Alas! O God! what shall I do?
Sloka:
As Krishna and Arjuna stayed happily together in Dwaraka, a Brahmin suffered the deaths at birth of his eight children in eight years. When the ninth son also died, the Brahmin came to the royal court with the dead body of the infant and wailing loudly spoke thus.
Alas! O God! what shall I do?
Alas! Who is there to help me?
There is no peace in all the worlds
for a man with no sons, it’s certain, O God
My son, why aren’t you crying?
my beautiful son, is this the fate
of your cursed father, O Lord!
O Yadava princes, please listen to me
my sorrow is unbearable, I haven’t done
anything immoral, what’s my sin, My God?
Alas! Here look at my infant son lying
with his eyes closed; eight sons like this
I lost, all due to this rotten king’s reign
Does Krishna, who is weighed down by having to
care for thousands of wives and children,
have any time to save this poor Brahmin?