प्राप सा तमसाऽन्धत्वं तस्मिन् मरणमागते । दीपज्वालालवे क्षीणे सद्मश्रीरिव भूषिता ॥ ४७ ॥
prāpa sā tamasā’ndhatvaṁ tasmin maraṇamāgatē | dīpajvālālavē kṣīṇē sadmaśrīriva bhūṣitā || 47 ||
Translation
When he had come to death, she fell into blindness with darkness, like the beauty of a house, once adorned, when the last flicker of the lamp is spent.
Word by word
- prāpa
- fell into
- sā
- she
- tamasā
- with darkness
- andhatvaṁ
- blindness
- tasmin
- when he
- maraṇam
- to death
- āgatē
- had come
- dīpa
- of the lamp
- jvālā
- flame
- lavē
- the flicker
- kṣīṇē
- is spent
- sadma
- of a house
- śrīr
- (śrīḥ) the beauty
- iva
- like
- bhūṣitā
- adorned
Meaning
The commentary: as a house lit by a lamp is filled with darkness when the lamp goes out, so when the king died Queen Līlā was overwhelmed with grief.