Where the women have a lotus in the hand to play with, and young jasmine threaded through their hair, and on the face a beauty brought to pallor by the pollen of lodhra blossom, and fresh kurabaka in the coil at the crown, and a śirīṣa set prettily at the ear, and in the parting of the hair the kadamba that comes with your arrival. Six flowers in six places, and each flower belongs to a different one of the six seasons — the lotus to autumn, the jasmine to early winter, the lodhra to late winter, the kurabaka to spring, the śirīṣa to summer, and the kadamba to the rains. Mallinātha dates every one of them and finishes with the reasoning: by naming the aggregate of what each season produces, the aggregate of all the seasons is established by implication — for an effect cannot come to be without its cause. The women wear the year at once. **The stanza has no verb in it at all**, and he supplies one by a named maxim: सर्वत्रास्तीति शेषः, 'there is' is to be understood everywhere, since the third person of अस् in the sense of being holds even where it is not written. What the sentence has instead of a verb is six locatives, which is why the variant reading he reports matters — some texts print अलकम्, a nominative, and that would break the run the stanza is built on, a सप्तमीप्रक्रमभङ्ग. Nātha objected to the same reading on other grounds, that it costs अलक its settled masculine gender; तदसत्, says Mallinātha, and quotes two lines where the word is neuter. It is the second time in the poem he names Nātha and the first time he corrects him. He also stops on बाल, one adjective of one flower, for longer than on anything else here: the kunda is śiśira's by the lexicon, but it appears in hemanta and matures in śiśira, so 'young' assigns it to hemanta — and without that one word two of the six seasons would collapse into one. He names no figure.
uncheckedthe reader's reading, following Mallinātha's gloss; the dating of all six flowers, the कारण-कार्य reasoning, the supplied अस्ति and its maxim, the variant reading with its प्रक्रमभङ्ग, the answer to Nātha and the argument from बाल are all his“sarvatrāstīti śeṣaḥ astirbhavatiparaḥ prathamapuruṣo'prayujyamāno'pyastīti nyāyāt | itthaṃ kamalakundādi tattatkāryasamāhārābhidhānādarthāt sarvartusamāhārasiddhiḥ | kāraṇaṃ vinā kāryasyāsiddheriti bhāvaḥ”
Where the women have a lotus in the hand to play with, young jasmine threaded through their hair, on the face a bloom paled by the pollen of lodhra, fresh kurabaka in the coil at the crown, a śirīṣa set prettily at the ear, and in the parting of the hair the kadamba that comes with your arrival. Six flowers, six places, six seasons worn at one time. The last is yours: the नीप, kadamba, त्वदुपगमज, 'born of your coming', flowers only in the rains — so the one season the women cannot wear until the cloud arrives is the season the cloud is. The stanza names the year by naming its flowers, and holds one place open for the guest it is addressed to.
- Mallinātha, Sañjīvinī — 2.2, whole-verse gloss