🪷 ŚB 11.8.24
Sanskrit, transliteration, word meanings, and translation for steady Bhāgavata reading.
Sanskrit
मार्ग आगच्छतो वीक्ष्य पुरुषान् पुरुषर्षभ ।
तान् शुल्कदान् वित्तवत: कान्तान् मेनेऽर्थकामुकी ॥ २४ ॥
Transliteration
mārga āgacchato vīkṣya
puruṣān puruṣarṣabha
tān śulka-dān vittavataḥ
kāntān mene ’rtha-kāmukī
Synonyms
mārge — in that street; āgacchataḥ — those who were coming; vīkṣya — seeing; puruṣān — men; puruṣa-ṛṣabha — O best among men; tān — them; śulka-dān — who could pay the price; vitta-vataḥ — possessing money; kāntān — lovers or customers; mene — she considered; artha-kāmukī — desiring money.
Translation
O best among men, this prostitute was very anxious to get money, and as she stood on the street at night she studied all the men who were passing by, thinking, “Oh, this one surely has money. I know he can pay the price, and I am sure he would enjoy my company very much.” Thus she thought about all the men on the street.
Bhāgavatam Detail Source-Anchor Spine
This reading page exposes the requested verse-reference route, canonical received passage, parent chapter/skandha context, and the wider Bhāgavata source spine without inventing artificial verse boundaries.
ŚB 11.8.24requested verse-reference route for this Bhāgavatam reading pageŚB 11.8parent chapter route and reading-passage indexSkandha 11parent skandha chapter index/bhagavatammaster index for 12 skandhas, 335 chapters, and 13,003 reading pagesŚB 1.1.1satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi · the Bhāgavatam source meditationŚB 1.2.6supreme dharma as ahaitukī and apratihatā bhaktiŚB 1.2.11Brahman · Paramātmā · Bhagavān as one advaya-tattvaŚB 1.3.28kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam · Krishna-pramāṇa source sealŚB 10.10.29Dāmodara/Yamala-arjuna · Krishna as supreme original PersonŚB 10.10.30-31Krishna as Kāla · Viṣṇu · Paramātmā · AntaryāmīŚB 10.10.38speech, hearing, body, mind, head, and sight offered in Krishna-sevāŚB 10.10.39Gokuleśvara bound by love, smilingŚB 10.10.40Nārada correction as anugrahaŚB 10.10.41sādhu-darśana removes bondage-darknessŚB 12.2.18Kalki witness at ŚambhalaŚB 12.3.51Kali-yuga blessing through Krishna-kīrtanaSkandha 10 līlā index20-anchor Krishna-līlā source-walk inside the Bhāgavatam master pageBG 7.7mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat · no source higher than KrishnaBG 10.8ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ · Krishna as source of allBG 15.15Krishna seated in every heart and the target of all Veda/binduDiamond of Darśanas · Bhāgavata prema as the Bindu made rasa/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundation
🪷 ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय 🪷