अष्टौ मासान् निपीतं यद् भूम्याश्चोदमयं वसु । स्वगोभिर्मोक्तुमारेभे पर्जन्य: काल आगते ॥ ५ ॥
aṣṭau māsān nipītaṁ yad bhūmyāś coda-mayaṁ vasu sva-gobhir moktum ārebhe parjanyaḥ kāla āgate
- aṣṭau
- eight
- māsān
- during months
- nipītam
- drunk
- yat
- which
- bhūmyāḥ
- of the earth
- ca
- and
- uda-mayam
- consisting of water
- vasu
- the wealth
- sva-gobhiḥ
- by his own rays
- moktum
- to release
- ārebhe
- began
- parjanyaḥ
- the sun
- kāle
- the proper time
- āgate
- when it arrived
With its rays, the sun had for eight months drunk up the earth’s wealth in the form of water. Now that the proper time had arrived, the sun began releasing this accumulated wealth.