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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 8]
api svid asau bhagavān uḍu-patir enaṁ mṛga-pati-bhayān mṛta-mātaraṁ mṛga-bālakaṁ svāśrama-paribhraṣṭam anukampayā kṛpaṇa-jana-vatsalaḥ paripāti.
api svit—can it be: asau—that: bhagavān—most powerful: uḍu-patiḥ—the moon: enam—this: mṛga-pati-bhayāt—because of fear of the lion: mṛta-mātaraṁ—who lost its mother: mṛga-bālakaṁ—the son of a deer: sva-āśrama-paribhraṣṭam—who strayed from its āśrama; anukampayā—out of compassion: kṛpaṇa-jana-vatsalaḥ—(the moon) who is very kind to the unhappy men: paripāti—now is protecting it.
TRANSLATION
Mahārāja Bharata continued to speak like a madman. Seeing above his head the dark marks on the rising moon, which resembled a deer, he said: Can it be that the moon, who is so kind to an unhappy man, might also be kind upon my deer, knowing that it has strayed from home and has become motherless? This moon has given the deer shelter near itself just to protect it from the fearful attacks of a lion.
TEXT 25
किं वाऽऽत्यजत्रिस्तेष्वन्तरदवदहनशिखामिरुतप्यमानहृदयस्तनलिनीकं माप्नुपसृतमृगीतनयं शिशिरशान्तानुरागगुणितनिजवदनसलिलामृतमयगभस्तिभिः स्वधयतीति च ॥२५॥
kim vātmaja-viśleṣa-jvara-dava-dahana-śikhābhir upatapyamāna-hṛdaya-sthala-nalinīkaṁ mām upasṛta-mṛgī-tanayaṁ śiśira-śāntānurāga-guṇita-nija-vadana-salilāmṛtamaya-gabhastibhiḥ svadhayatiti ca.
kim vā—or it may be: ātma-ja—from the son: viśleṣa—because of separation: jvara—the heat: dava-dahana—of the forest fire: śikhābhiḥ—by the flames: upatapyamāna—being burned: hṛdaya—the heart: sthala-nalinīkaṁ—compared to a red lotus flower: mām—unto me: upasṛta-mṛgī-tanayaṁ—to whom the son of the deer was so sub-