[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [Poetry (mahākāvya, lyric, messenger poems, stotra, Prakrit kāvya)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya) › [Court epics (sargabandha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya) › [Mahābhārata and Nala epics](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata) › [Arjuna and the Hunter](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya) › 8.39 # Arjuna and the Hunter 8.39 Kirātārjunīya 8.39 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [8.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya.8.39) dyutiṃ vahanto vanitāvataṃsakā hṛtāḥ pralobhād iva vegibhir jalaiḥ upaplutās tatkṣaṇaśocanīyatāṃ cyutādhikārāḥ sacivā ivāyayuḥ // > Seeing the lovely women who bore beauty even with their leaf-paintings erased, their lower lips devoid of red lac, > and their eyes stripped of collyrium, the sky-dwellers realised that the ornament was adorned by their very bodies. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 8.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya.8.38) - [Next: 8.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya.8.40) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya.8) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya~en-mt.8.39) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (1) - [Ghaṇṭāpatha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya!mallinatha.7.38) — Mallinātha Sūri, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya.8.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya.8.39) · Pramāṇa