देहं विपन्नाखिलचेतनादिकं पत्यु: पृथिव्या दयितस्य चात्मन: । आलक्ष्य किञ्चिच्च विलप्य सा सती चितामथारोपयदद्रिसानुनि ॥ २१ ॥
deham vipannakhila-cetanadikam patyuh prthivya dayitasya catmanah alaksya kincic ca vilapya sa sati citam atharopayad adri-sanuni
- deham
- body
- vipanna
- completely failing
- akhila
- all
- cetana
- feeling
- adikam
- symptoms
- patyuh
- of her husband
- prthivyah
- the world
- dayitasya
- of the merciful
- ca atmanah
- also of herself
- alaksya
- by seeing
- kincit
- very little
- ca
- and
- vilapya
- lamenting
- sa
- she
- sati
- the chaste
- citam
- unto the fire
- atha
- now
- aropayat
- placed
- adri
- hill
- sanuni
- on the top.
When Queen Arci saw that her husband, who had been so merciful to her and the earth, no longer showed symptoms of life, she lamented for a little while and then built a fiery pyre on top of a hill and placed the body of her husband on it.