अथ वा कृपणैर् एताम् उपनीतां जनार्दन ॥
पूजाम् अनर्हः कस्मात् त्वम् अभ्यनुज्ञातवान् असि ॥
अयुक्ताम् आत्मनः पूजां त्वं पुनर् बहु मन्यसे ॥
हविषः प्राप्य निष्यन्दं प्राशितुं श्वेव निर्जने ॥
न त्व् अयं पार्थिवेन्द्राणाम् अवमानः प्रयुज्यते ॥
त्वाम् एव कुरवो व्यक्तं प्रलम्भन्ते जनार्दन ॥
atha vā kṛpaṇair etām upanītāṃ janārdana ||
pūjām anarhaḥ kasmāt tvam abhyanujñātavān asi ||
ayuktām ātmanaḥ pūjāṃ tvaṃ punar bahu manyase ||
haviṣaḥ prāpya niṣyandaṃ prāśituṃ śveva nirjane ||
na tv ayaṃ pārthivendrāṇām avamānaḥ prayujyate ||
tvām eva kuravo vyaktaṃ pralambhante janārdana ||
"And if this [honor] has been offered by wretched men, O Janardana, then why did you, unworthy, accept it? Moreover, you hold in high esteem an honor unfitting for yourself — like a dog that, having found the spilled oblation, wishes to lap it up in solitude. It is not upon these kings that this humiliation is being inflicted — it is you, clearly, whom the Kurus are deceiving, O Janardana."
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Having reached open reviling, Shishupala likens the Lord to a dog at spilled oil. It is telling that the filth of slander stains not the one at whom it is thrown, but the thrower: the image of the dog exposes not Krishna but the reviler himself, whose speech is itself this lapping of impurity. The verse teaches that an insult to the sacred returns upon the head of the one who utters it: on the immaculate it leaves no trace, while in the speaker it lays bare his own baseness. Whoever measures God by the yardstick of his own malice only reveals what fills his own heart; slander against the Purest is a mirror of the slanderer's impurity.