Vaiśākhamāsa-māhātmya · Chapter 12
Source।। यम उवाच ।। ।। शृणु मे वचनं नाथ लोपितोऽहं पितामह ।। मरणादधिकं मन्ये मत्पदस्य च खण्डनम् ।। १ ।। नियोगी न नियोगं हि करोति कमलासन ।। प्रभोर्वित्तं समश्नाति स भवेत्काष्ठकीटकः ।। २ ।। योऽश्नाति लोभाद्वित्तानि प्रज्ञावांश्च महीपते ।। स तिर्यग्योनि नरके याति कल्पशतत्रयम् ।। ३ ।। निःस्पृहो नाऽऽचरेद्यस्तु नियोगं पद्मसंभव ।। भुक्त्वा तु नरकान्घोरान्स पुमान्वायसो भवेत् ।। ४ ।। आत्मकार्यपरो यस्तु स्वामिकार्यं विलुंपति ।। भवेद्वेश्मनि पापात्मा आखुः कल्पशतत्रयम् ।। ५ ।। नियोगी यश्च भूत्वा वै तिष्ठन्नित्यं स्ववेश्मनि ।। शक्तस्तु कार्यकरणे मार्जारो जायते नरः ।। ६ ।। सोऽहं देव तवादेशात्प्रजा धर्मेण साधये ।। पुण्येन पुण्यकर्तारं पापं पापेन कर्मणा ।। ७ ।। सम्यग्विचार्य मुनिभिर्धर्मशास्त्रान्वितैः प्रभो ।। कल्पादौ वर्तमानस्य यातना दापयन्मम ।। ८ ।। कर्तुं नियोगमेवं हि त्वदीयो नैव शक्नुयाम् ।। राज्ञा कीर्तिमता भग्नो नियोगस्तव च क्षितौ ।। ९ ।। भयादस्य जगन्नाथ पृथिवीं सागराम्बराम् ।। वैशाखधर्मसहितां पालयन्वर्तते क्वचित् ।। 2.7.12.१० ।। विहाय सर्वधर्मांश्च विहाय पितृपूजनम् ।। विहायाऽग्निसपर्यां तु तीर्थ यात्रादिसत्क्रियाः ।। ११ ।। योगसांख्यावुभौ त्यक्त्वा त्यक्त्वा प्राणनिरोधनम् ।। त्यक्त्वा होमं च स्वाध्यायं कृत्वा पापानि भूरिशः ।। १२ ।। प्रयान्ति वैष्णवं लोकं कृत्वा वैशाखसत्क्रियाः ।। मनुजाः पितृभिः सार्द्धं तथैव च पितामहैः ।।१३।। तेषामतीतपितरः पितॄणां पितरस्तथा ।। तथा मातामहा यांति तेषां वै जनकादयः ।। १४ ।। तेषामपि च नेतारो जनित्रीणां च पूर्वजाः ।। एतद्दुःखं पुनर्देव मम मस्तकभेदनम् ।।१५।। प्रियायाः पितरो यान्ति मार्जयित्वा लिपिं मम ।। पितॄणां बीजजो यस्तु धात्र्या कुक्षौ धृतो विभो ।। १६ ।। यदंकेन कृतं कर्म तदेकेनैव भुज्यते ।। तन्निरस्य कृतं सर्वं जानंस्त्वेकः कुले तु यः ।। १७ ।। तारयेत्तावुभौ पक्षौ षड्विंशोपर्यलं विभो ।। प्रियायाश्चाऽपि वै तात सर्वे वै कुक्षिसंभवाः ।। १८ ।। तेऽपि सर्वे जगन्नाथ यान्ति विष्णोः परं पदम् ।। न मे प्रयोजनं देव नियोगेनेदृशेन वै ।। १९ ।। वैशाखधर्मनिरतः स मां त्यक्त्वा व्रजेद्धरिम् ।। त्रिःसप्तकुलमुद्धत्य त्यक्तपापोऽतिशोभनः ।। 2.7.12.२० ।। स त्यक्त्वा मम मार्गं हि प्रयाति हरिमंदिरम् ।। न यज्ञैस्तादृशैर्देव गतिं प्राप्नोति मानवः ।। २१ ।। सर्वतीर्थैर्न दानाद्यैर्न तपोभिश्च न व्रतैः ।। अपि वा सकलैर्धर्मैर्युक्तो नाऽप्नोति तां गतिम्।। २२ ।। । प्रयागपाताद्रणमध्यपाताद्भृगोश्च पातान्मरणाच्च काश्याम् ।। न तां गतिं यांति जनाश्च सर्वे वैशाखनिष्ठेन च या प्रपद्यते ।। २३ ।। प्रातः स्नात्वा देवपूजां च कृत्वा श्रुत्वा कथां मासमाहात्म्यसंज्ञाम् ।। धर्मान्कृत्वा चोचितान्वैष्णवांश्च स वै भवेद्विष्णुलोकैकनाथः ।। २४ ।। अप्रमाणमहं मन्ये लोकं विष्णोर्जगत्पतेः ।। यो न पूर्येत कोट्योघैः सर्वतः कमलासन ।। २५ ।। माधवावसथेनेह समस्तेन पितामहम् ।। विकर्मस्थाऽविकर्मस्थाः शुचयोऽशुचयस्तथा ।।२६।। कृत्वा वैशाखकृत्यानि लोका यान्ति नृपाऽऽज्ञया ।। योऽस्माकं हि महच्छत्रुर्भवतां च विशेषतः।।२७।। निग्राह्यो जगतां नाथ भवताऽसौ महीपतिः ।। हित्वा हि सकलान्धर्मान्सकृद्वैशाखस्नानतः ।। २८ ।। असंस्कृतजना यांति वैकुण्ठं हरिमंदिरम् ।। अस्माभिस्तु कृतोपेक्षो लिणुपादैकसंश्रयः ।। २९ ।। समस्तं नेष्यते लोकं पार्थिवो नात्र संशयः ।। एष दण्डपटो ह्यद्य तव पद्भ्यां निवेदितः ।2.7.12.३०।। लोकपालत्वमतुलमर्जितं तेन भूभुजा।। किमपत्येन जातेन मातुः क्लेशंकरेण वै।।३१।। यो न पातयते शत्रुं ज्येष्ठमासीव भास्करः ।। वृथासुता हि युवतिर्जाता चेद्धि कुपुत्रिणी ।।३२।। न तस्याः स्फुरते कीर्तिर्घनस्येव शतह्रदा ।। यत्पितुर्नोद्धरेत्पापाद्विद्यया वा बलेन वा ।।३३।। मातुर्जठरजो रोगः स प्रसूतो धरातले ।। धर्मे चाऽर्थे च कामे च यत्प्रतीपो भवेत्सुतः ।। ३४ ।। मातृहा ह्युच्यते सद्भिः स पुत्रः पुरुषाधमः ।। तन्माता नृपपत्नी च लोकविख्यातसत्क्रिया ।। ३५ ।। एकैव वीरसूर्लोके वीरः स नात्र संशयः ।। यथा वै कीर्तिमाञ्जातो मल्लिपेर्मार्जनाय वै ।। ।। ३६ ।। नेदं व्यवसितं देव केनचित्क्षत्रियेण हि ।। पुराणेषु जगन्नाथ न श्रुतं पटमार्जनम् ।। ३७ ।। सोऽहं न जानामि जगत्पतीश ऋते क्षितीशं हरितत्परं तम् ।। प्रचोदयन्तं पटहं सुघोषाद्विलोपयानं मम वेश्ममार्गम् ।। ३८ ।। इति श्रीस्कांदे महापुराण एकाशीतिसाहस्र्यां संहितायां द्वितीये वैष्णवखण्डे वैशाखमासमाहात्म्ये नारदाम्बरीषसंवादे यमदुःखनिरूपणंनाम द्वादशोऽध्यायः ।। १२ ।।
|| yama uvāca || || śṛṇu me vacanaṃ nātha lopito'haṃ pitāmaha || maraṇādadhikaṃ manye matpadasya ca khaṇḍanam || 1 || niyogī na niyogaṃ hi karoti kamalāsana || prabhorvittaṃ samaśnāti sa bhavetkāṣṭhakīṭakaḥ || 2 || yo'śnāti lobhādvittāni prajñāvāṃśca mahīpate || sa tiryagyoni narake yāti kalpaśatatrayam || 3 || niḥspṛho nā''caredyastu niyogaṃ padmasaṃbhava || bhuktvā tu narakānghorānsa pumānvāyaso bhavet || 4 || ātmakāryaparo yastu svāmikāryaṃ viluṃpati || bhavedveśmani pāpātmā ākhuḥ kalpaśatatrayam || 5 || niyogī yaśca bhūtvā vai tiṣṭhannityaṃ svaveśmani || śaktastu kāryakaraṇe mārjāro jāyate naraḥ || 6 || so'haṃ deva tavādeśātprajā dharmeṇa sādhaye || puṇyena puṇyakartāraṃ pāpaṃ pāpena karmaṇā || 7 || samyagvicārya munibhirdharmaśāstrānvitaiḥ prabho || kalpādau vartamānasya yātanā dāpayanmama || 8 || kartuṃ niyogamevaṃ hi tvadīyo naiva śaknuyām || rājñā kīrtimatā bhagno niyogastava ca kṣitau || 9 || bhayādasya jagannātha pṛthivīṃ sāgarāmbarām || vaiśākhadharmasahitāṃ pālayanvartate kvacit || 2.7.12.10 || vihāya sarvadharmāṃśca vihāya pitṛpūjanam || vihāyā'gnisaparyāṃ tu tīrtha yātrādisatkriyāḥ || 11 || yogasāṃkhyāvubhau tyaktvā tyaktvā prāṇanirodhanam || tyaktvā homaṃ ca svādhyāyaṃ kṛtvā pāpāni bhūriśaḥ || 12 || prayānti vaiṣṇavaṃ lokaṃ kṛtvā vaiśākhasatkriyāḥ || manujāḥ pitṛbhiḥ sārddhaṃ tathaiva ca pitāmahaiḥ ||13|| teṣāmatītapitaraḥ pitṝṇāṃ pitarastathā || tathā mātāmahā yāṃti teṣāṃ vai janakādayaḥ || 14 || teṣāmapi ca netāro janitrīṇāṃ ca pūrvajāḥ || etadduḥkhaṃ punardeva mama mastakabhedanam ||15|| priyāyāḥ pitaro yānti mārjayitvā lipiṃ mama || pitṝṇāṃ bījajo yastu dhātryā kukṣau dhṛto vibho || 16 || yadaṃkena kṛtaṃ karma tadekenaiva bhujyate || tannirasya kṛtaṃ sarvaṃ jānaṃstvekaḥ kule tu yaḥ || 17 || tārayettāvubhau pakṣau ṣaḍviṃśoparyalaṃ vibho || priyāyāścā'pi vai tāta sarve vai kukṣisaṃbhavāḥ || 18 || te'pi sarve jagannātha yānti viṣṇoḥ paraṃ padam || na me prayojanaṃ deva niyogenedṛśena vai || 19 || vaiśākhadharmanirataḥ sa māṃ tyaktvā vrajeddharim || triḥsaptakulamuddhatya tyaktapāpo'tiśobhanaḥ || 2.7.12.20 || sa tyaktvā mama mārgaṃ hi prayāti harimaṃdiram || na yajñaistādṛśairdeva gatiṃ prāpnoti mānavaḥ || 21 || sarvatīrthairna dānādyairna tapobhiśca na vrataiḥ || api vā sakalairdharmairyukto nā'pnoti tāṃ gatim|| 22 || | prayāgapātādraṇamadhyapātādbhṛgośca pātānmaraṇācca kāśyām || na tāṃ gatiṃ yāṃti janāśca sarve vaiśākhaniṣṭhena ca yā prapadyate || 23 || prātaḥ snātvā devapūjāṃ ca kṛtvā śrutvā kathāṃ māsamāhātmyasaṃjñām || dharmānkṛtvā cocitānvaiṣṇavāṃśca sa vai bhavedviṣṇulokaikanāthaḥ || 24 || apramāṇamahaṃ manye lokaṃ viṣṇorjagatpateḥ || yo na pūryeta koṭyoghaiḥ sarvataḥ kamalāsana || 25 || mādhavāvasatheneha samastena pitāmaham || vikarmasthā'vikarmasthāḥ śucayo'śucayastathā ||26|| kṛtvā vaiśākhakṛtyāni lokā yānti nṛpā''jñayā || yo'smākaṃ hi mahacchatrurbhavatāṃ ca viśeṣataḥ||27|| nigrāhyo jagatāṃ nātha bhavatā'sau mahīpatiḥ || hitvā hi sakalāndharmānsakṛdvaiśākhasnānataḥ || 28 || asaṃskṛtajanā yāṃti vaikuṇṭhaṃ harimaṃdiram || asmābhistu kṛtopekṣo liṇupādaikasaṃśrayaḥ || 29 || samastaṃ neṣyate lokaṃ pārthivo nātra saṃśayaḥ || eṣa daṇḍapaṭo hyadya tava padbhyāṃ niveditaḥ |2.7.12.30|| lokapālatvamatulamarjitaṃ tena bhūbhujā|| kimapatyena jātena mātuḥ kleśaṃkareṇa vai||31|| yo na pātayate śatruṃ jyeṣṭhamāsīva bhāskaraḥ || vṛthāsutā hi yuvatirjātā ceddhi kuputriṇī ||32|| na tasyāḥ sphurate kīrtirghanasyeva śatahradā || yatpiturnoddharetpāpādvidyayā vā balena vā ||33|| māturjaṭharajo rogaḥ sa prasūto dharātale || dharme cā'rthe ca kāme ca yatpratīpo bhavetsutaḥ || 34 || mātṛhā hyucyate sadbhiḥ sa putraḥ puruṣādhamaḥ || tanmātā nṛpapatnī ca lokavikhyātasatkriyā || 35 || ekaiva vīrasūrloke vīraḥ sa nātra saṃśayaḥ || yathā vai kīrtimāñjāto mallipermārjanāya vai || || 36 || nedaṃ vyavasitaṃ deva kenacitkṣatriyeṇa hi || purāṇeṣu jagannātha na śrutaṃ paṭamārjanam || 37 || so'haṃ na jānāmi jagatpatīśa ṛte kṣitīśaṃ haritatparaṃ tam || pracodayantaṃ paṭahaṃ sughoṣādvilopayānaṃ mama veśmamārgam || 38 || iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ dvitīye vaiṣṇavakhaṇḍe vaiśākhamāsamāhātmye nāradāmbarīṣasaṃvāde yamaduḥkhanirūpaṇaṃnāma dvādaśo'dhyāyaḥ || 12 ||
