Laghustavacarcastavau 5_358

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atra bhāratīti sambodhanamanuṣajjyate . he bhārati ! vāgadhidevate ! ye kāmārthitvāt
kāminyādivaśīkārecchavaḥ sādhakāstvattejasā tava
kāmānuguṇavibhāvyamānāruṇavarṇāyāstejasāśrīmūrtyuktalākṣāruṇa##-
sindūradhūlirāśibhiruparaṃjitāmivorvīmapi bhuvaṃ ca
vilīnayāvakarasaprastāramagnāmiva vilīno vidrutaścāsau yāvakaraso'laktakarasaḥ
vilīnasya nirmalīkṛtatvenātyāraktavarṇatvam tasya prastāre pravāhe magnāṃ
bruḍitāmiva . raktavarṇe nimagnasya raktimopajanadarśanāt . tena bhavatyāstejaḥ
puñjasādbhāvyena dyāvāpṛthivyau tvadraśmicayā bhedasvarūpā iti gamyate .
evamagre'pi bodhyam . taduktaṃ brahmāṇḍe-

Here the vocative 'O Bhāratī' is carried over. O Bhāratī! O presiding deity of speech! Sādhakas who, out of desire for passion, wish to subjugate desirable women and others, behold through your splendour—the splendour of you who are creatively contemplated as red in accordance with desire—this earth as if coloured by heaps of vermilion dust, red as lac, described in the sacred form, and the earth as if submerged in an expanse of melted lac-dye: melted, that is, liquefied, lac-dye; when melted, it is purified and therefore exceedingly red in colour; submerged, as if drowned, in its expanse, in its flood. For whatever is immersed in a red colour is seen to take on redness. By this, it is understood that through identification with the mass of your splendour, heaven and earth become non-different in nature from the multitude of your rays. The same is to be understood in what follows. As has been said in the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa: