Rasarnavasudhakara 3.119

English (machine translation) 3.119

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3.119

Now, ākṣepa (revelation)—
The manifestation of the seed in the development (garbha)
is declared to be ākṣepa.

As right there [in the Bālarāmāyaṇa], in the fifth act [after verse 5.74], (entering with a toss of the curtain, having her nose cut off, her face veiled) Śūrpaṇakhā (wailing, falling at his feet): “Noble brother of the same mother, look! The crest-jewel of Takṣaka has been torn away! The collection of flames of the submarine fire has been pulverized! A catastrophe has befallen the youngest sister of the Ten-necked one!”, beginning with this,

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Rāvaṇa (aloud): “Then what happened to her?”

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Śūrpaṇakhā: “She too, crying out ‘I am worthy of the Lord of Laṅkā!’, was made by them fit for the vow of a Kāpālika.”

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ending with this, by this portion at the end of the act, because Rāma's heroic energy—which was enveloped within the description of Rāvaṇa's superiority that eclipsed the splendor of all deities—breaks forth in the form of cutting off Śūrpaṇakhā's ears and nose, it constitutes ākṣepa.

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Rasārṇavasudhākara — Siṃhabhūpāla, Sanskrit