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[Part I] Charitropakhyan – Introduction And Analysis Of Chandi Charitar Khojeee (Bhai Prabjot Singh)
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<blockquote data-quote="spnadmin" data-source="post: 124714" data-attributes="member: 35"><p><strong>Re: Charitropakhyan: English translation and Analysis (from Khojee.com)</strong></p><p></p><p>The English translation of Charitthar 1 by Pripal Singh Bindra is provided. Since it is difficult to follow the forum rule, English translations must accompany Gurmukhi, this translation should help. We will endeavor to provide the translation with each installment of the analysis of the charittahrs.</p><p></p><p><strong>Chritar</strong></p><p><strong>One</strong></p><p></p><p>(In Praise of Bhagauti)</p><p>(By) Tenth Master, (in) Deviant Metre,</p><p>(By) the Grace of God</p><p>You are the Broad Sword with decapitating edge.</p><p>You are the Arrow, Dagger, (and the sword from regions of) Halb, South, and West.</p><p>I can envision you to the limits of my perception.(1)</p><p>You are the capable deity - Sarswati, Roopa and Bhawani.</p><p>You are the divinity - Vishnu, Brahma and Shiva, and, majestically, you are established</p><p>in motherly form.(2)</p><p>You have created Deities, Demons, Prayer-worthies, Turks and Hindus.</p><p>Descending in various Forms, you have produced the altercating folks.(3)</p><p>You have rueful looks as well as you adore beautiful eyes.</p><p>You are pretty, and, also, you possess contorted features.</p><p>You enunciate the Four Vedas, but don't hesitate to decimate the Demons.(4)</p><p>With you the dread of war increases.</p><p>The great rulers pray to you and, with the swords and arrows, annihilate the armies.</p><p>Guising as Narsing, the Sphinx, you smashed Harnakash.</p><p>And incarnating as Varah in the form of a boar, you bore the weight of the earth.(5)</p><p>Manifesting as Rama, you exterminated the stubborn Devil (Rawana).</p><p>And turning into Krishana terminated Kans, the semi-bestial.</p><p>You are known as Jalpa, Kalka and are the Rani of the fourteen continent.(6)</p><p>You are roaming around during the nights of death.</p><p>You are the initiator of the Universe, and you destroy the Universe.</p><p>You are narrated by the rulers of the rulers, as you are the Rani of Fourteen continents.(7)</p><p>People called you as the kindest of kinds, and you are known through the sacred hymns</p><p>of Vyas Rishi.</p><p>You formulate the lion's retreat, and you are recognized as the lion, as well.(8)</p><p>The cutting dagger suits your hands, and you have obliterated the demons of Chund and Mund.</p><p>You invaded the enemies called Rakat Beej, and you protected the divinity, as well.(9)</p><p>In rage you terminated the demons of Mehkhasur, and burned to death Dhumarach and</p><p>Javalach.</p><p>With impregnable and protective mantras you finished Bidalach and Chichrachas.(10)</p><p>You beat the drum of invasion and, then, jovially, penetrated the warfare.</p><p>Holding eight weapons in your eight arms, you won over the invincible brave-enemies,</p><p>and holding them from their hair knocked them down.(11)</p><p>You are Jayanti, Mangal, Kali, Kapali, Bhadarkali, Durga, and epitome of benevolence</p><p>and emancipation.</p><p>You are universal protector, and I pay my obeisance to you.(12)</p><p>Adoring red apparels, it is you, and in white clothes you are Usha and Sandhiya,</p><p>wherefore capturing all the minds.</p><p>You, yourself, put on yellow garments, but You dislodge the ascetics (in yellow robes) of</p><p>their infatuation.(13)</p><p>You, with the red teeth, destroy the apprehension of the Brahmins.</p><p>You incarnated in the house of Nand (as Krishna), because you were brimful with</p><p>Faculty.(15)</p><p>You, incarnating as Nihaqlanki (Kalki), shattered the outcastes.</p><p>O my matriarch, endow me with your benevolence, and let me perform the way I</p><p>elect.(16)</p><p>Surrounded by robes, you adore your head with rosary, and wearing a heavy sword.</p><p>Your dreadful red eyes, illuminating your forehead, are auspicious.</p><p>Your tresses are flaring, and teeth are sparkling.</p><p>Your viperous hands are snarling out flames.</p><p>And God Almighty is your protector.(17)</p><p>Savaiya</p><p>Gleaming like sun, brave and magnanimous like mountains,</p><p>The Rajas who were filled with ego, and were flying high in pride,</p><p>The ones who were the ideals of bears and Bhairavas,</p><p>They all were decapitated by Goddess Bhivani and her accomplices, and thrown down to</p><p>the earth.(18)</p><p>Those who did not care about the hundreds of thousands of (fighting) arms,</p><p>Those who obliterated hundreds of thousands of brave enemies,</p><p>They, with fort like bodies, who had never lost even to (god) Indra,</p><p>Their bodies might have been eaten away by the vultures,</p><p>But never retreated from the field of war,</p><p>They were cut down by the sword of Kali, and such Rajas fell flat in the fighting</p><p>grounds.