sovereignty (but not the sovereignty of a royal palace) and a place of majesty (but not the majesty of a royal palace).
So the forest was an arena where wild creatures were in competition, and the prince was more than at home in such an arena. At the level of the physical or the animal – at the level where the abstract intellectual thinking we have recently engaged in about attachment and detachment doesn't count for much -- the prince was was no loser.
Thus, it can be argued, the śarīra (physical person) in the 3rd pāda of today's verse, as also the vapuṣa (physical presence) in the 3rd pāda of yesterday's verse, signal a shift that is antithetical to preoccupations with the abstract, the philosphical, the psychological, and the emotional.
My Alexander head of training Ray Evans had, like me, been a rugby player in his younger days. But somehow our liking for physical pursuits like rugby had morphed into interest in karate and Zen in my case, and into aikido and yoga in Ray's case, and thence to that most mental of all things, the FM Alexander Technique. Notwithstanding the fact that AT is, in Alexander's words, "the most mental thing there is," I remember one memorable piece of advice that Ray gave me towards the end of my teacher training when I was stressing about some fine point or other – “Release into the physical.”
It was an odd thing for an Alexander head of training to say, considering that an Alexander head of training's job is to help wean people off addiction to the physical and to get us to use our brains. ("We can throw away the habits of a lifetime in a few minutes, if we use our brains.") But at that time and place, and given our shared backgrounds so that Ray knew that I would know what he meant, Ray's advice to me was wise and good advice – “Release into the physical.”
sa (nom. sg. m.): he
rāja-sūnuḥ (nom. sg. m.): the son of the king, the prince
mṛga-rāja-gāmī (nom. sg. m.): going with the gait of a king of beasts
mṛga: m. a forest animal or wild beast , game of any kind , (esp.) a deer , fawn , gazelle , antelope , stag , musk-deer
mṛga-rāja: m. " king of beasts " , a lion
gāmin: mfn. going anywhere ; (in the following meanings only) ifc. going or moving on or in or towards or in any peculiar manner
mṛgājiram (acc. sg.): n. an arena of deer Bcar.
ajira: n. place to run or fight in , area , court
tad (acc. sg. n.): that
mṛgavat: ind. like a forest animal ; like a deer
praviṣṭaḥ (nom. sg. m.): mfn. entered
lakṣmī-viyuktaḥ (nom. sg. m.): bereft of his royal majesty
lakṣmī: f. a mark , sign , token ; wealth , riches ; beauty , loveliness , grace , charm , splendour , lustre ; N. of the goddess of fortune and beauty ; the Good Genius or Fortune of a king personified (and often regarded as a rival of his queen) , royal power , dominion , majesty
viyukta: mfn. disjoined , detached , separated or delivered from , deprived or destitute of. deserted by (instr. or comp.)
api: though, even
śarīra-lakṣmyā (inst. sg. f.): with the majesty of his body
cakṣūṁṣi (acc. pl.): n. faculty of seeing , sight ; the eye
sarvāśramiṇām (gen. pl. m.): of all the āśram-dwellers
āśramiṇ: belonging to a hermitage , a hermit , anchorite
jahāra = 3rd pers. sg. perf. hṛ: to take away , carry off , seize , deprive of , steal , rob
譬如師子王 入于群獸中俗容悉已捨 唯見道眞形