Scriptures

Śrīmad Devī Bhāgavatam

BOOK 3 • CHAPTER 16
Ch 16 Verse 1 Verse
Sanskrit Text
३.१६ षोडशोऽध्यायः । युधाजिद्भारद्वाजयोः संवादवर्णनम् । व्यास उवाच । युधाजित्त्वथ सङ्ग्रामाद्गत्वाऽयोध्यां महाबलः । मनोरमां च पप्रच्छ सुदर्शनजिघांसया ॥ १ ॥
English Translation
Vyāsa said :-- After gaining the victory in the battle, the king Yudhājit returned to the city of Ayodhyā with his huge army and asked where are Sudarśana and Manoramā? He wanted to kill Sudarśana.
Ch 16 Verse 2 Verse
Sanskrit Text
सेवकान् प्रेषयामास क्व गतेति मुहुर्वदन् । शुभे दिनेऽथ दौहित्रं स्थापयामास चासने ॥ २ ॥
English Translation
He repeatedly exclaimed “Where are they gone?” and sent his servants on their search. Then, on an auspicious day, he installed his daughter’s son on the throne.
Ch 16 Verse 3 Verse
Sanskrit Text
मन्त्रिभिश्च वसिष्ठेन मन्त्रैराथर्वणैः शुभैः । अभिषिक्तश्च सम्पूर्णैः कलशैर्जलपूरितैः ॥ ३ ॥
English Translation
Maharṣi Vaśiṣṭha was engaged as the priest; he and the other ministers began to chant the auspicious hymns of the Atharvaveda and with the jars, filled with water, and consecrated by these hymns, installed Śatrūjit on the throne.
Ch 16 Verse 4 Verse
Sanskrit Text
भेरीशङ्खनिनादैश्च तूर्याणां चाथ निःस्वनैः । उत्सवस्तु नगर्या वै सम्बभूव कुरूद्वह ॥ ४ ॥
English Translation
O best of the Kurus! Conch shells resounded; drums, bherīs and tūriyas, resounded; and great festivals and rejoicings took place in the city.
Ch 16 Verse 5 Verse
Sanskrit Text
विप्राणां वेदपाठैश्च बन्दिनां स्तुतिभिस्तथा । अयोध्या मुदितेवासीज्जयशब्दैः सुमङ्गलैः ॥ ५ ॥
English Translation
The reciting of the Vedic mantrams by the Brāhmaṇs, the chanting of hymns by the bards and the auspicious acclamation of Victory to the new king resounded the whole city of Ayodhyā with joy.
Ch 16 Verse 6 Verse
Sanskrit Text
हृष्टपुष्टजनाकीर्णा स्तुतिवादित्रनिःस्वना । नवे तस्मिन्महीपाले पूर्बभौ नूतनेव सा ॥ ६ ॥
English Translation
When the new king Śatrūjit ascended on the throne, the subjects were filled with joy; everywhere hymns were sung; drums were resound. At this Ayodhyā looked as fresh as ever.
Ch 16 Verse 7-8 Verse
Sanskrit Text
केचित्साधुजना ये वै चक्रुः शोकं गृहे स्थिताः । सुदर्शनं विचिन्त्याद्य क्व गतोऽसौ नृपात्मजः ॥ ७ ॥ मनोरमातिसाध्वी सा क्व गता सुतसंयुता । पिताऽस्या निहतः सङ्ख्ये राज्यलोभेन वैरिणा ॥ ८ ॥
English Translation
O King! Though there were thus great rejoicings and festivals, yet some good persons were found that remembered Sudarśana and gave vent to this feeling of sorrow, thus :-- “Alas! Where has that prince gone? Where has that chaste queen Manoramā gone with her son? Oh! The enemies have killed his father for greed of kingdom.”
Ch 16 Verse 9 Verse
Sanskrit Text
इत्येवं चिन्त्यमानास्ते साधवः समबुद्धयः । अतिष्ठन्दुःखितास्तत्र शत्रुजिद्वशवर्तिनः ॥ ९ ॥
English Translation
The saints with their views impartial, thus rendered uneasy, sorry, began to pass away their time there subject to Śatrūjit.
