Scriptures

Śrīmad Devī Bhāgavatam

BOOK 7 • CHAPTER 26
Ch 26 Verse 1 Verse
Sanskrit Text
७.२६ षड्विंशोऽध्यायः । हरिश्चन्द्रोपाख्याने राज्ञो हुताशनप्रवेशोद्योगवर्णनम् । सूत उवाच - ततोऽथ भूपतिः प्राह राज्ञीं स्थित्वा ह्यधोमुखः । अत्रोपविश्यतां बाले पापस्य पुरतो मम ॥ १ ॥
English Translation
Sūta said :-- The King Hariścandra with his face bent low thus said to the Queen :-- “O Young One! I am a great sinner, otherwise why shall I be ready to do this heinous act! However now sit before me.
Ch 26 Verse 2 Verse
Sanskrit Text
शिरस्ते छेदयिष्यामि हन्तुं शक्नोति चेत्करः । एवमुक्त्वा समुद्यम्य खड्गं हन्तुं गतो नृपः ॥ २ ॥
English Translation
If my hand be capable to kill you, then it will cut off your head.” Thus saying, the King took the axe and moved forward to cut her.
Ch 26 Verse 3 Verse
Sanskrit Text
न जानाति नृपः पत्नीं सा न जानाति भूपतिम् । अब्रवीद् भृशदुःखार्ता स्वमृत्युमभिकाङ्क्षति ॥ ३ ॥
English Translation
As the King did not recognise her as His Queen, so the Queen did not recognise him as Her husband, the King. So the Queen, being very much strained with sorrow, began to utter with a view to court her death.
Ch 26 Verse 4-5 Verse
Sanskrit Text
स्त्र्युवाच - चाण्डाल शृणु मे वाक्यं किञ्चित्त्वं यदि मन्यसे । मृतस्तिष्ठति मे पुत्रो नातिदूरे बहिः पुरात् ॥ ४ ॥ तं दहामि हतं यावदानयित्वा तवान्तिकम् । तावत्प्रतीक्ष्यतां पश्चादसिना घातयस्व माम् ॥ ५ ॥
English Translation
O Cāṇḍāla! If you like, I say something; hear my son is dead and is lying close to the outer skirts of the city. Wait till I bring my child before you and do his burning ceremonies. Next you can cut me off by your axe.
Ch 26 Verse 6-8 Verse
Sanskrit Text
तेनाथ बाढमित्युक्त्वा प्रेषिता बालकं प्रति । सा जगामातिदुःखार्ता विपलन्ती सुदारुणम् ॥ ६ ॥ भार्या तस्य नरेन्द्रस्य सर्पदष्टं हि बालकम् । हा पुत्र हा वत्स शिशो इत्येवं वदती मुहुः ॥ ७ ॥ कृशा विवर्णा मलिना पांसुध्वस्तशिरोरुहा । श्मशानभूमिमागत्य बालं स्थाप्याविशद्भुवि ॥ ८ ॥
English Translation
The King said :-- “Very well; let that be,” and gave her permission to go to her dead son. Then the Queen, emaciated and pale, her body being covered all over with dust arrived at the burning ground and taking her dead son, bitten by a serpent, on her lap cried out loudly “O Son! O my Child! O my young Son!” and referring to her husband said :-- “O King! See, today, the sad condition of your son, lying on the ground, as his bed.
Ch 26 Verse 9 Verse
Sanskrit Text
(राजन्नद्य स्वबालं तं पश्यसीह महीतले । रममाणं स्वसखिभिर्दष्टं दुष्टाहिना मृतम् ॥) तस्या विलापशब्दं तमाकर्ण्य स नराधिपः । शवसन्निधिमागत्य वस्त्रमस्याक्षिपत्तदा ॥ ९ ॥
English Translation
My son went to play with other boys and, bitten by a cruel poisonous serpent, left his life.” Hearing the pitiful cry of that helpless woman, the King Hariścandra went to the dead and took off the cover of his face.
Ch 26 Verse 10 Verse
Sanskrit Text
तां तथा रुदतीं भार्यां नाभिजानाति भूमिपः । चिरप्रवाससन्तप्तां पुनर्जातामिवाबलाम् ॥ १० ॥
English Translation
Due to the long exile and the difficulties thereof, the Queen was changed altogether in her outer form, so the King could not recognise her weeping as his wife.
