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Devanagari

Devanagari

तं शशाप कुलाचार्य: कृतागसमकामत: ।
न क्षत्रबन्धु: शूद्रस्त्वं कर्मणा भवितामुना ॥ ९ ॥

Text

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taṁ śaśāpa kulācāryaḥ
kṛtāgasam akāmataḥ
na kṣatra-bandhuḥ śūdras tvaṁ
karmaṇā bhavitāmunā
taṁ śaśāpa kulācāryaḥ
kṛtāgasam akāmataḥ
na kṣatra-bandhuḥ śūdras tvaṁ
karmaṇā bhavitāmunā

Synonyms

Palabra por palabra

tam — him (Pṛṣadhra); śaśāpa — cursed; kula-ācāryaḥ — the family priest, Vasiṣṭha; kṛta-āgasam — because of committing the great sin of killing a cow; akāmataḥ — although he did not want to do it; na — not; kṣatra-bandhuḥ — the family member of a kṣatriya; śūdraḥ tvam — you have behaved like a śūdra; karmaṇā — therefore by your fruitive reaction; bhavitā — you shall become a śūdra; amunā — because of killing the cow.

tam — a él (a Pṛṣadhra); śaśāpa — maldijo; kula-ācāryaḥ — el sacerdote familiar, Vasiṣṭha; kṛta-āgasam — por haber cometido el gran pecado de matar una vaca; akāmataḥ — aunque no había querido hacerlo; na — no; kṣatra-bandhuḥ — miembro de la familia de un kṣatriya; śūdraḥ tvam — te has comportado como un śūdra; karmaṇā — por lo tanto, por tu reacción fruitiva; bhavitā — nacerás śūdra; amunā — por haber matado la vaca.

Translation

Traducción

Although Pṛṣadhra had committed the sin unknowingly, his family priest, Vasiṣṭha, cursed him, saying, “In your next life you shall not be able to become a kṣatriya. Instead, you shall take birth as a śūdra because of killing the cow.”

Aunque Pṛṣadhra había cometido el pecado inconscientemente, el sacerdote de su familia, Vasiṣṭha, le maldijo diciendo: «Por haber matado una vaca, en tu siguiente vida no podrás ser kṣatriya, sino que nacerás como śūdra».

Purport

Significado

It appears that Vasiṣṭha was not free from tamo-guṇa, the mode of ignorance. As the family priest or spiritual master of Pṛṣadhra, Vasiṣṭha should have taken Pṛṣadhra’s offense very lightly, but instead Vasiṣṭha cursed him to become a śūdra. It is the duty of a family priest not to curse a disciple but to give him relief through the performance of some sort of atonement. Vasiṣṭha, however, did just the opposite. Therefore Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura says that he was durmati; in other words, his intelligence was not very good.

Parece ser que Vasiṣṭha no estaba libre de la modalidad de la ignorancia, tamo-guṇa. Como sacerdote familiar o maestro espiritual de Pṛṣadhra, Vasiṣṭha no debía haber dado importancia a la ofensa de Pṛṣadhra; sin embargo, le maldijo a nacer śūdra. El deber del sacerdote familiar no es maldecir a su discípulo, sino liberarle de la reacción mediante alguna práctica expiatoria. Vasiṣṭha, sin embargo, hizo todo lo contrario. Por esa razón, Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura dice que era durmati; en otras palabras, no tenía mucha inteligencia.