कुमारसम्भवम् (महाकवि कालिदास - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी अनुवाद)

( ६२ )
her breasts. This indicates that her breasts were
quite elevated and hard वलीषु—उदरस्थितासु रेखासु
at the folds or wrinkles. स्खलिताः—निरुध्य पतिताः
stumbling through. नाभिं—navel चिरेण—विलम्बेन after
a long delay. It is an indeclinable word and not the
Instrumental Sing. The drops reached her navel after
a long delay, because they had to meet with so many
obstructions in the way. प्रपेदिरे—( प्र+√पद् to go+
लिट् ) प्राप्ताः reached. Conjugate as—पद्यते ( लट् ) अपद्यत
( लङ् ) पत्स्यते ( लृट् ) अपादि ( लुङ् ) etc. In this shloka
the poet has described the natural path of the drops
of rainy showers that fell on Parvati when she sat
in the open By the way it has given him an occasion
to suggest the excellence of the various limbs of
Parvati.
This verse is a good example of परिकर अलङ्कार,
' in which many significant epithets or adjectives are
employed one after the other to give force to a
statement, Cf. ' उक्तैः विशेषणैः साभिप्रायैः परिकरो मतः । '
साहित्यदर्पणम् ।
CHANGE OF VOICE :—प्रथमोदबिन्दुभि क्षणं तस्याः पक्ष्मसु
स्थितैः, ताडिताधरैः, पयोधरोत्सेधनिपातचूर्णितैः, वलीषु स्खलितैः
नाभिः चिरेण प्रपेदे ॥ २४ ॥
HINDI TRANSLATION :—( वर्षा ) जल की प्रथम बूंदें कुछ
देर के लिये उसकी आँखों के बालों में ठहर कर ( फिर ) नीचे