Shloka 15

कृपकृपी-जननम्

The Birth of Kṛpa and Kṛpī; Kṛpa’s Attainment of Astras

Devanagari script

पाण्डुरुवाच अप्रजस्य महाभागा न द्वारं परिचक्षते

Transliteration

pāṇḍur uvāca aprajasya mahābhāgā na dvāraṃ paricakṣate |

Translation

Pāṇḍu said: “O greatly fortunate sages, people declare that for one who has no offspring, the gate (to heaven and higher worlds) is not opened. I too am without children; therefore, afflicted by sorrow, I submit this request to you. O possessors of austerity, I have not yet been freed from the debt owed to the ancestors; hence I am tormented by anxiety.”

Word by Word

• {'pāṇḍuḥ': 'King Pāṇḍu', 'uvāca': 'said', 'aprajasya': 'of one without offspring

• childless', 'mahābhāgāḥ': 'greatly fortunate

• venerable (vocative plural)', 'na': 'not', 'dvāram': 'gate

• doorway (figuratively, access to heaven/merit)', 'paricakṣate': 'they point out/declare

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Pāṇḍu
• mahārṣigaṇa (company of great sages)
• pitaraḥ (ancestors)