Questions by Vidura
सौम्यानुशोचे तमध:पतन्तं भ्रात्रे परेताय विदुद्रुहे य: । निर्यापितो येन सुहृत्स्वपुर्या अहं स्वपुत्रान् समनुव्रतेन ॥ ४१ ॥
Transliteration
saumyānuśoce tam adhaḥ-patantaṁ bhrātre paretāya vidudruhe yaḥ niryāpito yena suhṛt sva-puryā ahaṁ sva-putrān samanuvratena
Synonyms (Word-for-Word)
saumya — O gentle one; anuśoce — I lament; tam — him; adhaḥ-patantam — gliding down; bhrātre — on his brother’s; paretāya — death; vidudruhe — revolted against; yaḥ — one who; niryāpitaḥ — driven out; yena — by whom; suhṛt — well-wisher; sva-puryāḥ — from his own house; aham — myself; sva-putrān — with his own sons; samanu-vratena — accepting the same line of action.
Translation
“O gentle one, I simply lament for him [Dhṛtarāṣṭra] who rebelled against his brother after death. By him I was driven out of my own house, although I am his sincere well-wisher, because he accepted the line of action adopted by his own sons.”