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Chapter 72

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पिप्पल उवाच- मातलेश्च वचः श्रुत्वा स राजा नहुषात्मजः । किं चकार महाप्राज्ञस्तन्मे विस्तरतो वद १। सर्वपुण्यमयी पुण्या कथेयं पापनाशिनी । श्रोतुमिच्छाम्यहं प्राज्ञ नैव तृप्यामि सर्वदा २। सुकर्मोवाच- सर्वधर्मभृतां श्रेष्ठो ययातिर्नृपसत्तमः । तमुवाचागतं दूतं मातलिं शक्रसारथिम् ३। ययातिरुवाच- शरीरं नैव त्यक्ष्यामि गमिष्ये न दिवं पुनः । शरीरेण विना दूत पार्थिवेन न संशयः ४। यद्यप्येवं महादोषाः कायस्यैव प्रकीर्तिताः । पूर्वं चापि समाख्यातं त्वया सर्वं गुणागुणम् ५। नाहं त्यक्ष्ये शरीरं वै नागमिष्ये दिवं पुनः । इत्याचक्ष्व इतो गत्वा देवदेवं पुरंदरम् ६। एकाकिना हि जीवेन कायेनापि महामते । नैव सिद्धिं प्रयात्येवं सांसारिकमिहैव हि ७। नैव प्राणं विना कायो जीवः कायं विना नहि । उभयोश्चापि मित्रत्वं नयिष्ये नाशमिंद्र न ८। यस्य प्रसादभावाद्वै सुखमश्नाति केवलम् । शरीरस्याप्ययं प्राणो भोगानन्यान्मनोनुगान् ९। एवं ज्ञात्वा स्वर्गभोग्यं न भोज्यं देवदूतक । संभवंति महादुष्टा व्याधयो दुःखदायकाः १०। मातले किल्बिषाच्चैव जरादोषात्प्रजायते । पश्य मे पुण्यसंयुक्तं कायं षोडशवार्षिकम् ११। जन्मप्रभृति मे कायः शतार्धाब्दं प्रयाति च । तथापि नूतनो भावः कायस्यापि प्रजायते १२। मम कालो गतो दूत अब्दा प्रनंत्यमनुत्तमम् । यथा षोडशवर्षस्य कायः पुंसः प्रशोभते १३। तथा मे शोभते देहो बलवीर्यसमन्वितः । नैव ग्लानिर्न मे हानिर्न श्रमो व्याधयो जरा १४। मातले मम कायेपि धर्मोत्साहेन वर्द्धते । सर्वामृतमयं दिव्यमौषधं परमौषधम् १५। पापव्याधिप्रणाशार्थं धर्माख्यं हि कृतम्पुरा । तेन मे शोधितः कायो गतदोषस्तु जायते १६। हृषीकेशस्य संध्यानं नामोच्चारणमुत्तमम् । एतद्रसायनं दूत नित्यमेवं करोम्यहम् १७। तेन मे व्याधयो दोषाः पापाद्याः प्रलयं गताः । विद्यमाने हि संसारे कृष्णनाम्नि महौषधे १८। मानवा मरणं यांति पापव्याधि प्रपीडिताः । न पिबंति महामूढाः कृष्ण नाम रसायनम् १९। तेन ध्यानेन ज्ञानेन पूजाभावेन मातले । सत्येन दानपुण्येन मम कायो निरामयः २०। पापर्द्धेरामयाः पीडाः प्रभवंति शरीरिणः । पीडाभ्यो जायते मृत्युः प्राणिनां नात्र संशयः २१। तस्माद्धर्मः प्रकर्तव्यः पुण्यसत्याश्रयैर्नरैः । पंचभूतात्मकः कायः शिरासंधिविजर्जरः २२। एवं संधीकृतो मर्त्यो हेमकारीव टंकणैः । तत्र भाति महानग्निर्द्धातुरेव चरः सदा २३। शतखंडमये विप्र यः संधत्ते सबुद्धिमान् । हरेर्नाम्ना च दिव्येन सौभाग्येनापि पिप्पल २४। पंचात्मका हि ये खंडाः शतसंधिविजर्जराः । तेन संधारिताः सर्वे कायो धातुसमो भवेत् २५। हरेः पूजोपचारेण ध्यानेन नियमेन च । सत्यभावेन दानेन नूत्नः कायो विजायते २६। दोषा नश्यंति कायस्य व्याधयः शृणु मातले । बाह्याभ्यंतरशौचं हि दुर्गंधिर्नैव जायते २७। शुचिस्ततो भवेत्सूत प्रसादात्तस्य चक्रिणः । नाहं स्वर्गं गमिष्यामि स्वर्गमत्र करोम्यहम् २८। तपसा चैव भावेन स्वधर्मेण महीतलम् । स्वर्गरूपं करिष्यामि प्रसादात्तस्य चक्रिणः २९। एवं ज्ञात्वा प्रयाहि त्वं कथयस्व पुरंदरम् । सुकर्मोवाच- समाकर्ण्य ततः सूतो नृपतेः परिभाषितम् ३०। आशीर्भिरभिनंद्याथ आमंत्र्य नृपतिं गतः । सर्वं निवेदयामास इंद्राय च महात्मने ३१। समाकर्ण्य सहस्राक्षो ययातेस्तु महात्मनः । तस्याथ चिंतयामासानयनार्थं दिवं प्रति ३२। इति श्रीपद्मपुराणे भूमिखंडे वेनोपाख्याने मातापितृतीर्थवर्णने ययातिचरिते द्विसप्ततितमोऽध्यायः ७२।

