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02 / PHRASE STUDY · PADĀRTHAShownHidden
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Śloka 13: Overview
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
An aged man, unpleasing to look at and awkward in playful conversation—
once touched by your sidelong glance, is pursued by hundreds.
Their braids loosen and their garments slip from their breasts—
young women rush after him, girdles breaking and robes falling.
Selected phrases and English meanings for Śloka 13
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
a man advanced in years
unpleasing to the eye
awkward in playful conversation
fallen within your sidelong glance; they follow by the hundreds
with hair-braids coming loose
from their rounded breasts
their garments slipping
their girdles suddenly breaking
their silken clothing falling away
the young women
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Śloka 13: Words
Word / source phrase
Meaning in context
a man
advanced in years
eye
in playful exchanges
awkward / dull
sidelong glance
by the hundreds
young women
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.
In extravagant poetic language, an elderly, unattractive, awkward man touched by Her glance becomes the object of young women's eager pursuit.
CONDENSED EDITORIAL PARAPHRASE
04 / DETAILED MEANINGShownHidden
How the verse unfolds.
The opening deliberately withholds the ordinary grounds of attractiveness: youth, pleasing appearance and conversational ease. This prepares the startling reversal that follows when the man comes within her glance.
The rushing women and loosened ornaments intensify that reversal through extravagant erotic imagery. The scene praises the transforming force of the glance; it should not be converted into a technique for gaining another person's desire or into a judgement of anyone's worth.
EDITORIAL EXPLANATION · NOT A TRADITIONAL COMMENTARY
05 / DEEPER CONTEMPLATIONShownHidden
A question to carry.
What familiar assumptions about attractiveness does this reversal unsettle for you? Can you recognise the exaggeration without making it an expectation?