Text 53]
King Citraketu's Lamentation
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TEXT 52
पतिं निरीक्ष्योरुशुचार्पितं तदा मृतं च बालं सुतमेकसन्ततिम् । जनस्य राज्ञी प्रकृतेश्च हृद्रुजं सती दधाना विललाप चित्रधा ॥५२॥
patim nirīkṣyoru-śucārpitam tadā mṛtam ca bālam sutam eka-santatim janasya rājñī prakṛteś ca hṛd-rujam satī dadhānā vilalāpa citradhā
patim —the husband;  nirīkṣya —by seeing;  uru —greatly;  śuca —with lamentation;  arpitam —pained;  tadā —at that time;  mṛtam —dead;  ca —and;  bālam —the child;  sutam —the son;  eka-santatim —the only son in the family;  janasya —of all the other people gathered there;  rājñī —the Queen;  prakṛteḥ ca —as well as of the officers and ministers;  hṛt-rujam —the pains within the core of the heart;  satī dadhānā —increasing;  vilalāpa —lamented;  citradhā —in varieties of ways.
TRANSLATION
When the Queen saw her husband, King Citraketu, merged in great lamentation and saw the dead child, who was the only son in the family, she lamented in various ways. This increased the pain in the cores of the hearts of all the inhabitants of the palace, the ministers and all the brāhmaṇas.
TEXT 53
स्तनद्वयं कुङ्कुमपङ्क्तमण्डितं निषिञ्चती साञ्जनबाष्पबिन्दुभिः । विकीर्य केशान् विगलत्स्रजः सुतं शुशोच चित्रं कुररीव सुखरम् ॥५३॥
stana-dvayam kuṇikuma-paṇika-maṇḍitam niṣiñcatī sāñjana-bāṣpa-bindubhiḥ