Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /119

GOVERNMENT
 
RY OF CULTURE
 
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SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 
CPalanquin) in haste, bowed at his fee
 
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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 ॥
 
66
 

' 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."