Śrī Kṛṣṇa-janma-khaṇḍa · Chapter 63
Sourceअथ त्रिषष्टितमोध्यायः नारायण उवाच अथ कंसो विचिन्त्यैवं दृष्ट्वा दुःस्वप्नमेव च । समुद्विग्नो महाभीतो निराहारो निरुत्सुकः ।। १ ।। पुत्रं मित्रं बन्धुगणं बान्धवं च पुरोहितम् । समानीय सभामध्ये तानुवाच सुदुःखितः ।। २ ।। कंस उवाच मया दृष्टो निशीथे यो दुःस्वप्नो हि भयप्रदः । निबोधत बुधाः सर्वे बान्धवाश्च पुरोहिताः ।। ३ ।। बिभ्रती रक्तपुष्पाणां मालां सा रक्तचन्दनम् । रक्ताम्बनं खड्गतीक्ष्णं खर्परं च भयंकरम् ।। ४ ।। प्रकृत्याट्टाट्टहासं च लोलजिह्वा भयंकरी । अतीव वृद्धा कृष्णाङ्गी नगरे मम नृत्यति ।। ५ ।। मुक्तकेशी छिन्ननासा कृष्णा कृष्णाम्बारप्रिया । विधवा सा महाशूद्री मामालिङ्गितुमिच्छति ।। ६ ।। मलिनं चैलखण्डं च बिभ्रती रूक्षमूर्धजान् । दधती चूर्णतिलकं कपोलै मम वक्षसि ।। ७ ।। कृष्णवर्णानि पक्वानि च्छिन्नभिन्नानि सत्यक । पतन्ति कृत्वा शब्दांश्च शश्वत्तालफलानि च ।। ८ ।। कुचैलो विकृताकारो म्लेच्छो हि रूक्षमूर्धजः । ददाति मह्यं भूषायां छिन्नभिन्नकपर्दकान् ।। ९ ।। महारुष्टा च दिव्या स्त्री पतिपुत्रवती सती । बभञ्ज पूर्णकुम्भं च साऽभिशप्य पुनः पुनः ।। १० ।। अम्लानामोंडूमालां च रक्तचन्दनचर्चिताम् । ददाति मङ्यं विप्रश्च महारुष्टोऽतिशप्य च ।। ११ ।। क्षणमङ्गारवृष्टिश्च भस्मवृष्टिः क्षणं क्षणम् । क्षणं क्षणं रक्तवृष्टिर्भवेच्च नगरे मम ।। १२ ।। वानरं वायसं श्वानं भल्लूकं सूकरं खरम् । पश्यामि विकटाकारं शब्दं कुर्वन्तमुल्बणम् ।। १३ ।। पश्यामि शुष्ककाष्ठानां राशिमम्लानकज्जलम् । अरुणोदयवेलायां कपींश्चिन्ननखानि च ।। १४ ।। पीतवस्त्रपरिधाना शुक्लचन्दनचर्चिता । बिभ्रती मालतीमालां रत्नभूषणभूषिता ।। १५ ।। क्रीडाकमलहस्ता सा सिन्दूरबिन्दुशोभिता । कृत्वाऽभिशापं मां रुषटा याति मन्मन्दिरात्सती ।। १६ ।। पाशहस्तांश्च पुरुषान्मुक्तकेशान्भयंकरान् । अतिरूक्षांश्च पश्यामि विशातो नगरं मम ।। १७ ।। नग्ननारी सुक्तकेशी नृत्यन्ती च गृहे गृहे । अतीव विकृताकारां पश्यामि सस्मितां सदा ।। १८ ।। छिन्ननासा च विधवा महाशूद्री दिगम्बरा । सा तैलाभ्यङ्गितं मां च करोत्यतिभयंकरी ।। १९ ।। निर्वाणाङ्गारयुक्ताश्च भस्मबूर्णा दिगम्बरा । अतिप्रभातसमये चित्राः पश्यामि सस्मिताः ।। २० ।। पश्यामि च विवाहं च नृत्यगीतमनोहरम् । रक्तवस्त्रपरीधानान्पुरिषान्रक्तमीर्धजान् ।। २१ ।। रक्तं वमन्तं पुरुषं नृत्यन्तं नग्नमुल्बणम् । धावन्तं च शयानं च पश्यामि सस्मितं सदा ।। २२ ।। राहुग्रस्तं च गगने मण्डलं चन्द्रसूर्ययौः । एककालेच पश्यामि सर्वग्रासं च बान्धवाः ।। २३ ।। उल्कापातं