[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 5.146 # Skandapurana 5.146 Skandapurāṇa 5.146 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [5.146.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.1) .. sūta uvāca .. .. tathānyo'pi ca tatrāsti devaḥ putraprado nṛṇām .. vaṭikeśvara nāmā ca sarvapāpaharo haraḥ .. 1 .. > Sūta said: > Likewise, there is another god there who grants sons to men, > named Vaṭikeśvara, Hara who removes all sins; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.2) yasminvaṭikayā pūrvaṃ tapastaptaṃ dvijottamāḥ .. prāptā putraṃ śuke yāte vanaṃ vyāsātkapiṃjalam .. 2 .. > where formerly, O best of the twice-born, austerity was performed by Vaṭikā, > who obtained a son, Kapiñjala, from Vyāsa when Śuka had departed to the forest. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.3) .. ṛṣaya ūcuḥ .. .. kasyāsau vaṭikā tatra kathaṃ taptavatī tapaḥ .. kasmādgṛhaṃ parityaktvā śuko'pi vanamāśritaḥ .. 3 .. > The seers said: > Whose \[daughter or wife\] was that Vaṭikā there? How did she perform austerity? > For what reason did Śuka also abandon home and resort to the forest? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.4) kathaṃ kapijalaṃ putraṃ vyāsāllebhe śucismitā .. 4 .. > How did that fair-smiling woman obtain a son, Kapiñjala, from Vyāsa? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.5) .. sūta uvāca .. .. āsīdvyāsasya vipreṃdrāḥ kalatrārthaṃ matiḥ kvacit . niṣkāmasya praśāṃtasya sarvajñasya mahātmanaḥ .. 5 .. > Sūta said: > O foremost among brahmins, at one time Vyāsa, who was desireless, tranquil, > omniscient, and great-souled, turned his mind toward \[taking\] a wife. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.6) tataḥ kṣayamanuprāpte vaṃśe kurusamudbhave .. vicitravīryamāsādya pārthivaṃ dvijasattamāḥ .. 6 .. > Then, when the lineage sprung from Kuru had met destruction, > after King Vicitravīrya \[perished\], O best of the twice-born, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.7) satyavatyāḥ samādeśāttasya kṣetre tataḥ param .. sa putrāñjanayāmāsa trīñchūrānpāṃḍupūrvakān .. 7 .. > at the command of Satyavatī, in his field \[his wives\], thereafter > he fathered three heroic sons, beginning with Pāṇḍu, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.8) vānaprasthavrate tiṣṭhansakṛnmaithunatatparaḥ .. kṣetrajaistanayairvaṃśe kurostasmādupasthite .. 8 .. > abiding by the vow of a forest-dweller, engaged in union only once. > When the lineage of Kuru was thus sustained by those sons born of the field, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.9) tataḥ sa ciṃtayāmāsa bhāryāmadya karomyaham .. gārhasthyenātha dharmeṇa sādhayāmi śubhāṃ gatim .. 9 .. > he then thought: "Now I shall take a wife, > and through the duty of a householder I shall attain an auspicious destination." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.10) tataḥ sa prārthayāmāsa jābāliṃ tu sutāṃ śubhām .. vaṭikākhyāṃ śubhāṃ kanyāṃ sa dadau tasya satvaram .. 6.147.10 .. > Then he asked Jābāli for his auspicious daughter. / He quickly gave him the auspicious maiden named Vaṭikā. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.11) tatastayā sametaḥ sa vanavāsaṃ samāśritaḥ .. vānaprasthāśrame tiṣṭhankṛtamaithunatatparaḥ .. 11 .. > Then, together with her, he took up residence in the forest, / staying in the hermitage of the forest-dweller stage of life, devoted to performing intercourse. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.12) tato garbhavatī jajñe piṃjalā tasya pārśvataḥ .. ṛtau mohanamāsādya vyāsātsatyavatīsutāt .. 12 .. > Then the tawny-eyed woman became pregnant by him; / having experienced pleasure in her fertile period from Vyāsa, the son of Satyavatī, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.13) atha yāti parāṃ vṛddhiṃ sa garbhastatra saṃsthitaḥ .. udare vyāsabhāryāyāḥ śuklapakṣe yathā śaśī .. 