शयान उन्नद्धमदो महामना महार्हतल्पे महिषीभुजोपधि: । तामेव वीरो मनुते परं यत- स्तमोऽभिभूतो न निजं परं च यत् ॥ ४ ॥
sayana unnaddha-mado maha-mana maharha-talpe mahisi-bhujopadhih tam eva viro manute param yatas tamo-’bhibhuto na nijam param ca yat
- sayanah
- lying down
- unnaddha-madah
- increasingly illusioned
- maha-manah
- advanced in consciousness
- maha-arha-talpe
- on a valuable bedstead
- mahisi
- of the Queen
- bhuja
- arms
- upadhih
- pillow
- tam
- her
- eva
- certainly
- virah
- the hero
- manute
- he considered
- param
- the goal of life
- yatah
- from which
- tamah
- by ignorance
- abhibhutah
- overwhelmed
- na
- not
- nijam
- his actual self
- param
- the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- ca
- and
- yat
- what
In this way, increasingly overwhelmed by illusion, King Puranjana, although advanced in consciousness, remained always lying down with his head on the pillow of his wife’s arms. In this way he considered woman to be his ultimate life and soul. Becoming thus overwhelmed by the mode of ignorance, he could not understand the meaning of self-realization, of his self or of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.