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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.7.45
tasyātmano 'rdham patny āste
SYNONYMS
sah — he; eshah — certainly; bhagavān — lord; dronah — Dronācārya; prajā-rūpena — in the form of his son Aśvatthāmā; vartate — is existing; tasya — his; ātmanah — of the body; ardham — half; patnī — wife; āste — living; na — not; anvagāt — undertook; vīrasūh — having the son present; kripī — the sister of Kripācārya.
TRANSLATION
He [Dronācārya] is certainly still existing, being represented by his son. His wife Kripī did not undergo a satī with him because she had a son.
PURPORT
The wife of Dronācārya, Kripī, is the sister of Kripācārya. A devoted wife, who is according to revealed scripture the better half of her husband, is justified in embracing voluntary death along with her husband if she is without issue. But in the case of the wife of Dronācārya, she did not undergo such a trial because she had her son, the representative of her husband. A widow is a widow only in name if there is a son of her husband existing. So in either case Aśvatthāmā was the representative of Dronācārya, and therefore killing Aśvatthāmā would be like killing Dronācārya. That was the argument of Draupadī against the killing of Aśvatthāmā.
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