Sanskrit · DevanagariComplete modern digital transcription ↗
साहं मुग्धा जडा बाला ज्ञातश्वेताशिता च या । चकाराकाशमाकाशादधस्ताच्चोपरिक्षितिम् । (चकाराधः क्षितेर्व्योम व्योम्नोऽधस्ताद्भुवस्तलम् ॥ वा\। पा\।) ॥ ५४॥
IAST
sāhaṃ mugdhā jaḍā bālā jñātaśvetāśitā ca yā | cakārākāśamākāśādadhastāccoparikṣitim | (cakārādhaḥ kṣitervyoma vyomno'dhastādbhuvastalam || vā\| pā\|) || 54||
English
‘I am supposedly that innocent, dull young girl who can scarcely distinguish white from black—yet I turned the order of things upside down, placing sky below and earth above.’ An alternate printed reading similarly says, ‘She placed the sky beneath the earth and the ground beneath the sky.’