साधु माम् असितापाङ्गे कामार्तं मत्तकाशिनि ॥
भजस्व भजमानं मां प्राणा हि प्रजहन्ति माम् ॥
त्वदर्थं हि विशालाक्षि माम् अयं निशितैः शरैः ॥
कामः कमलगर्भाभे प्रतिविध्यन् न शाम्यति ॥
ग्रस्तम् एवम् अनाक्रन्दे भद्रे काममहाहिना ॥
सा त्वं पीनायतश्रोणि पर्याप्नुहि शुभानने ॥
sādhu mām asitāpāṅge kāmārtaṃ mattakāśini ||
bhajasva bhajamānaṃ māṃ prāṇā hi prajahanti mām ||
tvadarthaṃ hi viśālākṣi mām ayaṃ niśitaiḥ śaraiḥ ||
kāmaḥ kamalagarbhābhe pratividhyan na śāmyati ||
grastam evam anākrande bhadre kāmamahāhinā ||
sā tvaṃ pīnāyataśroṇi paryāpnuhi śubhānane ||
"Be gracious to me, tormented by passion, O dark-eyed, intoxicatingly radiant one; answer with love the one who loves you, for life is abandoning me. For on account of you, O wide-eyed one, like the heart of a lotus, Kama pierces me with sharp arrows without ceasing. Save me, thus devoured by the great serpent of passion with no saving cry to raise, O full-hipped, fair-faced one."
53ef884f0786 · प्रकाशित 12 जुल॰ 2026, 5:29:43 pm UTC
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Here passion pours itself out in a plea, seeking rescue from the very source of its own cause. Telling is the contradiction of desire: the king calls upon the one who is herself the cause of his torment to "save" him — passion both wounds and is sought as its own cure. Here the nature of attachment is laid bare: it torments and enslaves, making the beloved the sole deliverer from the very pain she caused. So the verse shows the power of kama, which turns a man into a supplicant before the object of his passion; and Samvarana, lord of the earth, pleads for mercy at the maiden's feet.