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आ बाल्याद् देवबालाः सुरवरसदने किंनरीगीयमानं
यन्नामाकर्ण्य कर्णेऽमरगुरुवचनोद्गीतगाथानिबद्धम्।
दानौदार्याढ्यशौर्याद्वयविमलगुणं सर्वभोगैकसारं
भर्तारं कामयन्त्यो हरिहरगृहिणीपादमाराधयन्ति॥

Even goddesses have admired and desired the lord (likely Vishnu or Krishna) since childhood due to his divine name, virtues, and heroic nature, as cel...

divine love (53) devotion (933) krishna (233) vishnu (122) childhood (20) goddesses (4) celestial music (1) virtues (49) admiration (97) legend (6)

आबाल्याधिगमान् मयैव गमितः कोटिं परामुन्नतेर्
अस्मत्संकथयैव पार्थिवसुतः संप्रत्यसौ लज्जते।
इत्थं खिन्न इवात्मजेन यशसा दत्तावलम्बोऽम्बुधेर्
यातस् तीरतपोवनानि भवतो वृद्धो गुणानां गणः॥

From childhood, I alone have led him through the paths of exalted wisdom. Now, this prince is shy even to speak of me. Such is the ironic grief of a n...

childhood (20) guidance (149) humility (596) pride (317) noble grief (1) father-son (4) mentorship (4) wisdom (1611) retreat (20) irony (348)

आबाहूद्गतमण्डलाग्ररुचयः संनद्धवक्षःस्थलाः
सोष्माणो व्रणिनो विपक्षहृदयप्रोन्माथिनः कर्कशाः।
उत्सृष्टाम्बरदृष्टविग्रहभरा यस्य स्मराग्रेसरा मारा
मारवधूस्तनाश्च न दधुः क्षोभं स वोऽव्याज्जिनः॥

Though fierce warriors with glowing arms and broad chests approached with full desire, they could not stir the calm of the Lord—whose radiance outshon...

asceticism (87) spiritual power (20) inner calm (2) temptation (79) desire (898) warriors (20) divine radiance (15) detachment (573) lord shiva (11) self-mastery (25)

आब्रह्मकीटान्तमिदं निबद्धं
पुंस्त्रीप्रयोगेन जगत् समस्तम्।
व्रीडात्र का यत्र चतुर्मुखत्वम्
ईशोऽपि लोभाद् गमितो युवत्याः॥

From Brahmā to a worm, the whole cosmos is bound by the union of male and female. What shame is there? Even the four-faced creator was once ensnared b...

creation (117) male-female union (1) cosmic play (16) no shame (1) divine desire (4) femininity (225) metaphysics (29) universality (29) karma (500) natural law (8)

आभङ्गुराग्रबहुगुण- दीर्घास्वादप्रदा प्रियादृष्टिः।
कर्षति मनो मदीयं ह्रदमीनं बडिशरज्जुरिव॥

Her loving glance is unstable, multi-layered, long-lasting in its taste. Like a hooked line to a fish, it draws my heart helplessly into her watery de...

glance (185) beauty (1797) love (1567) charm (252) heart's capture (1) longing (690) metaphor (1632) emotional pull (2) attraction (147) romantic tension (8)

आभरणस्याभरणं प्रसाधनविधेः प्रसाधनविशेषः।
उपमानस्यापि सखे प्रत्युपमानं वपुस् तस्याः॥

She is an adornment to the ornaments themselves, and her very being refines the process of ornamentation. Her form is a new metaphor even to the exist...

ornament (58) beauty (1797) refinement (55) metaphor (1632) feminine charm (36) grace (359) elegance (171) poetry (588) aesthetics (180) admiration (97)

आभाति चन्द्ररहिता न कदापि रात्रिश्
चन्द्रोऽपि रात्रिरहितो गतकान्तिरेव।
किं कारणं यदनयोः प्रतिमासमेको
जातो निरन्तरतया परिरम्भयोगः॥

The night never shines without the moon, nor does the moon without the night. What explains their ceaseless embrace every month? Eternal intimacy.

moon (394) night (145) union (125) companionship (52) love (1567) constancy (25) cosmic embrace (1) mutuality (6) metaphor (1632) romantic bond (1)

आभाति धूसरतरं तिमिरं पुरस्ताद्
अन्तःस्फुरद्विरलतारकभारमेतत्।
दग्धुं वियोगिविपिनं सितरश्मिवह्नेर्
धूमो ज्वलिष्यत इवानुगतस्फुलिङ्गः॥

Darkness appears gray before him, as if fearfully receding. The light he carries seems to burn away the very pain of separation, like sparks chasing d...

light (147) darkness (138) grief (129) hope (116) separation (258) symbolism (947) radiance (209) metaphor (1632) inner fire (12) poetic imagery (180)

आभाति बालिकेयं पाणिस्पर्शेन पुलकितावयवा।
अभिनववसन्तसङ्गाद् आविर्मुकुलेव बालचूतलता॥

This young girl glows, her limbs thrilled by a touch—like a tender sprouting mango shoot in spring, kissed into bloom by warmth and love.

spring (134) bloom (13) touch (54) youth (261) sensitivity (27) romance (506) natural imagery (9) awakening (58) femininity (225) tenderness (83)

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