(19)</p><p>The ones, who possessed heroic bodies, were always ascending in pride.</p><p>Getting enthusiastic, they came to fight from all the four directions.</p><p>Those irrefutable warriors were overwhelmed from all over like the dust-storm.</p><p>And those handsome champions flying in rage headed towards the war.(20)</p><p>Many warriors were hit by many other warriors, but none felt slackened.</p><p>The ones who were not yet killed, the warriors, soon, threw them on the ground, and</p><p>decapitated them too.</p><p>All those, with lotus eyes, who did not tremble but remained alert like lions, were</p><p>annihilated by Shakti.(21)</p><p>Those demons of dusty colours and imbued in dust, and as sharp as steel, had run away.</p><p>The bodies as stout as black mountains, and, adorned with iron coats, were intoxicated.</p><p>(The poet says,) `Those demons in rage, who were ready to ensue a fight with God</p><p>Almighty, were dashed to ground;</p><p>Those were the ones who were, previously, roaring like lions in the battlefields.'(22)</p><p>At the apex time, which could not be envisaged, the invisible drum was beaten on the</p><p>appearance of the twisted demons, who were filled with arrogance.</p><p>Whose bodies were not abated even with arrows coming out of bows,</p><p>When the mother of the Universe (Bhagauti) looked down with irritation, all those</p><p>brilliant ones were beheaded and chucked down on the earth.</p><p>All those, with lotus eyes, who did not tremble but remained alert like lions, were</p><p>annihilated by Shakti.(23)</p><p>In that crucial war, (bodies of) hundreds and thousands of heroes were cut into two.</p><p>The decorative garlands were put around Shiva,</p><p>Wherever goddess Durga went, the enemies took to their heels with lame excuses.</p><p>All those, with lotus eyes, who did not tremble but remained alert like lions, were</p><p>annihilated by Shakti.(24)</p><p>The heroes like Sunbh and Nisunbh, who were invincible, flew in rage.</p><p>Wearing iron coats, they girded swords, bows and arrows, and held the shields in their</p><p>hands,</p><p>They had conquered the nine continents, which (previously) could not be won over by the warriors of the Continents themselves.</p><p>But they could not stand to face furious goddess Kali, and fell down cut into pieces.(25)</p><p>Totak Chant</p><p>I cannot describe how gracefully goddess Kali brandished the sword in her hand,</p><p>The heroes took to their heels the way the stars hide themselves when the sun becomes apparent.(26)</p><p>Holding the sword, and in flare, she jumped into the hordes of demons.</p><p>She proclaimed to exterminate all the champions in a single stroke,</p><p>And would leave none to become eminent combatants.(27)</p><p>Savaiya</p><p>To the beats of Nigara, Mirdang, Muchang and other drums, the dauntless ones flung</p><p>forward.</p><p>Filled with self-esteem and confidence, they did not take even one step back.</p><p>The angel of death tried to take their lives away, but they remained in the combats,</p><p>undeterred.</p><p>They were fighting free of dread, and with glories ferried across (the temporal</p><p>existence).(28)</p><p>The heroes who did not succumbed to death, and who could not be subjugated even by</p><p>Indra, jumped into the fight,</p><p>Then, O Goddess Kali, without your help, all the brave (enemies) took to their heels.</p><p>Kali, herself, decapitated them like the banana trees are cropped, and they are thrown on the earth,</p><p>And their garments, drenched in blood, depicted the effect of Holi, the Festival of</p><p>Colours.(29)</p><p>Dohira</p><p>With eyes full of fire like copper Goddess Chandika raided, and inebriated spoke<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />30)</p><p>Savaiya</p><p>`I will invalidate all the enemies in an instant,' thus thinking she was filled with wrath,</p><p>Brandishing the sword, mounting the lion, she forced herself into the battlefield.</p><p>The weapons of the Matriarch of the Universe sparkled in the flocks of demons, like the</p><p>sea-waves swinging in the sea.(31)</p><p>Flying in rage, in fury, the goddess unsheathed the passionate sword.</p><p>Both, the deities and demons were bewildered to see the grace of the sword.</p><p>It struck such a blow on the head of Devil Chakharshuk that I could not narrate.</p><p>The sword, slaying the enemies, flew up the mountains and, slaying the enemies, reached supernal region.(32)</p><p>Dohira</p><p>The gun, the axe, the bow and the sword were sparkling, and small banners were waving in such intensity that the sun had become invisible.(33)</p><p>Thundering and fatalist trumpets blew and the vultures started to hover in the sky.