श्रीराजोवाच निशम्य देव: स्वभटोपवर्णितं प्रत्याह किं तानपि धर्मराज: । एवं हताज्ञो विहतान्मुरारे- र्नैदेशिकैर्यस्य वशे जनोऽयम् ॥ १ ॥
sri-rajovaca nisamya devah sva-bhatopavarnitam pratyaha kim tan api dharmarajah evam hatajno vihatan murarer naidesikair yasya vase jano ’yam
- sri-raja uvaca
- the King said
- nisamya
- after hearing
- devah
- Lord Yamaraja
- sva-bhata
- of his own servants
- upavarnitam
- the statements
- pratyaha
- replied
- kim
- what
- tan
- unto them
- api
- also
- dharma-rajah
- Yamaraja, the superintendent of death and the judge of religious and irreligious activities
- evam
- thus
- hata-ajnah
- whose order was foiled
- vihatan
- who were defeated
- murareh naidesikaih
- by the order carriers of Murari, Krsna
- yasya
- of whom
- vase
- under the subjugation
- janah ayam
- all the people of the world
King Pariksit said: O my lord, O Sukadeva Gosvami, Yamaraja is the controller of all living entities in terms of their religious and irreligious activities, but his order had been foiled. When his servants, the Yamadutas, informed him of their defeat by the Visnudutas, who had stopped them from arresting Ajamila, what did he reply?