Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /128

OF CULTURE
 
A
 
संस्कृति मंत्रालय
 
GOVERNMENT OF
 
● भारत
 
THE STORY OF AJAMILA
 
कान्यकुब्जे द्विजः कश्चिदासीपतिरजामिलः ।

नाम्रा नष्टसदाचारो दास्याः संसर्गदूषितः ॥
 
SL
 

There was a Brahmin in Kanyakubja,

Ajamila by name, the husband of a
prostitute, with all his righteous conduct
lost and polluted by association with

prostitute, with all his righteous conduct
lost and polluted by association with
the harlot.
 

 
बन्द्यक्षकैतवैश्वौर्ययैर्गर्हितां वृत्तिमाश्रितः ।

बिभ्रत्कुटुम्बमशुचिर्यातयामास देहिनः ॥
 

Adopting despicable means of liveli-

hood, sycophancy, gambling and theft,

and maintaining his family impurely,

that Ajamila was torturing people.
 

 
तस्य प्रवयसः पुत्रा दश तेषां सु
 
तु योऽवमः ।
 

बालो नारायणो नाम्ना पित्रोश्च दयितो भृशम् ।

स बद्धहृदयस्तस्मिन्मुमुदे जरठो भृशम् ॥
 

To him, who had become very old,

there were (born) ten sons, of whom the

last was a boy named Narayana, a darling

of the parents. Doting on that child,

the old man was extremely happy.
 
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