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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 2 of 2 (Verses 17 shown)
BK 11.31 उपजातिः
प्रातस्तरां चन्दन-लिप्त-गात्राः प्रच्छाद्य हस्तैरधरान्वदन्तः । शाम्यन्-निमेषाः सुतरां युवानः प्रकाशयन्ति स्म निगूहनीयम् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: In the morning, speaking after covering (their) lower lips with (their) palms and suppressing their winks, young men whose limbs were besmeared with sandal paste, revealed more openly what was to be concealed.
BK 11.32 इन्द्रवज्रा
साम्नैव लोके विजितेऽपि वामे ! किमुद्यतं भ्रू-धनुर्-प्रसह्यम् । हन्तुं क्षमो वा वद लोचनेषुर्दिग्धो विषेणेव किमञ्जनेन ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: While a person is vanquished even by mere concilia tion, Oh adverse one, why is this unbearable bow raised ? Or, say why is the arrow of the eye, which is (by itself) capable of killing, besmeared with the poison-like collyrium ?
BK 11.33 इन्द्रवज्रा
दन्तच्छदे प्रज्वलिताऽग्नि-कल्पे ताम्बूल-रागस्तृण-भार-तुल्यः । न्यस्तः किमित्यूचुरुपेत-भावा गोष्ठीषु नारीस्तरुणीर्युवानः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: On the lip, comparable to fire, why is there the red dye of the betel-roll, comparable to a bundle of grass ?” Thus did the young men , in whom love had advanced, address the young damsels.
BK 11.34 उपजातिः
सुखाऽवगाहानि युतानि लक्ष्म्या शुचीनि संताप-हराण्युरूणि । प्रबुद्ध-नारी-मुख-पङ्क-जानि प्रातः सरांसीव गृहाणि रेजुः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Pleasurable to enter into, possessed of riches, clean, removers of heat and spacious, the houses wherein had bloomed the lotuses in the form of the faces of the ladies glittered in the morning like lakes (pleasurable to a dip, clear, removers of heat, vast and having blooming lotuses).
BK 11.35 इन्द्रवज्रा
संमृष्ट-सिक्ताऽर्चित-चारु-पुष्पै- रामोद-वद्-द्रव्य-सुगन्ध-भागैः । लक्ष्मीर्विजिग्ये भवनैः स-भृङ्गैः सेव्यस्य देवैरपि नन्दनस्य ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: By the mansions that were swept, sprinkled and decorated with beautiful flowers, whose parts were scented with materials bearing sweet fragrance and (that were) possessed of bees, was vanquished the splendour of even the Nandanavana (that was) enjoyable even to the gods.
BK 11.36 इन्द्रवज्रा
अक्ष्णोः पतन्नील-सरो-ज-लोभाद्भृङ्गः करेणाऽल्प-धिया निरस्तः । ददंश ताम्राऽम्बु-रुहाऽभिसन्धिस्त्र्णाऽऽतुरः पाणि-तलेऽपि धृष्णुः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Attacking the eyes through a craving for the blue lotus and warded off with her hand by (a lady) of low intellect, the daring bee, distressed by thirst and under the wrong impression that (the hand was) a red lotus, stung the palm of the hand too.
BK 11.37 वंशस्थम्
विलोल-तां चक्षुषि हस्त-वेपथुं भ्रुवोर्विभङ्गं स्तन-युग्म-वल्गितम् । विभूषणानां क्वणितं च षट्-पदो गुरुर्यथा नृत्य-विधौ समादधे ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Like an instructor in the practice of dance, the bee
BK 11.38 वंशस्थम्
अथाऽनुकूलान्कुल-धर्म-संपदो विधाय वेशान्सु-दिवः पुरी-जनः। । प्रबोध-काले शात-मन्यु-विद्विषः प्रचक्रमे राज-निकेतनं प्रति ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Thereafter, having put on an attire befitting their families, offices and riches, the citizens to whom (every) day was auspicious, walked at the awakening time, towards the royal palace of the enemy of Indra.
BK 11.39 इन्द्रवज्रा
शैलेन्द्र-शृङ्गेभ्य इव प्रवृत्ता वेगाज्जलौघाः पुर-मन्दिरेभ्यः ।आपूर्य रथ्याः सरितो जनौघा राजाऽङ्गनाऽम्भोधिमपूरयन्त ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Like water-streams flowing speedily from the summits of a huge mountain, streams of people proceeding from the city mansions, filled up the ocean in the form of the royal courtyard, after having flooded the rivers in the form of streets.
