached by the kshatriya way the goal that heroes desire.

Verse 15 (7.77.15)

जित्वा सुबहुशः शत्रून्प्रेषयित्वा च मृत्यवे । गतः पुण्यकृतां लोकान्सर्वकामदुहोऽक्षयान् ॥

jitvā subahuśaḥ śatrūnpreṣayitvā ca mṛtyave | gataḥ puṇyakṛtāṃ lokānsarvakāmaduho'kṣayān

After defeating very many enemies and sending them to their death, he has gone to the imperishable worlds of the doers of good, which yield every desire.

Verse 16 (7.77.16)

तपसा ब्रह्मचर्येण श्रुतेन प्रज्ञयापि च । सन्तो यां गतिमिच्छन्ति तां प्राप्तस्तव पुत्रकः ॥

tapasā brahmacaryeṇa śrutena prajñayāpi ca | santo yāṃ gatimicchanti tāṃ prāptastava putrakaḥ

The goal that the good seek through austerity, chastity, learning and wisdom, your son has reached.

Note on the text: Wikisource's wording differs from CE 7.54.16 (similarity 0.925); a recension variant, Wikisource's reading kept.

Verse 17 (7.77.17)

वीरसूर्वीरपत्नी त्वं वीरजा वीरबान्धवा । मा शुचस्तनयं भद्रे गतः स परमां गतिम् ॥

vīrasūrvīrapatnī tvaṃ vīrajā vīrabāndhavā | mā śucastanayaṃ bhadre gataḥ sa paramāṃ gatim

You are the mother of a hero, the wife of a hero, born of heroes and kin to heroes. Do not grieve for your son, good lady: he has gone to the highest goal.

Note on the text: Corrected गतःस → गतः स (the word space was lost in Wikisource; the critical edition reads gataḥ sa).

Verse 18 (7.77.18)

स्वाध्याययुक्तं ब्राह्मणी याचितारं । गौर्वोढारं त्वाशुगन्तारमश्वा । दासं शूद्रा कर्मकरं तु वैश्या । शूरं सूते त्वद्विधा राजपुत्री ॥

svādhyāyayuktaṃ brāhmaṇī yācitāraṃ | gaurvoḍhāraṃ tvāśugantāramaśvā | dāsaṃ śūdrā karmakaraṃ tu vaiśyā | śūraṃ sūte tvadvidhā rājaputrī

A brahmin woman bears a devoted student of the Veda, a petitioner; a cow bears a carrier of burdens; a mare bears a swift runner; a shudra woman bears a servant, a vaishya woman a labourer; and a princess like you bears a hero.

Note on the text: Restored from the critical edition: Wikisource prints only the last line of this four-line verse (numbered 5-77-18e, with a stray closing quote mark, which was removed), so the first three lines are restored from CE star passage 7.54.17d*0395_01–03; line 4 is *0395_04. In the critical edition the four lines are placed after 7.54.17 (not in its constituted text). The input's alignment found no match.

Verse 19 (7.77.19)

प्राप्स्यते चाप्यसौ पापः सैन्धवो बालघातकः । अधर्मस्यास्य तु फलं ससुहृद्गणबान्धवः ॥

prāpsyate cāpyasau pāpaḥ saindhavo bālaghātakaḥ | adharmasyāsya tu phalaṃ sasuhṛdgaṇabāndhavaḥ

And that sinner, the Saindhava, the killer of a child, will get the fruit of this wrongdoing, together with his friends, his troops and his kinsmen.

Note on the text: CE 7.54.18. Wikisource's wording differs from the critical edition (पापः / अधर्मस्य for CE kṣudraḥ / asyāvalepasya; similarity 0.802); a recension variant, Wikisource's reading kept.

Verse 20 (7.77.20)

व्युष्टायां तु वरारोहे रजन्यां पापकर्मकृत् । न हि मोक्ष्यति पार्थात्स प्रविष्टोऽप्यमरावतीम् ॥

vyuṣṭāyāṃ tu varārohe rajanyāṃ pāpakarmakṛt | na hi mokṣyati pārthātsa praviṣṭo'pyamarāvatīm

When night has ended, O fair-hipped one, that doer of evil deeds will not escape from Partha, even if he enters Amaravati.

