424 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 9

TRANSLATION

Thus, as Dhruva Maharaja passed on the road, from every place in the
neighborhood all the gentle household ladies assembled to see him, and
out of maternal affection they offered their blessings, showering him with
white mustard seed, barley, curd, water, newly grown grass, fruits and
flowers. In this way Dhruva Maharaja, while hearing the pleasing songs sung
by the ladies, entered the palace of his father.

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were a afay arate |
wife frat fren arate aq sell

mahamani-vrata-maye
sa tasmin bhavanottame
lalito nitaram pitra
nyavasad divi devavat
mahamani-—greatly valuable jewels; vrata—groups of; maye—bedecked
with; sah—he (Dhruva Maharaja); tasmin—in that; bhavana-uttame—bril-
liant house; lalitah—being raised; nitaram—always; pitra—by the father;
nyavasat—lived there; divi—in the higher planetary systems; deva-vat—
like the demigods.

TRANSLATION

Dhruva Maharaja thereafter lived in his father’s palace, which had walls
bedecked with highly valuable jewels. His affectionate father took par-
ticular care of him, and he dwelled in that house just as the demigods
live in their palaces in the higher planetary systems.

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AVA ARTE TT TAT THT: 18 21

payah-phena-nibhah sayya
danta rukma-paricchadah
asanani maharhani
yatra raukma upaskarah
