सूत उवाच इति भीत: प्रजाद्रोहात्सर्वधर्मविवित्सया । ततो विनशनं प्रागाद् यत्र देवव्रतोऽपतत् ॥ १ ॥
suta uvaca iti bhitah praja-drohat sarva-dharma-vivitsaya tato vinasanam pragad yatra deva-vrato ’patat
- sutah uvaca
- Sri Suta Gosvami said
- iti
- thus
- bhitah
- being afraid of
- praja-drohat
- because of killing the subjects
- sarva
- all
- dharma
- acts of religion
- vivitsaya
- for understanding
- tatah
- thereafter
- vinasanam
- the place where the fight was held
- pragat
- he went
- yatra
- where
- deva-vratah
- Bhismadeva
- apatat
- lay down for passing away.
Suta Gosvami said: Being afraid for having killed so many subjects on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra, Maharaja Yudhisthira went to the scene of the massacre. There, Bhismadeva was lying on a bed of arrows, about to pass away.