106 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 10, Ch. 1
spiritual life are the animal hunters, who are not interested in hearing
and chanting the holy name of the Lord. Such hunters are always
unhappy, both in this life and in the next. It is therefore said that a
hunter should neither die nor live because for such persons both living
and dying are troublesome. Animal hunters are completely different
from ordinary karmis, and thus they have been excluded from the pro-
cess of hearing and chanting. Vind pasu-ghnat. They cannot enter into
the transcendental pleasure of chanting and hearing the holy name of the
Lord.

The word maha-ratha refers to a great hero who can fight alone
against eleven thousand other heroes, and the word atiratha, as found in
text five, refers to one who can fight against an unlimited number. This
is mentioned in the Mahabharata as follows:

ekadaSa-sahasrani
yodhayed yas tu dhanvinam
astra-Sastra-pravinas ca
maha-ratha iti smrtah
amitdn yodhayed yas tu
samprokto ’tirathas tu sah
This is the description given in the Brhad-vaisnava-tosani by Srila
Sanatana Gosvami.

Maya-manusyasya (10.1.17). Because of being covered by yogamaya
(naharn prakdsah sarvasya yogamaya-samavrtah), Krsna is sometimes
called mayd-manusya, indicating that although He is the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead, He appears like an ordinary person. A misunder-
standing arises because yogamdyd covers the vision of the general
public. The Lord’s position is actually different from that of an ordinary
person, for although He appears to act like an ordinary man, He is always
transcendental. The word mayéd also indicates “‘mercy,”’ and sometimes it
also means “‘knowledge.” The Lord is always full of all transcendental
knowledge, and therefore although He acts like a human being, He is the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, full of knowledge. In His original
identity, the Lord is the controller of maya (mayddhyaksena prakrtih
siiyate sa-cardcaram). Therefore the Lord may be called méya-
manusya, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead playing like an ordi-
