90 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 2
purpose of your own or for the sake of a friend? Perhaps you
carry them to kill the mad animals in this forest.

PURPORT

While undergoing severe penances in the forest, Agnidhra was capti-
vated by the movements of Pirvacitti, the girl sent by Lord Brahma. As
stated in Bhagavad-gita, kamais tais tair hrta-jndnah: when one
becomes lusty, he loses his intelligence. Therefore Agnidhra, having lost
his intelligence, could not distinguish whether Pirvacitti was male or
female. He mistook her for a muni-putra, the son of a saintly person in
the forest, and addressed her as muni-varya. Because of her personal
beauty, however, he could not believe her to be a boy. He therefore
began studying her features. First he saw her two eyebrows, which were
so expressive that he wondered whether he or she might be the maya of
the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The words used in this connection
are bhagavat-para-devatayah. Devatah, the demigods, all belong to this
material world, whereas Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
Krsna, is always beyond this material world and is therefore known as
para-devata. The material world is certainly created by maya, but it is
created under the direction of para-devata, the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. As confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (mayadhyaksena prakrtih
siyate sa-cardcaram), maya is not the ultimate authority for the crea-
tion of this material world. Mayd acts on behalf of Krsna.

Pirvacitti’s eyebrows were so beautiful that Agnidhra compared them
to bows without strings. He therefore asked her whether they were to be
used for her own purposes or for the sake of someone else. Her eyebrows
were like bows meant to kill animals in the forest. This material world is
like a great forest, and its inhabitants are like forest animals such as deer
and tigers meant to be killed. The killers are the eyebrows of beautiful
women. Captivated by the beauty of the fair sex, all the men of the world
are killed by bows without strings, but cannot see how they are killed by
maya. It is a fact, however, that they are being killed (bhatva bhatva
praliyate). By dint of his tapasya, Agnidhra could understand how maya
acts under the direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

The word pramatian is also significant. Pramatta refers to one who
cannot control his senses. The entire material world is being exploited by
people who are pramatta, or vimidha. Prahlada Maharaja therefore said:
