अभिमन्यु-वध पर्व — राजा शिनि की कथा

Narada said We heard, O Srinjaya, that even Sini, the son of Ushinara, had to sutfer death, who had put, as it were, a leathern band round the entire earth.

He made the earth with her mountain and the islands and seas and forests resound with the clatter of his car-whecls. That subduer of foes, viz., Sini himself, every day used to slay the foremost of his opponents.

He celebrated various sacrifices attended with profuse sacrificial presents; that highly puissant and intelligent monarch acquired enormous quality of wealth.

In battle he came to be recognised as the head of all the Kshatriya. Having brought the entire earth under his control, he performed many Horse-sacrifices.

Productive of great merit without any the least obstruction, giving away as sacrificial presents thousands and millions of golden nikshas, numerous elephants, steeds and other kinds of animals, large quantities of grain and countless deer, cows and sheep.

And Sini also offered as a gift to the Brahmanas this earth consisting of various different kinds of soil. Indeed Ushinara's son Sini gave away as presents as many kine as is the number of rain drops showered on the earth or the number of stars in the firmament or the number of sand grains on the bed of the river Ganga, or the number of stones that compose the mount Meru or the number of gems or aquatic animals in the ocean. The Lord of creation has not come across or will not come across, in the past, the present or the future, another king competent to bear the burden that king Sini bore on his shoulders. The sacrifices celebrated by king Sini were numerous and attended with all sorts of rites.

In his sacrifices, the stakes, the carpets, the horses, the walls and the arches were all made of gold. Edibles and drink suited to the taste and perfectly pure, were used to be supplied in abundance; and the Brahmanas that came there were countless.

Viands and edibles of every description were used to be distributed with agreeable words, (such as 'take, accept' etc.). There milk and curds used to be collected in lakes of large dimensions. In his sacrificial compound, flowed rivers of drink and stood hills of white edibles.

"Drink" "bathe" 'eat' and 'do as like,' these were the words that used to be heard there. Pleased with his deeds of piety, Rudra

“As you give away numerous presents, let your wealth, your devotion, your renown, your meritorious deeds, the love that people cherish for you and the paradise that you shall attain to, let all these of yours, be inexhaustible.”

Having obtained even such a desirable boon, in due time, Sini had to go to heaven. O Srinjaya, even when such a king had to suffer death who was superior to you in respect of the four virtues.

And consequently who was far more superior to your son, you should not lament for your son saying-O Shvaitya-who performed no sacrifice and made no gifts. your son saying-O Shvaitya-who performed no sacrifice and made no gifts.