क्षुधार्तो जगृहे विप्रं तत्पत्न्याहाकृतार्थवत् । न भवान् राक्षस: साक्षादिक्ष्वाकूणां महारथ: ॥ २६ ॥ मदयन्त्या: पतिर्वीर नाधर्मं कर्तुमर्हसि । देहि मेऽपत्यकामाया अकृतार्थं पतिं द्विजम् ॥ २७ ॥
ksudharto jagrhe vipram tat-patny ahakrtarthavat na bhavan raksasah saksad iksvakunam maha-rathah madayantyah patir vira nadharmam kartum arhasi dehi me ’patya-kamaya akrtartham patim dvijam
- ksudha-artah
- being aggrieved by hunger
- jagrhe
- caught
- vipram
- the brahmana
- tat-patni
- his wife
- aha
- said
- akrta-artha-vat
- being unsatisfied, poor and hungry
- na
- not
- bhavan
- yourself
- raksasah
- a man-eater
- saksat
- directly or factually
- iksvakunam
- among the descendants of Maharaja Iksvaku
- maha-rathah
- a great fighter
- madayantyah
- of Madayanti
- patih
- the husband
- vira
- O hero
- na
- not
- adharmam
- irreligious act
- kartum
- to do
- arhasi
- you deserve
- dehi
- please deliver
- me
- my
- apatya-kamayah
- desiring to get a son
- akrta-artham
- whose desire has not been fulfilled
- patim
- husband
- dvijam
- who is a brahmana.
Being influenced by the propensity of a Raksasa and being very hungry, King Saudasa seized the brahmana. Then the poor woman, the brahmana’s wife, said to the King: O hero, you are not actually a man-eater; rather, you are among the descendants of Maharaja Iksvaku. Indeed, you are a great fighter, the husband of Madayanti. You should not act irreligiously in this way. I desire to have a son. Please, therefore, return my husband, who has not yet impregnated me.