120 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 4

permitted to drink at certain occasions, so they all drank a kind of light
liquor made of rice. By such drinking they became delirious and bereft of
sense, so much so that they forgot their relationship with one another and
used harsh words which touched the cores of each other’s hearts. Drinking
is so harmful that even such a highly cultured family becomes affected by
intoxication and can forget themselves in a drunken state. The descendants
of Vrsni and Bhoja were not expected to forget themselves in this way, but
by the will of the Supreme it happened, and thus they became harsh
towards one another.

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tesam maireyadosena
visamikrtacetasam

nimlocati ravavasid
veniinamiva mardanam

tesam—of them; maireya—of intoxication; dosena—by the faults;
visamikrta—became unbalanced; cetasam—of those of whom the minds;
nimlocati—sets; ravau—the sun; asit—takes place; venunam—of the bam-
boos; iva—as; mardanam-— destruction.

TRANSLATION

As by the friction of bamboos destruction takes place, so also, at sunset,
by the interaction of the faults of intoxication, all their minds became
unbalanced, and destruction took place.

PURPORT

When there is need of fire in the forest, by the will of the Supreme it
takes place due to friction among the bamboos. Similarly, the descendants
of Yadu were all destroyed by the will of the Lord by the process of self-
destruction. Just as there is no possibility of a fire’s occurring deep in a
forest due to human effort, so also there was no power in the universe
which could vanquish the descendants of the Yadus, who were protected
by the Lord. The Lord wanted them to be so destroyed, and thus they
obeyed His order, as indicated by the word tad-anujfiata.
