Text 7]
Rahūgaṇa Converses with Jaḍa Bharata
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and will leave their homes and hearths and go to the forest in sheer disappointment.
TEXT 7
शूरैर्हृतस्वः क च निर्विष्ण्येताः
शोचन् विमुह्यन्नुपयाति कश्मलम् ।
क्वचिच्च गन्धर्वपुरं प्रविष्टः
प्रमोदते निर्वृतवन्मुहूर्तम् ॥ ७ ॥
śūrair hṛta-svaḥ kva ca nirviṇṇa-cetāḥ
śocan vimuhyann upayāti kaśmalam
kvacic ca gandharva-puram praviṣṭaḥ
pramodate nirvṛtavan muhūrtam
śūraiḥ—by very powerful enemies; hṛta-svaḥ—all of whose possessions have been stolen; kva ca—sometimes; nirviṇṇa-cetāḥ—very morose and aggrieved at heart; śocan—deeply lamenting; vimuhyan—becoming bewildered; upayāti—achieves; kaśmalam—unconsciousness; kvacit—sometimes; ca—also; gandharva-puram—an imaginary city in the forest; praviṣṭaḥ—having entered; pramodate—he enjoys; nirvṛta-vat—exactly like a person who has achieved success; muhūrtam—for a moment only.
TRANSLATION
Sometimes, being defeated or plundered by a superior, powerful agent, a living entity loses all his possessions. He then becomes very morose, and lamenting their loss, he sometimes becomes unconscious. Sometimes he imagines a great palatial city in which he desires to live happily with his family members and riches. He thinks himself fully satisfied if this is possible, but such so-called happiness continues only for a moment.
PURPORT
The word  gandharva-puram  is very significant in this verse. Sometimes in the forest a very big castle appears, and this is called a castle in