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# Rasarnavasudhakara 2.27

Rasārṇavasudhākara 2.27

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.2.27)

ādhinā, yathā-  
kisalayam iva mugdhaṃ bandhanād vipralūnaṃ  
hṛdaya-kusuma-śoṣī dāruṇo dīrgha-śokaḥ |  
glapayati paripāṇḍu kṣāmam asyāḥ śarīraṃ  
śaradija iva gharmaḥ ketakī-patra-garbham ||

> From mental anxiety, as in:  
> "Dreadful, long-lasting grief, drying up the flower of her heart,  
> like an innocent shoot severed from its stalk,  
> causes her pale and wasted body to wither,  
> as the autumn heat withers the inner leaf of the ketakī."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.27.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.2.27.p1)

(uttara-rāma-carita 3.5)

> (Uttararāmacarita 3.5)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara~en-mt.2.27) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (2)

- [Kavicintāmaṇi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.sahitya.kavicintamani.9.41) — Gopīnātha Kavibhūṣaṇa, Sanskrit
- [Alaṅkāramahodadhi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.sahitya.alankaramahodadhi.5.178) — Narendraprabha, Sanskrit

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