इत्यङ्गोपदिशन्त्येके विस्मृत्य प्रागुदाहृतम् । मुनिवासनिवासे किं घटेतारिष्टदर्शनम् ॥ ३१ ॥
ity aṅgopadiśanty eke vismṛtya prāg udāhṛtam muni-vāsa-nivāse kiṁ ghaṭetāriṣṭa-darśanam
- iti
- thus
- aṅga
- my dear (King Parīkṣit)
- upadiśanti
- were proposing
- eke
- some
- vismṛtya
- forgetting
- prāk
- previously
- udāhṛtam
- what had been described
- muni
- of sages
- vāsa
- the residence
- nivāse
- when He is residing
- kim
- how
- ghaṭeta
- can arise
- ariṣṭa
- of calamities
- darśanam
- the appearance
Some men proposed [that the troubles were due to Akrūra’s absence], but they had forgotten the glories of the Supreme Lord, which they themselves had so often described. Indeed, how can calamities occur in a place where the Personality of Godhead, the residence of all the sages, resides?