Verse 18

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In plain words

Mṛtyuñjaya, I contemplate in my heart-lotus your lotus face, its curls falling, while the elephant-faced one and Skanda hold the utterly spotless pair of whisks.

Close to the Sanskrit

With a pair of chowries, exceedingly spotless, held by the elephant-faced one and by Skanda — the face-lotus with its falling curls, O Mṛtyuñjaya, I visualize in the lotus of the heart.