Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam

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बुद्ध्या पराभिध्यायिन्या विस्मृतात्मगतिः पशुः ।
स्त्रीकामः सोऽस्त्वतितरां दक्षो बस्तमुखोऽचिरात् ॥२३॥

buddhyā parābhidhyāyinyā
vismṛtātma-gatiḥ paśuḥ
strī-kāmaḥ so ’stv atitarāṁ
dakṣo basta-mukho ’cirāt

WORD BY WORD

buddhyā — by intelligence; para-abhidhyāyinyā — by accepting the body as the self; vismṛta-ātma-gatiḥ — having forgotten the knowledge of Viṣṇu; paśuḥ — an animal; strī-kāmaḥ — attached to sex life; saḥ — he (Dakṣa); astu — let; atitarām — excessive; dakṣaḥ — Dakṣa; basta-mukhaḥ — the face of a goat; acirāt — in a very short time;

TRANSLATION

Dakṣa has accepted the body as all in all. Therefore, since he has forgotten the viṣṇu-pāda, or viṣṇu-gati, and is attached to sex life only, within a short time he will have the face of a goat.

PURPORT

This verse has not purport by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Svāmi Prabhupāda.

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