Text-26-27
SB 9.9.26-27
ksudharto jagrhe vipram
tat-patny ahakrtarthavat
na bhavan raksasah saksad
iksvakunam maha-rathah
madayantyah patir vira
nadharmam kartum arhasi
dehi me ’patya-kamaya
akrtartham patim dvijam
Translation by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada:
Being influenced by the propensity of a Raksasa and being very hungry, King Saudasa seized the brahmana. Then the poor woman, the brahmana’s wife, said to the King: O hero, you are not actually a man-eater; rather, you are among the descendants of Maharaja Iksvaku. Indeed, you are a great fighter, the husband of Madayanti. You should not act irreligiously in this way. I desire to have a son. Please, therefore, return my husband, who has not yet impregnated me.