Verse 18

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In plain words

O Kāmākṣī, your blossoming smile wears away the ocean of dullness in those who worship you, is always at odds with the white lilies, ever labours to make the three-eyed Lord rejoice, and proudly outwits the moon's own orb. How can such a smile be called moonlight?

Word for word

Which the dullness-ocean wastes of worshippers, is hostile with white lilies always, which invariably which and strives to make the three-eyed's festival, the orb lunar and cheats which with pride, that such, Kāmākṣī, smile-blossom your, how moonlight thus it is called?