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

Ay, gaano katigas ang aking isip dito, O pinakadakila sa mga muni! Iniwan ko ang aking Panginoon at asawa, na kasinghalaga ng aking hininga; paano ako nanatili rito kahit isang saglit, at sa anong dahilan?

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)