What Austerity Means: The Tale of Suvarchala

Verse 1 (12.228.1)

यदिदं तप इत्याहुः किं तपः संप्रकीर्तितम् । उपवासमथान्यत्तु वेदाचारमथो नु किम् । शास्त्रं तपो महाप्राज्ञ तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह ॥

yadidaṃ tapa ityāhuḥ kiṃ tapaḥ saṃprakīrtitam | upavāsamathānyattu vedācāramatho nu kim | śāstraṃ tapo mahāprājña tanme brūhi pitāmaha

What is it that they call austerity? What has been declared to be austerity: fasting, or something else, or the observance of the Veda? Is scripture austerity, O greatly wise one? Tell me this, grandfather.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0117-0119) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). Removed the speaker heading "` युधिष्ठिर उवाच ।" (with a stray backtick) that the input had run into the verse text; it is made the speaker.

Verse 2 (12.228.2)

पक्षमासोपवासादीन्मन्यन्ते वै तपोधनाः । वेदव्रतादीनि तप अपरे वेदपारगाः । वेदपारायणं चान्ये चाहुस्तत्वमथापरे ॥

pakṣamāsopavāsādīnmanyante vai tapodhanāḥ | vedavratādīni tapa apare vedapāragāḥ | vedapārāyaṇaṃ cānye cāhustatvamathāpare

Some who are rich in austerity regard fasting for a fortnight or a month, and the like, as austerity; others, masters of the Veda, say Vedic vows and the like are austerity; others say it is the recitation of the Veda; and still others say it is the truth.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0120-0122) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16).

Verse 3 (12.228.3)

यथाविहितमाचारस्तपः सर्वं व्रतं गताः । आत्मविद्याविधानं यत्तत्तपः परिकीर्तितम् ॥

yathāvihitamācārastapaḥ sarvaṃ vrataṃ gatāḥ | ātmavidyāvidhānaṃ yattattapaḥ parikīrtitam

Conduct as prescribed, and all that goes with a vow, is austerity; and whatever is the discipline of knowledge of the Self, that is declared to be austerity.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0123-0124) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16).

Verse 4 (12.228.4)

त्यागस्तपस्तथा शान्तिस्तप इन्द्रियनिग्रहः । ब्रह्मचर्यं तपः प्रोक्तमाहुरेवं द्विजातयः ॥

tyāgastapastathā śāntistapa indriyanigrahaḥ | brahmacaryaṃ tapaḥ proktamāhurevaṃ dvijātayaḥ

Renunciation is austerity, peace is austerity, restraint of the senses is austerity, and celibacy is declared to be austerity; so the twice-born say.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0125-0126) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16).

Verse 5 (12.228.5)

सदोपवासो यो विद्वान्ब्रह्मचारी सदा भवेत् ॥

sadopavāso yo vidvānbrahmacārī sadā bhavet

One who is learned and always fasting, and who is always a celibate student.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: line (12.214.016d@020_0127) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). The verse is a single line, as in the CE (line 0127).

Verse 6 (12.228.6)

यो मुनिश्च सदा धीमान्विघसाशी विमत्सरः । ततस्त्वनन्तमप्याहुर्यो नित्यमतिथिप्रियः ॥

yo muniśca sadā dhīmānvighasāśī vimatsaraḥ | tatastvanantamapyāhuryo nityamatithipriyaḥ

One who is always a sage, wise, an eater of what remains after the offerings, and free of envy; and they call that man's merit endless who is always a lover of guests.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0128-0129) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16).

Verse 7 (12.228.7)

नान्तराशीस्ततो नित्यमुपवासी महाव्रतः । ऋतुगामी तथा प्रोक्तो विघसाशी स्मृतो बुधैः ॥

nāntarāśīstato nityamupavāsī mahāvrataḥ | ṛtugāmī tathā prokto vighasāśī smṛto budhaiḥ

One who does not eat between meals is always fasting, a man of great vow; one who goes to his wife only in her season is described the same way; and the learned remember him as an eater of what remains.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0130-0131) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16).

Verse 8 (12.228.8)

भृत्यशेषं तु यो भुङ्क्ते यज्ञशेषं तथाऽमृतम् । एवं नानार्थसंयोगं तपः शश्वदुदाहृतम् ॥

bhṛtyaśeṣaṃ tu yo bhuṅkte yajñaśeṣaṃ tathā'mṛtam | evaṃ nānārthasaṃyogaṃ tapaḥ śaśvadudāhṛtam

One who eats what his dependants leave, and what remains of the sacrifice, which is nectar. Thus austerity has always been described as joined to many meanings.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0132-0133) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16).

