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Uttara-khaṇḍa · Chapter 187

Chapter 187

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Uttara-khaṇḍa · Chapter 187

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देव्युवाच। द्वादशाध्यायमाहात्म्यं भवता कथितं मम । [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6lwPk4457Y यूट्यूब उपरि त्रयोदशाध्यायस्य माहात्म्यस्य हिन्दी रूपान्तरणम्]ब्रूहि त्रयोदशाध्यायमाहात्म्यमतिसुंदरम् १। ईश्वर उवाच- शृणु त्रयोदशाध्यायमहिमांभोनिधिं शिवे । यदाकर्णनमात्रेण परां मुदमवाप्स्यसि २। अस्ति दक्षिणदिङ्मार्गे तुंगभद्रापुराणेषु अन्येषु स्थलेषु यत्र तुङ्गभद्रा नद्याः उल्लेखः अस्ति, पद्मपुराणः [https://sa.wikisource.org/s/ijo ६.१९६.१८] तेषु एकः अस्ति। तत्र आत्मदेवस्य भार्या धुंधली अस्ति या पुत्रप्राप्त्यर्थं सिद्धप्रदत्तस्य फलस्य सेवनं स्वयं न करोति, अपितुं गां ददाति। तदा गौः गोकर्णं पुत्रं जनयति यः भागवतकथावाचनेन प्रेतभूतस्य धुन्धुकारेः उद्धारं करोति। तुङ्गभद्रायाः अन्यः उल्लेखः लक्ष्मीनारायणसंहितां [https://sa.wikisource.org/s/1zxv ३.९.६५] मध्ये अस्ति यत्र रात्रिकाले असुराणां उपद्रवतः मुक्त्यै तुङ्गभद्रा ग्रहाणां गत्याः स्तम्भनं करोति। अयमाख्यानं ध्यानवत्सरे घटितमस्ति। अयं संकेतमस्ति यत् गीतायाः त्रयोदशोध्यायः अष्टांगयोगे ध्यानयोगतः सम्बद्धः अस्ति। त्रयोदशाध्यायः क्षेत्र - क्षेत्रज्ञस्य विवेचनां करोति। वर्तमानाध्याये हरि एवं हरस्य विवेचनमस्ति। महानदी । तत्तटे नगरं रम्यं नाम्ना हरिहरं पुरम् ३। यत्राऽस्ते भगवान्देवि देवो हरिहरः स्वयम् । यस्य दर्शनमात्रेण परं कल्याणमाप्यते ४। तस्मिन्पुरे द्विजन्मासीद्धरिदीक्षितसंज्ञिकः । तपः स्वाध्यायनिरतो श्रोत्रियो वेदपारगः ५। दुराचारेति तस्यासीद्भार्या नाम्ना च कर्मणा । न सुष्वाप समं पत्या दुरालापा कदाचन ६। क्षणमप्यात्मसदने न चास्ते स्वैरचारिणी । कंठदघ्नं द्विजद्वारे धयंती वारुणीरसम् ७। पतिसंबधिनः सर्वान्तर्जयंती पुनः पुनः । विटैः सह सदोन्मत्ता रममाणा निरंतरम् ८। कदचिद्व्याकुलं दृष्ट्वा पुरं पौरैरितस्ततः । संकेतगेहमकरोत्कांतारे निर्जने स्वयम् ९। अथ तत्रैव सा धूर्ता रममाणा विटैः सह । निनाय सा बहून्कालान्निजयौवनगर्विता १०। अथ तस्मिन्पुरे रम्ये निवसंत्या निरंकुशम् । वसंतकालं समभूत्परं चित्ते भुवः सखा ११। आमूलपल्लवाकीर्णं सहकारविकारिणा । पिकानां पंचमालापैः पुनः स जीवितः स्मरः १२। स्फुरच्चंपकसौरभ्यहारकैर्मलयानिलैः । मंदं मंदं प्रसर्पद्भिरांदोलितवनद्रुमः १३। उत्फुल्लमल्लिकामोद