अथर्त्विजो यजमान: सदस्या: ककुभ्युदीच्यां प्रसमीक्ष्य रेणुम् । तम: किमेतत्कुत एतद्रजोऽभू- दिति द्विजा द्विजपत्न्यश्च दध्यु: ॥ ७ ॥
athartvijo yajamanah sadasyah kakubhy udicyam prasamiksya renum tamah kim etat kuta etad rajo ’bhud iti dvija dvija-patnyas ca dadhyuh
- atha
- at that time
- rtvijah
- the priests
- yajamanah
- the chief person performing the sacrifice (Daksa)
- sadasyah
- all the persons assembled in the sacrificial arena
- kakubhi udicyam
- in the northern direction
- prasamiksya
- seeing
- renum
- the dust storm
- tamah
- darkness
- kim
- what
- etat
- this
- kutah
- from where
- etat
- this
- rajah
- dust
- abhut
- has come
- iti
- thus
- dvijah
- the brahmanas
- dvija-patnyah
- the wives of the brahmanas
- ca
- and
- dadhyuh
- began to speculate
At that time, all the persons assembled in the sacrificial arena—the priests, the chief of the sacrificial performance, and the brahmanas and their wives—wondered where the darkness was coming from. Later they could understand that it was a dust storm, and all of them were full of anxiety.