Soundarya Lahari--Verse 87 [ Correction ]

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HimAnI-hantavyam hima-giri-nivAsaika-caturau

nisAyAm nidrAnam nisi ca parabhAge ca visadau;

Param laksmi-pAtram sriyam atisrjantau sama-yinAm

sarojam tvatpAdau janani jayatas citram iha-kim

 

 

O MOther! what [is there to] wonder at, if Thy two feet, quite

adapted to abide in the snow-capped mountain, bright all through

night an dits counterpart [the day] and lavishing their grace on

their devotees, have outdone the lotus flower, which easily blights

with snow-fall, sleeps during night and only slightly Laksmi's grace?

 

It is usual for poets to compare the Devi's feet to the lotus flower.

In this stanza the poet tries to show the fallacy as it were, lurking

in such a comparison, as it is only in one respect and that too only

slightly, that such resemblance can hold good.Laksmi's grace- the

grace of the Devi's feet ie. red colour and that too slightly during

only a part of the day, ie during daylight, when the lotus is in bloom

 

 

 

Yantra image in : SS homepage.

 

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The Saundarya-Lahari of Sri Samkara-Bhagavatpad a.

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