एतेषां कविर्महावीर: सवन इति त्रय आसन्नूर्ध्वरेतसस्त आत्मविद्यायामर्भभावादारभ्य कृतपरिचया: पारमहंस्यमेवाश्रममभजन् ॥ २६ ॥
etesam kavir mahavirah savana iti traya asann urdhva-retasas ta atma-vidyayam arbha-bhavad arabhya krta-paricayah paramahamsyam evasramam abhajan.
- etesam
- of these
- kavih
- Kavi
- mahavirah
- Mahavira
- savanah
- Savana
- iti
- thus
- trayah
- three
- asan
- were
- urdhva-retasah
- completely celibate
- te
- they
- atma-vidyayam
- in transcendental knowledge
- arbha-bhavat
- from childhood
- arabhya
- beginning
- krta-paricayah
- very well versed
- paramahamsyam
- of the highest spiritual perfection of human life
- eva
- certainly
- asramam
- the order
- abhajan
- executed.
Three among these ten—namely Kavi, Mahavira and Savana—lived in complete celibacy. Thus trained in brahmacari life from the beginning of childhood, they were very conversant with the highest perfection, known as the paramahamsa-asrama.