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Sports of the boys in the forest - Verse 12

Vishnu Purana (GRETIL; M. M. Pathak critical edition) · 4 · Verse 9.12

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Sanskrit Original

बदरीफलमात्रम अप्य अर्हसि ममाप्यायनाय पुरोडाशखण्डं दातुम इत्य उक्तो बृहस्पतिर उवाच। यद्य एवं पूर्वम एव त्वयाहं चोदितः स्यां तन मया त्वदर्थं किम अकर्तव्यम इति। स्वल्पैर एवाहोभिस त्वां निजं पदं प्रापयिष्यामीत्य अभिधाय तेषाम अनुदिनाभिचारिकं बुद्धिमोहाय शक्रस्य च तेजोभिवृद्धये जुहाव। ते चापि तेन बुद्धिमोहेनाभिभूयमाना ब्रह्मद्विषो धर्मत्यागिनो वेदवादपराङ्मुखा बभूवुः।।

badarīphalamātram apy arhasi mamāpyāyanāya puroḍāśakhaṇḍaṃ dātum ity ukto bṛhaspatir uvāca| yady evaṃ pūrvam eva tvayāhaṃ coditaḥ syāṃ tan mayā tvadarthaṃ kim akartavyam iti| svalpair evāhobhis tvāṃ nijaṃ padaṃ prāpayiṣyāmīty abhidhāya teṣām anudinābhicārikaṃ buddhimohāya śakrasya ca tejobhivṛddhaye juhāva| te cāpi tena buddhimohenābhibhūyamānā brahmadviṣo dharmatyāgino vedavādaparāṅmukhā babhūvuḥ||

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Brihaspati, being asked to give even a piece of the badari fruit for my sustenance, replied, 'If I am instructed by you as before, what is it that I should not do for you?'