Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.67.6
आश्रमानृषिमुख्यानां कृत्वा भग्नवनस्पतीन् ।
अदूषयच्छकृन्मूत्रैरग्नीन् वैतानिकान् खल: ॥ ६ ॥
āśramān ṛṣi-mukhyānāṁ
[aashramaan rishi-mukhyaanaam]
kṛtvā bhagna-vanaspatīn
[kritvaa bhagna-vanaspateen]
adūṣayac chakṛn-mūtrair
[adooshayach chakrin-mootrair]
agnīn vaitānikān khalaḥ
[agneen vaitaanikaan khalah]
Word-for-word
āśramān
—
the spiritual communities
ṛṣi
—
of sages
mukhyānām
—
exalted
kṛtva
—
making
bhagna
—
broken
vanaspatīn
—
whose trees
adūṣayat
—
he contaminated
śakṛt
—
with stool
mūtraiḥ
—
and urine
agnīn
—
the fires
vaitānikān
—
sacrificial
khalaḥ
—
wicked .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
āśramān ṛṣi-mukhyānāṁ
āśramān
the spiritual communities
ṛṣi
of sages
mukhyānām
exalted
kṛtvā bhagna-vanaspatīn
kṛtva
making
bhagna
broken
vanaspatīn
whose trees
adūṣayac chakṛn-mūtrair
adūṣayat
he contaminated
śakṛt
with stool
mūtraiḥ
and urine
agnīn vaitānikān khalaḥ
agnīn
the fires
vaitānikān
sacrificial
khalaḥ
wicked .
Important Words
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āśramān
—
spiritual communities, hermitages
Āśrama = a place of disciplined life around a guru. To defile an āśrama is to attack the very nodes through which Vedic order propagates. The asura targets infrastructure, not just people.
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ṛṣi-mukhyānām
—
of the foremost sages
Ṛṣi-mukhya — the leading seers. Their āśramas are not random forests but the lineages that hold up Vedic dharma. The chapter is showing dharma under cumulative assault from one source.
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agnīn-vaitānikān
—
the three sacrificial fires
Vaitānika = the three Vedic śrauta fires (gārhapatya, āhavanīya, dakṣiṇāgni). To pollute them with excrement is to attack the very channel between humans and devas. Maximally asuric inversion of yajña.
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śakṛt-mūtraiḥ
—
with feces and urine
Compound: śakṛt (excrement) + mūtra (urine). The grossest available form of pollution — the asura performs an anti-yajña, offering filth where ghee belongs. SB does not flinch from naming evil precisely.
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khalaḥ
—
wicked one, scoundrel
Khala — a classical Sanskrit epithet for the deliberately malicious. Bhagavad-gītā 16.7–18 names the āsuri-prakṛti in detail; Dvivida is the chapter's living catalog of those traits.
The wicked ape tore down the trees in the hermitages of exalted sages and contaminated their sacrificial fires with his feces and urine.
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura
Gauḍīya
Translation
The wicked ape tore down the trees in the hermitages of exalted sages and contaminated their sacrificial fires with his feces and urine.
Jīva Gosvāmī
Gauḍīya
Commentary
The chief sages were devotees of the Lord.
Śrīdhara Svāmī
Gauḍīya
Commentary
None The chief sages were devotees of the Lord.
Related values & verses
Related values
Dhriti (Resilience / Steadfastness / Fortitude)Satya (Truthfulness)Tyaga (Renunciation / Letting Go)Kshama (Forgiveness / Patience)Pratijna (Vow-keeping / Sacred Resolve)Tejas (Inner Radiance / Vigour)
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Personal Guidance
Dvivida violates sages' hermitages and pollutes their sacrifices. The wicked specifically target what is sacred — sanctity attracts both worship and attack.
Reflection Questions
- What sacred space or practice in my life have I let be 'polluted' by neglect or contempt?
- How do I guard the small altars of my life against careless damage?
Analogy
A wicked man finding a clean hearth thinks first to defile it — Dvivida picks the ṛṣis' yajña-fires precisely because they are pure. Asuric mind is allergic to brightness; it goes for what offends sat the most.
My note
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