आलोलकुन्तमुसलासिपरश्वधांशु- श्यामायमानदिवसातपवारिपूरैः । एकार्णवं भुवनकोशमिवाऽचिरेण कर्तुं समुद्यतमगाधमनन्तपूरैः ॥ २८ ॥
ālōlakuntamusalāsiparaśvadhāṁśu- śyāmāyamānadivasātapavāripūraiḥ | ēkārṇavaṁ bhuvanakōśamivā’cirēṇa kartuṁ samudyatamagādhamanantapūraiḥ || 28 ||
Translation
with floods of the gleam of swaying lances, pestles, swords and axes, which darkened the day's sunshine like water, the army stood ready, as it were, to make the whole sphere of the worlds in a moment one ocean, fathomless, with its endless floods.
Word by word
- ālōla
- swaying
- kunta
- of lances
- musala
- pestles
- asi
- swords
- paraśvadha
- and axes
- aṁśu
- of the gleam
- śyāmāyamāna
- which darkened
- divasa
- of the day
- ātapa
- the sunshine
- vāri
- like water
- pūraiḥ
- with floods
- ēkārṇavaṁ
- one ocean
- bhuvana
- of the worlds
- kōśam
- the sphere
- iva
- as it were
- acirēṇa
- in a moment
- kartuṁ
- to make
- samudyatam
- ready
- agādham
- fathomless
- ananta
- endless
Meaning
The closing verse, in vasantatilakā, gathers the scene into one picture: the dark gleam of the weapons pours over the sunlit day like water, until it seems the armies will drown the world, as the flood does at the end of an age. This is what Līlā saw (v. 1). Seen from where she stands, with wisdom beside her, it is a spectacle in a world of thought; for those inside it, it is death. The next sarga is the battle itself.