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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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आमन्त्र्य तं मुनिवरमनुज्ञातः सहानुगः प्रतस्थे रथमारुह्य सभार्यः स्वपुरं नृपः उभयोरृषिकुल्यायाः सरस्वत्याः सुरोधसोः ऋषीणामुपशान्तानां पश्यन्नाश्रमसम्पदः
āmantrya taṁ muni-varam anujñātaḥ sahānugaḥ pratasthe ratham āruhya sabhāryaḥ sva-puraṁ nṛpaḥ
ubhayor ṛṣi-kulyāyāḥ sarasvatyāḥ surodhasoḥ ṛṣīṇām upaśāntānāṁ paśyann āśrama-sampadaḥ
WORD BY WORD
āmantrya taking permission to go; tam from him (Kardama); muni-varam from the best of sages; anujñātaḥ being permitted to leave; saha-anugaḥ along with his retinue; pratasthe started for; ratham āruhya mounting his chariot; sa-bhāryaḥ along with his wife; sva-puram his own capital; nṛpaḥ the Emperor; ubhayoḥ on both; ṛṣi-kulyāyāḥ agreeable to the sages; sarasvatyāḥ of the river Sarasvatī; su-rodhasoḥ the charming banks; ṛṣīṇām of the great sages; upaśāntānām tranquil; paśyan seeing; āśrama-sampadaḥ the prosperity of the beautiful hermitages;
TRANSLATION
| After asking and obtaining the great sage’s permission to leave, the monarch mounted his chariot with his wife and started for his capital, followed by his retinue. Along the way he saw the prosperity of the tranquil seers’ beautiful hermitages on both the charming banks of the Sarasvatī, the river so agreeable to saintly persons.
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PURPORT
| As cities are constructed in the modern age with great engineering and architectural craftsmanship, so in days gone by there were neighborhoods called ṛṣi-kulas, where great saintly persons resided. In India there are still many magnificent places for spiritual understanding; there are many ṛṣis and saintly persons living in nice cottages on the banks of the Ganges and Yamunā for purposes of spiritual cultivation. While passing through the ṛṣi-kulas the King and his party were very much satisfied with the beauty of the cottages and hermitages. It is stated here, paśyann āśrama-sampadaḥ. The great sages had no skyscrapers, but the hermitages were so beautiful that the King was very much pleased at the sight.
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