प्रसूतिकाल आसन्ने भार्याया द्विजसत्तम: । पाहि पाहि प्रजां मृत्योरित्याहार्जुनमातुर: ॥ ३५ ॥
prasūti-kāla āsanne bhāryāyā dvija-sattamaḥ pāhi pāhi prajāṁ mṛtyor ity āhārjunam āturaḥ
- prasūti
- of giving birth
- kāle
- the time
- āsanne
- being imminent
- bhāryāyāḥ
- of his wife
- dvija
- the brāhmaṇa
- sat-tamaḥ
- most elevated
- pāhi
- please save
- pāhi
- please save
- prajām
- my child
- mṛtyoḥ
- from death
- iti
- thus
- āha
- he said
- arjunam
- to Arjuna
- āturaḥ
- distraught
When the wife of the elevated brāhmaṇa was again about to give birth, he went to Arjuna in great anxiety and begged him, “Please, please protect my child from death!”