reṣṭhaṁ matvā tayāyacchan
tāvat satyavatī mātrā
sva-caruṁ yācitā satī
śreṣṭhaṁ matvā tayāyacchan
mātre mātur adat svayam
Meanwhile, because Satyavatī's mother thought that the oblation prepared for her daughter, Ṛcīka's wife, must be better, she asked her daughter for that oblation. Satyavatī therefore gave her own oblation to her mother and ate her mother's oblation herself.
While the sage was bathing, and before he returned Satyavatī’s mother thought that her daughter’s rice must be superior because the husband’s affection for her. She asked for that share, and the daughter gave her the rice with the brāhmaṇa mantras in it. The daughter ate the rice with the kṣatriya mantras in it.
|| 9.15.10 ||
tad viditvā muniḥ prāha
patnīṁ kaṣṭam akāraṣīḥ
ghoro daṇḍa-dharaḥ putro
bhrātā te brahma-vittamaḥ
When the sage understood what had happened in his absence, he said to his wife, Satyavatī, "You have done something horrible. Your son will be a fierce kṣatriya, and your brother will be the best of brāhmaṇas."
You have done something horrible. Your son will be fierce kṣatriya (danḍa-dharaḥ). Your brother will be a brāhmaṇa, Viśvāmitra. He will be described later.
|| 9.15.11 ||
prasāditaḥ satyavatyā
maivaṁ bhūr iti bhārgavaḥ
atha tarhi bhavet pautro
jamadagnis tato 'bhavat
Satyavatī, however, pacified Ṛcīka and requested that her son not be a fierce kṣatriya. Ṛcīka Muni replied, "Then your grandson will be a kṣatriya.” Thus Jamadagni was born as the son of Satyavatī.
The sage, pacified by his wife who did not want a kṣatriya son, then spoke. “Then your grandson will be a kṣatriya.” That grandson was Paraśurāma. Because of that, her son was Jamadagni.
|| 9.15.12-13 ||
sā cābhūt sumahat-puṇyā
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