कथं नु दारका दीना दारकीर्वापरायणा: । वर्तिष्यन्ते मयि गते भिन्ननाव इवोदधौ ॥ २१ ॥
katham nu daraka dina darakir vaparayanah vartisyante mayi gate bhinna-nava ivodadhau
- katham
- how
- nu
- indeed
- darakah
- sons
- dinah
- poor
- darakih
- daughters
- va
- or
- aparayanah
- having no one else to depend on
- vartisyante
- will live
- mayi
- when 1
- gate
- gone from this world
- bhinna
- broken
- navah
- boat
- iva
- like
- udadhau
- in the ocean.
King Puranjana continued worrying: After I pass from this world, how will my sons and daughters, who are now fully dependent on me, live and continue their lives? Their position will be similar to that of passengers aboard a ship wrecked in the midst of the ocean