Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /210

RY OF CULTURE
 
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त्यान्य जयते।
 
GOVERNMENT OF
 
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KURMA AVATARA
 
गन्धर्वयक्षासुरसिद्धचारण-

त्रैविष्टपेयादिषु नान्यविन्दत ॥
 

With the benediction (of all), she then
took in her hand a garland of lilies
humming with bees, and looked round
for an irreproachable person proper for
Her, one of permanent and invariably
existent virtues, but did not get one such
among the Gandharvas, Yakshas, Asuras,
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With the benediction (of all), she then
tooiddhas, Charnas, other denizens of
heaven and the lik in her hand a garland of lilies
humming with bees, and looked round
for an irreproachable person proper for
Her, one of permanent and invariably
existent virtues, but did not get one such
among the Gandharvas, Yakshas, Asuras,
Siddhas, Charnas, other denizens of
heaven and the like.
 

 
'नूनं तपो यस्य न मन्युनिर्जयो

ज्ञानं कक्वचित्तच्च न सङ्गवर्जितम् ।

कश्चिन्महांस्तस्य न कामनिर्जयः
 

स ईश्वरः किं परतो व्यपाश्रयः ॥
 

"He who certainly possessed (the merit

of) penance had not conquered wrath;

there was knowledge somewhere but it
was not free from attachment to material

was not free from attachment to material
objects; there was some one great but he

had not overcome passion; is he a lord

who is dependent on another?