मेघदूतम् · कालिदास · 1.41
उज्जयिनी · dawn, and the sun's road given up
तस्मिन् काले नयनसलिलं योषितां खण्डितानां
शान्तिं नेयं प्रणयिभिरतो वर्त्म भानोस्त्यजाशु
प्रालेयास्रं कमलवदनात् सोऽपि हर्तुं नलिन्याः
प्रत्यावृत्तस्त्वयि कररुधि स्यादनल्पाभ्यसूयः
pāda a
pāda b
pāda c
pāda d
नयनसलिलम् + योषिताम् → नयनसलिलं
म् + य्
योषिताम् + खण्डितानाम् → योषितां
म् + ख्
खण्डितानाम् + शान्तिम् → खण्डितानां
म् + श्
शान्तिम् + नेयम् → शान्तिं
म् + न्
नेयम् + प्रणयिभिः → नेयं
म् + प्
प्रणयिभिः + अतः → प्रणयिभिरतो
ः + अ
no rule named — the builder's table does not hold this change
भानोः + त्यज → भानोस्त्यजाशु
ः + त्
त्यज + आशु → भानोस्त्यजाशु
अ + आ → आ
प्रालेयास्रम् + कमलवदनात् → प्रालेयास्रं
म् + क्
सः + अपि → सोऽपि
ः + अ → ओ
हर्तुम् + नलिन्याः → हर्तुं
म् + न्
प्रत्यावृत्तः + त्वयि → प्रत्यावृत्तस्त्वयि
ः + त्
स्यात् + अनल्पाभ्यसूयः → स्यादनल्पाभ्यसूयः
त् + अ
नयन + सलिल → नयनसलिलम्
अ + स्
no rule named — the builder's table does not hold this change
प्रालेय + अस्र → प्रालेयास्रम्
अ + अ → आ · falls inside the syllable या
कमल + वदन → कमलवदनात्
अ + व्
no rule named — the builder's table does not hold this change
कर + रुध् → कररुधि
अ + र्
no rule named — the builder's table does not hold this change
अ + अल्प → अनल्पाभ्यसूयः
अ + अ → आ · falls inside the syllable अा
अल्प + अभ्यसूया → अनल्पाभ्यसूयः
अ + अ → आ · falls inside the syllable ल्पा
The joins run through the visarga's outcomes and one voicing. भानोस्त्यजाशु packs two: भानोः goes to स् before the dental त् of त्यज (Pāṇini 8.3.34), and then त्यज + आशु fuse their two अ/आ to a single आ (savarṇa-dīrgha, 6.1.101), so it prints त्यजाशु. सोऽपि is a visarga before short अ: सः + अपि gives सो, the अ swallowed and marked with the avagraha, सोऽपि (6.1.113, 6.1.109, 6.1.87). प्रत्यावृत्तस्त्वयि turns a visarga to स् before त् (8.3.34), and स्यादनल्पाभ्यसूयः voices a word-final त् to द् before the vowel of अनल्प- (8.2.39). The म् before consonants is anusvāra throughout.
तस्मिन् सप्तमी · locative — अधिकरण, the location
काले सप्तमी · locative — अधिकरण, the location
नयनसलिलम् प्रथमा · nominative — कर्मणि प्रथमा — a nominative marking the object of the gerundive, where an accusative would be expected
नेयम् is a kṛtya, and a kṛtya carries a passive sense, so the thing the leading falls on stands in the nominative and not the accusative: नयनसलिलं … नेयम्, ‘the eye-water is to be led [to a stop].’ The stop itself, शान्तिम्, keeps the accusative, because नी is a two-object verb — नयतिर्द्विकर्मकः — and its goal survives the passive turn. So the line carries a nominative and an accusative under one gerundive, each doing a different work.
