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02 / PHRASE STUDY · PADĀRTHAShownHidden
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7 selected phrases
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Śloka 48: Overview
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
Your right eye brings forth day, for its nature is the sun.
Your left creates night, having the nature of the moon.
Your third gaze glows like a golden lotus just opening.
It produces twilight, which moves between day and night.
Selected phrases and English meanings for Śloka 48
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
your right eye brings forth day; through its solar nature
your left eye creates night
through its nature as lord of night [the moon]
your third eye
shines like a slightly opened golden lotus
produces twilight
moving between day and night
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Śloka 48: Words
Word / source phrase
Meaning in context
day
brings forth
sun
night
left
third
gold
lotus
twilight
night
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 right eye, as the sun, produces day; Her left, as the moon, produces night. The third, like a gently opening golden lotus, creates the twilight between them.
CONDENSED EDITORIAL PARAPHRASE
04 / DETAILED MEANINGShownHidden
How the verse unfolds.
The right and left eyes are related to sun and moon through their production of day and night. The description assigns each a temporal action, not just a colour or shape.
The third eye, like a slightly opening golden lotus, produces twilight between the two. It completes a sequence that includes transition as well as contrast. The face thus becomes an image through which the movement of time is contemplated.
EDITORIAL EXPLANATION · NOT A TRADITIONAL COMMENTARY
05 / DEEPER CONTEMPLATIONShownHidden
A question to carry.
What do you notice during a transition that you miss in the settled periods on either side of it?