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S OF CULTURE
 
THA
 
GOVERNMENT
 
SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 
6
 
SL
 
यद्युत्तमश्लोक भवान्मयेरितं

वचो व्यलीकं सुरवर्य मन्यते ।

करोम्यूयृतं तन्न भवेत्प्रलम्भनं
 

पदं तृतीयं कुरु शीर्ष्णि 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 निरयाद्दरत्ययात्

असाधुवादाद्भृशमुद्विजे 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.