श्रीशुक उवाच भरतस्यात्मज: सुमतिर्नामाभिहितो यमु ह वाव केचित्पाखण्डिन ऋषभपदवीमनुवर्तमानं चानार्या अवेदसमाम्नातां देवतां स्वमनीषया पापीयस्या कलौ कल्पयिष्यन्ति ॥ १ ॥
sri-suka uvaca bharatasyatmajah sumatir namabhihito yam u ha vava kecit pakhandina rsabha-padavim anuvartamanam canarya aveda-samamnatam devatam sva-manisaya papiyasya kalau kalpayisyanti.
- sri-sukah uvaca
- Sri Sukadeva Gosvami continued to speak
- bharatasya
- of Bharata Maharaja
- atma-jah
- the son
- sumatih nama-abhihitah
- named Sumati
- yam
- unto whom
- u ha vava
- indeed
- kecit
- some
- pakhandinah
- atheists, men without Vedic knowledge
- rsabha-padavim
- the path of King Rsabhadeva
- anuvartamanam
- following
- ca
- and
- anaryah
- not belonging to the Aryans who strictly follow the Vedic principles
- aveda-samamnatam
- not enumerated in the Vedas
- devatam
- to be Lord Buddha or a similar Buddhist deity
- sva-manisaya
- by their own mental speculation
- papiyasya
- most sinful
- kalau
- in this Age of Kali
- kalpayisyanti
- will imagine
Srila Sukadeva Gosvami continued: The son of Maharaja Bharata known as Sumati followed the path of Rsabhadeva, but some unscrupulous people imagined him to be Lord Buddha himself. These people, who were actually atheistic and of bad character, took up the Vedic principles in an imaginary, infamous way to support their activities. Thus these sinful people accepted Sumati as Lord Buddhadeva and propagated the theory that everyone should follow the principles of Sumati. In this way they were carried away by mental concoction.