[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.p2.4 # Shringaraprakasha 5.p2.4 English (machine translation) 5.p2.4 - **Language:** English ### [5.p2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa~en-mt.5.p2.4) With the sense of censure, as: / 'O woman intent on an absurd obsession! How can this hand of yours, / bound with the wedding bracelet, endure that first offence / at the hand of Śambhu with its coiled serpent?' / In the sense of a question, as: / 'Who are you, auspicious one? Whose wife are you, / or what is the purpose of your coming to me? / Tell me, knowing that the mind of self-controlled descendants of Raghu / turns away from another's wife.' / In the sense of narration, as: / 'Surely the lord of sacrifices rises to dispel the nocturnal darkness, / because the quarter of the sky with its lotus face is powdered with pollen from ketaka blossoms.' / 5.19. An adverbial modifier is an attribute of the whole composed of base and affix, through the medium of the portion that is the meaning of the base; for even when an affix is introduced in the sense of abstract action, the whole is sometimes qualified through the affix, as in 'tīvraḥ pākaḥ' (the cooking is intense), \[or\] 'tīvraṃ pākaḥ' (cooking intensely). It takes the form of a noun, an indeclinable, a primary derivative, a secondary derivative, a compound, or a prefix and so on. Among these, the nominal form is as: / 'As the favorable wind gently, gently urges you, / and this cātaka bird sings sweetly to the left, full of longing, / surely the cranes, accustomed to the season of conception, having formed a line in the sky, / will attend upon you who are delightful to the eye.' / The indeclinable form is as: / 'With the heat of midday subsided, blowing gently, / smoothing the lotuses, taking up drops of spray, / moving within the rows of waves, the breeze / gave support, as it were, to the arms of the playful women.' / The primary derivative form is as: / 'Travellers lying down in the shade of trees along the path are sleeping comfortably; / pious folk sit in the temples of Śiva like seated camels; / my friend, in that deserted bower of the arbour at midday in summer, / a moment is ready to begin for lovers equipped for an assignation with the beloved.' / The secondary derivative form is as: / 'Told a hundred times, dear friend, with very harsh words; / thrown down at \[my\] feet, shaken off by kicks of my heels a thousand times; /' - [Previous: 5.p2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa~en-mt.5.p2.3) - [Next: 5.p2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa~en-mt.5.p2.5) - [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.p2.4) — Bhoja, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa~en-mt.5.p2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa~en-mt.5.p2.4) · Pramāṇa