</p><p>(Supposedly) indestructible braves began to topple over in a flash.(34)</p><p>Bhairi, Bhravan, Mirdang, Sankh, Vajas, Murlis, Murjs, Muchangs, the musical</p><p>instrument of various types commenced to blow.</p><p>Listening to Nafiris and Dundlis the warriors started to fight among themselves and none could escape.(36)</p><p>Gnashing their teeth, the enemies came face to face.</p><p>The (decapitated) heads sprung up, rolled down, and (the souls) departed for the</p><p>heavens.(37)</p><p>The jackals came to roam in the battlefield and the ghosts went around licking the blood.</p><p>The vultures pounced down and flew away tearing the flesh.</p><p>(In spite of all that) the heroes did not abandoned the fields.(38)</p><p>Savaiya</p><p>The ones who were protagonists of the tabor's noises and the beats of the drums,</p><p>Who had looked down upon the enemies, were the conquerors of the nine continents of</p><p>the earth, and were unafraid of the God Indra,</p><p>Fought to the end and departed for their heavenly abodes.(39)</p><p>Dohira</p><p>Belching witches and howling ghosts started to roam around.</p><p>The heroes with decapitated heads went around the fields with swords in their hands.(40)</p><p>Numerous champions with unsheathed swords were fighting face to face,</p><p>Raiding and combating to death, and praying to the Fairy goddess, rolled down on the</p><p>earth.(41)</p><p>The one who could not swim, how could he, without a boat and support of your Name,</p><p>swim across the sea?(42)</p><p>How could a dumb narrate the Six Shastras, a lame person could climb up the mountains, a blind man could see, and a deaf could hear?(43)</p><p>The wonders of a child during pregnancy, a Raja and a female are unfathomable.</p><p>With Your blessings I have narrated this, although with a bit of exaggeration.(44)</p><p>Believing You be the omnipresent, I say, that I have rendered this with my limited</p><p>understanding, and I prey not to laugh it off.(45)</p><p>To commence with, with devotion to the Reverend Faculty, I narrate the Female</p><p>Wonders.</p><p>O the Passionless Universal Prowess, enable me to render the waves of narrative through my heart.(46)</p><p>Savaiya</p><p>From a straw You can raise my status to as high as Sumer Hills and there is none other as benevolent to the poor as You.</p><p>There is none other as pardonable as You.</p><p>A little service to You is abundantly rewarded instantly.</p><p>In the Kal-age one can only depend on the sword, the faculty and self-determination.(47)</p><p>The immortal heroes were annihilated, and their pride-filled heads were thrown on the</p><p>earth.</p><p>The egocentric, to whom no other could inflict punishment, you, with your vigorous</p><p>arms, made pride-less.</p><p>Once again Indra was established to rule the Creation and the happiness was ensued.</p><p>You adore the bow, and there is none other hero as great as you.(48)(1)</p><p>This Auspicious Attribute of Chandi (the Goddess) ends the First Parable of the Chritars</p><p>Completed with Benediction.(1)(48)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spnadmin, post: 124714, member: 35"] [b]Re: Charitropakhyan: English translation and Analysis (from Khojee.com)[/b] The English translation of Charitthar 1 by Pripal Singh Bindra is provided. Since it is difficult to follow the forum rule, English translations must accompany Gurmukhi, this translation should help. We will endeavor to provide the translation with each installment of the analysis of the charittahrs. [B]Chritar One[/B] (In Praise of Bhagauti) (By) Tenth Master, (in) Deviant Metre, (By) the Grace of God You are the Broad Sword with decapitating edge. You are the Arrow, Dagger, (and the sword from regions of) Halb, South, and West. I can envision you to the limits of my perception.(1) You are the capable deity - Sarswati, Roopa and Bhawani. You are the divinity - Vishnu, Brahma and Shiva, and, majestically, you are established in motherly form.(2) You have created Deities, Demons, Prayer-worthies, Turks and Hindus. Descending in various Forms, you have produced the altercating folks.(3) You have rueful looks as well as you adore beautiful eyes. You are pretty, and, also, you possess contorted features. You enunciate the Four Vedas, but don't hesitate to decimate the Demons.(4) With you the dread of war increases. The great rulers pray to you and, with the swords and arrows, annihilate the armies. Guising as Narsing, the Sphinx, you smashed Harnakash. And incarnating as Varah in the form of a boar, you bore the weight of the earth.(5) Manifesting as Rama, you exterminated the stubborn Devil (Rawana). And turning into Krishana terminated Kans, the semi-bestial. You are known as Jalpa, Kalka and are the Rani of the fourteen continent.