24 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 9, Ch. 18

TRANSLATION

You beggar, since you don’t understand your position, why
should you unnecessarily talk so much? Don’t all of you wait at
our house, depending on us for your livelihood like crows?

PURPORT

Crows have no independent life; they fully depend on the remnants of
foodstuffs thrown by householders into the garbage tank. Therefore, be-
cause a brahmana depends on his disciples, when Sarmistha was heavily
rebuked by Devayani she charged Devayani with belonging to a family of
crowlike beggars. It is the nature of women to fight verbally at even a
slight provocation. As we see from this incident, this has been their
nature for a long, long time.

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evam-vidhaih suparusaih
ksiptvacarya-sutam satim

Sarmistha praksipat kiipe
vasas cadaya manyunad

evam-vidhaih—such; su-parusaih—by unkind words; ksiptué—after
chastising; G@cdrya-sutam—the daughter of Sukracarya; satim—
Devayani; Sarmistha—Sarmistha; praksipat—threw (her); kiipe—into a
well; vdsah—the garments; ca—and; dda@ya—taking away; manyund—
because of anger.

TRANSLATION

Using such unkind words, Sarmistha rebuked Devayani, the
daughter of Sukracarya. In anger, she took away Devayani’s gar-
ments and threw Devayani into a well.

TEXT 18
Mal TESHM RY Toe at Aza z U2!
