छत्रेषूड्डीयमानेषु स्थितेषु व्योम्नि चन्द्रता । इन्दुनेव यशोमूर्त्या कृता शुभ्रातपत्रता ॥ ३३ ॥
chatrēṣūḍḍīyamānēṣu sthitēṣu vyōmni candratā | indunēva yaśōmūrtyā kṛtā śubhrātapatratā || 33 ||
Translation
"With parasols flying up and hanging in the sky, the moon is everywhere; it is as if the moon, the very form of fame, had become a white parasol."
Word by word
- chatrēṣu
- with parasols
- uḍḍīyamānēṣu
- flying up
- sthitēṣu
- hanging
- vyōmni
- in the sky
- candratā
- the moon is everywhere
- indunā
- the moon
- iva
- as if
- yaśō
- (yaśaḥ) of fame
- mūrtyā
- the very form
- kṛtā
- had become
- śubhra
- a white
- ātapatratā
- parasol
Meaning
The white royal parasols, knocked into the air, look like moons. And the moon, which in poetry is fame's colour, seems itself to have become a parasol over the heroes.