Soundarya Lahari--Verse 83

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ParAjetum rudram dviguna-sara-garbhau giri-sure

nisangau janghe te visama-visikho bAdham akrta;

Yadagre drysante dasa sara-phalAh pAda-yugalI

nakhAgrac=chandmAnah sure-makuta-sAnaika-nisitAh

 

O Daughter of the Mountain! to vanquish Rudra [in battle]Visama-

visikha has forsooth turned Thy two shanks into two quivers, encasing

twice the number of arrows, and over their crests are revealed the

ten arrow-heads in the form of tow nails on Thy pair of feet,

exclusively sharpened over the whet-stones of the crowns of the gods

 

Visama-visikha- literally one having an odd number of arrows, namely

five, ie Manmatha, the god of love. Twice the number-namely ten, each

toe nail being compared to an arrow-head, protruding from the

quiver.What-stones-the crowns of the gods, as they come into contact

with the Devi's feet, while they prostrate themselves before her, are

so many whet-stones.

 

 

 

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The Saundarya-Lahari of Sri Samkara-Bhagavatpada.

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