श्रीशुक उवाच सौदासो मृगयां किञ्चिच्चरन् रक्षो जघान ह । मुमोच भ्रातरं सोऽथ गत: प्रतिचिकीर्षया ॥ २० ॥ सञ्चिन्तयन्नघं राज्ञ: सूदरूपधरो गृहे । गुरवे भोक्तुकामाय पक्त्वा निन्ये नरामिषम् ॥ २१ ॥
sri-suka uvaca saudaso mrgayam kincic caran rakso jaghana ha mumoca bhrataram so ’tha gatah praticikirsaya sancintayann agham rajnah suda-rupa-dharo grhe gurave bhoktu-kamaya paktva ninye naramisam
- sri-sukah uvaca
- Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said
- saudasah
- King Saudasa
- mrgayam
- in hunting
- kincit
- sometimes
- caran
- wandering
- raksah
- a Raksasa, or man-eater
- jaghana
- killed
- ha
- in the past
- mumoca
- released
- bhrataram
- the brother of that Raksasa
- sah
- that brother
- atha
- thereafter
- gatah
- went
- praticikirsaya
- for taking revenge
- sancintayan
- he thought
- agham
- to do some harm
- rajnah
- of the King
- suda-rupa-dharah
- disguised himself as a cook
- grhe
- in the house
- gurave
- unto the King’s spiritual master
- bhoktu-kamaya
- who came there to take dinner
- paktva
- after cooking
- ninye
- gave him
- nara-amisam
- the flesh of a human being
Sukadeva Gosvami said: Once Saudasa went to live in the forest, where he killed a man-eater [Raksasa] but forgave and released the man-eater’s brother. That brother, however, decided to take revenge. Thinking to harm the King, he became the cook at the King’s house. One day, the King’s spiritual master, Vasistha Muni, was invited for dinner, and the Raksasa cook served him human flesh.