The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty 1.3.65
Mahābhārata 1.3.65
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- Sanskrit
1.3.65
ekaṃ cakraṃ vartate dvādaśāraṃ pradhiṣaṇṇābhimekākṣamamṛtasya dhāraṇam |
yasmindevā adhi viśve viṣaktāstāvaśvinau muñcato mā viṣīdatam || 65 ||
"The wheel of Time as represented by the year has a nave represented by the six seasons. The number of spokes attached to that nave is twelve as represented by the twelve signs of the Zodiac. This wheel of Time manifests the fruits of the acts of all things. The presiding deities of Time abide in that wheel. Subject as I am to its distressful influence, ye Aswins, liberate me from that wheel of Time. Ye Aswins, ye are this universe of five elements! Ye are the objects that are enjoyed in this and in the other world! Make me independent of the five elements! And though ye are the Supreme Brahma, yet ye move over the Earth in forms enjoying the delights that the senses afford.
Translations (1)
- The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, English
Commentaries (5)
- Bhāratabhāvadīpa — Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara 1650, Sanskrit
- Lakṣābharaṇa — Vādirāja Sūri, Sanskrit
- Lakṣaślokālaṅkāra — Vādirāja, Sanskrit
- Jñānadīpikā — Devabodha, Sanskrit
- Mahābhārataṭīkā — Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita, Sanskrit
Other recensions (2)
- Southern recension — Sanskrit
- Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text) — Sanskrit
Linked texts (2)
- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- The Great Epic of India: Its Character and Origin — E. W. Hopkins, English