पृथा तु भ्रातरं प्राप्तमक्रूरमुपसृत्य तम् । उवाच जन्मनिलयं स्मरन्त्यश्रुकलेक्षणा ॥ ७ ॥
pṛthā tu bhrātaraṁ prāptam akrūram upasṛtya tam uvāca janma-nilayaṁ smaranty aśru-kalekṣaṇā
- pṛthā
- Kuntī
- tu
- and
- bhrātaram
- her brother (more exactly, the grandson of Vṛṣṇi, her own and Vasudeva’s tenth-generation ancestor)
- prāptam
- obtained
- akrūram
- Akrūra
- upasṛtya
- approaching
- tam
- him
- uvāca
- she said
- janma
- of her birth
- nilayam
- the home (Mathurā)
- smarantī
- remembering
- aśru
- of tears
- kalā
- with traces
- īkṣaṇā
- whose eyes
Kuntīdevī, taking advantage of her brother Akrūra’s visit, approached him confidentially. While remembering her birthplace, she spoke with tears in her eyes.