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Ananda Lahari
आनन्दलहरी
Ānandalaharī
Chant
नरं वर्षीयांसं नयनविरसं नर्मसु जडं तवापाङ्गालोके पतितमनुधावन्ति शतशः । गलद्वेणीबन्धाः कुचकलशविस्रस्तसिचया हठात्त्रुट्यत्काञ्च्यो विगलितदुकूला युवतयः ॥१३॥
Study note
Word breakdown
- नरं वर्षीयांसं नयनविरसं नर्मसु जडं
- an aged man, dull-eyed and awkward in conversation
- तवापाङ्गालोके पतितमनुधावन्ति शतशः ।
- fallen into Your sidelong glance, is pursued by hundreds
- गलद्वेणीबन्धाः कुचकलशविस्रस्तसिचया
- with loosened braid-locks, breasts with sandal-paste slipping from their pitchers
- हठात्त्रुट्यत्काञ्च्यो विगलितदुकूला युवतयः ॥१३॥
- young women whose girdles suddenly snap and garments fall
Even a casual glance from the Goddess transfigures ordinary perception. Grace can remake the seer so that the world reflects the beauty of the one consciousness shining through all forms.
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