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Lil05/SB 8-1-3

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Painting title	Agastya Curses Indradyumna
Artists	Puskar Dasa
Keywords 2017	Agastya Muni Disciples Indradyumna King Asrama Meditating Silent Cursing Straw Hut
Used in books	EN SB 8.1 1976
Keywords status	Updated
Info status	In progress
Source catalog	Not from a Catalog

File info

Image height	6 465 px
Image width	4 885 px
Location	SP/Lil 05
Filename	Lil05/SB 8-1-3

Physical painting info

Medium	oil
Substrate	canvas

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Copyright owner	BBTI

Captions

Language	Caption
English	EN SB 8 1976: Gajendra, the king of the elephants, had formerly been a Vaiṣṇava king of the country known as Pāṇḍya, which is in the province of Draviṣa (South India). In his previous life he was known as lndradyumna Mahārāja. lndradyumna had retired from family life and gone to the Malaya Hills, where he had a small cottage for his āśrama. He wore matted locks on his head and always engaged in austerities. Once, while observing a vow of silence, he was fully engaged in the worship of the Lord and absorbed in the ecstasy of love of Godhead when the great sage Agastya Muni arrived, surrounded by his disciples. When the muni saw that King lndradyumna remained silent and did not follow the etiquette of offering him a reception, he became very angry and spoke this curse against the king: "This King lndradyumna is not at all gentle. Being low and uneducated, he has insulted a brāhmaṇa. May he therefore enter the region of darkness and receive the dull, dumb body of an elephant."

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English

EN SB 8 1976: Gajendra, the king of the elephants, had formerly been a Vaiṣṇava king of the country known as Pāṇḍya, which is in the province of Draviṣa (South India). In his previous life he was known as lndradyumna Mahārāja. lndradyumna had retired from family life and gone to the Malaya Hills, where he had a small cottage for his āśrama. He wore matted locks on his head and always engaged in austerities. Once, while observing a vow of silence, he was fully engaged in the worship of the Lord and absorbed in the ecstasy of love of Godhead when the great sage Agastya Muni arrived, surrounded by his disciples. When the muni saw that King lndradyumna remained silent and did not follow the etiquette of offering him a reception, he became very angry and spoke this curse against the king: "This King lndradyumna is not at all gentle. Being low and uneducated, he has insulted a brāhmaṇa. May he therefore enter the region of darkness and receive the dull, dumb body of an elephant."