kṣudhārto jagṛhe vipraṁ
rākṣasaṁ bhāvam āpannaḥ
pāde kalmāṣatāṁ gataḥ
vyavāya-kāle dadṛśe
vanauko-dampatī dvijau
Saudāsa thus took on the nature of a man-eater and received on his leg a black spot, for which he was known as Kalmāṣapāda. Once King Kalmāṣapāda saw a brāhmaṇa couple engaged in sexual intercourse in the forest.
|| 9.9.26-27 ||
kṣudhārto jagṛhe vipraṁ
tat-patny āhākṛtārthavat
na bhavān rākṣasaḥ sākṣād
ikṣvākūṇāṁ mahā-rathaḥ
madayantyāḥ patir vīra
nādharmaṁ kartum arhasi
dehi me 'patya-kāmāyā
akṛtārthaṁ patiṁ dvijam
Being very hungry, King Saudāsa seized the brāhmaṇa. The unsatisfied wife said to the King: O hero, you are not actually a man-eater; rather, you are among the descendants of Mahārāja Ikṣvāku, a great fighter, the husband of Madayantī. O hero! You should not act irreligiously. I desire to have a son. Return my husband, who has not yet impregnated me.
Aṛtārtham means “having an incomplete sex act.”
|| 9.9.28 ||
deho 'yaṁ mānuṣo rājan
puruṣasyākhilārthadaḥ
tasmād asya vadho vīra
sarvārtha-vadha ucyate
O King! O hero! This human body is meant for all benefits. If you kill this body untimely, you will kill all the benefits of human life.
|| 9.9.29 ||
eṣa hi brāhmaṇo vidvāṁs
tapaḥ-śīla-guṇānvitaḥ
ārirādhayiṣur brahma
mahā-puruṣa-saṁjñitam
sarva-bhūtātma-bhāvena
bhūteṣv antarhitaṁ guṇaiḥ
Here is a learned brāhmaṇa, qualified with character and austerity, desiring to worship the Supreme Lord, the Supersoul who lives within all living entities and invisible in the material guṇas.
The Lord is invisible (antarhitam) by seeing the guṇas such as sattva.
|| 9.9.30 ||
so 'yaṁ brahmarṣi-varyas te
rājarṣi-pravarād vibho
katham arhati dharma-jña
vadhaṁ pitur ivātmajaḥ
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