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Gita Govinda -Shri Jayadeva Gosvami
Act Eight : vilakñya lakñmépatiù
The Hapless Lord of Fortune
Scene Seventeen : Song 17 : Verse 8
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CommentaryRädhä continued, “It is your inherent nature to wander about the forests ‘devouring’ and killing women. So if you also kill me, then what is so surprising about that? “Even in your infancy, you became renowned for killing the belligerent Pütanä, the sister of Kaàsa. So how easy it is for you to kill a woman like me. When such a powerful woman immediately aged and died by your influence, then what is so astonishing about killing a woman like me? The Vedic scriptures state that it is forbidden to kill a woman. Such an act is considered most reprehensible. But this depravity of yours is innate from birth. Kindly go away. Now you are a young man, so you will not have to make the slightest endeavour to kill a woman like me. O cruel one, leave me alone!” |
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