[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [Historical poems, biographies and chronicles](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical) › [The Life of Ballālasena](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita) › 2.13 # The Life of Ballālasena 2.13 Vallālacarita 2.13 - **Language:** Sanskrit ## Contents - [2.13.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.65) — 2 parts ### [2.13.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.1) vyāsa uvāca: vedaḥ smṛtiḥ sadācāraḥ svasya ca priyamātmanaḥ / samyaksaṃkalpajaḥ kāmo dharmmamūlamidaṃ smṛtam // > Vyāsa said: > The Veda, tradition, proper conduct, and what is pleasing to oneself, / desire born of right intention—this is remembered as the root of dharma. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.2) adhyāpanañcādhyayanaṃ yajanaṃ yājanaṃ tathā / dānaṃ pratigrahaṃ karmma brāhmaṇānāmudāhṛtam // > Teaching and studying, sacrificing and officiating at sacrifices, / giving and acceptance of gifts—these are declared the duties of Brahmins. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.3) śrūtismṛtī ca viprāṇāṃ cakṣuṣī devanirmmite / kāṇastatraikayā hīnaḥ dvābhyāmandhaḥ prakīrttitaḥ // > Revelation and tradition are the two divinely fashioned eyes of Brahmins; / deprived of one, he is one-eyed; deprived of both, he is proclaimed blind. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.4) vaivāhikegnau kurvvīta gṛhyakarmma yathāvidhi / pañcayajñavidhānañca paktiñcānvahikīṃ gṛhī // > In the domestic fire a householder should perform domestic rites according to rule, / the performance of the five great sacrifices, and the daily cooking of food. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.5) adhyāpanaṃ brahmayajñaḥ pitṛyajñastu tarpaṇam / homo daivo balibhoto nṛyajño 'tithipūjanam // > Teaching is the sacrifice to Brahman; the water-offering is the sacrifice to the ancestors; / the oblation is for the gods; the food-portion is for beings; the sacrifice to humans is honouring guests. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.6) devatātithibhṛtyānāṃ pitḥṇāmātmanaśca yaḥ / na nirvvapati pañcānāmucchvasanna sa jīvati // > He who does not offer to these five—the deities, guests, servants, / ancestors, and himself—though breathing, he does not live. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.7) ekarātraṃ vasan vipraḥ kṣatriyaścātithiḥ smṛtaḥ / anityā hi sthiti ryasmāttasmādatithirucyate // > A Brahmin or a Kṣatriya staying for a single night is considered a guest; / because his stay is transient, he is therefore called a guest. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.8) vaiśyaśūdrāvapi prāptau kuṭumbe 'tithidharmmiṇau / bhojayet sahabhṛtyai stāvānṛśaṃsyaṃ pradarśayan // > Even if a Vaiśya and a Śūdra arrive at the household having the status of guests, / he should feed them along with his servants, showing compassion. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.9) svadāranirato nityaṃ paradāravivarjjitaḥ / kṛtahomastu bhuñjīta sāyaṃprātarudāradhīḥ // > Always devoted to his own wife, avoiding the wives of others, / having offered the oblation, the noble-minded man should eat evening and morning. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.10) sarvvataḥ pratigṛhṇīyādavṛttyā karṣito dvijaḥ / na bhaveddoṣabhāk tena jvalanārkasamo hi saḥ // > A twice-born man afflicted by lack of livelihood may accept gifts from anywhere; / he does not thereby incur sin, for he is equal to fire and the sun. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.11) bhūtānāṃ rakṣaṇaṃ dānamijyādhyayanameva ca / śivārcanaṃ kṣatriyāṇāṃ tathā nārāyaṇārccanam // > Protection of beings, charity, sacrifice, and study alone, / the worship of Śiva and likewise the worship of Nārāyaṇa belong to Kṣatriyas. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.12) nityodyukto dasyuvadhe raṇe kuryyāt parākramam / nāsya kṛtyatamaṃ kiñcit rājño dasyuvinigrahāt // > Constantly prepared to slay bandits, he should display valor in battle; / for a king, there is no higher duty than the suppression of bandits. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.13) cāṭabhāṭataskarebhyo mahāsāhasikādibhiḥ / pīḍyamānāḥ prajā rakṣet kāyasthaiśca viśeṣataḥ // > He should protect his subjects who are oppressed by irregular soldiers, constables, and thieves, / by perpetrators of violent crimes, and especially by the Kāyasthas. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.14) sammānadānasatkāraiḥ vaidikān vāsayet sadā / rājanyo dharmmakṛtyañca kuryyādeva prayatnataḥ // > With honours, gifts, and hospitality he should always settle Vaidikas; / the royal noble should certainly perform acts of dharma with diligence. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.15) paṇḍitaṃ nītiśāstrajñaṃ nityañca pratipālayet / niyojayet sabhāmadhye nityaṃ sadbhiśca saṃyutaḥ // > He should always support a scholar who knows political science; / he should appoint him in the assembly, always accompanied by the virtuous. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.16) saṃviśet tūryyaghoṣeṇa pratibudhyettathaiva ca / śāstrāṇi cintayedbuddhyā sarvvakarttavyatāṃ tathā // > He should retire to rest to the sound of trumpets and awake in the same manner; / he should reflect with his intellect upon the scriptures and all that ought to be done. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.17) dṛṣṭvā jyotirvvido vaidyān dadyāt gāṃ kāñcanaṃ mahīm / niveśikāni ca tathā śrotriyāṇāṃ gṛhāni ca // > Meeting astrologers and physicians, he should give cattle, gold, and land, / as well as settlements and dwellings for śrotriyas. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.18) ya eva dharmmo nṛpateḥ svarāṣṭrapratipālane / tameva kṛtsnamāpnoti pararāṣṭraṃ vaśaṃ nayan // > Whatever dharma belongs to a king in protecting his own realm, / that entire \[dharma\] he obtains while bringing an enemy realm into subjection. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.19) devabrāhmaṇabhaktaśca pitṛkāryyaparāyaṇaḥ / svabhāryyānirato nityaṃ ṣaḍbhāgārhaḥ sadā nṛpaḥ // > Devoted to gods and Brahmins, dedicated to ancestral rites, / constantly attached to his own wife, a king is always worthy of one-sixth \[of the produce\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.20) ekāṃśena balaṃ dhāryyaṃ dānamaṃśadvayena ca / ekāṃśena prakṛtaya ekāṃśenādhikāriṇaḥ // > The army should be maintained with one part, and gifts given with two parts; / the subjects with one part, and officials with one part; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.21) ekāṃśenātmabhogaśca kuṭumbādiprapālanam / āyasyaivaṃ ṣaḍavibhāgai rvyayaṃ kuryyānmahīpatiḥ // > With one part his personal enjoyment and the maintenance of his household: / thus by six divisions of his revenue the lord of the earth should make expenditure. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.22) sandhyāmupāsya kurute gītaṃ vādyaṃ manoharam / nṛtyagītaiśca jagdhīṃ vā strībhirniśi sukhāvahām // > Having performed the twilight worship, he enjoys enchanting song and instrumental music, / or at night, a pleasant meal with women amid dances and songs. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.23) gorakṣāṃ kṛṣivāṇijyaṃ kuryyādvaiśyo yathāvidhi / dānaṃ deyaṃ yathāśaktyā brāhmaṇānāñca bhojanam // > A Vaiśya should perform cattle-rearing, agriculture, and trade according to rule; / gifts should be given according to ability, and food to Brahmins. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.24) dambhamohavinirmmuktastathā vāganasūyakaḥ / svadāranirato dāntaḥ paradāravivarjjitaḥ // > Free from hypocrisy and delusion, not speaking ill of others, / devoted to his own wife, self-controlled, avoiding another's wife, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.25) dhanairviprān bhojayitvā yajñakāle tu yājakān / aprabhutvañca vartteta dharmmeṣvādehapātanāt // > Having fed Brahmins with wealth, and the priests at the time of sacrifice, / he should conduct himself without pride in righteous deeds until the fall of his body. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.26) yajñādhyayanadānāni kuryyānnityamatandritaḥ / pitṛkāryyaparaścaiva viṣṇuśivārccanāparaḥ // > He should constantly perform sacrifice, study, and giving without indolence, / dedicated to rites for the ancestors, and devoted to the worship of Viṣṇu and Śiva. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.27) varṇatrayasya śuśrūṣāṃ kuryyācchūdraḥ prayatnataḥ / dāsavadbrāhmaṇānāṃ ca viśeṣeṇa samācaret // > The Śūdra should diligently perform service to the three classes, / and he should conduct himself toward Brahmins especially like a servant. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.28) ayācitapradātā syāt kṛṣiṃ vṛttyarthamāśrayet / śuddhā tu vṛttistasyaiva kāru-cāraṇa-karmma ca // > He should give without being asked; he may resort to agriculture for his livelihood; / and his blameless livelihood is artisan work and the profession of a bard. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.29) pākayajñavidhānena yajeddevānatandritaḥ / tasya tu dvijaśuśrūṣā paro dharmmaḥ prakīrttitaḥ // > He should worship the gods according to the rule of domestic sacrifice, without indolence; / but service to the twice-born is proclaimed to be his highest duty. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.30) dhāraṇaṃ jīrṇavastrasya viprasyocchiṣṭabhojanam / svadāreṣu ratiścaiva paradāravivarjanam // > Wearing worn-out clothes, eating the Brahmin's leftover food, / delighting only in his own wife, and avoiding another's wife: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.31) lavaṇaṃ madhutailaṃ ca dadhi takraṃ ghṛtaṃ payaḥ / na duṣyecchūdrajātīnāṃ kuryyāt sarvvasya vikrayam // > Salt, honey, oil, curd, buttermilk, clarified butter, and milk— / he will not incur guilt if he engages in the sale of all these for Śūdra castes. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.32) kriyābhedaistu sarvveṣāṃ bhṛtivṛttiraninditā / sīrabhedaiḥ kṛṣiḥ proktā manvādyairbrāhmaṇādiṣu // > By differences of occupation, a livelihood of service is blameless for all; / agriculture has been taught by Manu and others for Brahmins and the rest according to differences in plows. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.33) brāhmaṇaiḥ ṣoḍaśagabaṃ caturūnaṃ tathāparaiḥ / dvigavaṃ vāntyajaiḥ sīraṃ dṛṣṭvā bhūmārddavaṃ tathā // > A plow with sixteen oxen for Brahmins, four less for others, / or with two oxen for the lowest-born, having observed the softness of the ground. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.34) bhūmiṃ bhitvauṣadhiṃ chitvā hatvā kīṭapipīlikām / punanti khalu yajñena karṣakā devapūjanāt // > Having torn the earth, cut plants, and killed worms and ants, / plowmen surely purify themselves through sacrifice by worshipping the gods. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.35) vaidikaiḥ karmmabhiḥ puṇyairniṣekādirdvijanmanām / kāryyaḥ śarīrasaṃskāraḥ pāvanaḥ pretya ceha ca // > Through meritorious Vedic rites, the bodily life-cycle rites from conception onward / are to be performed for the twice-born, purifying both in this world and after death. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.36) garbhādhānamṛtau puṃsaḥ savanaṃ spandanāt purā / turyye 'ṣṭame vā sīmanto janane jātakarmma ca // > The conception rite in season; the rite for quickening a male child before quickening; / the hair-parting rite in the fourth or eighth month; and the birth rite at birth; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.37) niṣkramastṛtīyamāsi nāma vyuṣṭe śatāhani / ṣaṣṭhe 'nnaprāśanaṃ cūḍā janyabde vā yathākulam // > The first outing rite in the third month; the naming rite when a hundred days have passed; / the first feeding rite in the sixth month; the tonsure rite in the third year or according to the family; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.38) karṇavedho vratādeśo vedārambhaḥ kriyāvidhiḥ / keśāntaḥ snānamudvāho vivāhāgniparigrahaḥ // > The ear-piercing rite, the investiture with the vow, the beginning of Vedic study, the ritual rules, / the first shaving rite, the graduation bath, marriage, the taking of the domestic fire, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.39) tretāgnisaṃgrahaśceti saṃskārāḥ ṣoḍaśa smṛtāḥ / navaitāḥ karṇavedhāntāḥ mantravarjjaṃ kriyā striyāḥ // > And the establishment of the three fires—thus sixteen life-cycle rites are remembered; / these nine ending with the ear-piercing rite are the rites for a woman, without mantras. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.40) vipro garbhāṣṭame varṣe kṣatra ekādaśe tathā / dvādaśe vaiśyajātistu vratopanayamarhati // > A Brahmin is entitled to the initiation rite in the eighth year from conception, a Kṣatriya in the eleventh, / and one of the Vaiśya caste in the twelfth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.41) tasya prāptavratasyāyaṃ kālaḥ syādviguṇādhikaḥ / vedavratacyuto vrātyaḥ sa vrātyastomamarhati // > For him who has reached the time for the vow, this time may be up to twice as long; / fallen from the Vedic vow, he becomes a vrātya, and he is entitled to the vrātyastoma sacrifice. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.42) brāhmo daivastathaivārṣaḥ prājāpatyastathāsuraḥ / gāndharbbo rākṣasaścaiva paiśācaścāṣṭamo 'dhamaḥ // > The Brāhma, Daiva, Ārṣa, Prājāpatya, and Āsura, / the Gāndharva, Rākṣasa, and the Paiśāca, the eighth and lowest. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.43) ete dharmmāstu catvāraḥ pūrvvaṃ vipre prakīrttitāḥ / gāndharbbo rākṣasaścaiva kṣatriyasya praśasyate // > These four former righteous rites are declared for a Brahmin; / the Gāndharva and the Rākṣasa are commended for a Kṣatriya. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.44) aprārthitaḥ prayatnena brāhmastu parikīrttitaḥ / prārthitārthapradānena prājāpatyaḥ prakīrttitaḥ // > \[A gift of a bride\] without solicitation, with effort, is proclaimed as the Brāhma; / by giving for the sake of fulfilling a requested purpose, the Prājāpatya is proclaimed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.45) āsuro draviṇādānāt gāndharbbaḥ samayānmithaḥ / rākṣaso yuddhaharaṇāt paiśācaḥ kanyakācchalāt // > The Āsura is through taking wealth; the Gāndharva is through mutual agreement; / the Rākṣasa is through abduction in battle; the Paiśāca is through deceit of the maiden. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.46) tisrastu bhāryyāḥ kṣatrasya bhāryaikā brāhmaṇasya tu / ekaiva bhāryyā vaiśyasya śūdrasya ca vidhīyate // > Three wives are prescribed for a Kṣatriya, but only one wife for a Brahmin; / only one wife is prescribed for a Vaiśya and for a Śūdra. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.47) kṣatriyā vaiśyā śūdrā ca kṣatriyasya prakīrttitā / ekaiva bhāryyā viprasya brāhmaṇī tu vidhīyate // > A Kṣatriya, a Vaiśya, and a Śūdra woman are declared for a Kṣatriya; / only one wife, a Brahmin woman, is prescribed for a Brahmin. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.48) vaiśyaiva bhāryyā vaiśyasya śūdrā śūdrasya kīrttitā / brāhmaṇo nodvahet kanyāmasavarṇāṃ kadācana // > Only a Vaiśya woman is proclaimed as wife for a Vaiśya, and a Śūdra woman for a Śūdra; / a Brahmin must never marry a woman not of his own class. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.49) brāhmaṇādvaiśyakanyāyāmambaṣṭho yo vyajāyata / sa tu śūdratvamāpanno vivahenna tato viśām // > An Ambaṣṭha who was born from a Brahmin father to a Vaiśya maiden, / having fallen into the state of a Śūdra, should not marry among the Vaiśyas thereafter. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.50) śūdrābhāryyasya pātityaṃ rājanyasya yaducyate / naitanmama mataṃ jñeyaṃ sā tenonnīyate yataḥ // > As for the degradation of a nobleman having a Śūdra wife that is spoken of, / that should be known not to be my opinion, since she is elevated by him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.51) patet vipraśca vaiśyaśca śūdrāṃ kanyāmudāvahan / pātityaṃ nāsti kṣatrasya śadrūdāropasaṃgrahāt // > A Brahmin and a Vaiśya fall by marrying a Śūdra maiden; / there is no degradation for a Kṣatriya through taking a Śūdra wife. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.52) viprakanyāvivāho 'pi kṛto rājarṣibhiḥ purā / tejīyasāṃ na doṣāya vahneḥ sarvvabhujo yathā // > Even the marriage of a Brahmin maiden was done by royal sages of old; / for the very powerful it leads to no fault, just as for all-consuming fire. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.53) rājā no nāvamantavyo nṛbuddhyā manurabravīt / mahatī devatā hyeṣā nararūpeṇa tiṣṭhati // > Manu said: 'The king must not be despised with the thought: "He is a mortal"; / for this is a great deity standing in human form.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.54) anuṣṭhitantu yaddevairmunibhiryadanuṣṭhitam / nānuṣṭheyaṃ manuṣyaistaduktaṃ karmma samācaret // > What was practiced by the gods and what was practiced by the sages / is not to be practiced by mortals; one should perform the rite that has been enjoined. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.55) ūḍhāyāṃ hi savarṇāyāmaviprāṃ kāmamudvahet / tasyāmutpāditaḥ putro na savarṇāt prahīyate // > When a woman of the same class has been married, he may marry at will a non-Brahmin woman; / a son produced from her does not fall from the same class. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.56) kṣatrājjātaḥ kṣatriyāyāṃ kṣatriyaḥ syāt na saṃśayaḥ / vaiśyāyāṃ ca tathaiva syāt śadrāyāmapi caiva hi // > One born from a Kṣatriya to a Kṣatriya woman is a Kṣatriya, there is no doubt; / and it is just the same with a Vaiśya woman, and indeed even with a Śūdra woman. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.57) yāvanna vindate jāyāṃ tāvadarddho bhavetpumān / nārddhaṃ prajāyate sarvvaṃ prajāyete iti śrutiḥ // > As long as a man does not obtain a wife, so long is he half; / a half does not propagate, the whole propagates—such is the Vedic revelation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.58) sakāmāyāntu kanyāyāṃ saṅgame nāstyatikramaḥ / kintvalaṃkṛtya satkṛtya sa evaināṃ samudvahet // > In union with a consenting maiden, there is no transgression; / but having adorned and honored her, he himself should marry her. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.59) savarṇāmudvahet bhāryyāṃ prathamaṃ dharmmasiddhaye / tatohyapratilomena yathākāmaṃ vahennṛpaḥ // > He should first marry a wife of the same class for the accomplishment of righteousness; / then the king may marry in the natural order of classes according to his desire. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.60) viṣādyathāmṛtaṃ grāhyamamedhyāt kāñcanaṃ yathā / nīcādyathottamā vidyā strīratnaṃ duṣkulāttathā // > Just as nectar is to be taken from poison, gold from impure matter, / and supreme knowledge from a lowly person, so a jewel of a woman from a bad family. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.61) striyoratnānyatho vidyā dharmmaḥ śaucaṃ subhāṣitam / vividhāni ca śilpāni samādeyāni sarvvataḥ // > Women, jewels, and knowledge, righteousness, purity, well-spoken counsel, / and various crafts are to be accepted from everywhere. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.62) yatra nāryyastu pūjyante ramante tatra devatāḥ / yatraitāstu na pūjyante sarvvāstatrāphalāḥ kriyāḥ // > Where women are honored, there the gods delight; / but where they are not honored, there all rites are fruitless. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.63) prajanārthaṃ mahābhāgā pūjārhā gṛhadīptayaḥ / striyaḥ śriyaśca geheṣu na viśeṣo 'sti kaścana // > Being illustrious for the sake of procreation, worthy of honor, the lights of the home, / there is no difference whatsoever between women and fortune in households. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.64) utpādanamapatyasya jātasya paripālanam / pratyahaṃ lokayātrāyāḥ pratyakṣaṃ strī nibandhanam // > The production of offspring, the rearing of what is born, / the daily course of worldly life—woman is visibly the foundation of it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.65) apatyaṃ dārakarmmāṇi śuśraṣā ratiruttamā / dārādhīnastathā svargaḥ pitḥṇāmātmanaśca vai // > Offspring, domestic duties, service, highest pleasure, / and heaven for the ancestors and for oneself are indeed dependent on a wife. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.65.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.65.p1) iti vallālacarite vyāsapurāṇe varṇadharmmādikīrttanaṃ nāma trayodaśo 'dhyāyaḥ / > Thus ends the thirteenth chapter, named 'The Declaration of the Duties of the Classes and the Rest', in the Vyāsapurāṇa in the Vallālacarita. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.13.65.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13.65.p3) atha caturdaśo 'dhyāyaḥ > Now begins the fourteenth chapter. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita~en-mt.2.13.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (8) - [Narasiṃhapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.upa.vaisnava.narasimha.58.4) — Sanskrit - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.1.89) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Vyāsasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.vyasa.1.14) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Vedavyāsasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.vedavyasasmrti.15) — Sanskrit - [Southern recension](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*southern.3.314.60) — Sanskrit - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.93.11) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Kṛtyakalpataru](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.krtyakalpataru.1.p47) — Lakṣmīdhara Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit - [Madanapārijāta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.madanaparijata.3.p2.6) — Viśveśvarabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.vallalacarita.2.13) · Pramāṇa