Ch 26 Verse 11-12 Verse
Sanskrit Text
सापि तं चारुकेशान्तं पुरो दृष्ट्वा जटालकम् । नाभ्यजानान्नृपवरं शुष्कवृक्षत्वचोपमम् ॥ ११ ॥ भूमौ निपतितं बालं दृष्ट्वाशीविषपीडितम् । नरेन्द्रलक्षणोपेतमचिन्तयदसौ नृपः ॥ १२ ॥
English Translation
On the other hand the King, too, had not the curled hair on his head as before; it has turned into matted hair and his skin especially has become like the bark of a dried tree; so the Queen could not make out the King also. The King then noticed all the King making auspicious signs on the several limbs of that dead boy, poisoned all over and lying on the ground and began to think thus :--
Ch 26 Verse 13-16 Verse
Sanskrit Text
अस्य पूर्णेन्दुवद्वक्त्रं शुभमुन्नसमव्रणम् । दर्पणप्रतिमोत्तुङ्गकपोलयुगशोभितम् ॥ १३ ॥ नीलान्केशान्कुञ्चिताग्रान् सान्द्रान्दीर्घांस्तरङ्गिणः । राजीवसदृशे नेत्रे ओष्ठौ बिम्बफलोपमौ ॥ १४ ॥ विशालवक्षा दीर्घाक्षो दीर्घबाहून्नतांसकः । विशालपादो गम्भीरःसूक्ष्माङ्गुल्यवनीधरः ॥ १५ ॥ मृणालपादो गम्भीरनाभिरुद्धतकन्धरः । अहो कष्टं नरेन्द्रस्य कस्याप्येष कुले शिशुः ॥ १६ ॥
English Translation
:-- The face of the child is very beautiful like the Full Moon, nowhere there is any scar nor anything like this; the nose is high; the two cheeks are clean like a mirror and spacious; the hairs are blue, curling, similar, long and waving, the two eyes are widely expanded like a full blown lotus, the two lips are red like Bimba fruits; the chest is wide and spacious, the eyes are stretched up to the ears; the arms are extending up to the knees; the shoulders are elevated; the legs are elongated, yet god-like like a lotus stem; the appearance is grave, the fingers are fine, yet strong enough to hold the world; the navel is deep and the region of the shoulders elevated.
Ch 26 Verse 17 Verse
Sanskrit Text
जातो नीतः कृतान्तेन कालपाशाद्दुरात्मना । सूत उवाच - एवं दृष्ट्वाथ तं बालं मातुरङ्के प्रसारितम् ॥ १७ ॥
English Translation
Certainly this boy was born in a royal family. Alas! What a pain is this! The cruel Death has reduced him to this state!
Ch 26 Verse 18-20 Verse
Sanskrit Text
स्मृतिमभ्यागतो राजा हाहेत्यश्रूण्यपातयत् । सोऽप्युवाच च वत्सो मे दशामेतामुपागतः ॥ १८ ॥ नीतो यदि च घोरेण कृतान्तेनात्मनो वशम् । विचारयित्वा राजासौ हरिश्चन्द्रस्तथा स्थितः ॥ १९ ॥ ततो राज्ञी महादुःखावेशादिदमभाषत । राज्ञ्युवाच - हा वत्स कस्य पापस्य त्वपध्यानादिदं महत् ॥ २० ॥
English Translation
Sūta said :-- Thus looking carefully that boy in the lap of his mother from his head to foot, the King Hariścandra got back to his ancient recollections. He recognised the boy to be his and wept aloud repeating the words Oh! Oh! The tears flowed from his eyes and he said :-- “This is my boy that has been reduced to this state! Oh! The cruel Fate!” Though the boy is dead, yet the King remained bewildered for a moment. The queen then spoke out of terrible pain :-- “O Child! What sin is that which has caused this dire calamity, I cannot imagine!