Verse 9 (12.228.9)

केषां लोका ह्यपर्यन्ताः सर्वे सत्यव्रते स्थिताः । येऽपि कर्ममयं प्राहुस्ते द्विजा ब्राह्मणाः स्मृताः । रमन्ते दिव्यभोगैश्च पूजिता ह्यप्सरोगणैः ॥

keṣāṃ lokā hyaparyantāḥ sarve satyavrate sthitāḥ | ye'pi karmamayaṃ prāhuste dvijā brāhmaṇāḥ smṛtāḥ | ramante divyabhogaiśca pūjitā hyapsarogaṇaiḥ

Whose are the boundless worlds, all of them established in the vow of truth? Those twice-born too who call it "made of action" are remembered as brahmins; honoured by hosts of apsarases, they delight in divine pleasures.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0134-0136) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16).

Verse 10 (12.228.10)

ज्ञानात्मकं तपश्शब्दं ये वदन्ति विनिश्चिताः । ते ह्यन्तराऽऽत्मसद्भावं प्रपन्ना नृपसत्तम ॥

jñānātmakaṃ tapaśśabdaṃ ye vadanti viniścitāḥ | te hyantarā''tmasadbhāvaṃ prapannā nṛpasattama

Those who, with firm conviction, say that the word "austerity" means knowledge have truly reached the reality of the inner Self, O best of kings.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0137-0138) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16).

Verse 11 (12.228.11)

एतत्ते नृपशार्दूल प्रोक्तं यत्पृष्टवानसि । यथा वस्तुनि संज्ञानि विविधानि भवन्त्युत ॥

etatte nṛpaśārdūla proktaṃ yatpṛṣṭavānasi | yathā vastuni saṃjñāni vividhāni bhavantyuta

This is what you asked, tiger among kings, and it has been told to you: how many different names come to be given to one thing.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0139-0140) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). Corrected पृष्ट्वानसि → पृष्टवानसि (misprint in Wikisource; CE pṛṣṭavān asi).

Verse 12 (12.228.12)

पितामह महाप्राज्ञ राजाधीना नृपाः पुनः । अन्यानि च सहस्राणि नामानि विविधानि च ॥

pitāmaha mahāprājña rājādhīnā nṛpāḥ punaḥ | anyāni ca sahasrāṇi nāmāni vividhāni ca

Grandfather, greatly wise one: kings are subject to a king, and there are thousands of other names, of many kinds.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0141-0142) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). Speaker: the input carried Yudhishthira through verses 12-18; here the page's heading "युधिष्ठिर उवाच" (12-228-12x) opens verses 12-13, and the CE heads these lines yudhiṣṭhira uvāca (line 0140).

Verse 13 (12.228.13)

प्रतियोगीनि वै तेषां छन्नान्यस्तमितानि च । दृढं सर्वं प्राकृतकमिदं सर्वत्र पश्य वै ॥

pratiyogīni vai teṣāṃ channānyastamitāni ca | dṛḍhaṃ sarvaṃ prākṛtakamidaṃ sarvatra paśya vai

These names have their counterparts; they are hidden and set. All this is firmly ordinary; see it so everywhere.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0143-0144) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). Corrected प्राकृतकभिदं → प्राकृतकमिदं (misprint in Wikisource, भ for म; CE prākṛtakam idaṃ).

Verse 14 (12.228.14)

तस्माद्यथागतं राजन्यथारुचि नृणां भवेत् । अस्मिन्नर्थे पुरावृत्तं शृणु राजन्युधिष्ठिर ॥

tasmādyathāgataṃ rājanyathāruci nṛṇāṃ bhavet | asminnarthe purāvṛttaṃ śṛṇu rājanyudhiṣṭhira

Therefore, O king, let it be as it has come down, as men like. On this point, King Yudhishthira, hear an ancient account.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0145-0146) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). Speaker: no heading is printed here, but the verse is plainly Bhishma's reply to Yudhishthira ("शृणु राजन्युधिष्ठिर"); the CE heads it bhīṣma uvāca (line 0145).

