ශ්ලෝකඃ
සෛරංධ්ර්යාස්තදනු චිරං ස්මරාතුරායා
යාතෝऽභූඃ සුලලිතමුද්ධවේන සාර්ධම් ।
ආවාසං ත්වදුපගමෝත්සවං සදෛව
ධ්යායංත්යාඃ ප්රතිදිනවාසසජ්ජිකායාඃ ॥1॥
Meaning
සෛරංධ්ර්යාඃ- - of Sairandhree (the female who gave Thee unguents); තදනු චිරං - thereafter, since long; ස්මර-ආතුරායා - by Kaama Deva who was afflicted; යාතඃ-අභූඃ - (Thou) went; සුලලිතම්- - well adorned; උද්ධවේන සාර්ධම් - with Uddhava; ආවාසං - to (her) house; ත්වත්-උපගම-උත්සවං - Thy arriving festival; සදා-ඒව - always alone; ධ්යායංත්යාඃ - she was thinking of; ප්රතිදින-වාස-සජ්ජිකායාඃ - (and so) everyday adorned herself and decorated her house;
Translation
Thou went well adorned with Uddhava to the house of Sairandhree, the female attendant who had given Thee unguents and was long stricken with love for Thee. She was thinking of Thee every day and adorned herself and decorated her house everyday in the expectation of the festive event of meeting Thee.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
උපගතේ ත්වයි පූර්ණමනෝරථාං ප්රමදසංභ්රමකංප්රපයෝධරාම් ।
විවිධමානනමාදධතීං මුදා රහසි තාං රමයාංචකෘෂේ සුඛම් ॥2॥
Meaning
උපගතේ ත්වයි - at Thy arrival; පූර්ණමනෝරථාම් - her wish fulfilled; ප්රමද-සංභ්රම- - with joy and excitement; කංප්ර-පයෝධරාම් - whose breasts were quivering; විවිධ-මානනම්- - various honours; ආදධතීං මුදා - who was offering joyfully; රහසි තාං - secretly to her; රමයාන්-චකෘෂේ - (Thou) delighted her; සුඛම් - happily;
Translation
At Thy arrival, all her wishes were fulfilled and she joyfully honoured Thee with various offerings, with her breasts heaving in excitement. Thou happily delighted her in privacy.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
පෘෂ්ටා වරං පුනරසාවවෘණෝද්වරාකී
භූයස්ත්වයා සුරතමේව නිශාංතරේෂු ।
සායුජ්යමස්ත්විති වදේත් බුධ ඒව කාමං
සාමීප්යමස්ත්වනිශමිත්යපි නාබ්රවීත් කිම් ॥3॥
Meaning
පෘෂ්ටා වරං - asked what boon she wanted; පුනඃ-අසෞ- - then at that time, this (pitiable woman); අවෘණෝත්-වරාකී - asked for, the pitiable one; භූයඃ-ත්වයා - again with Thee; සුරතම්-ඒව - enjoyment only; නිශා-අංතරේෂු - on other nights; සායුජ්යම්-අස්තු- - let me have union with Thee; ඉති වදේත් බුධ ඒව - thus will say an enlightened one only; කාමං - definitely; සාමීප්යම්-අස්තු-අනිශම්- - let me have nearness with Thee always; ඉති-අපි- - thus also; න-අබ්රවීත් කිම් - did not say, how come (why);
Translation
When she was asked by Thee as to what boon she wanted, the stupid woman prayed that she may get to enjoy in the same manner with Thee on other nights also. Indeed only an enlightened person will ask for 'Saayujya' (becoming one with Thee) liberation. But at least she could ask for 'Saamipya' (being always close to Thee). How come she did not ask for even that!
