Text 8] The Atrocities of King Karhsa 283

$ri-Suka uvaca
upaguhydtmajam evam
rudatyé dina-dinavat
yacitas tam vinirbhartsya
hastad dcicchide khalah

sri-Sukah uvdca—Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said; upaguhya—embrac-
ing; dtmajam—her daughter; evam—in this way; rudatya—by Devaki,
who was crying; dina-dina-vat—very piteously, like a poor woman;
ydcitah—being begged; tam—her (Devaki); vinirbhartsya —chastising;
hastat—from her hands; dcicchide—separated the child by force;
khalah—Kamsa, the most cruel.

TRANSLATION

Sukadeva Gosvami continued: Piteously embracing her daugh-
ter and crying, Devaki begged Karnsa for the child, but he was so
cruel that he chastised her and forcibly snatched the child from
her hands.

PURPORT

Although Devaki was crying like a very poor woman, actually she was
not poor, and therefore the word used here is dinavat. She had already
given birth to Krsna. Therefore, who could have been richer than she?
Even the demigods had come to offer prayers to Devaki, but she played
the part of a poor, piteously afflicted woman because she wanted to save
the daughter of Yasoda.

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tam grhitva caranayor
jata-matraém svasuh sutém

apothayac child-prsthe
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