Verse 15 (12.228.15)

ब्राह्मणानां समूहे तु यदुवाच सुवर्चला । देवलस्य सुता विद्वन्सर्वलक्षणशोभिता ॥

brāhmaṇānāṃ samūhe tu yaduvāca suvarcalā | devalasya sutā vidvansarvalakṣaṇaśobhitā

What Suvarchala said in an assembly of brahmins: she was Devala's daughter, O learned one, adorned with every auspicious mark.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0147-0148) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). Narration continues with Bhishma (no heading printed; the input's Yudhishthira was a carry-over).

Verse 16 (12.228.16)

कन्या सुवर्चला नाम योगभावितचेतना । हेतुना केन जाता सा निर्द्वन्द्वा नष्टसंशया ॥

kanyā suvarcalā nāma yogabhāvitacetanā | hetunā kena jātā sā nirdvandvā naṣṭasaṃśayā

The maiden named Suvarchala, whose mind was steeped in yoga: by what means did she become free of the pairs of opposites, her doubts destroyed?

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0149-0150) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16).

Verse 17 (12.228.17)

साऽब्रवीत्पितरं विप्रं वरान्वेषणतत्परा ॥

sā'bravītpitaraṃ vipraṃ varānveṣaṇatatparā

Intent on finding a husband, she said to her father, the brahmin:

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: line (12.214.016d@020_0151) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). The verse is a single line, as in the CE (line 0151).

Verse 18 (12.228.18)

अन्धाय मां महाप्राज्ञ देहि वीक्ष्य सुलोचनम् । एवं स्म च पितः शश्वन्मयेदं प्रार्थितं मुने ॥

andhāya māṃ mahāprājña dehi vīkṣya sulocanam | evaṃ sma ca pitaḥ śaśvanmayedaṃ prārthitaṃ mune

"Give me, O greatly wise one, to a blind man, after you have found him to be one with good eyes. In this way, father, I have always sought this, O sage."

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0152-0153) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). Restored प्रार्थितं in line 2 where Wikisource prints a gap ("मयेदं---मुने"): the CE has mayedaṃ [prārthitaṃ] mune (line 0153, the word in square brackets). Speaker: Suvarchala's own words (the input carried Yudhishthira over from verse 12); the CE prints the father's heading pitovāca at this point, but the page heads the father at verse 19, and this line is addressed to the father ("पितः").

Verse 19 (12.228.19)

न शक्यं प्रार्थितुं वत्से त्वयाऽद्य प्रतिभाति मे । अन्धताऽनन्धता चेति विचारो मम जायते । उन्मत्तेव सुते वाक्यं भाषसे पृथुलोचने ॥

na śakyaṃ prārthituṃ vatse tvayā'dya pratibhāti me | andhatā'nandhatā ceti vicāro mama jāyate | unmatteva sute vākyaṃ bhāṣase pṛthulocane

"It cannot be asked for, child; so it seems to me today. The thought arises in me: blindness, or not blindness? You speak like one who is mad, daughter of wide eyes."

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0154-0156) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16).

Verse 20 (12.228.20)

नाहमुन्मत्तभूताऽऽद्य बुद्धिपूर्वं ब्रवीमि ते । विद्धि वैतादृशं लोके स मां भजति वेदवित् ॥

nāhamunmattabhūtā''dya buddhipūrvaṃ bravīmi te | viddhi vaitādṛśaṃ loke sa māṃ bhajati vedavit

"I am not mad today; I speak to you with full thought. Know that such a man exists in the world, and that knower of the Veda will accept me."

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0157-0158) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). Speaker: the page's heading "कन्योवाच" (12-228-20x); the input had कन्या through verse 28, but verses 22-28 are narration or speech by others (see those verses).

Verse 21 (12.228.21)

यान्यांस्त्वं मन्यसे दातुं मां द्विजोत्तम तानिह । आनयान्यान्महाभाग ह्यहं द्रक्ष्यामि तेषु तम् ॥

yānyāṃstvaṃ manyase dātuṃ māṃ dvijottama tāniha | ānayānyānmahābhāga hyahaṃ drakṣyāmi teṣu tam

"Whomever you think of giving me to, best of brahmins, bring those men here, great one; among them I shall look for him."

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0159-0160) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16).

Verse 22 (12.228.22)

तथेति चोक्त्वा तां विप्रः प्रेषयामास शिष्यकान् । ऋषेः प्रभावं दृष्ट्वा ते कन्यायाश्च द्विजोत्तमाः । अनेकमुनयो राजन्संप्राप्ता देवलाश्रमम् ॥

tatheti coktvā tāṃ vipraḥ preṣayāmāsa śiṣyakān | ṛṣeḥ prabhāvaṃ dṛṣṭvā te kanyāyāśca dvijottamāḥ | anekamunayo rājansaṃprāptā devalāśramam

Saying "So be it," the brahmin sent out his disciples. Having seen the power of the sage and of the maiden, many sages, best of brahmins, came to Devala's hermitage, O king.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0161-0163) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). Speaker: narration, given to Bhishma (the input had कन्या).

