नृपैर्दशरथप्रख्यैः पौरैः पारशवादिभिः । सामन्तै राजपुत्रैश्च ब्राह्मणैर्ब्रह्मवादिभिः ॥ ६ ॥
nṛpairdaśarathaprakhyaiḥ pauraiḥ pāraśavādibhiḥ | sāmantai rājaputraiśca brāhmaṇairbrahmavādibhiḥ || 6 ||
Translation
by kings like Daśaratha; by citizens; by the Pāraśavas and others; by vassal lords and princes; and by brahmins who spoke of Brahman;
Word by word
- nṛpair
- (nṛpaiḥ) by kings
- daśaratha
- Daśaratha
- prakhyaiḥ
- like
- pauraiḥ
- by citizens
- pāraśava
- by the Pāraśavas
- ādibhiḥ
- and others
- sāmantai
- (sāmantaiḥ) by vassal lords
- rājaputraiś
- (rājaputraiḥ) and princes
- ca
- and
- brāhmaṇair
- (brāhmaṇaiḥ) by brahmins
- brahmavādibhiḥ
- who spoke of Brahman
Meaning
The circle widens: Daśaratha and the kings like him; the townspeople (paura); the Pāraśavas and others, which the commentary takes as the rulers of lands such as Paraśu, lesser kings who pay tribute; feudatories (sāmanta); the princes, Bharata and his brothers, the commentary says; and the brahmins learned in the Veda. Every rank of the kingdom is there. The father who feared for his son's strange sadness now sits among those who listen to him. The reader may picture the hall, crowded and silent, and themselves somewhere in it.