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satyam arka-karāraktam

uttarā-hanuvad ghanam

adharā-hanuvad rodhas

tat-praticchāyayāruṇam
satyam-now the boys decided that it was in fact a living python; arka-kara-āraktam-appearing like the sunshine; uttarā-hanuvat ghanam-on the cloud resembling the upper lips; adharā-hanuvat-resembling the lower lips; rodhaḥ-big bank; tat-praticchāyayā-by the reflection of sunshine; aruṇam-reddish.





Thereafter they decided: Dear friends, this is certainly an animal sitting here to swallow us all. Its upper lip resembles a cloud reddened by the sunshine, and its lower lip resembles the reddish shadows of a cloud.