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02 / PHRASE STUDY · PADĀRTHAShownHidden
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Śloka 80: Overview
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
Your breasts strain the bodice pressed against their newly perspiring sides.
Like golden vessels, they brush the roots of your arms.
To save your waist from breaking, Kāma appears to have bound it—
three times with slender vines: the three folds, Goddess.
Selected phrases and English meanings for Śloka 80
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
your breasts, their freshly sweating sides
pressing against and straining the bodice
rubbing against the upper arms
like golden jars
perceiving [them]
to save your waist from breaking; “this will suffice,” [thinking thus]
your waist, by Kāma
bound threefold, O Goddess
the three folds
as though with lavalī creepers
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Śloka 80: Words
Word / source phrase
Meaning in context
gold
jar
by one perceiving
to protect
from breaking
waist
threefold
bound
three
fold
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.
The three folds at Her waist are imagined as slender vines tied by Kāma to keep it from breaking beneath the weight of Her golden-vessel-like breasts.
CONDENSED EDITORIAL PARAPHRASE
04 / DETAILED MEANINGShownHidden
How the verse unfolds.
The rounded fullness and weight above the waist continue the concern of the preceding verse. Kāma is imagined as perceiving the need for support.
He binds the waist threefold with slender creepers, which explains the three folds visible there. The imagined response transforms a bodily detail into a sign of care. The comparison is deliberately delicate: the support is itself made from graceful vines.
EDITORIAL EXPLANATION · NOT A TRADITIONAL COMMENTARY
05 / DEEPER CONTEMPLATIONShownHidden
A question to carry.
How does imagining support alter your response to a description of fragility?