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falsity should be killed while still breathing. The Vedic injunction in this
regard is as follows: athaitat pirnam abhyatmam yan neti sa yat sarvarh
neti brityat papikasya kirtir jéyate. sainam tatraiva hanyat. If one con-
tinuously poses himself as possessing nothing and collects money by beg-

ging, he should be killed (sainarn tatraiva hanyat).

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strisu narma-vivahe ca
urtty-arthe prdna-sankate

go-brahmanarthe himsayam
nanrtam sydaj jugupsitam

strisu—to encourage a woman and bring her under control; narma-
vivahe—in joking or in a marriage ceremony; ca—also; vrtti-arthe—for
earning one’s livelihood, as in business; prdna-sarnkate—or in time of
danger; go-brdhmana-arthe—for the sake of cow protection and
brahminical culture; hirnsdéyam—for any person who is going to be
killed because of enmity; na—not; anrtam—falsity; syat—becomes;
Jugupsitam—abominable.

TRANSLATION

In flattering a woman to bring her under control, in joking, in
a marriage ceremony, in earning one’s livelihood, when one’s life
is in danger, in protecting cows and brahminical culture, or in
protecting a person from an enemy’s hand, falsity is never
condemned.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Eighth Canto, Nineteenth
Chapter, of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled, “Lord Vamanadeva Begs
Charity from Bali Maharaja.”
