Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 9 - Chapter 1 - Verse 52


Sanskrit:

एकस्तपस्व्यहमथाम्भसि मत्स्यसङ्गात्पञ्चाशदासमुत पञ्चसहस्रसर्ग: ।नान्तं व्रजाम्युभयकृत्यमनोरथानांमायागुणैर्हृतमतिर्विषयेऽर्थभाव: ॥ ५२ ॥

ITRANS:

ekas tapasvy aham athāmbhasi matsya-saṅgātpañcāśad āsam uta pañca-sahasra-sargaḥnāntaṁ vrajāmy ubhaya-kṛtya-manorathānāṁmāyā-guṇair hṛta-matir viṣaye ’rtha-bhāvaḥ

Translation:

In the beginning I was alone and engaged in performing the austerities of mystic yoga, but later, because of the association of fish engaged in sex, I desired to marry. Then I became the husband of fifty wives, and in each of them I begot one hundred sons, and thus my family increased to five thousand members. By the influence of the modes of material nature, I became fallen and thought that I would be happy in material life. Thus there is no end to my material desires for enjoyment, in this life and the next.

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