13 .. > that embryo staying there attained great growth / in the womb of Vyāsa's wife, like the moon in the bright fortnight. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.14) evaṃ saṃgacchatastasya vṛddhiṃ garbhasya nityaśaḥ .. dvādaśābdā atikrāṃtā na janma samavāpnuyāt .. 14 .. > As that embryo continuously grew in this manner, / twelve years passed, yet it did not take birth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.15) yatkiṃcicchṛṇute tatra garbhastho'hi vacaḥ kvacit .. tatsarvaṃ hṛdisaṃsthaṃ ca cakre prajñāsamanvitaḥ .. 15 .. > Whatever words he heard anywhere while remaining in the womb, / he, endowed with great intellect, kept them all in his heart. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.16) vedāḥ sāṃgāḥ samādhītā garbhavāse'pi tena ca .. smṛtayaśca purāṇāni mokṣaśāstrāṇi kṛtsnaśaḥ .. 16 .. > Even while residing in the womb, he fully studied / the Vedas with their auxiliary limbs, the Smṛtis, the Purāṇas, and the treatises on liberation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.17) tatrastho'pi divā naktaṃ svādhyāyaṃ prakaroti saḥ .. na ca janmotthajāṃ buddhiṃ kathaṃcidapi ciṃtayet .. 17 .. > Staying there, he recited the sacred texts day and night, / and he did not even think of taking birth in any way. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.18) sāpi mātā parā pīḍāṃ nityaṃ yāti tathākulā .. yathāyathā sa saṃyāti vṛddhiṃ jaṭharamāśritaḥ .. 18 .. > The mother too suffered great torment constantly, thus distressed, / as he grew larger and larger within her womb. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.19) tataśca vismayāviṣṭo vyāso vacanamabravīt .. kastvaṃ madgṛhiṇīkukṣau praviṣṭo garbharūpadhṛk .. 19 .. > Then Vyāsa, filled with wonder, spoke \[these\] words: / "Who are you, who have entered my wife's womb in the form of an embryo? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.19\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.19_1) na niṣkrāmasi kasmāttvaṃ kimetāṃ sūdayiṣyasi .. .. .. garbha uvāca .. .. rākṣaso'haṃ piśācohaṃ devo'haṃ mānuṣastathā ..6.147.2... > Why do you not come out? Will you kill her?" / The embryo said: / "I have been a rākṣasa, a piśāca, a deva, and likewise a human. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.21) gajo'haṃ turagaścāpi kukkuṭaśchāga eva ca .. yonīnāṃ caturāśītisahasrāṇi ca saṃkhyayā .. 21 .. > I have been an elephant, a horse, a cock, and a goat. / Numbering eighty-four hundred thousand wombs, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.22) bhrāṃto'haṃ teṣu sarveṣu tatko'haṃ prabravīmi kim .. sāṃprataṃ mānuṣo bhūtvā jaṭharaṃ samupāśritaḥ .. 22 .. > I have wandered through them all; so who am I? What can I say? / Now, having become human, I have entered a womb. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.23) mānuṣaṃ na kariṣyāmi niṣkāmaṃ ca kathaṃcana .. nirviṣṭo bhramamāṇo'tra saṃsāre dāruṇe tataḥ ..23 .. > I will not make human life desireless in any way; / therefore, weary from wandering in this terrible cycle of worldly existence, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.24) atrastho bhavanirmukto yogābhyāsarataḥ sadā .. mokṣamārgaṃ prayāsyāmi sthānānmokṣamasaṃśayam.. 24 .. > freed from worldly existence while staying here, always devoted to the practice of yoga, / I shall surely attain the path of liberation from this place—liberation without doubt. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.25) tāvajjñānaṃ ca vairāgyaṃ pūrvajātismṛtiryathā .. yāvadgarbhasthito jantuḥ sarvo'pi dvijasattama .. 