Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 9.6.41-42

sa vicintyapriyam strinam

jaratho 'ham asan-matah

vali-palita ejat-ka

ity aham pratyudahritah

sadhayishye tathatmanam

sura-strinam abhipsitam

kim punar manujendranam

iti vyavasitah prabhuh

SYNONYMS

sah -- he, Saubhari Muni; vicintya -- thinking to himself; apriyam -- not liked; strinam -- by the women; jarathah -- being infirm because of old age; aham -- I; asat-matah -- not desired by them; vali -- wrinkled; palitah -- grey-haired; ejat-kah -- with the head always trembling; iti -- in this way; aham -- I; pratyudahritah -- rejected (by them); sadhayishye -- I shall act in such a way; tatha -- as; atmanam -- my body; sura-strinam -- to the celestial women of the heavenly planets; abhipsitam -- desirable; kim -- what to speak of; punah -- yet; manuja-indranam -- of the daughters of worldly kings; iti -- in this way; vyavasitah -- determined; prabhuh -- Saubhari, the greatly powerful mystic.

TRANSLATION

Saubhari Muni thought: I am now feeble because of old age. My hair has become grey, my skin is slack, and my head always trembles. Besides, I am a yogi. Therefore women do not like me. Since the King has thus rejected me, I shall reform my body in such a way as to be desirable even to celestial women, what to speak of the daughters of worldly kings.

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