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Bhaṭṭikāvyam • Chapter 11

Canto 11

एकादशः सर्गः

Canto 11 of Bhaṭṭikāvyam.

Total: 47 Verses • Citations: BK 11.1–47 • 1 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 2 (Verses 30 shown)
BK 11.1 उपजातिः
अथाऽस्तमासेदुषि मन्द-कान्तौ पुण्य-क्षयेणेव निधौ कलानाम् । समाललम्बे रिपु-मित्र-कल्पैः पद्मैः प्रहासः कुमुदैर्विषादः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Now, as the moon, whose lustre was dimmed as though on account of the waning of its religious merit, was about to set, full blooming and gloom were attained (respectively) by the sun lotuses and the moon lotuses (which were) comparable to its enemies and friends.
BK 11.2 उपजातिः
दूरं समारुह्य दिवः पतन्तं भृगोरिवेन्दुं विहितोपकारम् । बद्धाऽनुरागोऽनुपपात तूर्णं तारा-गणः संभृत-शुभ्र-कीर्तिः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: The hosts of stars, which had fixed (their) love upon the moon, and had acquired clear fame, hastily fell (i.e., set) following it, which after rising for up the sky (the previous night) was (now) falling down (i.e., setting) as if from a precipice (but) after it had conferred obligations (upon them).
BK 11.3 उपजातिः
क्व ते कटाक्षाः क्व विलासवन्ति प्रोक्तानि वा तानि ममेति मत्वा । लङ्काऽङ्गनानामवबोध-काले लुलामनारुह्य गतोऽस्तमिन्दुः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Where do I possess those sidelong glances or those graceful utterances ?’ Reflecting thus and having been (proved) incapable of standing comparison (with them), the moon went to set, at the waking time of the ladies of Lanka.
BK 11.4 इन्द्रवज्रा
मानेन तल्पेष्व-यथा-मुखीना मिथ्या-प्रसुप्तैर्गमित-त्रियामाः । स्त्रीभिर्निशाऽतिक्रम-विह्वलाभिर्दृष्टेऽपि दोषे पतयोऽनुनीताः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: The husbands who, through pride, had turned away their faces in the beds and had passed three parts (of the night) in feigned sleep, were entreated by the wives that were distressed at the dwindling of the night, even though (their) faults had been noticed.
BK 11.5 उपजातिः
ईर्श्या-विरुग्णाः स्थिर-बद्ध-मूला निरस्त-निःशेष-शुभ-प्रतानाः ।आप्यायिता नेत्र-जल-प्रसेकैः प्रेम-द्रुमाः संरुरुहुः प्रियाणाम् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Hurt through jealousy, the lovers' trees in the form of love, whose roots were firmly fixed, but whose auspicious tendrils were cut off without remnant, grew up (when) nourished by the sprinkings of water from the eyes.
BK 11.6 उपजातिः
ततः समाशङ्कित-विप्रयोगः पुनर्-नवीभूत-रसोऽवितृष्णः । स्मरस्य सन्तं पुनरुक्त-भावं नाऽऽवर्तमानस्य विवेद लोकः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Thereafter the unsatiated people who feared separation, and whose addiction (interest) was revived again, did not notice the (oft) occurring recurrence of Cupid who was wandering around.
BK 11.7 उपजातिः
वृत्तौ प्रकाशं हृदये कृतायां सुखेन सर्वेन्द्रिय-संभवेन । संकोचमेवाऽसहमानमस्था- द-शक्त-वद्वञ्चित-मानि चक्षुः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: The ecstacy arising in all the senses having taken its seat in the heart the intolerant eye, regarding itself as deceived, resorted to more contraction, like a weak person.
BK 11.8 उपजातिः
पीने भटस्योरसि वीक्ष्य भुग्नांस्तनु-त्वचः पाणि-रुहान्सु-मध्या ।इच्छा-विभङ्गाऽऽकुल-मानसत्वाद्भर्त्रे नखेभ्यश्च चिरं जुजूरे ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: On seeing her nails that (usually) injured the body reversed on the stout chest of the warrior, the shapely-waisted lady got wild for long (both) with her husband and her nails, her mind being agitated by the defeat of her intention.
BK 11.9 उपजातिः
स्रस्ताऽङ्ग-चेष्टो विनिमीलिताऽक्षः स्वेदाऽम्बु-रोमोद्गम-गम्य-जीवः ।अ-शेष-नष्ट-प्रतिभा-पटुत्वो गाढोपगूढो दयितैर्जनोऽभूत् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Tightly embraced by the lovers, the womenfolk were rendered as ones who had lost the activity of (their) limbs, closed their eyes, had life inferable only from the rise of sweat and horripilation, and had their skill of genius totally lost.
BK 11.10 उपजातिः
तमः प्रसुप्तं मरणं सुखं नु मूर्च्छा नु माया नु मनोभवस्य । किं तत्कथं वेत्युपलब्ध-संज्ञा विकल्पयन्तोऽपि न संप्रतीयुः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: ‘(Was it) indeed a blacking out, or sleep, or death, or ecstacy, or unconsciousness, or a jugglery of Cupid ?’’ Thus conjecturing variously after regaining consciousness, as to what and how (it was), they did not identify (it) all the same.
