TEXT 9
tam sasapa kulacaryah
krtagasam akamatah
na ksatra-bandhuh sudras tvam
karmana bhavitamuna
SYNONYMS
tamhim (Prsadhra); sasapacursed; kula-acaryahthe family priest, Vasistha; krta-agasambecause of committing the great sin of killing a cow; akamatahalthough he did not want to do it; nanot; ksatra-bandhuhthe family member of a ksatriya; sudrah tvamyou have behaved like a sudra; karmanatherefore by your fruitive reaction; bhavitayou shall become a sudra; amunabecause of killing the cow.
TRANSLATION
Although Prsadhra had committed the sin unknowingly, his family priest, Vasistha, cursed him, saying, In your next life you shall not be able to become a ksatriya. Instead, you shall take birth as a sudra because of killing the cow.
PURPORT
It appears that Vasistha was not free from tamo-guna, the mode of ignorance. As the family priest or spiritual master of Prsadhra, Vasistha should have taken Prsadhras offense very lightly, but instead Vasistha cursed him to become a sudra. It is the duty of a family priest not to curse a disciple but to give him relief through the performance of some sort of atonement. Vasistha, however, did just the opposite. Therefore Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura says that he was durmati; in other words, his intelligence was not very good.

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