क्षौमाग्रहस्ताम्बरया मञ्जरीपूर्णकर्णया । क्षुत्क्षीणया क्रान्तरथ्यं ग्रामकीटककान्तया ॥ ३४ ॥
kṣaumāgrahastāmbarayā mañjarīpūrṇakarṇayā | kṣutkṣīṇayā krāntarathyaṁ grāmakīṭakakāntayā || 34 ||
Translation
its lanes walked by the village's poor women, wearing a linen cloth in hand, their ears full of blossoms, thin with hunger,
Word by word
- kṣauma
- linen
- agra
- in
- hasta
- hand
- ambarayā
- wearing a cloth
- mañjarī
- of blossoms
- pūrṇa
- full
- karṇayā
- their ears
- kṣut
- with hunger
- kṣīṇayā
- thin
- krānta
- walked
- rathyaṁ
- its lanes
- grāma
- of the village
- kīṭaka
- poor
- kāntayā
- by the women
Meaning
The poor of the village are part of its picture too; the description does not leave them out.