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RY OF CULTURE
 
THE STORY OF AJAMILA
 
विकर्षतोऽन्तर्दृदयाहाद्दासीपतिमजामिलम् ।

यमप्रेष्यान्विष्णुदूता वारयामासुरोजसा ॥
 
JA

The messengers of Vishnu forcibly
prevented the servants of
YA
 
GOVERNMENT
 
●मित्रा
 
SL
 
The messengers of Vishnu forcibly
prevented the servants of Yama who were
ama who were
dragging from out of the heart, (the soul

of) Ajamila, the husband of the prostitute.
 

 
ऊचुर्निषेधितास्तांस्ते वैवस्वतपुरस्सराः ॥
 

Those forerunners of Yama, who were

Mobstructed, told the messengers of Vishnu:

 
'वेदप्रणिहितो धर्मो ह्यधर्मस्तद्विपर्ययः ।

वेदो नारायणस्साक्षात्स्वयंभूरिति शुश्रुम ।
 

"Dharma is that which is inculcated by

the Veda; its opposite is Adharma: and

we have heard that the Veda is the

self-born God Narayana Himself.
 
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सर्वे कर्मानुरोधेन दण्डमर्हन्ति कारिणः ॥
 

"All those who commit sin deserve

punishment in accordance with what

they have done.
 

 
'अयं हि श्रुतसंपन्नः शीलवृत्तगुणालयः ।

एकदाऽसौ वनं यातः पितृसन्देशकृद् द्विजः ।