तदा शुचिवनोद्भूतो दावाग्नि: सर्वतो व्रजम् । सुप्तं निशीथ आवृत्य प्रदग्धुमुपचक्रमे ॥ २१ ॥
tadā śuci-vanodbhūto dāvāgniḥ sarvato vrajam suptaṁ niśītha āvṛtya pradagdhum upacakrame
- tadā
- then
- śuci
- of the summer
- vana
- in the forest
- udbhūtaḥ
- arising
- dāva-agniḥ
- a conflagration
- sarvataḥ
- on all sides
- vrajam
- the people of Vṛndāvana
- suptam
- sleeping
- niśīthe
- in the middle of the night
- āvṛtya
- surrounding
- pradagdhum
- to burn
- upacakrame
- began
During the night, while all the people of Vṛndāvana were asleep, a great fire blazed up within the dry summer forest. The fire surrounded the inhabitants of Vraja on all sides and began to scorch them.