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02 / PHRASE STUDY · PADĀRTHAShownHidden
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Śloka 83: Overview
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
To defeat Rudra, with twice his usual stock of arrows—
Kāma surely made your calves into two quivers, mountain’s daughter.
At their ends appear ten arrowheads, disguised as—
the nails of your two feet, sharpened on the whetstones of divine crowns.
Selected phrases and English meanings for Śloka 83
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
to defeat Rudra
containing twice the number of arrows
O mountain’s daughter
your shanks into quivers
the god with an odd number of arrows [Kāma]
surely made [them]
at their tips appear ten arrowheads
of the pair of feet
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disguised as nail tips
sharpened only on the whetstones of the gods’ crowns
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Śloka 83: Words
Word / source phrase
Meaning in context
to defeat
twice as many
arrow
two quivers
the two shanks
ten
point / head
nail
crown
whetstone
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03 / SIMPLE MEANINGShownHidden
A first understanding.
Kāma makes Her calves into two quivers to overcome Rudra. The ten toenails become arrowheads sharpened against the crowns of gods who bow at Her feet.
CONDENSED EDITORIAL PARAPHRASE
04 / DETAILED MEANINGShownHidden
How the verse unfolds.
Kāma's usual five arrows become ten, and the shanks are imagined as the quivers holding them. The ten toenails supply the visible arrowheads at the ends.
The crowns of bowing gods become the whetstones that sharpen those points. Attraction and worship therefore meet in the same extended comparison. The poem invents an origin for the arrows' sharpness from the repeated act of reverence at her feet.
EDITORIAL EXPLANATION · NOT A TRADITIONAL COMMENTARY
05 / DEEPER CONTEMPLATIONShownHidden
A question to carry.
How does the bowing of the gods change the tone of an otherwise martial image?