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किं युक्त सहसाभ्युपैति बलवान्कालः कृतान्तोऽक्षमी |
83. Desires have worn off in our heart. Alas! youth has also passed away from the body. The virtues have proved barren for want of appreciative admirers. The powerful, all-destroying, unrelenting Death is fast has hastening in ! What is to be done ? Ah me ! I see there is no other refuge left except the feet of the Destroyer of Cupid. [ मदनान्तक–Siva is so called in allusion to His having turned the god Cupid to ashes on the eve of His marriage with Gauri. ]
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महेश्वरे वा जगतामधीश्वरे |
84. I make no difference in substance between Siva, the Lord of the universe and Visnu, the inmost Self of the universe. But still my devotion is (attached) to the One in whose crest there is the crescent moon
[ This sloka has been brought forward by the poet as a doubt may arise in the mind from the preceding sloka where the poet says that Siva is the only Lord to take our refuge in. Here the poet says that really there is no difference between Siva and Vishnu . But he is by
