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02 / PHRASE STUDY · PADĀRTHAShownHidden
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Śloka 59: Overview
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
With both earrings reflected upon your shining cheeks—
I imagine your face as Kāma’s four-wheeled chariot.
Mounting it, he challenges the lord whose chariot is earth, its wheels sun and moon.
The great warrior Māra confronts the prepared lord of the hosts.
Selected phrases and English meanings for Śloka 59
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
reflected in your shining rounded cheeks
the pair of ear ornaments
I imagine it four-wheeled
this face of yours
as Kāma’s chariot
mounting which he attacks; the one whose chariot is earth; with sun and moon for wheels
the great warrior Māra [Kāma]
against Śiva, lord of the hosts, armed for battle
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Śloka 59: Words
Word / source phrase
Meaning in context
cheek
reflected
ear ornament
pair
four
wheel
face
chariot
sun
moon
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 face, with earrings reflected on Her cheeks, becomes Kāma's four-wheeled chariot as he confronts Śiva, whose chariot is the earth with sun and moon for wheels.
CONDENSED EDITORIAL PARAPHRASE
04 / DETAILED MEANINGShownHidden
How the verse unfolds.
Two earrings and their reflections in the cheeks supply four wheels. The face is thus transformed into a chariot by counting both ornaments and their mirrored appearances.
Kāma mounts this imagined vehicle against Śiva, whose own cosmic chariot is recalled through earth, sun and moon. The contrast puts an intimate facial detail beside a vast mythic equipment. Reflection allows the smaller scene to acquire its own surprising completeness.
EDITORIAL EXPLANATION · NOT A TRADITIONAL COMMENTARY
05 / DEEPER CONTEMPLATIONShownHidden
A question to carry.
How can an apparently small detail change the scale of a whole description?