nashtam -- lost; pradyumnam -- Pradyumna; ayatam -- returned; akarnya -- hearing; dvaraka-okasah -- the residents of Dvaraka; aho -- ah; mritah -- dead; iva -- as if; ayatah -- come back; balah -- the child; dishtya -- by the favor of providence; iti -- thus; ha -- indeed; abruvan -- they spoke.

Hearing that lost Pradyumna had come home, the residents of Dvaraka declared, "Ah, providence has allowed this child to return as if from death!"