Ch 26 Verse 21-24 Verse
Sanskrit Text
दुःखमापतितं घोरं तद्रूपं नोपलभ्यते । हा नाथ राजन् भवता मामपास्य सुदुःखिताम् ॥ २१ ॥ कस्मिन्संस्थीयते स्थाने विश्रब्धं केन हेतुना । राज्यनाशं सुहृत्त्यागो भार्यातनयविक्रयः ॥ २२ ॥ हरिश्चन्द्रस्य राजर्षेः किं विधातः कृतं त्वया । इति तस्या वचः श्रुत्वा राजा स्थानच्युतस्तदा ॥ २३ ॥ प्रत्यभिज्ञाय देवीं तां पुत्रं च निधनं गतम् । कष्टं ममैव पत्नीयं बालकश्चापि मे सुतः ॥ २४ ॥
English Translation
O my Husband! O King! I am extremely worried of pains and troubles; leaving me thus, how is it and where you are passing away your time in a calm, quiet state! O Fortune! It is You that has brought about the loss of the Rājarṣi Hariścandra’s dominion, the separation from his friends and what more, you have caused his wife and son to be sold! Has he done so much mischief to you!” Hearing her cries, the King’s patience gave way and he came to recognise the Devī and the son and exclaimed, “She is my wife and the dead boy is my son. Oh! What a series of troubles, one coming after another.”
Ch 26 Verse 25-27 Verse
Sanskrit Text
ज्ञात्वा पपात सन्तप्तो मूर्च्छामतिजगाम ह । सा च तं प्रत्यभिज्ञाय तामवस्थामुपागतम् ॥ २५ ॥ मूर्च्छिता निपपातार्ता निश्चेष्टा धरणीतले । चेतनां प्राप्य राजेन्द्रो राजपत्नी च तौ समम् ॥ २६ ॥ विलेपतुः सुसन्तप्तौ शोकभारेण पीडितौ । राजोवाच - हा वत्स सुकुमारं ते वदनं कुञ्चितालकम् ॥ २७ ॥
English Translation
Being overpowered with extreme trouble and pain, the King fell unconscious on the ground; the Queen, too, looking at the King’s state, fell motionless, and, void of senses, no sooner she recognised him as the King Hariścandra. Some time after, the King and Queen both got back at the same time their consciousness and, with great sorrow and agony, began to lament.
Ch 26 Verse 28-29 Verse
Sanskrit Text
पश्यतो मे मुखं दीनं हृदयं किं न दीर्यते । तात तातेति मधुरं ब्रुवाणं स्वयमागतम् ॥ २८ ॥ उपगुह्य कदा वक्ष्ये वत्सवत्सेति सौहृदात् । कस्य जानुप्रणीतेन पिङ्गेन क्षितिरेणुना ॥ २९ ॥
English Translation
The King said :--“O Child! Why my heart does not rend to thousand pieces, seeing today your gentle face pale and lifeless, that was once beautiful with curls of hairs! O Rohitā! When will you come to me saying in a sweet voice, ‘Father! Father!’ When shall I address you affectionately, ‘Oh my child! Oh my child!’ embracing you within my breast!
Ch 26 Verse 30-33 Verse
Sanskrit Text
ममोत्तरीयमुत्सङ्गं तथाङ्गं मलमेष्यति । न वालं मम सम्भूतं मनो हृदयनन्दन ॥ ३० ॥ (मयासि पितृमान्पित्रा विक्रीतो येन वस्तुवत् ।) गतं राज्यमशेषं मे सबान्धवधनं महत् । (हीनदैवान्नृशंसेन दृष्टो मे तनयस्ततः ।) अहं महाहिदष्टस्य पुत्रस्याननपङ्कजम् ॥ ३१ ॥ निरीक्षन्नद्य घोरेण विषेणाधिकृतोऽधुना । एवमुक्त्वा तमादाय बालकं बाष्पगद्गदः ॥ ३२ ॥ परिष्वज्य च निश्चेष्टो मूर्च्छया निपपात ह । ततस्तं पतितं दृष्ट्वा शैव्या चैवमचिन्तयत् ॥ ३३ ॥
English Translation
Whose tawny coloured dust on his knees will spoil my clothes, lap and my body! O Delightful Son! I have sold you as if an ordinary thing, though I am your father. As yet my pleasure of having a son is not satisfied. Owing to the mockery of the mean Fate, my unbounded kingdom, friends, and abundance of riches all have vanished away! Finally I had one son and that too is now in the jaws of death! Oh! With what an amount of terrible pain I am being burnt up today when I am seeing the lotus-face of my son, smitten by a serpent and lying dead on the ground!”
