Soundarya Lahari-- Verse 29 [ SrI Samkara-Bhagavatpada ]

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<sitam_subba wrote:

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> kireetam vairancam pariharapurah kaitabhabhidah

> kathorey kotheerey skhalasi jahi jambhaari makutam

> pranamreshvey teyshu prasabha mupa yaatasya bhavanam

> bhavasyabhyutthaney tava parajanoktirvijayatey

 

Glory to the words [of caution] of Thy servants :'Pray avoid the

crown of ViriNci [lying] afore Thee! " " you will topple over the hard

crest of the slayer of Kaitabha! " . Please keep off from the head-

gear of the foe of Jambha!- while all these three lay prostrate

before Thee- when, all of a sudden, Thou startedst to receive Bhava,

who had come to Thy abode!.

 

Here is a touchingly graphic description of the reception accorded

to Her Lord by the Devi, while holding her court, surrounded by her

mains-in-waiting and with the prostrate forms of Brahman, Hari and

Indra supplicate afore her, the maids administering here a timely

warning lest she should stumble on the crowns of the supplicating

gods in the warmth of her reception.

 

Keep off from the head-gear of the foe of Jambha - the Samkrt verbal

form 'Jahi' is here used in the sense of Jahihi',[from the

root 'hA', 'to abandon'] and should not be construed as the

imperative second person singular of 'han', 'to kill', which would

land us in an absurdity. To avoid this the reading 'jahihindrasya

makutam' may as well be suggested, but this would detract from the

grandeur of the original.

 

 

The Ocean of Beauty - Saundarya-Lahari

of SrI Samkara-Bhagavatpada.

Pandit S. Subrahmanya Sastri & T.R. Srinivasa Ayyangar