अनागःस्विह भूतेषु य आगस्कृन्निरंकुशः आहर्तास्मि भुजं साक्षादमर्त्यस्यापि सांगदम्
anāgaḥsv iha bhūteṣu ya āgaskṛn niraṅkuśaḥ āhartāsmi bhujaṁ sākṣād amartyasyāpi sāṅgadam
Synonyms
anāgaḥsu iha—to the offenseless; bhūteṣu—living being; yaḥ—the person; āgaskṛt—commits offense; niraṅkuśaḥ—upstart; āharta asmi—I shall bring forth; bhujam—arms; sākṣāt—directly; amartyasya api—even one who is a demigod; sāṅgadam—with decorations and armor..
Translation
An upstart living being who commits offenses by torturing those who are offenseless shall be directly uprooted by me, even though he be a denizen of heaven with armor and decorations.
Purport
The denizens of the heavenly kingdom are called amaras, or deathless, due to their possessing a long span of life, far greater than that of the human beings. For a human being, who has only a maximum one hundred year duration of life, a span of life spreading over millions of years is certainly considered to be deathless. For example, from the Bhagavad-gītā we learn that on the Brahmaloka planet, the duration of one day is calculated to be 4,300,000 x 1,000 solar years. Similarly, in other heavenly planets one day is calculated to be six months of this planet, and they get a life of ten million of their years. Therefore, in all higher planets, since the span of life is far greater than that of the human being, the denizens are called deathless by imagination, although actually no one within the material universe is deathless.
Mahārāja Parīkṣit challenges even such denizens of heaven if they torture the offenseless. This means that the state executive head must be as strong as Mahārāja Parīkṣit so that he may be determined to punish the strongest offenders. It should be the principle of a state executive head that the offender of the codes of God is always punished.