एकस्तपस्व्यहमथाम्भसि मत्स्यसङ्गात् पञ्चाशदासमुत पञ्चसहस्रसर्ग: । नान्तं व्रजाम्युभयकृत्यमनोरथानां मायागुणैर्हृतमतिर्विषयेऽर्थभाव: ॥ ५२ ॥
ekas tapasvy aham athambhasi matsya-sangat pancasad asam uta panca-sahasra-sargah nantam vrajamy ubhaya-krtya-manorathanam maya-gunair hrta-matir visaye ’rtha-bhavah
- ekah
- one only
- tapasvi
- great sage
- aham
- I
- atha
- thus
- ambhasi
- in the deep water
- matsya-sangat
- by associating with the fish
- pancasat
- fifty
- asam
- got wives
- uta
- and what to speak of begetting one hundred sons in each of them
- panca-sahasra-sargah
- procreation of five thousand
- na antam
- no end
- vrajami
- I can find
- ubhaya-krtya
- duties of this life and the next
- manorathanam
- mental concoctions
- maya-gunaih
- influenced by the modes of material nature
- hrta
- lost
- matih visaye
- great attraction for material things
- artha-bhavah
- matters of self-interest
In the beginning I was alone and engaged in performing the austerities of mystic yoga, but later, because of the association of fish engaged in sex, I desired to marry. Then I became the husband of fifty wives, and in each of them I begot one hundred sons, and thus my family increased to five thousand members. By the influence of the modes of material nature, I became fallen and thought that I would be happy in material life. Thus there is no end to my material desires for enjoyment, in this life and the next.