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Read one verse of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam with its Sanskrit, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 4.28.23
पशुवद्यवनैरेष नीयमान: स्वकं क्षयम् ।
अन्वद्रवन्ननुपथा: शोचन्तो भृशमातुरा: ॥ २३ ॥
paśuvad yavanair eṣa
nīyamānaḥ svakaṁ kṣayam
anvadravann anupathāḥ
śocanto bhṛśam āturāḥ
When the Yavanas were taking King Purañjana away to their place, binding him like an animal, the King’s followers became greatly aggrieved. While they lamented, they were forced to go along with him.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Purañjana's followers were forced to accompany him as the Yavanas took him away. The purport explains that the life air and senses accompany the departing living entity.
The gross body, made of earth, water, air, fire and ether, is left behind. The living entity's desires and the reactions to past activities continue.
Every living entity is responsible for his activities. Yamarāja decides the next body in accordance with those past actions.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Worldly absorption → Sobering awareness. The mind's identification with material life becomes visible.
Chapters 24–29 of Canto 4: Śiva's song and the allegory of Purañjana. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc
Purañjana’s city falls; he becomes a woman, and a brāhmaṇa recalls the soul’s forgotten spiritual friendship.
Back to this verse in chapter 4.28Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.
The subject this verse serves and the themes it speaks of.
Nirodha · Returning home, back to Godhead
What happens when everything here comes to an end? · Subject 8 of 10
Rāja-dharma · Devotional leadership
Serving and protecting through responsibility. · Theme in SB 4.28
In this verse: “king”
Viraha · Longing in separation
Love and remembrance experienced in apparent absence. · Theme in SB 4.28
In this verse: “lamented”
Chapter themes come from the story phase this chapter belongs to.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How would remembering that my actions have lasting consequences change a choice I am making?
Before one important action today, pause and consider the responsibility you bear for its consequences.
The story this chapter belongs to.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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