BK 11.11 उपजातिः
वक्षः स्तनाभ्यां सुखमाननेन गात्राणि गात्रैर्घटयन्न-मन्दम् । स्मराऽतुरो नैव तुतोष लोकः पर्याप्तता प्रेम्णि कुतो विरुद्धा ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Rubbing hard the chest with the breasts, the mouth with face, limbs with limbs, people afflicted with Cupid (love) were not at all satiated. Whence (can there be) the incompatible satiation in love ?
BK 11.12 उपजातिः
स्रस्ताऽङ्ग-यष्टिः परिरभ्यमाणा संदृश्यमानाऽप्युपसंहृताऽक्षी ।अनूढमाना शयने नवोढा परोपकारैक-रसैव तस्थौ ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: The newly-married bride who had let lose (her) slender frame of body, who, though (she was) being closely observed, had closed her eyes and bore no pride, sat on the bed like one whose only interest was (in) obliging the other.
BK 11.13 उपजातिः
आलिङ्गितायाः सहसा त्रपा-वांस्त्रासाऽभिलाषाऽनुगतो रताऽऽदौ । विश्वासिताया रमणेन वध्वा विमर्द-रम्यो-मदनो बभूव ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Cupid was bashful in the case of the bride (who was suddenly embraced, followed by fear and longing at the beginning of the intercourse (and subsequently) pleasurable on account of crushing, being reassured by the lover.
BK 11.14 उपजातिः
सामोन्मुखेनाऽऽच्छुरिता प्रियेण दत्तेऽथ काचित्पुलकेन भेदे ।अन्तः-प्रकोपाऽपगमाद्विलोला वशीकृता केवल-विक्रमेण ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Then, tenderly scratched by her lover who was favourable to reconciliation, a certain lady who was fully relaxed on account of the departure of internal anger, was won over through sheer force, her secret (longing) being given out by horripilation.
BK 11.15 उपजातिः
गुरुर्दधाना परुष-त्वमन्या कान्ताऽपि कान्तेन्दु-कराऽभिमृष्टा । प्रह्लादिता चन्द्र-शिलेव तूर्णं क्षोभात्स्रवत्-स्वेदजला बभूव ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Bold and harbouring harshness, though charming another one caressed by the (ray-like) hands of her moon-like lover, (getting) quickly overjoyed, was, through excitement, dripping with perspiration like a moon-stone.
BK 11.16 उपजातिः
शशाङ्क-नाथाऽपगमेन धूम्रां मूर्च्छा-परीतामिव निर्-विवेकाम् । ततः सखीव प्रथिताऽनुरागा प्राबोधयत्द्यां मधुराऽरुणश्रीः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Then the sweet lustre of the morning twilight which had exhibited her redness (love), awakened, like a female friend , the sky (which was) gloomy on the departure of her lord, the Moon, and was void of discrimination as though enveloped in a swoon.
BK 11.17 उपजातिः
अ-वीत-तृष्णोऽथ परस्परेण क्षणादिवाऽऽयात-निशाऽवसानः । दुःखेन लोकः परवानिवाऽगात्समुत्सुकः स्वप्न-निकेतनेभ्यः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Then the couple whose desire was not exhausted by one another, to whom the end of the night had arrived as if in a moment, came out of the sleeping chambers (but still) full of longing, as though under the sway of somebody else.
BK 11.18 इन्द्रवज्रा
अर्धोत्थिताऽऽलिङ्गित-सन्निमग्नो रुद्धः पुनर्यान्गमनेऽनभीप्सुः । व्याजेन निर्याय पुनर्निवृत्तस्त्यक्ताऽन्य-कार्यः स्थित एव कश्चित् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Half arisen, (but) embraced and (then) sunk down, restricted again when about to go, (but) not desirous of going, a certain (lover) returned under (some) pretext after having gone and abandoned all other work, and just stayed on.
BK 11.19 उपजातिः
तालेन संपादित-साम्य-शोभं शुभाऽवधानं स्वर-बद्ध-रागम् । पदैर्गताऽर्थं नृप-मन्दिरेषु प्रातर्जगुर्मङ्गल-वत्तरुण्यः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: At daybreak, in the royal palaces, young ladies sang an (auspicious) song in which the charm of uniformity was achieved with beats (keeping time), the concentration was excellent, the rage produced by (appropriate) notes and the sense was conveyed by words.
BK 11.20 उपजातिः
दुरुत्तरे पङ्क इवाऽन्धकारे मग्नं जगत्सन्तत-रश्मि-रज्जुः । प्रनष्ट-मूर्ति-प्रविभागमुद्यन्प्रत्युज्जहारेव ततो विवस्वान् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: The rising sun which had spread the ropes of rays, pulled out the world that had sunk down into the mud-like darkness that was hard to emerge out from and had lost the distinctness of (its) forms.
