Verse 43

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। ॥ ४३ ॥

In plain words

O auspicious one, may your dense, lustrous hair—smooth as a forest of blue lotuses in bloom—scatter our darkness. Even the celestial flowers from Indra's pleasure-garden seem to have taken up residence in your tresses just to breathe in its natural fragrance.

Close to the Sanskrit

May your mass of hair, O Śivā, thick, glossy, and smooth, rivaling a forest of blossoming blue lotuses, dispel our darkness. I think the flowers from the trees of Indra's garden dwell in it to gain its natural fragrance.