मदिरापारणावताम् । अलीनां कलटंकारैः समंताद्रावशोभितः १४। प्रसन्नचारुभिः स्मेरः सरोवरसुगंधिभिः । मीलन्मरालनिवहैः सरोभिः प्रकटीकृतः १५। घनच्छायासुखासीन हरिणार्भकधारिभिः । नीरंध्रपल्लवैर्नानाशाखिभिः शोभितावनिः १६। तस्मिन्वसंतसमये मुदिता साभिसारिका । अपश्यज्जगदानंददायिनीं चंद्रिकां निशि १७। चंचच्चकोरचंच्वग्रगलत्पीयूषसीकराम् । द्रवदिंदुशिलानिर्यत्सुधानिर्झरनिर्भराम् १८। विकाशिकुसुमक्रोडसांद्रीभूतकरोत्कराम् । उल्लासितपयोराशिकल्लोलालिंगितांबराम् १९। मनोभवमहासिंहकुलटाकंठकर्तरीम् । घनांधकारसंदोहविदारणपटीयसीम् २०। श्वेतीकृतसतीकारपरार्थहिमगर्भिणीम् । म्लानपंकजसंकोचा द्यूनामानंददायिनीम् २१। चक्रवाकवधूवक्त्र करुणाक्रोशसाक्षिणीम् । मुक्ताश्रेणीविशुद्धांशु प्रभासितदिगंतराम् २२। अथ तस्यां प्रभूतायां पूरयंत्या दिशो दश । कामांधा कामिनीजाता पथिसौधविहारिणी २३। अपश्यंती विटान्रात्रौ निर्भिद्य भवनार्गलम् । ययौ संकेतभवनं निर्गत्य नगराद्बहिः २४। तत्र प्रियतमं कंचित्काममोहितमानसा । अन्वेषयंती नाद्राक्षीत्कुंजे कुंजे तरौ तरौ २५। आकर्णयंती कांतस्य मंदालापान्पदे पदे । अभियाति ततः क्रीडन्यत्र संहारिनिस्वनः २६। चक्रवाकरवान्श्रुत्वा कांतालापभ्रमादसौ । सरोवराणि सर्वाणि पर्यटंती मुहुर्मुहुः २७। कांतभ्रांत्या तरुतले प्रसुप्तान्हरिणोत्करान् । प्रबोधयंती सोच्छ्वासमागतास्मीति भाषिणी २८। आलिंगंती वनस्थाणुं जीवनेश्वरशंकया । तदाननभ्रमाद्भूयं चुंबंती विकचांबुजम् २९। तत्रतत्र कृतव्यर्थश्रमादृष्टप्रियास्वयम् । विललाप वने तस्मिन्मूर्च्छती विविधोक्तिभिः । हा कांत हा गुणाक्रांत मच्चैतन्यस्य नायक ३०। हे मनोहरसौभाग्य भाग्यलावण्यशेवधे । हा पूर्णचंद्रवदन हा सरोजायतेक्षण ३१। हा कांततत्वसौहित्य विश्रमाय सुरद्रुम । यदि कोपेन कुत्रापि गुह्यवेषोऽत्र तिष्ठसि ३२। प्रसादयामि त्वां कांत दत्त्वा प्राणान्प्रियानपि। इत्युच्चैः सर्वतो दिक्षु विलपंत्या वियोगतः ३३। तस्याः श्रुत्वा वचः कोऽपि सुप्तो व्याघ्रः प्रबुद्धवान् । कुर्वन्घुरघुरध्वानं पश्यन्प्रतिदिशं रुषा ३४। आस्फालयन्नखैर्भूमिं गर्जन्नाकाशगह्वरम् । पृष्ठनिर्भग्नलांगूल द्रुतमुत्थाय वेगवान् ३५। गतो व्याघ्रः समुत्पत्य यत्रास्ते साभिसारिका । अथ सापि तमायांतमालोक्य पतिशंकया ३६। निर्जगाम पुरः स्थातुं प्रेममनिर्भरमानसा । ततस्तस्यनखक्रीडाक्रूरतांधीकृता सती ३७। जहौ प्रियवपुः शंकां श्रुत्वा गर्जितमूर्ज्जितम् । तथाविधापि सा नारी भ्रांतिमुत्सृज्यसत्वरम् ३८। व्याघ्रत्वं तु कुतो हेतोर्मां निहंतुमिहागतः । इदं सर्वं समाख्याहि यतस्त्वं हंतुमिच्छसि ३९। इति तस्या वचः श्रुत्वा