ශ්ලෝකඃ
තතෝ භවාන් දේව නිශාසු කාසුචින්මෘගීදෘශං තාං නිභෘතං විනෝදයන් ।
අදාදුපශ්ලෝක ඉති ශ්රුතං සුතං ස නාරදාත් සාත්ත්වතතංත්රවිද්බබභෞ ॥4॥
Meaning
තතඃ භවාන් දේව - then, Thou O Effulgent One!; නිශාසු කාසුචිත්- - on some nights; මෘගීදෘශං තාං නිභෘතං - her, the doe eyed one, in secret; විනෝදයන් අදාත්- - giving delight, gave; උපශ්ලෝක ඉති - Upashloka named; ශ්රුතං සුතං - well known son; ස නාරදාත් - he (the son) from Naarada; සාත්ත්වත-තංත්ර-විද් බභෞ - in the (knowledge of) Saatvata Tantra became well versed;
Translation
O Lord! Subsequently Thou on some nights delighted the doe eyed one in secret. Thou gave her a son who came to be well known as Upashloka. He learnt the knowledge in Saattvat Tantra from Naarada and shone as an exponent there of.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
අක්රූරමංදිරමිතෝऽථ බලෝද්ධවාභ්යා-
මභ්යර්චිතෝ බහු නුතෝ මුදිතේන තේන ।
ඒනං විසෘජ්ය විපිනාගතපාංඩවේය-
වෘත්තං විවේදිථ තථා ධෘතරාෂ්ට්ර්චේෂ්ටාම් ॥5॥
Meaning
අක්රූර-මංදිරම්- - to Akrura's house; ඉතඃ-අථ - going then; බල-උද්ධවාභ්යාම්- - with Balaraama and Uddhava; අභ්යර්චිතඃ බහු නුතඃ - honoured (and) very much praised; මුදිතේන තේන - by him (Akrura) who was very delighted; ඒනං විසෘජ්ය - him (Akrura) sending away; විපින-ආගත- - from the forest having returned; පාංඩවේය-වෘත්තං - the Paandava's news; විවේදිථ තථා - come to know and; ධෘතරාෂ්ට්ර-චේෂ්ටාම් - Dhritaraashtraa's doings;
Translation
Thou went with Balaraama and Uddhava to Akrura's house. Akrura received Thee with high honours and worshipped Thee with hymns. Thou sent away Akrura to gather the news of the Pandavaas who had returned from the forest and also news about Dhritaraashtra's doings.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
විඝාතාජ්ජාමාතුඃ පරමසුහෘදෝ භෝජනෘපතේ-
ර්ජරාසංධේ රුංධත්යනවධිරුෂාංධේऽථ මථුරාම් ।
රථාද්යෛර්ද්යෝර්ලබ්ධෛඃ කතිපයබලස්ත්වං බලයුත-
ස්ත්රයෝවිංශත්යක්ෂෞහිණි තදුපනීතං සමහෘථාඃ ॥6॥
Meaning
විඝාතාත්-ජාමාතුඃ - by the slaying of the son in law; පරම-සුහෘදඃ - and great friend; භෝජ-නෘපතේඃ- - the king of Bhoja (Kansa); ජරාසංධේ රුංධති- - when Jaraasandha besieged (Mathura); අනවධි-රුෂා-අංධේ- - blinded by unbounded rage; අථ මථුරාම් - then Mathura; රථ-ආද්යෛඃ-ද්යෝඃ-ලබ්ධෛඃ - with the chariot etc.from the heaven obtained; කතිපය-බලඃ-ත්වං - with a few soldiers, Thou; බල-යුතඃ- - along with Balaraama; ත්රයඃ-විංශති-අක්ෂෞහිණි - 23 akshauhini (army); තත්-උපනීතං සමහෘථාඃ - brought by him, destroyed;
Translation
Jaraasandha was blinded with rage when his friend and son in law Kansa was killed. He besieged Mathura. Along with Balaraama, and a few soldiers, chariot and charioteer called from heaven Thou destroyed his army of 23 Akshauhini brought by him.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
බද්ධං බලාදථ බලේන බලෝත්තරං ත්වං
භූයෝ බලෝද්යමරසේන මුමෝචිථෛනම් ।
නිශ්ශේෂදිග්ජයසමාහෘතවිශ්වසෛන්යාත්
කෝऽන්යස්තතෝ හි බලපෞරුෂවාංස්තදානීම් ॥7॥
Meaning
බද්ධං බලාත්-අථ - tied up forcefully then; බලේන බලෝත්තරං - by Balaraama (him) who was of extraordinary strength; ත්වං භූයඃ - Thou again; බල-උද්යම-රසේන - wanting (him Jaraasandha) to come back with an army to fight; මුමෝචිථ-ඒනං - released him; නිශ්ශේෂ-දික්- - of all the directions; ජය-සමාහෘත- - conquering and obtaining; විශ්ව-සෛන්යාත් - the many armies; කඃ-අන්යඃ-තතඃ හි - who else than him indeed; බල-පෞරුෂවාන්- - more strong and powerful; තදානීම් - at that time;
