नखोर्णनाभिनिलयं सरमारणितान्तरम् । भाङ्कारकारिपवनं नेष्टं देहगृहं मम ॥ २९ ॥
nakhōrṇanābhinilayaṁ saramāraṇitāntaram | bhāṅkārakāripavanaṁ nēṣṭaṁ dēhagṛhaṁ mama || 29 ||
Translation
Home of the spiders, the nails, its inside echoing with the bitch Saramā, its wind whistling: the house of the body is not wanted by me.
Word by word
- nakha
- the nails
- ūrṇanābhi
- of the spiders
- nilayaṁ
- home
- saramā
- with the bitch Saramā
- raṇita
- echoing
- antaram
- its inside
- bhāṅkāra
- whistling
- kāri
- making
- pavanaṁ
- its wind
- na
- not
- iṣṭaṁ
- wanted
- dēha
- of the body
- gṛhaṁ
- the house
- mama
- by me
Meaning
An old house has spiders in its corners; the nails are those spiders. Saramā, the divine bitch of the Vedas, here names hunger, as the commentary says, which barks and whines through the inner rooms; and the wind of the breath and of the belly whistles through it. The house is noisy with appetite. The reader may hear the body's own noises, hunger and breath, as the sounds of a house one is only staying in.