इति तां वीर मारीच: कृपणां बहुभाषिणीम् । प्रत्याहानुनयन् वाचा प्रवृद्धानङ्गकश्मलाम् ॥ १६ ॥
iti tam vira maricah krpanam bahu-bhasinim pratyahanunayan vaca pravrddhananga-kasmalam
- iti
- thus
- tam
- unto her
- vira
- O hero
- maricah
- the son of Marici (Kasyapa)
- krpanam
- unto the poor
- bahu-bhasinim
- too talkative
- pratyaha
- replied
- anunayan
- pacifying
- vaca
- by words
- pravrddha
- highly agitated
- ananga
- lust
- kasmalam
- contaminated.
O hero (Vidura), Diti, being thus afflicted by the contamination of lust, and therefore poor and talkative, was pacified by the son of Marici in suitable words.