25 .. > Knowledge, dispassion, and recollection of previous births / remain only as long as every living creature stays in the womb, O best of brahmins. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.26) yadā garbhādviniṣkrāṃtaḥ spṛśyate viṣṇumāyayā .. tadā nāśaṃ vrajatyāśu satyametadasaṃśayam .. 26 .. > When one emerges from the womb, touched by Viṣṇu's māyā, / then it immediately perishes; this is true without doubt. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.27) tasmānnāhaṃ dvijaśreṣṭha niṣkramiṣye kathaṃcana .. garbhādasmātprayāsyāmi sthānānmokṣamasaṃśayam .. 27 .. > Therefore, O best of brahmins, I will not come out by any means; / from this womb, from this place, I will surely attain liberation without doubt." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.28) .. vyāsa uvāca .. .. na bhaviṣyati te māyā vaiṣṇavī sā kathaṃcana .. sughorānnarakādasmānniṣkramasva vigarhitāt .. 28 .. > Vyāsa said: / "That Vaiṣṇava māyā will not affect you in any way. / Come out from this very terrible, condemned hell. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.29) garbhavāsāttato yogaṃ samāśritya śivaṃ vraja .. tasmāddarśaya me vaktraṃ svakīyaṃ yena me bhavet .. ānṛṇyaṃ pitṛlokasya tava vaktrasya darśanāt .. 29 .. > From residing in the womb, take refuge in yoga and attain what is auspicious. / Therefore, show me your face, so that by seeing your face / I may be freed from my debt to the world of the ancestors." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.30) .. garbha uvāca .. .. vāsudevaṃ pratibhuvaṃ yadi me tvaṃ prayacchasi .. idānīṃ yatsvayaṃ tanme janma syānnānyathā dvija .. 6.147.30 .. > The embryo said: / "If you give me Vāsudeva as a guarantor, / only then will my birth take place by myself now, not otherwise, O brahmin." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.31) .. sūta uvāca .. .. tato vyāso drutaṃ gatvā dvārakāṃ prati duḥkhitaḥ .. kathayāmāsa vṛttāṃtaṃ vistarāccakrapāṇine .. 31 .. > Sūta said: / Then Vyāsa, sorrowful, went quickly to Dvārakā, / and told the whole matter in detail to the wielder of the discus. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.32) tenaiva sahitaḥ paścātsvagṛhaṃ punarāgataḥ .. vyāsaḥ pratibhuvaṃ tasmai dātuṃ viṣṇuṃ niraṃjanam .. 32 .. > Accompanied by him, Vyāsa then returned to his own home / to give him the immaculate Viṣṇu as a guarantor. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.33) .. śrīkṛṣṇa uvāca .. .. pratibhūrasmi nāśāya māyāyāstava nirgame .. madvākyānniṣkramaṃ kṛtvā gaccha mokṣamanuttamam .. 33 .. > The venerable Kṛṣṇa said: / "I am your guarantor against the destruction caused by māyā upon your emergence. / Having come out at my word, go to unexcelled liberation." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.34) tato drutaṃ viniṣkrāṃto viṣṇuvākyena sa dvijāḥ .. dvādaśābdapramāṇastu yauvanasya samīpagaḥ .. 34 .. > Then, O brahmins, at the word of Viṣṇu, he quickly came out, / twelve years old in stature and approaching youth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.35) tataḥ praṇamya daityāriṃ vyāsaṃ ca jananīṃ tathā .. prasthito vanavāsāya tatkṣaṇādvyāsanaṃdanaḥ .. 35 .. > Then, having bowed to the enemy of the Daityas, to Vyāsa, and likewise to his mother, / that son of Vyāsa immediately set out to live in the forest. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.36) atha taṃ sa muniḥ prāha tiṣṭha putrātmamaṃdire .. saṃskārāñjātakādyāṃśca yena te prakaromyaham .. 36 .. > Then that sage said to him, "Stay in your own house, son, / so that I may perform the life-cycle rites for you, beginning with the birth ritual." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.37) .. śiśuruvāca .. .. saṃskārāḥ śataśo jātā mama janmanijanmani .. bhavārṇave parikṣipto yairahaṃ bandhanātmakaiḥ .. 