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अज्ञानाद्धिकृतं यस्मादिदं तेनैव जवसि । अपि ह्यद्य कुलं न स्यादिक्ष्वाकूणां कुतो भवान् ॥ २-६४-२६

'Since you have done this unwittingly you are still alive. If it had been otherwise, your Ikshvaku race itself would have been exterminated, what to speak of you.' [2-64-26]

english translation

नय नौ नृप तं देशमिति मां चाभ्यभाषत । अद्य तं द्रष्टुमिच्छावः पुत्रं पश्चिमदर्शनम् ॥ २-६४-२७

The sage said to me thus, 'Oh ! king take us to that place. We wish to have the last look at him - [2-64-27]

english translation

रुधिरेणावसिक्ताङ्गं प्रकीर्णाजिनवाससम् । शयानं भुवि निस्संज्ञं धर्म राजवशं गतम् ॥ २-६४-२८

- at his garment of antelope skin in disarray, his body spattered with blood, lying on the ground unconscious under the sway of the lord of death.' [2-64-28]

english translation

अथाहमेकस्तं देशं नीत्वा तौ भृशदुःखितौ । अस्पर्शयमहं पुत्रं तं मुनिं सह भार्यया ॥ २-६४-२९

Thereupon, I took both of them all by myself to that spot and made the grieving ascetics touch the body of their son. [2-64-29]

english translation

तौ पुत्रमात्मनः स्पृष्ट्वा तमासाद्य तपस्विनौ । निपेततुः शरीरेऽस्य पिता चास्येदमब्रवीत् ॥ २-६४-३०

Both the ascetics stroking their son's body and collapsed upon it. And the father said [2-64-30]

english translation