Shloka 41

देवादिसृष्टिकथनम् (वसिष्ठशोकः, पराशरजन्म, एकलिङ्गपूजा, रुद्रदर्शनम्)

Devanagari script

अहो ममात्र काठिन्यं मनसो मुनिपुङ्गव पतिं प्राणसमं त्यक्त्वा स्थिता यत्र क्षणं यतः

Transliteration

aho mamātra kāṭhinyaṃ manaso munipuṅgava patiṃ prāṇasamaṃ tyaktvā sthitā yatra kṣaṇaṃ yataḥ

Translation

ああ、ここでの我が心のなんと頑ななことよ、牟尼の中の最勝者よ！命の息と等しく愛しい我が主君・夫を捨てて、いかなる理由でこの場所に一瞬たりとも留まれたのか。

Word by Word

• aho: alas/indeed

• mama: my

• atra: here/in this matter

• kāṭhinyaṃ: hardness/rigidity

• manasaḥ: of the mind

• muni-puṅgava: O foremost among sages

• patiṃ: the Lord/master (Pati)

• prāṇa-samaṃ: equal to life-breath/as dear as life

• tyaktvā: having abandoned/left behind

• sthitā: remained/stood

• yatra: where/in which place

• kṣaṇam: for a moment

• yataḥ: why/for what cause/from what reason

Speaker

Suta (narrating an internal lament of a devoted woman; contextual inference within the Purva-Bhaga narrative)