Text 7] Rahigana Converses with Jada Bharata 435

and will leave their homes and hearths and go to the forest in sheer
disappointment.

TEXT 7
Geta: w @ fafionya:
Tay Aga-qrt HAST |
ea oo aeaagt aie:
THe Fraaarygay Ul 0 I

Strair hrta-svah kva ca nirvinna-cetah
Socan vimuhyann upayati kasmalam

kvacic ca gandharva-puram pravistah
pramodate nirvrtavan muhirtam

Stiraih—by very powerful enemies: hrta-svah—all of whose posses-
sions have been stolen; kva ca—sometimes: nirvinna-cetah—very
morose and aggrieved at heart: socan—deeply lamenting: vimuhyan—
becoming bewildered: upaydti—achieves; kasmalam—unconscious-
ness; kvacit—sometimes; ca—also: gandharva-puram—an imaginary
city in the forest: pravistah—having entered: pramodate—he enjoys:
nirurta-vat—exactly like a person who has achieved success: muhir-
tam—for a moment only.

TRANSLATION

Sometimes, being defeated or plundered by a superior, power-
ful agent, a living entity loses all his possessions. He then becomes
very morose, and lamenting their loss, he sometimes becomes un-
conscious. Sometimes he imagines a great palatial city in which he
desires to live happily with his family members and riches. He
thinks himself fully satisfied if this is possible, but such so-called

happiness continues only for a moment.

PURPORT

The word gandharva-puram is very significant in this verse. Some-
times in the forest a very big castle appears. and this is called a castle in
