Shloka 82

अविमुक्तक्षेत्रमाहात्म्य — काशी-वाराणसी में मोक्ष, लिङ्ग-तीर्थ-मानचित्र, और उपासना-विधि

Devanagari script

स्त्रीवध्यौ दर्पितौ दृष्ट्वा त्वयैव निहतौ रणे सावज्ञं कन्दुकेनात्र तस्येदं देहमास्थितम्

Transliteration

strīvadhyau darpitau dṛṣṭvā tvayaiva nihatau raṇe sāvajñaṃ kandukenātra tasyedaṃ dehamāsthitam

Translation

女を害した罪により討たれるべき、あの驕り高き者たちを見て、汝はみずから戦場にて打ち倒した。しかるにここでは、侮りの所作として、ただ一つの球によって、彼にこの同じ身を再び取らせたのだ。

Word by Word

• स्त्रीवध्यौ: guilty of violence against a woman / deserving death for harming a woman

• दर्पितौ: arrogant, puffed up with pride

• दृष्ट्वा: having seen

• त्वया एव: by you alone

• निहतौ: slain

• रणे: in battle

• स-अवज्ञम्: with contempt / with disrespect

• कन्दुकेन: with a ball (toy/ball used in sport)

• अत्र: here

• तस्य: of him / his

• इदम्: this

• देहम्: body

• आस्थितम्: has assumed, has taken up

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating an internal episode; the immediate speaker within the story is inferred as a reproaching voice addressing a warrior/agent of action)