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ŚB 11.31.18

Devanagari

देवकी रोहिणी चैव वसुदेवस्तथा सुतौ ।
कृष्णरामावपश्यन्त: शोकार्ता विजहु: स्मृतिम् ॥ १८ ॥

Text

devakī rohiṇī caiva
vasudevas tathā sutau
kṛṣṇa-rāmāv apaśyantaḥ
śokārtā vijahuḥ smṛtim

Synonyms

devakī — Devakī; rohiṇī — Rohiṇī; ca — also; eva — indeed; vasudevaḥ — Vasudeva; tathā — as well; sutau — their two sons; kṛṣṇa-rāmau — Kṛṣṇa and Rāma; apaśyantaḥ — not seeing; śoka-ārtāḥ — feeling the pain of lamentation; vijahuḥ — they lost; smṛtim — their consciousness.

Translation

When Devakī, Rohiṇī and Vasudeva could not find their sons, Kṛṣṇa and Rāma, they lost consciousness out of anguish.

Purport

According to Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura, the original Devakī, Rohiṇī and other ladies of Dvārakā actually remained in Dvārakā, invisible to the eyes of the material world, whereas the demigods who represented partial aspects of Devakī, Rohiṇī and so on went to Prabhāsa to see their dead relatives.