Guest guest Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 MrsA krtvA gotra-skhalanam atha vailaksya-namitam CirAd antah-salyam dahana-krtam unmUlitavatA tulA-koti-kvAnaih kili-kilitam IsAna-ripunA. When Thy lotus-like foot kicked on the forehead, Thy husband, who having frivolously blundered calling [Thee by a wrong] name, was in consequence bent with shame; through the jingling of [Thy] anklets there was an acclamation of triumph, as it were, from IsAna's foe, who thus has his vengeance, generated by [his] being burnt to ashes and rankling for a long time, wreaked. The poet creates out of his imagination an amorous interval wherein Siva is represented as being found out by his spouse, when in jest, he calls her by a wrong name, the implication being that the Devi scents therein his amour with some other woman, and punishes him therefore with a kick. Manmatha, who was only waiting for an opportunity for venting his spleen on his enemy Siva, by seeing him lowered in esteem, uses the jingling of the anklet as a sign of his triumph over Siva. It may also be noted that, in this stanza, the poet creates an opportunity cleverly enough for the Lord to receive the kick as he so much longed for, as shown in the previous stanza, by creating a situation as depicted, here, namely the blunder of using a wrong name. Yantra image in : SS homepage. http://www.shaktisadhana.org/ Newhomepage/ sadhana/Commentaries.html The Saundarya-Lahari of Sri Samkara-Bhagavatpad a. By Pandit S. Subrahmanya Sastri and T.R Srinivasa Ayyangar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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