बहूनामेमि प्रथमो बहूनामेमि मध्यमः । किँ स्विद्यमस्य कर्तव्यं यन्मयाऽद्य करिष्यति ॥ ५॥

bahūnāmemi prathamo bahūnāmemi madhyamaḥ । ki~ svidyamasya kartavyaṃ yanmayā'dya kariṣyati ॥ 5॥

bahūnām = among many — of many sons or disciples; emi = I go (rank); prathamaḥ = as first, that is to say, through the foremost conduct of a disciple etc. And bahūnāṃ = among many - many middling ones; madhyamaḥ emi = I move (count) as a middling one, I behave through the middling conduct. Though I am a son possessed of such quality, still my father has said to me, "To Death I shall offer you." Kim svit = what; kartavyam = purpose; yamasya = of Death-can there be; which purpose he (my father) adya = today; kariṣyati = will achieve; mayā = through me?