Soundarya Lahari--Verse 58

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ArAlam te pAlI-yugalam aga-rAjanya-tanaye

na kesAm Adhatte kusuma-sara-kodanda kutukam;

tirascinO yatra srvana-patham ullanghya vilasann

apAnya-vyasango disati sara-samdhAna-dhisanAm

 

O Daughter of the King of the Mountains! to whom would the arched

pair of ridges [between Thine eyes an dears] not convey the grace of

the bow of the flower-arrowed [god of love]? For, Thy long side-

glance, directed across which [ridges] and reaching the vicinity of

Thine ear, creates the impression of the mountaing of an arrow [on

the bow-string].

 

The negative interrogative of the first half of the stanza

presupposes an affirmative reply. In the second half of the oblique

glance of the Devi is portrayed as the mounting of an arrow on the

bow-string, the eyes being compared to an arrow.

 

 

 

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.