Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /112

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Y OF CULTURE
 
hen, on an occasion, a certain bandit-
chief, desiring issue, decided to offer a
human sacrifice to GL
 
Then, on an occasion, a certain bandit-
chief, desiring issue, decided to offer a
human sacrifice to Goddess Bhadrakali.

His followers bound Bharata with a rope
in the night and brought him to the

in the night and brought him to the
temple of Chandika (Bhadrakali). Then,
the bandit who was officiating as the

the bandit who was officiating as the
priest of the bandit-chief took the sword

for propitiating the Goddess with the

wine of the blood of that human offering.
 
संस्कृति मंत्रालय
 
GOVERNMENT OF
 
THE STORY OF JADABHARATA
 

 
इति तेषां वृषलानां रजस्तमःप्रकृतीनां हिंसा-

विहाराणां कर्मातिदारुणं यद्ब्रह्मभूतस्य निर्वैरस्य

सर्वभूतसुहृदोऽननुमतमालम्भनं तदुपलभ्य सहसो-

च्चचाट सैव देवी।
 

Seeing that highly heinous act of those

low men of passion and delusion, delight-

ing in violence, namely, the imper-

missible killing of one who had become

the Brahman, one from whom enmity had

completely departed and one who was a

friend of all beings, the Goddess Herself

suddenly burst out of the image.
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