[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Bhāgavatapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt) › 10.89 # Bhagavatapurana 10.89 English (machine translation) 10.89 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [10.89.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.49) — 1 part - [10.89.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.52) — 1 part - [10.89.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.53) — 2 parts - [10.89.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.54) — 2 parts - [10.89.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.55) — 2 parts ### [10.89.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.1) Śrī Śuka said: / On the bank of the Sarasvatī, O King, sages sat at a sacrificial session. / A dispute arose among them: “Among the three lords, who is the greatest?” ### [10.89.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.2) Desiring to know this, O King, in order to ascertain it, / they sent Bhṛgu, the son of Brahmā; he went to the assembly of Brahmā. ### [10.89.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.3) To test his purity, he did not offer him prostrations or praise; / the Lord became angry with him, blazing with his own brilliance. ### [10.89.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.4) The Lord, the self-born, by his own effort extinguished the anger that had arisen within himself / toward his son, just as fire is extinguished by water produced from itself. ### [10.89.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.5) Then he went to Kailāsa; the god Maheśvara, / rising with joy, stepped forward to embrace his brother. ### [10.89.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.6) \[Bhṛgu\] did not desire it, saying, “You are transgressing the path!” and the god grew angry. / Raising his trident, his eyes fierce, he moved forward to slay him. ### [10.89.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.7) Falling at his feet, the goddess pacified him with her words. / Then \[Bhṛgu\] went to Vaikuṇṭha, where the god Janārdana is. ### [10.89.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.8) He struck with his foot the chest of Him who lay on Śrī’s lap. / Thereupon rising, the Lord, the refuge of the virtuous devotees, along with Lakṣmī, ### [10.89.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.9) stepped down from His bed and bowed his head to the sage. / He said: “Welcome, O brāhmaṇa! Sit here on this seat for a moment. / O master, you ought to forgive us who did not notice you arriving. ### [10.89.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.10) Purify me, along with my realm and the world-protectors devoted to me, / with the water of your feet, which makes holy places into sacred waters. ### [10.89.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.11) Today, O venerable one, I have become the sole vessel of Lakṣmī; / prosperity will dwell upon my chest, its misfortune destroyed by your foot.” ### [10.89.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.12) Śrī Śuka said: / When Vaikuṇṭha spoke thus in his deep voice, Bhṛgu, / contented, gratified, remained silent, his eyes filled with tears from longing devotion. ### [10.89.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.13) Returning again to the sacrificial session of the sages who proclaim Brahman, / Bhṛgu described in full what he had experienced himself, O King. ### [10.89.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.14) Hearing that, the sages, astonished and free from doubt, / placed their faith in Viṣṇu as the highest, from whom peace comes, from whom fearlessness arises, ### [10.89.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.15) from whom dharma visibly arises, and knowledge accompanied by dispassion, / and the eightfold sovereign power, and fame that wipes away all taint of the self; ### [10.89.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.16) whom they call the supreme goal of sages who have laid down their staff of punishment, / peaceful, even-minded, possessing nothing, and virtuous; ### [10.89.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.17) whose beloved form is purity, while brāhmaṇas are His chosen deities; / whom those of calm mind, free from desires, or those of sharp intellect worship. ### [10.89.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.18) Threefold are the forms created by His creative power endowed with the guṇas: / rākṣasas, asuras, and devas; among them, purity is the means of attaining the holy goal. ### [10.89.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.19) Śrī Śuka said: / Thus the brāhmaṇas dwelling by the Sarasvatī, to remove the doubts of men, / attained His state through service to the lotus feet of the Supreme Person. ### [10.89.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.20) Śrī Sūta said: / Thus, one who drinks repeatedly through the cupped vessels of his ears this nectar having the fragrance of the lotus face of the sage’s son, / which destroys the fear of worldly existence and relates to the supreme person of pure fame, / abandons, as a traveler does, the fatigue of wandering on the road. ### [10.89.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.21) Śrī Śuka said: / Once in Dvāravatī, a son of a brāhmaṇa’s wife, / as soon as he was born and touched the earth, died indeed, O Bhārata. ### [10.89.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.22) The brāhmaṇa took the dead body, placed it at the king’s gate, / and, afflicted and dejected in mind, lamented and said this: ### [10.89.