Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /79

OF CULTURE
 
SRIMWhen, handing over the kingdom (to
you), your father retires to the forests,
you shall, upholding Dharma, protect the
kingdom for thirty-six thousand years,
with your faculties unimpaired. AD BHAGAVATA
 
SL
 
When, handing ond
haver the ing enjoyed the rightful things with
which you will be blessed, you shall
thinkingdom (to
you), your father retires to the forests,
you shall, u of me in the end; and then shall
you go to my pholding Dharma, protelact the
kingdom for thirty-six thousand years,
And
e, with your fahenculties unimpaired.
having enjoyed the rightful things with
which you will be blessed, you shall
think of me in the end; and then shall
you go to my place, whence one returns
 
e one returns
not."
 
कृति मंत्रालय
 
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बालस्य पश्यतो धाम स्वमगाद्गरुडध्वजः ।

सोऽपि सङ्कल्पजं प्राप्य नातिप्रीतोऽभ्यगात्पुरम् ॥
 

Even as the lad was looking on, God

Hari departed to His abode. And the

lad also, though he had attained what he

had wished for, returned to the city, not

very much pleased.
 

 
ध्रुवः -
•
" ममैतत्प्रार्थिततं व्यर्थथं चिकित्सेव गतायुषि ।
 
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प्रसाद्य जगदात्मानं तपसा दुष्प्रसादनम् ।

भवच्छिदमयाचेऽहं भवं भाग्यविवर्जितः ॥"
 

(Dhruva said unto himself :) "This has

been sought by me in vain, like medicine

sought after life had departed. Having