Vidya Kendra
Mahābhārata
Home Introduction Reader Glossary All Resources
Vidyakendra
Vidyakendra Home

Mahābhārata Reader

Interactive Scholarly Reading Environment

Navigate to Verse

Currently viewing: Parva 13 - Chapter 13.108 (19 verses)
Powered by Aksharamukha

Search Mahābhārata

Try searching for: dharma, युद्ध, Arjuna, 1.1.5 (verse reference)
Quick Navigation: Start Browse Parvas
❖ ❖ ❖

Chapter 13.108

Verse 1 View Details
यथा ज्येष्ठः कनिष्ठेषु वर्तते भरतर्षभ । कनिष्ठाश्च यथा ज्येष्ठे वर्तेरंस्तद्ब्रवीहि मे ॥
Yudhishthira said Tell me, O chief of Bharata's race, how the eldest brother should treat his younger brothers, and how the younger brothers should behave towards their eldest brother.
View Padaccheda
यथा | ज्येष्ठः | कनिष्ठेषु | वर्तते | भरत + ऋषभ
कनिष्ठ + च | यथा | ज्येष्ठे | वृत् + तद् | ब्रवीहि | मे
Verse 2 View Details
ज्येष्ठवत्तात वर्तस्व ज्येष्ठो हि सततं भवान् । गुरोर्गरीयसी वृत्तिर्या चेच्छिष्यस्य भारत ॥
Bhishma said Do you, O son, always behave towards your younger brothers as their eldest brother should. You are always the eldest of all these your brothers. You should always treat your younger brothers in the way in which a preceptor treats his disciples.
View Padaccheda
ज्येष्ठ + वत् | तात | वर्तस्व | ज्येष्ठो | हि | सततं | भवान्
गुरोर् | गरीयसी | वृत्तिर् | या | चेद् + शिष्य | भारत
Verse 3 View Details
न गुरावकृतप्रज्ञे शक्यं शिष्येण वर्तितुम् । गुरोर्हि दीर्घदर्शित्वं यत्तच्छिष्यस्य भारत ॥
If the preceptor happens to happens the disciple cannot possibly behave towards him in a respectful or proper way. If the preceptor is possessed of purity and good conduct, the disciple also succeeds in acquiring conduct of the same kind, O Bharata.
View Padaccheda
न | गुरु + अ + कृतप्रज्ञ | शक्यं | शिष्येण | वर्तितुम्
गुरोर् | गरीयसी | वृत्तिर् | या | चेद् + शिष्य | भारत
Verse 4 View Details
अन्धः स्यादन्धवेलायां जडः स्यादपि वा बुधः । परिहारेण तद्ब्रूयाद्यस्तेषां स्याद्व्यतिक्रमः ॥
The eldest brother should at times not notice the acts of his younger brothers, and though possessed of wisdom should at times act as if he does not understand their acts. If the younger brothers be guilty of any sin, the eldest brother should correct them by indirect ways and means.
View Padaccheda
अन्धः | स्याद् | अन्ध + वेला | जडः | स्याद् | अपि | वा | बुधः
परिहारेण | तद् | ब्रूयाद् | यद् + तद् | स्याद् | व्यतिक्रमः
Verse 5 View Details
प्रत्यक्षं भिन्नहृदया भेदयेयुः कृतं नराः । श्रियाभितप्ताः कौन्तेय भेदकामास्तथारयः ॥
If there be good understanding among brothers and if the oldest brother seeks to correct his younger brothers by director ostensible means, persons who are enemies, O son of Kunti, who feel pain on seeing such good understanding and who, therefore, always seek to bring about a disunion, try to disunite the brothers and sow dissension among them.
View Padaccheda
प्रत्यक्षं | भिद् + हृदय | भेदयेयुः | कृतं | नराः
श्री + अभितप् | कौन्तेय | भेद + काम + तथा + अरि
Verse 6 View Details
ज्येष्ठः कुलं वर्धयति विनाशयति वा पुनः । हन्ति सर्वमपि ज्येष्ठः कुलं यत्रावजायते ॥
It is the eldest brother who increases the prosperity of the family or destroys it entirely. If the eldest brother happens to be not gifted with sense and wicked in conduct, he encompasses the destruction of the whole family.
View Padaccheda
ज्येष्ठः | कुलं | वर्धयति | विनाशयति | वा | पुनः
हन्ति | सर्वम् | अपि | ज्येष्ठः | कुलं | यत्र + अवजन्
Verse 7 View Details
अथ यो विनिकुर्वीत ज्येष्ठो भ्राता यवीयसः । अज्येष्ठः स्यादभागश्च नियम्यो राजभिश्च सः ॥
That eldest brother who injures his younger brothers ceases to be considered as the eldest and forfeits his share in the family property and deserves to be checked by the king.
View Padaccheda
अथ | यो | विनिकुर्वीत | ज्येष्ठो | भ्राता | यवीयसः
अ + ज्येष्ठ | स्याद् | अ + भाग + च | नियम्यो | राजन् + च | सः
Verse 8 View Details
निकृती हि नरो लोकान्पापान्गच्छत्यसंशयम् । विदुलस्येव तत्पुष्पं मोघं जनयितुः स्मृतम् ॥
That man who acts deceitfully, has, forsooth, to go to the regions of grief and every kind of evil. The birth of such a person is of no avail like the flowers of the cane.
View Padaccheda
निकृती | हि | नरो | लोकान् | पापान् | गम् + असंशयम्
विदुल + इव | तत् | पुष्पं | मोघं | जनयितुः | स्मृतम्
Verse 9 View Details
