Text 53] King Citraketu’s Lamentation 4]

TEXT 52

aft fatheatreuatid act

ad Tae aateaday |
WTA Usl Hay aa

adt ana eed Fart sei

patim niriksyoru-sucdrpitam tada
mrtam ca balam sutam eka-santatim
Janasya rajni prakrtes ca hrd-rujam

sati dadhana vilalapa citradha

patim—the husband; niriksya—by seeing; uru—greatly; Suca—with
lamentation; arpitam—pained; tadé—at that time; mrtam—dead; ca—
and; balam—the child; sutam—the son; eka-santatim—the only son in
the family; janasya—of all the other people gathered there; rajii—the
Queen; prakrteh ca—as well as of the officers and ministers; hrt-ru-
jam—the pains within the core of the heart; sati dadhana—increasing;
vilalapa—lamented; citradhé—in varieties of ways.

TRANSLATION
When the Queen saw her husband, King Citraketu, merged in
great lamentation and saw the dead child, who was the only son in
the family, she lamented in various ways. This increased the pain
in the cores of the hearts of all the inhabitants of the palace, the
ministers and all the brahmanas.

TEXT 53

e ~~ e

wad SHVF MCSA

fafierdt arerrareafaegha: |
frata tang frases: at

ga fat aia Tac W423i

stana-dvayam kunkuma-panka-manditam
nisificati safjana-baspa-bindubhih
