शाखाप्रतानगहना कट्वम्लफलमालिनी । सुतालोत्तालतामेति चिन्ता कान्तानुसारिणी ॥ ३२ ॥
śākhāpratānagahanā kaṭvamlaphalamālinī | sutālōttālatāmēti cintā kāntānusāriṇī || 32 ||
Translation
The care that follows the beloved grows to the height of the sutāla creeper, dense with its spreading branches, garlanded with bitter and sour fruit.
Word by word
- śākhā
- with branches
- pratāna
- spreading
- gahanā
- dense
- kaṭu
- bitter
- amla
- and sour
- phala
- fruit
- mālinī
- garlanded
- sutāla
- of the sutāla creeper
- uttālatām
- to the height
- ēti
- grows
- cintā
- the care
- kāntā
- the beloved
- anusāriṇī
- that follows
Meaning
Sutāla is a wild creeper that climbs very high. The care that comes with a beloved grows like it: dense with branches, the commentary says, many thoughts about objects; with fruits bitter, sorrows of the next world, and sour, the mixed sorrows of this. Love that binds brings with it a whole creeper of worry, for the beloved's health, faithfulness, wants and future. The reader who has loved knows the creeper.