Sanskrit Text
सापि तं रमयामास भावज्ञा वै वराङ्गना ।
न बुबोध नृपः क्रीडन्गतान्वर्षगणानथ ॥ १८ ॥
स तया मृगशावाक्ष्या शच्या शतक्रतुर्यथा ।
सा सर्वगुणसम्पन्ना सोऽपि कामविचक्षणः ॥ १९ ॥
रेमाते मन्दिरे दिव्ये रमानारायणाविव ।
एवं गच्छति काले सा दधार नृपतेस्तदा ॥ २० ॥
गर्भं गङ्गा वसुं पुत्रं सुषुवे चारुलोचना ।
जातमात्रं सुतं वारि चिक्षेपैवं द्वितीयके ॥ २१ ॥
तृतीयेऽथ चतुर्थेऽथ पञ्चमे षष्ठ एव च ।
सप्तमे वा हते पुत्रे राजा चिन्तापरोऽभवत् ॥ २२ ॥
English Translation
The lady, too, appreciated his mental feelings and began to serve him to his satisfaction. Thus many years elapsed in lovely enjoyments and intercourses between the couple who looked like Indra and his pair Sacī; and they did not feel at all how the time passed. The lady endowed with all qualities and the clever king, well-versed in the art of loving, began to enjoy incessantly like Laksmī and Nārāyana, in their divine palace. Thus many years passed when the lovely eyed lady became pregnant of the king Śantanu’s sperm and, in due time, gave birth to a son who was a Vasu. No sooner the son was born than Gaṅgā Devī threw it in the waters of the Ganges. Thus the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh sons were threwn successively on the waters.