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Chapter 65

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Bhūmi-khaṇḍa · Chapter 65

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ययातिरुवाच- धर्मस्य रक्षकः कायो मातले चात्मना सह । नाकमेष न प्रयाति तन्मे त्वं कारणं वद १। मातलिरुवाच- पंचानामपि भूतानां संगतिर्नास्ति भूपते । आत्मना सह वर्तंते संगत्या नैव पंच ते २। सर्वेषां तत्र संघातः कायग्रामे प्रवर्तते । जरया पीडिताः सर्वेः स्वंस्वं स्थानं प्रयांति ते ३। यथा रसाधिका पृथ्वी महाराज प्रकल्पिता । रसैः क्लिन्ना ततः पृथ्वी मृदुत्वं याति भूपते ४। भिद्यते पिपीलिकाभिर्मूषिकाभिस्तथैव च । छिद्राण्येव प्रजायंते वल्मीकाश्च महोदराः ५। तद्वत्काये प्रजायंते गंडमाला विचार्चिकाः । कृमिभिर्भिद्यमानश्च काय एष नरोत्तम ६। गुल्मास्तत्र प्रजायंते सद्यः पीडाकरास्तदा । एभिर्दोषैः समायुक्तः कायोयं नहुषात्मज । कथं प्राणसमायोगाद्दिवं याति नरेश्वर ७। काये पार्थिवभागोऽयं समानार्थं प्रतिष्ठितः । न कायः स्वर्गमायाति यथा पृथ्वी तथास्थितः ८। एतत्ते सर्वमाख्यातं दोषौघैः पार्थिवस्य यः ९। इति श्रीपद्मपुराणे भूमिखंडे वेनोपाख्याने मातापितृतीर्थ-। माहात्म्ये पंचषष्टितमोऽध्यायः ६५ ।

yayātiruvāca- dharmasya rakṣakaḥ kāyo mātale cātmanā saha | nākameṣa na prayāti tanme tvaṃ kāraṇaṃ vada 1| mātaliruvāca- paṃcānāmapi bhūtānāṃ saṃgatirnāsti bhūpate | ātmanā saha vartaṃte saṃgatyā naiva paṃca te 2| sarveṣāṃ tatra saṃghātaḥ kāyagrāme pravartate | jarayā pīḍitāḥ sarveḥ svaṃsvaṃ sthānaṃ prayāṃti te 3| yathā rasādhikā pṛthvī mahārāja prakalpitā | rasaiḥ klinnā tataḥ pṛthvī mṛdutvaṃ yāti bhūpate 4| bhidyate pipīlikābhirmūṣikābhistathaiva ca | chidrāṇyeva prajāyaṃte valmīkāśca mahodarāḥ 5| tadvatkāye prajāyaṃte gaṃḍamālā vicārcikāḥ | kṛmibhirbhidyamānaśca kāya eṣa narottama 6| gulmāstatra prajāyaṃte sadyaḥ pīḍākarāstadā | ebhirdoṣaiḥ samāyuktaḥ kāyoyaṃ nahuṣātmaja | kathaṃ prāṇasamāyogāddivaṃ yāti nareśvara 7| kāye pārthivabhāgo'yaṃ samānārthaṃ pratiṣṭhitaḥ | na kāyaḥ svargamāyāti yathā pṛthvī tathāsthitaḥ 8| etatte sarvamākhyātaṃ doṣaughaiḥ pārthivasya yaḥ 9| iti śrīpadmapurāṇe bhūmikhaṃḍe venopākhyāne mātāpitṛtīrtha-| māhātmye paṃcaṣaṣṭitamo'dhyāyaḥ 65 |

English translation

Yayāti said :

1. O Mātali , tell me the reason, why this body, the protector of Dharma , does not go to heaven with the soul.

Mātali said :

2-9. The five elements do not go together (with the soul); in the company of the soul, O king. All of them come together in the village of the body. All of them, afflicted by old age, go to their respective abodes. Since the earth is created with a preponderance of fluid, it being wet due to the fluids becomes soft, O king. It is pierced by ants and rats. Holes are formed into it, and also anthills with large interiors. In the same way inflammation of the glands of the neck and itch are produced in the body. O best of men, this body is also cleft by worms. Enlargements (of parts like the spleen), instantly troubling, are also produced in it. O son of Nahuṣa , this body is full of such defects. How will it go to heaven with the life, O lord of men? The earthly part is settled in the body for the vital air essential to digestion. The body does not come (i.e. go) to heaven. It remains here as the earth does. I have told you all this along with a heap of earthy blemishes.

Complete chapter-aligned witnesses. Sanskrit Wikisource page 14347, revision 335510 (2022-04-10T07:14:01Z). English is N. A. Deshpande’s complete translation, controlled against its chapter page at https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-padma-purana/d/doc364272.html and the ten-volume archival witness. The witnesses are aligned at chapter level; no unsupported verse-by-verse equivalence is asserted.