Text 13] The Supreme Character of Jaḍa Bharata
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PURPORT
Low-class men such as  śūdras  worship demigods like goddess Kālī, or Bhadra Kālī, for the fulfillment of material desires. To this end, they sometimes kill a human being before the deity. They generally choose a person who is not very intelligent—in other words, an animal in the shape of a man.
TEXT 13
तस्य ह देवमुक्तस्य पशोः पदत्रीं तदनुचराः परिधावन्तो निशि निशीथसमये तमसाऽऽवृतायामनधिगतपश्च आकस्मिकेन विधिना केदारान् वीरासनेन मृगवराहादिम्यः संरक्षमाणमङ्गिरःप्रवर सुतमपश्यन्।१३।
tasya ha daiva-muktasya paśoḥ padavīm tad-anucarāḥ paridhāvanto niśi niśītha-samaye tamasāvṛtāyām anadhigata-paśava ākasmikena vidhinā kedārān vīrāsanena mṛga-varāhādibhyaḥ saṁrakṣamāṇam aṅgiraḥ-pravara-sutam apaśyan.
tasya —of the leader of the dacoits;  ha —certainly;  daiva-muktasya —by chance having escaped;  paśoḥ —of the human animal;  padavīm —the path;  tat-anucarāḥ —his followers or assistants;  paridhāvantaḥ —searching here and there to find;  niśi —at night;  niśītha-samaye —at midnight;  tamasā āvṛtāyām —being covered by darkness;  anadhigata-paśavaḥ —not catching the man-animal;  ākasmikena vidhinā —by the unexpected law of providence;  kedārān —the fields;  vīra-āsanena —by a seat on a raised place;  mṛga-varāha-ādibhyaḥ —from the deer, wild pigs and so on;  saṁrakṣamāṇam —protecting;  aṅgiraḥ-pravara-sutam —the son of the  brāhmaṇa  descending from the Aṅgirā family;  apaśyan —they found.
TRANSLATION
The leader of the dacoits captured a man-animal for sacrifice, but he escaped, and the leader ordered his followers to find him. They ran in different directions but could not find him. Wandering here and there in the middle of the night, covered by dense darkness, they came to a paddy field where they saw the exalted