सोऽन्त:पुरं प्रविश्यैव कौसल्यामिदमब्रवीत्। पायसं प्रतिगृह्णीष्व पुत्रीयं त्विदमात्मन:।।1.16.26।।
Meaning
Entering the inner apartments, he said to Kausalya: "Receive this payasam, meant to bring you a son."
Word-by-word (pada-artha)
| Word | Devanagari | Meaning | Grammatical role |
|---|---|---|---|
| saḥ antaḥ-puram praviśya eva | सः अन्तः-पुरम् प्रविश्य एव | he, having entered the inner apartments | Gerund (having done) |
| kausalyām idam abravīt | कौसल्याम् इदम् अब्रवीत् | said this to Kausalya | Verb (imperfect) |
| pāyasam pratigṣhṇīṣva | पायसम् प्रतिग्ष्ह्णीष्व | receive this rice-pudding | Verb (imperative, middle) |
| putrīyam tu idam ātmanaḥ | पुत्रीयम् तु इदम् आत्मनः | this, indeed desirous of a son for yourself | Accusative singular |
Scholar commentary
valmikiramayan.net Prose Commentary
Desiraju Hanumanta Rao's prose rendering with embedded explanatory notes
The source explains why Kausalya is addressed and given her share first: the divine dessert is meant only for 'eligible' queens, and the logic invoked is biija kshetra nyaya, the seed-field principle, in which the field (the receiving queen) has no importance equal to the seed (the divine dessert) itself -- since the seed is divine, the field must be correspondingly eligible, and Kausalya as chief queen is addressed first on that basis.
1 of 16 traditions have commentary on this shloka. Traditions without a verse-specific commentary here are omitted rather than filled in.
Reference: 1.16.26 · Bāla Kāṇḍa