37 .. > The child said: / "Hundreds of life-cycle rites have been performed for me in birth after birth, / through which, having the nature of bonds, I have been thrown into the ocean of worldly existence." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.38) .. śrībhagavānuvāca .. .. śukavajjalpate yasmāttavāyaṃ putrako mune .. tasmācchuko'yaṃ nāmnāstu yogavidyāvicakṣaṇaḥ .. 38 .. > The Blessed One said: / "Since this son of yours prattles like a parrot, O sage, / therefore let him be Śuka by name, skilled in the science of yoga. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.39) nāyaṃ sthāsyati harmye sve mohamāyāvivarjitaḥ .. tasmādgacchatu mā snehaṃ tvaṃ kuruṣvāsya saṃbhavam .. 39 .. > He will not stay in his mansion, being free from delusion and māyā. / Therefore, let him go; do not form an attachment to him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.40) ahaṃ gṛhaṃ prayāsyāmi tvaṃ muktaḥ paitṛkādṛṇāt.. darśanādeva putrasya satyametanmayoditam .. 6.147.40 .. > I shall go home; you are freed from the ancestral debt / merely by seeing your son; this that I have spoken is true." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.41) evamuktvā hṛṣīkeśo vyāsamāmaṃtrya satvaram.. vihagādhipamārūḍhaḥ prayayau dvārakāṃ prati .. 41 .. > Having spoken thus and quickly taken leave of Vyāsa, Hṛṣīkeśa, / mounted on the king of birds, departed for Dvārakā. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.42) tato gate hṛṣīkeśe vyāsaḥ putramuvāca ha .. prasthitaṃ vanavāsāya niḥspṛhaṃ svagṛhaṃ prati .. 42 .. > Then, when Hṛṣīkeśa had gone, Vyāsa indeed said to his son, / who had set out to dwell in the forest and had no attachment to his own home: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.43) .. vyāsa uvāca.. .. gṛhasthadharmariktānāṃ pitṛvākyaṃ praṇaśyati .. pitṛvākyaṃ tu yo mohānnaiva samyaksamācaret.. sa yāti narakaṃ tasmānmadvākyātputra mā vraja .. 43 .. > Vyāsa said: / "The father's command is destroyed for those devoid of the duties of a householder. / But whoever, through delusion, does not properly follow his father's command / goes to hell; therefore, at my word, son, do not go." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.44) .. śuka uvāca .. .. yathādyāhaṃ tvayā jāto mayā tvaṃ cānyajanmani .. saṃjāto'si muniśreṣṭha tathāhamapi te pitā .. 44 .. > Śuka said: / "Just as I am born from you today, so you in another birth / were born from me, O best of sages; thus I too am your father. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.45) tasmādvākyaṃ tvayā kāryaṃ yadyeṣā dharmasaṃsthitiḥ .. nāhaṃ niṣedhanīyastu vrajamānastapovanam .. 45 .. > Therefore you must obey my word, if this is the established rule of dharma. / I must not be forbidden as I go to the forest of austerities." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.46) .. vyāsa uvāca .. .. brāhmaṇasya gṛhe janma puṇyaiḥ saṃprāpyate nṛbhiḥ .. saṃskārānyatra saṃprāpya vedoktānmunirāpyate .. 46 .. > Vyāsa said: / "Birth in the house of a brahmin is attained by men through merits; / having received in it the rites prescribed in the Veda, one attains the state of a sage." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.47) .. śuka uvāca .. .. saṃskārairāpyate muktiryadi karma śubhaṃ vinā .. pākhaṃḍino'pi yāsyaṃti tanmuktiṃ vratadhāriṇaḥ .. 47 .. > Śuka said: / "If liberation is attained through life-cycle rites without good action, / then even heretics observing vows would attain liberation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.48) .. vyāsa uvāca .. .. brahmacārī bhavetpūrvaṃ gṛhasthaśca tataḥ param .. vānaprastho yatiścaiva tato mokṣamavāpnuyāt .. 48 .. > Vyāsa said: / "One should first be a student, and after that a householder; / then a forest-dweller, and then an ascetic; thereby one would attain liberation." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.49) .. śuka uvāca .. .. brahmacaryeṇa cenmokṣastatṣaṇḍhānāṃ sadā bhavet .. gṛhasthāśramiṇāṃ cetsyāttatsarvaṃ mucyate jagat .. 49 .. > Śuka said: / "If liberation came through celibacy, then eunuchs would always have it. / If it belonged to those in the householder's stage, then the entire world would be liberated. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.50) athavā vanaraktānāṃ tanmṛgāṇāṃ prajāyate .. 6.147.50 .. > Or, if \[it comes\] to those delighting in the forest, then it would happen to wild beasts. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.51) athavā yatidharmāṇāṃ yadi mokṣo bhavennṛṇām .. daridrāṇāṃ ca sarveṣāṃ tanmuktiḥ prathamā bhavet .. 51 .. > Or if liberation belonged to mortals who observe the duties of an ascetic, / then liberation would belong first of all to the poor. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.52) .. vyāsa uvāca .. .. gṛhasthadharmaraktānāṃ nṛṇāṃ sanmārgagāminām .. iha lokaḥ paraścaiva manunā saṃprakīrtitaḥ .. 52 .. > Vyāsa said: / For men delighted in the duties of a householder and walking on the virtuous path, / this world and also the next have been declared by Manu. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.53) .. śrīśuka uvāca .. .. gṛhaguptau suguptānāṃ baṃdhānāṃ baṃdhubaṃdhanaiḥ .. moharāgasamāveśātsanmārga gamanaṃ kutaḥ .. 53 .. > Śrī Śuka said: / For those who are well hidden within the prison of the home, bound by the bonds of kinsmen, / absorbed in delusion and passion, how can there be journeying on the virtuous path? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.54) .. vyāsa uvāca .. . kaṣṭaṃ vane nivasato'tra sadā narasya no kevalaṃ nijatanuprabhavaṃ bhavecca . daivaṃ ca pitryamakhilaṃ na vibhāti kṛtyaṃ tasmādgṛhe nivasatātmahitaṃ pracintyam .. 54 .. > Vyāsa said: / Miserable is it for a man living constantly in the forest here, and not only does it spring from one's own body; / but the rites for the gods and all those for the ancestors do not shine forth; therefore, dwelling at home, one should reflect on the welfare of the self. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.55) .. śrīśukadeva uvāca .. .. bhāvena bhāvitamahātapasāṃ munīnāṃ tiṣṭhanti tāvadakhilāni tapaḥphalāni .. yatte nikāśaśaraṇāḥ puruṣā na jātu paśyaṃtyasajjanamukhāni sukhaṃ tadeva .. 55 .. > Śrī Śukadeva said: / For sages of great austerity refined by meditation, all the fruits of austerity remain, / since those men, having daylight for their shelter, never look upon the faces of wicked people—that alone is happiness. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.56) .. vyāsa uvāca .. .. gṛhaṃ parigrahaḥ puṃsāṃ gṛhasthāśramadharmiṇām .. ihaloke pare caiva sukhaṃ yacchati śāśvatam .. 56 .. > Vyāsa said: / A home and family for men who observe the duty of the householder's stage of life / grant perpetual happiness both in this world and in the next. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.57) .. śrīśuka uvāca .. .. śītaṃ hutāśādapi daivayogātsañjāyate candramaso'pi tāpaḥ .. parigrahātsaukhyasamudbhavo'tra bhūto'bhavadbhāvi na martyaloke .. 57 .. > Śrī Śuka said: / Even cold might arise from fire through the play of fate, or heat even from the moon; / but happiness arising from possessions and family in this mortal world never was, is not, and will not be. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.58) .. vyāsa uvāca .. .. supuṇyairlabhyate kṛcchrānmānuṣyaṃ bhuvi durlabham .. tasmim̐llabdhe na kiṃ labdhaṃ yadi syādgṛhadharmavit .. 58 .. > Vyāsa said: / Human birth, rare on earth, is attained with difficulty through great merits; / when that is attained, what has not been attained if one knows the duty of a householder? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.59) .. śrīśukadeva uvāca .. .. yadi syājjñānasaṃyukto janmakāletra mānavaḥ .. nijāvasthāṃ samālokya tajjñānaṃ hi vilīyate .. 59 .. > Śrī Śukadeva said: / Even if a man here were endowed with knowledge at the time of birth, / upon beholding his own condition, that knowledge indeed dissolves. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.60) .. vyāsa uvāca .. .. muditasyāpi putrasya gardabhasyārbhakasya ca .. bhasmalolasya lokasya śabdo'pi raṭato mude .. 6.147.60 .. > Vyāsa said: / Even of a son, or a donkey, or an infant / playing in the dust, the sound of one crying out brings joy to a person. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.61) .. śrīśuka uvāca .. .. rasatā sarpatā dhūli loke tvaśucinā ciram .. mune'tra śiśunā lokastuṣṭiṃ yāti sa bāliśaḥ .. 61 .. > Śrī Śuka said: / With an infant screaming, crawling, rolling in dust, and filthy for a long time, / O sage, a person here finds pleasure—such a fool is he! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.62) .. vyāsa uvāca .. .. puṃnāmāsti mahāraudro narako yamamandire .. putrahīno vrajettatra tena putraḥ praśasyate .. 62 .. > Vyāsa said: / There is a terrible hell named Put in the abode of Yama; / one without a son goes there; therefore a son is praised. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.63) .. śrīśuka uvāca .. .. yadi syātputrataḥ svargaḥ sarveṣāṃ syānmahāmune .. śūkarāṇāṃ śunāṃ caiva śalabhānāṃ viśeṣataḥ .. .. 63 .. > Śrī Śuka said: / If heaven came from having a son, O great sage, it would belong to all— / especially to pigs, dogs, and locusts. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.64) .. vyāsa uvāca .. .. pitṝṇāmanṛṇo martyo jāyate putradarśanāt .. pautrasyāpi ca devānāṃ prapautrasya divāśrayaḥ .. 64 .. .. > Vyāsa said: / From the sight of a son, a mortal becomes free from debt to the ancestors; / from a grandson, to the gods; and from a great-grandson, he finds an abode in heaven. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.65) śuka uvāca .. .. cirāyurjjāyate gṛdhraḥ saṃtatiṃ paśyate nijām .. krameṇa saṃtataṃ kiṃ na sa mokṣaṃ pratipadyate .. 65 .. > Śuka said: / A vulture lives long and beholds its own progeny / continually in succession; does it not attain liberation? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.66) .. sūta uvāca .. .. evamuktvā parityajya pitaraṃ sa vanaṃ gataḥ .. mātaraṃ ca suduḥkhārtāṃ pralapantīmanekadhā .. 66 .. > Sūta said: / Having spoken thus, he abandoned his father and his mother, / who was afflicted with great sorrow and lamenting in many ways, and went to the forest. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.67) taṃ dṛṣṭvā duḥkhito vyāso nirāśaḥ putradarśane .. putraśokābhisaṃtapto bhāryayā sahito'bhavat .. 67 .. > Seeing him \[leave\], Vyāsa, grieved, hopeless of seeing his son again / and consumed by grief for his son, remained with his wife. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.146.147](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.146.147) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe śrīhāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye vyāsaśukasaṃvādavarṇanaṃnāma saptacatvāriṃśaduttaraśatatamodhyāyaḥ .. 147 .. cha .. > Thus ends the one hundred forty-seventh chapter, named 'Description of the Dialogue of Vyāsa and Śuka', in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth \[part\] of the auspicious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand \[verses\], in the description of the glorious Hāṭakeśvarakṣetra. // 147 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) 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