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02 / PHRASE STUDY · PADĀRTHAShownHidden
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Śloka 90: Overview
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
Giving the needy prosperity according to their hopes, without ceasing—
your foot pours forth abundant nectar of beauty.
Beautiful as a cluster of heavenly mandāra flowers—
may my life, with its faculties, become a six-legged bee immersed there.
Selected phrases and English meanings for Śloka 90
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
giving the poor prosperity; unceasingly, according to their hopes
A closer look
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abundantly, the nectar of masses of beauty
scattering forth
this [foot] of yours, lovely as a mandāra flower-cluster
may it arrive at your foot
my living self, immersed
with the faculties as its feet
may it become a six-footed bee
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Śloka 90: Words
Word / source phrase
Meaning in context
to the distressed / poor
beauty
nectar
flower cluster
may it go
at the foot
living self
faculty
six
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 poet longs for his life, equipped with its faculties, to become a six-legged bee immersed in Her flower-like foot, abundant with beauty's nectar and gifts for the needy.
CONDENSED EDITORIAL PARAPHRASE
04 / DETAILED MEANINGShownHidden
How the verse unfolds.
The foot is imagined as a flower-cluster rich in beauty's nectar and generous toward those in need. These opening qualities explain why the speaker longs to remain there.
His living self becomes a bee, with its faculties imagined as feet. The transformation gathers the means of experience into a small creature immersed in one source of delight. The request is for sustained nearness, not only for something to carry away.
EDITORIAL EXPLANATION · NOT A TRADITIONAL COMMENTARY
05 / DEEPER CONTEMPLATIONShownHidden
A question to carry.
What is the difference between approaching something only to obtain a benefit and wishing to remain attentively near it?