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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.20.37
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 37
- iti sāyantanīṁ sandhyām
- asurāḥ pramadāyatīm
- pralobhayantīṁ jagṛhur
- matvā mūḍha-dhiyaḥ striyam
itiin this way — in this way; sāyantanīmthe evening — the evening; sandhyāmtwilight — twilight; asurāḥthe demons — the demons; pramadāyatīmbehaving like a wanton woman — behaving like a wanton woman; pralobhayantīmalluring — alluring; jagṛhuḥseized — seized; matvāthinking to be — thinking to be; mūḍhaunintelligent-dhiyaḥunintelligent — unintelligent; striyama woman — a woman.
The asuras, clouded in their understanding, took the evening twilight to be a beautiful woman showing herself in her alluring form, and they seized her.
The asuras are described here as mūḍha-dhiyaḥ, meaning that they are captivated by ignorance, just like the ass. The demons were captivated by the false, glaring beauty of this material form, and thus they embraced her.