नदी निखातमिव तं भर्तारमनुसृत्य सा । आजगाम विशोकत्वं सा वासन्तीव मञ्जरी ॥ २७ ॥
nadī nikhātamiva taṁ bhartāramanusṛtya sā | ājagāma viśōkatvaṁ sā vāsantīva mañjarī || 27 ||
Translation
Following her husband as a river follows a hollow, she came to be free of sorrow, like a cluster of spring blossoms.
Word by word
- nadī
- a river
- nikhātam
- a hollow
- iva
- as; like
- taṁ
- her
- bhartāram
- husband
- anusṛtya
- following
- sā
- she
- ājagāma
- came
- viśōkatvaṁ
- to be free of sorrow
- vāsantī
- of spring
- mañjarī
- a cluster of blossoms
Meaning
The commentary: as a river runs to low ground, she followed her husband and became free of sorrow, like a spring flower-cluster. Her grief ends where it began, in being near him.