तैलद्रोण्यां मृतं प्रास्य जगाम गजसाह्वयम् । कृष्णाय विदितार्थाय तप्ताचख्यौ पितुर्वधम् ॥ ८ ॥
taila-droṇyāṁ mṛtaṁ prāsya jagāma gajasāhvayam kṛṣṇāya viditārthāya taptācakhyau pitur vadham
- taila
- of oil
- droṇyām
- in a large vessel
- mṛtam
- the corpse
- prāsya
- putting
- jagāma
- she went
- gaja-sāhvayam
- to Hastināpura, the Kuru capital
- kṛṣṇāya
- to Kṛṣṇa
- vidita-arthāya
- who already was aware of the situation
- taptā
- sorrowful
- ācakhyau
- she related
- pituḥ
- of her father
- vadham
- the killing
Queen Satyabhāmā put her father’s corpse in a large vat of oil and went to Hastināpura, where she sorrowfully told Lord Kṛṣṇa, who was already aware of the situation, about her father’s murder.