Many, whom clever bards formerly used with their hymns and panegyris, to delight every morning, are now surrounded by fair ladies stricken with grief and weeping and crying around them in distress, O foremost of Vrishni's race.
सर्वेष्वपररात्रेषु याननदन्त बन्दिनः। स्तुतिभिश्च पराया॑भिरुपचारैश्च शिक्षिताः॥ तानिमाः परिदेवन्ति दुःखार्ताः परमाङ्गनाः। कृपणं वृष्णिशार्दूल दुःखशोकार्दिता भृशम्॥