Verse 21 (7.77.21)

श्वः शिरः पादमूलं ते सैन्धवस्याहृतं ध्रुवम् । पद्भ्यां प्रमथितासि त्वं विशोका भव मा रुदः ॥

śvaḥ śiraḥ pādamūlaṃ te saindhavasyāhṛtaṃ dhruvam | padbhyāṃ pramathitāsi tvaṃ viśokā bhava mā rudaḥ

Tomorrow the head of the Saindhava will surely be brought to your feet, and you will crush it under them. Be free of sorrow; do not weep.

Note on the text: Corrected पद्ध्यां → पद्भ्यां (misprint in Wikisource; ध्य for भ्य, instrumental dual of पाद). The input's alignment found no match; the verse stands in the place of CE 7.54.20 (the unmatched CE verse: "śvaḥ śiraḥ śroṣyase tasya saindhavasya raṇe hṛtam / samantapañcakād bāhyam viśokā bhava mā rudaḥ"), and its last words (viśokā bhava mā rudaḥ) are the same; the rest is a recension variant, Wikisource's reading kept. The sense of प्रमथितासि is uncertain; rendered as an agent noun with the verb "to be" ("you will crush").

Verse 22 (7.77.22)

क्षत्रधर्मं पुरस्कृत्य गतः शूरः सतां गतिम् । वयं च प्राप्नुयामेह ये चान्ये शस्त्रजीविनः ॥

kṣatradharmaṃ puraskṛtya gataḥ śūraḥ satāṃ gatim | vayaṃ ca prāpnuyāmeha ye cānye śastrajīvinaḥ

Putting the kshatriya duty first, the hero has gone to the goal of the good, a goal that we too, and all others who live by weapons, may attain.

Verse 23 (7.77.23)

व्यूढोरस्को महाबाहुरनिवर्ती रिपुव्रजात् । गतस्तव वरारोहे पुत्रः स्वर्गं ज्वरं जहि ॥

vyūḍhorasko mahābāhuranivartī ripuvrajāt | gatastava varārohe putraḥ svargaṃ jvaraṃ jahi

Broad-chested, mighty-armed, never turning back from the host of his foes, your son has gone to heaven, O fair-hipped one. Cast off your fever of grief.

Note on the text: Wikisource's wording differs from CE 7.54.22 (similarity 0.909); a recension variant, Wikisource's reading kept.

Verse 24 (7.77.24)

अनुयातश्च पितरं मातृपक्षं च वीर्यवान् । सहस्रशो रिपून्हत्वा हतः शूरो महारथः ॥

anuyātaśca pitaraṃ mātṛpakṣaṃ ca vīryavān | sahasraśo ripūnhatvā hataḥ śūro mahārathaḥ

He followed his father and his mother's line, that powerful boy; after slaying thousands of foes, the hero, the great warrior, was slain.

Verse 25 (7.77.25)

आश्वासय स्नुषां राज्ञि मा शुचः क्षत्रिये भृशम् । श्वः प्रियं सुमहच्छ्रुत्वा विशोका भव नन्दिनि ॥

āśvāsaya snuṣāṃ rājñi mā śucaḥ kṣatriye bhṛśam | śvaḥ priyaṃ sumahacchrutvā viśokā bhava nandini

Console your daughter-in-law, O queen; do not grieve so much, being a kshatriya woman. Tomorrow, hearing very welcome news, be free of sorrow, joyful lady.

Verse 26 (7.77.26)

यत्पार्थेन प्रतिज्ञातं तत्तथा न तदन्यथा । चिकीर्षितं हि ते भर्तुर्न भवेज्जातु निष्फलम् ॥

yatpārthena pratijñātaṃ tattathā na tadanyathā | cikīrṣitaṃ hi te bharturna bhavejjātu niṣphalam

What Partha has vowed will come to pass exactly so, not otherwise. What your husband intends will never be fruitless.

Verse 27 (7.77.27)

यदि च मनुजपन्नगाः पिशाचा । रजनिचचाराः पतगाः सुरासुराश्च । रणगतमभियान्ति सिन्धुराजं । न स भविता सह तैरपि प्रभाते ॥

yadi ca manujapannagāḥ piśācā | rajanicacārāḥ patagāḥ surāsurāśca | raṇagatamabhiyānti sindhurājaṃ | na sa bhavitā saha tairapi prabhāte

Even if men, serpents, pisachas, night-rangers, birds, gods and asuras go to the king of Sindhu in battle to protect him, he will not be alive with them at dawn.