Verse 10

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He laughed out loud· Verses 6–10

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This one is the teacher of the world in person, the speaker of dharma to those who have bodies, and he sits at the head of the assembly making a couple with his wife. Wearing matted hair, of fierce austerity, the head of an assembly of men who speak of Brahman, he sits with a woman on his lap, his shame gone, like any common man. Even common men mostly hold a woman in private. This one, who keeps a great vow, holds a woman in the middle of the meeting. The revered one heard it, king, and being of unfathomable mind he laughed and kept silent in the assembly, and those seated there did as he did. As he spoke so much that was unbecoming, not knowing that one's power, the goddess said this in anger to the bold man who thought he had conquered himself: