766 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 1, Ch. 14

TRANSLATION

Have you not taken care of old men and boys who deserve to dine
with you? Have you left them and taken your meals alone? Have you
committed some unpardonable mistake which is considered to be
abominable?

PURPORT

It is the duty of a householder to feed first of all the children and old
members of the family, the brahmanas and the invalids. Besides that, an
ideal householder is required to call for any unknown hungry man to come
and dine before he himself goes to take his meals. He is required to call
for such a hungry man thrice on the road. The neglect of this pre-
scribed duty of a householder, especially in the matter of the old men and
children, is unpardonable.

TEXT 44

Sq Reda eaaKnaegar |
TeTste ced fret ara ASAT AH IVYI

kaccit presthatamenatha
hrdayenatma-bandhuna

sunyo ’smirahito nityam
manyase te’nyatha na ruk

kaccit—whether; presthatamena—unto the most dear one; atha—my
brother Arjuna; hrdayena—most intimate; atma-bandhuna—own friend
Lord Krsna; siinyah—void; asmi—I am; rahitah—having lost; nityam—for all
time; manyase—you think; te—your; anyatha—otherwise; na—never; ruk—
mental distress.
TRANSLATION

Or is it that you are feeling empty all the time because you might
have lost your most intimate friend Lord Krsna? O my brother Arjuna, I
can think of no other reason for you becoming so dejected.

PURPORT

All the inquisitiveness of Maharaja Yudhisthira about the world situa-
tion was already conjectured by Maharaja Yudhisthira on the basis of
Lord Krsna’s disappearance from the vision of the world, and this was now
