अदृश्ये ग्रामलोकेन प्रेक्षमाणे पुरो गिरिम् । चुम्बिताकाशकुहरं स्पृष्टादित्यस्य मण्डलम् ॥ १७ ॥
adṛśyē grāmalōkēna prēkṣamāṇē purō girim | cumbitākāśakuharaṁ spṛṣṭādityasya maṇḍalam || 17 ||
- Another reading: संस्पृष्टादित्यमण्डलम् (saṁspṛṣṭādityamaṇḍalam) for स्पृष्टादित्यस्य मण्डलम्
Translation
Unseen by the village folk, they looked before them at the mountain, which kissed the hollow of the sky and touched the orb of the sun,
Word by word
- adṛśyē
- unseen
- grāma
- village
- lōkēna
- by the folk
- prēkṣamāṇē
- they looked
- purō
- (puraḥ) before them
- girim
- at the mountain
- cumbita
- which kissed
- ākāśa
- of the sky
- kuharaṁ
- the hollow
- spṛṣṭa
- touched
- ādityasya
- of the sun
- maṇḍalam
- the orb
Meaning
From here the whole description, to v. 22, describes the mountain, and from v. 23 the village; all one long sentence of the kind Sanskrit poetry loves.