अहो त्रियामान्तरित उद्वाहो मेऽल्पराधस: । नागच्छत्यरविन्दाक्षो नाहं वेद्म्यत्र कारणम् । सोऽपि नावर्ततेऽद्यापि मत्सन्देशहरो द्विज: ॥ २३ ॥
aho tri-yāmāntarita udvāho me ’lpa-rādhasaḥ nāgacchaty aravindākṣo nāhaṁ vedmy atra kāraṇam so ’pi nāvartate ’dyāpi mat-sandeśa-haro dvijaḥ
- aho
- alas
- tri-yāma
- three yāmas (nine hours), i.e., the night
- antaritaḥ
- having ended
- udvāhaḥ
- the marriage
- me
- of me
- alpa
- insufficient
- rādhasaḥ
- whose good fortune
- na āgacchati
- does not come
- aravinda-akṣaḥ
- lotus-eyed Kṛṣṇa
- na
- do not
- aham
- I
- vedmi
- know
- atra
- for this
- kāraṇam
- the reason
- saḥ
- he
- api
- also
- na āvartate
- does not return
- adya api
- even now
- mat
- my
- sandeśa
- of the message
- haraḥ
- the carrier
- dvijaḥ
- the brāhmaṇa.
[Princess Rukmiṇī thought:] Alas, my wedding is to take place when the night ends! How unlucky I am! Lotus-eyed Kṛṣṇa does not come. I don’t know why. And even the brāhmaṇa messenger has not yet returned.