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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 8]
the King was actually falling from his exalted spiritual position and unnecessarily becoming attached to an animal. Thus degrading himself, he would have to accept an animal body.
TEXT 18
अपि च न वृक्रः सालावृक्रोऽन्यतमो वा नैकचर एकचरो वा मक्षयति ॥१८॥
api ca na vṛkaḥ sālā-vṛko 'nyatamo vā naika-cara eka-caro vā bhak- ṣayati.
api ca—or; na—not; vṛkaḥ—a wolf; sālā-vṛkaḥ—a dog; anya- tamaḥ—any one of many; vā—or; na-eka-caraḥ—the hogs that flock together; eka-caraḥ—the tiger that wanders alone; vā—or; bhak- ṣayati—is eating (the poor creature).
TRANSLATION
I do not know, but the deer might have been eaten by a wolf or a dog or by the boars that flock together or the tiger who travels alone.
PURPORT
Tigers never wander in the forest in flocks. Each tiger wanders alone, but forest boars keep together. Similarly, hogs, wolves and dogs also do the same. Thus Mahārāja Bharata thought that the deer had been killed by some of the many ferocious animals within the forest.
TEXT 19
निम्लोचति ह भगवान् सकलजगत्क्षेमोदयस्त्रय्यात्माद्यापि मम न मृगव धून्यास अगन्छति ॥१९॥
nimlocati ha bhagavān sakala-jagat-kṣemodayas trayy-ātmādyāpi mama na mṛga-vadhū-nyāsa āgacchati.