धारानिपातैरभिहन्यमानाः कदम्बशाखासु विलम्बमानाः। क्षणार्जितं शनैर्मदं षट्चरणास्त्यजन्ति ॥ पुष्परसावगाढं
dhārānipātairabhihanyamānāḥ kadambaśākhāsu vilambamānāḥ| kṣaṇārjitaṃ śanairmadaṃ ṣaṭcaraṇāstyajanti || puṣparasāvagāḍhaṃ
English Meaning
The black bees, resorting to the branches of the Kadamba trees and overwhelmed with showers, are, as if, slowly discharging their temporal juice-namely the honey of flowers collected by them ere while.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)