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CC Madhya 3.44

Bengali

মধ্যে পীত-ঘৃতসিক্ত শাল্যন্নের স্তূপ ।
চারিদিকে ব্যঞ্জন-ডোঙ্গা, আর মুদ্গসূপ ॥ ৪৪ ॥

Text

madhye pīta-ghṛta-sikta śāly-annera stūpa
cāri-dike vyañjana-ḍoṅgā, āra mudga-sūpa

Synonyms

madhye — in the middle; pīta — yellow; ghṛta-sikta — wet with clarified butter; śāli-annera — of very fine cooked rice; stūpa — a mound; cāri-dike — surrounding the mound of rice; vyañjana-ḍoṅgā — vegetable pots; āra — and; mudga-sūpa — dhal made of split mung.

Translation

The cooked rice was a stack of very fine grains nicely cooked, and in the middle was yellow clarified butter from the milk of cows. Surrounding the stack of rice were pots made of the skins of banana trees, and in these pots were varieties of vegetables and mung dhal.