Chalitarama 1.1: Avaloka

1.1

yenāvṛtya mukhāni sāma paṭhatām atyantam āyāsitaṃ bālye yena hṛtākṣasūtravalayapratyarpaṇaiḥ krīḍitam | yuṣmākaṃ hṛdayaṃ sa eṣa viśikhair āpūritāṃsasthalo mūrcchāghoratamaḥpraveśavivaśo baddhvā lavo nīyate ||

He who, covering their mouths, so greatly troubled you as you recited the Sāman, who as a child played at snatching your rosaries and giving them back — your darling, this Lava, his shoulders filled with arrows, helpless as he sinks into the dreadful darkness of a swoon, is led away in bonds.