शार्दूलश्चंडविक्रमः । क्षणं विहाय तद्ग्रासमुवाच प्रहसन्निव ४०। मलापहा नदी नाम्ना देशे तिष्ठति दक्षिणे । नगरी मुनिपर्णेति तस्या रोधसि वर्तते ४१। तत्रास्ते भगवान्साक्षात्पंचलिंगो महेश्वरः । तस्यां पुर्यामहं विप्र पुत्रो भूत्वा स्थितस्ततः ४२। अयाज्यान्याजयन्नश्नन्नेकोद्दिष्टे नदी तटे । वेदपाठफलं शश्वद्विक्रीणन्धनकांक्षया ४३। भिक्षुकानपरान्लोभात्तिरस्कुर्वन्दुरुक्तिभिः । अदेयद्रविणं गृह्णन्नदत्तमनिशं दिनम् ४४। छलयन्सकलांल्लोकान्क्षणग्रहणकौतुकात् । ततः कतिपये काले जरठत्वमुपागतः ४५। वलीपलितवानंधः प्रपतन्प्रस्खलद्गतिः । पतद्दंतोभवं भूयः प्रतिग्रहपरायणः ४६। हस्ते गृहीत दर्भोऽहमगमं तीर्थसन्निधिम् । धनग्रहणलोभेन भ्रमन्पर्वसु पर्वसु ४७। ततोऽहं शिथिलांगः सन्कंचिद्भूनिर्जरालयम् । गतवान्याचितं भोक्तुं दष्टो मध्ये पदे शुना ४८। अपतं मूर्छितो भूत्वा ततः क्षितितले क्षणात् । ततोऽहं गलितप्राणो व्याघ्रयोनिमुपागतः ४९। अत्र तिष्ठामि कांतारे पूर्वपापमनुस्मरन् । न भक्षयामि धर्मिष्ठान्मुनीन्साधुजनान्सतीः 6.187.५०। किंतु पापान्दुराचारनसतीर्भक्षयाम्यहम् । अतोऽसतित्वं तत्वेन ममैव कवलायसे ५१। इत्युक्त्वा स्वैर्नखैः कूरैस्तां विभज्यांगखंडशः । अथतां भक्षितां तेन पापदेहमुपाश्रिताम् ५२। यमस्य किंकरा निन्युः सद्यः संयमनीं पुरीम् । यमादेशेन तत्रापि पातयामासुराशु ताम् ५३। विण्मूत्ररक्तपूर्णेषु घोरकुंडेष्वनेकधा । कल्पकोटिषु पीतासु तस्मादानीय तां मुहुः ५४। रौरवे स्थापयामासुर्मन्वंतरशतावधि । ततोप्याकृष्य तां दीनां रुदतीं सर्वतोमुखीम् ५५। मुक्तकेशां भग्नगात्रां चिक्षिपुर्दहनानने । एवं पापपरां घोरां भुक्त्वा नरकयातनाम् ५६। इह जाता महापापात्पुनः श्वपचयोनिषु । ततः श्वपचगेहेऽपि वर्द्धमाना दिनेदिने ५७। पूर्वजन्मवशेनैव तथैवासीद्यथा पुरा । ततः कतिपये काले पुनः स्वंभवनंययौ ५८। यत्रास्ते जृंभकादेवी शिवस्यांतः पुरेश्वरी । तत्रापश्यद्द्विजन्मानं वासुदेवाभिधं शुचिम् ५९। गीतात्रयोदशाध्यायमुद्गिरंतमनारतम् । ततस्तच्छ्रवणादेव मुक्ता श्वपचविग्रहात् ६०। दिव्यं देहं समासाद्य जगाम त्रिदशालयम् ६१। इति श्रीपाद्मे महापुराणे पंचपंचाशत्सहस्रसंहितायामुत्तरखंडे 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devyuvāca| dvādaśādhyāyamāhātmyaṃ bhavatā kathitaṃ mama | [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6lwPk4457Y yūṭyūba upari trayodaśādhyāyasya māhātmyasya hindī rūpāntaraṇam]brūhi trayodaśādhyāyamāhātmyamatisuṃdaram 1| īśvara uvāca- śṛṇu trayodaśādhyāyamahimāṃbhonidhiṃ śive | yadākarṇanamātreṇa parāṃ mudamavāpsyasi 2| asti dakṣiṇadiṅmārge tuṃgabhadrāpurāṇeṣu anyeṣu sthaleṣu yatra tuṅgabhadrā nadyāḥ ullekhaḥ asti, padmapurāṇaḥ [https://sa.wikisource.org/s/ijo 6.196.18] teṣu ekaḥ asti| tatra ātmadevasya bhāryā dhuṃdhalī asti yā putraprāptyarthaṃ siddhapradattasya phalasya sevanaṃ svayaṃ na karoti, apituṃ gāṃ dadāti| tadā gauḥ gokarṇaṃ putraṃ janayati yaḥ bhāgavatakathāvācanena pretabhūtasya dhundhukāreḥ uddhāraṃ karoti| tuṅgabhadrāyāḥ anyaḥ ullekhaḥ lakṣmīnārāyaṇasaṃhitāṃ [https://sa.wikisource.org/s/1zxv 3.9.65] madhye asti yatra rātrikāle asurāṇāṃ upadravataḥ muktyai tuṅgabhadrā grahāṇāṃ gatyāḥ stambhanaṃ karoti| ayamākhyānaṃ dhyānavatsare ghaṭitamasti| ayaṃ saṃketamasti yat gītāyāḥ trayodaśodhyāyaḥ aṣṭāṃgayoge dhyānayogataḥ sambaddhaḥ asti| trayodaśādhyāyaḥ kṣetra - kṣetrajñasya vivecanāṃ karoti| vartamānādhyāye hari evaṃ harasya vivecanamasti| mahānadī | tattaṭe nagaraṃ ramyaṃ nāmnā hariharaṃ puram 3| yatrā'ste bhagavāndevi devo hariharaḥ svayam | yasya darśanamātreṇa paraṃ kalyāṇamāpyate 4| tasminpure dvijanmāsīddharidīkṣitasaṃjñikaḥ | tapaḥ svādhyāyanirato śrotriyo vedapāragaḥ 5| durācāreti tasyāsīdbhāryā nāmnā ca karmaṇā | na suṣvāpa samaṃ patyā durālāpā kadācana 6| kṣaṇamapyātmasadane na cāste svairacāriṇī | kaṃṭhadaghnaṃ dvijadvāre dhayaṃtī vāruṇīrasam 7| patisaṃbadhinaḥ sarvāntarjayaṃtī punaḥ punaḥ | viṭaiḥ saha sadonmattā ramamāṇā niraṃtaram 8| kadacidvyākulaṃ dṛṣṭvā puraṃ paurairitastataḥ | saṃketagehamakarotkāṃtāre nirjane svayam 9| atha tatraiva sā dhūrtā ramamāṇā viṭaiḥ saha | nināya sā bahūnkālānnijayauvanagarvitā 10| atha tasminpure ramye nivasaṃtyā niraṃkuśam | vasaṃtakālaṃ samabhūtparaṃ citte bhuvaḥ sakhā 11| āmūlapallavākīrṇaṃ sahakāravikāriṇā | pikānāṃ paṃcamālāpaiḥ punaḥ sa jīvitaḥ smaraḥ 12| sphuraccaṃpakasaurabhyahārakairmalayānilaiḥ | maṃdaṃ maṃdaṃ prasarpadbhirāṃdolitavanadrumaḥ 13| utphullamallikāmoda madirāpāraṇāvatām | alīnāṃ kalaṭaṃkāraiḥ samaṃtādrāvaśobhitaḥ 14| prasannacārubhiḥ smeraḥ sarovarasugaṃdhibhiḥ | mīlanmarālanivahaiḥ sarobhiḥ prakaṭīkṛtaḥ 15| ghanacchāyāsukhāsīna hariṇārbhakadhāribhiḥ | nīraṃdhrapallavairnānāśākhibhiḥ śobhitāvaniḥ 16| tasminvasaṃtasamaye muditā sābhisārikā | apaśyajjagadānaṃdadāyinīṃ caṃdrikāṃ niśi 