निशम्याक्रन्दितं देवी पुत्रयोर्नीयमानयो: । हतास्म्यहं कुनाथेन नपुंसा वीरमानिना ॥ २८ ॥
nisamyakranditam devi putrayor niyamanayoh hatasmy aham kunathena napumsa vira-manina
- nisamya
- by hearing
- akranditam
- crying (because of being stolen)
- devi
- Urvasi
- putrayoh
- of those two lambs, which she treated as sons
- niyamanayoh
- as they were being taken away
- hata
- killed
- asmi
- am
- aham
- I
- ku-nathena
- under the protection of a bad husband
- na-pumsa
- by the eunuch
- vira-manina
- although considering himself a hero.
Urvasi treated the two lambs like her own sons. Therefore, when they were being taken by the Gandharvas and began crying, Urvasi heard them and rebuked her husband Now I am being killed she said, under the protection of an unworthy husband, who is a coward and a eunuch although he thinks himself a great hero.