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02 / PHRASE STUDY · PADĀRTHAShownHidden
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Śloka 64: Overview
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
Ceaselessly repeating the story of your husband’s many virtues—
your tongue shines, Mother, colored like a hibiscus flower.
Sarasvatī sits upon its tip, her form clear as crystal.
Through its color, she takes on the appearance of ruby.
Selected phrases and English meanings for Śloka 64
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
unceasingly, your husband’s virtues
repeating their accounts like a prayer
coloured like a hibiscus flower
that tongue of yours triumphs, O Mother
seated on its tip
made of clear crystal-like lustre
Sarasvatī’s form
appears transformed
into a body of ruby
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Śloka 64: Words
Word / source phrase
Meaning in context
unceasingly
of the husband
quality / virtue
account / story
hibiscus
tongue
tip
crystal
ruby
About these phrase meanings
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03 / SIMPLE MEANINGShownHidden
A first understanding.
Her red tongue continually recounts Śiva's qualities. Sarasvatī, imagined as crystal-clear and seated at its tip, takes on a ruby hue from its color.
CONDENSED EDITORIAL PARAPHRASE
04 / DETAILED MEANINGShownHidden
How the verse unfolds.
The tongue is red like hibiscus and continually recounts the qualities of her husband. Its colour and its activity are introduced together, making speech part of the bodily portrait.
Sarasvatī, clear as crystal at its tip, takes on a ruby appearance through that red. The transformation belongs to reflected colour rather than a replacement of Sarasvatī's identity. The image brings the power of speech into the Goddess's act of praising Śiva.
EDITORIAL EXPLANATION · NOT A TRADITIONAL COMMENTARY
05 / DEEPER CONTEMPLATIONShownHidden
A question to carry.
How does what you repeatedly speak about give colour to your attention?