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ŚB 10.82.18

Devanagari

कुन्त्युवाच
आर्य भ्रातरहं मन्ये आत्मानमकृताशिषम् ।
यद् वा आपत्सु मद्वार्तां नानुस्मरथ सत्तमा: ॥ १८ ॥

Text

kunty uvāca
ārya bhrātar ahaṁ manye
ātmānam akṛtāśiṣam
yad vā āpatsu mad-vārtāṁ
nānusmaratha sattamāḥ

Synonyms

kuntī uvāca — Queen Kuntī said; ārya — O respectable one; bhrātaḥ — O brother; aham — I; manye — think; ātmānam — myself; akṛta — having failed to achieve; āśiṣam — my desires; yat — since; vai — indeed; āpatsu — in times of danger; mat — to me; vārtām — what occurred; na anusmaratha — all of you do not remember; sat-tamāḥ — most saintly.

Translation

Queen Kuntī said: My dear, respectable brother, I feel that my desires have been frustrated, because although all of you are most saintly, you forgot me during my calamities.

Purport

Here Queen Kuntī addresses her brother Vasudeva.