pippala uvāca- mātaleśca vacaḥ śrutvā sa rājā nahuṣātmajaḥ | kiṃ cakāra mahāprājñastanme vistarato vada 1| sarvapuṇyamayī puṇyā katheyaṃ pāpanāśinī | śrotumicchāmyahaṃ prājña naiva tṛpyāmi sarvadā 2| sukarmovāca- sarvadharmabhṛtāṃ śreṣṭho yayātirnṛpasattamaḥ | tamuvācāgataṃ dūtaṃ mātaliṃ śakrasārathim 3| yayātiruvāca- śarīraṃ naiva tyakṣyāmi gamiṣye na divaṃ punaḥ | śarīreṇa vinā dūta pārthivena na saṃśayaḥ 4| yadyapyevaṃ mahādoṣāḥ kāyasyaiva prakīrtitāḥ | pūrvaṃ cāpi samākhyātaṃ tvayā sarvaṃ guṇāguṇam 5| nāhaṃ tyakṣye śarīraṃ vai nāgamiṣye divaṃ punaḥ | ityācakṣva ito gatvā devadevaṃ puraṃdaram 6| ekākinā hi jīvena kāyenāpi mahāmate | naiva siddhiṃ prayātyevaṃ sāṃsārikamihaiva hi 7| naiva prāṇaṃ vinā kāyo jīvaḥ kāyaṃ vinā nahi | ubhayoścāpi mitratvaṃ nayiṣye nāśamiṃdra na 8| yasya prasādabhāvādvai sukhamaśnāti kevalam | śarīrasyāpyayaṃ prāṇo bhogānanyānmanonugān 9| evaṃ jñātvā svargabhogyaṃ na bhojyaṃ devadūtaka | saṃbhavaṃti mahāduṣṭā vyādhayo duḥkhadāyakāḥ 10| mātale kilbiṣāccaiva jarādoṣātprajāyate | paśya me puṇyasaṃyuktaṃ kāyaṃ ṣoḍaśavārṣikam 11| janmaprabhṛti me kāyaḥ śatārdhābdaṃ prayāti ca | tathāpi nūtano bhāvaḥ kāyasyāpi prajāyate 12| mama kālo gato dūta abdā pranaṃtyamanuttamam | yathā ṣoḍaśavarṣasya kāyaḥ puṃsaḥ praśobhate 13| tathā me śobhate deho balavīryasamanvitaḥ | naiva glānirna me hānirna śramo vyādhayo jarā 14| mātale mama kāyepi dharmotsāhena varddhate | sarvāmṛtamayaṃ divyamauṣadhaṃ paramauṣadham 15| pāpavyādhipraṇāśārthaṃ dharmākhyaṃ hi kṛtampurā | tena me śodhitaḥ kāyo gatadoṣastu jāyate 16| hṛṣīkeśasya saṃdhyānaṃ nāmoccāraṇamuttamam | etadrasāyanaṃ dūta nityamevaṃ karomyaham 17| tena me vyādhayo doṣāḥ pāpādyāḥ pralayaṃ gatāḥ | vidyamāne hi saṃsāre kṛṣṇanāmni mahauṣadhe 18| mānavā maraṇaṃ yāṃti pāpavyādhi prapīḍitāḥ | na pibaṃti mahāmūḍhāḥ kṛṣṇa nāma rasāyanam 19| tena dhyānena jñānena pūjābhāvena mātale | satyena dānapuṇyena mama kāyo nirāmayaḥ 20| pāparddherāmayāḥ pīḍāḥ prabhavaṃti śarīriṇaḥ | pīḍābhyo jāyate mṛtyuḥ prāṇināṃ nātra saṃśayaḥ 21| tasmāddharmaḥ prakartavyaḥ puṇyasatyāśrayairnaraiḥ | paṃcabhūtātmakaḥ kāyaḥ śirāsaṃdhivijarjaraḥ 22| evaṃ saṃdhīkṛto martyo hemakārīva ṭaṃkaṇaiḥ | tatra bhāti mahānagnirddhātureva caraḥ sadā 23| śatakhaṃḍamaye vipra yaḥ saṃdhatte sabuddhimān | harernāmnā ca divyena saubhāgyenāpi pippala 24| paṃcātmakā hi ye khaṃḍāḥ śatasaṃdhivijarjarāḥ | tena saṃdhāritāḥ sarve kāyo dhātusamo bhavet 25| hareḥ pūjopacāreṇa dhyānena niyamena ca | satyabhāvena dānena nūtnaḥ kāyo vijāyate 26| doṣā naśyaṃti kāyasya vyādhayaḥ śṛṇu mātale | bāhyābhyaṃtaraśaucaṃ hi durgaṃdhirnaiva jāyate 27| śucistato bhavetsūta prasādāttasya cakriṇaḥ | nāhaṃ svargaṃ gamiṣyāmi svargamatra karomyaham 28| tapasā caiva bhāvena svadharmeṇa mahītalam | svargarūpaṃ kariṣyāmi prasādāttasya cakriṇaḥ 29| evaṃ jñātvā prayāhi tvaṃ kathayasva puraṃdaram | sukarmovāca- samākarṇya tataḥ sūto nṛpateḥ paribhāṣitam 30| āśīrbhirabhinaṃdyātha āmaṃtrya nṛpatiṃ gataḥ | sarvaṃ nivedayāmāsa iṃdrāya ca mahātmane 31| samākarṇya sahasrākṣo yayātestu mahātmanaḥ | tasyātha ciṃtayāmāsānayanārthaṃ divaṃ prati 32| iti śrīpadmapurāṇe bhūmikhaṃḍe venopākhyāne mātāpitṛtīrthavarṇane yayāticarite dvisaptatitamo'dhyāyaḥ 72|

