The Ninth Book. Chapter 27
The Ninth Book
Chapter Xxvii
On The Birth, Etc., Of Svitr
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1-2. Nryana said :-- O Nrada! After having chanted the above hymn to the Goddess Svitr and worshipped Her in accordance with due rites and ceremonies, the king Asvapati saw the Dev, effulgent like the lustre of thousand suns. She then smilingly told the king, as a mother to her son, whilst all the quarters were illumined with the lustre of Her body :--
3-14. Svitr said :-- "O King! I know your desire. Certainly I will give what you and your wife long for. Your chaste wife is anxious for a daughter, while you want a son. So, one after another,
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the desires of both of you will be fulfilled." Thus saying, the Dev went to the Brahma Loka. The King also returned to his house. First a daughter was born to him. As the daughter was born, as if a second Laksm was born after worshipping Svitr, the King kept her name as Svitr. As time rolled on, the daughter grew, day by day, like the phases of bright fortnight moon, into youth and beauty. There was a son of Dyumat Sena, named Satyavna, always truthful, good natured and endowed with various other qualifications. The daughter chose him for her bridegroom. The King betrothed her with jewels and ornaments, to Satyavna, who gladly took her home. After one year expired, the truthful vigorous Satyavna gladly went out, by his fathers command, to collect fruits and fuel. The chaste Svitr, too, followed him. Unfortunately Satyavna fell down from a tree and died. Yama, the God of Death, saw his soul as a Purusa of the size of ones thumb and took it and went away. The chaste Svitr began to follow Him. The high souled Yama, the Foremost of the Sadhus, seeing Svitr following Him, addressed her sweetly :-- O Svitr! Whither are you going in your this mortal coil? If you like to follow after all, then quit your this body.
15-25. The mortal man, with his transient coil of these five elements, is not able to go to My Abode. O Chaste One! The death time of your husband arrived; therefore Satyavna is going to My Abode to reap the fruits of his Karma. Every living animal is born by his Karma. He dies again through his life long Karma. It is his Karma alone that ordains pleasure, pain, fear, sorrows, etc. By Karma, this embodied soul here becomes Indra; by Karma he can become a Brahms son. What more than this that Jva, by his Karma, can be in Haris service and be free from birth and death! By ones own Karma all sorts of Siddhis and immortality can be obtained; the four blessed regions as Visnus Slokya, etc., also can be obtained by Karma. What more than this that by Karma, a being becomes divine, human, or a King, or Siva or Ganesa! The state of Munndra, asceticism, Ksattriyahood, Vaisyahood, Mlechhahood, moving things, stones, Rksasahood, Kinnaras, Kingship, becoming trees, beasts, forest animals, inferior animals, worms, Daityas, Dnavas, Asuras, all are fashioned and wrought by Karma and Karma alone. O Nrada! Thus speaking, Yama remained silent.
Here ends the Twenty-seventh Chapter of the Ninth Book on the birth, etc., of Svitr in Sr Mad Dev Bhgavatam of 18,000 verses by Maharsi Veda Vysa.
Chapter Xxvii
On The Birth, Etc., Of Svitr
p. 910
1-2. Nryana said :-- O Nrada! After having chanted the above hymn to the Goddess Svitr and worshipped Her in accordance with due rites and ceremonies, the king Asvapati saw the Dev, effulgent like the lustre of thousand suns. She then smilingly told the king, as a mother to her son, whilst all the quarters were illumined with the lustre of Her body :--
3-14. Svitr said :-- "O King! I know your desire. Certainly I will give what you and your wife long for. Your chaste wife is anxious for a daughter, while you want a son. So, one after another,
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the desires of both of you will be fulfilled." Thus saying, the Dev went to the Brahma Loka. The King also returned to his house. First a daughter was born to him. As the daughter was born, as if a second Laksm was born after worshipping Svitr, the King kept her name as Svitr. As time rolled on, the daughter grew, day by day, like the phases of bright fortnight moon, into youth and beauty. There was a son of Dyumat Sena, named Satyavna, always truthful, good natured and endowed with various other qualifications. The daughter chose him for her bridegroom. The King betrothed her with jewels and ornaments, to Satyavna, who gladly took her home. After one year expired, the truthful vigorous Satyavna gladly went out, by his fathers command, to collect fruits and fuel. The chaste Svitr, too, followed him. Unfortunately Satyavna fell down from a tree and died. Yama, the God of Death, saw his soul as a Purusa of the size of ones thumb and took it and went away. The chaste Svitr began to follow Him. The high souled Yama, the Foremost of the Sadhus, seeing Svitr following Him, addressed her sweetly :-- O Svitr! Whither are you going in your this mortal coil? If you like to follow after all, then quit your this body.
15-25. The mortal man, with his transient coil of these five elements, is not able to go to My Abode. O Chaste One! The death time of your husband arrived; therefore Satyavna is going to My Abode to reap the fruits of his Karma. Every living animal is born by his Karma. He dies again through his life long Karma. It is his Karma alone that ordains pleasure, pain, fear, sorrows, etc. By Karma, this embodied soul here becomes Indra; by Karma he can become a Brahms son. What more than this that Jva, by his Karma, can be in Haris service and be free from birth and death! By ones own Karma all sorts of Siddhis and immortality can be obtained; the four blessed regions as Visnus Slokya, etc., also can be obtained by Karma. What more than this that by Karma, a being becomes divine, human, or a King, or Siva or Ganesa! The state of Munndra, asceticism, Ksattriyahood, Vaisyahood, Mlechhahood, moving things, stones, Rksasahood, Kinnaras, Kingship, becoming trees, beasts, forest animals, inferior animals, worms, Daityas, Dnavas, Asuras, all are fashioned and wrought by Karma and Karma alone. O Nrada! Thus speaking, Yama remained silent.
Here ends the Twenty-seventh Chapter of the Ninth Book on the birth, etc., of Svitr in Sr Mad Dev Bhgavatam of 18,000 verses by Maharsi Veda Vysa.
