सा वै सप्त समा गर्भमबिभ्रन्न व्यजायत । जघ्नेऽश्मनोदरं तस्या: सोऽश्मकस्तेन कथ्यते ॥ ३९ ॥
sa vai sapta sama garbham abibhran na vyajayata jaghne ’smanodaram tasyah so ’smakas tena kathyate
- sa
- she, Queen Madayanti
- vai
- indeed
- sapta
- seven
- samah
- years
- garbham
- the child within the womb
- abibhrat
- continued to bear
- na
- not
- vyajayata
- gave delivery
- jaghne
- struck
- asmana
- by a stone
- udaram
- abdomen
- tasyah
- of her
- sah
- a son
- asmakah
- by the name Asmaka
- tena
- because of this
- kathyate
- was called.
Madayanti bore the child within the womb for seven years and did not give birth. Therefore Vasistha struck her abdomen with a stone, and then the child was born. Consequently, the child was known as Asmaka (the child born of a ston).