Text 14]
King Citraketu Meets the Lord
95
TRANSLATION
After the relatives had discharged their duties by performing the proper funeral ceremonies and burning the dead child's body, they gave up the affection that leads to illusion, lamentation, fear and pain. Such affection is undoubtedly difficult to give up, but they gave it up very easily.
TEXT 14
बालघ्न्यो व्रीडितास्तत्र बालहत्याहतप्रभाः । 
  बालहत्याव्रतं चेरुर्ब्राह्मणैर्यन्निरूपितम् । 
  यमुनायां महाराज सरन्त्यो द्विजभाषितम् ॥१४॥
bāla-ghnyo vrīḍitās tatra 
  bāla-hatyā-hata-prabhāḥ 
  bāla-hatyā-vratam cerur 
  brāhmaṇair yan nirūpitam 
  yamunāyām mahārāja 
  smarantyo dvija-bhāṣitam
bāla-ghnyaḥ—the killers of the child; vrīḍitāḥ—being very much ashamed; tatra—there; bāla-hatyā—because of killing the child; hata—having lost; prabhāḥ—all bodily luster; bāla-hatyā-vratam—the atonement for killing the child; ceruḥ—executed; brāhmaṇaiḥ—by the priests; yat—which; nirūpitam—described; yamunāyām—at the River Yamunā; mahā-rāja—O King Parikṣit; smarantyaḥ—remembering; dvija-bhāṣitam—the statement given by the brāhmaṇa.
TRANSLATION
Queen Kṛtyadyuti's co-wives, who had poisoned the child, were very much ashamed, and they lost all their bodily luster. While lamenting, O King, they remembered the instructions of Aṅgirā and gave up their ambition to bear children. Following the directions of the brāhmaṇas, they went to the bank of the Yamunā, where they bathed and atoned for their sinful activities.