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02 / PHRASE STUDY · PADĀRTHAShownHidden
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Śloka 47: Overview
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
Your brows bend slightly, intent upon ending the world’s fear.
With your dark, bee-like eyes suggesting the string—
I imagine them as the love-god’s bow held in his left hand.
His wrist and fist hide its middle, Umā.
Selected phrases and English meanings for Śloka 47
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
your brows, slightly bent
O one intent on ending the world’s fear
your eyes, dark as bees
supply its bowstring
I think [them] the bow
held in the right hand
A closer look
The compound savya-itara denotes the hand other than the left; the verse imagines the curve and hidden middle of Kāma’s bow.
of Rati’s lord [Kāma]
at the wrist and fist
its middle hidden from sight, O Umā
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Śloka 47: Words
Word / source phrase
Meaning in context
the two brows
slightly
world
fear
ending / breaking
with the two eyes
bowstring
bow
of Rati's lord
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.
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03 / SIMPLE MEANINGShownHidden
A first understanding.
Her slightly curved brows, intent on removing the world's fear, are imagined as Kāma's bow, with Her dark eyes supplying the bowstring's appearance.
CONDENSED EDITORIAL PARAPHRASE
04 / DETAILED MEANINGShownHidden
How the verse unfolds.
The bent brows and bee-dark eyes furnish a bow and its string. The poet makes the hidden centre of the imagined bow intelligible through the wrist and fist of the one holding it.
The address to her as intent on ending the world's fear places this martial image within a protective relationship. Kāma's weapon and the Goddess's care coexist in the same description. The image need not be read as hostility toward the reader.
EDITORIAL EXPLANATION · NOT A TRADITIONAL COMMENTARY
05 / DEEPER CONTEMPLATIONShownHidden
A question to carry.
How does the opening reference to ending fear change your response to the bow image?