Verse 33

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The queens, and the boy who came· Verses 33–36

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Ah, by a pitiless Ordainer, our lord, you have been brought to a state the eye cannot reach. You were once the giver of a living to the Usinaras, and now you are made a swelling of their sorrows. How shall we be without you, lord of the earth, who knew what was done for you and were the best of friends to us? Show us the way after your feet, hero, wherever you go, who used to wait on them. As they were lamenting like this, holding their dead husband and unwilling to have him carried out, the sun went down and turned back. There, hearing the crying of the dead man's kinsfolk, Yama himself came, having become a boy, and said this to them.