Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /110

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Passing away with a mind absorbed

in the deer only, he was born (again) as a

deer. (But) even in that deer-body, he

thought of the cause for his becoming a

deer and repenting very much, left his

mother-doe, and again returned to the

Lord's own realm, the hermitage of

(sages) Pulastya and Pulaha.
 

 
तस्मिन्नपि शुष्कपर्णतृणवीरुधा वर्तमानो

मृगत्वनिमित्तावसानमेव गणयन् मृगशरीरमुत्स-

सर्ज।
 

There, he lived on dried leaves, grass

and creepers, counting the time for the

expiry of the Karma that caused him to

be born as a deer and (then) left his deer-

body.
 

 
अथ कस्यचिद् द्विजवरस्य नवसोदर्या अङ्गजा

बभूवुः, मिथुनं च यवीयस्यां भार्यायाम् । यस्तु तत्र

पुमान्, तं परमभागवतं भरतमुत्सृष्टमृगशरीरं

चरमशरीरेण विप्रत्वं गतमाहुः ॥
 

Then, there were born to an excellent

Brahmin nine sons by one wife, and by

the younger wife twins, a son and a
 
THE STORY OF JADABHARATA