Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam

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स्तावकांस्तानभिप्रेत्य पृथुर्वैन्यः प्रतापवान् ।
मेघनिर्ह्रादया वाचा प्रहसन्निदमब्रवीत् ॥२१॥

stāvakāṁs tān abhipretya
pṛthur vainyaḥ pratāpavān
megha-nirhrādayā vācā
prahasann idam abravīt

WORD BY WORD

stāvakān — engaged in offering prayers; tān — those persons; abhipretya — seeing, understanding; pṛthuḥ — King Pṛthu; vainyaḥ — son of Vena; pratāpa-vān — greatly powerful; megha-nirhrādayā — as grave as the thundering of clouds; vācā — with a voice; prahasan — smiling; idam — this; abravīt — he spoke.;

TRANSLATION

Thus when the greatly powerful King Pṛthu, the son of Vena, saw the professionals before him, to congratulate them he smiled, and with the gravity of the vibrating sounds of clouds he spoke as follows.

PURPORT

This verse has not purport by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Svāmi Prabhupāda.



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