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तापत्रयौषधवरस्य तव स्मितस्य निःश्वासमन्दमरुता निबुसीकृतस्य । एते कडङ्गरचया इव विप्रकीर्णा जैवातृकस्य किरणा जगति भ्रमन्ति ॥९४॥
T: Oh Lord Śrī Varadarāja, Your smile is the best medicine for all our existential troubles. The soft breeze of Your exhaled breath gently blows away the husk surrounding that smile (like husk on grains in a field). That husk blown away becomes the rays of the moon which spreads around and heals and cools the whole world!
Explanation: Even the gentle laughter or smile of the Lord can drive away all our ills - spiritual, material and acts of Nature. Thus it is the best medicine for Tāpatraya. When the ears of grains in the field are blown over by the wind, their husk loosened already is blown away and scattered by the breeze. In the same way, the Lord's outgoing breath as He smiles scatter away the imagined husk around His smile, the poet says. This husk roughage is what scatters around and becomes the well-known cooling and healing rays of the moon. (We have seen before that the moon is supposed to nourish and heal all plant and animal life).
Since the grains inside are much tastier and more nourishing than the chaff/husk, the poet implies that the Lord's smile is far greater than the moon's rays in its cooling, healing and enlivening power. By calling the moon's rays unimportant chaff/husk, the poet is indirectly extolling the greatness of the Lord's smile! This is Aprastutapraśamsālaṅkāra, a category of Upamā.
