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Yoga Vāsiṣṭha 3.28.63

Traditional (ascribed to Vālmīki)

Prakaraṇas
6
Sargas
175
Published
88
Verses
3571
Level
intermediate

Sarga 28 · Verse 63

Verse 63

मुक्ताफलप्रकरसुन्दरबिन्दुपात- शीताखिलद्रुमलतातृणपल्लवानाम् । लक्ष्मीमनस्तमितपुष्पविकाशभाजां शक्नोति कः कलयितुं गिरिमन्दिराणाम् ॥ ६३ ॥

muktāphalaprakarasundarabindupāta- śītākhiladrumalatātṛṇapallavānām | lakṣmīmanastamitapuṣpavikāśabhājāṁ śaknōti kaḥ kalayituṁ girimandirāṇām || 63 ||

Translation

all their trees, creepers, grasses and leaves cool with the fall of drops lovely as heaps of pearls, sharing in flowers opened where Lakṣmī's mind came to rest: who can tell the houses of that mountain village?

Word by word

muktāphala
of pearls
prakara
as heaps
sundara
lovely
bindu
of drops
pāta
with the fall
śīta
cool
akhila
all
druma
their trees
latā
creepers
tṛṇa
grasses
pallavānām
and leaves
lakṣmī
Lakṣmī's
manaḥ
mind
astamita
came to rest
puṣpa
in flowers
vikāśa
opened
bhājāṁ
sharing
śaknōti
can
kaḥ
who
kalayituṁ
tell
giri
of that mountain village
mandirāṇām
the houses

Meaning

The long sentence comes to its point in a question: who could describe them all? Lakṣmī, the goddess of beauty and fortune, finds her rest there. The two women, unseen, take it all in; the next sarga tells what Līlā remembers there.