नाशं निशम्य पुत्राणां नारदाच्छीलशालिनाम् । अन्वतप्यत क: शोचन् सुप्रजस्त्वं शुचां पदम् ॥ २३ ॥
nasam nisamya putranam naradac chila-salinam anvatapyata kah socan suprajastvam sucam padam
- nasam
- the loss
- nisamya
- hearing of
- putranam
- of his sons
- naradat
- from Narada
- sila-salinam
- who were the best of well-behaved persons
- anvatapyata
- suffered
- kah
- Prajapati Daksa
- socan
- lamenting
- su-prajastvam
- having ten thousand well-behaved sons
- sucam
- of lamentation
- padam
- position.
The Haryasvas, the sons of Prajapati Daksa, were very well behaved, cultured sons, but unfortunately, because of the instructions of Narada Muni, they deviated from the order of their father. When Daksa heard this news, which was brought to him by Narada Muni, he began to lament. Although he was the father of such good sons, he had lost them all. Certainly this was lamentable.