लोके नाविन्दत त्राणं वैन्यान्मृत्योरिव प्रजा: । त्रस्ता तदा निववृते हृदयेन विदूयता ॥ १७ ॥
loke navindata tranam vainyan mrtyor iva prajah trasta tada nivavrte hrdayena viduyata
- loke
- within the three worlds
- na
- not
- avindata
- could obtain
- tranam
- release
- vainyat
- from the hand of the son of King Vena
- mrtyoh
- from death
- iva
- like
- prajah
- men
- trasta
- being very much afraid
- tada
- at that time
- nivavrte
- turned back
- hrdayena
- within her heart
- viduyata
- very much aggrieved.
Just as a man cannot escape the cruel hands of death, the cow-shaped earth could not escape the hands of the son of Vena. At length the earth, fearful, her heart aggrieved, turned back in helplessness.