Text 60] The History of the Life of Ajamila 79

PURPORT

The order carriers of Yamaraja, the Yamaditas, are explaining the fac-
tual position of piety and impiety and how a living entity is entangled in
this material world. Describing the history of Ajamila’s life, the
Yamaditas relate that in the beginning he was a learned scholar of the
Vedic literature. He was well behaved, neat and clean, and very kind to
everyone. In fact, he had all good qualities. In other words, he was like a
perfect brahmana. A bréhmana is expected to be perfectly pious, to
follow all the regulative principles and to have all good qualities. The
symptoms of piety are explained in these verses. Srila Viraraghava
Acarya comments that dhrta-vrata means dhrtam vratam stri-sanga-
rahityatmaka-brahmacarya-riipam. In other words, Ajamila followed
the rules and regulations of celibacy as a perfect brahmacari and was
very softhearted, truthful, clean and pure. How he fell down in spite of
all these qualities and thus came to be threatened with punishment by
Yamaraja will be described in the following verses.

TEXTS 58-60
waa ad aa: feqaeaaaz fea: |
MA TI MIA HOPIAHeH IT lel
aad aaftd aBreet ae ufiern |
deat a ag ate aaraftaarar cil

ae fauten sate fara |
MSTA «= -eaRTAA TPT UNG oll

ekaddsau vanam yatah
pitr-sandesakrd dvijah

ddaya tata durttah
phala-puspa-samit-kusan

dadarsa kdéminam kajicic
chidram saha bhujisyaya
