Soundarya Lahari--Verse 94

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SamAnItah padbhyAm mani-mukuratAm ambara-manir

bhayAd AsyAd antah-stimita-sreni-masrnah;

DadhAti tvad-vaktra-pratiphalanam asrAnta-vikacam

nirAtankam candrAn nija-hrdaya-pankeruhamiva

 

 

The sun, having attained the position of a mirror [cut out] of

crystal for Thy feet, rendered him with his beams withdrawn for fear

of [burning] Thy face, refelcts thy face, as it were, namely his own

heart-lotus, which by no means troubled by the Moon, is ever in bloom

According to Laksmidhara stanzas 94, 99 and 102 are interpolation.

hence they have not been dealt with in his gloss. The position of a

mirror for Thy feet - standing there as he does, for PAdasevA, the

sun being worthy of only such a position and not facing Thee and

directly serving the purpose of a mirror for thy face. By no means

troubled by the moon- as the presence of the moon woul dnot have the

effect of closing its petals, it being overshadowed by the presence

of the Devi.

 

Lotuses generally bloom in the sunlight and close their petals at

nightfall. But the heart-lotus of the sun, in the presence of the

Devi, would be ever in bloom and thus resemble the Devi's lotus-like

face in a way. There is the implication that the face of the Devi,

reflected in the mirror of the sun, causes an imprint of it, as it

were, to appear in the heart of the sun, which is all the while

meditating upon the Devi.

 

 

 

 

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The Saundarya-Lahari of Sri Samkara-Bhagavatpad a.

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