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Ananda Lahari
आनन्दलहरी
Ānandalaharī
Chant
त्वदीयं सौन्दर्यं तुहिनगिरिकन्ये तुलयितुं कवीन्द्राः कल्पन्ते कथमपि विरिञ्चिप्रभृतयः । यदालोकौत्सुक्यादमरललना यान्ति मनसा तपोभिर्दुष्प्रापामपि गिरिशसायुज्यपदवीम् ॥१२॥
Study note
Word breakdown
- त्वदीयं सौन्दर्यं तुहिनगिरिकन्ये तुलयितुं
- O daughter of the snow mountain, to compare Your beauty
- कवीन्द्राः कल्पन्ते कथमपि विरिञ्चिप्रभृतयः ।
- poet-lords like Brahma can scarcely manage
- यदालोकौत्सुक्यादमरललना यान्ति मनसा
- since at the eagerness to see You, celestial women go in mind
- तपोभिर्दुष्प्रापामपि गिरिशसायुज्यपदवीम् ॥१२॥
- to the hard-to-reach path of union with Girisha through austerities
Beauty becomes a spiritual catalyst: longing to behold the Goddess can surpass austere effort. When aesthetic appreciation recognizes its true object, it opens directly toward the bliss of union with Shiva.
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