[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Arts, Poetics, Architecture & Lexicography](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art) › [Poetics](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara) › [Treatises on rasa, the erotic sentiment and heroines](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa) › [Śṛṅgāraprakāśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa~en-mt) › 5.p2.3 # Shringaraprakasha 5.p2.3 English (machine translation) 5.p2.3 - **Language:** English ### [5.p2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa~en-mt.5.p2.3) having observed the pale sandbars of the ocean's wives made wavy with rippling waves, he took delight. / Reciprocal action is as follows: / Clasping with pressure against the breasts, kissing, / and babbling incoherently again and again, / the night passed in a moment for the two youths / borrowing and begging from each other. / Association with \*para\* \['beyond'\] is as follows: / Having bypassed those various special sights along the flank of the Snowy Mountain, / reach the cleft of Krauñca, the swan-door, the pathway to the glory of Bhṛgupati; / through that, proceed toward the northern quarter, / dark and shining with horizontal expanse, like the foot of Viṣṇu raised to crush Bali. / Association with \*apa\* \['short of'\] is as follows: / Not reaching this mountain, these woodland tracts in front / whose lodhra and bakula trees are intertwined with nīpa blossoms; / when you have arrived at them, the wind bearing the waves of the celestial river / will dispel your heap of sins and the fatigue of the journey. / Association with time is as follows: / In this manner, having favored Kāma by resorting to the path of sensory pleasure, / the Bull-bannered Lord dwelt for one month / in the palace of the King of Mountains together with Umā. / Association with distance is as follows: / \[...\] / Ever a wanderer, the sun measures the extent of the sky. / Thus the applications are closed like buds by the stamp of manifest conditions; / yet the brilliance of intellect of the virtuous triumphs, having no shore. / 5.18. Vocative address is the directing toward oneself of an established entity for the purpose of an action. / It is sixfold, through having the sense of command, prohibition, assent, reproach, question, and narration. / Among these, that having the sense of command is as follows: / 'Command, O Lord who knows what distinguishes men, whatever you need done in these worlds; / mindful of your past favor, I desire to foster it by your command.' / That having the sense of prohibition is as follows: / 'Your face is naturally fragrant with moist wine, your eyes naturally impassioned; / having found a dwelling here, O playful woman, what further quality will intoxication produce?' / That having the sense of assent is as follows: / 'All this is fitting in you, friend: both the thunderbolt and you are my weapons; / between the two, the former's power is blunted against the mighty, while you go everywhere and accomplish everything.' - [Previous: 5.p2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa~en-mt.5.p2.2) - [Next: 5.p2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa~en-mt.5.p2.4) - [Up: 5.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa~en-mt.5.p2) ## Linked texts (1) - [Śṛṅgāraprakāśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa.5.p2.3) — Bhoja, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa~en-mt.5.p2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa~en-mt.5.p2.3) · Pramāṇa