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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 9, Ch. 19]
another she-goat;  vilokya —by seeing;  kūpa-saṁvignā —the she-goat who had fallen into the well;  na —not;  amṛṣyat —tolerated;  basta-karma —the business of the goat;  tat —that (sex is accepted here as the business of the goat).
TRANSLATION
When the she-goat who had fallen into the well saw her beloved goat engaged in sexual affairs with another she-goat, she could not tolerate the goat’s activities.
TEXT 8
तं दुर्हदं सुहृद्रूपं कामिनं क्षणसौहृदम् । इन्द्रियाराममुत्सृज्य स्वामिनं दुःखिता ययौ ॥ ८ ॥
tam durhṛdam suhṛd-rūpam kāminam kṣaṇa-sauhṛdam indriyārāmam utsṛjya svāminam duḥkhitā yayau
tam —him (the he-goat);  durhṛdam —cruel hearted;  suhṛt-rūpam —pretending to be a friend;  kāminam —very lusty;  kṣaṇa-sauhṛdam —having friendship for the time being;  indriya-ārāmam —interested only in sense gratification or sensuality;  utsṛjya —giving up;  svāminam —to her present husband, or to the former maintainer;  duḥkhitā —being very much aggrieved;  yayau —she left.
TRANSLATION
Aggrieved by her husband’s behavior with another, the she-goat thought that the he-goat was not actually her friend but was hard-hearted and was her friend only for the time being. Therefore, because her husband was lusty, she left him and returned to her former maintainer.
PURPORT
The word  svāminam  is significant.  Svāmī  means “caretaker” or “master.” Devayānī was cared for by Śukrācārya before her marriage,