सा सखीभि: परिवृता विचिन्वन्त्यङ्घ्रिपान् वने । वल्मीकरन्ध्रे ददृशे खद्योते इव ज्योतिषी ॥ ३ ॥
sa sakhibhih parivrta vicinvanty anghripan vane valmika-randhre dadrse khadyote iva jyotisi
- sa
- that Sukanya
- sakhibhih
- by her friends
- parivrta
- surrounded
- vicinvanti
- collecting
- anghripan
- fruits and flowers from the trees
- vane
- in the forest
- valmika-randhre
- in the hole of an earthworm
- dadrse
- observed
- khadyote
- two luminaries
- iva
- like
- jyotisi
- two shining things.
While that Sukanya, surrounded by her friends, was collecting various types of fruits from the trees in the forest, she saw within the hole of an earthworm two things glowing like luminaries.