योषिताम् षष्ठी · genitive — सम्बन्ध, a relation to another word
with खण्डितानाम्
शान्तिम् द्वितीया · accusative — कर्म, the object
नेयम् प्रथमा · nominative — कर्ता, the agent
प्रणयिभिः तृतीया · instrumental — करण, the instrument or cause
वर्त्म द्वितीया · accusative — कर्म, the object
भानोः षष्ठी · genitive — सम्बन्ध, a relation to another word
प्रालेयास्रम् द्वितीया · accusative — कर्म, the object
कमलवदनात् पञ्चमी · ablative — अपादान, the point of departure
सः प्रथमा · nominative — कर्ता, the agent
with अनल्पाभ्यसूयः
नलिन्याः षष्ठी · genitive — सम्बन्ध, a relation to another word
प्रत्यावृत्तः प्रथमा · nominative — कर्ता, the agent
त्वयि सप्तमी · locative — अधिकरण, the location
कररुधि सप्तमी · locative — अधिकरण, the location
प्रकरण 1 · हलन्त्यम्
प्रकरण 2 · इको यणचि
प्रकरण 3 · स्तोः श्चुना श्चुः
प्रकरण 4 · वा शरि
प्रकरण 5 · अर्थवदधातुरप्रत्ययः प्रातिपदिकम्
प्रकरण 7 · अतोऽम्
प्रकरण 8 · हो ढः
प्रकरण 11 · स्वरादिनिपातमव्ययम्
प्रकरण 12 · लः कर्मणि च भावे चाकर्मकेभ्यः
प्रकरण 13 · अदिप्रभृतिभ्यः शपः
प्रकरण 21 · सत्यापपाशरूपवीणातूलश्लोकसेनालोमत्वचवर्मवर्णचूर्णचुरादिभ्यो णिच्
प्रकरण 33 · धातोः
प्रकरण 34 · ण्वुल्तृचौ
प्रकरण 36 · तुमुन्ण्वुलौ क्रियायां क्रियार्थायाम्
प्रकरण 48 · शेषे
प्रकरण 59 · इवे प्रतिकृतौ
प्रकरण 60 · स्त्रियाम्
not in the abridgement
नयनसलिलम्
नयन · सलिल
नयनयोः सलिलम्
तत्पुरुष (genitive) — the water of the eyes
तत्पुरुष. the water in their eyes — Mallinātha carries the compound over untouched, so the vigraha is restored. The poem says water and not tears, which is what lets the same word stand over the lotus in the third pāda, where it is dew
uncheckedMallinātha, Sañjīvinī, who carries the compound over; the vigraha restored“nayanasalilaṃ śāntiṃ neyaṃ netavyam”
प्रालेयास्रम्
प्रालेय · अस्र
प्रालेयम् एव अस्रम्
कर्मधारय — the dew, and it is a tear
कर्मधारय. the dew that is her tears — Mallinātha glosses both members with synonyms and keeps the एव between them: प्रालेयं हिममेवास्रमश्रु. The identification is made inside the compound and not by a word for likeness, which is the same move as खिन्नविद्युत्कलत्रः at 1.40. DCS reads the second member अस्त्र, a weapon, where this text and the commentary both read अस्र, a tear
uncheckedMallinātha, Sañjīvinī, who glosses each member with a synonym“prāleyaṃ himamevāsramaśru hartuṃ śamayitum”
कमलवदनात्
कमल · वदन
कमलम् एव वदनम्, तस्मात्
कर्मधारय — the lotus, and it is her face
कर्मधारय. from the lotus that is her face — Mallinātha's vigraha names whose face it is and whose flower: तस्याः स्वकान्तायाः कमलं स्वकुसुममेव वदनं तस्मात्, 'her, his own beloved's, lotus, which is her own flower, and it is her face'. The compound is the ordinary one of this poem in reverse: usually a face is called a lotus, and here the lotus is called a face, because the person the sun is coming back to is a plant
uncheckedMallinātha, Sañjīvinī“tasyāḥ svakāntāyāḥ kamalaṃ svakusumameva vadanaṃ tasmāt”
कररुधि
कर · रुध्
करान् रुणद्धि इति कररुत्, तस्मिन्
तत्पुरुष (accusative) — the one who blocks the rays
तत्पुरुष. blocking his rays — and blocking his hand. Mallinātha gives the derivation with the affix named: करानंशून् रुणद्धीति कररुत्, क्विप् — क्विप् is the affix that leaves nothing behind, so the root itself becomes the noun. Then he adds the second reading in one clause: हस्तरोधिनि सतीति च गम्यते, 'and it is understood as blocking the hand too'. Both hang on कर, which Amara gives as tribute, hand and ray, so the cloud is at once standing in the sun's light and holding back the hand that would have wiped her face
uncheckedMallinātha, Sañjīvinī, deriving the word with क्विप् and giving both senses, citing Amara“karānaṃśūnruṇaddhīti kararut | kvip | tasminkararudhi sati | hastarodhini satīti ca gamyate || “balihastāṃśavaḥ karāḥ” ityamaraḥ”
अनल्पाभ्यसूयः
अ · अल्प · अभ्यसूया
न अल्पा
कर्मधारय — not a little
अनल्पा अभ्यसूया यस्य सः
