आदित्यो रजसा राजन् समवच्छन्नमण्डलः ॥
विरश्मिर् उदये नित्यं कबन्धैः समदृश्यत ॥
परिवेषाश् च दृश्यन्ते दारुणाः चन्द्रसूर्ययोः ॥
त्रिवर्णाः श्यामरूक्षान्तास् तथा भस्मारुणप्रभाः ॥
एते चान्ये च बहव उत्पाता भयशंसिनः ॥
दृश्यन्ते ऽहर् अहो राजन् हृदयोद्वेगकारकाः ॥
ādityo rajasā rājan samavacchannamaṇḍalaḥ ||
viraśmir udaye nityaṃ kabandhaiḥ samadṛśyata ||
pariveṣāś ca dṛśyante dāruṇāḥ candrasūryayoḥ ||
trivarṇāḥ śyāmarūkṣāntās tathā bhasmāruṇaprabhāḥ ||
ete cānye ca bahava utpātā bhayaśaṃsinaḥ ||
dṛśyante 'har aho rājan hṛdayodvegakārakāḥ ||
The sun, O king, its disk shrouded in dust, rayless at rising, was ever seen surrounded by headless phantoms. And dreadful halos appeared around the moon and sun — three-colored, with dark and rough edges, of ashen-crimson radiance. These and many other portents foreboding terror were seen day after day, O king, filling the heart with dread.
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The celestial luminaries, those sources of light and order, grow dim — the sun without rays and surrounded by phantoms, the moon and sun encircled by ominous halos: the very sky darkens before the coming destruction. Thus it is shown that the decline of a great lineage is reflected in the darkening of the heavens above. The portents "were seen day after day, filling the heart with dread": calamity does not strike suddenly, but makes itself known well in advance, testing vigilance and faith. The verse teaches that in the higher world as in the human heart, an approaching disaster casts its shadow before it arrives; and that these signs are to be met not with blind terror but with clear-eyed acceptance of the inevitable, remembering that even the dimming of the luminaries unfolds within an order governed by the supreme will.