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02 / PHRASE STUDY · PADĀRTHAShownHidden
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7 selected phrases
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Śloka 75: Overview
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
I imagine your breast-milk, daughter of the mountain, flowing from the heart—
as an ocean of milk filled with Sarasvatī’s eloquence.
The Drāviḍa child tastes what you compassionately give.
He becomes a poet admired even among accomplished poets.
Selected phrases and English meanings for Śloka 75
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
your milk, I imagine, O mountain’s daughter
from the heart
an ocean of milk
flows forth as the essence of Sarasvatī
given by you in compassion
having tasted it, the Draviḍa child
A closer look
“Draviḍa child” is the expression in the verse. Different traditions identify the child differently; no particular historical identification is asserted here. The printed word or compound continues on the next verse line; read it together with the following entry.
among accomplished poets; became an admired poet
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Śloka 75: Words
Word / source phrase
Meaning in context
milk
from the heart
milk
ocean
of Sarasvatī / eloquence
by the compassionate one
given
child
having tasted
poet
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 milk is compared to an ocean of Sarasvatī's eloquence flowing from Her heart. A “Drāviḍa child” who tastes Her compassionate gift becomes an admired poet.
CONDENSED EDITORIAL PARAPHRASE
04 / DETAILED MEANINGShownHidden
How the verse unfolds.
The milk is imagined as an ocean of Sarasvatī's eloquence flowing from the heart. Maternal nourishment and the nourishment of language are explicitly joined rather than merely placed beside one another.
The Drāviḍa child tastes this compassionate gift and becomes admired among accomplished poets. The verse names that child in this way; the study note does not resolve competing identifications of the figure. Its reading emphasis is the relation between receiving a gift and becoming able to speak.
EDITORIAL EXPLANATION · NOT A TRADITIONAL COMMENTARY
05 / DEEPER CONTEMPLATIONShownHidden
A question to carry.
What forms of care made your own learning possible before you could recognise or repay them?