286 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 8
the King was actually falling from his exalted spiritual position and un-
necessarily becoming attached to an animal. Thus degrading himself, he
would have to accept an animal body.
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api ca na urkah sala-vrko ‘nyatamo va naika-cara eka-caro va bhak-
sayati.
api ca—or; na—not; vurkah—a wolf; sdald-vrkah—a dog: anya-
tamah—any one of many; vé—or; na-eka-carah—the hogs that flock
together: eka-carah—the tiger that wanders alone; va—or; bhak-
sayati—is eating (the poor creature).
TRANSLATION
I do not know, but the deer might have been eaten by a wolf or a
dog or by the boars that flock together or the tiger who travels
alone.
PURPORT
Tigers never wander in the forest in flocks. Each tiger wanders alone,
but forest boars keep together. Similarly, hogs, wolves and dogs also do
the same. Thus Maharaja Bharata thought that the deer had been killed
by some of the many ferocious animals within the forest.
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nimlocati ha bhagavan sakala-jagat-ksemodayas trayy-dtmadyapi
mama na mrga-vadhi-nydsa agacchati.
