तन्निमित्तस्मरव्याजग्रहग्रस्तो विचेतन: । तामेव मनसा ध्यायन् स्वधर्माद्विरराम ह ॥ ६३ ॥
tan-nimitta-smara-vyaja- graha-grasto vicetanah tam eva manasa dhyayan sva-dharmad virarama ha
- tat-nimitta
- caused by the sight of her
- smara-vyaja
- taking advantage of his thinking of her always
- graha-grastah
- being caught by an eclipse
- vicetanah
- having completely forgotten his real position
- tam
- her
- eva
- certainly
- manasa
- by the mind
- dhyayan
- meditating upon
- sva-dharmat
- from the regulative principles executed by a brahmana
- virarama ha
- he completely ceased.
In the same way that the sun and moon are eclipsed by a low plane, the brahmana lost all his good sense. Taking advantage of this situation, he always thought of the prostitute, and within a short time he took her as a servant in his house and abandoned all the regulative principles of a brahmana.