Ch 16 Verse 10 Verse
Sanskrit Text
युधाजिदपि दौहित्रं स्थापयित्वा विधानतः । राज्यञ्च मन्त्रिसात्कृत्वा चलितः स्वां पुरीं प्रति ॥ १० ॥
English Translation
After installing duly his daughter’s son on the throne and after having made over the charge of the kingdom to the wise councillors, Yudhājit turned towards his own city.
Ch 16 Verse 11-12 Verse
Sanskrit Text
श्रुत्वा सुदर्शनं तत्र मुनीनामाश्रमे स्थितम् । हन्तुकामो जगामाशु चित्रकूटं स पर्वतम् ॥ ११ ॥ निषादाधिपतिं शूरं पुरस्कृत्य बलाभिधम् । दुर्दर्शाख्यमगादाशु शृङ्गवेरपुराधिपम् ॥ १२ ॥
English Translation
Afterwards Yudhājit heard that Sudarśana was staying in the hermitage with the Munis. He started at once for Citrakūta and went quickly to Durdarśa, the chief of the city of Sriṅgavera, being accompanied by Bala, the chief of the Niṣādas.
Ch 16 Verse 13-15 Verse
Sanskrit Text
श्रुत्वा मनोरमा तत्र बभूवातिसुदुःखिता । आगच्छन्तं बालपुत्रा भयार्ता सैन्यसंयुतम् ॥ १३ ॥ तमुवाचातिशोकार्ता मुनिं साश्रुविलोचना । किं करोमि क्व गच्छामि युधाजित्समुपस्थितः ॥ १४ ॥ पिता मे निहतोऽनेन दौहित्रो भूपतिः कृतः । सुतं मे हन्तुकामोऽत्र समायाति बलान्वितः ॥ १५ ॥
English Translation
Hearing that Yudhājit was coming there with his army, Manoramā began to think that his son was a minor and became very sorrowful, distressed and terrified. Then she with tears in her eyes addressed the Muni thus :-- “Yudhājit is coming here; what shall I do and whither shall I go? He has slain my father, and has installed his daughter’s son on the throne. Still he is not satisfied and he is now coming with his army here to kill my minor child.”
Ch 16 Verse 16-21 Verse
Sanskrit Text
पुरा श्रुतं मया स्वामिन्पाण्डवा वै वने स्थिताः । मुनीनामाश्रमे पुण्ये पाञ्चाल्या सहितास्तदा ॥ १६ ॥ गतास्ते मृगयां पार्था भ्रातरः पञ्च एव ते । द्रौपदी संस्थिता तत्र मुनीनामाश्रमे शुभे ॥ १७ ॥ धौम्योऽत्रिर्गालवः पैलो जावालिर्गौतमो भृगुः । च्यवनश्चात्रिगोत्रश्च कण्वश्चैव जतुः क्रतुः ॥ १८ ॥ वीतिहोत्रः सुमन्तुश्च यज्ञदत्तोऽथ वत्सलः । राशासनः कहोडश्च यवक्रीर्यज्ञकृत्क्रतुः ॥ १९ ॥ एते चान्ये च मुनयो भारद्वाजादयः शुभाः । वेदपाठयुताः सर्वे संस्थिताश्चाश्रमे स्थिताः ॥ २० ॥ दासीभिः सहिता तत्र याज्ञसेनी स्थिता मुने । आश्रमे चारुसर्वाङ्गी निर्भया मुनिसंवृते ॥ २१ ॥
English Translation
O Lord! In days of yore, I heard that the Pāndavas, when they went to the forest, lived in the holy hermitage of the Munis with Draupadī. One day the five brethren went a hunting, and the beautiful Draupadī stayed without any fear with other maid servants in the hermitage where there was the chanting of the Vedas by Dhaumya, Attri, Gālava, Paila, Jāvāli, Gautama, Bhṛgu, Cyavana, Kanva of the Atrigotra, Jatu, Kratu, Vītihotra, Sumantu, Yajñadatt, Vatsala, Rāśāsana, Kahoḍa, Yavakrī, Yajñakrit, Kratu and other holy high souled Ṛṣis like Bhāradvāja and others.
