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agnyākāraṃ kalayasi puraścakravākīva candraṃ baddhotkampaṃ śiśiramarutā dahyate padminīva /
prāṇān dhatse kathamapi balādgacchataḥ śalyatulyāṃs tat kenāsau sutanu janito māmmathaste vikāraḥ //

You imagine fire before you, like a female cakravāka bird [imagines] the moon; trembling, you burn like a lotus pond in the cold-season wind; / you barely sustain your breaths, which fly out by force like darts; then by whom, O slender-bodied lady, was this disturbance of Madana caused in you?