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context, are such forms of bhakti is listening (śravana) to, and chanting kīrtana)
the names and deeds of God. 35. Through this metaphor of water the verse suggests the producing of love
(preman) by these śāstras) (VD, RR on 11.30.15). 36. This word is not in the verse. Often words which are not in the text are supplied
by the commentators. In particular they frequently supply the words prakata
and aprakața-(or nitya-)līlā. 37. Lit, 'came to know' (jñātavantah), which glosses jaghnuḥ, supplied from the
previous verse. 38. Here, as well as in a few other places (e.g., in VD's commentary on v. 11.30.20),
there appear some printing mistakes in the volume I am using. 39. And therefore does not mean 'to know', as explained in the commentary on
11.30.17, above. 40. Their entering into the aprakața-lītā by disappearing from the prakatalītā is a
sort of deception, since ordinary people may not realize that they still continue
to be present, albeit invisibly. 41. VD (on 11.30.21) mentions the v. 1. bhṛtāh which my edition has chosen as
the preferred reading, but adds that the word comes to mean the same thing
as dhrtāḥ. 42. This word is to be supplied, according to RR and VD. 43. See the commentary of RR and VD on 11.30.17 and 19 above. 44. Mentioned in RR and VD's interpretation of 11.30.20. 45 See above, RR, VD on 11.30.20. 46. See above, RR, VD on 11.30.17. 47. VD and RR read avanam instead of vanam, supplying the negative a from the
previous word, yathā, in the text : vainavo 'gniryathā vanam. 48. Human beings do not belong to the natural setting of the forest : they generally
do not live in forests. 49. See De, Vaisnava Faith and Movement, pp. 284-285. 50. On these śaktis, see ibid. pp. 276-284.
51. RR's reference is to v. 19, and not to v. 20, because RR takes the half verse
