Soundarya Lahari--Verse 46

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LalAtam lAvanya-dyuti-vimalam AbhAti tava yad

dvitIyam tan manye makuta-ghatitam candra-Sakalam;

viparyAsa-nyAsAd ubhayam api sambhUya ca mithah

sudhAlepa-syUtih parinamati rAkA-himakarah

 

I fancy, Thy forehead, which shines bright and clear in the

effulgence of its beauty, is a second crescent fixed on to [Thy]

crown. For, the two, by being placed invertedly [one above the

other] and by blending together, turn out to be the full moon

besmeared with the balm of nectar

 

Besmeared with the balm of nectar - there is a pun on the Samskrt

equivalent of this phrase which also means 'cemened together with a

coating of plaster'. The idea is that the two crescents, by being

placed in such a manner as to make their horns meet together, form

themselves into the Full Moon, the flow of SudhA from both of them

completing the cementing process.

 

Yantra image in : SS homepage.

 

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The Saundarya-Lahari of Sri Samkara-Bhagavatpada.

By Pandit S. Subrahmanya Sastri and T.R Srinivasa Ayyangar.