धूमकेतुं भूकम्पं राष्ट्रविप्लवम् । झञ्झावातं महोत्पातं पश्यामि च पुरोहित ।। २४ ।। वायुना घूर्णमानांश्च च्छिन्नस्कन्धान्महीरुहान् । पतितान्पर्वताश्चैव पश्यामि पृथिवीतले ।। २५ ।। पुरुषं छिन्नशिरसं रृत्यन्तं नग्नमुच्छ्रितम् । मुण्डमालाकरं घोरं पश्यामि च गृहे गृहे ।। २६ ।। दग्थं सर्वाश्रमं भक्मपूर्णमङ्गारसंकुलम् । हाहाकारं च कुर्वन्तं सर्वं पश्यामि सर्वतः ।। २७ ।। इत्येवमुक्त्वा राजा स विरराम सभातले । दृषद्वा (श्रृत्वा) स्वप्तं बान्धवाश्च न तमुक्त्वानिशश्वसुः ।। २८ ।। जहार चेतनां सद्यः सत्यकश्च पुरोहितः । मत्वा विनाशं कंसस्य यजमानस्य नारद ।। २९ ।। रुरोद नारीवर्गश्च पिता माता च शोकतः । मेने विनाशकालं च सद्यः स्वयमुपस्थितम् ।। ३० ।। इति श्रीब्रह्मo महाo श्रीकृष्णजन्मखo उत्तo नारदनाo कंसदुःखप्न- कथनं नाम त्रिषष्टितमोऽध्यायः ।। ६३ ।।
atha triṣaṣṭitamodhyāyaḥ nārāyaṇa uvāca atha kaṃso vicintyaivaṃ dṛṣṭvā duḥsvapnameva ca | samudvigno mahābhīto nirāhāro nirutsukaḥ || 1 || putraṃ mitraṃ bandhugaṇaṃ bāndhavaṃ ca purohitam | samānīya sabhāmadhye tānuvāca suduḥkhitaḥ || 2 || kaṃsa uvāca mayā dṛṣṭo niśīthe yo duḥsvapno hi bhayapradaḥ | nibodhata budhāḥ sarve bāndhavāśca purohitāḥ || 3 || bibhratī raktapuṣpāṇāṃ mālāṃ sā raktacandanam | raktāmbanaṃ khaḍgatīkṣṇaṃ kharparaṃ ca bhayaṃkaram || 4 || prakṛtyāṭṭāṭṭahāsaṃ ca lolajihvā bhayaṃkarī | atīva vṛddhā kṛṣṇāṅgī nagare mama nṛtyati || 5 || muktakeśī chinnanāsā kṛṣṇā kṛṣṇāmbārapriyā | vidhavā sā mahāśūdrī māmāliṅgitumicchati || 6 || malinaṃ cailakhaṇḍaṃ ca bibhratī rūkṣamūrdhajān | dadhatī cūrṇatilakaṃ kapolai mama vakṣasi || 7 || kṛṣṇavarṇāni pakvāni cchinnabhinnāni satyaka | patanti kṛtvā śabdāṃśca śaśvattālaphalāni ca || 8 || kucailo vikṛtākāro mleccho hi rūkṣamūrdhajaḥ | dadāti mahyaṃ bhūṣāyāṃ chinnabhinnakapardakān || 9 || mahāruṣṭā ca divyā strī patiputravatī satī | babhañja pūrṇakumbhaṃ ca sā'bhiśapya punaḥ punaḥ || 10 || amlānāmoṃḍūmālāṃ ca raktacandanacarcitām | dadāti maṅyaṃ vipraśca mahāruṣṭo'tiśapya ca || 11 || kṣaṇamaṅgāravṛṣṭiśca bhasmavṛṣṭiḥ kṣaṇaṃ kṣaṇam | kṣaṇaṃ kṣaṇaṃ raktavṛṣṭirbhavecca nagare mama || 12 || vānaraṃ vāyasaṃ śvānaṃ bhallūkaṃ sūkaraṃ kharam | paśyāmi vikaṭākāraṃ śabdaṃ kurvantamulbaṇam || 13 || paśyāmi śuṣkakāṣṭhānāṃ rāśimamlānakajjalam | aruṇodayavelāyāṃ kapīṃścinnanakhāni