Śrīmad Bhāgavata 1.7.43

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asahantī — unable to bear [asahamānā¹⁶²]; asya — his [Aśvatthāmā’s]; āna-yanam — having been brought [to her]; bandhana — bound by ropes [bandhanena]; satī — the virtuous lady [this embodiment of godliness (iyaṁ bhagavatā)¹⁶³]; uvāca ca — eagerly insisted [out of a mixture of eagerness, agitation, and reverence (sambhramaḥ)¹⁶⁴]; eṣaḥ mucyatām mucyatām — release him, release him [at once (tvarayā), implied by the repetition of the command (dvir uktiḥ)¹⁶⁵]; [for]; brāhmaṇaḥ — a brāhmaṇa; nitarām — [is] by all means; guruḥ — worthy of respect.

Unable to bear that he had been brought [to her] bound by ropes, the virtuous lady eagerly insisted, “Release him! Release him! For a brāhmaṇa is by all means worthy of respect.”

Notes

162Unless otherwise indicated, this and the following bracketed inserts in verse 43 are Śrīdhara Svāmī’s comments.↩

163Viśvanātha Cakravartī. He comments that the word satī here means “this embodiment of godliness” (iyaṁ bhagavatā), by virtue of her being unable to bear the binding of Aśvatthāmā, meaning that in the matter of dharma, she is the one who embodies authentic virtue exceeding even that of Parīkṣit and Arjuna (dhārmikatve parīkṣitād arjunād api sādhutvavatīty arthaḥ).↩

164The words uvāca ca, “and eagerly insisted,” are syntactically connected to the words nanāma ca, “and bowed down,” which are the last two words from the previous verse. Śrīdhara Svāmī comments that the doubling of the word ca in this combination (nanāma ca uvāca ca) indicates sambhrama, meaning “eagerness, agitation, and reverence.” That Draupadī experienced a mixture of these emotions, all signified by the word sambhrama, is born out by the reverence she felt for the son of their teacher and the excited and agitated tone with which she insisted that he be released.↩

165Vīrarāghava.↩

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