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02 / PHRASE STUDY · PADĀRTHAShownHidden
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Śloka 53: Overview
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Meaning in context
Displaying three distinct colors, mingled with playful dark collyrium—
your three eyes shine, beloved of Īśāna.
As if to create Brahmā, Hari, and Rudra again after dissolution—
they bear the three qualities: rajas, sattva, and tamas.
Selected phrases and English meanings for Śloka 53
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
with three distinct colours
mingled with playfully applied collyrium
this triad of your eyes shines; O beloved of Īśāna
to create again the gods
Brahmā, Hari, and Rudra, who had ceased to be
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bearing rajas, sattva, and tamas
as though the three guṇas themselves
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Śloka 53: Words
Word / source phrase
Meaning in context
three
colouring
eye
triad
again
to create
rajas
sattva
tamas
of the qualities
About these phrase meanings
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03 / SIMPLE MEANINGShownHidden
A first understanding.
The red, white, and dark hues of Her three eyes are compared with rajas, sattva, and tamas, poised to bring forth Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Rudra again.
CONDENSED EDITORIAL PARAPHRASE
04 / DETAILED MEANINGShownHidden
How the verse unfolds.
The three colours of the eyes are first presented as a visible arrangement, mingled with collyrium. The comparison then moves to the three guṇas, rajas, sattva and tamas.
The divine triad that had ceased to be is poised to arise again. Colour, quality and renewed creation therefore form successive levels of the image. The words as though keep the relation recognisable as a poetic comparison rather than a literal account of eye colour causing creation.
EDITORIAL EXPLANATION · NOT A TRADITIONAL COMMENTARY
05 / DEEPER CONTEMPLATIONShownHidden
A question to carry.
How does a visual pattern help you approach an idea that is otherwise abstract?