The Sun Names the Gleaner Who Entered His Orb

Verse 1 (12.373.1)

नैष देवोऽनिलसखो नासुरो न च पन्नगः । उञ्छवृत्तिव्रते सिद्धो मुनिरेष दिवं गतः ॥

naiṣa devo'nilasakho nāsuro na ca pannagaḥ | uñchavṛttivrate siddho munireṣa divaṃ gataḥ

He is no god, friend of the wind, no asura, and no serpent. He is a sage, perfected in the vow of living on gleaned grain, who has gone to heaven.

Note on the text: Corrected यन्नगः → पन्नगः (misprint in Wikisource; य for प; CE reads pannagaḥ). The footnote glosses अनिलसखः as fire (Agni).

Verse 2 (12.373.2)

एष मूलफलाहारः शीर्णपर्णाशनस्तथा । अब्भक्षो वायुभक्षश्च आसीद्विप्रः समाहितः ॥

eṣa mūlaphalāhāraḥ śīrṇaparṇāśanastathā | abbhakṣo vāyubhakṣaśca āsīdvipraḥ samāhitaḥ

This brahmin lived on roots and fruit, and likewise on fallen withered leaves, on water alone and on air alone, ever self-controlled.

Verse 3 (12.373.3)

भवश्चानेन विप्रेण संहिताभिरभिष्टुतः । स्वर्गद्वारे कृतोद्योगो येनासौ त्रिदिवं गतः ॥

bhavaścānena vipreṇa saṃhitābhirabhiṣṭutaḥ | svargadvāre kṛtodyogo yenāsau tridivaṃ gataḥ

This brahmin praised Bhava (Shiva) with Vedic hymns. He made his effort at the gate of heaven, and thereby has gone to the third heaven.

Note on the text: Corrected त्रिविदं → त्रिदिवं (misprint in Wikisource: द and व transposed; CE reads tridivaṃ). The first line is the page's own reading (the CE has ṛcaś cānena vipreṇa saṃhitāntarabhiṣṭutāḥ).

Verse 4 (12.373.4)

असंगतिरनाकाङ्क्षी नित्यमुञ्छशिलाशनः । सर्वभूतहिते युक्त एष विप्रो भुजंगमाः ॥

asaṃgatiranākāṅkṣī nityamuñchaśilāśanaḥ | sarvabhūtahite yukta eṣa vipro bhujaṃgamāḥ

Unattached, free of desire, ever living on gleaned grain and picked-up ears, and devoted to the good of all beings: such is this brahmin, O serpents.

Verse 5 (12.373.5)

न हि देवा न गन्धर्वा नासुरा न च पन्नगाः । प्रभवन्तीह भूतानां प्राप्तानामुत्तमां गतिम् ॥

na hi devā na gandharvā nāsurā na ca pannagāḥ | prabhavantīha bhūtānāṃ prāptānāmuttamāṃ gatim

Neither gods, nor gandharvas, nor asuras, nor serpents have power here over beings who have attained the highest goal.

Verse 6 (12.373.6)

एतदेवंविधं दृष्टमाश्चर्यं तत्र मे द्विज । संसिद्धो मानुषः कामं योसौ सिद्धगतिं गतः । सूर्येण सहितो ब्रह्मन्पृथिवीं परिवर्तते ॥

etadevaṃvidhaṃ dṛṣṭamāścaryaṃ tatra me dvija | saṃsiddho mānuṣaḥ kāmaṃ yosau siddhagatiṃ gataḥ | sūryeṇa sahito brahmanpṛthivīṃ parivartate

This was the kind of wonder I saw there, O brahmin: a human being, truly perfected, who had gone the way of the perfected, goes round the earth together with the Sun.

Note on the text: Speaker: Wikisource prints no new heading, so the preceding सूर्य would carry over, but the verse is plainly the serpent speaking to the brahmin (तत्र मे द्विज), and the CE heads it nāga uvāca (12.351.6); the speaker is corrected to नाग. Three-line verse = CE 12.351.6a, 6c, 6e.