(6) You are roaming around during the nights of death. You are the initiator of the Universe, and you destroy the Universe. You are narrated by the rulers of the rulers, as you are the Rani of Fourteen continents.(7) People called you as the kindest of kinds, and you are known through the sacred hymns of Vyas Rishi. You formulate the lion's retreat, and you are recognized as the lion, as well.(8) The cutting dagger suits your hands, and you have obliterated the demons of Chund and Mund. You invaded the enemies called Rakat Beej, and you protected the divinity, as well.(9) In rage you terminated the demons of Mehkhasur, and burned to death Dhumarach and Javalach. With impregnable and protective mantras you finished Bidalach and Chichrachas.(10) You beat the drum of invasion and, then, jovially, penetrated the warfare. Holding eight weapons in your eight arms, you won over the invincible brave-enemies, and holding them from their hair knocked them down.(11) You are Jayanti, Mangal, Kali, Kapali, Bhadarkali, Durga, and epitome of benevolence and emancipation. You are universal protector, and I pay my obeisance to you.(12) Adoring red apparels, it is you, and in white clothes you are Usha and Sandhiya, wherefore capturing all the minds. You, yourself, put on yellow garments, but You dislodge the ascetics (in yellow robes) of their infatuation.(13) You, with the red teeth, destroy the apprehension of the Brahmins. You incarnated in the house of Nand (as Krishna), because you were brimful with Faculty.(15) You, incarnating as Nihaqlanki (Kalki), shattered the outcastes. O my matriarch, endow me with your benevolence, and let me perform the way I elect.(16) Surrounded by robes, you adore your head with rosary, and wearing a heavy sword. Your dreadful red eyes, illuminating your forehead, are auspicious. Your tresses are flaring, and teeth are sparkling. Your viperous hands are snarling out flames. And God Almighty is your protector.(17) Savaiya Gleaming like sun, brave and magnanimous like mountains, The Rajas who were filled with ego, and were flying high in pride, The ones who were the ideals of bears and Bhairavas, They all were decapitated by Goddess Bhivani and her accomplices, and thrown down to the earth.(18) Those who did not care about the hundreds of thousands of (fighting) arms, Those who obliterated hundreds of thousands of brave enemies, They, with fort like bodies, who had never lost even to (god) Indra, Their bodies might have been eaten away by the vultures, But never retreated from the field of war, They were cut down by the sword of Kali, and such Rajas fell flat in the fighting grounds.(19) The ones, who possessed heroic bodies, were always ascending in pride. Getting enthusiastic, they came to fight from all the four directions. Those irrefutable warriors were overwhelmed from all over like the dust-storm. And those handsome champions flying in rage headed towards the war.(20) Many warriors were hit by many other warriors, but none felt slackened. The ones who were not yet killed, the warriors, soon, threw them on the ground, and decapitated them too. All those, with lotus eyes, who did not tremble but remained alert like lions, were annihilated by Shakti.(21) Those demons of dusty colours and imbued in dust, and as sharp as steel, had run away. The bodies as stout as black mountains, and, adorned with iron coats, were intoxicated. (The poet says,) `Those demons in rage, who were ready to ensue a fight with God Almighty, were dashed to ground; Those were the ones who were, previously, roaring like lions in the battlefields.'(22) At the apex time, which could not be envisaged, the invisible drum was beaten on the appearance of the twisted demons, who were filled with arrogance. Whose bodies were not abated even with arrows coming out of bows, When the mother of the Universe (Bhagauti) looked down with irritation, all those brilliant ones were beheaded and chucked down on the earth. All those, with lotus eyes, who did not tremble but remained alert like lions, were annihilated by Shakti.(23) In that crucial war, (bodies of) hundreds and thousands of heroes were cut into two. The decorative garlands were put around Shiva, Wherever goddess Durga went, the enemies took to their heels with lame excuses. All those, with lotus eyes, who did not tremble but remained alert like lions, were annihilated by Shakti.(24) The heroes like Sunbh and Nisunbh, who were invincible, flew in rage. Wearing iron coats, they girded swords, bows and arrows, and held the shields in their hands, They had conquered the nine continents, which (previously) could not be won over by the warriors of the Continents themselves. But they could not stand to face furious goddess Kali, and fell down cut into pieces.(25) Totak Chant I cannot describe how gracefully goddess Kali brandished the sword in her hand, The heroes took to their heels the way the stars hide themselves when the sun becomes apparent.