17| caṃcaccakoracaṃcvagragalatpīyūṣasīkarām | dravadiṃduśilāniryatsudhānirjharanirbharām 18| vikāśikusumakroḍasāṃdrībhūtakarotkarām | ullāsitapayorāśikallolāliṃgitāṃbarām 19| manobhavamahāsiṃhakulaṭākaṃṭhakartarīm | ghanāṃdhakārasaṃdohavidāraṇapaṭīyasīm 20| śvetīkṛtasatīkāraparārthahimagarbhiṇīm | mlānapaṃkajasaṃkocā dyūnāmānaṃdadāyinīm 21| cakravākavadhūvaktra karuṇākrośasākṣiṇīm | muktāśreṇīviśuddhāṃśu prabhāsitadigaṃtarām 22| atha tasyāṃ prabhūtāyāṃ pūrayaṃtyā diśo daśa | kāmāṃdhā kāminījātā pathisaudhavihāriṇī 23| apaśyaṃtī viṭānrātrau nirbhidya bhavanārgalam | yayau saṃketabhavanaṃ nirgatya nagarādbahiḥ 24| tatra priyatamaṃ kaṃcitkāmamohitamānasā | anveṣayaṃtī nādrākṣītkuṃje kuṃje tarau tarau 25| ākarṇayaṃtī kāṃtasya maṃdālāpānpade pade | abhiyāti tataḥ krīḍanyatra saṃhārinisvanaḥ 26| cakravākaravānśrutvā kāṃtālāpabhramādasau | sarovarāṇi sarvāṇi paryaṭaṃtī muhurmuhuḥ 27| kāṃtabhrāṃtyā tarutale prasuptānhariṇotkarān | prabodhayaṃtī socchvāsamāgatāsmīti bhāṣiṇī 28| āliṃgaṃtī vanasthāṇuṃ jīvaneśvaraśaṃkayā | tadānanabhramādbhūyaṃ cuṃbaṃtī vikacāṃbujam 29| tatratatra kṛtavyarthaśramādṛṣṭapriyāsvayam | vilalāpa vane tasminmūrcchatī vividhoktibhiḥ | hā kāṃta hā guṇākrāṃta maccaitanyasya nāyaka 30| he manoharasaubhāgya bhāgyalāvaṇyaśevadhe | hā pūrṇacaṃdravadana hā sarojāyatekṣaṇa 31| hā kāṃtatatvasauhitya viśramāya suradruma | yadi kopena kutrāpi guhyaveṣo'tra tiṣṭhasi 32| prasādayāmi tvāṃ kāṃta dattvā prāṇānpriyānapi| ityuccaiḥ sarvato dikṣu vilapaṃtyā viyogataḥ 33| tasyāḥ śrutvā vacaḥ ko'pi supto vyāghraḥ prabuddhavān | kurvanghuraghuradhvānaṃ paśyanpratidiśaṃ ruṣā 34| āsphālayannakhairbhūmiṃ garjannākāśagahvaram | pṛṣṭhanirbhagnalāṃgūla drutamutthāya vegavān 35| gato vyāghraḥ samutpatya yatrāste sābhisārikā | atha sāpi tamāyāṃtamālokya patiśaṃkayā 36| nirjagāma puraḥ sthātuṃ premamanirbharamānasā | tatastasyanakhakrīḍākrūratāṃdhīkṛtā satī 37| jahau priyavapuḥ śaṃkāṃ śrutvā garjitamūrjjitam | tathāvidhāpi sā nārī bhrāṃtimutsṛjyasatvaram 38| vyāghratvaṃ tu kuto hetormāṃ nihaṃtumihāgataḥ | idaṃ sarvaṃ samākhyāhi yatastvaṃ haṃtumicchasi 39| iti tasyā vacaḥ śrutvā śārdūlaścaṃḍavikramaḥ | kṣaṇaṃ vihāya tadgrāsamuvāca prahasanniva 40| malāpahā nadī nāmnā deśe