Shloka 12

Devanagari script

तदवस्थान्‌ सुतान्‌ सर्वानिपसृत्यातिवत्सला । स्वजमानावदच्छोकातू्‌ तत्तद्‌ विलपती बहु,उस अवस्थामें उन सभी पुत्रोंके निकट पहुँचकर कुन्तीके हृदयमें अत्यन्त वात्सल्य उमड़ आया। वे उन्हें हृदयसे लगाकर शोकवश बहुत विलाप करती हुई बोलीं

Transliteration

tadavasthān sutān sarvān upasṛtyātivatsalā | svajamānāv adac chokāt tat-tad vilapatī bahu ||

Translation

Seeing her sons in that condition, Kuntī—overwhelmed by intense motherly affection—went close to them. Embracing them to her heart, she spoke through grief, lamenting again and again. The passage foregrounds the ethical tension between royal duty and the irrepressible compassion of a mother confronted with her children’s suffering.

Word by Word

तत्that (state/condition)

अवस्थान्conditions, states

सुतान्sons

सर्वान्all

उपसृत्यhaving approached

अतिवत्सलाexceedingly affectionate

स्वजान्her own people/kinsmen (here: her sons)

आनावदत्she spoke

शोकात्from/owing to grief

तत्that

तत्that (again; variously)

विलपतीlamenting

बहुmuch, greatly

Speaker

वैशमग्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśaṃpāyana

Kuntī

the sons (Kuntī’s sons / the Pāṇḍavas, implied)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes