भट्टिकाव्यम् (रावणवधः)

Verse 31

प्रातस्तरां चन्दन-लिप्त-गात्राः प्रच्छाद्य हस्तैरधरान्वदन्तः । शाम्यन्-निमेषाः सुतरां युवानः प्रकाशयन्ति स्म निगूहनीयम् ॥

Metre: उपजातिः

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.

Verse 32

साम्नैव लोके विजितेऽपि वामे ! किमुद्यतं भ्रू-धनुर्-प्रसह्यम् । हन्तुं क्षमो वा वद लोचनेषुर्दिग्धो विषेणेव किमञ्जनेन ॥

Metre: इन्द्रवज्रा

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 ?

Verse 33

दन्तच्छदे प्रज्वलिताऽग्नि-कल्पे ताम्बूल-रागस्तृण-भार-तुल्यः । न्यस्तः किमित्यूचुरुपेत-भावा गोष्ठीषु नारीस्तरुणीर्युवानः ॥

Metre: इन्द्रवज्रा

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.

Verse 34

सुखाऽवगाहानि युतानि लक्ष्म्या शुचीनि संताप-हराण्युरूणि । प्रबुद्ध-नारी-मुख-पङ्क-जानि प्रातः सरांसीव गृहाणि रेजुः ॥

Metre: उपजातिः

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).

Verse 35

संमृष्ट-सिक्ताऽर्चित-चारु-पुष्पै- रामोद-वद्-द्रव्य-सुगन्ध-भागैः । लक्ष्मीर्विजिग्ये भवनैः स-भृङ्गैः सेव्यस्य देवैरपि नन्दनस्य ॥

Metre: इन्द्रवज्रा

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.

Verse 36

अक्ष्णोः पतन्नील-सरो-ज-लोभाद्भृङ्गः करेणाऽल्प-धिया निरस्तः । ददंश ताम्राऽम्बु-रुहाऽभिसन्धिस्त्र्णाऽऽतुरः पाणि-तलेऽपि धृष्णुः ॥

Metre: इन्द्रवज्रा

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.

Verse 37

विलोल-तां चक्षुषि हस्त-वेपथुं भ्रुवोर्विभङ्गं स्तन-युग्म-वल्गितम् । विभूषणानां क्वणितं च षट्-पदो गुरुर्यथा नृत्य-विधौ समादधे ॥

Metre: वंशस्थम्

Karandikar: Like an instructor in the practice of dance, the bee

Verse 38

अथाऽनुकूलान्कुल-धर्म-संपदो विधाय वेशान्सु-दिवः पुरी-जनः। । प्रबोध-काले शात-मन्यु-विद्विषः प्रचक्रमे राज-निकेतनं प्रति ॥

Metre: वंशस्थम्

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.

Verse 39

शैलेन्द्र-शृङ्गेभ्य इव प्रवृत्ता वेगाज्जलौघाः पुर-मन्दिरेभ्यः ।आपूर्य रथ्याः सरितो जनौघा राजाऽङ्गनाऽम्भोधिमपूरयन्त ॥

Metre: इन्द्रवज्रा

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.

Verse 40

प्रबोध-कालात्त्रिदशेन्द्र-शत्रोः प्रागूर्ध्व-शोषं परिशुष्यमाणाः । हीना महान्तश्च सम-त्वमीयुर्द्वास-स्थैरवज्ञा-पुरुषाऽक्षि-दृष्ताः ॥

Metre: इन्द्रवज्रा

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)

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