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Sa aham nripendra rahitah purushottamena
Sakhya priyena suhrida hridayena sunyah.
Adhyanyurukrama parigraham anga rakshan
Gopair asdbhiravaleva vinirjitoshmi.
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Sa—that, Aham—Myself, Nripendra—oh the emperor, Rahitam—bereft of, Purushottamena—by the Supreme Lord, Sakhya—by my friend, Priyena—by my dearmost, Suhrida—by the wellwisher, Hridayena—by the heart and soul, Sunyah—vaccant, Adhuna—recently, Urukramaparigraham—the wives of the All-powerful, Anga—body, Rakshan—while protecting, Gopair—by the cowherds, Asdbhir—by the infidels, Avaleva—like the weak woman, Vinirjitoshmi—I have been defeated.
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Oh the emperor! thus I have been separated by my such friend, wellwisher, the dearmost Supreme Personality of Godhead and therefore my heart appears to be void of everything. In His absence I have been defeated by a number of infidel cowherdsmen while I was guarding the bodies of all the wives of Krishna.
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The important point in this verse is how it was possible that Arjuna could be defeated by a gang of ignoble cowherdsmen and how such mundane cowherdsmen could touch the body of the wives of Lord Krishna who were under the protection of Arjuna. Srila Viswanath Chakravarty Thakur has justified the contradiction by research endeavour in the Vishnu Puranam and Brahma Puranam. In these Puranas it is said that sometimes the fair denizens of heaven pleased by their service to Astavakra Muni and the latter in return blessed them that they would have the Supreme Lord as their husband. Astavakra Muni was curved in eight joints of his bodily structure and thus he used to move on in a peculiar curved manner. The daughters of the demigods could not check their laughing by seeing the movements of the Muni and thus the Muni being angry upon them cursed them also that they would be kidnapped by rogues even they would get the Lord as their husband. Later on the girls again satisfied the Muni by their prayers and the Muni blessed them that they would regain their husband even after being robbed by the rogues. So in order to keep the words of the great Muni, the Lord Himself kidnapped His wives from the protection of Arjuna otherwise they would have at once vanished from the scene in the very beginning of their being touched by the rogues. Besides that some of the Gopis who prayed for becoming the better halves of the Lord and after their desire being fulfilled they returned back to their respective position. After the departure of Lord Krishna He wanted all His entourage back to Godhead and they were so called back under different conditions only.
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#dl##dd#so 'haṁ nṛpendra rahitaḥ puruṣottamena#/dd#
#dd#sakhyā priyeṇa suhṛdā hṛdayena śūnyaḥ#/dd#
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#i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=saḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#saḥ#/i# — that; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=aham&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#aham#/i# — myself; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=nṛpa&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#nṛpa-#a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=indra&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#indra#/i# — O Emperor; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=rahitaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#rahitaḥ#/i# — bereft of; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=puruṣa&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#puruṣa-#a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=uttamena&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#uttamena#/i# — by the Supreme Lord; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=sakhyā&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#sakhyā#/i# — by my friend; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=priyeṇa&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#priyeṇa#/i# — by my dearmost; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=suhṛdā&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#suhṛdā#/i# — by the well-wisher; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=hṛdayena&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#hṛdayena#/i# — by the heart and soul; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=śūnyaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#śūnyaḥ#/i# — vacant; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=adhvani&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#adhvani#/i# — recently; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=urukrama&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#urukrama-#a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=parigraham&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#parigraham#/i# — the wives of the all-powerful; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=aṅga&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#aṅga#/i# — bodies; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=rakṣan&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#rakṣan#/i# — while protecting; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=gopaiḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#gopaiḥ#/i# — by the cowherds; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=asadbhiḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#asadbhiḥ#/i# — by the infidels; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=abalā&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#abalā #a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=iva&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#iva#/i# — like a weak woman; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=vinirjitaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#vinirjitaḥ #a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=asmi&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#asmi#/i# — I have been defeated.
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O Emperor, now I am separated from my friend and dearmost well-wisher, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore my heart appears to be void of everything. In His absence I have been defeated by a number of infidel cowherd men while I was guarding the bodies of all the wives of Kṛṣṇa.
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The important point in this verse is how it was possible that Arjuna could be defeated by a gang of ignoble cowherd men and how such mundane cowherd men could touch the bodies of the wives of Lord Kṛṣṇa, who were under the protection of Arjuna. Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura has justified the contradiction by research in the #i#Viṣṇu Purāṇa#/i# and #i#Brahma Purāṇa#/i#. In these #i#Purāṇas#/i# it is said that once the fair denizens of heaven pleased Aṣṭāvakra Muni by their service and were blessed by the muni to have the Supreme Lord as their husband. Aṣṭāvakra Muni was curved in eight joints of his body, and thus he used to move in a peculiar curved manner. The daughters of the demigods could not check their laughter upon seeing the movements of the #i#muni#/i#, and the #i#muni#/i#, being angry at them, cursed them that they would be kidnapped by rogues, even if they would get the Lord as their husband. Later on, the girls again satisfied the #i#muni#/i# by their prayers, and the #i#muni#/i# blessed them that they would regain their husband even after being robbed by the rogues. So, in order to keep the words of the great #i#muni#/i#, the Lord Himself kidnapped His wives from the protection of Arjuna, otherwise they would have at once vanished from the scene as soon as they were touched by the rogues. Besides that, some of the #i#gopīs#/i# who prayed to become wives of the Lord returned to their respective positions after their desire was fulfilled. After the departure of Lord Kṛṣṇa, He wanted all His entourage back to Godhead, and they were called back under different conditions only.
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