असमञ्जस आत्मानं दर्शयन्नसमञ्जसम् । जातिस्मर: पुरा सङ्गाद् योगी योगाद् विचालित: ॥ १५ ॥ आचरन् गर्हितं लोके ज्ञातीनां कर्म विप्रियम् । सरय्वां क्रीडतो बालान्प्रास्यदुद्वेजयञ्जनम् ॥ १६ ॥
asamanjasa atmanam darsayann asamanjasam jati-smarah pura sangad yogi yogad vicalitah acaran garhitam loke jnatinam karma vipriyam sarayvam kridato balan prasyad udvejayan janam
- asamanjasah
- the son of Sagara Maharaja
- atmanam
- personally
- darsayan
- exhibiting
- asamanjasam
- very disturbing
- jati-smarah
- able to remember his past life
- pura
- formerly
- sangat
- from bad association
- yogi
- although he was a great mystic yogi
- yogat
- from the path of executing mystic yoga
- vicalitah
- fell down
- acaran
- behaving
- garhitam
- very badly
- loke
- in the society
- jnatinam
- of his relatives
- karma
- activities
- vipriyam
- not very favorable
- sarayvam
- in the river Sarayu
- kridatah
- while engaged in sports
- balan
- all the boys
- prasyat
- would throw
- udvejayan
- giving trouble
- janam
- to people in general
Formerly, in his previous birth, Asamanjasa had been a great mystic yogi, but by bad association he had fallen from his exalted position. Now, in this life, he was born in a royal family and was a jati-smara; that is, he had the special advantage of being able to remember his past birth. Nonetheless, he wanted to display himself as a miscreant, and therefore he would do things that were abominable in the eyes of the public and unfavorable to his relatives. He would disturb the boys sporting in the river Sarayu by throwing them into the depths of the water.