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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.23.38

తస్మిన్నలుప్తమహిమా ప్రియయానురక్తో విద్యాధరీభిరుపచీర్ణవపుర్విమానే । బభ్రాజ ఉత్కచకుముద్గణవానపీచ్య- స్తారాభిరావృత ఇవోడుపతిర్నభ:స్థ: ॥ ౩౮ ॥
tasminn alupta-mahimā priyayānurakto
[tasminn alupta-mahimaa priyayaanurakto]
vidyādharībhir upacīrṇa-vapur vimāne
[vidyaadhareebhir upacheerna-vapur vimaane]
babhrāja utkaca-kumud-gaṇavān apīcyas
[babhraaja utkacha-kumud-ganavaan apeechyas]
tārābhir āvṛta ivoḍu-patir nabhaḥ-sthaḥ
[taaraabhir aavrita ivodu-patir nabhah-sthah]
Word-for-word
tasmin — in that alupta — not lost mahimā — glory priyayā — with his beloved consort anuraktaḥ — attached vidyādharībhiḥ — by the Gandharva girls upacīrṇa — waited upon vapuḥ — his person vimāne — on the airplane babhrāja — he shone utkaca — open kumut-gaṇavān — the moon, which is followed by rows of lilies apīcyaḥ — very charming tārābhiḥ — by stars āvṛtaḥ — surrounded iva — as uḍu-patiḥ — the moon (the chief of the stars) nabhaḥ-sthaḥ — in the sky.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
tasminn alupta-mahimā priyayānurakto
tasmin
in that
alupta
not lost
mahimā
glory
priyayā
with his beloved consort
anuraktaḥ
attached
vidyādharībhir upacīrṇa-vapur vimāne
vidyādharībhiḥ
by the Gandharva girls
upacīrṇa
waited upon
vapuḥ
his person
vimāne
on the airplane
babhrāja utkaca-kumud-gaṇavān apīcyas
babhrāja
he shone
utkaca
open
kumut-gaṇavān
the moon, which is followed by rows of lilies
apīcyaḥ
very charming
tārābhir āvṛta ivoḍu-patir nabhaḥ-sthaḥ
tārābhiḥ
by stars
āvṛtaḥ
surrounded
iva
as
uḍu-patiḥ
the moon (the chief of the stars)
nabhaḥ-sthaḥ
in the sky.
Though seemingly attached to his beloved consort while served by the Gandharva girls, the sage did not lose his glory, which was mastery over his self. In the aerial mansion, Kardama Muni with his consort shone as charmingly as the moon in the midst of the stars in the sky, which causes rows of lilies to open in ponds at night.
Purport

The mansion was in the sky, and therefore the comparison to the full moon and stars is very beautifully composed in this verse. Kardama Muni looked like the full moon, and the girls who surrounded his wife, Devahūti, seemed just like the stars. On a full-moon night the stars and the moon together form a beautiful constellation. Similarly, in that aerial mansion in the sky, Kardama Muni with his beautiful wife and the damsels surrounding them appeared like the moon and stars on a full-moon night.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
The sage of undiminished glory, whose body was served by the girls and who was attached to his wife, shone in the airplane like the moon in the sky surrounded by charming stars while possessing many blossoming lotuses in the form of their eyes. The sage, his body served (upacīrṇa) by the girls, shone in that airplane. He possessed many blossoming lotuses. Apīvyaḥ means very beautiful. The sage was like the full moon. The airplane was the sky. The women were like the stars. Their eyes were like lotuses.
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