Text 30] King Purdrava Enchanted by Urvasi 193
TRANSLATION
Urvasi treated the two lambs like her own sons. Therefore, when
they were being taken by the Gandharvas and began crying, Urvasi
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
VOTE AMATI A TARA: |
a Bret feebay eevee TAT ATE FEAT TAT URS
yad-visrambhad aham nasta
hrtapatyé ca dasyubhih
yah Sete nisi santrasto
yatha nari diva puman
yat-visrambhat—because of depending upon whom; aham—I (am);
nasta—lost; hrta-apatyd—bereft of my two sons, the lambs; ca—also;
dasyubhih—by the plunderers; yah—he who (my so-called husband);
Sete—lies down; nisi—at night; santrastah—being afraid; yatha—as;
nari—a woman; divd—during the daytime; puman—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 hus-
band lies down at night in fear, exactly like a woman, although he
appears to be a man during the day.”
TEXT 30
ES a
sft aearrattg: aaiearta Faz |
Fert Prferrergry FaeaisraRag BT IIR oll
iti vak-sdyakair biddhah
pratottrair iva kufjarah
