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GOVERNMENT
 
RY OF CULTURE
 
S
 
SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 
Calanquin) in haste, bowed at his fee
 
and with his pride of kingship gone,
begged pardon of him and said:
 
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• कस्त्वं निगूढश्चरसीह कस्मात्
क्षेमाय नश्चेदसि नोत शुक्ल: ।
अहं मुनीनां परमं गुरुं वै
प्रष्टं प्रवृतस्स भवानपि स्वित् ॥
 
Who are you that move about here in
disguise, and wherefore? If you are here
for my welfare, may you not be the pure
Lord Himself? I am on my way to enquire
(what my refuge is) of Kapila, the first
preceptor of all sages. May it be that
thou art Himself?
 
'तन्मे भवान्नरदेवाभिमान-
मदेन तुच्छीकृतसत्तमस्य ।
कृषीष्ट मैत्रीदृशमार्तबन्धो
 
यथा तरे सवध्यानमंहः ॥
 
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' Therefore, O, you friend of the suffer-
ing, you must grace with a look of
friendliness me who have, in the intoxica-
tion of my pride of kingship, slighted the
noblest of men; so only may I escape the
sin of insulting the good."