सुरुचिस्तं समुत्थाप्य पादावनतमर्भकम् । परिष्वज्याह जीवेति बाष्पगद्गदया गिरा ॥ ४६ ॥
surucis tam samutthapya padavanatam arbhakam parisvajyaha jiveti baspa-gadgadaya gira
- surucih
- Queen Suruci
- tam
- him
- samutthapya
- having picked up
- pada-avanatam
- fallen at her feet
- arbhakam
- the innocent boy
- parisvajya
- embracing
- aha
- she said
- jiva
- may you live long
- iti
- thus
- baspa
- with tears
- gadgadaya
- choked up
- gira
- with words.
Suruci, the younger mother of Dhruva Maharaja, seeing that the innocent boy had fallen at her feet, immediately picked him up, embracing him with her hands, and with tears of feeling she blessed him with the words “My dear boy, long may you live!”