Laghustavacarcastavau 5_348

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sitāmbhojānāṃ paṭalaṃ samūhastadvatspaṣṭātyujjvalatvādvyaktābhirāmā
draṣṭṛmanohāritvāt manojñā ca prabhā dehakāntiryasyāstām atra
puṇḍarīkāṇāṃ pāṇḍuguṇavattve'pi viśeṣaṇena śuklatvādhikyābhidhānānna
viśeṣaṇānarthakyam . tathā śiro mastakaṃ dhyātṛsambandhi
mūrdhasthitatvādevāmṛtadravaiḥ svāṅgagalitapīyūṣarasavṛṣṭibhiḥ
siñcantīṃ pravarṣantīṃ . iva śabdo vākyālaṅkāre . yaduktam-

[whose light,] like a dense cluster of white water lilies, white lotuses, is distinctly attractive owing to its clear and intense radiance, and pleasing because it captivates the mind of the onlooker—the lustre of whose body [is such]—even though lotus lilies possess the attribute of whiteness, by this qualifier a surplus of whiteness is expressed, and so the qualifier is not redundant; likewise, showering the head, the skull belonging to the meditator, precisely because she is situated at the crown, with flows of nectar, showers of nectar-juice trickling from her limbs. The word 'like' (iva) serves as a syntactic embellishment. As it has been said: