Text 30]
King Purūravā Enchanted by Urvaśi
193
TRANSLATION
Urvaśi treated the two lambs like her own sons. Therefore, when they were being taken by the Gandharvas and began crying, Urvaśi heard them and rebuked her husband. “Now I am being killed,” she said, “under the protection of an unworthy husband, who is a coward and a eunuch although he thinks himself a great hero.
TEXT 29
यद्विश्रम्भादहं नष्टाहृतापत्या च दस्युभिः । यः शेते निशि संत्रस्तो यथा नारी दिवा पुमान् ॥२९॥
yad-viśrambhād aham naṣṭā hṛtāpatyā ca dasyubhiḥ yaḥ śete niśi santrasto yathā nārī divā pumān
yat-viśrambhāt—because of depending upon whom; aham—I (am); naṣṭā—lost; hṛta-apatyā—bereft of my two sons, the lambs; ca—also; dasyubhiḥ—by the plunderers; yaḥ—he who (my so-called husband); śete—lies down; niśi—at night; santrastaḥ—being afraid; yathā—as; nārī—a woman; divā—during the daytime; pumān—male.
TRANSLATION
“Because I depended on him, the plunderers have deprived me of my two sons the lambs, and therefore I am now lost. My husband lies down at night in fear, exactly like a woman, although he appears to be a man during the day.”
TEXT 30
इति वाक्सायकैर्विद्धः प्रतोत्त्रैरिव कुञ्जरः । निशि निश्चिंशमादाय विवल्लोऽभ्यद्रवद् रुषा ॥३०॥
iti vāk-sāyakair biddhaḥ pratottrair iva kuñjaraḥ