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.23) “Because of the sinful action of the fallen kṣatriya, the hater of brāhmaṇas, / deceitful in mind, greedy, addicted to sense objects, my child has gone to the five elements. ### [10.89.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.24) Serving a king whose pleasure is violence, of bad character, with uncontrolled senses, / the subjects languish, impoverished and perpetually miserable.” ### [10.89.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.25) In the same way the brāhmaṇa sage left a second \[child\], and likewise a third, / at the gate of the king, and chanted that same lament. ### [10.89.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.26) Once, Arjuna, overhearing it near Keśava / when the ninth child had died, addressed the brāhmaṇa: ### [10.89.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.27) “Is there, O brāhmaṇa, no wielder of the bow living here in your place? / These brāhmaṇas sit at the sacrificial session, while these \[rulers\] are merely kin to royalty. ### [10.89.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.28) Where brāhmaṇas lament, stripped of wealth, wives, and children, / those rulers are merely actors in the dress of royalty, living only to nourish their own bellies. ### [10.89.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.29) I will protect the children of you two distressed ones here, O venerable one! / If my vow is not fulfilled, I will enter the fire, my sins destroyed.” ### [10.89.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.30) The brāhmaṇa said: / “Saṅkarṣaṇa, Vāsudeva, Pradyumna the best of archers, / and Aniruddha of unrivaled chariot cannot protect them; ### [10.89.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.31) so how can you perform a deed impossible for the lords of the universe? / You wish to do it out of foolishness; we do not believe it.” ### [10.89.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.32) Śrī Arjuna said: / “I am not Saṅkarṣaṇa, O brāhmaṇa, nor Kṛṣṇa, nor the son of Kṛṣṇa; / I am indeed Arjuna, whose bow is Gāṇḍīva. ### [10.89.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.33) Do not despise my prowess, O brāhmaṇa, which pleased the three-eyed Rudra! / Conquering Death in battle, I will bring back your children, O master.” ### [10.89.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.34) Thus reassured by Phālguna, O scorcher of foes, / the brāhmaṇa went home glad, hearing of Pārtha’s heroism. ### [10.89.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.35) When the time of delivery approached for his wife, the best of the twice-born, / distressed, said to Arjuna: “Protect, protect my child from death!” ### [10.89.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.36) Touching pure water, bowing to Maheśvara, / and meditating on his celestial weapons, he strung his Gāṇḍīva bow. ### [10.89.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.37) He enclosed the maternity ward with arrows fitted with diverse mystic weapons; / horizontally, upward, and downward, Pārtha made a cage of arrows. ### [10.89.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.38) Then the child born to the brāhmaṇa’s wife, crying repeatedly, / suddenly vanished into the sky with his physical body. ### [10.89.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.39) Then the brāhmaṇa spoke, denouncing Vijaya in the presence of Kṛṣṇa: / “Look at my foolishness, that I believed the boasting of a weakling! ### [10.89.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.40) When neither Pradyumna nor Aniruddha nor Rāma nor Keśava / could save him, who else is capable of protecting him? ### [10.89.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.41) Curse Arjuna the liar! Curse the bow of that self-praiser, / who out of foolishness, evil-minded, desires to bring back one seized by destiny!” ### [10.89.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.42) While the brāhmaṇa sage cursed him thus, Phālguna, resorting to his mystic lore, / quickly went to Saṃyamanī, where the Lord Yama resides. ### [10.89.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.43) Not seeing the brāhmaṇa’s child there, he went to the city of Indra, / then to that of Agni, of Nirṛti, of Soma, of Vāyu, and of Varuṇa, ### [10.89.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.44) to Rasātala, to the vault of heaven, and to other realms, with weapons raised. / Not finding the son of the twice-born, having failed to fulfill his vow, / he wished to enter fire, but was spoken to by Kṛṣṇa, who stopped him: ### [10.89.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.45) “I will show you the brāhmaṇa’s sons; do not despise yourself by yourself! / Those men shall establish our spotless renown.” ### [10.89.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.46) Having spoken thus, the Lord, the supreme master, along with Arjuna, / mounted His celestial chariot and entered the western direction. ### [10.89.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.47) Crossing the seven continents with their oceans, then the seven mountain ranges, / and Lokāloka as well, he entered a vast darkness. ### [10.89.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.48) There the horses—Śaibya, Sugrīva, Meghapuṣpa, and Balāhaka— / lost their way in the darkness, O best of the Bharatas. ### [10.89.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.49) Seeing them, the Lord Kṛṣṇa, master of the great masters of yoga, / sent forth his discus before them, radiant like a thousand suns. ### [10.89.49.