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The Glories of Haridāsa Thākura
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SYNONYMS
daṁṣṭri —of a boar;  daṁṣṭra —by the teeth;  āhataḥ —killed;  mlecchaḥ —a meateater;  hā —O;  rāma —my Lord Rāma;  iti —thus;  punaḥ punaḥ —again and again;  uktvā —saying;  api —even;  muktim —liberation;  āpnoti —gets;  kim —what;  punaḥ —again;  śraddhayā —with faith and veneration;  gṛṇan —chanting.
TRANSLATION
“Even a mleccha who is being killed by the tusk of a boar and who cries in distress again and again, “hā rāma, hā rāma” attains liberation. What then to speak of those who chant the holy name with veneration and faith?”
PURPORT
This refers to an instance in which a meateater being killed by a boar uttered the words “ hā rāma, hā rāma ” again and again at the time of his death. Since this is a quotation from the  Nṛsiṁha Purāṇa , this indicates that in the purāṇic age there must also have been  mlecchas  and  yavanas  (meateaters), and the words “ hā rāma ,” meaning “condemned,” were also uttered in those days. Thus Haridāsa Thākura gives evidence that even a meateater who condemns something by uttering the words “ hā rāma ” gets the benefit of chanting the holy name that the devotee chants to mean “O my Lord Rāma.”
TEXT 57
অজামিল পুত্রে বোলায় বলি ‘নারায়ণ’। বিষ্ণুদূত আসি’ ছাড়ায় তাহার বদ্ধন ॥ ৫৭ ॥
ajāmila putre bolāya bali ‘nārāyaṇa’   viṣṇu-dūta āsi’ chāḍāya tāhāra bandhana
SYNONYMS
ajāmila —Ajāmila;  putre —unto his son;  bolāya —calls;  bali —saying;  nārāyaṇa —the holy name of Nārāyaṇa;  viṣṇu-dūta —the attendants of Lord Viṣṇu;  āsi’ —coming;  chāḍāya —remove;  tāhāra —of him;  bandhana —the bonds.
TRANSLATION
“Ajāmila was a great sinner during his life, but at the time of death he accidentally called for his youngest son, whose name was Nārāyaṇa, and the attendants of Lord Viṣṇu came to relieve him from the bonds of Yamarāja, the superintendent of death.