Ritadhvaja’s Aid to Galava and Andhaka’s Infatuation with Gauri
ततः स देवीगणमध्यसंस्थितः परिभ्रमन्न भाति महासुरेन्द्रः यथा वने मत्तकरी परिभ्रमन् करेणुमध्ये मदलोलदृष्टिः
tataḥ sa devīgaṇamadhyasaṃsthitaḥ paribhramanna bhāti mahāsurendraḥ yathā vane mattakarī paribhraman kareṇumadhye madaloladṛṣṭiḥ
Тогда великий владыка асуров, стоя среди свиты Богини, кружил и метался, но не различал поистине того, что было перед ним, — словно опьяневший в лесу слон-самец, бродящий среди слоних, с неустойчивым взором от исступления гона.
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The simile conveys uncontrolled desire and impaired discernment. As a rut-maddened elephant cannot distinguish danger or propriety, Andhaka—overpowered by passion—moves among the Devī’s attendants without true awareness of the sacred boundary he is violating.
In context it functions as a cognition metaphor: ‘it does not become manifest to him.’ The scene before him (the divine order, the identity of Girijā, the sanctity of the Devīgaṇa) fails to ‘shine’ in his mind due to delusion.
No. It uses only a generic setting (‘forest’) as a poetic comparison; the verse is narrative-psychological rather than tīrtha-topographical.