796 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 1, Ch. 15

TEXT 20

se Trg eka: Tera
ACT HAN GEA EAAT UST? |
TAAANIAG TW
TMATARAST fahaatshA le]

so ‘ham nrpendra rahitah purusottamena
sakhya priyena suhrda hrdayena sunyah

adhvany urukrama-parigraham anga raksan
gopair asadbhir abaleva vinirjito ’smi

sah—that; aham—myself; nrpendra—O Emperor; rahitah—bereft of;
purusottamena—by the Supreme Lord; sakhya—by my friend; priyena—
by my dearmost; suhrda—by the well-wisher; hrdayena—by the heart and
soul; siinyah—vacant; adhvani—recently; urukrama-parigraham—the wives
of the all-powerful; anga—bodies; raksan—while protecting; gopaih—by the
-cowherds; asadbhih—by the infidels; abala iva—like a weak woman;
vinirjitah asmi—I have been defeated.

TRANSLATION

O Emperor, now I am separated from my friend and dearmost well-
wisher, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore my heart
appears to be void of everything. In His absence I have been defeated by a
number of infidel cowherdmen while I was guarding the bodies of all the
wives of Krsna.

PURPORT

The important point in this verse is how it was possible that Arjuna
could be defeated by a gang of ignoble cowherdmen and how such mun-
dane cowherdmen could touch the bodies of the wives of Lord Krsna who
were under the protection of Arjuna. Srila Vigvanatha Cakravarti Thakur
has justified the contradiction by research in the Visnu Purana and Brahma
Purana. In these Puranas it is said that once the fair denizens of heaven
pleased Astavakra Muni by their service and were blessed by the Muni to
have the Supreme Lord as their husband. Astavakra Muni was curved
in eight joints of his body, and thus he used to move in a peculiarly