English translation
Yama said :
1-2. Listen to my words, O Grandfather ( Brahmā ). I have been ignored and deprived (of my job), I take the transgression of my office as worse than death. If an employee does not do his duty, O Lotus-seated One, and if he appropriates the money of his master, he shall become a worm in a log of wood.
3. An intelligent man who, out of greed, misappropriates the wealth (of the master), is reborn, O Lord of the earth, as a lower animal and falls into hell (where he remains) for a period of three hundred Kalpas .
4. If (the employee) is disinterested in his work and does not carry it out properly, O Lotus-born One, he suffers (the tortures of) terrible hells. The man is reborn then as a crow.
5. He who is devoted to his own selfish ends and spoils the work of his master, is a sinning soul. He is reborn as a domestic mouse and continues thus for three hundred Kalpas.
6. The employee who is capable of doing his work but (does not do it) and stays behind in his house is reborn as a cat.
7. O Lord, I keep the subjects under discipline on the basis of justice at your bidding—the meritorious through merit and the sinful through sinful act.
8. The sages equipped with (the knowledge of) Dharma Śāstras (Ethical Texts) discussed and thought in detail at the beginning of the Kalpa . They decided the tortures to be meted out by me (by way of punishment).
9. I belong to you. Still I am not able to carry out your behest. Your decree on the earth has been broken by King Kīrtimān .
10. I am afraid of him, O Lord of the universe. He is staying somewhere ruling the oceangirt earth with the help of holy rites of Vaiśākha .
11-13. People have abandoned all holy rites; they do not worship the ancestors; they have discarded holy service to the sacred fire; they do not perform such holy rites as pilgrimage to the Tīrthas ; they have abandoned both the paths, i.e., that of Karma and that of knowledge; they have ceased to practice control of the vital breath; they refrain from performing Homas and study of Vedas and they commit many sins. Still, they go to the world of Viṣṇu by performing the holy rites of Vaiśākha. Those men go there along with their fathers and grandfathers.
