Shloka 61

देवादिसृष्टिकथनम् (वसिष्ठशोकः, पराशरजन्म, एकलिङ्गपूजा, रुद्रदर्शनम्)

Devanagari script

दृष्ट्वा तामबलां प्राह मङ्गलाभरणैर् विना आसीनामाकुलां साध्वीं बाष्पपर्याकुलेक्षणाम्

Transliteration

dṛṣṭvā tāmabalāṃ prāha maṅgalābharaṇair vinā āsīnāmākulāṃ sādhvīṃ bāṣpaparyākulekṣaṇām

Translation

Nang makita niya ang walang-lakas ngunit banal na babae na nakaupo sa pagkabalisa—walang mga mapalad na palamuti, at ang mga mata’y nanginginig at nalalambungan ng luha—kinausap niya ito.

Word by Word

• dṛṣṭvā: having seen

• tām: her

• abalām: helpless/weak woman

• prāha: said/spoke

• maṅgala-ābharaṇaiḥ: with auspicious ornaments (tokens of marital auspiciousness)

• vinā: without

• āsīnām: seated

• ākulām: distressed/agitated

• sādhvīm: chaste/virtuous woman

• bāṣpa: tears

• paryākula-īkṣaṇām: whose eyes are troubled/blurred (with emotion)

Speaker

Suta (outer narrator), describing an internal speaker addressing the distressed woman