English translation

Pippala said :

1-2. O you highly intelligent one, tell me in detail, what the king, the son of Nahuṣa said on hearing the words of Mātali . O wise one, this is an all-meritorious story which destroys sins. I desire to hear it. I am not at all being satisfied.

3. Yayāti , the best king, the greatest among those who practised piety, said to the messenger Mātali, Indra ’s charioteer, who had come (to him):

Yayāti said :

4-7. O messenger, I shall not abandon my body. There is no doubt that I shall not go to heaven without (this) earthly body. Though you have thus narrated the great blemishes of the body, and though you have already described all its merits and demerits, yet I shall not abandon my body, and I shall not come to heaven. Going to Indra, the lord of gods, tell him like this: “O you very intelligent one, a man does not obtain perfection by means of the soul alone or with only the body. This is the mundane (existence).

8-14a. Body cannot remain without life (i.e. the soul), nor can the soul remain without the body. O Indra, they have friendship (i.e. they are mutual friends). I shall not destroy the body due to whose grace the soul obtains exclusive happiness and other pleasures according to his mind (i.e. as he desires).” O messenger of gods, knowing the enjoyments in heaven to be like this, I do not want them. O Mātali, due to blemishes painful and very sinful disease are (contracted). Old age is due to a defect. Observe my body endowed with religious merit and sixteen years old. Since my birth my body has gone to (i.e. lasted for) half a century. Still there is freshness of my body (still my body is fresh). (This) period (i.e. life) of me has passed excellently. As the body of a youth of sixteen years looks handsome, in the same way my body endowed with power and valour looks.

l4b-16. I do not have fatigue, I do not have failure, I do not have exhaustion; nor do I have (i.e. suffer from) diseases or old age. O Mātali, my body also thrives with enthusiasm for piety; for, in olden days, the medicine—the divine, great medicine, the elixir, all full of nectar is prepared for the destruction of sins and diseases. My body is purified by that; (therefore)it is free from blemishes.

17-24. O messenger, I am always doing (i.e. taking) the elixir, viz. the meditation on Viṣṇu and the excellent utterance of his name. By that all my diseases and blemishes like sins have been destroyed, when, in this worldly existence, there is the great (i.e. effective) medicine like the name of Kṛṣṇa (i.e. Viṣṇu). Human beings suffering from sinful disease die (since) the very foolish ones do not drink the elixir of the name of Krṣṇa (i.e. Viṣṇu). O Mātali, my body is healthy due to that meditation, knowledge, worship, truthfulness, and religious merit caused by giving gifts. Diseases and sufferings torment him whose accomplishment is sins. There is no doubt that beings die here (i.e. in this world) due to sufferings. Therefore men, resorting to merit and truthfulness, should perform religious acts. The body is made of the five elements, and is worn out by the veins and joints. As an ornament is (fashioned) by a goldsmith with borax, so a human being is put together. In it always shine a great fire, a moving humour of the body, which is (made) of a hundred pieces. O brāhmaṇa , he who joins (these pieces) is intelligent.

25-30a. O Pippala , all these pieces (of the body) of the nature of the five elements and worn out by a hundred joints, are held together by the divine name of Viṣṇu and good fortune. The body is like a metal. The body becomes new by offering worship to Viṣṇu, meditation and restraint, truthfulness and charity. O Mātali, listen, the blemishes of the body—the diseases—perish. There is external and internal purity, and there is no foul smell. Then, O charioteer, due to the grace of the disc-holder (i.e. Viṣṇu), (the body) would be pure. I shall not go to heaven. I shall fashion heaven here (only). I shall make the earth of the nature of heaven by means of (my) penance, devotion, my own religious acts, and the grace of the disc-holder. Realising this, you (may please) go and tell Indra.

Sukarman said :

30b-32. Then, that charioteer, having heard the words of the king and having congratulated him with blessing, took the king’s leave, and went (to heaven). He told everything to the noble Indra. Indra, having heard (the message) of the magnanimous Yayāti, thought as to how to bring Yayāti to heaven.

Complete chapter-aligned witnesses. Sanskrit Wikisource page 14344, revision 335531 (2022-04-10T12:58:49Z). English is N. A. Deshpande’s complete translation, controlled against its chapter page at https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-padma-purana/d/doc365164.html and the ten-volume archival witness. The witnesses are aligned at chapter level; no unsupported verse-by-verse equivalence is asserted.