SB 9.21.30 — FolioCorpus

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 9.21.30

ततो बहुरथो नाम पुरुमीढोऽप्रजोऽभवत् । नलिन्यामजमीढस्य नील: शान्तिस्तु तत्सुत: ॥ ३० ॥

tato bahuratho nāma

[tato bahuratho naama]

purumīḍho ’prajo ’bhavat

[purumeedho ’prajo ’bhavat]

nalinyām ajamīḍhasya

[nalinyaam ajameedhasya]

nīlaḥ śāntis tu tat-sutaḥ

[neelah shaantis tu tat-sutah]

Word-for-word

tataḥ — from him (Ripuñjaya) bahurathaḥ — Bahuratha nāma — named purumīḍhaḥ — Purumīḍha, the younger brother of Dvimīḍha aprajaḥ — sonless abhavat — became nalinyām — through Nalinī ajamīḍhasya — of Ajamīḍha nīlaḥ — Nīla śāntiḥ — Śānti tu — then tat-sutaḥ — the son of Nīla.

Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)

tato bahuratho nāma

tataḥ

from him (Ripuñjaya)

bahurathaḥ

Bahuratha

nāma

named

purumīḍho ’prajo ’bhavat

purumīḍhaḥ

Purumīḍha, the younger brother of Dvimīḍha

aprajaḥ

sonless

abhavat

became

nalinyām ajamīḍhasya

nalinyām

through Nalinī

ajamīḍhasya

of Ajamīḍha

nīlaḥ śāntis tu tat-sutaḥ

nīlaḥ

Nīla

śāntiḥ

Śānti

then

tat-sutaḥ

the son of Nīla.

From Ripuñjaya came a son named Bahuratha. Purumīḍha was sonless. Ajamīḍha had a son named Nīla by his wife known as Nalinī, and the son of Nīla was Śānti.

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Translation

From Ripuñjaya came a son named Bahuratha. Purumīḍha (Ajamīḍha’s brother) was sonless. Ajamīḍha had a son named Nīla by his wife known as Nalinī, and the son of Nīla was Śānti. Other lines from Ajamīḍha are now described, starting with his son Nīla.

Personal Guidance

Purumīḍha was sonless; Ajamīḍha has Nīla by Nalinī, then Śānti. Not every line continues — and the Bhāgavatam lets us hold both fertility and barrenness as part of one larger arrangement.

Reflection Questions

How am I holding the simultaneous fact that some lines continue and some do not?
Where am I making someone's barrenness into a moral verdict it does not deserve?

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