SB 9.23.17 — FolioCorpus

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 9.23.17

त्रिभानुस्तत्सुतोऽस्यापि करन्धम उदारधी: । मरुतस्तत्सुतोऽपुत्र: पुत्रं पौरवमन्वभूत् ॥ १७ ॥

tribhānus tat-suto ’syāpi

[tribhaanus tat-suto ’syaapi]

karandhama udāra-dhīḥ

[karandhama udaara-dheeh]

marutas tat-suto ’putraḥ

[marutas tat-suto ’putrah]

putraṁ pauravam anvabhūt

[putram pauravam anvabhoot]

Word-for-word

tribhānuḥ — Tribhānu tat-sutaḥ — the son of Bhānumān asya — of him (Tribhānu) api — also karandhamaḥ — Karandhama udāra-dhīḥ — who was very magnanimous marutaḥ — Maruta tat-sutaḥ — the son of Karandhama aputraḥ — being without issue putram — as his son pauravam — a son of the Pūru dynasty, Mahārāja Duṣmanta anvabhūt — adopted.

Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)

tribhānus tat-suto ’syāpi

tribhānuḥ

Tribhānu

tat-sutaḥ

the son of Bhānumān

karandhama udāra-dhīḥ

marutas tat-suto ’putraḥ

asya

of him (Tribhānu)

api

also

karandhamaḥ

Karandhama

udāra-dhīḥ

who was very magnanimous

putraṁ pauravam anvabhūt

marutaḥ

Maruta

tat-sutaḥ

the son of Karandhama

aputraḥ

being without issue

putram

as his son

pauravam

a son of the Pūru dynasty, Mahārāja Duṣmanta

anvabhūt

adopted.

The son of Bhānumān was Tribhānu, and his son was the magnanimous Karandhama. Karandhama’s son was Maruta, who had no sons and who therefore adopted a son of the Pūru dynasty [Mahārāja Duṣmanta] as his own.

Gauḍīya Ācāryas

Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya

Translation

The son of Bhānumān was Tribhānu, and his son was the magnanimous Karandhama. Karandhama's son was Maruta, who had no sons and who therefore adopted a son of the Pūru dynasty [Mahārāja Duṣmanta] as his own. Maruta had no son and therefore adopted Duṣmanta of the Pūru dynasty as his son

Personal Guidance

Maruta has no sons and adopts Duṣmanta from the Pūru line. Inability to produce biological heirs is regularly solved by adoption from an allied dynasty; the Lord arranges continuity by cross-family means.

Reflection Questions

Where could I receive or extend an adoption that completes someone's family?
How am I responding to childlessness in others — with pity or with creative arrangement?

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