Ch 16 Verse 22 Verse
Sanskrit Text
पार्था मृगानुगास्तावत्प्रयाताश्च वनाद्वनम् । धनुर्बाणधरा वीराः पञ्च वै शत्रुतापनाः ॥ २२ ॥
English Translation
While the five great heroes Arjuṇa and others, the destroyers of their enemies, were roaming in the forests, Jayadratha, the king of Sindhu came with his army to the hermitage, hearing the reciting of the Vedic hymns.
Ch 16 Verse 23-24 Verse
Sanskrit Text
तावत्सिन्धुपतिः श्रीमान्मार्गस्थो बलसंयुतः । आगतश्चाश्रमाभ्याशे श्रुत्वा तु निगमन्ध्वनिम् ॥ २३ ॥ श्रुत्वा वेदध्वनिं राजा मुनीनां भावितात्मनाम् । उत्ततार रथात्तूर्णं दर्शनाकाङ्क्षया नृपः ॥ २४ ॥
English Translation
Hearing thus, that king quickly descended from the chariot so that he might have a sight of these holy maharṣis.
Ch 16 Verse 25-27 Verse
Sanskrit Text
यदा निरगमत्तत्र भृत्यद्वयसमन्वितः । वेदपाठयुतान्वीक्ष्य मुनीनुद्यमसंस्थितः ॥ २५ ॥ कृताञ्जलिपुटः स्वामिन्संस्थितोऽथ जयद्रथः । आश्रमे मुनिभिर्जुष्टे भूपतिः संविवेश ह ॥ २६ ॥ तत्रोपविष्टं राजानं द्रष्टुकामाः स्त्रियस्तदा । आययुर्मुनिभार्याश्च कोऽयमित्यब्रुवन्नृपम् ॥ २७ ॥
English Translation
Accompanied by two attendants only, he approached to the Munis and, finding them engaged in the study of the Vedas, waited there with folded hands for an opportunity. O Lord! When the king Jayadratha on entering the hermitage took his seat, the wives of the Munis came there to see the king and began to enquire “Who is this person?”
Ch 16 Verse 28 Verse
Sanskrit Text
तासां मध्ये वरारोहा याज्ञसेनी समागता । जयद्रथेन दृष्टा सा रूपेण श्रीरिवापरा ॥ २८ ॥
English Translation
With the wives of the Munis came there also the beautiful Draupadī. Jayadratha looked upon Draupadī as if she were the second goddess Lakṣmī.
Ch 16 Verse 29-30 Verse
Sanskrit Text
तां विलोक्यासितापाङ्गीं देवकन्यामिवापराम् । पप्रच्छ नृपतिर्धौम्यं केयं श्यामा वरानना ॥ २९ ॥ भार्या कस्य सुता कस्य नाम्ना का वरवर्णिनी । रूपलावण्यसंयुक्ता शचीव वसुधाङ्गता ॥ ३० ॥
English Translation
Looking at that lovely royal daughter who looked like the Deva girls Jayadratha asked the Maharṣi Dhaumya, “Who is this beautiful lotus eyed lady? Whose wife is she and who is her father? What is her name? Oh! From her beautiful appearance it seems that the goddess Śacī has come down on earth.”
Ch 16 Verse 31 Verse
Sanskrit Text
बर्बूलवनमध्यस्था लवङ्गलतिका यथा । राक्षसीवृन्दगा नूनं रम्भेवाभाति भामिनी ॥ ३१ ॥
English Translation
This fair woman is shining like the celestial nymph Rambhā surrounded by the Rakṣasis or like the beautiful creeper Lavangalatika encircled by thorny trees.
