Galava's Despair and Garuda's Offer

Verse 1 (5.107.1)

एवमुक्तस्तदा तेन विश्वामित्रेण धीमता । नास्ते न शेते नाहारं कुरुते गालवस्तदा ॥

evamuktastadā tena viśvāmitreṇa dhīmatā | nāste na śete nāhāraṃ kurute gālavastadā

So addressed by the wise Vishvamitra, Galava could neither sit nor lie down nor take food.

Note on the text: The speaker heading नारद उवाच (misprinted नारद उवच) had slipped into the verse text; it is made the speaker here and removed from the Sanskrit.

Verse 2 (5.107.2)

त्वगस्थिभूतो हरिणश्चिन्ताशोकपरायणः । शोचमानोऽतिमात्रं स दह्यमानश्च मन्युना । गालवो दुःखितो दुःखाद्विललाप सुयोधन ॥

tvagasthibhūto hariṇaścintāśokaparāyaṇaḥ | śocamāno'timātraṃ sa dahyamānaśca manyunā | gālavo duḥkhito duḥkhādvilalāpa suyodhana

Reduced to skin and bone and grown pale, given over to worry and grief, mourning beyond measure and burning with distress, Galava in his sorrow lamented, O Suyodhana:

Note on the text: Corrected हरिणाश्चिन्ता → हरिणश्चिन्ता (misprint in Wikisource; a plural form for a singular subject; the critical edition reads hariṇaś). The third line is not in the critical edition's text; it is star passage *0450, line 1, after 5.105.2.

Verse 3 (5.107.3)

कुतः पुष्टानि मित्राणि कुतोऽर्थाः सञ्चयः कृतः । हयानां चन्द्रशुभ्राणां शतान्यष्टौ कुतो मम ॥

kutaḥ puṣṭāni mitrāṇi kuto'rthāḥ sañcayaḥ kṛtaḥ | hayānāṃ candraśubhrāṇāṃ śatānyaṣṭau kuto mama

"Where are my wealthy friends? Where is my wealth, where any store laid by? Where am I to find eight hundred horses as white as the moon?

Note on the text: Speaker: Galava's lament (verses 3–15), without a printed heading; the input had no speaker for this adhyaya.

Verse 4 (5.107.4)

कुतो मे भोजने श्रद्धा सुखश्रद्धा कुतश्च मे । श्रद्धा मे जीवितस्यापि छिन्ना किं जीवितेन मे ॥

kuto me bhojane śraddhā sukhaśraddhā kutaśca me | śraddhā me jīvitasyāpi chinnā kiṃ jīvitena me

How can I care for food, or care for pleasure? Even my will to live is cut off. What use is life to me?

Verse 5 (5.107.5)

अहं पारे समुद्रस्य पृथिव्या वा परं परात् । गत्वाऽऽत्मानं विमुञ्चामि किं फलं जीवितेन मे ॥

ahaṃ pāre samudrasya pṛthivyā vā paraṃ parāt | gatvā''tmānaṃ vimuñcāmi kiṃ phalaṃ jīvitena me

I will go to the far shore of the ocean, or to the farthest end of the earth, and there cast off this body. What fruit is there in my living?

Verse 6 (5.107.6)

अधनस्याकृतार्थस्य त्यक्तस्य विविधैः फलैः । ऋणं धारयमाणस्य कुतः सुखमनीहया ॥

adhanasyākṛtārthasya tyaktasya vividhaiḥ phalaiḥ | ṛṇaṃ dhārayamāṇasya kutaḥ sukhamanīhayā

For a penniless man who has not gained his end, who is cut off from every kind of reward and carries a debt, what happiness can there be without striving?

Note on the text: Corrected अदनस्याकृतार्थस्य → अधनस्याकृतार्थस्य (misprint in Wikisource; द for ध — अधन, "penniless"; the critical edition reads adhanasyākṛtārthasya).

Verse 7 (5.107.7)

सुहृदां हि धनं भुक्त्वा कृत्वा प्रणयमीप्सितम् । प्रतिकर्तुमशक्तस्य जीवितान्मरणं वरम् ॥

suhṛdāṃ hi dhanaṃ bhuktvā kṛtvā praṇayamīpsitam | pratikartumaśaktasya jīvitānmaraṇaṃ varam

For one who has enjoyed the wealth of friends, having led them to trust that he would give what they wished, and then cannot repay them, death is better than life.

Verse 8 (5.107.8)

प्रतिश्रुत्य करिष्येति कर्तव्यं तदकुर्वतः । मिथ्यावचनदग्धस्य इष्टापूर्तं प्रणश्यति ॥

pratiśrutya kariṣyeti kartavyaṃ tadakurvataḥ | mithyāvacanadagdhasya iṣṭāpūrtaṃ praṇaśyati

When a man has promised "I will do it" and then does not do what he must, he is scorched by his false word, and the merit of his sacrifices and his pious works perishes.

Verse 9 (5.107.9)

न रूपमनृतस्यास्ति नानृतस्यास्ति सन्ततिः । नानृतस्याधिपत्यं च कुत एव गतिः शुभा ॥

na rūpamanṛtasyāsti nānṛtasyāsti santatiḥ | nānṛtasyādhipatyaṃ ca kuta eva gatiḥ śubhā

The liar has no beauty, the liar has no offspring, the liar has no lordship; how then can he reach a good end?

Verse 10 (5.107.10)

कुतः कृतघ्नस्य यशः कुतः स्थानं कुतः सुखम् । अश्रद्धेयः कृतघ्नो हि कृतघ्ने नास्ति निष्कृतिः ॥

kutaḥ kṛtaghnasya yaśaḥ kutaḥ sthānaṃ kutaḥ sukham | aśraddheyaḥ kṛtaghno hi kṛtaghne nāsti niṣkṛtiḥ

Where is fame for the ungrateful, where a place, where happiness? The ungrateful man is not to be trusted; for ingratitude there is no atonement.

