Skandapurana 7.12.584_406

7.12.584_406

viprāḥ śṛṇuta me vākyaṃ mānuṣā10 yadvadāmi vaḥ .
buddhihīnāḥ stha suvyaktaṃ niśāmayata madvacaḥ11 . .9 . .
mṛta eṣa12 hi kālena kiṃ śocatha13 yathābudhāḥ .
rudito naiṣa jīveta14 svārthaṃ kuruta vijvarāḥ . .8.120.1 0 . .
sanatkumāra uvāca
tasya tadvacanaṃ śratvā tadā tyaktvā sutaṃ yayuḥ .
muhurmuhurnirīkṣanta atha tān15 jambukobravīt . . 11 . .
aho dhiṅ mānuṣāḥ sarve vīkṣadhvaṃ buddhivarjitāḥ .
niḥsnehāścā16kṛtajñāśca tyaktvainaṃ yātha17 vai katham ..1 2. .
duḥkhena labhyate putrastathā caiva prasūyate .
duḥkhena ca punaḥ krūrā varddhate18 vyādhyupadrutaḥ . . 13 ..
vismṛtāni hi vastāni cāṭūni subahūni vai .
akarodyānyayaṃ bāla aho niḥsnehatā hi vaḥ19 . . 14..
sanatkumāra uvāca
tataste jambukavacaḥ śrutvā vyāsa samāgatāḥ .
parivārya rudantaśca tasthuḥ pitṛvane tadā . . 15 . .

'O brahmins, O men, listen to my words that I speak to you;
you are clearly devoid of sense; hear my counsel!
He has died indeed through time; why do you grieve like fools?
He will not live because of crying; attend to your own welfare, free from distress.'
Sanatkumāra said:
Having heard his words, they then abandoned the son and began to leave,
looking back again and again. Then a jackal said to them:
'Oh, shame! All you men, look, you who are devoid of wisdom!
Unloving and ungrateful, how can you leave him and go?
With difficulty is a son obtained, and so too is he born;
and with difficulty, O cruel ones, does he grow up, afflicted by illness!
Have you forgotten indeed all those exceedingly many charming words
which this boy spoke? Oh, the lovelessness in you!'
Sanatkumāra said:
Then, having heard the jackal's words, O Vyāsa, they returned,
and surrounding [the body] and weeping, they remained then in the cemetery.