स्तावकांस्तानभिप्रेत्य पृथुर्वैन्य: प्रतापवान् । मेघनिर्ह्रादया वाचा प्रहसन्निदमब्रवीत् ॥ २१ ॥
stavakams tan abhipretya prthur vainyah pratapavan megha-nirhradaya vaca prahasann idam abravit
- stavakan
- engaged in offering prayers
- tan
- those persons
- abhipretya
- seeing, understanding
- prthuh
- King Prthu
- vainyah
- son of Vena
- pratapa-van
- greatly powerful
- megha-nirhradaya
- as grave as the thundering of clouds
- vaca
- with a voice
- prahasan
- smiling
- idam
- this
- abravit
- he spoke.
Thus when the greatly powerful King Prthu, the son of Vena, saw the professionals before him, to congratulate them he smiled, and with the gravity of the vibrating sounds of clouds he spoke as follows.