मैत्रेय उवाच पृथोस्तत्सूक्तमाकर्ण्य सारं सुष्ठु मितं मधु । स्मयमान इव प्रीत्या कुमार: प्रत्युवाच ह ॥ १७ ॥
maitreya uvaca prthos tat suktam akarnya saram susthu mitam madhu smayamana iva pritya kumarah pratyuvaca ha
- maitreyah uvaca
- the great sage Maitreya continued to speak
- prthoh
- of King Prthu
- tat
- that
- suktam
- Vedic conclusion
- akarnya
- hearing
- saram
- very substantial
- susthu
- appropriate
- mitam
- minimized
- madhu
- sweet to hear
- smayamanah
- smiling
- iva
- like
- pritya
- out of great satisfaction
- kumarah
- celibate
- pratyuvaca
- replied
- ha
- thus.
The great sage Maitreya continued: Thus Sanat-kumara, the best of the celibates, after hearing the speech of Prthu Maharaja, which was meaningful, appropriate, full of precise words and very sweet to hear, smiled with full satisfaction and began to speak as follows.