Mahabharata episode 32 Vasuki-Jaratkaru Samagama

Episode 32



The Suta said: “Hearing all this, Jaratkaru became sad and said to his forefathers in a voice filled with sorrow and tears:


“I am your guilty son Jaratkaru. I am a sinner. Punish me, a sinner.”


The fathers said: “It is fortunate that you have come to this place after wandering around. Brahmin! What is the reason why you have not yet obtained a wife?”


Jaratkaru said: “Fathers! It has always been in my heart to reach the other world, holding my semen and carrying this body.


But, fathers! Seeing you hanging like the Shakuntā birds, my mind has turned away from celibacy.


I will certainly do what is dear to you - if I find a girl who bears my name, if someone comes to me voluntarily and gives her to me in the form of alms, and if I find one who I do not have to look after, I will accept her as my wife.


Forefathers! Only in this way will I marry. Otherwise I will not marry. I am speaking the truth.”


The Suta said: “The sage who told his fathers thus traveled the whole earth. Shaunaka! Being old, he could not find a wife.


Once, disappointed that he was unable to fulfill the duty of his forefathers, he entered a great trance and, overcome with grief, cried out loudly:


“All those here, moving and immobile, visible and invisible, listen to these words of mine.


Engaged in severe penance, I have set out to do a deed pleasing to my sorrowful forefathers as ordered.


As instructed by my forefathers, I, poor and sorrowful, am wandering the whole earth begging for a virgin girl.


If there is a virgin girl among those who hear my cry here, give her to me, who am roaming in all directions.


Give me a girl who has my name as alms. Give me a girl who I have to look after.”


Then the Pannagas snakes who had their eyes on Jaratkaru came and reported his intentions to Vasuki.


On hearing them, the Pannaga Nagendra took the beautifully decorated girl and approached him in the forest.


Brahman! Although Nagendra Vasuki offered that girl to the great man as alms, he did not accept her immediately.


He hesitated to accept her, doubting that she did not have his name and who would look after her.


Bhrigunandana! Then he asked Vasuki what the name of that girl was and said, “I will not take care of her life.”


This is the forty-second chapter of the Mahabharata, in the Adiparva, in the Astik

aparva, in the Vasuki-Jaratkaru Samagama.


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