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સત્ય વગેરે ગુણેાને યતિઓએ એકઠા કર્યાં હાય તે બધાને બળવાન કામદેવ છળ પ્રાપ્ત કરીને નષ્ટ કરી નાંખે છે. .
earned. vri (noun from to meditate upon) meditation. anya (an) knowledge etc. प्रदहति burns to ashes. क्षणेन in a single moment (noun from to love) love, it also means the god of love, Cupid. pretext. यतीनाम् ( Gen plu of यति noun from यत् ) of ascetics.
The powerful god of love with a pretext destroys in a single moment, all of contemplation, austerities, knowledge and truthfulness, which the Yatis have devoted their whole life to earn.
Note: The powers of Cupid are pre-emi nently potent in demolishing the well-built structure of virtuous characteristics. Yogis of high meditative practice and of unbearably hard penances are known to have fallen from their right path by lovely and charming blendish ments of beauties. Productive of high flown
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