219. O Yashodā, he went, as Vāmanā, to king Mahābali, who
was performing a sacrifice. He asked for three feet of land, and
measured this earth with one foot and the sky with the other
foot. We think that was wonderful, but he stole our clothes,
stays on the top of the tree and refuses to give them back.
This isn’t fair.
Word by Word (WBW) meaning
(The words may be rearranged to facilitate conversion from poetry to prose (Aṉvayam). Please read the meanings (in black) continuously to form the sentence and understand the simplified meaning based on the Divyārtha Dīpikai for the verse.)