English Commentaries


Signs of happiness and sorrow 3.52.3-7


The symptoms of happiness and sorrow are observed in human beings. Or, the symptoms make known the sorrow and happiness of human beings.


Touching the hair of another woman 3.52.9-14


The word jivitantaya(sloka 10) suggests that the touch of the hair of the wife of another person by force brings about the end of life. The whole world lost its natural normal state. The word atapa here indicates ‘evening’. Sita then shone like the cloud, which looks like having the colour of gold, by virtue of the rays of the Sun.