बहुव्रीहि — the one whose grudge is not a little one
बहुव्रीहि — it refers to सः. bearing no small grudge — Mallinātha glosses it अधिकविद्वेषः, great hatred, and then gives the reason as a general truth about lovers: प्रायेणेच्छाविशेषविघातात् द्वेषो रोषविशेषश्च कामिनां भवति, 'when a particular wish is thwarted, hatred and a particular anger arise in those in love, as a rule'. The litotes is the poet's: not-small says more than large would
uncheckedMallinātha, Sañjīvinī“analpābhyasūyo'dhikavidveṣaḥ syāt | prāyeṇecchāviśeṣavighātādveṣo roṣaviśeṣaśca kāmināṃ bhavatīti bhāvaḥ”
pronoun, सप्तमी एकवचन locative singular
तस्मिन्
तद्
at that — Mallinātha says which: पूर्वोक्ते सूर्योदयकाले, the sunrise already spoken of. It is the दृष्टे सूर्ये of the stanza before, so the pronoun reaches back over a verse boundary and the two stanzas are one instruction
a-stem masculine, सप्तमी एकवचन locative singular
काले
काल
hour — the locative of the moment, and the moment is dawn. काल is time as a stretch and time as the right time for something; here it is the second, the hour at which a particular thing has to happen
a-stem neuter, प्रथमा एकवचन nominative singular
नयनसलिलम्
printed नयनसलिलं
सलिल
water — nominative, not accusative, because the verb of the clause is a kṛtya: what the action falls on stands in the nominative and the one who does it in the instrumental. So the tears are the subject of a sentence whose real actor, प्रणयिभिः, is in the instrumental behind them
t-stem feminine, षष्ठी बहुवचन genitive plural
योषिताम्
printed योषितां
योषित्
of the women — the same word in the same case as at 1.39, and Mallinātha again says which women they are by naming a type from the handbooks. There they were अभिसारिकाः, out to meet a lover; here they are खण्डिताः, and the two stanzas stand two hours apart on the same night
√खण्ड् + क्त, षष्ठी बहुवचन genitive plural
खण्डितानाम्
printed खण्डितानां
खण्डिता, from √खण्ड्
broken — and Mallinātha at once says it is not an ordinary word: नायिकाविशेषाणाम्, 'of a particular kind of heroine'. He quotes the Daśarūpaka for the definition — ज्ञातेऽन्यासङ्गविकृते खण्डितेर्ष्याकषायिता, 'when he is known to have been with another and comes back marked by it, the khaṇḍitā is the one turned harsh with jealousy'. So the participle names a woman whose lover has spent the night elsewhere and arrived at dawn with the evidence on him, and the whole first half of the stanza is about that hour
i-stem feminine, द्वितीया एकवचन accusative singular
शान्तिम्
printed शान्तिं
शान्ति
to a stop — the accusative that survives the kṛtya construction, and Mallinātha explains why in three words: नयतिर्द्विकर्मकः, 'the verb नी takes two objects'. One of the two turns nominative under the kṛtya and the other stays where it was. So the tears are led, and what they are led to is calm
√नी + यत्, प्रथमा एकवचन nominative singular
नेयम्
printed नेयं
नेय, from √नी
is to be led — Mallinātha glosses it with the other kṛtya of the same root, नेतव्यम्, which is his way of saying that nothing turns on which affix was chosen. √नी ends in a vowel and so takes यत्, where a root ending in a consonant would take ण्यत्. The kṛtya is the whole verb of the first half of the stanza: there is no finite verb until त्यज
नयनसलिलं शान्तिं नेयम् is a lesson in what a gerundive does to a two-object verb. नेयम्, “is to be led,” is a kṛtya of √नी, and a kṛtya is passive in sense: the thing led should stand in the nominative, and नयनसलिलम्, “the eye-water,” does — “the tears are to be led [to a stop].” But √नी takes two objects, the thing moved and where it is moved to, and Mallinātha names the rule, नयतिर्द्विकर्मकः, “नी is a two-object verb.” So the goal, शान्तिम्, “to a stop,” keeps its accusative even under the passive gerundive. One line, one gerundive, a nominative and an accusative side by side.
