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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.17.14
indra-jyeṣṭhaiḥ sva-tanayair
hatānāḿ yudhi vidviṣām
striyo rudantīr āsādya
draṣṭum icchasi duḥkhitāḥ
SYNONYMS
indra-jyeṣṭhaiḥ — persons of whom King Indra is the eldest; sva-tanayaiḥ — by your own sons; hatānām — who are killed; yudhi — in the fight; vidviṣām — of the enemies; striyaḥ — the wives; rudantīḥ — lamenting; āsādya — coming near the dead bodies of their husbands; draṣṭum icchasi — you want to see; duḥkhitāḥ — very much aggrieved.
TRANSLATION
You want to see the wives of the demons lamenting for the death of their husbands when those demons, the enemies of your sons, are killed in battle by the demigods, of whom Indra is the chief.
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