srimad bhagavatam canto 1 english verses ch 16

7/30/2019 Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1 English Verses Ch 16

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Srimad BhagavatamFirst Time In The world

In EnglishVersesV.I.G.Menon

Canto1Chapter 16


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Srimad Bhagavatam Canto1.Chapter 16

Obeisances to Lord Krishna the Godhead

Chapter 16: How Parkchit Received the Age of Kali

SB 1.16.1

O Brahmins !That Great Royal sage then Parikshit ruled the earth

as per the Words spoken by the star gazers on the day of his birth

SB 1.16.2

Sons four he begat in Iravati ,off King Uttara

royal all of them with foremost as Janamejaya

SB 1.16.3

At the Ganges he did three horse yagnas and rewarded thrice

The Supervising mentor,Godly Kripacharya with bounties.

SB 1.16.4

He once saw with his sagely vision the ruler of Kaliage , on his campaign traila lowest form of rulerhip , disguised as a King, hurting the legs of a cow and a bull.

SB 1.16.5

Saunaka Queried:Why did King Parikshit reprimand the debased ruler of Kali-agefor beating a cow ? Please tell this to us it relates to tales of Krishna,O divine sage


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SB 1.16.6

The question is why would truth seekers who relish the honey at His lotus feet,waste their lives with endless illusory discussions on topics that are irrelevant?

SB 1.16.7

Oh Suta, in this world of mortals whose lifespan is short, those who desire eternal life ,callsfor the presence of the Lord of Death, Yamrja who rules over the propitiatory sacrifice .

SB 1.16.8

The great Lord is invited to preside over sacrifices as he rules over death ,and let those who desireimmortality drink from the narrations on His divine pastimes , to gain eternal life of high price

SB 1.16.9

Is it not so that those lazy, trivially-aimed and short-lived,beingspass their days and nights with aimless activities and sleeping?"

SB 1.16.10

Suta Said: When Parikshit at Kuru Kapital had forebodings of Kali-age mightand its domination by scamps, he took up his bow and arrows for a military fight

SB 1.16.10

Well decorated under the protection of the lion in his flag and with black horses for his chariot,he left the capital accompanied by , cavalry, elephants and infantry to ensure his military might

SB 1.16.11

Bhadrasvva, Ketumala, Bharata, the northern countries of Kuru and Kimpurusha enroute

to Himalayas were the lands he conquered,maintaining his authority by exacting tribute.


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SB 1.16.12-15

Everywhere on the way he heard paens on his great forefathersand among glories of Lord Krishna he then heard on his deliverance

from the powerful rays of Asvathamas weapons and on devotionsd for Lord Krishna among both Vrishni and Parths descendants

Pleased , eyes wide in joy, he rewarded them in clothes, and riches.

SB 1.16.16

Serving as charioteer, presiding in assemblies, acting as a servant, being a friendand a messenger and keeping the watch at night ,Lord Vishnu as Krishna , obeyedby everyone had acted with prayers and obeisances in relation to the love-filledGod-fearing Pandavas ,this imbued Parikshit with devotion for the loving Lord.

SB 1.16.17

Absorbed in the nobilities of his forefathers he chose thus in his everyday lifeto follow their path, hear about a curious incident that happened to him closeby

SB 1.16.18

Righteousness personified as a bull who crawled on one leg, having lost other three legsof virtues, met an aggrieved Mother Earth as a cow in tears suffering loss of her calves

SB 1.16.19

Dharma asked: 'Madam, are you hale and hearty? Looking with a gloomy face you appearto be affected by a disease or preoccupied with a relative far away from you, oh mother.

SB 1.16.20

Are you lamenting about my three languishing legs, or because the meat-eaters want to exploityour body? Or is it because the share of the sacrifice that enlightened ones are hence bereftfor lack of yagnas or because the living beings increasingly suffer from famine, and drought?


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SB 1.16.21

Are you feeling compunction for the sad women and children who are deserted

Or because the goddess of learning is being handled by brhmins who are devoid

Of her principles ? Or that the brhmins are by their enemies well sheltered ?

SB 1.16.22

Is it because the descendants of the noble class under the influence of Kali-yuga appear to havelost their minds and left and right have messed up the affairs of the state? Or is it because of the

wonts that have developed in society to take one's food and drink and how one sleeps, bathes andhas intercourse?

SB 1.16.23

Could it be, oh mother Earth, that you are thinking about the salvation broughtby the the Lord Krishna who diminished your heavy load but is now out of sight?

SB 1.16.24

Tell me, oh reservoir of all riches, the reason for your sadness that reduced you soOr has oh mother, powerful Time stole away your fortunes extolled by thehigh souls?'

SB 1.16.25

Mother er Earth replied: 'Oh Dharma, I will do my best to answer all the questionsyou asked me, for you are on your all fours to bring happiness in all the worlds

SB 1.16.26-30

Truth, cleanliness, compassion, self-control,, contentment, straightforwardness, magnanimityconcentration, sense-control, responsibility, equality, tolerance, equanimity and loyalty

And certainly also knowledge, detachment, leadership, chivalry, influence, power, dutifulness,independence, dexterity, beauty, serenity and kindheartedness , , as also gentility, mannerliness,determination, knowledgeability, propriety, pleasantness, joyfulness, immovability, faithfulness,fame and dignity -, ingenuity ,,all these and many others are the everlasting qualitiesof the Supreme Lord, the never diminishing higher nature which can be attained by those

who are worthy of that greatness and thanks to Him I myself am, just as the Goddessof Fortune, and reservoir of qualities, but in his absence as the pivot, Kali, is sinking the worlds.


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SB 1.16.31

I am lamenting for me and also for you, society ,for the best of the enlightened, the godsthe ancestors in heaven, the sages and the devotees, and for all people mired in this status

SB 1.16.32-33

Goddess Lakshm whose grace was sought by demigods like Lord Brahm and other godsby doing penance in surrender to the Lord, has for the sake of worship left her own abode

in the forest of lotus flowers out of attachment to the all-blissful feet of the Lord of the world.

As a consequence of what He did I, the mother earth , experienced the foot fallsof the Supreme Lord, the proprietor of all opulence, succeeded in all the worldsmagnanimously , decorated as I was with the special powers of the lotus flowers,

thunderbolt, flag ,and staff but in the end, just when I felt so fortunate, He left us.

SB 1.16.34

He who relieved me of the burden of the hundreds of military divisions of atheist kings,incarnated in the Yadu family, for, you,righteousness had difficulty to keep standing.

SB 1.16.35

Who, I ask you, can tolerate it to be separated from the love, glances, smilesand hearty appeal of the Supreme Original Person who conquered the womenspassionate devotion and gravity of women like Satyabhm and made my hairsas grasses stand on end, out of the pleasure of being imprinted by feet of His?'

SB 1.16.35

While the earth and the righteousness were thus conversing, Parkchit, who was renownedfor being the saint among the kings, arrived at the Sarasvat river that was flowing to eastend."

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