in-stem masculine, तृतीया बहुवचन instrumental plural
प्रणयिभिः
printed प्रणयिभिरतो
प्रणयिन्
by their lovers — glossed प्रियतमैः, by their dearest. The instrumental is the agent of the kṛtya: the men are the ones who must do the stopping, and they are also, by the definition of खण्डिता, the ones who caused the tears
अव्यय
अतः
printed प्रणयिभिरतो
अतस्
so — Mallinātha writes in the noun it stands for, अतो हेतोः, 'for this reason'. The word is the hinge of the stanza: everything before it is why, everything after it is what to do
an-stem neuter, द्वितीया एकवचन accusative singular
वर्त्म
वर्त्मन्
the path — the third word for a road in three stanzas, after नरपतिपथे at 1.39 and अध्वशेषम् at 1.40, and this one is the sky's. वर्त्मन् is from √वृत्, to turn or roll on, so it is a track in the sense of a rut: what a wheel has been over
u-stem masculine, षष्ठी एकवचन genitive singular
भानोः
printed भानोस्त्यजाशु
भानु
of the sun — भानु is the shiner, from √भा, and it is the sun named by what it does rather than by a proper name. The genitive belongs to वर्त्म: it is the sun's road that has to be got out of
√त्यज्, class 1, लोट्, parasmaipada, second person singular
त्यज
printed भानोस्त्यजाशु
√त्यज्
get out of — the stanza's one finite verb, a plain imperative like the हर of 1.38. Mallinātha restates the order as a prohibition: तस्यावरको मा भूः, 'do not be the one who blocks him'. The restatement is what sets up the last two pādas, which are all consequence
अव्यय
आशु
printed भानोस्त्यजाशु
आशु
at once — glossed शीघ्रम्. The word is the neuter of the adjective आशु, swift, standing as an adverb, and the haste in it is the point: the sun is already rising while the sentence is being said
a-stem neuter, द्वितीया एकवचन accusative singular
प्रालेयास्रम्
printed प्रालेयास्रं
अस्र
tear — glossed अश्रु, which is the ordinary word; अस्र is the rarer one and it also means blood. DCS reads अस्त्र here, a weapon, which would leave the sun coming back to take a weapon off a lotus; this text and the commentary both read अस्र
a-stem neuter, पञ्चमी एकवचन ablative singular
कमलवदनात्
वदन
from the face — वदन is from √वद्, to speak, so the word for a face is built on the mouth. The ablative is what हर्तुम् takes: the taking-away is from the face, and a face is what a lotus becomes as soon as the sun is called its husband
pronoun, प्रथमा एकवचन nominative singular
सः
printed सोऽपि
तद्
he — Mallinātha writes the noun back in, सोऽपि भानुः, because the pronoun's antecedent is two pādas back in the genitive. It also marks the turn in the argument: he has just said what to do, and he introduces the reason with विपक्षेऽनिष्टमाचष्टे, 'he states what goes wrong in the other case'
The stanza's fancy is that the sun is a husband too. The first half says the tears of the खण्डिता — the wronged wife whose man was away all night — are for the lovers to stop; the second says सोऽपि भानुः, “the sun as well,” has turned back for exactly that, प्रत्यावृत्तः … हर्तुम्, “come back to take away” the प्रालेयास्र, “the dew that is her tears,” from the कमलवदन, “the lotus that is her face” — his wife being नलिनी, the lotus-pond. The particle अपि is what welds the halves: the men and the sun are doing the same thing at the same dawn, and to stand in the sun's rays, त्वयि कररुधि, is to keep a husband from his wife.
