Canto 4: Creation of the Fourth OrderChapter 14: The Story of King Vena

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.14.35

ṛṣibhiḥ svāśrama-padaḿ

gate putra-kalevaram

sunīthā pālayām āsa

vidyā-yogena śocatī

SYNONYMS

ṛṣibhiḥ — by the sages; sva-āśrama-padamto their own respective hermitages; gate — having returned; putra — of her son; kalevaram — the body; sunīthāSunīthā, the mother of King Vena; pālayām āsa — preserved; vidyā-yogena — by mantra and ingredients; śocatī — while lamenting.

TRANSLATION

After all the sages returned to their respective hermitages, the mother of King Vena, Sunīthā, became very much aggrieved because of her son's death. She decided to preserve the dead body of her son by the application of certain ingredients and by chanting mantras [mantra-yogena].

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