Text 9] King Purajijana Goes to the Forest to Hunt 1219

is further explained in Srimad-Bhagavatam in the words of Prahlada
Maharaja:
matir na krsne paratah svato va
mitho ‘bhipadyeta grha-vratanam
adanta-gobhir visatam tamisram
punah punas carvita-carvananam

(Bhag. 7.5.30)

Materialistic persons who are too much engaged in material enjoyment
and who do not know anything beyond their material experiences are
carried by the whims of material nature. They live a life characterized by
chewing the chewed, and they are controlled by their uncontrolled senses.
Thus they go down to the darkest regions of hellish life.

TEXT 9
aa fafrarent Raa: Ratee: |
Ayasqe aaa g:4e: ETAT US I

tatra nirbhinna-gatranam
citra-vajath sili-mukhaih

viplavo *bhiid duhkhitanam
duhsahah karunadtmanam

tatra—there; nirbhinna—being pierced; gatranam—whose bodies; citra-
vajaih—with variegated feathers; sili-mukhaih—by the arrows; viplavah—
destruction; abhiit—was done; duhkhitanadm—of the most aggrieved;
duhsahah—unbearable; karund-atmanam-—for persons who are very merciful.

TRANSLATION

When King Purafijana was hunting in this way, many animals within the
forest lost their lives with great pain, being pierced by the sharp arrowheads.
Upon seeing these devastating, ghastly activities performed by the King, all
the people who were merciful by nature became very unhappy. Such merci-
ful persons could not tolerate seeing all this killing.

PURPORT

When demoniac persons engage in animal killing, the demigods, or
devotees of the Lord, are very much afflicted by this killing. Bemoniac
civilizations in this modern age maintain various types of slaughterhouses
