Devanagari
नानारण्यमृगव्रातैरनाबाधे मुनिव्रतै: ।
आहूतं मन्यते पान्थो यत्र कोकिलकूजितै: ॥ १९ ॥
Verse text
nānāraṇya-mṛga-vrātair
anābādhe muni-vrataiḥ
āhūtaṁ manyate pāntho
yatra kokila-kūjitaiḥ
Synonyms
nānā
—
various
;
araṇya
—
forest
;
mṛga
—
animals
;
vrātaiḥ
—
with groups
;
anābādhe
—
in the matter of nonviolence
;
muni
—
vrataiḥ — like the great sages
;
āhūtam
—
as if invited
;
manyate
—
thinks
;
pānthaḥ
—
passenger
;
yatra
—
where
;
kokila
—
of cuckoos
;
kūjitaiḥ
—
by the cooing .
Translation
In such an atmosphere even the animals of the forest became nonviolent and nonenvious like great sages. Consequently, the animals did not attack anyone. Over and above everything was the cooing of the cuckoos. Any passenger passing along that path was invited by that atmosphere to take rest in that nice garden.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Outside the city in groves of beautiful trees and creepers, with ponds resounding with the cries of flocks of birds and humming of bees, with lakes having banks abundant with lotuses and trees, whose branches moved in the spring wind laden with water drops from cool waterfalls, where cuckoos warbled as if calling out to travelers, there were various non-violent forest animals free of troubles, and no violent animals.
In three verses, the variety of sense objects are described as the various items in the grove outside the city, in order to convey how the jīva becomes fixed in his body by concentrating on sense objects.
Purport
A peaceful family with wife and children is compared to the peaceful atmosphere of the forest. Children are compared to nonviolent animals. Sometimes, however, wives and children are called
svajanākhya-dasyu,
burglars in the name of kinsmen. A man earns his livelihood with hard labor, but the result is that he is plundered by his wife and children exactly as a person in a forest is attacked by some thieves and burglars who take his money. Nonetheless, in family life the turmoil of wife and children appears to be like the cooing of the cuckoos in the garden of family life. Being invited by such an atmosphere, the person who is passing through such a blissful family life desires to have his family with him at all costs.