Translation
Jaraasandha of extraordinary strength was forcefully tied up by Balaraama. Thou wanted him to come back with an army, so Thou released him. At that time there was no one more powerful than him for having conquered all the kings in all the directions and who commandeered their armies.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
භග්නඃ ස ලග්නහෘදයෝऽපි නෘපෛඃ ප්රණුන්නෝ
යුද්ධං ත්වයා ව්යධිත ෂෝඩශකෘත්ව ඒවම් ।
අක්ෂෞහිණීඃ ශිව ශිවාස්ය ජඝංථ විෂ්ණෝ
සංභූය සෛකනවතිත්රිශතං තදානීම් ॥8॥
Meaning
භග්නඃ ස - broken, he; ලග්න-හෘදයඃ-අපි - and with a defeated heart also; නෘපෛඃ ප්රණුන්නඃ - by the kings prompted; යුද්ධං ත්වයා ව්යධිත - battled (he) with Thee; ෂෝඩශකෘත්වඃ-ඒවං - thus 16 times; අක්ෂෞහිණීඃ - (with) Akshauhini armies; ශිව ශිව-අස්ය - what a wonder, of his; ජඝංථ - destroyed; විෂ්ණෝ - O All Pervading Lord!; සංභූය - altogether; ස-ඒක-නවති-ත්රිශතං - one and three hundred ninety times (391); තදානීම් - then (in the battles);
Translation
He was broken hearted and humiliated by defeat in the battle. He attacked Thee sixteen times prompted by the smaller kings. O Vishnu! Thou destroyed 391 of his Akshauhini armies altogether. What a wonder!
ශ්ලෝකඃ
අෂ්ටාදශේऽස්ය සමරේ සමුපේයුෂි ත්වං
දෘෂ්ට්වා පුරෝऽථ යවනං යවනත්රිකෝට්යා ।
ත්වෂ්ට්රා විධාප්ය පුරමාශු පයෝධිමධ්යේ
තත්රාऽථ යෝගබලතඃ ස්වජනානනෛෂීඃ ॥9॥
Meaning
අෂ්ටාදශේ-අස්ය - eighteenth his; සමරේ සමුපේයුෂි - battle (attack) was immanent; ත්වං දෘෂ්ට්වා පුරඃ-අථ - Thou seeing him in front then; යවනං යවන-ත්රිකෝට්යා - the Yavana king with 3 crore Yavanas; ත්වෂ්ට්රා විධාප්ය - by Vishwakarma getting built; පුරම්-ආශු - a city, soon; පයෝධි-මධ්යේ - in the middle of the sea; තත්ර-අථ යෝග-බලතඃ - there then, by Thy yogic powers; ස්ව-ජනාන්-අනෛෂීඃ - Thy people took (there);
Translation
The eighteenth attack by Jaraasandha was immanent and Thou saw the Yavana king in front with 3 crore Yavanas. Thou soon got a city built in the middle of the sea by Vishwakarmaa and had Thy people transferred there, by Thy Yogic power.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
පදභ්යාං ත්වාං පද්මමාලී චකිත ඉව පුරාන්නිර්ගතෝ ධාවමානෝ
ම්ලේච්ඡේශේනානුයාතෝ වධසුකෘතවිහීනේන ශෛලේ න්යලෛෂීඃ ।
සුප්තේනාංඝ්ර්යාහතේන ද්රුතමථ මුචුකුංදේන භස්මීකෘතේऽස්මින්
භූපායාස්මෛ ගුහාංතේ සුලලිතවපුෂා තස්ථිෂේ භක්තිභාජේ ॥10॥
Meaning
පදභ්යාං ත්වං - by foot Thou; පද්මමාලී - adorning a lotus garland; චකිත ඉව - feigning fright (surprise); පුරාත්-නිර්ගතඃ ධාවමානඃ - from the city went out running; ම්ලේච්ඡ-ඊශේන-අනුයාතඃ - by the Yavana king, being followed (pursued); වධ-සුකෘත-විහීනේන - being killed, of meritorious deeds devoid of; ශෛලේ න්යලෛෂීඃ - into the mountain was led; සුප්තේන-අංඝ්ර්යා-හතේන - by him who was sleeping, was with foot kicked; ද්රුතම්-අථ මුචුකුංදේන - soon then by Muchukunda; භස්මී-කෘතේ-අස්මින් - to ashes reduced when he was (Jaraasandha); භූපාය-අස්මෛ ගුහාංතේ - for this king, in the cave; සුලලිත-වපුෂා - with a charming form; තස්ථිෂේ භක්තිභාජේ - manifested (Thou) for the devout;
Translation