Ch 26 Verse 34-36 Verse
Sanskrit Text
अयं स पुरुषव्याघ्रः स्वरेणैवोपलक्ष्यते । विद्वज्जनमनश्चन्द्रो हरिश्चन्द्रो न संशयः ॥ ३४ ॥ तथास्य नासिका तुङ्गा तिलपुष्पोपमा शुभा । दन्ताश्च मुकुलप्रख्याः ख्यातकीर्तेर्महात्मनः ॥ ३५ ॥ श्मशानमागतः कस्माद्यद्येवं स नरेश्वरः । विहाय पुत्रशोकं सा पश्यन्ती पतितं पतिम् ॥ ३६ ॥
English Translation
Thus speaking in a voice choked with feelings and with tears in his eyes, as soon as he was going to take his boy in his lap, he fell senseless on the ground. Seeing the King lying on the ground, Śaivyā thus thought :-- “Such is His voice as makes me certain that He is the King Hariścandra, the best of men and the delighter of the learned men’s hearts.
Ch 26 Verse 37-39 Verse
Sanskrit Text
प्रहृष्टा विस्मिता दीना भर्तृपुत्रार्तिपीडिता । वीक्षती सा तदापतन्मूर्च्छया धरणीतले ॥ ३७ ॥ प्राप्य चेतश्च शनकैः सा गद्गदमभाषत । धिक्त्वां दैव ह्यकरुण निर्मर्याद जुगुप्सित ॥ ३८ ॥ येनायममरप्रख्यो नीतो राजा श्वपाकताम् । राज्यनाशं सुहृत्त्यागं भार्यातनयविक्रयम् ॥ ३९ ॥
English Translation
His teeth are like those of the famous Hariścandra just like to Mukul and his nose is elevated and soft like the Tila flower. But if he be Hariścandra, how is it that he has come to this burning ground!” Thus thinking, while she looked at the King, leaving for the moment the sorrow for his son, joy, pain and surprise attacked her heart simultaneously; and she, in that state, fell down unconscious on the ground. Then gradually regaining consciousness, she spoke in a pitiful voice :-- “O Fortune! You have caused to the King who was once like an Immortal, the loss of his kingdom, friends, and even the sale of his wife and son. And now you have transformed him into a Cāṇḍāla! You are merciless, religionless, void of any justice as to what is just and what is unjust. You are shameless.
Ch 26 Verse 40-43 Verse
Sanskrit Text
प्रापयित्वापि येनाद्य चाण्डालोऽयं कृतो नृपः । नाद्य पश्यामि ते छत्रं सिंहासनमथापि वा ॥ ४० ॥ चामरव्यजने वापि कोऽयं विधिविपर्ययः । यस्यास्य व्रजतः पूर्वं राजानो भृत्यतां गताः ॥ ४१ ॥ स्वोत्तरीयैः प्रकुर्वन्ति विरजस्कं महीतलम् । सोऽयं कपालसंलग्ने घटीपटनिरन्तरे ॥ ४२ ॥ मृतनिर्माल्यसूत्रान्तर्लग्नकेशसुदारुणे । वसानिष्पन्दसंशुष्कमहापटलमण्डिते ॥ ४३ ॥
English Translation
So fie on you! O King! Where are gone today that royal umbrella, that throne, that Cāmara, and that pair of fans on your both sides! Oh! What is this transformation caused by the Vidhātā (the Ordainer of Fate)! When the high-souled King used to travel, all the kings used to remove as His servants the dust of the roads by their clothings! Oh! Is He the same King of Kings, Hariścandra who is roaming in this unholy burning ground, burdened too much by his load of sufferings!
