Having made the command that his wife should be killed he had gone away from his asylum for accomplishing some object of his own. Since then his son had stood in an humble manner, weapon in hand, for satisfying that command on his mother.
हन्या इति समादेशः शस्त्रपाणै सुते स्थिते। विनीते प्रसवत्यर्थे विवासे चात्मकर्मसु॥