Kuṭṭanīmata · Verses 1-20
sa jayati saṃkalpabhavo Ratimukhaśatapatracumbanabhramaraḥ /
yasyānuraktalalanānayanāntavilokitaṃ vasatiḥ
avadhīrya doṣanicayaṃ guṇaleśe saṃniveśya matimāryāḥ /
kuṭṭanyā matametaddāmodaraguptaviracitaṃ śṛṇuta
asti khalu nikhilabhūtalabhūṣaṇabhūtā vibhūtiguṇayuktā /
yuktābhiyuktajanatā nagarī vārāṇasī nāma
anubhavatāmapi yasyāmupabhogān kāmataḥ śarīravatām /
śaśadharakhaṇḍavibhūṣitadehalayaḥ kila na duṣprāpaḥ
candravibhūṣitadehā bhūtiratāḥ sadbhujaṅgaparivārāḥ /
vārastriyo 'pi yasyāṃ paśupatitanutulyatāṃ yātāḥ
atituṅgasuraniketanaśikharasamutkṣiptapavanacalitābhiḥ /
mañjaritamiva virājati yatra nabho vaijayantībhiḥ
aviratasaṃcaradabalācaraṇatalālaktakadravāruṇitam /
sthalakamalavatīṃ lakṣmīṃ bibharti vasudhātalaṃ yatra
yatra ca ramaṇībhūṣaṇaravabadhiritasakaladiṅnabhobhāge /
śiṣyāṇāṃ nācāryairavadyamavadhāryate paṭhatām
vindhyadharādharabhūriva yā rājati mattavāraṇopetā /
bahulaniśīthavatīva projjvaladhiṣṇyopaśobhitā yā ca
yatigaṇaguṇasamupetā yā nityaṃ chandasāmiva pracitiḥ /
vanapaṅktiriva sasālā turuṣkaseneva bahalagandharvā
tārāgaṇo 'kulīnaḥ priyadoṣā yatra kauśikāḥ satatam /
gadye vṛttacyavanaṃ paragṛharodhastathākṣeṣu
śūlabhṛto vyālāsthā padavediṣu yatra dhātuvāditvam /
surateṣvabalākramaṇaṃ dānacchedo madacyutau kariṇām
tīvrakaratvaṃ bhānoraviveko yatra mitrahṛdayānām /
yogiṣu daṇḍagrahaṇaṃ saṃdhicchedaḥ pragṛhyeṣu
chandaḥprastāravidhau guravo yasyāmanārjavasthitayaḥ /
vīṇāyāṃ parivādo dvijanilayeṣvaprasannatvam
anurūpavṛttaghaṭanā satkavikṛtarūpakeṣu loke ca /
ramaṇīvacane yasyāṃ mādhuryaṃ kāvyabandhe ca
yasyāmupavanavīthyāṃ tamālapattrāṇi yuvativadane ca /
nakharaprahārakaṇitaṃ tantrīvādye ca suratakalahe ca
nandanavanābhirāmā vibudhavatī nākavāhinījuṣṭā /
amarāvatīva yānyā viśvasṛjā nirmitā jagati
tasyāṃ khagapatitanuriva vilāsināṃ hṛdayaśokasaṃjananī /
ākṛṣṭeśvarahṛdayā prāleyanagādhirājatanayeva
saṃsaktabhoginetrā mandaradharaṇībhṛto yathā mūrtiḥ /
uparigatā śūlānāmandhāsuragātralekheva
samuvāsa vārarāmā mānasavasateḥ śarīriṇī śaktiḥ /
niḥśeṣaveśayoṣidvibhūṣaṇaṃ Mālatī nāma
Original text: Kuṭṭanīmata · Edition: Dāmodaraguptaviracitaṃ Kuṭṭanīmatam : The Bawd's Counsel, Being an eighth-century verse novel in Sanskrit by Dāmodaragupta Newly edited and translated into English by Csaba Dezso & Dominic Goodall. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 2012. ISBN 978 90 6980 158 2 · Data entry Csaba Dezso Dominic Goodall · GRETIL (Göttingen) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0