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02 / PHRASE STUDY · PADĀRTHAShownHidden
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Śloka 70: Overview
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
Your four vine-like arms are soft as lotus stalks.
With his four faces, lotus-born Brahmā praises their beauty.
Fearing Śiva’s nails after the first severing—
he hopes for four hands of protection for his remaining heads at once.
Selected phrases and English meanings for Śloka 70
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
soft as lotus stalks
your four creeper-like arms
with four faces, their beauty
the lotus-born Brahmā praises
fearing the nails
after the former destruction [of his head]; of Śiva, enemy of Andhaka
A closer look
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for his four heads
at the same time; hoping for the offer of protecting hands
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Śloka 70: Words
Word / source phrase
Meaning in context
lotus stalk
of the soft ones
arm
of four
with four
praises
with faces
from the nails
of heads
fearlessness
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.
Brahmā praises Her four soft, lotus-stalk-like arms with his four faces, hoping they will protect his remaining heads from Śiva's nails.
CONDENSED EDITORIAL PARAPHRASE
04 / DETAILED MEANINGShownHidden
How the verse unfolds.
Four soft arms are praised by Brahmā's four faces. The numerical balance becomes more than decoration when the verse recalls his fear after the loss of a head to Śiva.
He hopes that four protecting hands can reassure his remaining four heads at once. Softness is thus paired with protective capacity, and praise carries a recognisable personal need. The scene gives a comic precision to the plea for safety.
EDITORIAL EXPLANATION · NOT A TRADITIONAL COMMENTARY
05 / DEEPER CONTEMPLATIONShownHidden
A question to carry.
What form of reassurance actually meets a particular fear, rather than offering only general comfort?