पञ्चषड्ढायनार्भाभा: पूर्वेषामपि पूर्वजा: । दिग्वासस: शिशून् मत्वा द्वा:स्थौ तान् प्रत्यषेधताम् ॥ ३७ ॥
panca-saddhayanarbhabhah purvesam api purvajah dig-vasasah sisun matva dvah-sthau tan pratyasedhatam
- panca-sat-dha
- five or six years
- ayana
- approaching
- arbha-abhah
- like boys
- purvesam
- the ancients of the universe (Marici and the rest)
- api
- even though
- purva-jah
- born before
- dik-vasasah
- being naked
- sisun
- children
- matva
- thinking
- dvah-sthau
- the two gate guards, Jaya and Vijaya
- tan
- them
- pratyasedhatam
- forbade.
Although these four great sages were older than Brahma’s other sons like Marici, they appeared like small naked children only five or six years old. When Jaya and Vijaya saw them trying to enter Vaikunthaloka, these two gatekeepers, thinking them ordinary children, forbade them to enter.