Soundarya Lahari--Verse 78

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Sthiro gangAvartah stana-mukula-romAvali-latA

kalAvAlam kundam kusumasara-tejo-huta-bhujah;

rater lIlAgaram kim api tava nAbhir giri-sure

bila-dvAram siddher girisa-nayanAnAm vijayate

 

O Daughter of the Mountain! all glory to Thy navel [which may be

characterized]in some such way [as] a motionless eddy of the GangA; a

trench for the growth of the creeper of theline of down, with the

breasts as buds; the pit for maintaining the sacrificial Fire of the

prowess of the flower-arrowed [Kusuma-sara]; the pleasure-bower of

Rati; the mouth of the cavery for the attainment [of Yoga] by

Girisa's eyes!

 

This stanza gives a description of the Devi's navel, as assuming

various aspects. Kusuma-sara-literally the flower-arrowed, ie

Manmatha, the god of love. Mouth of the cavern-yogin-s resort to

secluded spots such as caverns of hills for prectising Yoga and

thereby attaining bliss. The Devi's navel is compared to such a spot

resting in which the eyes of Girisa [as so many Yogin-s] seek to

attain bliss.

 

 

 

 

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.