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 brdhmana 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.
TEXT 17
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CHAT: Ged: AMET AAT |
feign aT HI AAT AAT 12 91
evam-vidhaih suparusaih
ksiptvacarya-sutam satim
Sarmistha praksipat kiipe
vasas cidaya manyund
evam-vidhaih—such; su-parusaih—by unkind words; ksiptué—after
chastising; Gcdrya-sutam—the daughter of Sukracarya; satim—
Devayani; Sarmistha—Sarmistha; praksipat—threw (her); kiijpe—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 RI Tort at aaa = 12!