Ch 16 Verse 32 Verse
Sanskrit Text
सत्यं वद महाभाग कस्येयं वल्लभाबला । राजपत्नीव चाभाति नैषा मुनिवधूर्द्विज ॥ ३२ ॥
English Translation
O good ones! Tell truly whose beloved is she? O Brāhmins! It seems that she is the wife of some king, not the wife of a Muni.
Ch 16 Verse 33 Verse
Sanskrit Text
धौम्य उवाच । पाण्डवानां प्रिया भार्या द्रौपदी शुभलक्षणा । पाञ्चाली सिन्धुराजेन्द्र वसत्यत्र वराश्रमे ॥ ३३ ॥
English Translation
Dhaumya said :-- “O king of Sindhu! She is the daughter of Pāñcāla; her name is Draupadī; she is the wife of the Pāndavas; they are residing in this forest, having got rid of their fears.”
Ch 16 Verse 34 Verse
Sanskrit Text
जयद्रथ उवाच । क्व गताः पाण्डवाः पञ्च शूराः सम्प्रति विश्रुताः । वसन्त्यत्र वने वीरा वीतशोका महाबलाः ॥ ३४ ॥
English Translation
Jayadratha said “Where have those powerful Pāndavas of great prowess gone now? Are they dwelling in this forest, free from fears?”
Ch 16 Verse 35 Verse
Sanskrit Text
धौम्य उवाच । मृगयार्थं गताः पञ्च पाण्डवा रथसंस्थिताः । आगमिष्यन्ति मध्यान्हे मृगानादाय पार्थिवाः ॥ ३५ ॥
English Translation
Dhaumya said :-- “The five Pāndavas have gone out on hunting, ascended on a chariot. They will return at noon with their game.”
Ch 16 Verse 36-37 Verse
Sanskrit Text
तच्छ्रुत्वा वचनं तस्य उदतिष्ठदसौ नृपः । द्रौपदीसन्निधौ गत्वा प्रगम्येदमुवाच ह ॥ ३६ ॥ कुशलं ते वरारोहे क्व गताः पतयश्च ते । एकादश गतान्यद्य वर्षाणि च वने किल ॥ ३७ ॥
English Translation
Hearing the Muni’s words Jayadratha got up, and going near to Draupadī, bowed down to her and said :-- “O Fair One! Is there everything well with you? Where have your husbands gone? To-day it is eleven years that you are residing in the forest.”
Ch 16 Verse 38 Verse
Sanskrit Text
द्रौपदी तु तदोवाच स्वस्ति तेऽस्तु नृपात्मज । विश्रमस्वाश्रमाभ्याशे क्षणादायान्ति पाण्डवाः ॥ ३८ ॥
English Translation
Draupadī then said :-- “O prince! Let all be well with you, wait here for a short while; the Pāndavas are coming quickly.”
Ch 16 Verse 39 Verse
Sanskrit Text
एवं ब्रुवन्त्यां तस्यां तु लोभाविष्टः स भूपतिः । जहार द्रौपदीं वीरोऽनादृत्य मुनिसत्तमान् ॥ ३९ ॥
English Translation
While Draupadī thus spoke, that powerful king, being overpowered with greed and avarice, stole her away, disregarding all the Munis present there.
Ch 16 Verse 40-42 Verse
Sanskrit Text
कस्यचिन्नैव विश्वासः कर्तव्यः सर्वथा बुधैः । कुर्वन्दुःखमवाप्नोति दृष्टान्तस्त्वत्र वै बलिः ॥ ४० ॥ वैरोचनसुतः श्रीमान्धर्मिष्ठः सत्यसङ्गरः । यज्ञकर्ता च दाता च शरण्यः साधुसम्मतः ॥ ४१ ॥ नाधर्मे निरतः क्वापि प्रल्हादस्य च पौत्रकः । एकोनशतयज्ञान्वै स चकार सदक्षिणान् ॥ ४२ ॥
English Translation
O Lord! The wise should never trust any body; if on any body he places his trust, he will surely come to grief. For example, see the case of the king Bali. Bali, the son of Virocana, and the grandson of Prahlāda, was prosperous, devoted to his religion, true to his promise, performer of sacrifices, generous, always giving protection to and liked by the saints and a great warrior. His mind never turned to any irreligious subject and he performed ninety nine Yajñas with full Dakṣiṇās (remunerations).
