Soundarya Lahari--Verse 70

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MrnAli-mrdvInAm tava bhuja-latAnam catasrnAm

caturbhih saundaryam Sarasija-bhavah stauti vadanaih;

nakhebhyah samtrasyam prathama-mathanAdandhaka-ripos

caturnAm sIrsAnAm samam abhaya-hast'Arapana-dhiyA

 

The lotus-born [brahman] praises the beauty of Thy four creeper-like

arms, with his four faces, afraid of the nails of the enemy of

Andhaka, one of their fellows [the fifth head] having been once

chopped off, in the belief that [the Devi's arms] would vouchsafe

safety to his four [remaining] heads at the same time

 

Afraid ofp and therefore seeking the Devi's grace, so as to ward off

a similar contigency. The enemy of Andhaka- Siva. The allusion is to

the chopping off of the fifth head of Brahman by Paramasiva. The

story goes that Brahman had orginally five head like Paramasiva and

was vaunting, on that account, to have attained euqality with the

latter. Hence, to teach him a salutary lesson, Paramasiva punished

him thus and deprived him, once for all the reason for such vain

glory

 

 

 

 

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The Saundarya-Lahari of Sri Samkara-Bhagavatpada.

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