तां ददर्शानुधावन्तीं चाण्डालीमिव रूपिणीम् । जरया वेपमानाङ्गीं यक्ष्मग्रस्तामसृक्पटाम् ॥ १२ ॥ विकीर्य पलितान् केशांस्तिष्ठ तिष्ठेति भाषिणीम् । मीनगन्ध्यसुगन्धेन कुर्वतीं मार्गदूषणम् ॥ १३ ॥
tam dadarsanudhavantim candalim iva rupinim jaraya vepamanangim yaksma-grastam asrk-patam vikirya palitan kesams tistha tistheti bhasinim mina-gandhy-asu-gandhena kurvatim marga-dusanam
- tam
- the sinful reaction
- dadarsa
- he saw
- anudhavantim
- chasing
- candalim
- a woman of the lowest class
- iva
- like
- rupinim
- taking a form
- jaraya
- because of old age
- vepamana-angim
- whose bodily limbs were trembling
- yaksma-grastam
- infected with tuberculosis
- asrk-patam
- whose clothes were covered with blood
- vikirya
- scattering
- palitan
- grayed
- kesan
- hair
- tistha tistha
- wait, wait
- iti
- thus
- bhasinim
- calling
- mina-gandhi
- the smell of fish
- asu
- whose breath
- gandhena
- by the odor
- kurvatim
- bringing about
- marga-dusanam
- the pollution of the whole street
Indra saw personified sinful reaction chasing him, appearing like a candala woman, a woman of the lowest class. She seemed very old, and all the limbs of her body trembled. Because she was afflicted with tuberculosis, her body and garments were covered with blood. Breathing an unbearable fishy odor that polluted the entire street, she called to Indra, “Wait! Wait!”