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बद्धाः सभाङ्गणे यस्य भान्ति स्म जयसिन्धुराः।

बन्दीकृता इवाम्भोदा जैत्रयात्रानिरोधिनः॥

• बद्धाः = chained
• सभा-अङ्गणे = hall-ground = grounds of halls
• यस्य = whose
• भान्ति स्म = looked
• जय-सिन्धुराः = victory-elephant = victorious-elephants
• बन्दीकृताः = imprisoned
• इव = like
• अम्भोदाः = clouds
• जैत्र-यात्रा-निरोधिनः = victory-expedition-preventers = they stood in the way of his triumphal expeditions.

Chained in the grounds of his halls, his victorious elephants looked like clouds, imprisoned because they stood in the way of his triumphal expeditions.