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| Canto 9: Liberation | Chapter 14: King Pururava Enchanted by Urvasi |
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 9.14.28
nisamyakranditam devi
putrayor niyamanayoh
hatasmy aham kunathena
SYNONYMS
nisamya -- by hearing; akranditam -- crying (because of being stolen); devi -- Urvasi; putrayoh -- of those two lambs, which she treated as sons; niyamanayoh -- as they were being taken away; hata -- killed; asmi -- am; aham -- I; ku-nathena -- under the protection of a bad husband; na-pumsa -- by the eunuch; vira-manina -- although considering himself a hero.
TRANSLATION
Urvasi treated the two lambs like her own sons. Therefore, when they were being taken by the Gandharvas and began crying, Urvasi heard them and rebuked her husband. "Now I am being killed," she said, "under the protection of an unworthy husband, who is a coward and a eunuch although he thinks himself a great hero.
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness