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तेषामध्वरजं धूमं स्वर्गद्वारमुपस्थितम् । ययातिरुपजिघ्रन्वै निपपात महीं प्रति॥५-११९-११॥
Sensing the sacrificial smoke rising from their rite—standing like a gateway to heaven—Yayāti descended toward the earth.
english translation
भूमौ स्वर्गे च संबद्धां नदीं धूममयीं नृपः । स गङ्गामिव गच्छन्तीमालम्ब्य जगतीपतिः॥५-११९-१२॥
The king, lord of the earth, grasped that smoke-formed ‘river’ linking earth and heaven, like the Gaṅgā flowing onward.
english translation
श्रीमत्स्ववभृथाग्र्येषु चतुर्षु प्रतिबन्धुषु । मध्ये निपतितो राजा लोकपालोपमेषु च॥५-११९-१३॥
In the midst of four eminent kinsmen—resplendent, foremost in the concluding avabhṛtha rites, and comparable to the guardians of the worlds—the king fell among them.
english translation
चतुर्षु हुतकल्पेषु राजसिंहमहाग्निषु । पपात मध्ये राजर्षिर्ययातिः पुण्यसंक्षये॥५-११९-१४॥
When his merit was depleted, the royal seer Yayāti fell among four great “fires”—lion-like kings, comparable to sacrificial oblations.
english translation
तमाहुः पार्थिवाः सर्वे प्रतिमानमिव श्रियः । को भवान्कस्य वा बन्धुर्देशस्य नगरस्य वा॥५-११९-१५॥
All the kings said to him—who appeared like an embodiment of prosperity: “Who are you, and whose kinsman are you—of what country or what city?”
english translation