Verse for the week – 29th September

यत्रांशुकाक्षेपविलज्जितानां यदृच्छया किंपुरुषाङ्गनानाम्।

दरीगृहद्वारविलम्बिबिम्बास्तिरस्करिण्यो जलदा भवन्ति॥

Yatra ‘ṃśuka-ākṣepa-vilajjitānāṃ yad-ṛcchayā kiṃpuruṣa-añganānām |

Darī-gṛha-dvāra-vilambi-bimbās tiraskariṇyo jaladā bhavanti ||

There on the Himalaya mountain where clouds, by chance hanging in cotton wool balls across the entrances of the cave houses, serve as screens for kinnara women blushing furiously as their clothes are snatched away.

Verse 14, first sarga, Kumārasaṃbhavam – Kālidāsa

Verse for the week 5th September

सशीकराम्भोधरमत्तकुञ्जरस्

तडित्पताको ऽशनिशद्बमर्दलः।

समागतो राजवदुद्धतद्युतिर्

घनागमः कामिजनप्रियः प्रिये॥

Water-spraying clouds for elephants in rut

Lightning for a banner and thunderbolts for drums:

The rains, longed for by lovers, have arrived in full splendour,

 My darling, like a king in all glory.

First verse of the second sarga, Ritusamhara – Kalidasa

Verse for the Week

स्त्रीणां विहाय वदनेषु शशाङ्कलष्मीं

काम्यं च हंसवचनं मणिनूपुरेषु

बन्धूककान्तिमधरेषु मनोहरेषु

क्वापि प्रयाति सुभगा शरदागमश्रीः

Leaving the splendour of the moon in women’s faces,

The irresistable call of the swan in their jewelled anklets

And the beauty of the bandhuka tree in their entrancing lower lips

Autumn’s beautiful radiance passes elsewhere.

Verse 25, third sarga, Ritusamhara – Kalidasa