SB 1.13.32

अम्बा च हतपुत्रार्ता पितृव्यः क्व गतः सुहृत् ।
अपि मय्यकृतप्रज्ञे हतबन्धुः स भार्यया ।
आशंसमानः शमलं गङ्गायां दुःखितोऽपतत् ॥ ३२ ॥
ambā ca hata-putrārtā pitṛvyaḥ kva gataḥ suhṛt
api mayy akṛta-prajñe hata-bandhuḥ sa bhāryayā
āśaṁsamānaḥ śamalaṁ gaṅgāyāṁ duḥkhito’patat

Synonyms

ambā [kva gatā104] — where has my aunt [Gāndhārī] gone; ārtā — [she who is] full of grief [duḥkhitā]; hata-putrā — [due to] the death of her sons [killed by me (mayā hatāḥ putrā yasyāḥ sāḥ)]; kva ca — and where; [has]; pitṛvyaḥ — my uncle; suhṛt — [and] well-wisher [Vidura]; gataḥ — gone; duḥkhitaḥ — sorrowful [referring to Dhṛtarāṣṭra]; hata-bandhuḥ — [because] his sons and relatives were killed [by me (mayā hatā bandhavaḥ putrādayo yasya saḥ)]; āśaṁsamānaḥ — [and] suspecting [āśaṅkamānaḥ]; śamalam — ill-treatment [(aparādham), conjecturing: “Since he killed my sons, he might kill me too.” (mat-putrān hatavān mām api haniṣyati)]; mayi — from me; akṛta-prajñe — [whom he regards as] mean-minded [(manda-matau);105 or devoid of discernment (viveka-hīne)]; api — has [kim]; saḥ — he [Dhṛtarāṣṭra]; bhāryayā — along with his wife; apatat — jumped; gaṅgāyām — into the Gaṅgā River.

Translation

Where has my aunt Gāndhārī gone— she who is full of grief due to the death of her sons? And where has my uncle and well-wisher Vidura gone? Sorrowful because his sons and relatives were killed by me and suspecting ill-treatment from me, whom he regards as mean-minded, has Dhṛtarāṣṭra, along with his wife, jumped into the Gaṅgā River?

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