Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /167

OF CULTURE
 
ति
 
GOVERNMENT
 
SRfore is this affection of your mind which
is beyond the range of boys? IMAD BHAGAVATA
 
JA
 
SL
 
fore is this affection ofs this the
work of another or do your mind which
is beyond the range of boys? Is this the
work of another or do you have it

yourself?"
 
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प्रहह्लादः--

'खः स्वःपरश्चेत्यसद्ब्ग्राहः पुंसां यन्मायया कृतः ॥

विमोहितधियां दृष्टः तस्मै भगवते नमः ।

यथा भ्राम्यत्ययो ब्रह्मन् स्वयमाकर्षसन्निधौ ।

तथा मे भिद्यते चेतश्चक्रपाणेर्यदृच्छया ।'

Prahlada
 
-
"Obeisance
 
unto that Lord whose

Maya it is that causes in men the false

notion of 'one's own' and another'another', a

notion seen (only) in those of deluded

minds. As a piece of iron, O Brahmin,

moves of itself in the presence of a

magnet, even so is my mind affected

unaccountably by Lord Hari's presence."

 
तं निर्भर्त्स्याथ कुपितस्स दीनो राजसेवकः ।

प्रह्लादं ग्राहयामास त्रिवर्गस्योपपादनम् ॥
 

Then, that wretched servant of the king

(the Brahmin teacher) became angry, and

threatening Prahlada, made him receive

his teaching of Dharma, Artha and

Kama.