Soundarya Lahari--Verse 76

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Hara-krodha-jvAlAvalibhir avalIdhena vapurA

gabhire te nAbhI-sarasi krtasango manasijah;

samuttashthau tasmAd acala-tanaye dhUma-latikA

janas tAm jAnite tava janani rom'Avalir iti

 

 

O Daughter of the Mountain! Manasija drowned himself in the tank of

Thy navel with his body enveloped in the flames caused by Hara's

anger. Thence rose a creeper-like [column of] smoke. O Mother! the

world takes it to be the line of down [above Thy navel]

 

Manasija- Manmatha, the god of love. Here the popular notion that

flame, when quenched, will send up smoke, is effectively made use of

by the poet. The allusion is to the burning of Manmatha by Hara, when

the former tried to rouse the passion of the latter.

 

 

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.