स मुक्तो लोकनाथाभ्यां व्रीडितो वीरसम्मत: । तपसे कृतसङ्कल्पो वारित: पथि राजभि: ॥ ३२ ॥ वाक्यै: पवित्रार्थपदैर्नयनै: प्राकृतैरपि । स्वकर्मबन्धप्राप्तोऽयं यदुभिस्ते पराभव: ॥ ३३ ॥
sā mukto loka-nāthābhyāṁ vrīḍito vīra-sammataḥ tapase kṛta-saṅkalpo vāritaḥ pathi rājabhiḥ vākyaiḥ pavitrārtha-padair nayanaiḥ prākṛtair api sva-karma-bandha-prāpto ’yaṁ yadubhis te parābhavaḥ
- saḥ
- he, Jarāsandha
- muktaḥ
- freed
- loka-nāthābhyām
- by the two Lords of the universe
- vrīḍitaḥ
- ashamed
- vīra
- by heroes
- sammataḥ
- honored
- tapase
- to perform austerities
- kṛta-saṅkalpaḥ
- having made up his mind
- vāritaḥ
- was stopped
- pathi
- on the road
- rājabhiḥ
- by kings
- vākyaiḥ
- with statements
- pavitra
- purifying
- artha
- having meanings
- padaiḥ
- with words
- nayanaiḥ
- with reasoning
- prākṛtaiḥ
- mundane
- api
- also
- sva
- own
- karma-bandha
- due to the unavoidable reactions of past work
- prāptaḥ
- obtained
- ayam
- this
- yadubhiḥ
- by the Yadus
- te
- your
- parābhavaḥ
- defeat
Jarāsandha, whom fighters had highly honored, was ashamed after being released by the two Lords of the universe, and thus he decided to undergo penances. On the road, however, several kings convinced him with both spiritual wisdom and mundane arguments that he should give up his idea of self-abnegation. They told him, “Your defeat by the Yadus was simply the unavoidable reaction of your past karma.”