[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [The Mahābhārata and its versions](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata) › [The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) › 1.78.34 # The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty 1.78.34 Mahābhārata 1.78.34 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.78.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.1.78.34) ityetāni samīkṣyāhaṃ kāraṇāni bhṛgūdvaha | adharmabhayasaṃvignaḥ śarmiṣṭhāmupajagmivān || 34 || > "Sukra, hearing all this, said, 'O monarch, since thou hast made vice thy beloved pursuit, though fully acquainted with the precepts of religion, invincible decrepitude shall paralyse thee!' Yayati answered, 'Adorable one, I was solicited by the daughter of the Danava king to fructify her season. I did it from a sense of virtue and not from other motives. That male person, who being solicited by a woman in her season doth not grant her wishes, is called, O Brahmana, by those conversant with the Vedas, a slayer of the embryo. He who, solicited in secret by a woman full of desire and in season, goeth not in unto her, loseth virtue and is called by the learned a killer of the embryo, O son of Bhrigu, for these reasons, and anxious to avoid sin, I went into Sarmishtha.' Sukra then replied, 'Thou art dependent on me. Thou shouldst have awaited my command. Having acted falsely in the matter of thy duty, O son of Nahusha, thou hast been guilty of the sin of theft.' > — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa - [Previous: 1.78.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.1.78.33) - [Next: 1.78.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.1.78.35) - [Up: 1.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.1.78) ## Translations (1) - [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa~en-ganguli.1.83.11) — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Bhāratabhāvadīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa!nilakantha.1.83.35) — Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara 1650, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (2) - [Southern recension](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*southern.1.77.57) — Sanskrit - [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.1.83.35) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.1.78.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.1.78.34) · Pramāṇa