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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.1.46
bodhyamāno 'pi dārunah
purushādān anuvratah
SYNONYMS
śrī-śukah uvāca — Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said; evam — in this way; sah — he (Kamsa); sāmabhih — by attempts to pacify him (Kamsa); bhedaih — by moral instructions that one should not be cruel to anyone else; bodhyamānah api — even being pacified; dārunah — he who was the most fiercely cruel; na nyavartata — could not be stopped (from the grievous act); kauravya — O Mahārāja Parīkshit; purusha-adān — the Rākshasas, man-eaters; anuvratah — following in their footsteps.
TRANSLATION
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O best of the Kuru dynasty, Kamsa was fiercely cruel and was actually a follower of the Rākshasas. Therefore he could be neither pacified nor terrified by the good instructions given by Vasudeva. He did not care about the results of sinful activities, either in this life or in the next.
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