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02 / PHRASE STUDY · PADĀRTHAShownHidden
A phrase at a time.
11 selected phrases
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Śloka 7: Overview
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
Your girdle jingles; your form bends beneath full, elephant-like breasts.
Slender at the waist, your face is the full autumn moon.
Your hands hold bow, arrows, noose, and goad.
May you appear before us—the wondrous pride of Śiva.
Selected phrases and English meanings for Śloka 7
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
with a jingling girdle
like the rounded temples of a young elephant
bent beneath the fullness of her breasts
slender at the waist
her face like the full autumn moon
bow and arrows
the noose
and the goad
holding them in her hands
may she stand before us
the wondrous embodied pride of Śiva, destroyer of the cities
A closer look
puramathituḥ — of the destroyer of the cities; āhopuruṣikā — an exclamation of proud self-assertion, personified here as the Goddess.
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Śloka 7: Words
Word / source phrase
Meaning in context
jingling
girdle
at the waist
autumn
moon
having a face
bow
arrows
with the hands
before us / for us
About these phrase meanings
Short phrases and parts of compounds, not a complete word-by-word translation. Original sandhi and spelling are retained; some words continue across printed lines. Read the entries together. Brackets in the English supply context rather than additional Sanskrit words.
The English explanations are editorial study aids and have not been reviewed by a Sanskrit scholar. Consult a teacher or full commentary for grammatical and interpretive detail. Telugu-Vigananam keeps its printed spellings, hyphens, and variant readings; the English follows the base Sanskrit unless a note explains a difference.
03 / SIMPLE MEANINGShownHidden
A first understanding.
The poet asks Her to appear: with a tinkling girdle, full breasts, slender waist, an autumn-moon face, and hands holding bow, arrows, noose, and goad.
CONDENSED EDITORIAL PARAPHRASE
04 / DETAILED MEANINGShownHidden
How the verse unfolds.
The description moves through sound, bodily form and the objects held in her hands. The moon comparison gives the face a seasonal clarity, while bow, arrows, noose and goad make the figure recognisable through her attributes.
Only near the end does the request become explicit: may she be before us. Everything preceding it describes the presence being requested. The final relation to Śiva completes this address; the description prepares an encounter rather than merely listing ornaments.
EDITORIAL EXPLANATION · NOT A TRADITIONAL COMMENTARY
05 / DEEPER CONTEMPLATIONShownHidden
A question to carry.
Which detail makes the imagined presence vivid to you: a sound, a shape or an attribute? Stay with that detail without trying to hold the whole image at once.