Laghustavacarcastavau 5_357

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ye sindūraparāgapuñjapihitāṃ tvattejasā dyāmimāmurvīṃ cāpi
vilīnayāvakarasaprastāramagnāmiva .
paśyanti
kṣaṇamapyananyamanasasteṣāmanaṅgajvaraklāntāstrastakuraṅgaśāvakadṛśo
vaśyāḥ bhavanti sphuṭam .. 9 ..

"Those who, with single-minded devotion even for a moment, behold this sky covered by the mass of vermilion dust of your splendour, / and this earth as if submerged in an expanse of melted lac-dye, / clearly have brought under their sway women whose eyes are like those of a frightened fawn, languid with the fever of the god of love." (9)