नारद उवाच
अथ प्रचलितः स्थानाद् आसनाच् च परिच्युतः ॥
कम्पितेनैव मनसा धर्षितः शोकवह्निना ॥
म्लानस्रग्भ्रष्टविज्ञानः प्रभ्रष्टमुकुटाङ्गदः ॥
विघूर्णन् स्रस्तसर्वाङ्गः प्रभ्रष्टाभरणाम्बरः ॥
अदृश्यमानस् तान् पश्यन्न् अपश्यंश् च पुनः पुनः ॥
शून्यः शून्येन मनसा प्रपतिष्यन् महीतलम् ॥
किं मया मनसा ध्यातम् अशुभं धर्मदूषणम् ॥
येनाहं चलितः स्थानाद् इति राजा व्यचिन्तयत् ॥
ते तु तत्रैव राजानः सिद्धाश् चाप्सरसस् तथा ॥
अपश्यन्त निरालम्बं ययातिं तं परिच्युतम् ॥
nārada uvāca
atha pracalitaḥ sthānād āsanāc ca paricyutaḥ ||
kampitenaiva manasā dharṣitaḥ śokavahninā ||
mlānasragbhraṣṭavijñānaḥ prabhraṣṭamukuṭāṅgadaḥ ||
vighūrṇan srastasarvāṅgaḥ prabhraṣṭābharaṇāmbaraḥ ||
adṛśyamānas tān paśyann apaśyaṃś ca punaḥ punaḥ ||
śūnyaḥ śūnyena manasā prapatiṣyan mahītalam ||
kiṃ mayā manasā dhyātam aśubhaṃ dharmadūṣaṇam ||
yenāhaṃ calitaḥ sthānād iti rājā vyacintayat ||
te tu tatraiva rājānaḥ siddhāś cāpsarasas tathā ||
apaśyanta nirālambaṃ yayātiṃ taṃ paricyutam ||
Narada said: "Then, shaken from his place and dislodged from his seat, his mind trembling, struck by the fire of grief, his garland withered and his awareness lost, his crown and armlets fallen away, reeling, all his limbs gone slack, stripped of his ornaments and garments, invisible to them yet himself seeing and not seeing them again and again, emptied, with a vacant mind and about to fall to the surface of the earth, he thought: 'What evil, dharma-defiling thing have I conceived in my mind, that I have been dislodged from my place?' Even as the king pondered this, the kings, siddhas, and apsaras gathered there beheld Yayati, without support and cast down."
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Yayati's fall is described as the disintegration of outward grandeur: place, seat, garland, crown, ornaments, and clarity of mind vanish one after another. The verse shows that heavenly standing rests not on splendor but on the purity of one's inner state. Pride leaves even a heavenly king without support.