विसृज्य तं च पप्रच्छ वत्स कस्माद्धि रोदिषि । केन वा तेऽपकृतमित्युक्त: स न्यवेदयत् ॥ ४० ॥
visrjya tam ca papraccha vatsa kasmad dhi rodisi kena va te ’pakrtam ity uktah sa nyavedayat
- visrjya
- throwing aside
- tam
- that
- ca
- also
- papraccha
- asked
- vatsa
- my dear son
- kasmat
- what for
- hi
- certainly
- rodisi
- crying
- kena
- by whom
- va
- otherwise
- te
- they
- apakrtam
- misbehaved
- iti
- thus
- uktah
- being asked
- sah
- the boy
- nyavedayat
- informed of everything.
He threw the dead snake aside and asked his son why he was crying, whether anyone had done him harm. On hearing this, the son explained to him what had happened.