SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM - Prabhupada

Text 34]Hirw;tyak&Sipu, King of the Demons93TEXT 34 WI cpf ft;n mt:q;w I em: f tfiRowll\/11tooya krtajiiena ooyam mahi-patekatham vina syama suhrttamena tetatranuyanam tava vira pddayo/:tsu.ST"'i4atinam diSa yatra yasyasitooya-you; krtajiiena-a most grateful personality; ooyam-we;mahi-pate-0 King; katham-how; vind-without; syama-shall exist;suhrt-tamena-the best of our friends; te-o£ you; tatra-there;anuyanam-the following; tava-o£ you; vira-0 hero; pddayo/:t-ofthe lotus feet; su.ST"'i4atinam-o£ those engaging in the service; diSapleaseorder; yatra-where; yasyasi-you will go.TRANSLATION0 King, 0 hero, you were a very grateful husband and the mostsincere friend of all of us. How shall we exist without you? 0 hero,wherever you are going, please direct us there so that we mayfollow in your footsteps and engage again in your service. Let usgo along with you!PURPORTFormerly, a atriya king was generally the husband of many wives,and after the death of the king, especially in the battlefield, all thequeens would agree to accept saha-marar:m, dying with the husband whowas their life. When Pac;lu Maharaja, the father of the Pac;lavas, died,his two wives-namely, the mother of Yudhi!?!hira, Bhima and Arjunaand the mother of Nakula and Sahadeva-were both ready to die in thefire with their husband. Later, after a compromise was arranged, Kuntistayed alive to care for the little children, and the other wife, Madri, was