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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.14.10
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 10
- ditir uvāca
- eṣa māṁ tvat-kṛte vidvan
- kāma ātta-śarāsanaḥ
- dunoti dīnāṁ vikramya
- rambhām iva mataṅgajaḥ
ditiḥbeautiful Diti said uvācabeautiful Diti said — beautiful Diti said; eṣaḥall these — all these; māmunto me — unto me; tvatfor you-kṛtefor you — for you; vidvanO learned one — O learned one; kāmaḥCupid — Cupid; āttataking his arrows-śarāsanaḥtaking his arrows — taking his arrows; dunotidistresses — distresses; dīnāmpoor me — poor me; vikramyaattacking — attacking; rambhāmbanana tree — banana tree; ivalike — like; matammad elephant-gajaḥmad elephant — mad elephant.
In that place the beautiful Diti expressed her desire: O learned one, Cupid is taking his arrows and distressing me forcibly, as a mad elephant troubles a banana tree.
Beautiful Diti, seeing her husband absorbed in trance, began to speak loudly, not attempting to attract him by bodily expressions. She frankly said that her whole body was distressed by sex desire because of her husband's presence, just as a banana tree is troubled by a mad elephant. It was not natural for her to agitate her husband when he was in trance, but she could not control her strong sexual appetite. Her sex desire was like a mad elephant, and therefore it was the prime duty of her husband to give her all protection by fulfilling her desire.