tiṣṭhati dakṣiṇe | nagarī muniparṇeti tasyā rodhasi vartate 41| tatrāste bhagavānsākṣātpaṃcaliṃgo maheśvaraḥ | tasyāṃ puryāmahaṃ vipra putro bhūtvā sthitastataḥ 42| ayājyānyājayannaśnannekoddiṣṭe nadī taṭe | vedapāṭhaphalaṃ śaśvadvikrīṇandhanakāṃkṣayā 43| bhikṣukānaparānlobhāttiraskurvanduruktibhiḥ | adeyadraviṇaṃ gṛhṇannadattamaniśaṃ dinam 44| chalayansakalāṃllokānkṣaṇagrahaṇakautukāt | tataḥ katipaye kāle jaraṭhatvamupāgataḥ 45| valīpalitavānaṃdhaḥ prapatanpraskhaladgatiḥ | pataddaṃtobhavaṃ bhūyaḥ pratigrahaparāyaṇaḥ 46| haste gṛhīta darbho'hamagamaṃ tīrthasannidhim | dhanagrahaṇalobhena bhramanparvasu parvasu 47| tato'haṃ śithilāṃgaḥ sankaṃcidbhūnirjarālayam | gatavānyācitaṃ bhoktuṃ daṣṭo madhye pade śunā 48| apataṃ mūrchito bhūtvā tataḥ kṣititale kṣaṇāt | tato'haṃ galitaprāṇo vyāghrayonimupāgataḥ 49| atra tiṣṭhāmi kāṃtāre pūrvapāpamanusmaran | na bhakṣayāmi dharmiṣṭhānmunīnsādhujanānsatīḥ 6.187.50| kiṃtu pāpāndurācāranasatīrbhakṣayāmyaham | ato'satitvaṃ tatvena mamaiva kavalāyase 51| ityuktvā svairnakhaiḥ kūraistāṃ vibhajyāṃgakhaṃḍaśaḥ | athatāṃ bhakṣitāṃ tena pāpadehamupāśritām 52| yamasya kiṃkarā ninyuḥ sadyaḥ saṃyamanīṃ purīm | yamādeśena tatrāpi pātayāmāsurāśu tām 53| viṇmūtraraktapūrṇeṣu ghorakuṃḍeṣvanekadhā | kalpakoṭiṣu pītāsu tasmādānīya tāṃ muhuḥ 54| raurave sthāpayāmāsurmanvaṃtaraśatāvadhi | tatopyākṛṣya tāṃ dīnāṃ rudatīṃ sarvatomukhīm 55| muktakeśāṃ bhagnagātrāṃ cikṣipurdahanānane | evaṃ pāpaparāṃ ghorāṃ bhuktvā narakayātanām 56| iha jātā mahāpāpātpunaḥ śvapacayoniṣu | tataḥ śvapacagehe'pi varddhamānā dinedine 57| pūrvajanmavaśenaiva tathaivāsīdyathā purā | tataḥ katipaye kāle punaḥ svaṃbhavanaṃyayau 58| yatrāste jṛṃbhakādevī śivasyāṃtaḥ pureśvarī | tatrāpaśyaddvijanmānaṃ vāsudevābhidhaṃ śucim 59| gītātrayodaśādhyāyamudgiraṃtamanāratam | tatastacchravaṇādeva muktā śvapacavigrahāt 60| divyaṃ dehaṃ samāsādya jagāma tridaśālayam 61| iti śrīpādme mahāpurāṇe paṃcapaṃcāśatsahasrasaṃhitāyāmuttarakhaṃḍe gītāmāhātmye saptāśītyadhikaśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ 187|

English translation

[ Note : this page corresponds to chapter 187 of the Book 6 (Uttarakhaṇḍa) of the translation of The Padmapurāṇa ]

The goddess said :

