Text 10]
The Doorkeepers Cursed by the Sages
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TEXT 10
ये मे तनूर्द्विजवरान्दुहतीर्मदीया 
  भूतान्यत्व्यशरणानि च भेदबुद्ध्या । 
  द्रक्ष्यन्त्यघक्षतद्दशो ह्यहिमन्यवस्तान् 
  गृध्रा रुषा मम कुषन्त्यधिदण्डनेतुः ॥१०॥
ye me tanūr dvija-varān duhatīr madīyā 
  bhūtāny alabdha-śaraṇāni ca bheda-buddhyā 
  drakṣyanty agha-kṣata-dṛśo hy ahi-manyavas tān 
  gṛdhrā ruṣā mama kuṣanty adhidaṇḍa-netuḥ
ye—which persons; me—My; tanūḥ—body; dvija-varān—the best of the brāhmaṇas; duhatīḥ—cows; madīyāḥ—relating to Me; bhūtāni—living entities; alabdha-śaraṇāni—defenseless; ca—and; bheda-buddhyā—considering as different; drakṣyanti—see; agha—by sin; kṣata—is impaired; dṛśaḥ—whose faculty of judgement; hi—because; ahi—like a snake; manyavaḥ—angry; tān—those same persons; gṛdhrāḥ—the vulturelike messengers; ruṣā—angrily; mama—My; kuṣanti—tear; adhidaṇḍa-netuḥ—of the superintendent of punishment, Yamarāja.
TRANSLATION
The brāhmaṇas, the cows and the defenseless creatures are My own body. Those whose faculty of judgment has been impaired by their own sin look upon these as distinct from Me. They are just like furious serpents, and they are angrily torn apart by the bills of the vulturelike messengers of Yamarāja, the superintendent of sinful persons.
PURPORT
The defenseless creatures, according to  Brahma-saṁhitā , are the cows,  brāhmaṇas , women, children and old men. Of these five, the  brāhmaṇas  and cows are especially mentioned in this verse because the Lord is always anxious about the benefit of the  brāhmaṇas  and cows and is prayed to in this way. The Lord especially instructs, therefore, that no one should be envious of these five, especially the cows and  brāhmaṇas . In some of the  Bhāgavatam  readings, the word  duhitīḥ  is used instead of  duhatīḥ . But in either case, the meaning is the same.  Duhatīḥ  means cow, and  duhitīḥ  can also be used to mean cow because the cow is supposed to be the daughter