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# Matsyapurana 155.1

Matsyapurāṇa 155.1

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [155.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya.155.1)

\*śarva uvāca  
śarīre mama tanvaṅgi site bhāsyasitadyutiḥ  
bhujaṃgīvāsitā śuddhā saṃśliṣṭā candane tarau //

> Śiva said :—" My body is resplendent with lustre and you look black and your embracing me looks like a serpent coiling round a sandal tree With apparel white and with the moonbeams falling on you, you look like the new moon lit night."—1 2  
> — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, The Matsya Puranam

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## Translations (2)

- [The Matsya Puranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya~en-taluqdar.155.p1) — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya~en-mt.155.1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (8)

- [Skandamahāpurāṇa (vulgate)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda*vulgate.1.4.25.60) — Sanskrit
- [Padmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.1.44.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- [Vaiṣṇavakhaṇḍa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vaisnavakhanda.68.60) — Sanskrit
- [Matsya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.samhita.matsya.156.1) — Sanskrit
- [Māheśvarakhaṇḍa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.mahesvarakhanda.30.60) — Sanskrit
- [Kaumārīkākhaṇḍa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.kaumarikakhanda.30.60) — Sanskrit
- [Kumārikākhaṇḍa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.sthala.kumarikakhanda.29.60) — Sanskrit
- [Kaumārakhaṇḍa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.kaumarakhanda.29.60) — Sanskrit

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