तथाहं कृपण: सुभ्रु भवत्या: प्रेमयन्त्रित: । आत्मानं नाभिजानामि मोहितस्तव मायया ॥ १२ ॥
tathaham krpanah subhru bhavatyah prema-yantritah atmanam nabhijanami mohitas tava mayaya
- tatha
- exactly like the he-goat
- aham
- I
- krpanah
- a miser with no sense of the importance of life
- su-bhru
- O my wife, with beautiful eyebrows
- bhavatyah
- in your company
- prema-yantritah
- as if tied in love, although it is actually lust
- atmanam
- self-realization (what I am and what my duty is)
- na abhijanami
- I could not realize even until now
- mohitah
- being bewildered
- tava
- your
- mayaya
- by the materially attractive feature
O my dear wife with beautiful eyebrows, I am exactly like that he-goat, for I am so poor in intelligence that I am captivated by your beauty and have forgotten the real task of self-realization.