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The History of the Life of Ajāmila
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PURPORT
The order carriers of Yamarāja, the Yamadūtas, are explaining the factual position of piety and impiety and how a living entity is entangled in this material world. Describing the history of Ajāmila's life, the Yamadūtas relate that in the beginning he was a learned scholar of the Vedic literature. He was well behaved, neat and clean, and very kind to everyone. In fact, he had all good qualities. In other words, he was like a perfect  brāhmaṇa . A  brāhmaṇa  is expected to be perfectly pious, to follow all the regulative principles and to have all good qualities. The symptoms of piety are explained in these verses. Śrīla Vīrarāghava Ācārya comments that  dhṛta-vrata  means  dhṛtaṁ vrataṁ strī-saṅga-rāhityātmaka-brahmacarya-rūpam . In other words, Ajāmila followed the rules and regulations of celibacy as a perfect  brahmacārī  and was very softhearted, truthful, clean and pure. How he fell down in spite of all these qualities and thus came to be threatened with punishment by Yamarāja will be described in the following verses.
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एकदासौ वनं यातः पितृसन्देशकृद् द्विजः ।
आदाय तत आवृत्तः फलपुष्पसमित्कुशान् ॥५८॥
ददर्श कामिनं कञ्चिच्छ्रद्रं सह भुजिष्यया ।
पीत्वा च मधु मैरेयं मदाघूर्णितनेत्रया ॥५९॥
मत्तया विश्लथनीव्या व्यपेतं निरपत्रपम् ।
क्रीडन्तमनुगायन्तं हसन्तमनयान्तिके ॥६०॥
ekadāsau vanaṁ yātaḥ
pitṛ-sandeśakṛd dvijaḥ
ādāya tata āvṛttaḥ
phala-puṣpa-samit-kuśān
dadarśa kāminaṁ kañcic
chūdraṁ saha bhujiṣyayā