सस्नतुर्भूरिघर्मान्ते तडिद्रक्ताब्जसङ्कुले । सरसीव जलापूरमन्थरे मेघमण्डले ॥ ६ ॥
sasnaturbhūrigharmāntē taḍidraktābjasaṅkulē | sarasīva jalāpūramantharē mēghamaṇḍalē || 6 ||
Translation
At the end of the great heat they bathed in a ring of clouds crowded with lightning like red lotuses, slow and heavy with its flood of water, as in a lake.
Word by word
- sasnatur
- (sasnatuḥ) they bathed
- bhūri
- the great
- gharma
- heat
- antē
- at the end
- taḍid
- (taḍit) with lightning
- rakta
- red
- abja
- like lotuses
- saṅkulē
- crowded
- sarasi
- in a lake
- iva
- as
- jala
- of water
- āpūra
- with its flood
- mantharē
- slow and heavy
- mēgha
- of clouds
- maṇḍalē
- in a ring
Meaning
The rain-clouds of the monsoon are a lake in the sky, and the lightning in them its red lotuses. The "end of the heat" is the turn from summer to the rains.