CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
Activities of Kapila
TEXT I
मैत्रेय उवाच
एवं निशम्य कपिलस्य वचो जनित्री
सा कर्दमस्य दयिता किल देवहूतिः ।
विस्रस्तमोहपटला तमभिप्रणम्य
तुष्टाव तत्त्वविषयाङ्कितसिद्धिभूमिम् ॥ १ ॥
maitreya uvāca
evam niśamya kapilasya vaco janitrī
sā kardamasya dayitā kila devahūtiḥ
visrasta-moha-paṭalā tam abhipraṇamya
tuṣṭāva tattva-viṣayāṅkita-siddhi-bhūmim
maitreyaḥ uvāca —Maitreya said;  evam —thus;  niśamya —having heard;  kapilasya —of Lord Kapila;  vacaḥ —the words;  janitrī —the mother;  sā —she;  kardamasya —of Kardama Muni;  dayitā —the dear wife;  kila —namely;  devahūtiḥ —Devahūti;  visrasta —freed from;  moha-paṭalā —the covering of illusion;  tam —unto Him;  abhipraṇamya —having offered obeisances;  tuṣṭāva —recited prayers;  tattva —basic principles;  viṣaya —in the matter of;  aṅkita —the author;  siddhi —of liberation;  bhūmim —the background.
TRANSLATION
Śrī Maitreya said: Thus Devahūti, the mother of Lord Kapila and wife of Kardama Muni, became freed from all ignorance concerning devotional service and transcendental knowledge. She offered her obeisances unto the Lord, the author of the basic principles of the sāṅkhya system of philoso-
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