स विचिन्त्याप्रियं स्त्रीणां जरठोऽहमसन्मत: । वलीपलित एजत्क इत्यहं प्रत्युदाहृत: ॥ ४१ ॥ साधयिष्ये तथात्मानं सुरस्त्रीणामभीप्सितम् । किं पुनर्मनुजेन्द्राणामिति व्यवसित: प्रभु: ॥ ४२ ॥
sa vicintyapriyam strinam jaratho ’ham asan-matah vali-palita ejat-ka ity aham pratyudahrtah sadhayisye tathatmanam sura-strinam abhipsitam kim punar manujendranam iti vyavasitah prabhuh
- sah
- he, Saubhari Muni
- vicintya
- thinking to himself
- apriyam
- not liked
- strinam
- by the women
- jarathah
- being infirm because of old age
- aham
- I
- asat-matah
- not desired by them
- vali
- wrinkled
- palitah
- grey-haired
- ejat-kah
- with the head always trembling
- iti
- in this way
- aham
- I
- pratyudahrtah
- rejected (by them)
- sadhayisye
- I shall act in such a way
- tatha
- as
- atmanam
- my body
- sura-strinam
- to the celestial women of the heavenly planets
- abhipsitam
- desirable
- kim
- what to speak of
- punah
- yet
- manuja-indranam
- of the daughters of worldly kings
- iti
- in this way
- vyavasitah
- determined
- prabhuh
- Saubhari, the greatly powerful mystic
Saubhari Muni thought: I am now feeble because of old age. My hair has become grey, my skin is slack, and my head always trembles. Besides, I am a yogi. Therefore women do not like me. Since the King has thus rejected me, I shall reform my body in such a way as to be desirable even to celestial women, what to speak of the daughters of worldly kings.