Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /109

V
 
GOVERNMENT
 
RY OF CULTURE
 
SL
 
the
 
Seeing the pitiable young one of
the
doe being carried along by the flood, the

royal sage, Bharata, rescued it in
his
sympathy and took it to his hermitage.
 
his.
 
SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 

 
तस्य एणकुणक उच्चैरेतस्मिन् कृतनिजाभि-

मानस्याहरहः तत्पोषणपालनलालनप्रीणनानुध्यानेना-

त्मनियमा एकैकशः कतिपयेनाहर्गणेन सर्व एवोद-

वसन् ।
 

Towards this little deer, Bharata formed

the strong attachment that it was his

own, and as a result of his daily nourish-

ing it, protecting it (from wild beasts),

fondling it, satisfying its wants and

continuous thinking of it, all
his
his
austerities, one by one, became extinct

in a few days.
 

 
तस्यैवमन्तरायविह्हतयोगारम्भणस्य भरतस्य दुर

तिक्रमः काल आपद्यत ।
 

To that Bharata whose Yoga was thus

destroyed by the obstacle (of the young

deer), there came the inescapable time of

death.
 

 
मृग एवाभिनिवेशितमना विसृज्य लोकमिमं

मृगशरीरमवाप। तत्राप्यात्मनो मृगत्वकारणमनु-

स्मृत्य भृशमनुतप्यमानो विसृज्य मृगीं मातरं

पुनर्भगवत्क्षेत्ररं पुलस्त्यपुलहाश्रमं प्रत्याजगाम ॥