चक्रकुल्याम्बुदावर्तपूर्णव्योमशिराम्बुदः । अस्त्रकल्पाग्निनिर्दग्धसैन्यलोकान्तरक्रमः ॥ २४ ॥
cakrakulyāmbudāvartapūrṇavyōmaśirāmbudaḥ | astrakalpāgninirdagdhasainyalōkāntarakramaḥ || 24 ||
Translation
its clouds and the veins of the sky full of whirling channels of discs; its army passing on to other worlds, burned by the fire of weapons as at the world's end;
Word by word
- cakra
- of discs
- kulyā
- channels
- ambuda
- clouds
- āvarta
- whirling
- pūrṇa
- full
- vyōma
- of the sky
- śirā
- and the veins
- ambudaḥ
- its clouds
- astra
- of weapons
- kalpa
- as at the world's end
- agni
- by the fire
- nirdagdha
- burned
- sainya
- its army
- lōkāntara
- to other worlds
- kramaḥ
- passing on
Meaning
Streams of discs whirl through the clouds like water in channels. The army, burnt as by the fire that ends an age, passes over to other worlds: the dead go on. The first commentary: the army burnt by the fire of weapons stood ready to go to the next world.
