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Markandeyapurana 8.31

Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 8.31

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Sanskrit

8.31

yena koṭyagragovittaṃ viprāṇāmapavarjitam /
sa eṣa pṛthivīnātho bhūmau svapiti me patiḥ //

The queen spoke:
“Alas! Mahārājā! from whom has come this evil thought, that thou, who art accustomed to coverings made of the hair of the spotted deer, hast fallen on the bare ground? Here sleeps the king, my lord, on the ground,—he, by whom ten thousands of choice cattle and wealth were dispensed among brahmans. Ah! woe! what has this king done to thee, O brahman, that he, the equal of Indra and Viṣṇu, has been reduced to a state of coma?” Having soliloquised thus, she, beautiful-hipped, fell swooning, crushed by the intolerable great weight of her husband's misfortunes. The child seeing his parents lying thus helpless on the ground, being excessively hungry and very unhappy, spoke “Father, dear father, give me some food; mother, mother, give me something to eat. I Lave become dreadfully hungry, and the tip of my tongue is growing parched.”

Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa

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