(26) Holding the sword, and in flare, she jumped into the hordes of demons. She proclaimed to exterminate all the champions in a single stroke, And would leave none to become eminent combatants.(27) Savaiya To the beats of Nigara, Mirdang, Muchang and other drums, the dauntless ones flung forward. Filled with self-esteem and confidence, they did not take even one step back. The angel of death tried to take their lives away, but they remained in the combats, undeterred. They were fighting free of dread, and with glories ferried across (the temporal existence).(28) The heroes who did not succumbed to death, and who could not be subjugated even by Indra, jumped into the fight, Then, O Goddess Kali, without your help, all the brave (enemies) took to their heels. Kali, herself, decapitated them like the banana trees are cropped, and they are thrown on the earth, And their garments, drenched in blood, depicted the effect of Holi, the Festival of Colours.(29) Dohira With eyes full of fire like copper Goddess Chandika raided, and inebriated spoke:(30) Savaiya `I will invalidate all the enemies in an instant,' thus thinking she was filled with wrath, Brandishing the sword, mounting the lion, she forced herself into the battlefield. The weapons of the Matriarch of the Universe sparkled in the flocks of demons, like the sea-waves swinging in the sea.(31) Flying in rage, in fury, the goddess unsheathed the passionate sword. Both, the deities and demons were bewildered to see the grace of the sword. It struck such a blow on the head of Devil Chakharshuk that I could not narrate. The sword, slaying the enemies, flew up the mountains and, slaying the enemies, reached supernal region.(32) Dohira The gun, the axe, the bow and the sword were sparkling, and small banners were waving in such intensity that the sun had become invisible.(33) Thundering and fatalist trumpets blew and the vultures started to hover in the sky. (Supposedly) indestructible braves began to topple over in a flash.(34) Bhairi, Bhravan, Mirdang, Sankh, Vajas, Murlis, Murjs, Muchangs, the musical instrument of various types commenced to blow. Listening to Nafiris and Dundlis the warriors started to fight among themselves and none could escape.(36) Gnashing their teeth, the enemies came face to face. The (decapitated) heads sprung up, rolled down, and (the souls) departed for the heavens.(37) The jackals came to roam in the battlefield and the ghosts went around licking the blood. The vultures pounced down and flew away tearing the flesh. (In spite of all that) the heroes did not abandoned the fields.(38) Savaiya The ones who were protagonists of the tabor's noises and the beats of the drums, Who had looked down upon the enemies, were the conquerors of the nine continents of the earth, and were unafraid of the God Indra, Fought to the end and departed for their heavenly abodes.(39) Dohira Belching witches and howling ghosts started to roam around. The heroes with decapitated heads went around the fields with swords in their hands.(40) Numerous champions with unsheathed swords were fighting face to face, Raiding and combating to death, and praying to the Fairy goddess, rolled down on the earth.(41) The one who could not swim, how could he, without a boat and support of your Name, swim across the sea?(42) How could a dumb narrate the Six Shastras, a lame person could climb up the mountains, a blind man could see, and a deaf could hear?(43) The wonders of a child during pregnancy, a Raja and a female are unfathomable. With Your blessings I have narrated this, although with a bit of exaggeration.(44) Believing You be the omnipresent, I say, that I have rendered this with my limited understanding, and I prey not to laugh it off.(45) To commence with, with devotion to the Reverend Faculty, I narrate the Female Wonders. O the Passionless Universal Prowess, enable me to render the waves of narrative through my heart.(46) Savaiya From a straw You can raise my status to as high as Sumer Hills and there is none other as benevolent to the poor as You. There is none other as pardonable as You. A little service to You is abundantly rewarded instantly. In the Kal-age one can only depend on the sword, the faculty and self-determination.(47) The immortal heroes were annihilated, and their pride-filled heads were thrown on the earth. The egocentric, to whom no other could inflict punishment, you, with your vigorous arms, made pride-less. Once again Indra was established to rule the Creation and the happiness was ensued. You adore the bow, and there is none other hero as great as you.(48)(1) This Auspicious Attribute of Chandi (the Goddess) ends the First Parable of the Chritars Completed with Benediction.(1)(48) [/QUOTE]
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