S’rimad Devî
Bhâgavatam THE FIRST BOOK
Chapter IX
On the
killing of Madhu Kaitabha
1-49. Sûta
said:--O Munis! When the excellent Tâmasi S’akti, the Goddess presiding over
sleep came out from the eyes, mouth, nose, heart, etc., of the body of the
World-Guru Visnu and rested in the celestial space, then the powerful Lord
Visnu began to yawn and got up. He saw the Prajâpati Brahmâ, terrified and
spoke to him in words, deep like rumbling in the clouds :-- “O Bhagavân
Padmayone! What makes you come here, and leave your tapasyâ? Why do you look so
terrified and anxious?” Hearing this, Brahmâ said: “O Deva! The two very
powerful and very terrible Daityas, Madhu Kaitabha sprung from the wax of Thy
ears approached to kill me; terrified thus, I have come to Thee. So, O Lord of
the Universe! O Vâsudeva! now I am quite out of senses and terrified; save me.”
Visnu, then, said :-- “Now go and rest in peace, without any fear; let those
two stupids, whose life has been well -nigh exhausted, come to me for battle; I
will certainly kill them.”
Sûta said :--
While Bhagavân Visnu, the Lord of all the Devas, was thus saying, those two
very powerful Dânavas, elated with pride, came up there, in their search for
Brahmâ. O Munis! The two proud Daityas stood there in the midst of the Pralaya
water without anything to stand on and with calm attitude. They then spoke to
Brahmâ as follows :-- O You have fled and come here? You cannot escape. Go on
and fight. I will kill You before this one.
Then I will
kill him also who sleeps on this bed of serpent. Either give us battle or
acknowledge yourself as our servant. Hearing their words, Janârdan Visnu
addressed them as follows:-- “O two Dânavas, mad for war! Come and fight with
me as you like; I will surely curb your pride. O two powerful ones! If you
trust me, come and fight”. Hearing this, the two Dânavas in the midst of that
mass of water resting without any support, came up there to fight, with their
eyes rolling with anger. The Daitya, named Madhu, became very angry, came up
quickly to fight while Kaitabha remained where he stood. Then the hand-to-hand
fight ensued between the two mad athletes; Bhagavân Hari and Madhu became
tired; Kaitabha came up and began to fight. After that Madhu and Kaitabha
joined and, blind with rage, began to fight again and again hand to hand with
the very powerful Visnu. And Bhagavân Brahmâ and the Prime Force Âdyâ S’akti
witnessed this from the celestial Heavens. So the fight lasted for a long,
long, time; yet the two Dânavas did not feel a bit tired: rather Bhagavân Visnu
became tired. Thus five thousand years passed away; Hari then began to ponder
over their mode of death. He thought :-- “I fought for five thousands of years
but the two formidable Dânavas have not been tired anything, rather I am tired;
it is a matter of great surprise. Where has gone my prowess? and what for the
two Dânavas were not tired; What is the cause? This is a matter, now, seriously
to be thought over”. Seeing Bhagavân Hari thus sunk in cares, the two haughty
Dânavas spoke to him with great glee and with a voice like that of the rumbling
of cloud :-- “O Visnu ! If you feel tired, if you have no sufficient strength
to fight with us, then raise your folded palms on your head and acknowledge
that you are our servant; or if you can, go on fighting. O intelligent one!
We will take
away your life first; and then slay this four-faced Brahmâ”. Hearing the words
of the two Dânavas, resting there without any support in the vast ocean, the
high-minded Visnu spoke to them in sweet consoling words :-- “See, O heroes! no
one ever fights with one who is tired, afraid, who is weaponless, who is fallen
and who is a child; this is the Dharma of the heroes. Both of you fought with
me for five thousands of years. But I am single handed; you are two, and both
equally powerful and both of you took rest at intervals. I will therefore take
rest for a while, and then fight with certainty. Both of you are very powerful
and very much elated in vanity. Therefore rest a while. After taking rest for a
while I will fight with you according to the just rules of warfare.” Hearing
these words of Hari, the two chief Dânavas trusted and remained far aloof,
ready to fight again.
Now the four-armed
Vâsudeva, seeing them at a sufficient distance, began to ponder in his mind
thus :-- “How their death can be effected? Thinking for a time, he came to know
that they have been granted, by the Supreme S’akti Devî, death at their will
(Ichchâmrityu); and therefore they are not getting tired. I fought so long with
them uselessly; my labour went in vain. How then can I now fight, with this
certain knowledge. Again if I do not fight, how these two Dânavas, elated with
their boon and giving troubles to all, be destroyed? When the boon is granted
by the Devî their death is also well nigh impracticable. Who wants his own
death, even placed in very great distressed circumstances. Attacked by terrible
diseases, reduced to indigent poverty no one wants to die; so how can it be
expected that these two haughty Dânavas would want their death themselves?