1. You told me the greatness of the twelfth chapter. Tell me the very beautiful greatness of the thirteenth chapter.

The lord said :

2-22. O Pārvatī , listen to the greatness—a treasure—of the thirteenth chapter, by merely hearing which you will get great joy. In the southern country there is the great river Tuṅgabhadrā . On her bank is a charming city named Harihara , where, O goddess, revered god Harihara himself dwells. By seeing him (a man) gets great happiness. In that city lived a brāhmaṇa named Hari Dīkṣita . He was engrossed in penance and sacred study. He was learned and had mastered the Vedas . His wife was Durācārā (literally ‘of bad conduct’) both in name and deeds. She who used abusive language, never slept with her husband. She, wandering wantonly, did not remain in her house even for a moment. At the door of the brāhmaṇa she drank liquor (filling her belly up) to her throat (i.e. too much). She repeatedly threatened her husband’s relatives. Always intoxicated, she constantly dallied with her paramours. Sometime seeing the city full of citizens here and there, she herself made a rendezvous in a forest. The clever one, proud of her youth, passed a long time there only dallying with her paramours. When she was (thus) living in the city wantonly, the spring season, the friend of Cupid, set in. It was full of foliage from roots (of trees); it had brought back to life Cupid by means of the cooings of the cuckoos in the fifth note (of the Indian gamut) due to the mango tree liable to change(?). It had tossed the forest-trees with breezes coming from the Malaya (mountain) carrying the fragrance of campaka flowers and blowing very gently. It was beautified all around by sound due to hummings of the swarms of bees breaking their fast with the fragrant spirituous liquor of the blooming jasmine flowers. It was smiling with the pleasing, charming, fragrant lakes. It was manifested by lakes with hosts of swans collected (there). In it the earth was beautified with trees having dense foliage and having (under them) young ones of deer seated comfortably in their dense shade. In that spring season that lady going to meet her lover ( Abhisārikā ), being delighted, saw, at night the moonlight, giving joy to the world. It had thin drops of nectar dropping from the ends of the beaks of the moving cakoras . It was full of springs of nectar oozing from the melting moon-stone. In it the mass of hail was clustering together in the expanding middle parts of the flowers; the billows of the mass of water that were flashing, embraced the sky. It was a knife cutting the throats of unchaste women of the great lion of Cupid. It was clever in tearing off the mass of dense darkness. It was full of snow (or coolness) for others like the Himalaya mountain that had whitened Satī . It gave joy to the young people, due to the closing of withered lotuses. It was the witness to the piteous wailings of the female cakravākas . It had brightened the atmosphere with pure rays like a row of pearls.

23-33. When the moonlight became profuse and filled the ten quarters, the lustful woman became blind with passion, and she, amusing herself in the high mansion, not seeing her paramours on the way at night, and breaking the bolt of (the door of) the house, went out of the city, to the place of appointment. She, with her mind deluded by passion of love, looking for one of her lovers, did not see any (lover) in any bower or under any tree. At every step she heard the gentle words of her lover. Then she playfully went to that place where there was a destructive sound. Having heard the notes of the cakravākas, she, misunderstanding them for the words of her lover, again and again moved to all lakes. Through error (that it was) her lover, she awakened the flocks of deer asleep at the root of a tree, saying, with encouragement, ‘I have come’. Taking a branchless trunk for the lord of her life she embraced it, and kissed a blooming lotus mistaking it for his face. Everywhere her exertion was futile. She did not see her lover. Swooning, she lamented in the grove with various words. ‘O you of a charming fortune, O you treasure of fortune and handsomeness, O you having a face like the full moon, O you having eyes like lotuses, O dear one, O you full of virtues, O you who are a celestial tree where fulness relaxes, if, through anger, you are remaining somewhere in disguise, I propitiate you, O dear one, even by offering my dear life.’ Thus through separation (from her lover) she lamented in all directions.

