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Mahārāja Rahūgaṇa Meets Jaḍa Bharata
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एवं बह्वद्धमपि भाषमाणं नरदेवाभिमानं रजसा तमसानुविद्धेन मदेन तिरस्कृताशेषभगवत्प्रियनिकेतं पण्डितमानिनं स भगवान् ब्राह्मणो ब्रह्मभूतः सर्वभूतसुहृदात्मा योगेश्वरचर्यायां नातिव्युत्पन्नमतिं स्मयमान इव विगतस्मय इदमाह ॥ ८ ॥
evam bahv abaddham api bhāṣamāṇam nara-devābhimāṇam rajasā tamasānuviddhena madena tiraskṛtāśeṣa-bhagavat-priya-niketam paṇḍita-māninam sa bhagavān brāhmaṇo brahma-bhūta-sarva-bhūta- suhṛd-ātmā yogeśvara-caryāyām nāti-vyutpanna-matim smayamāna iva vigata-smaya idam āha.
evam—in this way; bahu—much; abaddham—nonsensical; api—  although;  bhāṣamāṇam—talking; nara-deva-abhimāṇam—King  Rahūgaṇa; who thought himself the ruler;  rajasā—by the material mode  of passion;  tamasā—as well as by the mode of ignorance; anuvid-   dhena—being increased; madena—by madness; tiraskṛta—who  rebuked;  aśeṣa—innumerable; bhagavat-priya-niketam—devotees of  the Lord;  paṇḍita-māninam—considering himself a very learned  scholar;  saḥ—that; bhagavān—spiritually most powerful  (Jaḍa Bharata);  brāhmaṇaḥ—a fully qualified brāhmaṇa; brahma-bhūta—  fully self-realized;  sarva-bhūta-suhṛt-ātmā—who was thus the friend of  all living entities;  yoga-īśvara—of the most advanced mystic yogīs;   caryāyām—in the behavior; na ati-vyutpanna-matim—unto King  Rahūgaṇa, who was not actually experienced;  smayamānaḥ—slightly  smiling;  iva—like; vigata-smayaḥ—who was relieved from all material  pride;  idam—this; āha—spoke.
TRANSLATION
Thinking himself a king, King Rahūgaṇa was in the bodily con- ception and was influenced by material nature's modes of passion and ignorance. Due to madness, he chastised Jaḍa Bharata with un- called-for and contradictory words. Jaḍa Bharata was a topmost