Three things that thrilled my heart

I thought and thought. In all the world Three things touched me, my heart captured: Sugarcane derivates, What poet’s pen creates, And lithe limbs of a lass That stir, in breeze as grass. ________________________ Translation |24.10.2024| sweet, poems, lissom lass Poet’s note: Sanskrit has thousands of verses of wisdom called Subhashhitam. The poet here says, ‘I thought and thought and three things touched inner precincts of my heart: sweets made from sugarcane, penmanship of poets, and a lissom lass’ lithe figure’. The transliteration of the Sanskrit verse follows: Sanchintya sanchintya jagat samastam, trayah padaarthaa hridayam pravishhtaah | Ikshho vikaaraah kritayah kaveenaam, mugdha-anganaayaa anga tarangitaani ||