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Mahabharata · Chapter 1.89

1.89.1

bhagavanvistareṇeha bharatasya mahātmanaḥ /
janma karma ca suśrūṣostanme śaṃsitumarhasi //
vaiśampāyana uvāca /

1.89.2

pauravāṇāṃ vaṃśakaro duṣyanto nāma vīryavān /
pṛthivyāścaturantāyā goptā bharatasattama //

1.89.3

caturbhāgaṃ bhuvaḥ kṛtsnaṃ yo bhuṅkte manujeśvaraḥ /
samudrāvaraṇāṃścāpi deśānsa samitiñjayaḥ //

1.89.4

āmlecchāvadhikānsarvānsa bhuṅkte ripumardanaḥ /
ratnākarasamudrāntāṃścāturvarṇyajanāvṛtān //

1.89.5

na varṇasaṅkarakaro na kṛṣyākarakṛjjanaḥ /
na pāpakṛtkaścidāsīttasminrājani śāsati //

1.89.6

dharme ratiṃ sevamānā dharmārthāvabhipedire /
tadā narā naravyāghra tasmiñjanapadeśvare //

1.89.7

nāsīccorabhayaṃ tāta na kṣudhābhayamaṇvapi /
nāsīdvyādhibhayaṃ cāpi tasmiñjanapadeśvare //

1.89.8

svadharmai remire varṇā daive karmaṇi niḥspṛhāḥ /
tamāśritya mahīpālamāsaṃścaivākutobhayāḥ //

1.89.9

kālavarṣī ca parjanyaḥ sasyāni rasavanti ca /
sarvaratnasamṛddhā ca mahī paśumatī tathā //

1.89.10

svakarmaniratā viprā nānṛtaṃ teṣu vidyate /
sa cādbhutamahāvīryo vajrasaṃhanano yuvā //

1.89.11

udyamya mandaraṃ dorbhyāṃ vahetsavanakānanam /
catuṣpathagadāyuddhe sarvapraharaṇeṣu ca //

1.89.12

nāgapṛṣṭhe'śvapṛṣṭhe ca babhūva pariniṣṭhataḥ /
bale viṣṇusamaścāsīttejasā bhāskaropamaḥ //

1.89.13

akṣobhyatve'rṇavasamaḥ sahiṣṇutve dharāsamaḥ /
sammataḥ sa mahīpālaḥ prasannapurarāṣṭravān //

1.89.14

bhūyo dharmaparairbhāvairmuditaṃ janamādiśat //

Original text: Mahābhārata (southern recension) · Edition: Śrīman Mahābhāratam, ed. T. R. Krishnacharya and T. R. Vyasacharya, Nirnaya Sagar Press, Bombay 1906–1910; e-text by SARIT (Shrinivasa Varakhedi and others) · SARIT: Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts · SARIT (e-text) via Internet Archive · CC BY-SA 3.0