Chapter 11
भूम्यां निपतितौ तत्र ददृशुर्यमलार्जुनौ । बभ्रमुस्तदविज्ञाय लक्ष्यं पतनकारणम् ॥ २ ॥
Transliteration
bhūmyāṁ nipatitau tatra dadṛśur yamalārjunau babhramus tad avijñāya lakṣyaṁ patana-kāraṇam
Synonyms (Word-for-Word)
bhūmyām — on the ground; nipatitau — which had fallen; tatra — there; dadṛśuḥ — all of them saw; yamala-arjunau — the twin arjuna trees; babhramuḥ — they became bewildered; tat — that; avijñāya — but they could not trace out; lakṣyam — although they could directly perceive that the trees had fallen; patana-kāraṇam — the cause of their falling (how could it have happened all of a sudden?).
Translation
“There they saw the fallen yamala-arjuna trees on the ground, but they were bewildered because even though they could directly perceive that the trees had fallen, they could not trace out the cause for their having done so.”