काम: स भूयान्नरदेव तेऽस्या: पुत्र्या: समाम्नायविधौ प्रतीत: । क एव ते तनयां नाद्रियेत स्वयैव कान्त्या क्षिपतीमिव श्रियम् ॥ १६ ॥
kamah sa bhuyan naradeva te ’syah putryah samamnaya-vidhau pratitah ka eva te tanayam nadriyeta svayaiva kantya ksipatim iva sriyam
- kamah
- desire
- sah
- that
- bhuyat
- let it be fulfilled
- nara-deva
- O King
- te
- your
- asyah
- this
- putryah
- of the daughter
- samamnaya-vidhau
- in the process of the Vedic scriptures
- pratitah
- recognized
- kah
- who
- eva
- in fact
- te
- your
- tanayam
- daughter
- na adriyeta
- would not adore
- svaya
- by her own
- eva
- alone
- kantya
- bodily luster
- ksipatim
- excelling
- iva
- as if
- sriyam
- ornaments.
Let your daughter’s desire for marriage, which is recognized in the Vedic scriptures, be fulfilled. Who would not accept her hand? She is so beautiful that by her bodily luster alone she excels the beauty of her ornaments.