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Chapter 7: The Son of Drona Punished

Verse 47 of 56
SB 1.7.47

ma arorid asya janani goutami patidevata yatha aham mrita vatsa rodimi ashrumukhi muhuh.

Synonyms

mado not; aroridmake crying; asyahis; jananimother; goutamithe wife of Drona; yathaas as; ahammyself; mritavatsaone whose child is dead; artadistressed; rodimicrying; ashrumukhitears in the eyes; muhuhconstantly.

Translation

My lord do not make her, the wife of Dronachaya, crying like me. I am berieved for the death of my sons and she may not however be crying like me constantly with tears in the eyes.

Purport

Sympathetic good lady as she is Srimati Droupdi did not want to put the wife of Dronacharya in the same position of childlessness, both from the point of motherly feeling as well as from the respectable position held by the wife of Dronacharya.

Verse 47 of 56
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