Arms like lovely lotus stem
Known for arms of a lovely lotus stem,
Visage of moon’s sleepless silver,
Eyes like smiling lilies in lake,
And smile of a full moon’s sliver,
To win as wife, a woman of such fame,
Who’d not greatest of gamble stake?
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Translation |11.08.2024| free verse, woman, beauty, moon, adventure
The Sanskrit verse:
keertim mrnaala-kamaneeya bhujaam anidra-chandra
ananaam smita-saroruha chaaru-netraam |
jyotsnaa-smitaam upa-gataam dayitaam iva svaam labdhum
na kah param upakramam aatanoti ||
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