Shloka 63

देवादिसृष्टिकथनम् (वसिष्ठशोकः, पराशरजन्म, एकलिङ्गपूजा, रुद्रदर्शनम्)

Devanagari script

मातर्मातः कथं त्यक्त्वा मङ्गलाभरणानि वै आसीना भर्तृहीनेव वक्तुमर्हसि शोभने

Transliteration

mātarmātaḥ kathaṃ tyaktvā maṅgalābharaṇāni vai āsīnā bhartṛhīneva vaktumarhasi śobhane

Translation

ਮਾਤਾ ਜੀ, ਪੂਜਨੀਯ ਮਾਤਾ! ਤੂੰ ਮੰਗਲ ਗਹਿਣੇ ਕਿਵੇਂ ਤਿਆਗ ਦਿੱਤੇ ਅਤੇ ਪਤੀ-ਹੀਣੀ ਵਾਂਗ ਕਿਉਂ ਬੈਠੀ ਹੈਂ? ਹੇ ਸੋਹਣੀਏ, ਜੋ ਕੁਝ ਹੋਇਆ ਹੈ ਮੈਨੂੰ ਦੱਸ।

Word by Word

• मातर्/मातः: O mother

• कथम्: how

• त्यक्त्वा: having abandoned/cast aside

• मङ्गल-आभरणानि: auspicious ornaments (tokens of marital auspiciousness)

• वै: indeed

• आसीना: sitting

• भर्तृ-हीना-इव: as if without a husband/lord

• वक्तुम्: to speak/tell

• अर्हसि: you ought/are fit

• शोभने: O beautiful one

Speaker

Suta (narrating an internal dialogue; the immediate speaker is a son/young male addressing his mother within the story)