atha -- then; gavah -- the cows; ca -- and; gopah -- the cowherd boys; ca -- and; nidagha -- of the summer; atapa -- by the glaring sun; piditah -- distressed; dushtam -- contaminated; jalam -- the water; papuh -- they drank; tasyah -- of the river; trisha-artah -- tormented by thirst; visha -- by poison; dushitam -- spoiled.

At that time the cows and cowherd boys were feeling acute distress from the glaring summer sun. Afflicted by thirst, they drank the water of the Yamuna River. But it had been contaminated with poison.