BK 11.21 उपजातिः
पीतौष्ठ-रागाणि हृताऽञ्जनानि भास्वन्ति लोलैरलकैर्मुखानि । प्रातः कृताऽर्थानि यथा विरेजुस्तथा न पूर्वेद्युरलंकृतानि ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: The shining faces wherefrom the paint on the lips had been licked off and the collyrium (from the eyes) had come off (but only after they) had fulfilled their purpose, looked so brilliant in the early morning, (as though) they had never been embellished so the previous day.
BK 11.22 उपजातिः
प्रजागराऽऽताम्र-विलोचनाऽन्ता निरञ्जनाऽलक्तक-पत्र-लेखाः । तुल्या इवाऽऽसन्परिखेद-तन्व्यो वास-च्युताः सेवित-मन्मथाभिः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: The women that were deprived of the company (of their husbands), the corners of whose eyes were reddish through wakefulness and who did not have (any more) collyrium and lac-painting of leaves and who were ematiated by excessive worry (fatigue), were comparable to those who had enjoyed love.
BK 11.23 उपजातिः
आबद्ध-नेत्राऽञ्जन-पङ्क-लेशस्ताम्बूल-रागं बहुलं दधानः । चकार कान्तोऽप्यधरोऽङ्गनानां सहोषितानां पतिभिर्लघुत्वम् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Bearing the ample redness of the betel roll, the attractive lower lip to which a bit of wet collyrium from the eyes had got stuck brought lowliness to the ladies who had stayed in the company of their husbands
BK 11.24 इन्द्रवज्रा
चक्षूंषि कान्तान्यपि साऽञ्जनानि ताम्बूल-रक्तं च स-रागमोष्ठम् । कुर्वन्स-वासं च सु-गन्धि वक्त्रं चक्रे जनः केवल-पक्ष-पातम् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: (In) making even their charming eyes have collyrium, their (already) colourful lip reddened with betel roll and their fragrant mouth have scent, mere partiality was practised by the womenfolk.
BK 11.25 उपजातिः
क्षतैरसंचेतित-दन्त-लब्धैः संभोग-कालेऽवगतैः प्रभाते ।अ-शङ्कताऽन्योन्य-कृतं व्यलीकं वियोग-बाह्योऽपि जनोऽतिरागात् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: On account of the scars that were unknowingly received from the teeth at the time of intercourse and detected in the morning, even the couple that was without separation, suspected, through excessive love, a fraud practised by each upon the other.
BK 11.26 उपजातिः
नेत्रेषुभिः संयुत-पक्ष्म-पत्रैः कर्णाऽन्त-कृष्टैरुरु-केश-शूलाः । स्तनोरु-चक्रास्तत-कर्ण-पाशाः स्त्री-योद्ध-मुख्या जयिनो विचेरुः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: The chief warriors , in the form of ladies who bore spears in the form of (their) long hair, huge discs of breasts, and wide nooses of ears, moved about winning victory with the arrows of eyes to which feathers of eyelashes were fixed and which were stretched (right) up to the tips of their ears.
BK 11.27 उपजातिः
पयो-धरांश्चन्दन-पङ्क-दिग्धान्वासांसि चाऽमृष्ट-मृजानि दृष्ट्वा । स्त्रीणां स-पत्न्यो जहृषुः प्रभाते मन्दायमानाऽनुशयैर्मनोभिः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: On observing the ladies' breasts besmeared with sandal paste and (their) garments having their cleanness unsullied, (their) co-wives rejoiced in their minds wherefrom deep hatred was softening down.
BK 11.28 उपजातिः
स्मराऽऽतुरे चेतसि लब्ध-जन्मा रराज लोलोऽपि गुणाऽपहार्यः । कुतूहलान्नेत्र-गवाक्ष-संस्थः पश्यन्निवाऽन्योन्य-मुखानि रागः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Though fickle and removable by (the opposite ) quality, the passion that had taken (its) birth in the mind agitated by Cupid and was seated through curiosity in the windows in the form of eyes as though looking at each others' faces, shone (brightly).
BK 11.29 उपजातिः
गतेऽतिभूमिं प्रणये प्रयुक्ता- न-बुद्धि-पूर्वं परिलुप्तसंज्ञः ।आत्माऽनुभूतानपि नोपचारान्स्मराऽऽतुरः संस्मरति स्म लोकः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Love having reached its utmost height (culmination) a couple whose awareness had disappeared and was agitated by Cupid did not remember the actions that were committed unknowingly though they were experienced by their own selves.
BK 11.30 उपजातिः
वस्त्रैरनत्युल्बण-रम्य-वर्णैर्विलेपनैः सौरभ-लक्ष्मणीयैः ।आस्यैश्च लोकः परितोष-कान्तै- रसूचयल्लब्ध-पदं रहस्यम् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: The couple indicated the secret that had (left) its marks by means of the garments that did not bear bright attractive hues, the unguents (that were) detectable only through fragrance and faces that beamed with satisfaction.
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