O Brahman ! since you, the respectful guest, have stayed without food in my house for three nigits, let my salutatious be to yot, | Brahman | Let there be well-being to me. In return, therefore, choose three boorns,
I. i. 7.
COMMENTARY
Thus addressed by the elders, Death.said to Naciketas: me are : in my house, o Brahman it to be revered. thou, the guest, !have spent three mights without food. 'This is the meaning
namas te: the meaning 1s clear
t¢smat. .. : therefore, for this reason re: to ne
sasti : well-being, so that I may be well ri tar . pract; : three boons in return test : choose.
Even though on are dec1eless, you should chose three tools corresponding to the three mights of lasting to favour ne. This is the meaning
I. i 10.
sutasankalpak Kumar yatha syad
witamanyu gular bhi wrly७
tratprava abhitad practich
etat lrayanam pratha raw wara vript
0 atb! (please make Gau/anua (my father) free from all anxieties, well-dispost d, free from anger to• wards Ine : (aud) well pleased let him speak to lue, &ent back by you. This is the first of the three coons I elect.
COMMENTRY
Thus being requested, Maciketas said :
ry७: 0 Death।
&antasakalpak: free from anxiety of the form "having reached Death, what will my ow do?"
agaः »h bis uniad ettled in peece
है: toward =
