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Soundarya Lahari
सौन्दर्यलहरी
Saundaryalaharī
Chant
यदेतत् कालिन्दीतनुतरतरङ्गाकृति शिवे कृशे मध्ये किंचिज्जननि तव यद्भाति सुधियाम् । विमर्दादन्योऽन्यं कुचकलशयोरन्तरगतं तनूभूतं व्योम प्रविशदिव नाभिं कुहरिणीम् ॥७७॥
Study note
Word breakdown
- कालिन्दीतनुतरतरङ्गाकृति
- like the Yamuna's slender wave forms
- कृशे मध्ये
- at the slender waist
- विमर्दात्
- from the pressing together
- कुहरिणीम्
- into the hollow cave
The Goddess's slender waist resembles the Yamuna's gentle waves, formed as space between her breasts seems compressed into the navel's hollow. This anatomical poetry celebrates proportion while suggesting that divine beauty follows cosmic principles of contraction and expansion, like rivers finding their course.
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