महिष्य ऊचु: कुररि विलपसि त्वं वीतनिद्रा न शेषे स्वपिति जगति रात्र्यामीश्वरो गुप्तबोध: । वयमिव सखि कच्चिद् गाढनिर्विद्धचेता नलिननयनहासोदारलीलेक्षितेन ॥ १५ ॥
mahiṣya ūcuḥ kurari vilapasi tvaṁ vīta-nidrā na śeṣe svapiti jagati rātryām īśvaro gupta-bodhaḥ vayam iva sakhi kaccid gāḍha-nirviddha-cetā nalina-nayana-hāsodāra-līlekṣitena
- mahiṣyaḥ ūcuḥ
- the queens said
- kurari
- O kurarī bird (female osprey)
- vilapasi
- are lamenting
- tvam
- you
- vīta
- deprived
- nidrā
- of sleep
- na śeṣe
- you cannot rest
- svapiti
- is sleeping
- jagati
- (somewhere) in the world
- rātryām
- during the night
- īśvaraḥ
- the Supreme Lord
- gupta
- hidden
- bodhaḥ
- whose whereabouts
- vayam
- we
- iva
- just as
- sakhi
- O friend
- kaccit
- whether
- gāḍha
- deeply
- nirviddha
- pierced
- cetāḥ
- whose heart
- nalina
- (like) a lotus
- nayana
- whose eyes
- hāsa
- smiling
- udāra
- liberal
- līlā
- playful
- īkṣitena
- by the glance
The queens said: O kurarī bird, you are lamenting. Now it is night, and somewhere in this world the Supreme Lord is asleep in a hidden place. But you are wide awake, O friend, unable to fall asleep. Is it that, like us, you have had your heart pierced to the core by the lotus-eyed Lord’s munificent, playful smiling glances?