Gaudavaho

Author(s): Vakpatiraj, Narhari Govind Suru, P L Vaidya, A N Upadhye, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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Gaüdavaho
28. Victorious are the circled imprints (nivesamaggā ) of Laksmī's breasts on the chest of (Visnu), the Destroyer of Madhu, stamped (on it) by her collapsing pigment and showing like leaves of the lotus-plant ( sprouting) from His navel.
29. Victorious is He (Śiva ) whose frowning arch of eyebrows, closely contacting His forehead-eye, looks like the burntup black bow-stick of Cupid, even to-day.
30. Bow to Him (Śiva) who, even to-day, holds back the Moon fastened firmly in His matted hair, even though (through friendship ) he had resolved ( kaa-vavasāa) as it were, to fall in the fire of His third eye.
31. May He extend to you all happiness,- ( He ) who perhaps has His own forehead (now) resting on His head under the guise of the moon, being pushed upwards (pellia) by His very broad third eye.
32. Victorious is He, by whose third eye rushing ahead (ahidhāyiūņa), as it were, Cupid was swallowed ( gilia ) under the guise of His (flowery ) bow, rendered ruddy by the thick mass of pollen (flung ) from the flowers (of the bow) when fully stretched (kaddhia).
33. Bow to the Pasupati's high stature (paritthiam ) with its constantly dwarfed shadow (Vāmaņacchāa) shining, as He is, in the light of the Moon, (who is ) his possession (held ) in the lap of his crown (maiidocchamga).
34. Victorious is Pasupati's tying of His matted hair by means of Vāsuki, relaxing at the cecession of the ocean's churning, His chest languishing on account of the friction of mountains against it.
35. We bow to Siva, the Mountaineer, whose forehead (became ) red as He rubbed it in wrath against Arjuna with quivering fingers, thereby inhibiting, as it were, the opening of His third eye.
36. Victorious is He, on whose throat, as soon as He gulped the poison, manifested a black line, resembling a scar left by the Death's noose, fastened for a moment and released instantaneously,