Chastisement

Mbh.12.15.649	Chastisement was ordained by the Creator himself for protecting religion and profit, for the happiness of all the four orders, and for making them righteous and modest.
Mbh.12.25.1148	By winning battles, protecting his kingdom, drinking the Soma juice, advancing his subjects, wielding judiciously the rod of Chastisement, and casting off his body at last in fight, a king enjoys happiness in heaven.
Mbh.12.58.3153	Another triple aggregate connected with Chastisement, viz, Conversation, Growth, and Destruction, was treated in it
Mbh.12.120.6751	From what thou hast said it seems that Chastisement occupies a high position and is the lord of everything for everything depends upon Chastisement.
Mbh.12.120.6752	It seems, O puissant one, that Chastisement, which is possessed of great energy and which is present everywhere, is the foremost of all beings among either gods and Rishis and high-souled Pitris and Yakshas and Rakshasas and Pisachas and Sadhyas, or living beings in this world including beasts and birds.
Mbh.12.120.6753	Thou hast said that the entire universe, mobile and immobile, including gods, Asuras, and men, may be seen to depend upon Chastisement.
Mbh.12.120.6754	I now desire, O bull of Bharata's race, to know truly who Chastisement is.
Mbh.12.120.6765	Who, indeed, is that high personage called Chastisement?
Mbh.12.120.6766	What is that upon which Chastisement depends?
Mbh.12.120.6768	Bhishma said, Listen, O descendent of Kuru, who Chastisement is and why he is called also Vyavahara!
Mbh.12.120.6769	That upon whom all things depend is called Chastisement.
Mbh.12.120.6770	Chastisement is that by which righteousness is kept up.
Mbh.12.120.6772	In order that the righteousness of a king that is heedfully awake may not suffer extinction Chastisement has come to be called by that name.
Mbh.12.120.6774	In olden days Manu, O king, declared first of all this truth, viz, He who protects all creatures, the loved and the odious equally, by impartially wielding the lord of Chastisement, is said to be the embodiment of righteousness,
Mbh.12.120.6778	And since it is by Chastisement that the misappropriation of other people's possessions is stopped, therefore Chastisement has come to be called by the name of Vyavahara.
Mbh.12.120.6779	The aggregate of three always rests on well applied Chastisement.
Mbh.12.120.6780	Chastisement is a great god.
Mbh.12.120.6789	Chastisement moves in the world.
Mbh.12.120.6790	Indeed, Chastisement moves on earth, piercing and cutting and afflicting and lopping off and dividing and striking and slaying and rushing against its victims.
Mbh.12.120.6791	These, O Yudhishthira, are some of the names which Chastisement bears, viz, Sword, Sabre, Righteousness, Fury, the Irresistible, the Parent of prosperity, Victory, Punisher, Checker, the Eternal, the Scriptures, Brahmana, Mantra, Avenger, the Foremost of first Legislators, Judge, the Undecaying, God, the individual whose course is irresistible, the Ever-agoing, the First.
Mbh.12.120.6792	born, the individual without affections, the Soul of Rudra, the eldest Manu and the great Benefactor Chastisement is the holy Vishnu.
Mbh.12.120.6796	Chastisement thus has many forms.
Mbh.12.120.6797	Blessings and curse, pleasure and pain, righteousness and unrighteousness, strength and weakness, fortune and misfortune, merit and demerit, virtue and vice, desire and aversion, season and month, night and day, and hour, heedfulness and heedlessness, joy and anger, peace and self-restraint, destiny and exertion, salvation and condemnation, fear and fearlessness, injury and abstention from injury, penances and sacrifice and rigid abstinence, poison and healthy food, the beginning, the middle, and the end, the result of all murderous acts, insolence, insanity, arrogance, pride, patience, policy, impolicy, powerlessness and power, respect, disrespect, decay and stability, humility, charity, fitness of time and unfitness of time, falsehood, wisdom, truth, belief, disbelief, impotence, trade, profit, loss, success, defeat, fierceness, mildness, death, acquisition and non-acquisition, agreement and disagreement, that which should be done and that which should not be done, strength and weakness, malice and goodwill, righteousness and unrighteousness, shame and shamelessness, modesty, prosperity and adversity, energy, acts, learning, eloquence, keenness of Understanding, all these, O Yudhishthira, are forms of Chastisement in this world.
