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आरोपमध्यवसितिं च विना तवास्यां नाभौ सरःपदमुपैतु कथं न वृत्तिम् ।
साक्षादियं सरसिजस्य समुद्रशायिन् उत्त्पत्तिभूरिति हि नायक नायमूहः ॥६०॥
T: Oh, Lord Śrī Varadarāja, the One who lies in the Milky Ocean, the description of Your navel as a lotus pond without resorting to figures of speech, Āropa and Adhyavasāya (simile and metaphor) seems indeed natural, because the lotus, on whom Brahma arose, visibly indeed emerged from Your navel and was not a figment of imagination.
Explanation: In Alaṅkāra Śāstra, Āropa and Adhyavasāya are employed often as figures of speech. मुखं चन्द्रः ("your face is like the moon") is an example of Āropa where both the subject and object of comparison are specified. But if someone just mentions चन्द्रः or, "moon", by simply hinting at the subject being compared, it is an example of Adhyavasāya. The poet, an expert in Alaṅkāra Śāstra, is stating here that we can compare someone's navel to a सरस् (lake) only by using explicit comparisons of Āropa and Adhyavasāya as the navel has no resemblance to the lake and thus the word lake makes no sense. But in the case of the Lord, we know that at the beginning of creation, a lotus arose from the Lord's navel and Lord Brahma was born from the lotus. Thus the Lord's navel, of course, possesses सरस्त्व or the nature of a lotus lake. No need to resort to the devices of Āropa and Adhyavasāya. In other words, the poet states that the Lord's navel is beautiful like a placid lake.
