702 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 1, Ch. 13

his wife; asarnsa-manah—in doubtful mind; samalam—offenses; gangayam—
in the Ganges water; duhkhitah—in distressed mind; apatat—fell down.

TRANSLATION

Where is my well-wisher, uncle Vidura, and mother Gandhari, who is
very afflicted due to all her sons’ demise? My uncle Dhrtarastra was also
very mortified due to the death of all his sons and grandsons. Undoubtedly
I am very ungrateful. Did he, therefore, take my offenses very seriously
and, along with his wife, drown himself in the Ganges?

PURPORT

The Pandavas, especially Maharaja Yudhisthira and Arjuna, anticipated
the aftereffects of the Battle of Kuruksetra, and therefore Arjuna declined
to execute the fighting. The fight was executed by the will of the Lord,
but the effects of family aggrievement, as they thought of it before, had
come to be true. Maharaja Yudhisthira was always conscious of the great
plight of his uncle Dhrtarastra and aunt Gandhari, and therefore he took
all possible care of them in their old age and aggrieved conditions. When,
therefore, he could not find his uncle and aunt in the palace, naturally his
doubts arose, and he conjectured that they went down to the water of
the Ganges. He thought himself ungrateful because when the Pandavas
were fatherless, Maharaja Dhrtarastra gave them all royal facilities to live,
and in return he had killed all his sons in the Battle of Kuruksetra. As a
pious man, Maharaja Yudbisthira took into account all his unavoidable
misdeeds, and he never thought of the misdeeds of his uncle and company.
Dhrtarastra had suffered the effects of his own misdeeds by the will of the
Lord, but Maharaja Yudhisthira was only thinking of his own unavoidable
misdeeds. That is the nature of a good man and devotee of the Lord. A
devotee never finds fault with others, but tries to find out his own, and
thus rectify them as far as possible.

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fraduxa qvet aata: gex: Pra |
agat aaa: free & Tala: 28H)

pitary uparate pandau
sarvan nah suhrdah sisiin
araksatam vyasanatah

pitrvyau kva gatavitah
