पीत्वाप: पादपा: पद्भिरासन्नानात्ममूर्तय: । प्राक् क्षामास्तपसा श्रान्ता यथा कामानुसेवया ॥ २१ ॥
pītvāpaḥ pādapāḥ padbhir āsan nānātma-mūrtayaḥ prāk kṣāmās tapasā śrāntā yathā kāmānusevayā
- pītvā
- having drunk
- āpaḥ
- water
- pāda-pāḥ
- the trees
- padbhiḥ
- with their feet
- āsan
- assumed
- nānā
- various
- ātma-mūrtayaḥ
- bodily features
- prāk
- previously
- kṣāmāḥ
- emaciated
- tapasā
- by austerities
- śrāntāḥ
- fatigued
- yathā
- as
- kāma-anusevayā
- by enjoying acquired desired objects
The trees had grown thin and dry, but after they drank the newly fallen rainwater through their feet, their various bodily features blossomed. Similarly, one whose body has grown thin and weak from austerity again exhibits his healthy bodily features upon enjoying the material objects gained through that austerity.