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1. the haters of Lord Sri Hari become emaciated in
this dark eternal hell for want of food.
 
2. their eyes are torn open and deformed by the cruel
demons with their sharp nails and teeth.
 
3. In this hell there are pitch-dark wells which are
full of filthy matter.
 
4. The birds living there wound the bodies of these
souls with their sharp beaks.
 
5. In addition to these,
 
souls by the attendants of the Lord.
 
stones are hurled at these
 
वज्रकल्पाः = 1) Similar to वज्रायुध in sharpness. क्षुर = razor
 
2) Similar to diamond in hardness.
 
Spear
 
जलूका: =leeches (1:)
 
उपजिहतेः [=approach to suck blood. According to
Vēdātma yati
 
समीपं गत्वा विध्यन्ति ।
 
The destiny awaiting these souls is described in Bhagavata;
III-33 ch-19-20-21 and III-31 ch-33.
 
VERSE 14
 
In this verse the poet makes a special prayer for the
bestowal of pure, constant and sincere devotion.
 
ऊर्जितां = increasing प्रवृद्वां
 
faci-Sincere, bereft of pretexts.
 
सद्गुणाः = माहात्म्य ज्ञानादयः
 
Jayateertha in his Nyāya Sudhā (fataifas) gives
a lofty and glorious definition of this kind of भक्ति. Here
is Dr. B. N. K. Sharma's fine translation of that great defini-
tion: "Bhakti is thus, the steady and continuous flow