SB 1.13.51

SB 1.13.51

Devanagari

धृतराष्ट्र: सह भ्रात्रा गान्धार्या च स्वभार्यया । दक्षिणेन हिमवत ऋषीणामाश्रमं गत: ॥ ५१ ॥

Verse text

dhṛtarāṣṭraḥ saha bhrātrā gāndhāryā ca sva-bhāryayā dakṣiṇena himavata ṛṣīṇām āśramaṁ gataḥ

Synonyms

dhṛtarāṣṭraḥ Dhṛtarāṣṭra ; saha along with ; bhrātrā his brother Vidura ; gāndhāryā Gāndhārī also ; ca and ; sva bhāryayā — his own wife ; dakṣiṇena by the southern side ; himavataḥ of the Himālaya Mountains ; ṛṣīṇām of the ṛṣis ; āśramam in shelter ; gataḥ he has gone .

Translation

O King, your uncle Dhṛtarāṣṭra, his brother Vidura and his wife Gāndhārī have gone to the southern side of the Himālaya Mountains, where there are shelters of the great sages.

Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

Dhṛtarāṣtṛa, with his wife Gāndhārī, and Vidura, has gone to a hermitage of sages on the south side of the Himālayas.

Purport

To pacify the mourning Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, Nārada first of all spoke from the philosophical point of view, and then he began to describe the future movements of his uncle, which he could see by his foreseeing powers, and thus began to describe as follows.

Commentary (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

Having dispelled his lamentation, he now tells the actual facts to the inquisitive Yudhiṣṭhira in six verses. Dakṣiṇena means “in the southern direction.”