Ch 16 Verse 43-44 Verse
Sanskrit Text
सत्त्वमूर्त्तिः सदा विष्णुः सेव्यः स योगिनामपि । निर्विकारोऽपि भगवान्देवकार्यार्थसिद्धये ॥ ४३ ॥ कश्यपाच्च समुद्भूतो विष्णुः कपटवामनः । राज्यं छलेन हृतवान्महीं चैव ससागराम् ॥ ४४ ॥
English Translation
But the Bhagavān Viṣṇu, who is all full of Sāttvic purity and who is never affected with passions and changeless, who is always worshipped by the Yogis, He, in the form of a dwarf in his Vāmana incarnation as the son of Kaśyapa Ṛṣi, to serve the Devas, stole away his whole seagirt earth and kingdom deceitfully on hypocritical pretext.
Ch 16 Verse 45 Verse
Sanskrit Text
सोऽभवत्सत्यवाग्राजा बलिर्वैरोचनिस्तदा । कपटं कृतवान्विष्णुरिन्द्रार्थे तु मया श्रुतम् ॥ ४५ ॥
English Translation
O Lord! I heard that the son of Virocana was a generous large hearted king. He truly resolved to give what was wanted; but Viṣṇu behaved with him deceitfully to serve the cause of Indra.
Ch 16 Verse 46 Verse
Sanskrit Text
अन्यः किं न करोत्येवं कृतं वै सत्त्वमूर्तिना । वामनं रूपमास्थाय यज्ञपातं चिकीर्षता ॥ ४६ ॥
English Translation
When the pure, Sāttvik Viṣṇu could assume this dwarf incarnation to bring about the hindrance to Bali’s Yajña, what wonder is that other ordinary mortals would practise things like that?
Ch 16 Verse 47 Verse
Sanskrit Text
न च विश्वसितव्यं वै कदाचित्केनचित्तथा । लोभश्चेतसि चेत्स्वामिन्कीदृक्पापकृतं भयम् ॥ ४७ ॥
English Translation
Therefore never trust on any body in any way. Lord! Where there are greed and avarice, reigning in one’s heart, what fear can he have to perpetrate any evil deed?
Ch 16 Verse 48-49 Verse
Sanskrit Text
लोभाहताः प्रकुर्वन्ति पापानि प्राणिनः किल । परलोकाद्भयं नास्ति कस्यचित्कर्हिचिन्मुने ॥ ४८ ॥ मनसा कर्मणा वाचा परस्वादानहेतुतः । प्रपतन्ति नराः सम्यग्लोभोपहतचेतसः ॥ ४९ ॥
English Translation
O Muni! It is through avarice that men commit sinful deeds; they do not care what good or bad will happen to them in the next world. Thoroughly overpowered by greed, they take away in mind, word and deed other’s things; and thus they become fallen.
Ch 16 Verse 50-51 Verse
Sanskrit Text
देवानाराध्य सततं वाञ्छन्ति च धनं नराः । न देवास्तत्करे कृत्वा समर्था दातुमञ्जसा ॥ ५० ॥ अन्यस्यानीयते वित्तं प्रयच्छन्ति मनीषितम् । वाणिज्येनाथ दानेन चौर्येणापि बलेन वा ॥ ५१ ॥
English Translation
Lo! Human beings always worship the Gods for wealth; but the Devas do not give them wealth instantly; they give them these things through others by making them carry on trade, make gifts, or shew their strength or by making them steal.
Ch 16 Verse 52 Verse
Sanskrit Text
विक्रयार्थं गृहीत्वा च धान्यवस्त्रादिकं बहु । देवानर्चयते वैश्यो महर्द्धिर्मे भवेदिति ॥ ५२ ॥
English Translation
The Vaiśyas worship the Gods simply because they think they will be highly prosperous and therefore they sell many things as grains, cloth and the like.
