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02 / PHRASE STUDY · PADĀRTHAShownHidden
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Śloka 61: Overview
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
This slender bridge of your nose, banner of the snowy mountain’s line—
may it soon grant the fitting fruit of our prayer.
It holds pearls within; one slips out with your cool breath.
So abundant are they that it bears a pearl outside as well.
Selected phrases and English meanings for Śloka 61
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
this bamboo-like stem of your nose
O banner of the snowy mountain’s lineage
your [nose], very soon
may it yield the fruit fitting for us
it bears pearls within
slipped out through the cool, lunar breath
because of their abundance
outside as well
it bears a pearl jewel
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Śloka 61: Words
Word / source phrase
Meaning in context
nose
bamboo stem
may it bear fruit
fruit / result
fitting
within
pearls
breath
outside
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 nose is imagined as a slender bamboo bearing pearls within, with one pearl appearing outside through the cool breath. The poet asks that it grant an appropriate blessing.
CONDENSED EDITORIAL PARAPHRASE
04 / DETAILED MEANINGShownHidden
How the verse unfolds.
The nose is compared with a bamboo stem, allowing the pearl ornament outside it to be imagined as one of many pearls held within. The cool breath provides the movement by which one appears outside.
The opening wish asks this form to yield a fitting fruit for the speaker. The request and the pearl-bearing comparison share a language of abundance coming forth. The traditional poetic fancy of bamboo pearls explains the image; it need not be read as natural history.
EDITORIAL EXPLANATION · NOT A TRADITIONAL COMMENTARY
05 / DEEPER CONTEMPLATIONShownHidden
A question to carry.
What does asking for something fitting leave open that asking for a precisely chosen result does not?