Canto 9: LiberationChapter 4: Ambarīṣa Mahārāja Offended by Durvāsā Muni

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.4.51

diśo nabhaḥ kṣmāḿ vivarān samudrān

lokān sapālāḿs tridivaḿ gataḥ saḥ

yato yato dhāvati tatra tatra

sudarśanaḿ duṣprasahaḿ dadarśa

SYNONYMS

diśaḥ — all directions; nabhaḥin the sky; kṣmām — on the surface of the earth; vivarān — within the holes; samudrān — within the seas; lokān — all places; sa-pālānas well as their rulers; tridivam — the heavenly planets; gataḥ — gone; saḥ — Durvāsā Muni; yataḥ yataḥ — wheresoever; dhāvatihe went; tatra tatra — there, everywhere; sudarśanam — the disc of the Lord; duṣprasaham — extremely fearful; dadarśa — Durvāsā Muni saw.

TRANSLATION

Just to protect himself, Durvāsā Muni fled everywhere, in all directions — in the sky, on the surface of the earth, in caves, in the ocean, on different planets of the rulers of the three worlds, and even on the heavenly planets — but wherever he went he immediately saw following him the unbearable fire of the Sudarśana cakra.

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