Narada said: -
1. Being thus turned out from his place (in heaven) and deprived of his seat there, his heart trembling and consumed by the fire of grief.
2. With his garlands rendered pale, his senses taking leave of him, deprived of his crown and other ornaments, with his head reeling and his entire body relaxed and robbed of his robes and ornaments.
3. Incapable of being known, and now seeing and again not seeing those gods he fell down to the earth below with his mind in despair and his intellect a blank.
4. “What inauspicious and sinful thought was entertained by me in my mind, in consequence of which I have been turned out from my place in heaven?” Thus did the king think within himself.
5. All the kings who were there (in heaven) as also those who had obtained salvation and the Apasaras laughed at Yayati being hurled down from heaven and falling down, having to support to cling to.
6. Then did some officers whose duty it was to hurl down men, whose religious merit had been rewarded by a sufficiently long term of residence in heaven, coming there said to Yayati, “O king, by command of the king among the gods.
7. You are exceedingly intoxicated with vanity and there is nobody you have not insulted and owing to this vanity you are no longer fit for heaven, O you born of a king.
8. No one knows you here too, Therefore, down you and fall down. I shall fall among the good” the son of Nahusha said these words three times.
9. While falling that foremost of those who had attained salvation thought of the course of his fall (and the place he he should fall on in the end.)
10. At this time he saw four kings and fell among them. They were Pratardana, Vasumanas, Sivi the son of Ushinara and Ashtaka.
11. Who were gratifying the lord of the gods by the performance of the sacrificial ceremony known as Vajapeya. And the smoke proceeding from that sacrificial ceremony had gone to the very gates of heaven.
12. Yayati fell towards the earth smelling that river of smoke which connected as it were the earth with the heaven.
13. The lord, of the earth following the course of that smoke which was moving like the Ganga in heaven, came among those foremost of the performers of sacrifices who were his own relatives;
14. Among those who were like the supporters of the earth; among those four who were as lions among kings and like the great fire in sacrificial ceremonies the king Yayati fell.
15. The Royal Rishi Yayati, after all his religious merit had been spent up, fell among them,’ all the rulers of the earth said to him who was effulgent with beauty. “Who are you? With whom are you related, and from what town and country are you?
16. Are you a Yaksha or a god, a Gandharva or a Rakshasa, for you have not the appearance of a human being; and what is the object desired for by you?”
Yayati said: -
17. I am the royal Rishi Yayati and the religious merit acquired by me being spent up I have been turned out from heaven; and wishing in my mind that I should fair among the good, I have fallen among you.
The kings said: -
18. May what was desired for by you be successful; accept the religious merit of these sacrificial ceremonies performed by all of us.
Yayati said: -
19. I am not a Brahmana and Therefore, cannot accept wealth (of any sort) from others, and my heart is not inclined to destroy the religious merit of others.
Narada said: -
2o. At this time, seeing Madhavi leading the life of a deer and wandering about, those kings bowing to her said:
21. ‘What is the reason of your coming here, what orders of yours shall we obey? Being your sons, O devotee, we are ready to be commanded by you.”
22. Madhavi, hearing that speech of theirs with great delight, came to her father and bowed to Yayati.
23. And having touched those sons of hers on their head the anchorite said these words: “These are your grandsons, O chief among kings - my sons-they are not unconnected with you.
24. These will save you - such an example has been seen in days of old - I am your daughter, Madhavi, who, O king, have adopted the life of a deer.
25. By me too has religious merit been acquired; accept half of that, for. O king all human beings enjoy the wealth earned by their children.
26. Therefore, was it that you, O lord of the earth, wished me to be the mother of sons; “then did all those rulers of the earth lowering their heads.
27. Bowed down and said the same thing to their maternal grandfather, filling the earth with loud and sweet sounds the like of Which there was none.
28. The rulers of men thus saved their grand-father who had been turned out from heaven; just then, Galava, coming there, said to the ruler of the earth, “Ascend you heaven by virtue of a eighth part of my austerities.”
Thus ends the one hundred and twenty first chapter the turning out from heaven of Yayati, in the Bhagavat-yana of the Udyoga Parva.