पतिं निरीक्ष्योरुशुचार्पितं तदा मृतं च बालं सुतमेकसन्ततिम् । जनस्य राज्ञी प्रकृतेश्च हृद्रुजं सती दधाना विललाप चित्रधा ॥ ५२ ॥
patim niriksyoru-sucarpitam tada mrtam ca balam sutam eka-santatim janasya rajni prakrtes ca hrd-rujam sati dadhana vilalapa citradha
- patim
- the husband
- niriksya
- by seeing
- uru
- greatly
- suca
- with lamentation
- arpitam
- pained
- tada
- at that time
- mrtam
- dead
- ca
- and
- balam
- the child
- sutam
- the son
- eka-santatim
- the only son in the family
- janasya
- of all the other people gathered there
- rajni
- the Queen
- prakrteh ca
- as well as of the officers and ministers
- hrt-rujam
- the pains within the core of the heart
- sati dadhana
- increasing
- vilalapa
- lamented
- citradha
- in varieties of ways
When the Queen saw her husband, King Citraketu, merged in great lamentation and saw the dead child, who was the only son in the family, she lamented in various ways. This increased the pain in the cores of the hearts of all the inhabitants of the palace, the ministers and all the brahmanas.