सर्वानर्थः कुले यत्र जायते पापपूरुषः । अकीर्तिं जनयत्येव कीर्तिमन्तर्दधाति च ॥
That family in which a sinful person is born becomes subject to every evil. Such a person brings about infamy, and all the good deeds of the family disappear.
View Padaccheda
सर्व + अनर्थ | कुले | यत्र | जायते | पाप + पूरुष
अकीर्तिं | जनय् + एव | कीर्तिम् | अन्तर्दधाति | च
Verse 10 View Details
सर्वे चापि विकर्मस्था भागं नार्हन्ति सोदराः । नाप्रदाय कनिष्ठेभ्यो ज्येष्ठः कुर्वीत यौतकम् ॥
Such among the brothers as are addicted to wicked deeds forfeit their shares of the family property. In such a case, the eldest brother may appropriate the entire joint property without giving any portion thereof to his younger brothers.
View Padaccheda
सर्वे | च + अपि | विकर्मन् + स्थ | भागं | न + अर्ह् | सोदराः
न + अ + प्रदा | कनिष्ठेभ्यो | ज्येष्ठः | कुर्वीत | यौतकम्
Verse 11 View Details
अनुजं हि पितुर्दायो जङ्घाश्रमफलोऽध्वगः । स्वयमीहितलब्धं तु नाकामो दातुमर्हति ॥
If the eldest brother makes any money, without using the paternal property and by going to a distant place he may appropriate for his own use, such wealth without giving any share thereof to his younger brothers.
View Padaccheda
अनुजं | हि | पितुर् | दायो | जङ्घा + श्रम + फल | ऽध्वगः
स्वयम् | ईहित + लभ् | तु | न + अकाम | दातुम् | अर्हति
Verse 12 View Details
भ्रातॄणामविभक्तानामुत्थानमपि चेत्सह । न पुत्रभागं विषमं पिता दद्यात्कथंचन ॥
If brothers wish (during the lifetime of their father) to partition the family property, the father should give equal shares to all his sons.
View Padaccheda
भ्रातॄणाम् | अविभक्तानाम् | उत्थानम् | अपि | चेत् | सह
न | पुत्र + भाग | विषमं | पिता | दद्यात् | कथंचन
Verse 13 View Details
न ज्येष्ठानवमन्येत दुष्कृतः सुकृतोऽपि वा । यदि स्त्री यद्यवरजः श्रेयः पश्येत्तथाचरेत् । धर्मं हि श्रेय इत्याहुरिति धर्मविदो विदुः ॥
If the eldest brother happens to be a vicious man and without any accomplishments, he inay be disregarded by his younger brothers. If the wife or the younger brother happens to be sinful, her or his good must still be looked alier.
View Padaccheda
न | ज्येष्ठान् | अवमन्येत | दुष्कृतः | सु + कृत् | ऽपि | वा
यदि | स्त्री | यदि + अवरज | श्रेयः | पश्येत् | तथा + आचर्
धर्मं | हि | श्रेय | इति + अह् | इति | धर्म + विद् | विदुः
Verse 14 View Details
दशाचार्यानुपाध्याय उपाध्यायान्पिता दश । दश चैव पितॄन्माता सर्वां वा पृथिवीमपि ॥
View Padaccheda
दशन् + आचार्य | उपाध्याय | उपाध्यायान् | पिता | दश
दश | च + एव | पितृ + मातृ | सर्वां | वा | पृथिवीम् | अपि
Verse 15 View Details
गौरवेणाभिभवति नास्ति मातृसमो गुरुः । माता गरीयसी यच्च तेनैतां मन्यते जनः ॥
View Padaccheda
गौरव + अभिभू | न + अस् | मातृ + सम | गुरुः
माता | गरीयसी | यद् + च | तेन + एतद् | मन्यते | जनः
Verse 16 View Details
ज्येष्ठो भ्राता पितृसमो मृते पितरि भारत । स ह्येषां वृत्तिदाता स्यात्स चैतान्परिपालयेत् ॥
View Padaccheda
ज्येष्ठो | भ्राता | पितृ + सम | मृते | पितरि | भारत
स | हि + इदम् | वृत्ति + दातृ | स्यात् | स | च + एतद् | परिपालयेत्
Verse 17 View Details
कनिष्ठास्तं नमस्येरन्सर्वे छन्दानुवर्तिनः । तमेव चोपजीवेरन्यथैव पितरं तथा ॥
It is the eldest brother who should assign to them their means of support and protect and maintain them. All the younger brothers should bow to him and obey his command. Indeed, they should depend upon him, as they did upon their father during his lifetime.
View Padaccheda
कनिष्ठ + तद् | नमस्येरन् | सर्वे | छन्द + अनुवर्तिन्
तम् | एव | च + उपजीव् | यथा + एव | पितरं | तथा
Verse 18 View Details
शरीरमेतौ सृजतः पिता माता च भारत । आचार्यशास्ता या जातिः सा सत्या साजरामरा ॥
So far as the body is concerned, O Bharata, it is the father and the mother who creates it. That birth, however, which the Acharya ordains, is considered as the true birth which is really unfading and immortal.
View Padaccheda
शरीरम् | एतौ | सृजतः | पिता | माता | च | भारत
आचार्य + शास् | या | जातिः | सा | सत्या | तद् + अजर + अमर
Verse 19 View Details
ज्येष्ठा मातृसमा चापि भगिनी भरतर्षभ । भ्रातुर्भार्या च तद्वत्स्याद्यस्या बाल्ये स्तनं पिबेत् ॥
The eldest sister, O chief of Bharata's race, is like a mother. The wife of the eldest brother also is like the mother, for the younger brother, in infancy receives nursing from her.
View Padaccheda
ज्येष्ठा | मातृ + सम | च + अपि | भगिनी | भरत + ऋषभ
भ्रातुर् | भार्या | च | तद्वत् | स्याद् | यस्या | बाल्ये | स्तनं | पिबेत्

More Options