Adorned with a lotus garland, Thou ran from the city on foot feigning fright and surprise. The Yavana king who was devoid of meritorious deeds, in order to be blessed by being killed by Thee, pursued Thee. Thou then led him into the cave of a mountain, where king Muchukund lay asleep. Mistaking the king for Thee, the Yavana kicked him and was instantly reduced to ashes by the angry look of the awakened king. Thou then manifested Thyself in a charming form for the benefit of the devout king.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
ඓක්ෂ්වාකෝऽහං විරක්තෝऽස්ම්යඛිලනෘපසුඛේ ත්වත්ප්රසාදෛකකාංක්ෂී
හා දේවේති ස්තුවංතං වරවිතතිෂු තං නිස්පෘහං වීක්ෂ්ය හෘෂ්යන් ।
මුක්තේස්තුල්යාං ච භක්තිං ධුතසකලමලාං මෝක්ෂමප්යාශු දත්වා
කාර්යං හිංසාවිශුද්ධ්යෛ තප ඉති ච තදා ප්රාත්ථ ලෝකප්රතීත්යෛ ॥11॥
Meaning
ඓක්ෂ්වාකඃ-අහං - of the Ikshwaaku dynasty I (am); විරක්තඃ-අස්මි- - dispassionate (I) am; අඛිල-නෘප-සුඛේ - in the many royal pleasures; ත්වත්-ප්රසාද- - Thy grace; ඓක-කාංක්ෂී - alone am desiring; හා දේව-ඉති - O Lord! Thus; ස්තුවංතම් - him who was praising Thee; වර-විතතිෂු තං නිස්පෘහම් - for the multitudes of boons him desire less; වීක්ෂ්ය හෘෂ්යන් - seeing and so gladdened (Thou); මුක්තේඃ-තුල්යාං ච භක්තිං - liberation, like, and Bhakti; ධුත-සකල-මලාං - (which) washes off all sins; මෝක්ෂම්-අපි-ආශු දත්වා - liberation also soon conferred; කාර්යං හිංසා-විශුද්ධ්යෛ - should do (penance) for purifying the deed of having caused pain; තප ඉති ච තදා - penance thus and then; ප්රාත්ථ ලෝක-ප්රතීත්යෛ - (Thou) said for the world's instruction;
Translation
I am of the Ikshwaaku dynasty, O Lord! I am dispassionate towards the many royal pleasures. My only desire is for Thy grace.' Thus he said praising Thee. Thou were greatly gladdened to see that the king did not seek any of the multitude of boons. Thou conferred on him Bhakti which is as good as or equal to Mukti (liberation). Thou also conferred on him liberation which washes off all sins. Yet to set an example for the world, Thou told him to do penance to purify the deeds of having caused pain to people during his rule.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
තදනු මථුරාං ගත්වා හත්වා චමූං යවනාහෘතාං
මගධපතිනා මාර්ගේ සෛන්යෛඃ පුරේව නිවාරිතඃ ।
චරමවිජයං දර්පායාස්මෛ ප්රදාය පලායිතෝ
ජලධිනගරීං යාතෝ වාතාලයේශ්වර පාහි මාම් ॥12॥
Meaning
තදනු මථුරාං ගත්වා - there after going to Mathura; හත්වා චමූං - destroying the army; යවන-ආහෘතාං - brought by the Yavana; මගධපතිනා - by the king of Magadha (Jaraasandha); මාර්ගේ සෛන්යෛඃ පුරා-ඉව - on the way with armies like before; නිවාරිතඃ - being stopped; චරම-විජයම් - the last victory; දර්පාය-අස්මෛ - for (his) pride for him; ප්රදාය පලායිතඃ - giving (and) fleeing; ජලධි-නගරීං යාතඃ - to the ocean city (Dwaarakaa) went; වාතාලයේශ්වර - O Lord of Guruvaayur!; පාහි මාම් - save me;
Translation
After that, going to Mathura Thou destroyed the army brought by the Yavana while on Thy way, like before, the armies of the king of Magadha (Jaraasandha) obstructed Thee. To inflate his pride, Thou gave him the last (eighteenth) victory by fleeing to the ocean city of Dwaarakaa. O Lord of Guruvaayur! save me.
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