Narayaniyam Dashaka 20

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• verse 1

  प्रियव्रतस्य प्रियपुत्रभूता-दाग्नीध्रराजादुदितो हि नाभिः ।त्वां दृष्टवानिष्टदमिष्टिमध्येतवैव तुष्ट्यै कृतयज्ञकर्मा ॥1॥

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  priyavratasya priyaputrabhūtā-dāgnīdhrarājāduditō hi nābhiḥ ।tvāṃ dṛṣṭavāniṣṭadamiṣṭimadhyētavaiva tuṣṭyai kṛtayajñakarmā ॥1॥

  meaning

  Born to Priyavrata's dear son Agnidhra, Nabhi saw you at a sacrifice performed for your sake and performed the ritual work for your satisfaction alone.

• verse 2

  अभिष्टुतस्तत्र मुनीश्वरैस्त्वंराज्ञः स्वतुल्यं सुतमर्थ्यमानः ।स्वयं जनिष्येऽहमिति ब्रुवाण-स्तिरोदधा बर्हिषि विश्वमूर्ते ॥2॥

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  abhiṣṭutastatra munīśvaraistvaṃrājñaḥ svatulyaṃ sutamarthyamānaḥ ।svayaṃ janiṣyē'hamiti bruvāṇa-stirōdadhā barhiṣi viśvamūrtē ॥2॥

  meaning

  When the sages praised you there and the king asked for a son equal to himself, you said 'I myself will be born' and disappeared into the sacred grass, O form of the universe.

• verse 3

  नाभिप्रियायामथ मेरुदेव्यांत्वमंशतोऽभूः ॠषभाभिधानः ।अलोकसामान्यगुणप्रभाव-प्रभाविताशेषजनप्रमोदः ॥3॥

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  nābhipriyāyāmatha mērudēvyāṃtvamaṃśatō'bhūḥ ṝṣabhābhidhānaḥ ।alōkasāmānyaguṇaprabhāva-prabhāvitāśēṣajanapramōdaḥ ॥3॥

  meaning

  Then in Nabhi's beloved wife Merudevi you were born with a portion as the one called Rishabha, whose extraordinary virtues and power delighted all people.

• verse 4

  त्वयि त्रिलोकीभृति राज्यभारंनिधाय नाभिः सह मेरुदेव्या ।तपोवनं प्राप्य भवन्निषेवीगतः किलानन्दपदं पदं ते ॥4॥

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  tvayi trilōkībhṛti rājyabhāraṃnidhāya nābhiḥ saha mērudēvyā ।tapōvanaṃ prāpya bhavanniṣēvīgataḥ kilānandapadaṃ padaṃ tē ॥4॥

  meaning

  When you, the sustainer of the three worlds, placed the burden of the kingdom on Nabhi, he went with Merudevi to the forest and became devoted to you, attaining the state of your supreme peace.

• verse 5

  इन्द्रस्त्वदुत्कर्षकृतादमर्षा-द्ववर्ष नास्मिन्नजनाभवर्षे ।यदा तदा त्वं निजयोगशक्त्यास्ववर्षमेनद्व्यदधाः सुवर्षम् ॥5॥

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  indrastvadutkarṣakṛtādamarṣā-dvavarṣa nāsminnajanābhavarṣē ।yadā tadā tvaṃ nijayōgaśaktyāsvavarṣamēnadvyadadhāḥ suvarṣam ॥5॥

  meaning

  When Indra, angered by your superiority, withheld rain from Ajanabha-varsha, you then through your own yoga power made that land of yours a place of good rainfall.

• verse 6

  जितेन्द्रदत्तां कमनीं जयन्ती-मथोद्वहन्नात्मरताशयोऽपि ।अजीजनस्तत्र शतं तनूजा-नेषां क्षितीशो भरतोऽग्रजन्मा ॥6॥

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  jitēndradattāṃ kamanīṃ jayantī-mathōdvahannātmaratāśayō'pi ।ajījanastatra śataṃ tanūjā-nēṣāṃ kṣitīśō bharatō'grajanmā ॥6॥

  meaning

  Though inwardly self-delighting, you married the beautiful Jayanti given by Indra, and there begot a hundred sons—the eldest among them the sovereign Bharata.

• verse 7

  नवाभवन् योगिवरा नवान्येत्वपालयन् भारतवर्षखण्डान् ।सैका त्वशीतिस्तव शेषपुत्र-स्तपोबलात् भूसुरभूयमीयुः ॥7॥

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  navābhavan yōgivarā navānyētvapālayan bhāratavarṣakhaṇḍān ।saikā tvaśītistava śēṣaputra-stapōbalāt bhūsurabhūyamīyuḥ ॥7॥

  meaning

  Nine of them became foremost yogis and nine others protected the regions of Bharatavarsha; the remaining eighty-one, through the power of tapas, became brahmins.

• verse 8

  उक्त्वा सुतेभ्योऽथ मुनीन्द्रमध्येविरक्तिभक्त्यन्वितमुक्तिमार्गम् ।स्वयं गतः पारमहंस्यवृत्ति-मधा जडोन्मत्तपिशाचचर्याम् ॥8॥

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  uktvā sutēbhyō'tha munīndramadhyēviraktibhaktyanvitamuktimārgam ।svayaṃ gataḥ pāramahaṃsyavṛtti-madhā jaḍōnmattapiśāchacharyām ॥8॥

  meaning

  Then, having taught the path of detachment and devotion leading to liberation in the midst of great sages, you yourself took on the ways of a paramahamsa—the conduct of the inert, the mad and the possessed.

• verse 9

  परात्मभूतोऽपि परोपदेशंकुर्वन् भवान् सर्वनिरस्यमानः ।विकारहीनो विचचार कृत्स्नांमहीमहीनात्मरसाभिलीनः ॥9॥

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  parātmabhūtō'pi parōpadēśaṃkurvan bhavān sarvanirasyamānaḥ ।vikārahīnō vichachāra kṛtsnāṃmahīmahīnātmarasābhilīnaḥ ॥9॥

  meaning

  Though one with the supreme Self, yet giving instruction to others, borne by all, always free of change—you wandered the entire earth absorbed in the bliss of the inner Self.

• verse 10

  शयुव्रतं गोमृगकाकचर्यांचिरं चरन्नाप्य परं स्वरूपम् ।दवाहृताङ्गः कुटकाचले त्वंतापान् ममापाकुरु वातनाथ ॥10॥

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  śayuvrataṃ gōmṛgakākacharyāṃchiraṃ charannāpya paraṃ svarūpam ।davāhṛtāṅgaḥ kuṭakāchalē tvaṃtāpān mamāpākuru vātanātha ॥10॥

  meaning

  Having long practiced the vow of lying still, the cow-life, the deer-life, the crow-life, and attaining the supreme nature—your body consumed by a forest fire on Kutaka mountain—O lord of Guruvayur, remove my afflictions.