Chapter 1
भुञ्जान: प्रपिबन् खादन् बालकं स्नेहयन्त्रित: । भोजयन् पाययन् मूढो न वेदागतमन्तकम् ॥ २६ ॥
Transliteration
bhuñjānaḥ prapiban khādan bālakaṁ sneha-yantritaḥ bhojayan pāyayan mūḍho na vedāgatam antakam
Synonyms (Word-for-Word)
bhuñjānaḥ — while eating; prapiban — while drinking; khādan — while chewing; bālakam — unto the child; sneha-yantritaḥ — being attached by affection; bhojayan — feeding; pāyayan — giving something to drink; mūḍhaḥ — the foolish man; na — not; veda — understood; āgatam — had arrived; antakam — death.
Translation
“When Ajāmila chewed food and ate it, he called the child to chew and eat, and when he drank he called the child to drink also. Always engaged in taking care of the child and calling his name, Nārāyaṇa, Ajāmila could not understand that his own time was now exhausted and that death was upon him.”