🪷 ŚB 4.24.45-46

Sanskrit, transliteration, word meanings, and translation for steady Bhāgavata reading.

Sanskrit

स्‍निग्धप्रावृड्‌घनश्यामं सर्वसौन्दर्यसङ्ग्रहम् । चार्वायतचतुर्बाहु सुजातरुचिराननम् ॥ ४५ ॥ पद्मकोशपलाशाक्षं सुन्दरभ्रु सुनासिकम् । सुद्विजं सुकपोलास्यं समकर्णविभूषणम् ॥ ४६ ॥

Transliteration

snigdha-prāvṛḍ-ghana-śyāmaṁ sarva-saundarya-saṅgraham cārv-āyata-catur-bāhu sujāta-rucirānanam
Synonyms
snigdha — glistening; prāvṛṭ — rainy season; ghana-śyāmam — densely cloudy; sarva — all; saundarya — beauty; saṅgraham — collection; cāru — beautiful; āyata — bodily feature; catuḥ-bāhu — unto the four-armed; su-jāta — ultimately beautiful; rucira — very pleasing; ānanam — face; padma-kośa — the whorl of the lotus flower; palāśa — petals; akṣam — eyes; sundara — beautiful; bhru — eyebrows; su-nāsikam — raised nose; su-dvijam — beautiful teeth; su-kapola — beautiful forehead; āsyam — face; sama-karṇa — equally beautiful ears; vibhūṣaṇam — fully decorated.

Translation

The Lord’s beauty resembles a dark cloud during the rainy season. As the rainfall glistens, His bodily features also glisten. Indeed, He is the sum total of all beauty. The Lord has four arms and an exquisitely beautiful face with eyes like lotus petals, a beautiful highly raised nose, a mind-attracting smile, a beautiful forehead and equally beautiful and fully decorated ears.

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ŚB 4.24.45-46requested verse-reference route for this Bhāgavatam reading pageŚB 4.24parent chapter route and reading-passage indexSkandha 4parent skandha chapter index/bhagavatammaster index for 12 skandhas, 335 chapters, and 13,003 reading pagesŚB 1.1.1satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi · the Bhāgavatam source meditationŚB 1.2.6supreme dharma as ahaitukī and apratihatā bhaktiŚB 1.2.11Brahman · Paramātmā · Bhagavān as one advaya-tattvaŚB 1.3.28kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam · Krishna-pramāṇa source sealŚB 10.10.29Dāmodara/Yamala-arjuna · Krishna as supreme original PersonŚB 10.10.30-31Krishna as Kāla · Viṣṇu · Paramātmā · AntaryāmīŚB 10.10.38speech, hearing, body, mind, head, and sight offered in Krishna-sevāŚB 10.10.39Gokuleśvara bound by love, smilingŚB 10.10.40Nārada correction as anugrahaŚB 10.10.41sādhu-darśana removes bondage-darknessŚB 12.2.18Kalki witness at ŚambhalaŚB 12.3.51Kali-yuga blessing through Krishna-kīrtanaSkandha 10 līlā index20-anchor Krishna-līlā reading pathway inside the Bhāgavatam master pageBG 7.7mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat · no source higher than KrishnaBG 10.8ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ · Krishna as source of allBG 15.15Krishna seated in every heart and the target of all Veda/binduDiamond of Darśanas · Bhāgavata prema as the Bindu made rasa/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundation

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