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

Aduhai, betapa kerasnya fikiranku di sini, wahai yang terbaik antara para muni! Setelah meninggalkan Tuhanku, suami yang semahal nafas hidupku, bagaimana mungkin aku bertahan di tempat ini walau sesaat, dan atas sebab apa?

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)