अव्यय
अपि
printed सोऽपि
अपि
too — he as well as the lovers of the first half. The particle is what makes the two halves one thought: the men are coming back to women who have been crying, and so is the sun
√हृ + तुमुन्
हर्तुम्
printed हर्तुं
√हृ
to take away — glossed शमयितुम्, to still. It is the infinitive of purpose, giving what the sun turned back for. The root is the हर of 1.38 again, where the cloud was asked to take away Śiva's wish; the poem uses the same verb for stealing, for carrying off, and here for wiping a face dry. DCS tags the form only as a verbal indeclinable, and `scripts/draft-analysis.ts` read that as an absolutive in ल्यप्
ī-stem feminine, षष्ठी एकवचन genitive singular
नलिन्याः
नलिनी
of the lotus-plant — Mallinātha derives it rather than translating: नलान्यम्बुजानि यस्याः सन्तीति नलिनी, 'she who has nala-s, that is lotuses, is nalinī', and glosses it with पद्मिनी. He fixes नल from the Śabdārṇava, which gives it neuter for a reed and a lotus, masculine for the king Nala and for a stalk, and never feminine. Then he says the thing that holds the stanza together: the lotus-plant is herself a खण्डिता, because her husband the sun spent the night on other lotuses in another country. It declines on the नदी pattern, which is the regular feminine ī-stem
√वृत् + क्त, प्रथमा एकवचन nominative singular
प्रत्यावृत्तः
printed प्रत्यावृत्तस्त्वयि
प्रत्यावृत्त, from प्रति + आ + √वृत्
come back — glossed प्रत्यागतः. √वृत् is intransitive, so its क्त says what the sun did and not what was done to him, which is the same agentive क्त Mallinātha stopped to name at 1.37 and 1.38. Two prefixes stack on it: आ brings the turning towards, प्रति turns it back again
pronoun, सप्तमी एकवचन locative singular
त्वयि
printed प्रत्यावृत्तस्त्वयि
युष्मद्
you being — the first half of a locative absolute whose other half is कररुधि. Mallinātha completes it with सति, as he completed दृष्टे सूर्ये at 1.40: तस्मिन् कररुधि सति. The construction puts the cloud into the sentence as a circumstance rather than as anybody's object, which is exactly the offence — the sun is angry at a thing that was merely in the way
dh-stem masculine, सप्तमी एकवचन locative singular
कररुधि
कररुध्, from कर and √रुध् with क्विप्
blocking the rays — and blocking the hand. The word is made with क्विप्, the affix that disappears entirely and leaves the bare root to decline as a noun, so कररुध् is 'ray-blocker' with nothing added. Mallinātha gives the derivation, names the affix, and then offers the second sense in a clause of its own, because कर is both a ray and a hand and the sun is doing both at once. The root itself stands as a noun, the affix क्विप् having left nothing behind
कररुधि, “blocking the rays,” is made with क्विप्, the affix that leaves no trace of itself. From कर, “ray” (and “hand”), and √रुध्, “to block,” the affix क्विप् builds an agent word — “ray-blocker” — and then vanishes entirely, so the stem is the bare root रुध् with nothing added, declining as कररुध्. Mallinātha completes the locative absolute with सति, त्वयि कररुधि सति, “you being a blocker of the rays.” And कर means both “ray” and “hand,” so blocking the sun's कर is blocking a lover's reaching hand — the pun the whole conceit rides on. अनल्पाभ्यसूयः, अधिकविद्वेषः, “bearing no small grudge,” is what the sun would then feel.
√अस्, class 2, विधिलिङ्, parasmaipada, third person singular
स्यात्
printed स्यादनल्पाभ्यसूयः
√अस्
would be — the optative of √अस्, and the mood is doing the work of a conditional: this is what would happen if the cloud stayed. Mallinātha keeps the word in his gloss and hangs the consequence on it
a-stem masculine, प्रथमा एकवचन nominative singular
अनल्पाभ्यसूयः
printed स्यादनल्पाभ्यसूयः
अभ्यसूय, which the feminine अभ्यसूया becomes at the end of a bahuvrīhi describing the sun
grudge — अभ्यसूया is the ill-will that will not see merit in someone, from अभि + असू; Mallinātha glosses it विद्वेष, hatred. He closes the stanza by turning the sun's anger into a warning, quoting a verse that whoever hates himself, the Sun, Īśāna or Viṣṇu loses his goods and is certain of hell — and then says what that is doing here: कार्यहानिर्भविष्यतीति ध्वनिः, 'the suggestion is that the errand will fail'. That is dhvani, the sense a verse carries without saying it, and he names it as such rather than naming a figure. अभ्यसूया is a feminine noun and loses its ā at the end of a bahuvrīhi that describes a masculine, as कृत्या did at 1.40
