Looking at your waist, O Mohan, meaning itself turned back and retreated to its home.

In classical Urdu poetry, the beloved’s waist is playfully imagined as so impossibly slender that it barely exists in the physical realm. Here, the poet wittily remarks that when even 'meaning' (or perhaps Mani, the legendary Persian master painter) looked at Mohan's waist to capture it, he found nothing tangible and had to turn back home empty-handed. It is a charming and exaggerated compliment, suggesting that the beloved’s delicate beauty defies both human logic and artistic depiction.