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Mahārāja Pṛthu's Going Back Home
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“As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change.” (Bg. 2.13)
When a living entity transfers from one body to another, a process generally known as death, a sane man does not lament, for he knows that the living entity is not dead but is simply transferred from one body to another. The Queen should have been afraid of being alone in the forest with the body of her husband, but since she was a great wife of a great personality, she lamented for a while but immediately understood that she had many duties to perform. Thus instead of wasting her time in lamentation, she immediately prepared a fiery pyre on top of a hill and then placed the body of her husband on it to be burned.
Mahārāja Pṛthu is described here as  dayita , for he was not only the king of the earth, but he treated the earth as his protected child. Similarly, he protected his wife also. It was the duty of the king to give protection to everyone, especially to the earth or land which he ruled, as well as the citizens and his family members. Since Pṛthu Mahārāja was a perfect king, he gave protection to everyone, and therefore he is described here as  dayita .
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विधाय कृत्यं हदिनीजलाप्तुता 
  दत्त्वोदकं मर्तुरुदारकर्मणः । 
  नत्वा दिविस्थांस्त्रिदशांस्त्रिः परीत्य 
  विवेश वह्नि ध्यायती मर्तृपादौ ॥२२॥
vidhāya kṛtyam hradinī-jalāplutā 
  dattvodakam bhartur udāra-karmaṇaḥ 
  natvā divi-sthāms tri-daśāms triḥ parītya 
  viveśa vahnim dhyāyatī bhartṛ-pādau
vidhāya —executing;  kṛtyam —the regulative function;  hradinī —in the water of the river;  jala-āplutā —taking bath completely;  dattvā udakam —offering oblations of water;  bhartuḥ —of her husband;  udāra-karmaṇaḥ —who was so liberal;  natvā —offering obeisances;  divi-sthān —situated in the sky;  tri-daśān —the thirty million demigods;  triḥ —three times;  parītya —circumambulating;  viveśa —entered;  vahnim —the fire;  dhyāyatī —while thinking of;  bhartṛ —of her husband;  pādau —the two lotus feet.