Verse 23 (12.228.23)

तानागतानथाभ्यर्च्य कन्यामाह पिता महान् । यदीच्छसि वरं भद्रे तं विप्रं वरय स्वयम् ॥

tānāgatānathābhyarcya kanyāmāha pitā mahān | yadīcchasi varaṃ bhadre taṃ vipraṃ varaya svayam

When they had arrived and been honoured, the great father said to the maiden: "If you wish for a husband, good lady, choose that brahmin yourself."

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0164-0165) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). Corrected अभ्यर्च्यं → अभ्यर्च्य (misprint in Wikisource, stray anusvara; CE abhyarcya). Speaker: narration with a quoted speech, given to Bhishma (the input had कन्या).

Verse 24 (12.228.24)

तथेति चोक्त्वा कल्याणी तप्तहेमनिभानना । करसंमितमध्याङ्गी वाक्यमाह तपोधनाः ॥

tatheti coktvā kalyāṇī taptahemanibhānanā | karasaṃmitamadhyāṅgī vākyamāha tapodhanāḥ

Saying "So be it," the lovely one, her face like heated gold and her waist so slender that a hand could span it, spoke these words, O ascetics.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0166-0167) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). Corrected तथेचि → तथेति (misprint in Wikisource; CE tatheti). Speaker: narration, given to Bhishma (the input had कन्या).

Verse 25 (12.228.25)

यद्यस्ति संमतो विप्रो ह्यन्धोऽनन्धः स मे वरः । नोचुर्विप्रा महाभागां प्रतिवाक्यं ययुश्च ते ॥

yadyasti saṃmato vipro hyandho'nandhaḥ sa me varaḥ | nocurviprā mahābhāgāṃ prativākyaṃ yayuśca te

"If there is an approved brahmin who is blind and not blind, he is my choice." The brahmins gave the illustrious girl no answer and went away.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0168-0169) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). Speaker: line 1 is Suvarchala's quoted words, line 2 narration; given to Bhishma as narrator (the input had कन्या).

Verse 26 (12.228.26)

कन्या च तिष्ठतामत्र पितुर्वेश्मनि भारत ॥

kanyā ca tiṣṭhatāmatra piturveśmani bhārata

And the maiden stayed on in her father's house, O Bharata.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: line (12.214.016d@020_0170) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). The verse is a single line, as in the CE (line 0170). Speaker: narration, given to Bhishma (the input had कन्या).

Verse 27 (12.228.27)

श्वेतकेतुः कहालस्य श्यालः परमधर्मवित् । श्रुत्वा ब्रह्मा तदागम्य कन्यामाह महीपते ॥

śvetaketuḥ kahālasya śyālaḥ paramadharmavit | śrutvā brahmā tadāgamya kanyāmāha mahīpate

Shvetaketu, Kahala's brother-in-law, who knew the highest dharma, heard of it; that man of Brahman-knowledge came and spoke to the maiden, O lord of the earth.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0171-0172) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). Speaker: narration, given to Bhishma (the input had कन्या).

Verse 28 (12.228.28)

सोऽहं भद्रे समावृत्तस्त्वयोक्तो यः पुरा द्विजः । विशालनयनं विद्धि मामन्धोऽहं वृणीष्व माम् ॥

so'haṃ bhadre samāvṛttastvayokto yaḥ purā dvijaḥ | viśālanayanaṃ viddhi māmandho'haṃ vṛṇīṣva mām

"I am he, good lady, who have come, the brahmin of whom you spoke before. Know me to be wide-eyed, and I am blind; choose me."

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0173-0174) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). Corrected सोहं → सोऽहं (missing avagraha in Wikisource; CE so 'haṃ). Speaker: Shvetaketu's own words (no heading is printed before this verse; the page heads him as "द्विज" at verse 30, and Suvarchala's reply is headed at verse 29); the input had कन्या.

Verse 29 (12.228.29)

कथं विशालनेत्रोऽसि कथं वा त्वमलोचनः । ब्रूहि पश्चादहं विद्वन्परीक्षे त्वां द्विजोत्तम ॥

kathaṃ viśālanetro'si kathaṃ vā tvamalocanaḥ | brūhi paścādahaṃ vidvanparīkṣe tvāṃ dvijottama

"How are you wide-eyed, and how are you without eyes? Tell me; afterwards, learned one, best of brahmins, I shall test you."