Ch 26 Verse 44-45 Verse
Sanskrit Text
भस्माङ्गारार्धदग्धास्थिमज्जासङ्घट्टभीषणे । गृध्रगोमायुनादार्ते पुष्टक्षुद्रविहङ्गमे ॥ ४४ ॥ चिताधूमायतपटे नीलीकृतदिगन्तरे । कुणपास्वादनमुदा सम्प्रकृष्टनिशाचरे ॥ ४५ ॥
English Translation
Oh! Innumerable human skulls are lying here; the small earthen pots (brought for the purification of the bodies of the dead) are lying scattered close to each; the garlands of flowers for the dead, being intertwined with the hairs of the dead, are presenting a grim spectacle! The ashes, charcoals, half-burnt dead bodies, bones, and marrows all arranged one over another make the place more hideous. The marrows of the dead bodies have come out and are dried up by the sun.
Ch 26 Verse 46-49 Verse
Sanskrit Text
चरत्यमेध्ये राजेन्द्रः श्मशाने दुःखपीडितः । एवमुक्त्वाथ संश्लिष्य कण्ठे राज्ञो नृपात्मजा ॥ ४६ ॥ कष्टं शोकसमाविष्टा विललापार्तया गिरा । राजन् स्वप्नोऽथ तथ्यं वा यदेतन्मन्यते भवान् ॥ ४७ ॥ तत्कथ्यतां महाभाग मनो वै मुह्यते मम । यद्येतदेव धर्मज्ञ नास्ति धर्मे सहायता ॥ ४८ ॥ तथैव विप्रदेवादिपूजने सत्यपालने । नास्ति धर्मः कुतः सत्यं नार्जवं नानृशंसता ॥ ४९ ॥
English Translation
At places, vultures, and Śakunīs are crying hideously and the crows and other birds, eager to eat flesh, are roaming to and fro. All the quarters of the sky are looking blue with the smoke, arising out of the burning of the dead. The Rākṣasas are constantly roaming hither and thither, gladly feasting on the human flesh. Is the King passing his days thus in this place? Alas! Oh! What a painful thing is this!” The daughter of the King, Śaivyā, was overpowered with an awful sorrow; and clasping the neck of the King, began to lament again, in a pitiful voice. O King! You have spoken that you are a Cāṇḍāla. Is this a dream? Or a Reality? O King! If it be true that you are a slave of the Cāṇḍāla, then say to me; my mind is being deluded very much! (i.e., I cannot indulge this idea).
Ch 26 Verse 50-51 Verse
Sanskrit Text
यत्र त्वं धर्मपरमः स्वराज्यादवरोपितः । सूत उवाच - इति तस्या वचः श्रुत्वा निःश्वस्योष्णं सगद्गदः ॥ ५० ॥ कथयामास तन्वङ्ग्यै यथा प्राप्तः श्वपाकताम् । रुदित्वा सा तु सुचिरं निःश्वस्योष्णं सुदुःखिता ॥ ५१ ॥
English Translation
O Knower of Dharma! You have shown your great zeal towards Dharma; and, for that reason, you are displaced from your royal throne! Now if such help comes out of worshipping the Brāhmins and the Devas, then Dharma cannot stand and, along with it, the truth, simplicity and harmlessness cannot exist.
Ch 26 Verse 52-53 Verse
Sanskrit Text
स्वपुत्रमरणं भीरुर्यथावत्तं न्यवेदयत् । श्रुत्वा राजा तथा वाक्यं निपपात महीतले ॥ ५२ ॥ मृतपुत्रं समानीय जिह्वया विलिहन्मुहुः । हरिश्चन्द्रमथो प्राह शैव्या गद्गदया गिरा ॥ ५३ ॥
English Translation
Sūta said :-- Hearing these words from the thin Śaivyā, the King took a heavy sigh and then described to her in detail with tears flowing on his neck, how he got the Cāṇḍāla state. The fearful Queen became very much pained to hear all this and heaving a deep sigh, described, as it was, how her son died.
