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S OF CULTURE
 
THA
 
GOVERNMENT
 
SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 
6
 
SL
 
यद्युत्तमश्लोक भवान्मयेरितं
वचो व्यलीकं सुरवर्य मन्यते ।
करोम्यूतं तन्न भवेत्प्रलम्भनं
 
पदं तृतीयं कुरु शीष्णि मे निजम् ॥
 
Bali :
 
"O you foremost of gods, O you of
highest renown! if you consider the words
I had spoken as deceitful, I will make
them true; there shall be no fraud, place
your third foot on my head.
 
बिभेमि नाहं निरया हरत्ययात्
असाधुवादाशमुद्विजे यथा ॥
 
"I am not afraid so much of intermin-
able hell as I shudder terribly at infamy.
 
• पुंसां श्लाघ्यतमं मन्ये दण्डमर्हत्तमार्पितम् ॥
 
" Punishment at the hands of the
greatest of the revered is, I think, most
praiseworthy for men.