tat-paro 'tha mahī-pate. cintāṁ tīvrāṁ gataḥ śakraḥ. kena me syāc chivaṁ tv iha. O master of the entire world! When Indra could find no faults, he became intensely worried. He thought, "How
tat-paro 'tha mahī-pate
cintāṁ tīvrāṁ gataḥ śakraḥ
kena me syāc chivaṁ tv iha
O master of the entire world! When Indra could find no faults, he became intensely worried. He thought, "How will there be good fortune for me?"
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ekadā sā tu sandhyāyām
ucchiṣṭā vrata-karśitā
aspṛṣṭa-vāry-adhautāṅghriḥ
suṣvāpa vidhi-mohitā
Having grown thin because of strictly following the vow, Diti, forgetting the rules, once went to sleep after eating, without performing ācamana and without washing her feet, during the twilight.
She did not perform ācamana or wash her feet.
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labdhvā tad-antaraṁ śakro
nidrāpahṛta-cetasaḥ
diteḥ praviṣṭa udaraṁ
yogeśo yoga-māyayā
Finding this fault, Indra, who is the master of yoga, entered Diti's womb while she was unconscious during sleep by his power of yoga.
He entered by the power (māyayā) of yoga which allowed him to enter another’s body.
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cakarta saptadhā garbhaṁ
vajreṇa kanaka-prabham
rudantaṁ saptadhaikaikaṁ
mā rodīr iti tān punaḥ
Indra, with the help of his thunderbolt, cut into seven pieces her embryo, which glowed like gold, and which began to cry. Indra told them, "Do not cry," and then he cut each of them into seven pieces again.
He said, “Do not cry” to comfort them. But then he cut them into seven more parts each. Some say that a single jīva can expand his body into forty-nine forms for a short time like a yogī or like someone else enjoying a lot of both piety and sin. Others say that knowing the future event, forty-nine jīvas entered into one body, and then entered each of the forty-nine parts when cut by Indra. Others say that forty-eight more jīvas entered each of the other parts the moment that Indra cut up the one fetus, just as separate jīvas enter each branch when a person cuts branches off a creeper or bush and plants them in the ground.
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