भट्टिकाव्यम् (रावणवधः)

Verse 11

वक्षः स्तनाभ्यां सुखमाननेन गात्राणि गात्रैर्घटयन्न-मन्दम् । स्मराऽतुरो नैव तुतोष लोकः पर्याप्तता प्रेम्णि कुतो विरुद्धा ॥

Metre: उपजातिः

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 ?

Verse 12

स्रस्ताऽङ्ग-यष्टिः परिरभ्यमाणा संदृश्यमानाऽप्युपसंहृताऽक्षी ।अनूढमाना शयने नवोढा परोपकारैक-रसैव तस्थौ ॥

Metre: उपजातिः

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.

Verse 13

आलिङ्गितायाः सहसा त्रपा-वांस्त्रासाऽभिलाषाऽनुगतो रताऽऽदौ । विश्वासिताया रमणेन वध्वा विमर्द-रम्यो-मदनो बभूव ॥

Metre: उपजातिः

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.

Verse 14

सामोन्मुखेनाऽऽच्छुरिता प्रियेण दत्तेऽथ काचित्पुलकेन भेदे ।अन्तः-प्रकोपाऽपगमाद्विलोला वशीकृता केवल-विक्रमेण ॥

Metre: उपजातिः

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.

Verse 15

गुरुर्दधाना परुष-त्वमन्या कान्ताऽपि कान्तेन्दु-कराऽभिमृष्टा । प्रह्लादिता चन्द्र-शिलेव तूर्णं क्षोभात्स्रवत्-स्वेदजला बभूव ॥

Metre: उपजातिः

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.

Verse 16

शशाङ्क-नाथाऽपगमेन धूम्रां मूर्च्छा-परीतामिव निर्-विवेकाम् । ततः सखीव प्रथिताऽनुरागा प्राबोधयत्द्यां मधुराऽरुणश्रीः ॥

Metre: उपजातिः

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.

Verse 17

अ-वीत-तृष्णोऽथ परस्परेण क्षणादिवाऽऽयात-निशाऽवसानः । दुःखेन लोकः परवानिवाऽगात्समुत्सुकः स्वप्न-निकेतनेभ्यः ॥

Metre: उपजातिः

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.

Verse 18

अर्धोत्थिताऽऽलिङ्गित-सन्निमग्नो रुद्धः पुनर्यान्गमनेऽनभीप्सुः । व्याजेन निर्याय पुनर्निवृत्तस्त्यक्ताऽन्य-कार्यः स्थित एव कश्चित् ॥

Metre: इन्द्रवज्रा

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.

Verse 19

तालेन संपादित-साम्य-शोभं शुभाऽवधानं स्वर-बद्ध-रागम् । पदैर्गताऽर्थं नृप-मन्दिरेषु प्रातर्जगुर्मङ्गल-वत्तरुण्यः ॥

Metre: उपजातिः

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.

Verse 20

दुरुत्तरे पङ्क इवाऽन्धकारे मग्नं जगत्सन्तत-रश्मि-रज्जुः । प्रनष्ट-मूर्ति-प्रविभागमुद्यन्प्रत्युज्जहारेव ततो विवस्वान् ॥

Metre: उपजातिः

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.

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