Shloka 21

Raibhya-putrayoḥ satra-vṛttāntaḥ — The Satra Episode of Raibhya’s Sons

Parāvasu and Arvāvasu

Devanagari script

स चापि वरयामास पितुरुत्थानमात्मन: । अनागस्त्वं ततो भ्रातुः पितुश्नास्मरणं वधे,तब अर्वावसुने यह वर माँगा कि “मेरे पिताजी जीवित हो जायाँ। मेरे भाई निर्दोष हों और उन्हें पिताके वधकी बात भूल जाय'

Transliteration

sa cāpi varayāmāsa pitur utthānam ātmanaḥ | anāgas tvaṃ tato bhrātuḥ pituś ca smaraṇaṃ vadhe ||

Translation

Lomaśa said: He too chose a boon—his own father’s restoration to life. Then he further asked that his brother be regarded as blameless, and that the memory of the father’s slaying be erased, so that the family might be freed from the stain of guilt and the cycle of retaliatory hatred.

Word by Word

सःhe

चand

अपिalso

वरयामासchose/asked for (as a boon)

पितुःof (his) father

उत्थानम्rising up; restoration to life

आत्मनःof himself

अनागःblameless; innocent

त्वम्you

ततःthen; thereafter

भ्रातुःof (your/his) brother

पितुःof the father

नnot

अस्मरणम्non-remembrance; forgetting

वधेin/with regard to the killing

Speaker

लोगमश उवाच

Characters & Entities

Lomaśa

father (pituḥ)

brother (bhrātuḥ)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Sandhi Notes