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# Nagananda 3.12

Nāgānanda 3.12

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.3.12)

smitapuṣpodgamo 'yaṃ te dṛśyate 'dharapallave /  
phalaṃ tvanyatra mugdhākṣi ! cakṣuṣormama paśyataḥ //

> Jímútaváhana ( looking in her face).  
> O lovely-eyed one! the springing of the blossom of a smile is seen on your shoot-like lower lip, but the fruit is seen elsewhere, namely, in the eyes of me as I gaze.  
> — Palmer Boyd 1872, Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World

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## Translations (1)

- [Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda~en-boyd.3.p94) — Palmer Boyd 1872, English

## Linked texts (3)

- [Nāgānandanāṭaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.nataka.naganandanataka.3.12) — Sanskrit
- [Subhāṣitaratnabhāṇḍāgāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.subhasitaratnabhandagara.6.46.3) — Kāśīnātha Pāṇḍuraṅga Paraba 1886, Sanskrit
- [Nāgānanda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.purana.nagananda.1.43) — Harṣa, Sanskrit

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