ca || 14 || pītavastraparidhānā śuklacandanacarcitā | bibhratī mālatīmālāṃ ratnabhūṣaṇabhūṣitā || 15 || krīḍākamalahastā sā sindūrabinduśobhitā | kṛtvā'bhiśāpaṃ māṃ ruṣaṭā yāti manmandirātsatī || 16 || pāśahastāṃśca puruṣānmuktakeśānbhayaṃkarān | atirūkṣāṃśca paśyāmi viśāto nagaraṃ mama || 17 || nagnanārī suktakeśī nṛtyantī ca gṛhe gṛhe | atīva vikṛtākārāṃ paśyāmi sasmitāṃ sadā || 18 || chinnanāsā ca vidhavā mahāśūdrī digambarā | sā tailābhyaṅgitaṃ māṃ ca karotyatibhayaṃkarī || 19 || nirvāṇāṅgārayuktāśca bhasmabūrṇā digambarā | atiprabhātasamaye citrāḥ paśyāmi sasmitāḥ || 20 || paśyāmi ca vivāhaṃ ca nṛtyagītamanoharam | raktavastraparīdhānānpuriṣānraktamīrdhajān || 21 || raktaṃ vamantaṃ puruṣaṃ nṛtyantaṃ nagnamulbaṇam | dhāvantaṃ ca śayānaṃ ca paśyāmi sasmitaṃ sadā || 22 || rāhugrastaṃ ca gagane maṇḍalaṃ candrasūryayauḥ | ekakāleca paśyāmi sarvagrāsaṃ ca bāndhavāḥ || 23 || ulkāpātaṃ dhūmaketuṃ bhūkampaṃ rāṣṭraviplavam | jhañjhāvātaṃ mahotpātaṃ paśyāmi ca purohita || 24 || vāyunā ghūrṇamānāṃśca cchinnaskandhānmahīruhān | patitānparvatāścaiva paśyāmi pṛthivītale || 25 || puruṣaṃ chinnaśirasaṃ rṛtyantaṃ nagnamucchritam | muṇḍamālākaraṃ ghoraṃ paśyāmi ca gṛhe gṛhe || 26 || dagthaṃ sarvāśramaṃ bhakmapūrṇamaṅgārasaṃkulam | hāhākāraṃ ca kurvantaṃ sarvaṃ paśyāmi sarvataḥ || 27 || ityevamuktvā rājā sa virarāma sabhātale | dṛṣadvā (śrṛtvā) svaptaṃ bāndhavāśca na tamuktvāniśaśvasuḥ || 28 || jahāra cetanāṃ sadyaḥ satyakaśca purohitaḥ | matvā vināśaṃ kaṃsasya yajamānasya nārada || 29 || ruroda nārīvargaśca pitā mātā ca śokataḥ | mene vināśakālaṃ ca sadyaḥ svayamupasthitam || 30 || iti śrībrahmao mahāo śrīkṛṣṇajanmakhao uttao nāradanāo kaṃsaduḥkhapna- kathanaṃ nāma triṣaṣṭitamo'dhyāyaḥ || 63 ||
English translation
The bad dream of Kaihsa Narayana said- Thereafter Kariisa thinking of a bad dream, felt immensely agitated and frightened and leaving eating food, was filled with grief He summoned his sons, friends, brothers, relatives and the family priest in his court and started narrating his bad dream to Karhsa said- I witnessed an extremely bad dream at the dead of night. All the intellectuals, relatives and family priests but listen to me.