Verse 11 (5.107.11)

न जीवत्यधनः पापः कुतः पापस्य तन्त्रणम् । पापो ध्रुवमवाप्नोति विनाशं नाशयन्कृतम् ॥

na jīvatyadhanaḥ pāpaḥ kutaḥ pāpasya tantraṇam | pāpo dhruvamavāpnoti vināśaṃ nāśayankṛtam

A wretch without wealth does not truly live; how can such a wretch support a household? The wretch who undoes the good done to him surely meets destruction.

Verse 12 (5.107.12)

सोऽहं पापः कृतघ्नश्च कृपणश्चानृतोऽपि च । गुरोर्यः कृतकार्यः संस्तत्करोमि न भाषितम् ॥

so'haṃ pāpaḥ kṛtaghnaśca kṛpaṇaścānṛto'pi ca | guroryaḥ kṛtakāryaḥ saṃstatkaromi na bhāṣitam

I am such a wretch — ungrateful, miserable and false besides — I who, though my teacher has accomplished my purpose, do not do what he told me.

Note on the text: Corrected कृतघ्नस्य → कृतघ्नश्च (misprint in Wikisource; a genitive that does not fit the list of what the speaker calls himself; the critical edition reads kṛtaghnaś ca).

Verse 13 (5.107.13)

सोऽहं प्राणान्विमोक्ष्यामि कृत्वा यत्नमनुत्तमम् । अर्थिता न मया काचित्कृतपूर्वा दिवौकसाम् ॥

so'haṃ prāṇānvimokṣyāmi kṛtvā yatnamanuttamam | arthitā na mayā kācitkṛtapūrvā divaukasām

So I will give up my life, after making the greatest effort I can. Never before have I made any request of the gods.

Note on the text: The first line is CE 5.105.12ef and the second CE 5.105.13ab (reading arthanā for अर्थिता).

Verse 14 (5.107.14)

मानयन्ति च मां सर्वे त्रिदशा यज्ञसंस्तरे । अहं तु विबुधश्रेष्ठं देवं त्रिभुवनेश्वरम् । विष्णुं गच्छाम्यहं कृष्णं गतिं गतिमतां वरम् ॥

mānayanti ca māṃ sarve tridaśā yajñasaṃstare | ahaṃ tu vibudhaśreṣṭhaṃ devaṃ tribhuvaneśvaram | viṣṇuṃ gacchāmyahaṃ kṛṣṇaṃ gatiṃ gatimatāṃ varam

All the thirty gods honour me at the sacrifice. But I will go to Vishnu, the best of the gods, the god who is lord of the three worlds — to Krishna, the highest goal of all who seek a goal.

Note on the text: The first line is CE 5.105.13cd and the second and third lines CE 5.105.14.

Verse 15 (5.107.15)

भोगा यस्मात्प्रतिष्ठन्ते व्याप्य सर्वान्सुरासुरान् । प्रणतो द्रष्टुमिच्छामि कृष्णं योगिनमव्ययम् ॥

bhogā yasmātpratiṣṭhante vyāpya sarvānsurāsurān | praṇato draṣṭumicchāmi kṛṣṇaṃ yoginamavyayam

Bowing low, I wish to see Krishna, the imperishable yogin, in whom all enjoyments rest and who pervades all the gods and asuras."

Verse 16 (5.107.16)

एवमुक्ते सखा तस्य गरुडो विनतात्मजः । दर्शयामास तं प्राह संहृष्टः प्रियकाम्यया ॥

evamukte sakhā tasya garuḍo vinatātmajaḥ | darśayāmāsa taṃ prāha saṃhṛṣṭaḥ priyakāmyayā

When he had said this, his friend Garuda, the son of Vinata, showed himself to him and, delighted and eager to please him, said:

Verse 17 (5.107.17)

सुहृद्भवान्मम मतः सुहृदां च मतः सुहृत् । ईप्सितेनाभिलाषेण योक्तव्यो विभवे सति ॥

suhṛdbhavānmama mataḥ suhṛdāṃ ca mataḥ suhṛt | īpsitenābhilāṣeṇa yoktavyo vibhave sati

"I count you my friend, and you are a friend to your friends. When one has the means, a friend should be granted the wish he longs for.

Note on the text: Corrected सहृद्भवान् → सुहृद्भवान् (misprint in Wikisource; a dropped ु; the critical edition reads suhṛd bhavān). Speaker: Garuda's direct speech (verses 17–19), without a printed heading; named सुपर्ण as in the headings of the next adhyayas.

Verse 18 (5.107.18)

विभवश्चास्ति मे विप्र वासवावरजो द्विज । पूर्वमुक्तस्त्वदर्थं च कृतः कामश्च तेन मे ॥

vibhavaścāsti me vipra vāsavāvarajo dvija | pūrvamuktastvadarthaṃ ca kṛtaḥ kāmaśca tena me

And I have the means, brahmin. I spoke earlier on your behalf to Vasava's younger brother, O twice-born, and he has granted my wish.

Verse 19 (5.107.19)

स भवानेतु गच्छाव नयिष्ये त्वां यथासुखम् । देशं पारं पृथिव्या वा गच्छ गालव मा चिरम् ॥

sa bhavānetu gacchāva nayiṣye tvāṃ yathāsukham | deśaṃ pāraṃ pṛthivyā vā gaccha gālava mā ciram

So come, let us go. I will carry you in comfort to any land, even to the far side of the earth. Go, Galava, and do not delay."

Note on the text: The Wikisource page ends after this verse without its closing colophon. Nothing appears to be lost: the critical edition's adhyaya also ends here (5.105.19).