Text 38] Devahati’s Lamentation 931

PURPORT

Before her marriage, when Devahiiti was brought by her parents before
the sage Kardama, she was the perfectly beautiful princess, and Kardama
Muni remembered her former beauty. But after her marriage, when she
was engaged in the service of Kardama Muni, she neglected to care for her
body like a princess, since there was no means for such care; her husband
was living in a cottage, and since she was always engaged in serving him,
her royal beauty disappeared, and she became just like an ordinary maid-
servant. Now, after being bathed by the Gandharva girls by the order of
Kardama Muni’s yogic power, she regained her beauty, and Kardama Muni
felt attracted to the beauty she had shown before the marriage. The
real beauty of a young woman is her breasts. When Kardama Muni saw the
breasts of his wife so nicely decorated, increasing her beauty many times,
he was attracted, even though he was a great sage. Sripada Sankaracarya
has therefore warned the transcendentalists that one who is after transcen-
dental realization should not be attracted by the raised breasts of a woman
because they are nothing but an interaction of fat and blood within the

body.

TEXT 38

afaagaateat  fraaracat
franwifrersiivtaghiar |

qa = TeHASARATATeT-
MITT KAIST AAT: RII

tasminn alupta-mahima priyaydnurakto
vid yadharibhir upacirna-vapur vimdne

babhraja utkaca-kumud-ganavan apicyas
tarabhir aurta ivodu-patir nabhah-sthah

tasmin—in that; alupta—not lost; mahima—glory; priyayad—with his be-
loved consort; anuraktah—attached; vidyddharibhih—by the Gandharva
girls; upacirna—waited upon; vapuh—his person; vimadne—on the airplane;
babhraja—he shone; utkaca—open; kumud-ganavan—the moon, who is fol-
lowed by rows of lilies; apicyah—very charming; tarabhih—by stars; avrtah—
surrounded; iva—as; udu-patih—the moon (the chief of the stars); nabhah-
sthah—in the sky.