Therefore it is advisable me to take refuge of that Âdyâ S’akti, the giver of
the fruits of all desires. No desires can ever be fructified unless She is
thoroughly pleased. Thus thinking, Bhagavân Visnu saw the beautiful Devî Yoga
Nidra S’iva, shining in the air. Then the supreme Yogi, Bhagavân Visnu, of
immeasurable spirit began to praise with folded palms that great Bhuvanes'varî
Mahâ Kâli, the giver of boons for the destruction of the Dânavas. “O Devî! I
bow down to Thee O Mahâmâyâ, the Creatrix and Destructrix! Thou beginningless
and deathless! O auspicious Chandike! The Bestower of enjoyment and liberation
I do not know Thy Saguna or Nirguna forms; how then can I know Thy glorious
deeds, innumerable as they are. To-day Thy undescribable prowess has been
experienced by me, I being made senseless and unconscious by Thy power of
sleep. Being tried again and again by Brahmâ with great care to bring me back
to my consciousness, I could not become conscious, so much my senses were
contracted down. O Mother! By Thy power, Thou didst keep me unconscious and
Thou again hast freed me from sleep, and I also fought so many times. O giver
of one's honour! Now I am tired; but Thou hast granted boon to the two Dânavas
and therefore they are not getting tired. These two Dânavas, puffed up with
pride, were ready to kill Brahmâ; and therefore I challenged them to fight with
me and they too are fighting fiercely with me in this vast ocean. But Thou hast
granted them the wonderful boon that they will die whenever they will; and
therefore I have now come to Thy refuge, as Thou protectest those that come
under Thy shelter. Therefore, O Mother, the remover of the Devas' troubles!
These two Dânavas are become exceedingly elated by Thy boon and I, too, am
tired. Therefore dost Thou help me now. See! those two sinners are ready to
kill me; without Thy grace, what can I do now? and where to go?”
50-59. Thus
praised by the eternal Vâsudeva Jagannâtha Hari, with humility and pranams, the
Devî Mahâ Kâli, resting in the air, said smiling :-- “O Deva deva Hari! Fight
again; O Visnu! These two heroes, when deluded by My Mâyâ, would be slain by
you; I will delude them certainly, by My side long glance; O Nârâyana! then
slay quickly the two Dânavas, when conjured by My mâyâ”.
Sûta said :--
Hearing these loving words of Bhagavatî, Bhagavân Visnu went to the scene of
battle in the middle of that ocean, when the two powerful Dânavas of serene
tempers and eager to light, became very glad on seeing Visnu in the battle and
said :-- “O four-armed one! we see your desire is very lofty indeed; well stand! Stand! now be ready for battle,
knowing that victory or defeat is surely dependent on Destiny. You should think
now thus :-- Though it is generally true that the more powerful one wins
victory; but it also happens sometimes that the weak gets the victory by queer
turn of Fate; so the high souled persons should not be glad at their victories,
nor should express their sorrows at their defeat; so don’t be glad, thinking,
that you on many former occasions fought with many Dânavas who were your
enemies, and got the victory; nor be sorry that now you are defeated by the two
Dânavas”. Thus saying, the powerful Madhu Kaitabha came up to fight. Seeing
this, Bhagavân Visnu struck them immediately by fist with great violence; the
two Dânavas, elated with their strength, struck Hari in return with their
fists. Thus fighting went on vigorously.
60-87. Now
seeing the two Dânavas of great powers, fighting on incessantly, Nârâyana Hari
cast a glance expressive of great distress, towards the face of the Devî
Mahâkâli. Seeing Visnu thus distressed, the Devî laughed loudly and began to look
constantly with eyes somewhat reddish and shot towards the two Asuras side-long
glances, of love and amorous feelings which were like arrows from the Cupid.
The two vicious Daityas became fascinated by the side-long glances of the Devî
and took great pleasures in them; being extremely agitated by these amorous
darts, looked with one steady gaze towards the Devî, of spotless lustre.
Bhagavân Hari, too, saw the wonderful enchanting pastime of the Devî. Then
Hari, perfectly expert in adopting means to secure ends, began to speak smiling
and in voice like that of the rambling cloud, knowing the two Dânavas enchanted
by Mahâmâyâ, thus :--
O two heroes!