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.49.p1) Cleaving the exceedingly dreadful, dense, and vast darkness with its boundless radiance, ### [10.89.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.50) the Sudarśana \[discus\], swift as thought, sped forth like Rāma's arrow released from the bowstring piercing enemy armies. ### [10.89.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.51) Following along the path made by the discus through that darkness, Arjuna, beholding the supreme, boundless light / that pervaded everything, was struck in the eyes and closed them both. ### [10.89.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.52) Then \[the chariot\] entered water adorned with immense rolling waves raised by a powerful wind; / there stood a wondrous, supremely luminous palace, adorned with thousands of radiant gem-encrusted pillars. ### [10.89.52.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.52.p1) In it \[they saw\] the wondrous, infinite serpent Ananta of enormous coils, / gleaming with the luster of the gems upon his thousand hooded heads, ### [10.89.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.53) terrific with his two thousand eyes, resembling a white mountain, and with a dark throat and tongues. ### [10.89.53.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.53.p2) He saw the all-pervading Lord seated comfortably upon those coils, / majestic, the highest of the highest persons, ### [10.89.53.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.53.p3) He saw the all-pervading Lord seated comfortably upon those coils, / majestic, the highest of the highest persons, ### [10.89.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.54) resembling a dense rain-cloud, clad in splendid yellow garments, / with a serene face and lovely, expansive eyes. ### [10.89.54.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.54.p2) His thousand locks of hair were encircled by the splendor of his crown and earrings set with great jewels; ### [10.89.54.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.54.p3) His thousand locks of hair were encircled by the splendor of his crown and earrings set with great jewels; ### [10.89.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.55) he had eight long, handsome arms, bore the Kaustubha gem, / was marked with the Śrīvatsa, and was draped with a garland of forest flowers. ### [10.89.55.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.55.p2) whose thousands of locks of hair were encircled by the brilliance of diadems and earrings set with clusters of great gems, ### [10.89.55.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.55.p3) whose thousands of locks of hair were encircled by the brilliance of diadems and earrings set with clusters of great gems, ### [10.89.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.56) who possessed eight long and handsome arms, was adorned with the Kaustubha gem, marked with the Śrīvatsa, and draped with a garland of forest flowers. ### [10.89.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.57) Acyuta bowed down to the Infinite One, his own self, and Jiṣṇu \[Arjuna\] did so too, struck with awe at his sight. / To the two of them, standing with folded palms, the Sovereign Lord of the creators of the universe spoke with a smile in a resonant voice: ### [10.89.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.58) “The sons of the twice-born were brought here by me, who wished to see the two of you, who have descended to the earth as portions \[of myself\] for the protection of dharma. / Having slain the demons who were a burden to the earth, come back swiftly to my presence here!” ### [10.89.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.59) “Even though you two, the ṛṣis Nara and Nārāyaṇa, have fulfilled all desires, / you, foremost of beings, should practice dharma for the maintenance \[of order\] and the guidance of the world.” ### [10.89.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.60) Having been thus instructed by the Supreme Lord, the two Kṛṣṇas / said, “Yes,” bowed to the Sovereign One, took the brāhmaṇa’s boys, ### [10.89.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.61) and returned delighted to their own abode along the path they had come. / They gave the sons to the brāhmaṇa, each in his proper form and proper age. ### [10.89.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.62) Having seen the realm of Viṣṇu, Pārtha \[Arjuna\] was filled with supreme wonder, / and he realized that whatever manly prowess mortals possess is entirely by Kṛṣṇa’s grace. ### [10.89.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.63) Displaying many such heroic exploits here in the world, / he enjoyed worldly pleasures and performed sacrifices with magnificent offerings. ### [10.89.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.64) The Lord, established in supreme majesty, showered all desires / upon the subjects, beginning with the brāhmaṇas, in due season, just like Indra. ### [10.89.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89.65) Having slain the most unrighteous kings and having caused others to be slain by Arjuna and the rest, / he properly established dharma through the son of Dharma \[Yudhiṣṭhira\] and his brothers. ## Translations (1) - [The Srimad Bhagavatam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-subbarau.10.89.p2) — S. Subba Rau 1928, English ## Linked texts (1) - [Bhāgavatapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.10.89.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.10.89) · Pramāṇa