सोऽहं नृपेन्द्र रहित: पुरुषोत्तमेन सख्या प्रियेण सुहृदा हृदयेन शून्य: । अध्वन्युरुक्रमपरिग्रहमङ्ग रक्षन् गोपैरसद्भिरबलेव विनिर्जितोऽस्मि ॥ २० ॥
so ’ham nrpendra rahitah purusottamena sakhya priyena suhrda hrdayena sunyah adhvany urukrama-parigraham anga raksan gopair asadbhir abaleva vinirjito ’smi
- sah
- that
- aham
- myself
- nrpa-indra
- O Emperor
- rahitah
- bereft of
- purusa-uttamena
- by the Supreme Lord
- sakhya
- by my friend
- priyena
- by my dearmost
- suhrda
- by the well-wisher
- hrdayena
- by the heart and soul
- sunyah
- vacant
- adhvani
- recently
- urukrama-parigraham
- the wives of the all-powerful
- anga
- bodies
- raksan
- while protecting
- gopaih
- by the cowherds
- asadbhih
- by the infidels
- abala iva
- like a weak woman
- vinirjitah asmi
- I have been defeated
O Emperor, now I am separated from my friend and dearmost well-wisher, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore my heart appears to be void of everything. In His absence I have been defeated by a number of infidel cowherd men while I was guarding the bodies of all the wives of Krsna.