Skandapurana 3.3.8.80.4

3.3.8.80.4

the boat, struck by a whirlpool, sank along with the boatmen. / 45
A very great cry of “Alas, alas!” arose on both its banks; / as all the troops looked on, their wailing touched the sky. / 46
Drowning, some died; some went into the bellies of crocodiles; / the prince and others were not seen anywhere in the vast water. / 47
Hearing that, King Citravarmā too, utterly distracted, / reached the bank of the Yamunā and became motionless. / 48
Hearing it, the king's wives too lost consciousness; / and Sīmantinī, upon hearing it, fell unconscious to the ground. / 49
Likewise the other chief ministers, generals, and family priests, / bewildered and tormented by grief, wailed with their hair disheveled. / 50
King Indrasena also, deeply afflicted upon hearing the news of his son, / fell down senseless together with his wives. / 51
His ministers, his citizens, and the inhabitants of that land, / including children, the elderly, and women, cried out, overcome with grief. / 52
Out of grief, some beat their chests and some beat their heads; / they wandered about crying, “Alas, prince! Alas, dear one! Where are you? Where are you?” / 53
Thus the city of King Indrasena, full of sorrow and miserable, / was suddenly agitated, and likewise the city of Citravarmā. / 54
Then King Citravarmā, consoled by the elders, / slowly went to the city and comforted his daughter. / 55
Together with the relatives who had arrived, the king had the funeral rites / performed completely for that son-in-law who had drowned in the water. / 56
And that virtuous woman Sīmantinī, intent on [reaching] the world of her husband, / though dissuaded by her father out of affection, assumed widowhood. / 57
That auspicious Monday vow which had been taught by the sage's wife, / she of auspicious conduct did not abandon, even though she had met with widowhood. / 58
Having thus met with severe suffering in her fourteenth year, / meditating on the lotus feet of Śiva, she spent three years. / 59
King Indrasena, as if driven mad by grief for his son,