ववुरुत्फुल्लकमलप्रकरामोदमांसलाः । वायवो मधुरस्पन्दाः श्रवणार्थमिवाऽऽगताः ॥ ५ ॥
vavurutphullakamalaprakarāmōdamāṁsalāḥ | vāyavō madhuraspandāḥ śravaṇārthamivā’’gatāḥ || 5 ||
Translation
Breezes blew, full of the fragrance of masses of opened lotuses, moving gently, as if they had come to hear.
Word by word
- vavur
- (vavuḥ) blew
- utphulla
- opened
- kamala
- of lotuses
- prakara
- masses
- āmōda
- fragrance
- māṁsalāḥ
- full of
- vāyavō
- (vāyavaḥ) breezes
- madhura
- gently
- spandāḥ
- moving
- śravaṇa
- to hear
- artham
- for the sake of
- iva
- as if
- āgatāḥ
- they had come
Meaning
Nature itself comes to listen. The poet gives the evening wind the motive of the assembly: it moves softly, as one does who does not want to miss a word.