Shloka 4

अध्याय 66: इक्ष्वाकुवंश-ऐलवंशप्रवाहः (त्रिशङ्कु-राम-ययात्यादि-प्रकरणम्)

Devanagari script

पाणिग्रहणमन्त्रेषु निष्ठाम् अप्रापितेष्विह तेनाधर्मेण संयुक्तं राजा त्रय्यारुणो ऽत्यजत्

Transliteration

pāṇigrahaṇamantreṣu niṣṭhām aprāpiteṣviha tenādharmeṇa saṃyuktaṃ rājā trayyāruṇo 'tyajat

Translation

花嫁の手を取るヴェーダの儀礼、パーニグラハナ（pāṇigrahaṇa）の真言において、なお堅固な定住を得ていなかったため、王トラッヤールナはそのアダルマに絡め取られた。かくして不義に縛られ、彼はこの命を捨て去った。

Word by Word

• पाणिग्रहण-मन्त्रेषु: in the hand-taking (marriage) mantras

• निष्ठाम्: steadiness, firm establishment

• अप्रापितेषु: not attained, not reached

• इह: here (in this world/this matter)

• तेन: by that (fault)

• अधर्मेण: by unrighteousness, adharma

• संयुक्तम्: joined with, entangled in

• राजा: the king

• त्रय्यारुणः: Trayyāruṇa (proper name)

• अत्यजत्: abandoned, gave up (the body/life)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages at Naimisharanya)