स्थितं पुष्पभरापूर्णं महाराजमहाशवम् । शवपार्श्वोपविष्टान्तश्चित्तलीलाशरीरकम् ॥ २ ॥
sthitaṁ puṣpabharāpūrṇaṁ mahārājamahāśavam | śavapārśvōpaviṣṭāntaścittalīlāśarīrakam || 2 ||
Translation
There lay the great corpse of the great king, heaped with flowers, and beside the corpse sat Līlā's body, her mind turned within;
Word by word
- sthitaṁ
- lay
- puṣpa
- with flowers
- bhara
- a heap
- āpūrṇaṁ
- filled
- mahārāja
- of the great king
- mahāśavam
- the great corpse
- śava
- the corpse
- pārśva
- beside
- upaviṣṭa
- seated
- antaś
- (antaḥ) within
- citta
- her mind
- līlā
- of Līlā
- śarīrakam
- the body
Meaning
The scene of 3.16: when Padma died, Sarasvatī had his body kept under flowers, so that it would not decay and his soul would not leave the palace. Līlā's own body sits beside it, still, while her mind travels; the commentary: her mind is absorbed in samādhi. The traveller and the body she left are seen side by side, one looking at the other.