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· asti narmadā-tīre viśāla: śālmalī-taru: /

there-is on-Narmadā-bank large slk-cotton-tree

· tatra nirmitanīḍaktoḍe pakṣiṇa: nivasanti sukhena /

there of-built-nests-in-interior birds dwell at-ease

· atha ekadā varṣāsu nīlapaṭalai: āvṛte

now one-day in-rains with-dark-vails being-covered

nabhastale dhārāsārai: mahatī vṛṣṭi: babhūva /

in-cloud-plain with-drop-showers great rain was

· tata: vānarā: ca tarutale avasthitāt śītakulāt

and then monkeys at-a-tree’s-foot standing by-cold-pained

kampamānān avalokya kṛpayā pakṣibhi: uktam /

trembling, having-seen with-pity by-birds said

· bho bho vānarā: śṛṇuta /

monkeys listen

· asmābhi: nirmitā nīḍā: cancumātrāhṛtai: tṛṇai: /

by-us built nests with-beaks-only-collected-straws

· hasta-pādā-disanyuktā yūyam kim iti sīdatha /

whth-hands-feet-etc.-endowed you-all why thus do-you-sit ?

· tat śrutvā vānarai: jātāmapai: rālocitam /

that having-heard by-monkeys with-roused-anger considered

· aho nirvātanīḍagarbhāvasthitā: sukhina: pakṣiṇa: asmāt nadanti /

in-a-sheltered-nest’s-interior-sitting happy birds us reproach

· bhavatu tāvat vṛṣṭe: upaśama: /

let-there-be only of-rain abatement

· anantaram śānte pānīyavarṣe tai: vānarai: vṛkṣam āruhya

thereupon having-abated water-rain, by-those-monkeys tree having-ascended

sarve nīḍā: bhagnā: teṣām anḍāni ca adha: pātitāni /

all nests were-broken of-them eggs and down thrown