Surely, O child, in a former birth, women were bereft of their sons by my mother, O son of Sumitrā; and it is for this that this misfortune has befallen her.
नूनं जात्यन्तरे तात स्त्रियः पुत्रैर्वियोजिताः। जनन्या मम सौमित्रे तदद्यैतदुपस्थितम्॥