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0175-0176) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). The page's heading "सुवर्चलोवाच" (12-228-29x); the CE has no break inside this verse's two lines.

Verse 30 (12.228.30)

शब्दे स्पर्शे तथा रूपे रसे गन्धे सहेतुकम् । न मे प्रवर्तते चेतो न प्रत्यक्षं हि तेषु मे । अलोचनोऽहं तस्माद्धि न गतिर्विद्यते यतः ॥

śabde sparśe tathā rūpe rase gandhe sahetukam | na me pravartate ceto na pratyakṣaṃ hi teṣu me | alocano'haṃ tasmāddhi na gatirvidyate yataḥ

"My mind does not turn to sound, touch, form, taste and smell, with their causes, and I have no direct perception of them; therefore I am without eyes, because I have no going toward them.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0178-0180) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). Lines = CE lines 0178-0180; the CE has before them line 0177 (pratiyogīni nāmāni channāny astamitāni ca), which this verse lacks and Wikisource prints at verse 13 instead. Not restored: the verse stands complete as printed.

Verse 31 (12.228.31)

येन पश्यति सुश्रोणि भाषते स्पृशते पुनः । भुज्यते घ्रायते नित्यं शृणोति मनुते तथा ॥

yena paśyati suśroṇi bhāṣate spṛśate punaḥ | bhujyate ghrāyate nityaṃ śṛṇoti manute tathā

That by which one sees, O lady of beautiful hips, speaks, touches, enjoys, smells, ever hears and thinks:

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0181-0182) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16).

Verse 32 (12.228.32)

तच्चक्षुर्विद्यते मह्यं येन पश्यति वै स्फुटम् । सुलोचनोऽहं भद्रे वै पृच्छ वा किं वदामि ते । सर्वमस्मिन्न मेऽविद्या विद्वान्हि परमार्थतः ॥

taccakṣurvidyate mahyaṃ yena paśyati vai sphuṭam | sulocano'haṃ bhadre vai pṛccha vā kiṃ vadāmi te | sarvamasminna me'vidyā vidvānhi paramārthataḥ

that eye I have, by which one sees clearly. I am well-eyed, good lady; ask, or what shall I tell you? In all this I have no ignorance, for in the highest truth I am one who knows."

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0183-0185) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). Corrected न मे विद्या → न मेऽविद्या (missing avagraha in Wikisource, which reverses the sense; CE na me 'vidyā).

Verse 33 (12.228.33)

सा विशुद्धा ततो भूत्वा श्वेतकेतुं महामुनिम् । प्रणम्य पूजयामास तां भार्यां स च लब्धवान् ॥

sā viśuddhā tato bhūtvā śvetaketuṃ mahāmunim | praṇamya pūjayāmāsa tāṃ bhāryāṃ sa ca labdhavān

Then she, made pure, bowed to the great sage Shvetaketu and honoured him; and he obtained her as his wife.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0186-0187) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). Speaker: narration, given to Bhishma (the input had द्विज).

Verse 34 (12.228.34)

वैराग्यसंयुता कन्या तादृशं पतिमुत्तमम् । प्राप्ता राजन्महाप्राज्ञ तस्मादर्थः पृथक्पृथक् ॥

vairāgyasaṃyutā kanyā tādṛśaṃ patimuttamam | prāptā rājanmahāprājña tasmādarthaḥ pṛthakpṛthak

The maiden, endowed with dispassion, obtained such an excellent husband, O king of great wisdom; therefore meanings differ, each by itself.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: lines (12.214.016d@020_0188-0189) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). Corrected परिमुत्तमम् → पतिमुत्तमम् (misprint in Wikisource; CE patim uttamam). Speaker: narration, given to Bhishma (the input had द्विज).

Verse 35 (12.228.35)

एतत्ते कथितं राजन्किं भूयः श्रोतुमिच्छसि ॥

etatte kathitaṃ rājankiṃ bhūyaḥ śrotumicchasi

This has been told to you, O king; what more do you wish to hear?

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text: line (12.214.016d@020_0190) of the CE's inline Appendix I passage (App. I No. 20, printed after 12.214.16). Removed a stray quote mark and doubled danda ("।।'") after the last word. Speaker: Bhishma (the input had द्विज).