तोकेनामीलिताक्षेण पूतनाया महौजस: । पीत: स्तन: सह प्राणै: कालेनेव वयस्तनो: ॥ ४ ॥
tokenāmīlitākṣeṇa pūtanāyā mahaujasaḥ pītaḥ stanaḥ saha prāṇaiḥ kāleneva vayas tanoḥ
- tokena
- by the young child
- ā-mīlita
- almost closed
- akṣeṇa
- whose eyes
- pūtanāyāḥ
- of the witch Pūtanā
- mahā-ojasaḥ
- whose power was very great
- pītaḥ
- drunk
- stanaḥ
- the breast
- saha
- along with
- prāṇaiḥ
- her life air
- kālena
- by the force of time
- iva
- as
- vayaḥ
- the life span
- tanoḥ
- of a material body
As a mere infant who had hardly yet opened His eyes, He drank the breast milk of the powerful demoness Pūtanā and then sucked out her very life air as well, just as the force of time sucks out the youth of one’s body.