Ch 16 Verse 53 Verse
Sanskrit Text
नात्र किं परवित्तेच्छा वाणिज्येन परन्तप । ग्रहणकाले तु सम्प्राप्ते महर्घञ्चापि काङ्क्षति ॥ ५३ ॥
English Translation
O Controlled one! Is there not the desire to take away the other’s property in this act of merchandise? Certainly there is. Besides the merchants, when they find that when people are in urgent need of buying articles from them, expect that the price of those articles might run higher.
Ch 16 Verse 54 Verse
Sanskrit Text
एवं हि प्राणिनः सर्वे परस्वादानतत्पराः । वर्तन्ते सततं ब्रह्मन् विश्वासः कीदृशः पुनः ॥ ५४ ॥
English Translation
O Muni! Thus every one is anxious to take away other’s properties. How, then, can we trust them?
Ch 16 Verse 55 Verse
Sanskrit Text
वृथा तीर्थं वृथा दानं वृथाऽध्ययनमेव च । लोभमोहावृतानां वै कृतं तदकृतं भवेत् ॥ ५५ ॥
English Translation
Those who are clouded by greed and delusion, their going to places of pilgrimages, their making charities, their reciting the Vedas, all are rendered useless. Though they go to the holy places, etc., still these things bear no fruits to them, as if they have not done these things at all.
Ch 16 Verse 56 Verse
Sanskrit Text
तस्मादेनं महाभाग विसर्जय गृहं प्रति । सपुत्राऽहं वसिष्यामि जानकीवद्द्विजोत्तम ॥ ५६ ॥
English Translation
Therefore O Enlightened one! You make Yudhājit go back to his own place. Then I will be able to remain here, like Sītā, with my son.
Ch 16 Verse 57-58 Verse
Sanskrit Text
इत्युक्तोऽसौ मुनिस्तावद्गत्वा युधाजितं नृपम् । उवाच वचनं राज्ञे भारद्वाजः प्रतापवान् ॥ ५७ ॥ गच्छ राजन् यथाकामं स्वपुरं नृपसत्तम । नेयं मनोरमाभ्येति बालपुत्रा सुदुःखिता ॥ ५८ ॥
English Translation
On Manoramā’s thus speaking to the Muni, the fiery Maharṣi went to Yudhājit and said :-- “O King! You better go back to your own place or anywhere else you like. The son of Manoramā is a minor; that queen is very much grieved; she cannot come to you now.”
Ch 16 Verse 59 Verse
Sanskrit Text
युधाजिदुवाच । मुने मुञ्च हठं सौम्य विसर्जय मनोरमाम् । न च यास्याम्यहं मुक्त्वा नेष्याम्यद्य बलात्पुनः ॥ ५९ ॥
English Translation
Yudhājit said “O peaceful ones! Kindly cease showing this impudence and give me Manoramā. I will never go away leaving her. If you do not give her easily, I will take her away by force.”
Ch 16 Verse 60-61 Verse
Sanskrit Text
ऋषिरुवाच । नयस्व यदि शक्तिस्ते बलेनाद्य ममाश्रमात् । विश्वामित्रो यथा धेनुं वसिष्ठस्य मुनेः पुरा ॥ ६० ॥
Sanskrit Colophon
इति श्रीमद्देवीभागवते महापुराणेऽष्टादशसाहस्र्यां संहितायां तृतीयस्कन्धे युधाजिद्भारद्वाजयोः संवादवर्णनं नाम षोडशोऽध्यायः ॥ ३.१६॥
English Translation
The Ṛṣis said “O King! If there be any strength in you, you can take away Manoramā by force; but the result will be similar to that when the King Visvāmitra wanted to take away the heavenly cow by force from the hermitage of Vaśiṣṭha.” Thus ends the Sixteenth Chapter on the glory of the Devī and the going of the King Yudhājit to the hermitage of Bhāradvāja, to kill Sudarśana, in the Third Book of Śrimaddevibhāgavatam by Maharṣi Veda Vyāsa.