BK 11.40 इन्द्रवज्रा
प्रबोध-कालात्त्रिदशेन्द्र-शत्रोः प्रागूर्ध्व-शोषं परिशुष्यमाणाः । हीना महान्तश्च सम-त्वमीयुर्द्वास-स्थैरवज्ञा-पुरुषाऽक्षि-दृष्ताः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: (Even) before the awakening time of the enemy of the lord of gods, the small and the great looked upon by the door keepers with eyes harsh in disrespect, attained equality, being parched (while) just standing (waiting to enter)
BK 11.41 उपजातिः
गुरूरु-चञ्चत्-कर-कर्ण-जिह्वै- रवज्ञयाऽग्राऽङ्गुलि-संगृहीतैः । रक्षाम्स्यनायास-हृतैरुपास्थुः कपोल-लीनाऽलि-कुलैर्गजेन्द्रैः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Demons waited with excellent elephants whose wide and huge trunk sears and tongues were waving, elephants which were controlled contemptfully with the small of the finger, which were fetched effortlessly and on whose temples rested swarms of bees.
BK 11.42 उपजातिः
निकृत्त-मत्त-द्विप-कुम्भ-मांसैः संपृक्त-मुक्तैर्हरयोऽग्र-पादैः ।आनिन्यिरे श्रेणिकृतास्तथाऽन्यैः परस्परं वालधि-सन्निबद्धाः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: By (some) others were brought lions that were arranged into rows and tied to one another with (their own) tails, (and which were distinguished) by their paws that had torn off flesh from the temples of elephants in heat and (hence) had pearls stuck in them.
BK 11.43 उपजातिः
उपेक्षिता देव-गणैस्त्रसद्भिर्निषा-चरैर्वीत-भयैर्निकृत्ताः । तस्मिन्नदृश्यन्त सुर-द्रुमाणां स-जाल-पुष्प-स्तबकाः प्रकीर्णाः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Unheeded by the fearing hosts of gods (and) plucked by the demons whose fear was gone, the bunches of flowers, along with the buds of divine trees, were seen therein.
BK 11.44 उपजातिः
निराकरिष्णुर्द्विज-कुञ्जराणां तृणीकृताऽशेष-गुणोऽति-मोहात् । पापाऽशयानभ्युदयाऽर्थमार्चीत्प्राग्ब्रह्म-रक्षः-प्रवरान्दशाऽऽस्यः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Ravana, who, desirous of subduing them, trified with one and all of their virtues, worshipped first, for the sake of prosperity, the best of brahmin-demons whose intentions were sinful.
BK 11.45 उपजातिः
मायाविभिस्त्रास-करैर्जनाना- माप्तैरुपादान-परैरुपेतः । सतां विघातैक-रसैरविक्षत्सदः परिक्षोभित-भूमि-भागम् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Accompanied by friends who possessed magical powers that aroused fear in people and whose only interest was the destruction of the good, he entered the assembly wherein a part of the ground was shaken.
BK 11.46 मालिनी
विघृत-निशित-शस्त्रैस्तद्युतं यातुधानै- रुरु-जठर-मुखीभिः संकुलं राक्षसीभिः । श्वगणि-शत-विकीर्णं वागुरा-वन्मृगीभिर्वनमिव स-भयाभिर्देव-बन्दीभिरासीत् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Occupied by demons who wielded sharp weapons, crowded with demonesses whose bellies and mouths were huge, the assembly, on account of the terror-stricken captive goddesses, was like a forest strewn with hundreds of hunters and interspersed with female deer (caught) in nets.
BK 11.47 मालिनी
जलद इव तडित्वान्प्राज्य-रत्न-प्रभाभिः प्रति-ककुभमुदस्यन्निस्वनं धीर-मन्द्रम् । शिखरमिव सुमेरोरासनं हैममुच्चैर्विविध-मणि-विचित्रं प्रोन्नतं सोऽध्यतिष्थत् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: By the lustre of his copious jewels resembling a cloud harbouring the lightning, projecting a deep and low peal in every direction, he ascended a lofty golden throne, variegated with numerous jewels and resembling the summit of the Sumeru mountain.
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