। ॥ ७१ ॥
In plain words
Think of the man from Gandhāra: blindfolded, hands tied, lost for a long time — and then, by sheer luck, some travellers with kind hearts come down that road, and the cloth comes off his eyes, the ropes fall away.
Close to the Sanskrit
Just as a man of the country of Gandhāra, for a long time [lost], by fate, through certain compassionate travellers who came upon him, [became] one whose blindfold and other bonds were loosened —