Ch 26 Verse 54-56 Verse
Sanskrit Text
कुरुष्व स्वामिनः प्रेष्यं छेदयित्वा शिरो मम । स्वामिद्रोहो न तेऽस्त्वद्य मासत्यो भव भूपते ॥ ५४ ॥ मासत्यं तव राजेन्द्र परद्रोहस्तु पातकम् । एतदाकर्ण्य राजा तु पपात भुवि मूर्च्छितः ॥ ५५ ॥ क्षणेन चेतनां प्राप्य विललापातिदुःखितः । राजोवाच - कथं प्रिये त्वया प्रोक्तं वचनं त्वतिनिष्ठुरम् ॥ ५६ ॥
English Translation
On hearing this, the King fainted and fell unconscious on the ground. Then regaining gradually his consciousness, he began to kiss, with his tongue, the face of his dead son. Śaivyā then said in a choked voice :-- “Now sever off my head and obey your master’s word. O King! You will be saved then as having kept your truth; and your master’s order would be carried out.”
Ch 26 Verse 57 Verse
Sanskrit Text
यदशक्यं भवेद्वक्तुं तत्कर्म क्रियते कथम् । पत्न्युवाच - मया च पूजिता गौरी देवा विप्रास्तथैव च ॥ ५७ ॥
English Translation
Hearing this, the King fainted and fell down senseless. Getting up conscious in a moment, he began to weep bitterly.
Ch 26 Verse 58 Verse
Sanskrit Text
भविष्यसि पतिस्त्वं मे ह्यन्यस्मिञ्जन्मनि प्रभो । श्रुत्वा राजा तदा वाक्यं निपपात महीतले ॥ ५८ ॥
English Translation
The King said :-- “O Beloved! How have you uttered such cruel words? How can I execute that which is hard even to utter!”
Ch 26 Verse 59-60 Verse
Sanskrit Text
मृतस्य पुत्रस्य तदा चुचुम्ब दुःखितो मुखम् । राजोवाच - प्रिये न रोचते दीर्घं कालं क्लेशं मयाशितुम् ॥ ५९ ॥ नात्मायत्तोऽहं तन्वङ्गि पश्य मे मन्दभाग्यताम् । चाण्डालेनाननुज्ञातः प्रवेक्ष्ये ज्वलनं यदि ॥ ६० ॥
English Translation
Śaivyā said :-- “O Lord! I have worshipped the Devī Gaurī and other Devas and the Brāhmins; so, with their mercy, I will get you as my husband in my future birth.” Hearing this, the King again fell down instantly on the ground; getting up immediately, he was overpowered with sorrow and began to kiss the face of the dead son.
Ch 26 Verse 61-62 Verse
Sanskrit Text
चाण्डालदासतां यास्ये पुनरप्यन्यजन्मनि । नरकं च वरं प्राप्य खेदं प्राप्स्यामि दारुणम् ॥ ६१ ॥
English Translation
The King said :-- “O Dear! I won’t be able to suffer an longer for a long time. But, O thin-bodied One! See, I am so very unfortunate that I have no command even over my heart. If I enter into the fire without the permission of the Cāṇḍāla, then I will have to become again the slave of a Cāṇḍāla in my future birth. Think it over.
Ch 26 Verse 63-64 Verse
Sanskrit Text
एकोऽपि बालको योऽयमासीद्वंशकरः सुतः । मम दैवानुयोगेन मृतो सोऽपि बलीयसा ॥ ६३ ॥ कथं प्राणान्विमुञ्चामि परायत्तोऽस्मि दुर्गतः । तथापि दुःखबाहुल्यात्त्यक्ष्यामि तु निजां तनुम् ॥ ६४ ॥
English Translation
After that I will have to go to the hell and be tormented there. But this too I find beneficial to me. Rather I will go to the hell Mahā Raurava and there suffer for a long time the torments of the hell, yet I do not like to live a little longer when my boy, the continuer of my family, has left his life out of the queer fancies of the Great Time and I be merged in the sorrows for my son.
Ch 26 Verse 65-66 Verse
Sanskrit Text
त्रैलोक्ये नास्ति तद्दुःखं नासिपत्रवने तथा । वैतरण्यां कुतस्तद्वद्यादृशं पुत्रविप्लवे ॥ ६५ ॥ सोऽहं सुतशरीरेण दीप्यमाने हुताशने । निपतिष्यामि तन्वङ्गि क्षन्तव्यं तन्ममाधुना ॥ ६६ ॥
English Translation
My body is now at the command of the Cāṇḍāla. How can I in this state quit my life without his permission. If I leave my body, I will be indebted to him and I will have to suffer in hell. Let this be so; still I will leave off my body, the receptacle of all these pains and troubles.