34-49. Having heard her words, a tiger, who was asleep, awoke. He growled, and angrily looked in every direction along the path. Striking the ground with his nails and roaring in the sky-cavern, he speedily raised his tail suspended from the back. The tiger jumped and went where the abhisārikā was. She too, mistaking him, who was coming (to her), for her lord (i.e. paramour) went with her mind full of love to stand by him. Then blinded by the cruel sport of his nails, she gave up the idea of his being her lover on hearing his loud roar. Even though the woman was (reduced to a condition) like that, she quickly gave up her wrong notion (and said): “O tiger, for what purpose have you come here to kill me? Tell me all this for which you wish to kill me.” Hearing these words of her, the tiger of violent strides, for a moment left the food (in the form) of her, laughed and said: “In the southern country there is a river named Malāpahā . On her bank is a city called Muniparṇā. There Maheśvara Pañcaliṅga actually dwells. In that city, I, being the son of a brāhmaṇa, lived. I acted as a priest for those not entitled to performing a sacrifice. On the bank of the river I ate (food) at a śrāddha performed for one definite individual. With a desire for (obtaining) wealth, I always sold the fruit of the recital of the Veda . Through greed I condemned other mendicants with bad words. I always accepted wealth not fit to be given and that was not given. Through the desire to seize the opportunity, I deceived all people. Then after some time I became old. I had wrinkles (on my body), grey hair, and being blind, stumbled and fell. My teeth had fallen, (but) again I was absorbed in accepting gifts. Through greed of getting wealth, I, wandering on the parvan days, and with darbhas in my hands, went near a holy place. Then I, with my limbs having become loose, went to the house of a brāhmaṇa to ask for food, but in the middle (i.e. while on my way) I was bitten on my leg by a dog. Fainting I fell on the ground in a moment. Then losing my life, I went to the stock of a tiger.

50-61. Remembering my former sin I live in this forest. I do not eat religious sages and good men and chaste women. But I devour sinners, wicked ones, and unchaste women. Therefore, I shall really eat you, O unchaste woman.” Saying so, he, cutting her limbs into pieces with his cruel nails, devoured her who had resorted to a sinful body. Yama ’s servants took her to Yama’s city, and there by Yama’s order quickly dropped her many times into the fierce yellow pools full of feces, urine and blood for crores of kalpas ; and again and again bringing her from there, they put her into Raurava hell for a period of hundreds of periods of Manu . Even after dragging her from there, they threw her, fully helpless, weeping, with her hair loose, limbs broken, into fire. Thus, having experienced the fierce torment in the hell, wholly sinful, she was again born on the earth in the stock of cāṇḍāla . Then, in the cāṇḍāla-house also, she growing day by day, was as before due to (the effect of) her former deeds. Then after some time she went to her house, where, goddess Jṛmbhakā of Śiva , the goddess of the city, was. There she saw a pure brāhmaṇa, Vāsudeva by name, constantly reciting the thirteenth chapter of the Gītā . Then merely on hearing it, she was free from the body of cāṇḍāla, and getting a divine body, she went to heaven.

Complete chapter-aligned witnesses. Sanskrit Wikisource page 44906, revision 333779 (2022-03-16T11:38:49Z). English is N. A. Deshpande’s complete translation, controlled against its chapter page at https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-bhagavad-gita-mahatmya/d/doc365769.html and the ten-volume archival witness. The witnesses are aligned at chapter level; no unsupported verse-by-verse equivalence is asserted.