Mbh.12.120.6798	Hence, Chastisement is exceedingly multiform.
Mbh.12.120.6799	If Chastisement had not existed, all creatures would have ground one another.
Mbh.12.120.6800	Through fear of Chastisement.
Mbh.12.120.6802	The subjects, O king, always protected by Chastisement, enhance the might of their ruler.
Mbh.12.120.6803	It is for this that Chastisement is regarded as the foremost refuge of all.
Mbh.12.120.6804	Chastisement, O king, quickly sets the world on the path of righteousness.
Mbh.12.120.6813	Chastisement in the form of the Kshatriya ruler remains wakeful amongst them.
Mbh.12.120.6814	For serving this object, Chastisement assumes the form of a Kshatriya among men.
Mbh.12.120.6816	Chastisement has again these other eight names, viz, God, Man, Life, Power, Heart, the Lord of all creatures, the Soul of all things, and the Living creature.
Mbh.12.120.6824	Chastisement is another powerful limb of a kingdom.
Mbh.12.120.6825	Chastisement in the form of an army is the author of a kingdom.
Mbh.12.120.6826	God himself has, with great care, sent Chastisement for the use of the Kshatriya.
Mbh.12.120.6828	There is nothing more worthy of respect by kings than Chastisement by which the ways of Righteousness are pointed out.
Mbh.12.120.6829	Brahman himself, for the protection of the world and for establishing the duties of different individuals, sent down or created Chastisement.
Mbh.12.120.6836	It should be also known by the name of Chastisement, as also by the name of Evidence.
Mbh.12.120.6837	Although Chastisement is seen to be regulated by Evidence, yet it has been said to have its soul in Vyavahara.
Mbh.12.120.6844	That which is Chastisement has been seen by us to be eternal Vyavahara.
Mbh.12.121.6866	I desire to know what is the origin of Chastisement.
Mbh.12.121.6867	What was awake before Chastisement?
Mbh.12.121.6869	How came Chastisement to depend upon the Kshatriya?
Mbh.12.121.6873	Vasuhoma said, Listen, O king, as to how Chastisement, that upholder of the world, arose.
Mbh.12.121.6883	Chastisement disappeared in consequence of the visible form that the Grandsire was then obliged to assume
Mbh.12.121.6884	Chastisement having disappeared, a great confusion set in among all creatures.
Mbh.12.121.6896	Thus addressed, that foremost of deities, armed with an enormous Sula having reflected long, created his ownself into the form of Chastisement.
Mbh.12.121.6897	From that form, having Righteousness for its legs, the goddess Saraswati created Danda-niti Science of Chastisement which very soon became celebrated over the world.
Mbh.12.121.6912	Upon the completion of that sacrifice according to due rites, Mahadeva, after doing proper reverence made over Chastisement, that protector of Righteousness, unto Vishnu
Mbh.12.121.6919	Chastisement should be inflicted with discrimination, guided by righteousness and not by caprice.
Mbh.12.121.6925	Chastisement, in the hands of successive holders, remains awake, protecting all creatures.
Mbh.12.121.6929	Creatures are kept awake in this world, and Chastisement is awake among them.
Mbh.12.121.6930	Possessed of splendour resembling that of the Grandsire himself, Chastisement keeps together and upholds everything
Mbh.12.121.6934	Thus Chastisement also keeps awake in the beginning, the middle, and the end.
Mbh.12.121.6935	A virtuous king should rule properly, guided by Chastisement'
Mbh.12.121.6937	I have now, O bull among men, told thee everything as to who Chastisement is, that restrainer of the universe which is governed by righteousness
Mbh.12.139.8272	Men possessed of learning and knowledge of truth applaud Chastisement.
Mbh.12.139.8273	Hence, of the four requisites of rule, viz, Conciliation, Gift, Disunion, and Chastisement, Chastisement is said to be the foremost.

Jijith Nadumuri Ravi
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Reference:- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli; Source of Plain Text: www.sacred-texts.com; Wikified at AncientVoice.

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