Soundarya Lahari--Verse 95

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Kalankah kastUrI rajanI-kara-bimbam jalamayam

kalAbhih karpUrair marakata-karandam nibiditam;

Atas tvad-bhogena pratidinam idam rikta-kuharam

vidhir bhUyo bhUyo nibidayati nUnam tava krte.

 

 

The [Moon's] dark spot is the musk; the watery disc of the Moon is

the canister of emerald, replete with the [lumpps of] camphor

[called] the digits of the moon. Hence Vidhi verily filles the empty

[canister] depleted by Thy use, every day over and over again, on Thy

account

 

The moon is here compared to an emerald canister containing musk and

refined camphor for the daily use of the DevI. As the supply is

exhausted everyday, it is being replenished by Brahman, the Devi's

servant, then and there. To bring about this effect the poet has

artfully pitched upon the moon with its waxing and waning as the

Devi's toilet-canister and made the bright white KalA-s [digits] of

the Moon serve the purpose of the white crystals of refined camphor.

The waning and waxing processes of the moon in the design of Nature

complete the picture of the supply being exhausted and replenished

daily. The Devi's day sonsisting of an entire lunar month.

 

 

 

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.