Ch 26 Verse 67 Verse
Sanskrit Text
न वक्तव्य त्वया किञ्चिदतः कमललोचने । मम वाक्यं च तन्वङ्गि निबोधाहतमानसा ॥ ६७ ॥
English Translation
Nowhere, in the Triloki, is any pain like that felt in the demise of a son, not in crossing the Vaitaraṇī nor in the Asipatravanam! So I will now throw myself on the burning fire along with the dead body of my son.
Ch 26 Verse 68-69 Verse
Sanskrit Text
अनुज्ञाताथ गच्छ त्वं विप्रवेश्म शुचिस्मिते । यदि दत्तं यदि हुतं गुरवो यदि तोषिताः ॥ ६८ ॥ सङ्गमः परलोके मे निजपुत्रेण चेत्त्वया । इहलोके कुतस्त्वेतद्भविष्यति समीप्सितम् ॥ ६९ ॥
English Translation
So, O Thin-bodied One! You should now excuse me (i.e., do not prevent me). O Sweet-smiling One! I now permit you to go back to the house of the Brāhmin.
Ch 26 Verse 70-71 Verse
Sanskrit Text
यन्मया हसता किञ्चिद्रहसि त्वां शुचिस्मिते । अशेषमुक्तं तत्सर्वं क्षन्तव्यं मम यास्यतः ॥ ७० ॥ राजपत्नीति गर्वेण नावज्ञेयः स मे द्विजः । सर्वयत्नेन तोष्यं स्यात्स्वामी दैवतवच्छुभे ॥ ७१ ॥
English Translation
If ever I have given in charity riches, offered oblation to the fire, and given satisfaction to my superiors then, in the other world, I will get you and my son. But there is no such chance now in this world.
Ch 26 Verse 72-73 Verse
Sanskrit Text
राज्ञ्युवाच । अहमप्यत्र राजर्षे निपतिष्ये हुताशने । दुःखभारासहा देव सह यास्यामि वै त्वया ॥ ७२ ॥ त्वया सह मम श्रेयो गमनं नान्यथा भवेत् । सह स्वर्गं च नरकं त्वया भोक्ष्यामि मानद । श्रुत्वा राजा तदोवाच एवमस्तु पतिव्रते ॥ ७३ ॥
Sanskrit Colophon
इति श्रीमद्देवीभागवते महापुराणेऽष्टादशसाहस्र्यां संहितायां सप्तमस्कन्धे हरिश्चन्द्रोपाख्याने राज्ञो हुताशनप्रवेशोद्योगवर्णनं नाम षड्विंशोऽध्यायः ॥ ७.२६॥
English Translation
O Sweet-smiling One! If ever I had given you offence while conversing or making jokes with you, now at the time of my parting, excuse them all. O Auspicious One! Never despise the Brāhmin out of your pride as a Queen. Look on your master as a Deva and try all your best to satisfy him.”
Ch 26 Verse 74-75 Verse
Sanskrit Text
राज्यवाच अहमध्यत्र राजर्षे निपतिथे हुतागने । दुःखभागसहादेव सह यास्यामि वे त्यया ॥ 7 4 ॥ त्याय सह मम अंशो मानं नान्यथा भवेत् । सह स्वर्गे च नरकं त्वया पोक्ष्यामि मानन्द ॥ 7 5 ॥ श्रुता राजा तदोवाच एवममतु पतित्रते । इति शीगदैवीभागवते महापुराणे सनस्मकन्ये हरीक्षन्नोषाल्ञाने श्वविंशोद्यथा: 11 26 11
English Translation
The Queen said :-- “O Rājarṣi! I will also throw myself on the burning fire. O Deva! I will not be able to carry on this burden, so I will accompany You. It is better for me to accompany you; so there will not be otherwise. O Giver of Honour! I will enjoy with You heaven or suffer with You in the hell.” Hearing this, the King said :-- “O Chaste One! Do as you please.” Here ends the Twenty-sixth Chapter of the Seventh Book on the narration of the sorrows of Hariścandra in the Mahāpurāṇam Śrī Mad Devī Bhāgavatam, of 18,000 verses, by Maharṣi Veda Vyāsa.