I found in my dream that in my city an old woman with black body was dancing. She was adorned with a garland of red flowers with the red sandal-paste applied on her body. She was clad in red garments and was laughing aloud.
She held a sharp sword in her hand and a terrific skull-cup; her moving tongue was protruding and looked quite horrible.
Similarly there was another black woman who was clad in black garments who appeared like a Mahasudra woman. Her dried hair was dishevelled and the nose was cut off. She wanted to embrace me.
She was clad in dirty garments had dried up hair and applied tilakam of the ashes. O Satyaka, I found that the ripe fruits of tala, having black colours were falling on my cheeks, one after the other continuously creating a sound.
A deformed mleccha womm adorned with dirty garments, having dry hair was offering broken small-shells for the making of ornaments.
A chaste lady having her son alive, in great anger pronounced a curse again and again on me and broke a pitcher filled with water.
I also saw that a Brahmana filled with anger was pronouncing a curse on me, was offering me his undecayed garland which was soaked in the I also found that in every bit of my kingdom there was a rain of burning flames, ashes and I found that a monkey of terrific size, the crows, the dogs, the bears, the pigs and the donkeys were creating a terrific noise.
The dry-wood had been collected the blackness of which could not be removed.
At the time of the sun-rise, I found the monkeys and the nails. A chaste woman came out of my palace. She was clad in pltambara and had applied the white sandal-paste and other cosmetics, adorned with garland of jasmine flowers and gem-studded ornaments. She was holding a lotus flower playfully and her forehead was painted with the spots of vermilion. The chaste lady getting annoyed with me pronounced a curse on me and left my palace.
I found some people with dishevelled hair entering in my kingdom holding nooses in their hands. They looked quite terrific and dry.
snftgr wnfir Tiiwt I 11 I found unrobed women dancing in each and every house having dishevelled hair and terrific form. Then there was an unrobed widow, who belonged to the Sudra caste and whose nose was cut-off, looked quite terrific and was applying oil on my body.
I found all these astonishing types of women in the early morning who were carrying fire flames. They had no clothes on their bodies and had applied ashes on their entire bodies. They were smiling.
In the dream I witnessed a marriage function which looked quite pleasant but I witnessed some people who were clad in red clothes, having red hair on the body.
I found a naked person who looked quite frightening, who vomited blood sometimes and danced sometimes. Sometimes he was found running and sometimes he slept while at the other times he smiled.
O brother, I found that both sun and the moon had risen in the sky at one and the same time. O family priest, in my dream I witnessed the falling of a comet, earth-quakes, national calamities, great storms and terrific disturbances.
The trees were shaking, because of the force of the wind their branches were being broken and the mountain peaks were found falling on the In every house a tall and naked male figure was found dancing, having no head. That terrific person held a garland of human skulls in his All the houses were filled with dust after having been burnt to ashes and all the people were crying in panic all round.
O Narada, after thus speaking the king Kamsa kept quiet. Listening to that dream all the brothers and relatives of the king started heaving The family priest Satyaka realising the total destruction of Karhsa approaching fainted, all the wives and parents of Karhsa started crying in grief; they came to realise that the time of destruction was fast approaching.
Chapter-aligned complete witnesses. Sanskrit Wikisource revision 122393 (2017-09-17T13:50:10Z); Shanti Lal Nagar English scan pages n1317–n1320: https://archive.org/details/brahma-vaivarta-purana-all-four-kandas-english-translation/page/n1317/mode/1up. The historic English OCR transcription is lightly normalized; no verse-by-verse alignment is asserted.