परमान्ध्यमुपाजग्मुर्दिशोऽविस्फुटतारकाः । लम्बदीर्घतमःकेश्यो विधवा इव योषितः ॥ २६ ॥
paramāndhyamupājagmurdiśō’visphuṭatārakāḥ | lambadīrghatamaḥkēśyō vidhavā iva yōṣitaḥ || 26 ||
Translation
The quarters came into deep blindness, their stars unclear, like widowed women with long hanging tresses of darkness.
Word by word
- parama
- deep
- āndhyam
- blindness
- upājagmur
- (upājagmuḥ) came into
- diśō
- (diśaḥ) the quarters
- avisphuṭa
- unclear
- tārakāḥ
- their stars
- lamba
- hanging
- dīrgha
- long
- tamaḥ
- of darkness
- kēśyō
- (keśyaḥ) with tresses
- vidhavā
- (vidhavāḥ) widowed
- iva
- like
- yōṣitaḥ
- women
Meaning
Widows in that world let their hair hang loose and wore no ornament. The quarters of the sky, darkened and without their jewels of stars, look like them: the sun, their lord, has gone.