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The Character of Bharata Mahārāja
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prema-saṅrambheṇa —because of anger due to love;  cakita-cakitaḥ —with fear;  āgatya —coming;  prṣat —like drops of water;  aparuṣa —very soft;  viṣāṇa —of the horns;  agreṇa —by the point;  luṭhati —touches my body.
TRANSLATION
Alas, the small deer, while playing with me and seeing me feigning meditation with closed eyes, would circumambulate me due to anger arising from love, and it would fearfully touch me with the points of its soft horns, which felt like drops of water.
PURPORT
Now King Bharata considers his meditation false. While engaged in meditation, he was actually thinking of his deer, and he would feel great pleasure when the animal pricked him with the points of its horns. Feigning meditation, the King would actually think of the animal, and this was but a sign of his downfall.
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आसादितहविषि बर्हिषि दूषिते मयोपालब्धो भीतभीतः सपद्युपरतरास ऋषिकुमारवदवहितकरणकलाप आस्ते ॥ २२ ॥
āsādita-haviṣi barhiṣi dūṣite mayopālabdho bhīta-bhītaḥ sapady uparata-rāsa rṣi-kumāravad avahita-karaṇa-kalāpa āste.
āsādita —placed;  haviṣi —all the ingredients to be offered in the sacrifice;  barhiṣi —on the  kuśa  grass;  dūṣite —when polluted;  mayā upalabdhaḥ —being scolded by me;  bhīta-bhītaḥ —in great fear;  sapadi —immediately;  uparata-rāsaḥ —stopped its playing;  rṣi-kumāravat —exactly like the son or disciple of a saintly person;  avahita —completely restrained;  karaṇa-kalāpaḥ —all the senses:  āste —sits.
TRANSLATION
When I placed all the sacrificial ingredients on the  kuśa  grass, the deer, when playing, would touch the grass with its teeth and