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# Rasarnavasudhakara 2.280

Rasārṇavasudhākara 2.280

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.280](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.2.280)

yathā mamaiva-  
aśrānta-kaṇṭhakodgamam anavarata-svedam aviratotkampam |  
aniśa-mukulitāpāṅgaṃ mithunaṃ kalayāmi tad-avinābhūtam ||

> As in my own verse:  
> 'With their hair unceasingly bristling, with continuous perspiration, with unremitting trembling,  
> their eye-corners ever closed like buds, I contemplate that inseparable couple.'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.280.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.2.280.p1)

atra pārvatī-parameśvarayo ratiḥ śarīraikya-sambandhena yāvad-āśraya-vṛttiḥ anubhūta-sarva-rāgopaplavatayā sva-saṃvedya-daśā-prakāśita-nitya-bhoga-rūpā aśrānta-romāñcādibhir anubhāvair vyajyate |

> Here, the sexual love between Pārvatī and the Supreme Lord endures as long as its substrate exists through the connection of bodily union, has the form of eternal enjoyment manifested in a state self-experienced by transcending all afflictions of passion, and is revealed through consequents such as unceasing horripilation and the like.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.280.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.2.280.p2)

anye prītiṃ rater bhedm āmananti na tan-matam | 123

> Others consider affection to be a division of sexual love; that view is not accepted. (123)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.280.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.2.280.p3)

asamprayoga-viṣayā seyaṃ harṣān na bhidyate ||280||

> For this \[affection\], having non-union as its object, is not distinct from joy. \[280\]  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara~en-mt.2.280) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Rasasudhākara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.rasasudhakara.4.121) — Sanskrit

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