अनुत्तमस्त्वधिकविलासपण्डितो भ्रमच्चलन्परिविलसन् विदारयन् । जरज्जगज्जनितविलोलमर्कटः परिस्फुरद्वपुरिह काल ईहते ॥ १० ॥
anuttamastvadhikavilāsapaṇḍitō bhramaccalanparivilasan vidārayan | jarajjagajjanitavilōlamarkaṭaḥ parisphuradvapuriha kāla īhatē || 10 ||
Translation
Time, peerless, a master of abundant play, roaming, moving, sporting and tearing, here makes its effort, its body flashing, while in the old world it sets the restless monkeys leaping.
Word by word
- anuttamas
- (anuttamaḥ) peerless
- tu
- indeed
- adhika
- abundant
- vilāsa
- of play
- paṇḍitō
- (paṇḍitaḥ) a master
- bhramat
- roaming
- calan
- moving
- parivilasan
- sporting
- vidārayan
- tearing
- jarat
- in the old
- jagat
- world
- janita
- sets
- vilōla
- the restless
- markaṭaḥ
- monkeys leaping
- parisphurat
- flashing
- vapur
- (vapuḥ) its body
- iha
- here
- kāla
- (kālaḥ) Time
- īhatē
- makes its effort
Meaning
The sarga ends in a longer metre (rucirā, thirteen syllables a pāda). The hunter is anuttama, unsurpassed: he runs, and his quarry runs, the commentary says, yet he never misses; he pierces all with the arrows of sorrow. And in the old world he makes "restless monkeys" leap: people, the commentary says, greedy for objects, jumping from branch to branch. The image turns on the reader: the monkeys driven about by the hunt are ourselves. The next sarga will show the other face of Time, as fate and action.