सोत्सृज्य धैर्यं विललाप शोक दावाग्निना दावलतेव बाला । वाक्यं सपत्न्या: स्मरती सरोज श्रिया दृशा बाष्पकलामुवाह ॥ १६ ॥
sotsrjya dhairyam vilalapa soka- davagnina dava-lateva bala vakyam sapatnyah smarati saroja- sriya drsa baspa-kalam uvaha
- sa
- she
- utsrjya
- giving up
- dhairyam
- patience
- vilalapa
- lamented
- soka-dava-agnina
- by the fire of grief
- dava-lata iva
- like burnt leaves
- bala
- the woman
- vakyam
- words
- sa-patnyah
- spoken by her co-wife
- smarati
- remember
- saroja-sriya
- a face as beautiful as a lotus
- drsa
- by looking
- baspa-kalam
- weeping
- uvaha
- said.
This incident was unbearable to Suniti’s patience. She began to burn as if in a forest fire, and in her grief she became just like a burnt leaf and so lamented. As she remembered the words of her co-wife, her bright, lotuslike face filled with tears, and thus she spoke.