I am very glad at the mode of your fighting. So ask from me boons. I will grant
that to you. I saw many Dânavas before, fighting; but never I saw them expert
like you, nor I heard like this. I am therefore, very much satisfied by your
such unrivalled powers. Therefore, O greatly powerful pair of Dânavas! I wish
to grant both of you any boon that you want. Seeing the Devî Mahâmâyâ, the
gladdener, of the Universe, the two Dânavas felt themselves amorous; and
therefore they became proud on hearing Visnu's those words and told Visnu, with
their lotus-like eyes wide open, thus :--
O Hari! what
do you like to give us? We are not beggars; we do not want anything from you. O
Lord of the Devas! Rather we will give you whatever you desire; we are donors;
not receivers. So O Vâsudeva! Hrisi Kesa! We are glad to see your- wonderful
fight; so ask fromus any boon that you desire. Hearing their words, Bhagavân
Janârdan said :-- “ If you both are so much pleased with me, then I want this
that both of you be killed by me.” Hearing these words of Visnu, Madhu Kaitabha
became very much wondered and thinking “we are now cheated” remained for some
time merged in sorrow. Then reflecting that there is water everywhere and solid
earth nowhere, they said :--
“O Janârdana
Hari! We know that you are truthful; therefore now we want this desired boon
from you that you wanted to grant us before now grant us this desired boon of
ours. O Madhusûdana! We will be slain by you; but kill us, O Mâdhava! on a
solid earth, free from any water; and thus keep your word.
S’ri Bhagavân
Hari laughed and remembering His Sudarsan disc said :-- “O two highly fortunate
ones! Verily, I will kill both of you on the vast solid spot without any trace
of water. Thus saying, the Devadeva Hari expanded His own thighs and showed to
those Dânavas the vast solid earth on the surface of water and said :--
“O two
Dânavas! See, here is no water. Place your two heads here; thus I will keep my
word and you would keep your word.” Hearing this, Madhu Kaitabha thought over
in their minds and expanded their bodies to ten thousand Yojanas. Bhagavân
Visnu Hari also extended his thighs to twice that amount. Seeing this, they
were greatly, suprised and laid their heads on the thighs of Visnu. Visnu of
wonderful prowess, then cut off quickly with His Sudarsan disc the two very big
heads over His thighs. Thus the two Dânavas Madhu Kaitabha passed away; and the
marrow (meda) of them filled the ocean. O Munis! For this reason, this earth is
named Medinî and the earth is unfit for eatable purpose.
Thus I have
described to you all that you asked. The sum and substance is this that the
wise persons should serve Mahâmâyâ with all thei hearts. The Supreme S’akti is
worshipped by all the Devas. Verily verily, I say unto you that this is
decided, in all the Vedas and other S’astras that there is nothing higher than
this Âdyâ S’akti. Therefore this Supreme S’akti should be worshipped anyhow;
either in Her Saguna form or in Her Nirguna state.
Thus ends the
ninth Chapter of the first Skandha on the killing of Madhu Kaitabha in the
Mahâpurana S’rimad Devî Bhâgavatam of 18,000 verses by Maharsi Veda Vyâs.
Chapter X
On S’iva’s
granting boons
1-37. The
Risis said :-- “O Sûta! You told before, that Vyâsa Deva, unrivalled spirit,
composed all the Purânas and taught them to his own S’uka Deva; but how did
Vyâsadeva, who was incessantly engaged in tapasyâ, procreate S’uka? Describe to
us in detail what you heard direct from Krisna Dvaipâyana Vyâsa”. Sûta said :--
“O Risis! Hear how S’uka Deva, the best of the Munis and the foremost of the
Yogis, was born of Vyâsa Deva, the Satyavati's son.
On the very
beautiful summit of Mount Meru, Vyâsa, the son of Satyavati, firmly determined,
practised very severe austerities for the attainment of a son. Having heard
from Nârada, he, the great ascetic, repeated the one syllabled mantra of Vâk
and worshipped the Highest Mahâmayâ with the object of getting a son. He asked,
Let a son be born to me as pure and as spirited and powerful as fire, air,
earth, and Âkâs’a. He thought over in his mind that the man possessed of S’akti
is worshipped in this world and the man devoid of S’akti is censured here, and
thus came to the conclusion that S’akti is therefore worshipped everywhere;
and, therefore,worshipped Bhagavân Mahes'vara coupled with the auspicious Âdyâ
S’akti and spent away one hundred years without any food. He began his tapasyâ
on that mountain summit which was ornamented with the garden of Karnikâr, where
all the Devas play, and where live the Munis highly ascetic, the Âdityas,
Vasus, Rudras, Marut, the two As'vîns, and the other mindful Risis, the knowers
of Brahmâ and where the Kinnaras always resound the air with their songs of
music, etc.; such a place Vyâsa Deva preferred for his tapasyâ.”
