Devanagari
सुरुचिस्तं समुत्थाप्य पादावनतमर्भकम्
परिष्वज्याह जीवेति बाष्पगद्गदया गिरा ॥ ४६ ॥
Verse text
surucis taṁ samutthāpya
pādāvanatam arbhakam
pariṣvajyāha jīveti
bāṣpa-gadgadayā girā
Synonyms
suruciḥ
—
Queen Suruci
;
tam
—
him
;
samutthāpya
—
having picked up
;
pāda
—
avanatam — fallen at her feet
;
arbhakam
—
the innocent boy
;
pariṣvajya
—
embracing
;
āha
—
she said
;
jīva
—
may you live long
;
iti
—
thus
;
bāṣpa
—
with tears
;
gadgadayā
—
choked up
;
girā
—
with words .
Translation
Suruci, the younger mother of Dhruva Mahārāja, seeing that the innocent boy had fallen at her feet, immediately picked him up, embracing him with her hands, and with tears of feeling she blessed him with the words “My dear boy, long may you live!”
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Suruci raised the boy up when he fell at her feet. Embracing him, she said with choked voice and tears, “May you live long!”