14-19. Not only that. All the dead forefathers, parents of the forefathers, their maternal grandfathers and their fathers and others go (to Viṣṇuloka ).
They take along with them many others too including the ancestors of their mothers. There is a further headache, a further misery, O Lord.
The fathers of their beloved ones too go (to Viṣṇu’s world) after wiping off my record (of their Karma). A son born of the seed of the forefathers held in her womb by a maid servant, O lord (also goes to Viṣṇu’s world).
One does an act and the same one enjoys its fruit. But this rule is broken. One who knows everything, a person who has become omniscient in a family, redeems more than twenty-six generations of both the sides (that of the father and that of the mother). This is more than enough, O Lord. O dear one, all those born of their beloved ones, go to the highest region of Viṣṇu. I have nothing to do with this type of job and service.
20. One who is engaged in the holy rites of Vaiśākha leaves me behind and goes to Hāri . He becomes highly refulgent after ridding himself of all sins. He uplifts and redeems twenty-one generations of his family.
21. He leaves off my path and goes to Hari ’s abode. O Lord, no man obtains that goal by means of performing Yajñas .
22. One who is equipped with (the merits of) all the Tīrthas, charitable gifts etc., austerities, holy Vratas and entire range of pious and devout activities does not obtain that goal.
23. By dying in Prayāga , or in the middle of fighting in a battlefield or by falling off the precipice ( Bhṛgupatana ) or at Kāśī , people do not attain that goal which is attained by one strictly adhering to the holy rites of Vaiśākha.
24. By taking the early morning bath, by worshipping the Lord, by listening to the narrative called “The Greatness of the Month”, and by performing the requisite holy rites pertaining to Viṣṇu, one shall become the sole lord of the world of Viṣṇu.
25. I consider the world of Viṣṇu, the Lord of the universe, limitless, O Lotus-seated One, because it is not yet filled up completely though flooded with crores and crores of people.
26-27. ( Defective Text partially ) By the entire abode of Mādhava the Grandfather (is ignored). Those who perform forbidden rites, those who perform only what is laid down (in the Vedas), the pure ones, the impure ones—all these perform the duties pertaining to Vaiśākha and they go to the world (of Viṣṇu) at the behest of the king who is our great enemy and more so of yours in particular.
28-3la. This king is to be curbed by you, O Lord of the worlds. Abandoning all other holy rites but by taking the Vaiśākha holy bath only once cultured people go to the abode of Hari, to Vaikuṇṭha . If this king whose sole resort is the feet of Viṣṇu is neglected by us, he will take the entire world (to Vaikuṇṭha), There is no doubt about it. This staff and record of Karinas is placed at your feet. The matchless guardianship of the worlds has been acquired by that king.
31b-35a. Of what avail is a child that is born causing pain to the mother, if it does not cause the downfall of the enemy (terribly hot) like the Sun in the month of Jyeṣṭha ? If a young woman gives birth to a worthless child, or has a wicked son, her fame does not spread like the lightning of the cloud.
If a child does not redeem the forefathers from sin through his learning or strength, he, delivered on the earth, is only a disease affecting the belly of his mother.
If a son behaves perversely in regard to the pursuit of virtue, wealth and love, that son is called a slayer of his mother by good men. He is the meanest of all men.
35b-38. The mother of this king and the wife of this king have become well-known in the world through their holy rites. There is only one woman in the world who has given birth to a real hero. There is no doubt about it (his being the hero) as this (king) Kīrtimān is born for wiping off my records.
O Lord, this has never (before) been attempted by any Kṣatriya . Wiping off of the records is never heard of in the Purāṇas , O Lord of the worlds.
Excepting that king who is devoted to Hari, I do not know anyone else, O Lord of the chiefs of the worlds, who encourages others through proclamations by beating Paṭaha drums and obstructs the path to my place.
Complete chapter-aligned witnesses. Sanskrit Wikisource page 23103, revision 71550 (2016-06-21T03:26:28Z). English is G. V. Tagare’s complete translation, controlled against its chapter page at https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-skanda-purana/d/doc371714.html and the archival publication witness. The witnesses are aligned at chapter level; no unsupported verse-by-verse equivalence is asserted.