Sridhar swami's insights into SB 9.20.37-39 from Bhavartha-Dipika

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> >also sb 9.20.36

> >

> >When the demigod named Bahaspati was attracted by his brother's wife,

> >Mamata, who at that time was pregnant, he desired to have sexual

> >relations with her. The son within her womb forbid this, but Bahaspati

> >cursed him and forcibly discharged semen into the womb of Mamata.

> >

> >shouldn't it have read,"The son within her womb forbade this, "?

> >

Dravida:

> "forbade" is right.

>

> >please look at these and confirm if these are genuine mistakes, and if

> >so, note them for correction it the next reprint.

> >

> >It mentioned "Brhaspati cursed him" does that mean that the child "thus

> >cursed" died immediately and he was miscarried and replaced by the child

> >produced of the seed of Brihaspati?

 

DRavida:

> From subsequent text it seems so, doesn't it?

 

Mahamantra:

 

No Asit turns out he didn't die at all.

 

My friend Radha-Ramana (who's giving class on the subsequent verse today)

just read from Bhavartha dipika on this.

 

There Sridhar Swami says that when Utathya (mamata's husband) went out for

some work, then in a sneaky way, brihaspati went into Utathya's house and

forcibly raped Mamata, injecting his semen.

 

The child (already in the womb)- was named Dirghatama, and he forbade the

entrance of another child, saying "there is hardly room for me in here, what

to speak of room for another person,"

 

Hearing this, Brihaspati got angry and cursed him, "You become blind". And

forcibly injected his seed-semen.

 

The unborn child (Dirghatama) forcibly pushed the new intruder out of the

womb by his feet.

 

Instantly, (sadhya) Bharadvaja "two-maintain" took birth. He did not have to

wait 10 months.

 

(He is not to be confused with the rsi named Bharadvaja, who is a different

entity) and the other blind boy Dirghatama, (who evidently wasn't finished

"cooking yet") took birth later.

 

Interesting huh?

 

ys MMDASBR