सुखोपविष्टेष्वथ तेषु भूय: कृतप्रणाम: स्वचिकीर्षितं यत् । विज्ञापयामास विविक्तचेता उपस्थितोऽग्रेऽभिगृहीतपाणि: ॥ १२ ॥
sukhopavistesv atha tesu bhuyah krta-pranamah sva-cikirsitam yat vijnapayam asa vivikta-ceta upasthito ’gre ’bhigrhita-panih
- sukha
- happily
- upavistesu
- all sitting down
- atha
- thereupon
- tesu
- unto them (the visitors)
- bhuyah
- again
- krta-pranamah
- having offered obeisances
- sva
- his own
- cikirsitam
- decision of fasting
- yat
- who
- vijnapayam asa
- submitted
- vivikta-cetah
- one whose mind is detached from worldly affairs
- upasthitah
- being present
- agre
- before them
- abhigrhita-panih
- humbly with folded hands.
After all the rsis and others had seated themselves comfortably, the King, humbly standing before them with folded hands, told them of his decision to fast until death.