तस्मिन् · काले · प्रणयिभिः · खण्डितानाम् · योषिताम् · नयनसलिलम् · शान्तिम् · नेयम् · अतः · भानोः · वर्त्म · आशु · त्यज · सः · अपि · नलिन्याः · कमलवदनात् · प्रालेयास्रम् · हर्तुम् · प्रत्यावृत्तः · त्वयि · कररुधि · अनल्पाभ्यसूयः · स्यात्
uncheckedMallinātha, Sañjīvinī, whose commentary is written as anvaya“tasminkāle … praṇayibhiḥ priyatamaiḥ khaṇḍitānāṃ yoṣitāṃ … nayanasalilaṃ śāntiṃ neyaṃ … ato hetorbhānorvartmāśu śīghraṃ tyaja | … so'pi bhānuḥ … tasyāḥ … kamalaṃ … vadanaṃ tasmātprāleyaṃ … asramaśru hartuṃ … pratyāvṛttaḥ … tatastvayi … tasminkararudhi sati … analpābhyasūyaḥ syāt”
the dependency structure
त्यज · क्रिया — get out of; a plain imperative like the हर of 1.38, restated by Mallinātha as an order to leave
वर्त्म · कर्म — the path, मार्गम्; the third word for a road in three stanzas, after नरपतिपथे and अध्वशेषम्
भानोः · षष्ठी — of the sun, भानु, the shiner, named by what it does
आशु · क्रियाविशेषण — at once, शीघ्रम्; the neuter of आशु, ‘swift’, standing as an adverb
काले · अधिकरण — at that hour, पूर्वोक्ते सूर्योदयकाले, the sunrise already named; the दृष्टे सूर्ये of 1.40
तस्मिन् · agreeing with काले — at that
अतः · so — अतो हेतोः, ‘for this reason’; the hinge that turns the tears-clause into the ground of the order
नेयम् · गेरुंडिव — is to be led to a stop, नेतव्यम्; a kṛtya, so the men who must do it stand in the instrumental
नयनसलिलम् · कर्मणि प्रथमा — the eye-water; the object of the kṛtya, so it stands in the nominative, not the accusative
योषिताम् · षष्ठी — of the women, नायिकाविशेषाणाम्; the same case as at 1.39
खण्डितानाम् · agreeing with योषिताम् — wronged; a heroine of a particular kind, the woman whose lover has spent the night elsewhere
शान्तिम् · कर्म surviving the kṛtya — to a stop; नयति is द्विकर्मक, so its goal keeps the accusative
प्रणयिभिः · करण / कर्तरि तृतीया — by their lovers, प्रियतमैः; the agent of the kṛtya
स्यात् · क्रिया — would be; the optative of √अस्, doing a conditional's work: this is what would happen if the cloud blocked the sun
सः · कर्ता — he, सोऽपि भानुः, the sun as well as the lovers of the first half
अपि · too — makes the two halves one thought, the sun a wronged lover like the men
अनल्पाभ्यसूयः · predicate agreeing with सः — bearing no small grudge, अधिकविद्वेषः
प्रत्यावृत्तः · agreeing with सः — come back, प्रत्यागतः; √वृत् is intransitive, so its क्त is active
हर्तुम् · infinitive of purpose — to take away, शमयितुम्, to still; what the sun turned back for
प्रालेयास्रम् · कर्म of हर्तुम् — the dew that is her tears, हिममेव अश्रु
कमलवदनात् · अपादान — from the lotus that is her face, स्वरसं मुखमेव वदनम्
नलिन्याः · षष्ठी — of the lotus-plant, his wife; नलानि अम्बुजानि यस्याः सा नलिनी
कररुधि · अधिकरण / locative absolute — you blocking the rays (and the hand), त्वयि कररुधि सति
त्वयि · the other half of the locative absolute — you being; कररुधि made with क्विप्, the affix that vanishes and leaves the bare root
uncheckedMallinātha’s Sañjīvinī for the anvaya and the reading; the Telugu drawn from Vedam Venkataraya Sastri’s Āndhra Meghasandeśam and the Bālānandinī
At that hour the tears in the eyes of women whose lovers have wronged them are for those lovers to stop — so get out of the sun's road, and quickly. He too has turned back, to take the dew that is her tears from the lotus that is his wife's face; and if you stand in the way of his rays, he will bear you no small grudge.
uncheckedthe reader's reading, following Mallinātha's gloss
At that hour the tears in the eyes of women whose lovers have wronged them are for those lovers to stop — so get out of the sun's road, and quickly. He too has turned back, to take the dew that is her tears from the lotus that is his wife's face; and if you stand in the way of his rays, he will bear you no small grudge.
No figure is named for this verse by the commentary this reading follows, so none is shown.