SB 4.1.41

SB 4.1.41

Devanagari

चित्रकेतु: सुरोचिश्च विरजा मित्र एव च ।
उल्बणो वसुभृद्यानो द्युमान्शक्त्यादयोऽपरे ॥ ४१ ॥

Verse text

citraketuḥ surociś ca
virajā mitra eva ca
ulbaṇo vasubhṛdyāno
dyumān śakty-ādayo ’pare

Synonyms

citraketuḥ — Citraketu ; surociḥ ca — and Suroci ; virajāḥ — Virajā ; mitraḥ — Mitra ; eva — also ; ca — and ; ulbaṇaḥ — Ulbaṇa ; vasubhṛdyānaḥ — Vasubhṛdyāna ; dyumān — Dyumān ; śakti-ādayaḥ — sons headed by Śakti ; apare — from his other wife.

Translation

The names of these seven sages are as follows: Citraketu, Suroci, Virajā, Mitra, Ulbaṇa, Vasubhṛdyāna and Dyumān. Some other very competent sons were born from Vasiṣṭha’s other wife.

Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

The names of these seven sages are as follows: Citraketu, Suroci, Virajā, Mitra, Ulbaṇa, Vasubhṛdyāna and Dyumān. Some other sons headed by Śakti were born from Vasiṣṭha's other wife. Śakty-ādayaḥ apare means sons from another wife.

Purport

Ūrjā, who is sometimes known as Arundhatī and was the wife of Vasiṣṭha, was the ninth daughter of Kardama Muni.