एकस्मिन्नपि यातेऽब्दे प्राणेशं चान्तरात्मन: । कृष्णमायाहता राजन् क्षणार्धं मेनिरेऽर्भका: ॥ ४३ ॥
ekasminn api yāte ’bde prāṇeśaṁ cāntarātmanaḥ kṛṣṇa-māyāhatā rājan kṣaṇārdhaṁ menire ’rbhakāḥ
- ekasmin
- one
- api
- although
- yāte
- having passed
- abde
- year
- prāṇa-īśam
- the Lord of their lives
- ca
- and
- antarā
- without
- ātmanaḥ
- of themselves
- kṛṣṇa
- of Lord Kṛṣṇa
- māyā
- by the illusory potency
- āhatāḥ
- covered
- rājan
- O King
- kṣaṇa-ardham
- half a moment
- menire
- they thought
- arbhakāḥ
- the boys
O King, although the boys had passed an entire year apart from the Lord of their very lives, they had been covered by Lord Kṛṣṇa’s illusory potency and thus considered that year merely half a moment.