महाभारतम् — ३.१०९

वैशंपायन उवाच ।

ततः प्रयातः कौन्तेयः क्रमेण भरतर्षभ ।
नन्दामपरनन्दां च नद्यौ पापभयापहे ॥

M N Dutt Vaishampayana said : O best of the Bharata race, then slowly did the son of Kunti to the two rivers Nanda and Aparananda which destroys the dread of fear.

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स पर्वतं समासाद्य हेमकूटमनामयम् ।
अचिन्त्यानद्भुतान्भावान्ददर्श सुबहून्नृपः ॥

M N Dutt Then going to the healthy mountain called Hemakuta, that king saw there many wonderful and inconceivable sights.

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वाचो यत्राभवन्मेघा उपलाश्च सहस्रशः ।
नाशक्नुवंस्तमारोढुं विषण्णमनसो जनाः ॥

M N Dutt From the wind there were created clouds and showers of thousands of stones for which the people becoming sad could not ascend it.

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वायुर्नित्यं ववौ यत्र नित्यं देवश्च वर्षति ।
सायं प्रातश्च भगवान्दृश्यते हव्यवाहनः ॥

M N Dutt The wind always blew there and the celestials always poured showers. The sounds of the recitation of sacred scripture were heard, but none was seen.

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एवं बहुविधान्भावानद्भुतान्वीक्ष्य पाण्डवः ।
लोमशं पुनरेव स्म पर्यपृच्छत्तदद्भुतम् ॥

M N Dutt Men would become sick there and a sadness would overtake their minds. The son of Pandu (Yudhishthira), seeing these various wonderful things, asked Lomasha about those astonishing sights.

लोमश उवाच ।

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यथाश्रुतमिदं पूर्वमस्माभिररिकर्शन ।
तदेकाग्रमना राजन्निबोध गदतो मम ॥

M N Dutt Lomasha said : O chastiser of foes, O king, I shall tell detail all that we heard about them before. Hear them with all attention.

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अस्मिन्नृषभकूटेऽभूदृषभो नाम तापसः ।
अनेकशतवर्षायुस्तपस्वी कोपनो भृशम् ॥

M N Dutt Here on this Rishava Kuta (hill) there lived for many hundred years, an ascetic of great wrath, named Rishava engaged in asceticism. you in

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स वै संभाष्यमाणोऽन्यैः कोपाद्गिरिमुवाच ह ।
य इह व्याहरेत्कश्चिदुपलानुत्सृजेस्तदा ॥

M N Dutt He, being addressed by others, spoke thus to the hill in anger, who ever will utter words hero (O hill) throw stones at him."

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वातं चाहूय मा शब्दमित्युवाच स तापसः ।
व्याहरंश्चैव पुरुषो मेघेन विनिवार्यते ॥

M N Dutt That ascetic said, “Call the wind, so that no sound is made. Thus if a man utters a word here, he is prevented by the roarings of the clouds.

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एवमेतानि कर्माणि राजंस्तेन महर्षिणा ।
कृतानि कानिचित्कोपात्प्रतिषिद्धानि कानिचित् ॥

M N Dutt O king, these were the acts of that great Rishi; some acts he performed from anger and some again he prevented from being done (from anger).

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नन्दामभिगतान्देवान्पुरा राजन्निति श्रुतिः ।
अन्वपद्यन्त सहसा पुरुषा देवदर्शिनः ॥

M N Dutt O king, tradition says that when in the days of yore the celestials came to the Nanda men suddenly appeared there with the desire of seeing the immortals.

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ते दर्शनमनिच्छन्तो देवाः शक्रपुरोगमाः ।
दुर्गं चक्रुरिमं देशं गिरिप्रत्यूहरूपकम् ॥

M N Dutt The celestials with Sakra (Indra) at their head did not like to be seen and therefore they made this place inaccessible by raising up hills.

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तदा प्रभृति कौन्तेय नरा गिरिमिमं सदा ।
नाशक्नुवनभिद्रष्टुं कुत एवाधिरोहितुम् ॥

M N Dutt O sons of Kunti, from that day men could not even look at these hill, what to speak of ascending them.

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नातप्ततपसा शक्यो द्रष्टुमेष महागिरिः ।
आरोढुं वापि कौन्तेय तस्मान्नियतवाग्भव ॥

M N Dutt O son of Kunti, none can look at or ascend this great hill except he who has performed asceticism. Therefore be silent.

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इह देवाः सदा सर्वे यज्ञानाजह्रुरुत्तमान् ।
तेषामेतानि लिङ्गानि दृश्यन्तेऽद्यापि भारत ॥

M N Dutt O descendant of Bharata, here did the celestials perform those best of sacrifices, their marks are seen even to this day.

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कुशाकारेव दूर्वेयं संस्तीर्णेव च भूरियम् ।
यूपप्रकारा बहवो वृक्षाश्चेमे विशां पते ॥

M N Dutt O king, this grass is like the Kusha (grass), the whole ground is over-spread with the sacred grass. Many trees here look like the sacrificial stakes.

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देवाश्च ऋषयश्चैव वसन्त्यद्यापि भारत ।
तेषां सायं तथा प्रातर्दृश्यते हव्यवाहनः ॥

M N Dutt O descendant of Bharata, the celestials and the Rishis still live here and both in the morning and the evening their carrying of libations (Agni) is to be seen here.

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इहाप्लुतानां कौन्तेय सद्यः पाप्मा विहन्यते ।
कुरुश्रेष्ठाभिषेकं वै तस्मात्कुरु सहानुजः ॥

M N Dutt O son of Kunti, if one bathes here his sins are immediately destroyed. O foremost of the Kurus, therefore perform your oblations here with your younger brothers.

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ततो नन्दाप्लुताङ्गस्त्वं कौशिकीमभियास्यसि ।
विश्वामित्रेण यत्रोग्रं तपस्तप्तमनुत्तमम् ॥

M N Dutt Then washing your body in the Nanda, you will go to the Kaushiki where the excellent and severe asceticism was performed by Vishvamitra.

वैशंपायन उवाच ।

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ततस्तत्र समाप्लुत्य गात्राणि सगणो नृपः ।
जगाम कौशिकीं पुण्यां रम्यां शिवजलां नदीम् ॥

M N Dutt O king, washing his there with all his men, he went to the sacred, charming and blessed Kaushiki of cool water,