The whole
universe was pervaded with the spirit of asceticism of the intelligent
Parâsara's son Vyâsa Deva; and the hairs of his head were clotted and looked
tawny, of the colour of flames. Seeing the fire of his asceticism, Indra, the
lord of S’achi became exceedingly terrified. Bhagavân Rudra, seeing Indra thus
afraid, fatigued and morose, asked him :-- “O Indra, why do you look so
fear-stricken to-day? O Lord of the Devas! What is the cause of your grief?
Never show your jealousy and anger to the ascetics; for the mindful ascetics
always practise severe asceticism with a noble object and worship Me, knowing Me
to be possessed of the all powerful S’akti; they never want ill of any body”.
When Bhagavân Rudra said this, Indra asked him :-- “What is his object?” At
this S’ankara said :-- For the attainment of a son, Prasâra's son is practising
so severe austerities; now one-hundred years is being completed; I will go to
him, and give him to-day the auspicious boon of a son. Thus speaking to Indra,
Bhagavân Rudra, the Guru of the world, went to Vyâsa Deva and, with merciful
eyes, said :-- “O sinless Vâsavi's son! Get up; I grant to you the boon, that
you will get a son very fiery, luminous and spirited like the five elements
fire, air, earth, water and Âkâs'a, the supreme Jñânî, the store of all
auspicious qualities, of great renown, beloved to all, ornamented with all
Sattvik qualities, truthful and valorous.
Hearing these
sweet words of Bhagavân S’ûlapâni Maharsi Krisna Dvaipâyana bowed down to Him
and went back to his own hermitage. Tired with the labour of penance for many
years, he wanted to kindle fire by rubbing two fuels (Aranî) with each other.
While doing this the high souled man suddenly began to think strongly in his
mind about procreating a son. He thought :-- “Will it be that my son will be
born as this fire is produced by the friction of the two churning sticks? I
have not got the wife, which the Pundits designate a “Putrârani”, the youthful
wife endowed with beauty, born of a noble family, the chaste one I have not got
with me. But the wife, though chaste and fit to beget a son, is undoubtedly a
chain to both the legs so how can I get such a one for my wife? This is known
to all that a chaste wife, though clever in doing all household duties,
beautiful and giving happiness to one's desires, is yet always a sort of
bondage. What more than this, that the ever Bhagavân Mahes'vara is always under
the bondage of woman. How, then, knowing and hearing all these I can accept
this difficult householder's life? While he was thinking thus, the
extraordinarily beautiful Apsarâ Ghritâchi fell to his sight close to him in
the celestial air.
Though Vyâsa
Deva was a Brahmâchâri (holding in control the secret power of generation) of a
very high order, yet seeing suddenly the agile Apsarâ (a celestial nymph)
coming close to him and looking askance at him, he became soon smitten with the
arrows of cupid and feeling himself distressed, began to think what shall I do
in this critical moment.
Unbearable
amorous feelings now have come over me; now if I take this celestial nymph,
knowing that Dharma is everywhere looking, and woman has come to take away my
precious fire of spirit acquired by my tapasyâ, then I will be laughed at by
the high souled ascetic Munis who will think that I have lost my senses
altogether. Alas! Why I who have practised for one hundred years the most
terrible ascetism, have become so powerless by the mere sight of this Apsarâ!
The Pundits declare the household life as the source of getting son, one's
heart’s desire and the source of all happiness; so much so that it leads all
the virtuous souls to the pleasures of Heaven, and ordains Moksa (liberation)
to those who are Jñânins; and if I get such unrivalled happiness from this
householder's life, I can have this Deva Kanyâ (the celestial nymph) though
blameable. But again that happiness will not occur to me through her; there is
no doubt in this. So how can I take her. I heard from Nârada how, in ancient
days, a king name Pururavâ fell under the clutches of Urvas'î and ultimately
felt great pain, being defeated by her.
Thus ends the tenth chapter on S’iva's granting boon in the Mahapurâna S’rîmad Devî Bhâgavatam of 18,000 verses by Maharsi Veda Vyâs.
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