Text 21
Text 21
Devanagari
Devanagari
अहो मे यक्षरक्षांसि प्रजा यूयं बभूविथ ॥ २१ ॥
Text
Texto
mā māṁ jakṣata rakṣata
aho me yakṣa-rakṣāṁsi
prajā yūyaṁ babhūvitha
mā māṁ jakṣata rakṣata
aho me yakṣa-rakṣāṁsi
prajā yūyaṁ babhūvitha
Synonyms
Palabra por palabra
Translation
Traducción
Brahmā, the head of the demigods, full of anxiety, asked them, “Do not eat me, but protect me. You are born from me and have become my sons. Therefore you are Yakṣas and Rākṣasas.”
Brahmā, el principal de los semidioses, lleno de ansiedad, les pidió: «No me coman, sino protéjanme. Han nacido de mí y son mis hijos. De modo que son yakṣas y rākṣasas».
Purport
Significado
The demons who were born from the body of Brahmā were called Yakṣas and Rākṣasas because some of them cried that Brahmā should be eaten and the others cried that he should not be protected. The ones who said that he should be eaten were called Yakṣas, and the ones who said that he should not be protected became Rākṣasas, man-eaters. The two, Yakṣas and Rākṣasas, are the original creation by Brahmā and are represented even until today in the uncivilized men who are scattered all over the universe. They are born of the mode of ignorance, and therefore, because of their behavior, they are called Rākṣasas, or man-eaters.
Los demonios que nacieron del cuerpo de Brahmā se llamaron yakṣas y rākṣasas, porque unos gritaron que había que comerse a Brahmā, y los otros, que no se le debía proteger. Los que dijeron que había que comérselo se llamaron yakṣas, y los que dijeron que no se le debía proteger se llamaron rākṣasas, comedores de hombres. Unos y otros, yakṣas y rākṣasas, fueron creados originalmente por Brahmā, y están representados, incluso en la actualidad, por los hombres incivilizados que se encuentran por todas partes del universo. Nacen de la modalidad de la ignorancia, y por lo tanto, debido a su comportamiento, se les llama rākṣasas, antropófagos.