तद्भजन्त्या न मे दुःखं न विषादः कथञ्चन
By worshipping that, I have neither sorrow nor any kind of despair.
अनीतं जनकाद्वित्तं बन्धुभ्यो वरवर्णिनी
The wealth taken from my father was distributed to the relatives, O woman of noble complexion.
दिवा दिवा त्रिर्यत्नेन रात्रौ गुह्यविशोधनम्
Day after day, with threefold effort, at night she cleansed the secret places.
नखेन पातयेद्भर्तुः क्रिमीन्कुष्ठाच्छनैः शनैः
With her nail, she would gently and gradually remove the worms from her husband's leprosy.
न देवि रात्रौ स्वपिति न दिवा च वरानना
O goddess, she does not sleep at night, nor does she, O beautiful-faced one, sleep by day.
यद्यस्ति वसुधा देवी पितरो देवतास्तथा
If there is land, O goddess, then so too are ancestors and deities.
चण्डिकायै प्रदास्यामि रक्तं मांससमुद्भवम्
I shall offer to Caṇḍikā blood that has arisen from flesh.
सादरं कारयिष्यामि उपवासान्दशैव तु
I shall perform ten fasts with reverence.
नोपभोक्ष्यामि मधुरं नोपभोक्ष्यामि वै घृतम्
I will not enjoy anything sweet, nor will I partake of ghee.
जीवतां रोगहीनो हि भर्ता मे शरदां शतम्
My husband, free from disease, lived for a hundred autumns.
अथ कालेन चाल्पेन त्रिदोषो ऽस्य व्यजायत
Then, after a short time, the three humors arose in him.
शीतार्तः कंपमानो ऽसौ पत्न्यङ्गुलिमखण्डयत्
He, suffering from cold and trembling, broke his wife's finger.
तत्खण्डमङ्गुलेर्वक्त्रे स्थितं नृपतिवल्लभे
O beloved of the king, that broken finger remained in her mouth.
चितां सार्पिर्युतां चक्रे मध्ये धृत्वा पतिं तदा
She prepared a funeral pyre smeared with ghee, placing her husband in the middle.
मुखे सुखं समाधाय हृदये हृदयं तथा
She placed it comfortably in her mouth, and likewise heart to heart.
दाहयामास कल्याणी भर्तुर्देहं रुजान्वितम्
The virtuous woman burned the diseased body of her husband.
आत्मना सह चार्वङ्गी ज्वलिते जातवेदसि
With her own body, the beautiful-limbed woman entered the blazing fire.
विशोधयित्वा बहुपापसंघान्स्वकर्मणा दुष्करसाधनेन
By her own difficult and austere act, she purified herself from many heaps of sin.
न मातरीदृशो धर्मो लोकेषु त्रिषु लभ्यते
No other duty like that of a mother is found in the three worlds.
सपत्नीं तु सपत्नी हि किञ्चिदन्नं ददाति च
But a co-wife, being a co-wife, gives only a little food.
कुरु वाक्यं मयोक्तं हि स्वामिनि त्वं प्रसीद मे
Please, master, do what I have said; be gracious to me.
भवेत्पापक्षयः सम्यक् स्वर्गप्राप्तिस्तथाक्षया
There will be complete destruction of sin, and likewise, unfailing attainment of heaven.
अभिमन्त्र्य परिष्वज्य तनयं सा पुनः पुनः
Having blessed and embraced her son again and again,
करिष्ये वचनं पुत्र त्वदीयं धर्मसंयुतम्
Son, I will do your command, which is joined with righteousness.
शतपुत्रा ह्यहं पुत्र त्वयैकेन सुतेन हि
Though I am a mother of a hundred sons, O son, you alone are truly my child.
व्रतराजेन चीर्णेन प्राप्तस्त्वमचिरात्सुतः
You, my son, were obtained soon after the observance of the king of vows.
सद्यः प्रत्ययकारीदं महापातकनाशनम्
This act brings immediate certainty and destroys great sins.
वरमेकः कुलालंबी यत्र विश्रमते कुलम्
Better is one who upholds the family, where the family finds rest.
धन्यानि तानि शूलानि यैर्जातस्त्वं सुतो ऽनघ
Blessed are those spears by which you, O sinless one, were born as a son.
आह्लादयति यस्तातं जननीं वापि पुत्रकः
A son who brings joy to his father or mother,