[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) › [Lyric and single-stanza poetry (śatakas and collections)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.muktaka) › [Erotic śatakas and love lyrics](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.muktaka.srngara) › [The Hundred Verses of Amaru](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.muktaka.srngara.amarusataka) › 1.78 # The Hundred Verses of Amaru 1.78 Amaruśataka 1.78 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.muktaka.srngara.amarusataka.1.78) aṅgānāmatitānavaṃ kathamidaṃ kampaśca kasmātkuto mugdhe pāṇḍukapolamānanamiti prāṇeśvare pṛcchati | tanvyā sarvamidaṃ svabhāvajamiti vyāhṛtya pakṣmāntara vyāpī bāṣpabharastayā calitayā niḥśvasya mukto'nyataḥ ||45||(50) > “Why this extreme thinness of your limbs? Whence this trembling? Why, / innocent maiden, is your face with pale cheeks?” When her life's lord asks this, / the slender woman replied, “All this is natural,” and turning away, / sighing, released elsewhere a flood of tears that had spread within her eyelashes. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.muktaka.srngara.amarusataka.1.77) - [Next: 1.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.muktaka.srngara.amarusataka.1.79) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.muktaka.srngara.amarusataka.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.muktaka.srngara.amarusataka~en-mt.1.78) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (2) - [Rasikasañjīvanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.muktaka.srngara.amarusataka!arjunavarmadeva.50) — Arjunavarmadeva, Sanskrit - [Śṛṅgāradīpikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.muktaka.srngara.amarusataka!vemabhupala) — Vemabhūpāla, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (2) - [Subhāṣitaratnabhāṇḍāgāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.subhasitaratnabhandagara.6.37.3) — Kāśīnātha Pāṇḍuraṅga Paraba 1886, Sanskrit - [Indische Sprüche](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.indische-spruche.85) — Otto von Böhtlingk 1863, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.muktaka.srngara.amarusataka.1.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.muktaka.srngara.amarusataka.1.78) · Pramāṇa