Text 20]
Bali Mahārāja Surrenders His Life
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TRANSLATION
Śukadeva Gosvāmi continued: O King Parikṣit, Lord Brahmā then began to speak to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, within the hearing of Prahlāda Mahārāja, who stood nearby with folded hands.
TEXT 19
बद्धं वीक्ष्य पतिं साध्वी तत्पत्नी भयविह्वला । प्राञ्जलिः प्रणतोपेन्द्रं बभाषेऽवाद्युखी नृप ॥१९॥
baddham vikṣya patim sādhvī tat-patnī bhaya-vihvalā prāñjaliḥ praṇatopendram babhāṣe 'vāṅ-mukhī nṛpa
baddham—arrested; vikṣya—seeing; patim—her husband; sādhvī—the chaste woman; tat-patnī—Bali Mahārāja's wife; bhaya-vihvalā—being very disturbed by fear; prāñjaliḥ—with folded hands; praṇatā—having offered obeisances; upendram—unto Vāmanadeva; babhāṣe—addressed; avāk-mukhī—with face downward; nṛpa—O Mahārāja Parikṣit.
TRANSLATION
But Bali Mahārāja's chaste wife, afraid and aggrieved at seeing her husband arrested, immediately offered obeisances to Lord Vāmanadeva [Upendra]. She folded her hands and spoke as follows.
PURPORT
Although Lord Brahmā was speaking, he had to stop for a while because Bali Mahārāja's wife, Vindhyāvali, who was very agitated and afraid, wanted to say something.
TEXT 20
श्रीविन्ध्यावलिरुवाच
क्रीडार्थमात्मन इदं त्रिजगत् कृतं ते स्वाम्यं तु तत्र कुधियोऽपर ईश कुर्युः ।