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02 / PHRASE STUDY · PADĀRTHAShownHidden
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12 selected phrases
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Śloka 19: Overview
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
Making your face the point, your two breasts below it, and beneath them—
the lower figure: one contemplates this form of Kāma’s power, Śiva’s queen.
That it stirs women is described as a small effect.
It swiftly sets the three worlds turning, with sun and moon as their breasts.
Selected phrases and English meanings for Śloka 19
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
placing the face as a point
the pair of breasts beneath it
below that
a half of the letter ha
A closer look
An esoteric letter-image within the poem. This phrase study explains the image; it does not supply a ritual procedure.
whoever meditates [in this way]
O queen of Śiva
on your aspect of desire
he at once stirs [desire]
in women
but that is a small thing [in the poem’s praise]
even the three worlds; he swiftly enchants
with sun and moon as their two breasts
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Śloka 19: Words
Word / source phrase
Meaning in context
face
point
having made
breast
pair
below
half
Kāma / desire
aspect
the three worlds
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.
Her face, breasts, and a further geometric form are contemplated as a figure of Kāma's power, whose stirring influence is said to extend through the three worlds.
CONDENSED EDITORIAL PARAPHRASE
04 / DETAILED MEANINGShownHidden
How the verse unfolds.
The face becomes a point, with the breasts and a letter-shaped element placed below it. Bodily description and diagrammatic language therefore meet in the representation of an aspect of Kāma's power.
The praise expands from stirring attraction in women to enchanting the three worlds, themselves given a bodily likeness through sun and moon. The shift in scale is the verse's rhetorical climax. The description here explains that movement without offering the figure as a ritual procedure.
EDITORIAL EXPLANATION · NOT A TRADITIONAL COMMENTARY
05 / DEEPER CONTEMPLATIONShownHidden
A question to carry.
What is gained, and what is left out, when a living form is represented by a few points and shapes?