kau yuvāṁ jñāna-sampannau

kau yuvāṁ jñāna-sampannau

mahiṣṭhau ca mahīyasām

avadhūtena veṣeṇa

gūḍhāv iha samāgatau

King Citraketu said: You two, endowed with knowledge, greatest amount the great, have arrived here in the dress of mendicants.

The two sages had dressed as mendicants to hide their identity.

|| 6.15.11 ||

caranti hy avanau kāmaṁ

brāhmaṇā bhagavat-priyāḥ

mādṛśāṁ grāmya-buddhīnāṁ

bodhāyonmatta-liṅginaḥ

SYNONYMS

Brāhmaṇas who are Vaiṣṇavas, the most dear servants of the Lord, dressed like madmen, wander the earth at will to enlighten materialist persons like me.

|| 6.15.12-15||

kumāro nārada ṛbhur

aṅgirā devalo 'sitaḥ

apāntaratamā vyāso

mārkaṇḍeyo 'tha gautamaḥ

vasiṣṭho bhagavān rāmaḥ

kapilo bādarāyaṇiḥ

durvāsā yājñavalkyaś ca

jātukarṇas tathāruṇiḥ

romaśaś cyavano datta

āsuriḥ sapatañjaliḥ

ṛṣir veda-śirā dhaumyo

muniḥ pañcaśikhas tathā

hiraṇyanābhaḥ kauśalyaḥ

śrutadeva ṛtadhvajaḥ

ete pare ca siddheśāś

caranti jñāna-hetavaḥ

Perfect persons like the following wander the surface of the earth to instruct knowledge: Sanat-kumāra, Nārada, Ṛbhu, Aṅgirā, Devala, Asita, Apāntaratamā, Vyāsadeva, Mārkaṇḍeya, Gautama, Vasiṣṭha, Bhagavān Paraśurāma, Kapila, Śukadeva, Durvāsā, Yājñavalkya, Jātukarṇa and Aruṇi, Romaśa, Cyavana, Dattātreya, Āsuri, Patañjali, the great sage Dhaumya who is like the head of the Vedas, the sage Pañcaśikha, Hiraṇyanābha, Kauśalya, Śrutadeva and Ṛtadhvaja.

|| 6.15.16 ||

tasmād yuvāṁ grāmya-paśor

mama mūḍha-dhiyaḥ prabhū

andhe tamasi magnasya

jñāna-dīpa udīryatām

Please kindle your flame of knowledge in me, a fool, a farm animal, drowning in the darkness of ignorance.

|| 6.15.17 ||

śrī-aṅgirā uvāca

ahaṁ te putra-kāmasya

putrado 'smy aṅgirā nṛpa