तपोविद्याव्रतधरान् ज्ञानविध्वस्तकल्मषान् । परमऋषीन्ब्रह्मनिष्ठाल्ँ लोकपालैश्च पूजितान् ॥ ३३ ॥ सदस्पतीनतिक्रम्य गोपाल: कुलपांसन: । यथा काक: पुरोडाशं सपर्यां कथमर्हति ॥ ३४ ॥
tapo-vidyā-vrata-dharān jñāna-vidhvasta-kalmaṣān paramaṛṣīn brahma-niṣṭhāḻ loka-pālaiś ca pūjitān sadas-patīn atikramya gopālaḥ kula-pāṁsanaḥ yathā kākaḥ puroḍāśaṁ saparyāṁ katham arhati
- tapaḥ
- austerity
- vidyā
- Vedic knowledge
- vrata
- severe vows
- dharān
- who maintain
- jñāna
- by spiritual understanding
- vidhvasta
- eradicated
- kalmaṣān
- whose impurities
- parama
- topmost
- ṛṣīn
- sages
- brahma
- to the Absolute Truth
- niṣṭhān
- dedicated
- loka-pālaiḥ
- by the rulers of the planetary systems
- ca
- and
- pūjitān
- worshiped
- sadaḥ-patīn
- leaders of the assembly
- atikramya
- passing over
- gopālaḥ
- a cowherd
- kula
- of His family
- pāṁsanaḥ
- the disgrace
- yathā
- as
- kākaḥ
- a crow
- puroḍāśam
- the sacred rice cake (offered to the demigods)
- saparyām
- worship
- katham
- how
- arhati
- deserves
How can you pass over the most exalted members of this assembly — topmost sages dedicated to the Absolute Truth endowed with powers of austerity, divine insight and strict adherence to severe vows, sanctified by knowledge and worshiped even by the rulers of the universe? How does this cowherd boy, the disgrace of His family, deserve your worship, any more than a crow deserves to eat the sacred puroḍāśa rice cake?