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ŚB 10.57.8

Devanagari

तैलद्रोण्यां मृतं प्रास्य जगाम गजसाह्वयम् ।
कृष्णाय विदितार्थाय तप्ताचख्यौ पितुर्वधम् ॥ ८ ॥

Text

taila-droṇyāṁ mṛtaṁ prāsya
jagāma gajasāhvayam
kṛṣṇāya viditārthāya
taptācakhyau pitur vadham

Synonyms

taila — of oil; droṇyām — in a large vessel; mṛtam — the corpse; prāsya — putting; jagāma — she went; gaja-sāhvayam — to Hastināpura, the Kuru capital; kṛṣṇāya — to Kṛṣṇa; vidita-arthāya — who already was aware of the situation; taptā — sorrowful; ācakhyau — she related; pituḥ — of her father; vadham — the killing.

Translation

Queen Satyabhāmā put her father’s corpse in a large vat of oil and went to Hastināpura, where she sorrowfully told Lord Kṛṣṇa, who was already aware of the situation, about her father’s murder.