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Yoga Vāsiṣṭha 3.27.37

Traditional (ascribed to Vālmīki)

Prakaraṇas
6
Sargas
175
Published
88
Verses
3571
Level
intermediate

Sarga 27 · Verse 37

Verse 37

दुर्वासनाकलुषिता ततोऽहं मानुषी स्थिता । संसारमण्डलेऽन्यस्मिन् पन्नगेश्वरकामिनी ॥ ३७ ॥

durvāsanākaluṣitā tatō’haṁ mānuṣī sthitā | saṁsāramaṇḍalē’nyasmin pannagēśvarakāminī || 37 ||

Translation

Then, stained by evil tendencies, I lived as a human woman; in another sphere of becoming, as the beloved of a serpent king.

Word by word

durvāsanā
by evil tendencies
kaluṣitā
stained
tatō
(tataḥ) then
ahaṁ
I
mānuṣī
a human woman
sthitā
lived
saṁsāra
of becoming
maṇḍalē
in sphere
anyasmin
another
pannaga
of serpents
īśvara
of a king
kāminī
the beloved

Meaning

A fall from the sky, by bad tendency: the commentary's word is vāsanā again. Each birth follows from the tendencies of the last.